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NovaChild
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The end says TECISCOMING. I'm gonna see if she's on AIM, see if I can start up a conversation.

EDIT: She's not, I'll email her.

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Can we comment on the youtube video? Maybe someone whos already talked with her? She doesn't seem to have noticed the glitches in her video.

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I mentioned that in my email I just wrote to her. I didn't mention the message at the end, but I asked if she had any problems uploading or if she did some editing herself to see if she knows anything about it. I'll post what she says back to me when I get it.

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NovaChild wrote:
Watched the first video she posted on YouTube.
Highlights for those of you unable to watch right now:

There was some "drama" and that's why she made the new account/accounts (if you count the blog/Twitter/etc.)
She made mention of a "she" as the cause of the drama and who she was getting away from. I think I'm wrong here after listening to it again, might wanna check this. Swear I heard it the first time though.
She's living with her girlfriend in Ithaca, New York, working at the bookstore near the Cornell campus. Don't know if that's relevant or just a random actual fact about her, but oh well.

Other than that she seems like a completely normal girl. But email addresses don't just send poems to people at will.

EDIT: I also saw this before, but I didn't want to say anything before I got my feet on the ground with what's going on here. Part of the letters from the poem can spell "SAM DEERCOT" but I played Human Pet for over a year and my eyes are trained to see that shit by now, haha.


I'm wondering if Drama Girl (my nickname for her) was exhibiting Sylvia Plath type behaviour. She wrote the Bell Jar (written under her pseudonym Victoria Lucas) which details several bouts of depression and suicide attempts. She suffered from extreme bipolar depression.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Jar

Maybe she's meaning that the DG is a writer...I'm reaching here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath_effect

So we have groundhogs and fungi...odd so far.

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Telos954 wrote:
kobrosti wrote:
I've got nothing to hide you know Very Happy

And no, the numbers were not included in my e-mail...

I'm going to send another mail to her, to see what is going on here! Smile

she replied to my previous mail and i got this
Quote:
I... I beg your pardon?




........I didn't send that email. I was still asleep. How could my
email address send emails withough my knowing?

D

pretty much the same!


-----

In her video she says she works in a bookshop? Near "Cornell University" if I'm correct?

and i got this ... http://www.store.cornell.edu/
I guess it is nothing?


On google, search "Bookstores near Cornell University" then hit 'maps'. There's one named Kraftees near it too. Very close compared to the others around it

Edit ::
Got another email back from Adulvize. It's mostly short passes about the anagram. Nothing important as of yet, but I'll keep you guys posted if I get anything. Her twitter says she's going to work on getting that roadtrip video up. I'm sure we'll see something in it.

Edit 2 ::
I was looking back through the messages and caught this
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Not really. I mean, I like sylvia plath well enough, but it's not
like she's my favourite poet ever.


"Favourite" would be the British-English version of 'favorite'. She didn't sound British in the video... Though, it may just be a typo or a force of habit thing (I used to spell color as 'colour' due to it being a habit.)


BTW We Canadians use the Brit spellings as well.
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TEC is coming It seems that string of numbers was TEC. That did come up, but I dismissed it like a tard. Any way, it seems we need to to keep an eye out for this TEC thing. In the anagram we got, the letters TEC are present. Hm.

EDIT::
I mentioned it in my email to her, saying a friend gave me the low down on it. She linked me to her youtube and said that she was going to watch it.
She hasn't responded yet, but posted two distressed tweets.

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Telos954 wrote:
TEC is coming It seems that string of numbers was TEC. That did come up, but I dismissed it like a tard. Any way, it seems we need to to keep an eye out for this TEC thing. In the anagram we got, the letters TEC are present. Hm.

EDIT::
I mentioned it in my email to her, saying a friend gave me the low down on it. She linked me to her youtube and said that she was going to watch it.
She hasn't responded yet, but posted two distressed tweets.


Just figured I'd let her know I'm helping. I'm wary of watching videos at night though...some have really freaked me out.

Tweets:


Quote:

@adulvizedonna Hey found you through the odd email...Mind if I ask who Sophie is?



Anyone know who Jessie is?

Quote:


@coffeegirl18 Sophie's my girlfriend. hi.



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@adulvizedonna Ah ok cool



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@coffeegirl18 yeah. sorry for being short, I'm just... weird stuff on a vid I uploaded to youtube that DEFINITELY wasn't there originally.


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@adulvizedonna Yeah I know I read your tweets. Something about some TEC thing...I'm trying to work it out...


Quote:


Have googled "TEC". Somehow I doubt "The Education Collective" are the ones coming.



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@coffeegirl18 thanks. i'm coming up blank, i could use all the help i can get


New Tweet:
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I keep going over and over it. "TECISCOMING". What does it mean? Who or what is TEC? AUGH, WHY IS THIS ON MY VIDEO?
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 11:39 pm
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Now officially in contact with Donna. Here's the email I received back from her:

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Don't worry about it! I figure you're allowed to ask questions when
you get a random mysterious email that no one knows who sent and how.
Smile

So, to answer your questions! No, I've never lived in California, and
the only Eric I know of is Erik (aka the Phantom) from Phantom of the
Opera.

Kobrosti is Emile, right? (oops, I thought that was Emilie, to be
honest, thought he was a girl. boy do I feel sheepish on
double-checking.) He hooked me up with a program I'd been looking for
that was SUPPOSED to work, but didn't. I ended up finding a way to
get it converted anyway, so it's all good.

And I'm not much in the artsy department. and once I got it converted,
I didn't have any problems with it. I don't remember any static - do
you mean static or pixelation? 'Cause I know the camera is kinda
shit, things get jumpy and pixelated a lot. I'll go watch it, though,
thanks for letting me know.

and, yeah, Soph wouldn't use my computer for anything like that, but
she's been sleeping a lot anyway - she's got the flu, poor bit. And
no, didn't have any friends over or anything. Just me and her, asleep
in our house.

don't worry about the wordy. Smile I almost think you guys want to know
more than I do, but I don't mind. It's a way to meet new people, at
least? XD

D


Don't worry, Emile, she knows you're a dude now, haha.
Not much else to report from this email, but I'm gonna let her know about the video (that it wasn't just pixelation and that the entire thing went to static).

EDIT: I actually got 2 emails from Donna while I was watching hockey (GO PENS), here's the 2nd.

Quote:
on second thought, I think I'm very very VERY invested in finding out
what the fuck this is.

I watched that video before I exported it from iMovie. NONE OF THAT
was on there. It was just me and Sophie in the car.


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@coffeegirl18 Jessie's a friend, she works with Sophie. She's already had the flu, and I get sick often enough as it is, so Soph's [cont]


Quote:
@coffeegirl18 staying over at her place for a few days.


Ok so automatically go H1N1 alert...LOL.

UPDATE:

Quote:
adulvizedonna

@coffeegirl18 most likely. like I said, Jessie already had it, it was getting passed around the office Soph works at.

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The last few emails we sent back and forth.
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Ok, holy shit.
The whole 'tec' thing coming up in the hex to text conversion of those numbers. The anagram in that message has the letters 'TEC' in it (I still haven't figured it out though...), the TECISCOMING at the end of the video...

If you're not doing this stuff - which you really seem like you're not...
there's some freaky shit going on.

As for how it got there.. what the screaming is..the blackouts in video.. It just seems crazy. I'm not one to believe in paranormal or extraterrestrial shit, but, this totally isn't normal.

Has your girlfriend seen this crazy footage?


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no. i mean, she's online again, but i sent her over to our friend
Jessie's for a few days 'cause she's sick and I get sick kind of
easily and REALLY can't afford to miss any work. i don't want to
freak her out.

i mean, i believe in the paranormal, to an extent, but this is,
like... I don't know. it's crazy, but there is some seriously weird
shit going down and i'm a little terrified, to be honest.

is it lame that i'm glad to be in this with a bunch of people i've
never met before?


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Well, my best wishes to her. I know how much it sucks to be sick.
If I were in your position, I'd be pretty damn scared and I'm not easily scared.

As for being glad about being in it with people who you don't know - I think that's normal. You're able to share a special bond with someone you don't know because they can't judge you, they can't talk shit to your friends and such. You have a level of anonymity that both protects and comforts you.

Also, strangers seem to be much kinder than people you know.

Any way, please keep me updated. This has really got me curious, on a geeky mystery level, and on a concerned level.


Quote:
I'll definitely keep you in the loop, all of you who got the email.

look, I have a blog on wordpress - http://adulvize.wordpress.com.
I'll try and keep anything I find there.

Um, and because I'm nervous, especially being home alone, I'll post
every day until we figure out what's going down, so everyone knows I'm
alive. though I guess twitter could work for that, I'm just more used
to blogging.


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I'll keep an eye on it. I just started twitter like yesterday - I don't quite like it, but, it seems to be what everyone's using. You can contact me here or at <EDITED> on YIM

I usually have a lot of free time - so I'll keep a good watch.


Still been going with the whole 'friend told me' bit. Now that she's given me her blog and youtube info though, I can switch to the 'i'm personally studying this' side of things.



Anyone have any luck on that anagram?

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I'm trying to take the letters from the original email and use our new knowledge with it. I took out "TEC IS" to see if it's explaining itself, but the rest of the letters aren't giving me much of anything. "Nearby" can be made, but then the rest of the letters are nothing. I dunno. check it out: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=cominbeardye&t=1000&a=n (This is after "TEC IS" is already taken out)

Also, just generally talking to her now. New email:

Quote:
Ugh. This is so frustrating and just... I'm SCARED. I don't like
being scared. It's bad enough I got caught up watching all the Marble
Hornet vids the other night, and then trawling somethingawful for
slender man photos. Now I have something creepy and unexplainable
ACTUALLY HAPPENING?

I prefer my scary shit to stay fictional.

Anyway, I'll let Sophie know the internet says to feel better. Smile
thanks. let me know if you figure out anything about TEC, or if you
get any more weird emails.

D


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NovaChild wrote:
I'm trying to take the letters from the original email and use our new knowledge with it. I took out "TEC IS" to see if it's explaining itself, but the rest of the letters aren't giving me much of anything. "Nearby" can be made, but then the rest of the letters are nothing. I dunno. check it out: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=cominbeardye&t=1000&a=n (This is after "TEC IS" is already taken out)

Also, just generally talking to her now. New email:

Quote:
Ugh. This is so frustrating and just... I'm SCARED. I don't like
being scared. It's bad enough I got caught up watching all the Marble
Hornet vids the other night, and then trawling somethingawful for
slender man photos. Now I have something creepy and unexplainable
ACTUALLY HAPPENING?

I prefer my scary shit to stay fictional.

Anyway, I'll let Sophie know the internet says to feel better. Smile
thanks. let me know if you figure out anything about TEC, or if you
get any more weird emails.

D


There was a G missing from the original list of letters if you go back and check. Which means Is Coming can be achieved with the letters we got from the poem.

YEAEERDTCB are the letters we have left. Got to be a nameish sounding thing in there somewhere. Trey Ed Cabe is the only name like thing I can think of but somehow I doubt that's it. Anyone got any ideas?

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NovaChild wrote:
I'm trying to take the letters from the original email and use our new knowledge with it. I took out "TEC IS" to see if it's explaining itself, but the rest of the letters aren't giving me much of anything. "Nearby" can be made, but then the rest of the letters are nothing. I dunno. check it out: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=cominbeardye&t=1000&a=n (This is after "TEC IS" is already taken out)

Also, just generally talking to her now. New email:

Quote:
Ugh. This is so frustrating and just... I'm SCARED. I don't like
being scared. It's bad enough I got caught up watching all the Marble
Hornet vids the other night, and then trawling somethingawful for
slender man photos. Now I have something creepy and unexplainable
ACTUALLY HAPPENING?

I prefer my scary shit to stay fictional.

Anyway, I'll let Sophie know the internet says to feel better. Smile
thanks. let me know if you figure out anything about TEC, or if you
get any more weird emails.

D


Slenderman...Oh lawdy. Well, now I know what sort of mindset she's in.

As for the anagram site, I'm thinking about doing it paper and pen. Anagram sites spew out every combination. We may see it more clearly if we're computing it our selves.

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Well, I'm poopy at this whole thinking thing.
But Gad, my goodness you saved me from so many headaches, I didn't even think to actually look at the poem, I didn't realize there was a letter missed.

So, TEC IS COMING is confirmed, it's been in everything basically. Now to work with the rest of the letters. I'll give a heads-up if I come up with anything.

EDIT: The letters left after taking out TEC IS COMING is YEAERDB. Just for reference.
Bed year? Ugh.

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It's wild. XD Also extremely terrifying, in the horror movie kind of
way. The GOOD horror movie kind of way. I definitely recommend it,
though

I know you're not. Honestly, it means a lot that other people are
helping - i'm no good at puzzles and stuff, and i'd be a lot more
scared if this were just happening and I didn't know what to do with
it.

so, y'know. thanks.

I'll take a look at it myself, let you guys know on twitter if I think
I find anything.


Gonna let her go for now, keep an eye on the Twitter, everyone.

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NovaChild wrote:
Well, I'm poopy at this whole thinking thing.
But Gad, my goodness you saved me from so many headaches, I didn't even think to actually look at the poem, I didn't realize there was a letter missed.

So, TEC IS COMING is confirmed, it's been in everything basically. Now to work with the rest of the letters. I'll give a heads-up if I come up with anything.

EDIT: The letters left after taking out TEC IS COMING is YEAERDB. Just for reference.
Bed year? Ugh.

Quote:
It's wild. XD Also extremely terrifying, in the horror movie kind of
way. The GOOD horror movie kind of way. I definitely recommend it,
though

I know you're not. Honestly, it means a lot that other people are
helping - i'm no good at puzzles and stuff, and i'd be a lot more
scared if this were just happening and I didn't know what to do with
it.

so, y'know. thanks.

I'll take a look at it myself, let you guys know on twitter if I think
I find anything.


Gonna let her go for now, keep an eye on the Twitter, everyone.


Y'know, after looking at you separating the letters, it all became clear: TEC is coming, be ready. Funny how things can become so much clearer when you look at it differently. Now the question is, be ready for what?

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