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[Sapphyre]

Does anyone else find it creepy that we're talking about a person's address? And calling the person? The simple explanation here is that the person is mailing out something that they want to get to you or back to them. Besides, a return address would be necessary for international shipping. We all know that Shane is a real person. Wouldn't it be safe to assume that Jessica is too? So, why do we care where she lives? That's not a puzzle, riddle or anything like a game.

Pathological Truth has been registered and worked on for over a year. Those videos were made months ago. Her FB profile has friends who are in the same general area. We're making mysteries that aren't there.

According to the ARG Information page something is supposed to happen today or tomorrow. The ARG Information page says that someone or something else is supposed to come along. Maybe wait for that? Because this started as a "real world" DVD it had to start with some real people.

Those of us who lurked around Hallucinine learned the hard way about making calls. We made calls to people and upset someone who was already grieving.

[Tresbien]

[heybeesly]

[pia ward]

Thanks for the reminder Sapphyre.

Now I'm back to thinking she is real and not a triumverate but maybe a kind of Richard Alpert (from the show LOST) a go-between and, at the same time, a lab rat herself too. In which case it is seeming very odd that I am talking about her in the 3rd person now.

I have no idea about the address conundrum. That though sort of reminded me of Proffitt's no-nonsense attitude. The sword of the archangel Michael is supposed to cut through the BS and down to the heart of the matter. That is also what Proffitt appeared to want to do, to provide us with the truths he'd gleaned from his life so far.

I look forward to reading your FB message to Proffitt, Heybeesly.

[heybeesly]

Here's what I sent Maxwell before he disappeared. Not sure if it's important, but maybe I said some magic words or something.

[pia ward]

There's a youtube that goes along with that statement which I think is
important to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ixewUKU70
Sapphyr was right. We've veered way off course. Especially me who decided she wasn't even real at all.

Heybeesley, I think your message is what prompted Proffitt's response. It fits for me.

[The Mirror]

[amandel]

[The Mirror]

Thanks for the character reference Amandel!

[fezzik]

My DVD showed up today. It is #27. There is nothing apparent on the DVD itself nor the envelope. It is is in a plain white mailer and says "ARG Information Thank You!" on it. Nothing else is written on the mailer.

However, included in the package was a pamphlet. I will include scans later. It appears to have been purchased from a used book store, and has a price tag of ".90" on the front cover in pencil (90 cents). The title is "Alternate German Series: II Cultural Graded Readers" by Thomas Mann. The plaintext of the document appears to be a teaching tool for learning German with several simple children's stories and a glossary in the back.

Inside, the pamphlet is marked up to some extent. Starting with the second page, a yellow highlighter has been used to mark the numbers "7" and "14". Generally these numbers are found in the footnotes, although they are also in the copyright year (1957) and other places. Most of the occurrences of these numbers are in the form "7" or "14", but at least one is the roman numeral "VII" used to mark a section. There are several interesting things about these markings:

1) Not all occurrences of the numbers 7 and 14 are so marked. There is no obvious pattern, except that most (but not all) occurrences of the numbers as footnote markers are marked, and most occurrences in the main body of the text are not marked. I will investigate further.

2) It does not appear that the highlighting is ever used on anything other than the numbers 7 or 14.

3) Other multiples of 7 exist in the document but are not marked.

4) The marking, as done with yellow highlighter, also marks a section of the opposite side of the page. Although there is no obvious pattern to these, at times they seem to line up with characters on the other side of the page. (But at other times they don't).

5) On page 25, in black ink pen are written the words "Nicht Weiter Gehen", loosely "Go No Further". It appears on the surface this is an admonition to the erstwhile puzzle solver, because there are no further marks in the pamphlet. It also may be a warning in general.

Working theories:

Taking all occurrences of 7 or 14 and writing down whether they are marked or not forms a code, such as Morse or binary. I will try this later today.

What is really important is what is marked on the reverse side of the pages (but then why don't some line up?)

All that's really important are the numbers 7 and 14 (but then why mark so many? Why the note on page 25?)

One further note: on page 1 (which is not actually the first page because of the preface) there are several markings in blue pen cursive. Above the word "reicher" is the word "right", marked out and replaced with "rich". Reicher means rich in german. Also above the word wichtige is written "important". Wichtige means important in german. My belief is that these markings are by the original owner of the pamphlet and are just the start of a lazy student's reader notes. The hand they are written is does not match the note on page 24. I believe they are unimportant/unrelated but am including them for completeness.

[fezzik]

Occurences marked: Y for mark, N for no mark. I counted all instances of the number 7 or 14, no matter their form.

YYNNNNNNYNNYNNNNNNNNNYYNNNNNYNNYYNNNNNNNNNYNNYYNNNNNNNNYNNYYNNNYYNNN

After looking at the document and doing this, I'm no longer convinced this is meaningful, but I said I'd do it, so I did.

It's possible that it's just a hint that we're looking for the numbers 7 and 14 in the context of markup; footnotes are marked, section heads, page numbers, but not the main text. However, there is one conspicuous instance in which the numbers 7 and 14 occur in the footnotes but are not marked, which makes no sense.

Note that there are many instances of "17", "27", 37", etc. and they are never marked. However the "7" in "1957" in the copyright is marked, so that's not necessarily a rule either.

I will include full scans when I can get to a quality scanner (probably tonight).

[fezzik]

Listing of what's marked on the opposite side of the markings (A "-" means the mark goes into empty space):

R
-
-
de
d
zsch
8
e
inf.
13
s
da
sei
-
pen
moc
en

Again, nothing obvious here.

As I mentioned, there is one conspicuous instance in which the footnotes 7 and 14 are not marked; they form the phrase "das Schaufenster ist das Thema", or "the show window is the theme". "Schaufenster" is "show window" or the window at the front of a store.

[Ashra26]

ARG Information DVD

[Tresbien]

Re: ARG Information DVD

[heybeesly]

New tweet from voxstat: