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Well, I suppose if we are all part of the crew of the argo - our final task will be to find a modern day golden fleece.

edit: checked the wiki - awesome job Dreamer.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:33 pm
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Sirannon
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Awesome job, guys!

I just finished finals, so I've got plenty of time for once to help out. I just sent an email to The Herald. Whee!

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dreamerblue
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LOL...well, Sirannon, Claire is currently unemployed and too scared to leave her parents' house, so I guess the two of you have a lot of time to talk to each other!!! (Dawn wondered on Claire's Wall which of them would win their poke war, and Claire pointed out, "Well i don't have much to do now a days so bring it on!!" Laughing)

Claire has a profile picture now; she's made a mask that's been on her mind for some time now. She says she felt better while she was making it, but feels more confused now. It's a butterfly, but the middle is missing...the mask doesn't extend over her nose at all (she must have some kind of firm band going around the back of her head to keep the two halves of the butterfly in place...never seen this idea in a mask before!).

What I find VERY interesting is that she has the Roman numeral III written on the bridge of her nose. What does this signify?

One of the first things I thought about when I saw that III was to look for the 3rd trump card of the Tarot deck, since there were many Tarot references during the previous game. The IIIrd trump card is The Empress. If this is the intended reference, I'm not sure what it's supposed to mean.

Dawn, Claire has also asked me where Vanessa works, since I mentioned in a message to her that I might not be able to get a reply from Vanessa until the next time she's in the office...so I did tell her that I wasn't sure how much I should tell her, but that Vanessa does think she's working for something to do with national defence and so there was naturally some secrecy involved. I also mentioned that I'm looking into the organization she works for to make sure V really is safe and not being tricked in some way, since neither Claire nor I really trust V's father.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:48 pm
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(Dawn wondered on Claire's Wall which of them would win their poke war, and Claire pointed out, "Well i don't have much to do now a days so bring it on!!" )


The Poke War is actually still raging on, lol.

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Dawn, Claire has also asked me where Vanessa works, since I mentioned in a message to her that I might not be able to get a reply from Vanessa until the next time she's in the office...so I did tell her that I wasn't sure how much I should tell her, but that Vanessa does think she's working for something to do with national defence and so there was naturally some secrecy involved. I also mentioned that I'm looking into the organization she works for to make sure V really is safe and not being tricked in some way, since neither Claire nor I really trust V's father.


You and I are on the same page then. She asked me if the Ministry is in London and I truthfully replied "IDK". I told her that I've been poking around the Ministry to make sure V stays out of trouble, which is a mostly-truth. I told her MoA seems really secretive. Compared it to Area 51 oand, kind of jokingly, the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter. In all, Claire seems happy that people are still watching out for v. She said she's thinking of texting her, if possible, but I advised not to do nything that would hurt her (Claire) emtionally.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:55 pm
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dreamerblue
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Claire and I have been discussing her hallucinations and where she might have been held a little more. It's been through messages on Facebook rather than chats since last night, though...I guess at first we just weren't online at the same time, and she hasn't come into the chat thing since I logged into my ARG profile.

For one thing, while they are keeping her awake, she isn't scared when she hallucinates:
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As for the children they're not loud they sound as if they're in the distance. Not like children whispering in the same room as me, more like children being very noisy far away if that makes any sense. I'm not frightened either. I'm a bit nervous about why i can't see and not knowing where I am but i feel safe. Like i'm being watched over. Like no one is going to hurt me.


I mentioned to her that while she was being held, V's dad did imply to us that Claire was being held in a bell tower. I told her, "If you were in some kind of abandoned bell tower, maybe there were pigeons and other birds there, making it smell like a birdcage, and maybe it would be cold, like you mentioned, and maybe children's voices and cars and stuff would sound far away (because they'd be below you). Does that make some sort of sense? I'm going to try to remember what research we did at the time to try to locate you...we kinda dropped looking into it once we found out you were OK."

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Hey. A bell tower hey. I guess the children could be below me and that's why they sound far away. Do you know if this Ministry place is in London? I seem to remember being able to see a tiny bit of my surroundings from under the edge of my blindfold and i think as we were driving I saw the London Eye. I can't be sure but it certainly looked like it. I wonder if the ministry have buildings there?


I, uh, kinda told Claire at that point that V had mentioned that London Marathon lately and that because of that I had wondered if V was in London (sorry, Dawn!).

Claire said, "It could be a coincidence. I might be getting a little paranoid. After all what would the ministry have to do with an old bell tower and birds!"

Given the number of "coincidences" that seem to have been happening to Claire lately, I suspect the Ministry might actually have quite a bit to do with an old bell tower and birds. After all, Jean-Pierre works for the Ministry, and it was Jean-Pierre that held Claire captive.

What do you think? Should we try to figure out what bell tower Claire might have been held in in London? I thought in the previous game that the implication was that she was being held in a bell tower in some other city, to be honest, but maybe not everything from the last game will be canon for this one.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:11 pm
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dawndilion
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No worries, Dreamer. Claire knows I'm a ditz and am kinda slow on the uptake. Razz

I don't actually recall much from the last time, because towards the end I mostly just lurked. Didn't the majority of action happen in/near Greenwich?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:30 pm
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dreamerblue
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Yeah, Greenwich was where Vanessa lived and so on.

I'm actually working on a page on the wiki to try and summarize what happened last time...but my memory sux, so after I get through the part that's covered by the Timeline section of the old wiki I'll be asking for some help (but please don't jump into it just yet as I want to get down there a bunch of stuff that's jumbling around in my head first).

Ok, who is Poeas, and how did you get your codename? Sorry I missed your chat messages Sad...I didn't even know I still had the Ning tab open.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:09 pm
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dreamerblue wrote:
Yeah, Greenwich was where Vanessa lived and so on.

