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[VIRAL] Under the Dome
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WolfHawk
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snorkle256 wrote:
Why does this plot sound very very familiar to me? (didnt I see something like this in stargate Razz ?)


Yeah, I saw a story like this on tv. I think it was on one of the serial shows like Twilight Zone or the Cryptkeeper but newer.
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Caseys_Mom
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 		Well, I got the original tweet from @under_the_dome (which I was already following from earlier).
The twitter bio reads:
# Bio To celebrate UNDER THE DOME - Stephen King's biggest book since THE STAND - we are starting the biggest game of literary hide and seek ever played
-- @under_the_dome was posting RT from someone else for anyone interested in under_the_dome to follow scarecrowjoe.
So..... IF the two are NOT part of the same, then under_the_dome is promoting both as the same time. So, I dunno.
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thebruce
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 		hm. Well, under_the_dome is listed as location: UK, so it could very well be just bringing attention to the 'other' book campaign with scarecrowjoe's twitter. Dunno. Maybe we could get word from the horse's mouth on that somehow Smile
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Caseys_Mom
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 		I sent a tweet to under_the_dome and also asked on the FB, haven't heard back yet. Either way, Joe's character seems fun. I don't know yet which, if any, of the others have any online accounts yet.
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booba
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 		Got this back from a pretty sloppy Police application:

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from: Chester's Mill Webmaster [webmaster@chestersmill.com]

Re: Chester's Mill Police Recruit Form


I'm not sure who you are, but you're definitely not Chuck... the information you provided doesn't match up.

--
Steven Raconteur - ChestersMill Webmaster


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natas
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 		maybe you should apply again using some of the info from the blog about chuck. I can't remember it all, but I think he went to a police academy and worked security somewhere.

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natas
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 		Took my own advice and filled out the application correctly for Chuck and got the following email:

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Chuck!

It's been too long, buddy! Your nephew told me you might be applying. I hope you get the job. Let me know when you're coming back to the Mill.

Joe asked me to send this to you. I hope it makes sense to you... I think it is a replacement cipher.

wdxagqx, jggj! yuwj cgm vguugdxj newn grx. kxqxqpxk newn pggo z jgdrugwjxj, nex grx z nguj cgm wpgmn? newn'a nex oxc ng aguszry qc rxhn bmiiux. exkx'a egd zn dgkoa: nex bwkna dzuu wuu uggo uzox neza: 16p37l. nex vzkan bwkn za nex bwyx rmqpxk. nex vzkan uxnnxk za nex bwkwykwbe rmqpxk. wvnxk newn za nex dgkj rmqpxk zr newn bwkwykwbe. zv nexkx'a w "l" wn nex xrj, cgm gruc max nex vzkan lewkwlnxk. zv nexkx'a w "d," cgm max nex degux dgkj, jzy?

azrlx negax jggja wkx vzrwuuc yzszry qx agqx qgkx lgrnxrn vgk nex lexanxk'a qzuu qzjjux aleggu aznx, z'q ygzry ng anwkn ezjzry qgkx qxaawyxa vgk cgm zr nex rxd bwyxa. axwkle nekgmye nexq ng vzrj qgkx zrankmlnzgra.

Alwkxlkgd Tgx

-- Steven Raconteur - ChestersMill Webmaster


decodes to this:

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awesome, dood! glad you followed that one. remember that book i downloaded, the one i told you about? that's the key to solving my next puzzle. here's how it works: the parts will all look like this: 16b37c. the first part is the page number. the first letter is the paragraph number. after that is the word number in that paragraph. if there's a 'c' at the end, you only use the first character. if there's a 'w,' you use the whole word, dig? since those doods are finally giving me some more content for the chester's mill middle school site, i'm going to start hiding more messages for you in the new pages. search through them to find more instructions. Scarecrow Joe


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booba
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 		Alright natas!!

Now we can move along.
Maybe the book is:

Quote:
on my way to school this morning i stopped at the town common to check out the new story king is giving away at his website. i have to tell you, man, this free wifi is the real deal. it's blazing fast. much faster than the rinky dink dsl we had at home before WiMAX.
the cannibals is pretty cool, except i was disappointed nobody got eaten.


http://stephenking.com/assets/Include/Downloads/download.php?c=112009&f=TheCannibalsExcerpt.pdf

The example 16b37c would be an "h"? (unless its a different book)


I did spend some time doing another application, lets see if i passed or not, no e-mail yet.

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natas
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 		New Tweet:

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daylight saving time ends this weekend. know what that means? one extra hour under the dome. wa-hoo. this is getting seriously old.


@ thebruce: you got this in your TINAFT list already?

PostPosted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:12 pm
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thebruce
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 		er, nope... but the list is on a public wiki page now so you can add it if you like as well Smile
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Xfonic
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 		*Edit* Just noticed the previous middle school post... Very Happy

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Oriza
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 		"The Cannibals" is apparently an unfinished novel by King, and his inspiration for "Under the Dome".

Edit: Is scarecrowjoe an IG character or not? He posted a bit on his blog about ARGs and how it seems like stephenking.com might be making one about the Dark Tower-- http://stephenking.com/multimedia/dt_video/
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natas
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 		Found a map of the town. Here's the PDF and a screenshot.

http://simon.worldarcstudio.com/cms/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3150/pdf/map.pdf
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 		NEW blog entry titled hail caesar with this coded message from a "hodder and stoughton", a former UK Publishing House
Quote:
Patm'l matm lfhdx?' Ptgwt tldxw lnwwxger, ihbgmbgz ghkmaxtlm, mhptkw 119. 'B whg'm dghp,' ax ltbw. 'Wbw fr fhmaxk-bg-etp ytkm?' Mabl vktvdxw abf ni tgw ax lmtkmxw etnzabgz. Ptgwt Wxuxv kxtebsxw lax atw ybgteer atw xghnza. Mabl vetkbybxw max phkew tgw axk ynmnkx bg t ptr matm ptl tefhlm ftzbvte. Lax ptl mnkgbgz mh abf, max phkwl B ptgm t wbohkvx hg max mbi

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It's ROT 7
What's that smoke?' Wanda asked suddenly, pointing northeast, toward 119. 'I don't know,' he said. 'Did my mother-in-law fart?' This cracked him up and he started laughing. Wanda Debec realized she had finally had enough. This clarified the world and her future in a way that was almost magical. She was turning to him, the words I want a divorce on the tip

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booba
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 		This must be a hidden snippet from the Uk game.

http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/press-release-from-hodder-stoughton.html

The seekers playing that game would love to have this.


(so, Scarecrow Joe is passing along snippets of the novel that he's in. The lines are going to get a little blurry on this one.)

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