I'm actually working on a page on the wiki to try and summarize what happened last time...but my memory sux, so after I get through the part that's covered by the Timeline section of the old wiki I'll be asking for some help (but please don't jump into it just yet as I want to get down there a bunch of stuff that's jumbling around in my head first).


Don't look at me! I think James and some of the others from last time around would be waaaay more help than me. I actually re-read some of the old thread earlier to try to remember, but...that didn't go so well.

Edit: Who is Poeas on the MoA site?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:13 pm
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dreamerblue
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Yes, and who is Ancaeus?

Edit: OK, I've updated http://argon.wikia.com/wiki/A_Summary_of_the_previous_Vanessa_Atalanta_ARG as much as I can from the old wiki...because apparently once 2010 started, I stopped updating the wiki, as did seemingly everyone else. I won't be around much tomorrow because I'll be throwing a birthday party for my brother and his wife (born 1 year and 1 day apart, April 26 and 27) after church & then will either be back at church in the evening or doing school prep and marking for Monday. If some of you want to take a stab at summarizing events that happened in the ARG after New Year's Eve, please go for it. Good sources of reminders of what happened would be V's blog, V's Twitter feed, the Facebook Walls of the characters whose profiles we can still access, and of course the old unfiction forum thread (though that is one unwieldly beast to dig through). Have fun Smile.

Maybe tomorrow Carina will notice she hasn't given me a codename yet Sad?

Off to bed now. Goodnight. Good to be back in the swing of this ARG thing.

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Telos954
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Had some stuff to get done in the real world, so I was away most of friday and yesterday. JPW's been emailing me, still refers to me as the 'Red King'.

A hidden message in his most recent email struck me as odd.
(Screenshots because it's easier to see what I mean that way.)


Because I'm used to hidden messages in everything, I did a ctrl+a and got this



The added capitalized letters give :
THERTHREADOFLFESSPUN
NOT HERE


I've been up way too long today, so I'm going to call it a night (or morning..) and head to bed for a bit. Hopefully you guys can make head or tail outta that, because my brain isn't working right now.

Edit :

I could just be an over tired fool right now, but the 'blank spots' on the owl logo's chest, between the ▼s makes a 'radiation symbol'.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:09 am
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Just looking at it, it looks like "the thread of life is spun". I haven't run it through any decoder type things (still not on my computer, where all my bookmarks are), but just looking at it, that's what it looks like.

Quick Google-fu tells me it could make sense. Wiki tells me that "The Moirae or Moerae (in Greek Μοῖραι – the "apportioners", often called The Fates), in Greek mythology, were the white-robed personifications of destiny "

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Clotho (English pronunciation: /ˈkloʊθoʊ/, Greek Κλωθώ [klɔːˈtʰɔː] – "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equivalent was Nona, (the 'Ninth'), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.

Lachesis (/ˈlækɨsɪs/, Greek Λάχεσις [ˈlakʰesis] – "allotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equivalent was Decima (the 'Tenth').

Atropos (/ˈætrəpɒs/, Greek Ἄτροπος [ˈatropos] – "inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning",[7] sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person's death; and when their time was come, she cut their life-thread with "her abhorred shears"[8]. Her Roman equivalent was Morta ('Death').


So, it may fit. As for "NOT HERE"...I don't know. Need more coffee.

Edit: Telos, those triangles on the owl look really familiar to me, but I don't know why. Not the blank space, but the triangles themselves. I ran the image through TinEye and, SHOCKER, no hits.
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Oh, Dagada, I hope you don't mind that I've also added your Facebook name alongside your MoA codename, so we can also know who's who of the people interacting with Claire/etc.

Looks like we should try to pull in more ARG players.

I'll be back when I can be...like I said above, busy day for me today.

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dawndilion
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There's a new message (or "note") up on the MoA site.

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Due to the exhaustion of today's events [report will be issued tomorrow as standard protocol demands], could all new recruits plase select a name for themselves from the below Crew name list


– please chose name only from which are available. Thank you.

Libatrix, on behalf of C.


There are several designations beside the names. P, D, MIA, and A.
I'm guessing P = Probation (that's us), D = Dead, MIA = well, missing in action, and A = Active. Just guessing on those, though.

Edit: That can't be right. Comparing our code names from the wiki, since I can't remember, I'm (Medea) listed as P, while Talaus (distilled) is listed as "A".

Edit 2:
Looks like we need more people recruited Sad

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As we have a party to celebrate three occasions coming up, I thought I would make a little contest.
Whoever can introduce the most new recruits to the organisation, and who pass through the inductory probation, will be rewarded with one of our illustrious prizes.
This contest is open to all [yes, recruits as well as existent staff] - for you to be considered, the new recruit must specify your Ministry name in their invite request to A.

Deadline for new applications: 30th April 2010 [I don't want any us to be doing paper work on party day do I?]


The ARG group on facebook is pretty slow, so I don't know where else to recruit.
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Erginus seems easy to remember so that's the name I chose. Laughing Gratz to those whose insights lit-up the rabbit hole.
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Been talking back and forth with Claire a bit. She asked me if the colors red and green mean anything. I told her Christmas and I'm pretty sure they're complimentary colors. I asked if she had dreams that were red and green, going off of what Dreamer has talked to her about. She responded with:

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As for the red and green i'm not sure whether i was day dreaming or whether it was a flashback or something but i could see these red and green lights. I know they were flashing in this repeating pattern but i can't remember what the pattern was. I know it's there somewhere though on the Fringe of my memory. Weird huh?


ETA: Got a tweet from Vanessa about an hour ago. Asked for her email and got it Smile

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thoguht you had my email: sorry! vanessaataantaSPLATrocketmail.com realy tired at mo at work still so soz for typos etc hope allw ell. VA

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