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[Seraphic Adonis]

[DEAD BLOG] A Lack of Lexicon

[RAD24]

I'd say it's a Slenderblog. First, there's the mention of bald men in business suits in an earlier post, then there's the drawing you mentioned, and there's also tags (va gur jvaqbj, yrkvpba) that, when ROT-13'd, come out as:

[Seraphic Adonis]

Hmmm, interesting. Can you identify the letters in the pictures and ROT13 them? I'll see what I can do.

In the title, there's "quiaegosicdeco." In Latin, that would be "because I say so" or something similar. Maybe the author's a Pratchett fan?

The letters in the first page are "BG YOU CBBE UVZ", with the numbers "2/8/89," with some indistinct pictures. I think there's a man, possibly the letters "VI" in a different font from the rest of them, and... a game of noughts and crosses? Maybe we should ask the author for a better shot, if he can get it one.

"Yrkvpba" appears in the second journal shot, I think.

[edit] Bolded "you" because it's in a different font (again!). Seems a bit more... emphasised, I think?

[jonnymanic]

Taking 2/8/89 as a date, in American format we get eighth of February 1989, which gives us one major newsworthy event:

Wednesday February 08, 1989:
An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal killing 144.

That doesn't seem to promising, but there's nothing for the second of August 1989 (UK date system).

Maybe there's an inference that Slendy had something to do with the air-crash, or maybe it's a reference to something important in the author's life. The latter seems more likely to me, though.

[RAD24]

Ok, the letters in the second journal pic come out as:

[Seraphic Adonis]

I'd have thought it would be in British format (since the author is apparently an Englishman, according to "The Lexiconical"'s profile), but the air crash thing is fascinating, but it's probably the author's date of birth or something? Maybe there's an equivalent of ROT13 for numbers, alternatively?

Yeah, the fourth letter (assuming it's read top two, middle two, big "F") does look a little indistinct. Disinclined to think that it's an "A", since the rest of the letters are capital letters.

Is there any double-meaning to the "VI", besides making the complete words? I've been flicking over some of the Slender Man stuff, and "VI" has no significance, even if taken as a Roman numeral. Not sure if I'm reading too much into the font thing.

[Mattwan]

[Dray]

The date is probably somebody's birthday. It'd peg 'em as a 21-year-old so that seems about fitting with the genre's audience and likely blog-makers!

[lurkerpants]

Actually, about the main character's age - in his first post he says he's sixteen, yet in his profile he says he's 19. I don't really think that's anything relevant, but I thought I'd mention it.

In his last entry he asks people to post the meaning to the code in his notebooks. I'd do it, but I don't know of a way to post anonymously...

[Dray]

I wish there was an option to post anonymously on these blogs. I would participate more often if I could type in a username without having to attach every single other account including ones that hook in to real life to participate in a game. >:\ (And yeah, I suppose I could set up a new email account and a new facebook to participate in an ARG but... it just seems like too much effort to go to in order to comment directly on the character's journal!)

[Seraphic Adonis]

@Dray; I've also thought that. We could make a "group" Blogger account for the entire Unfiction Marble Hornets section. Something like "Operater Hunt Club," with each of us signing our usernames at the bottom (e.g. "I think it's Slender Man, give him fifteen quid --S. Adonis") or something.

I'd be willing to do that with a new e-mail address! xP

[edit] It appears that the creator(s) have enabled anonymous commenting on their blog; dunno since when, but nevertheless!

[RAD24]

In the newest post, orjner tjlyyvba translates to

[Seraphic Adonis]

Yeah, I ROT13'd it when I first saw it. I already knew what "gwyllion" was, even if I had to phone up a cousin to verify it. As RAD24 pointed out, it's some Welsh folklore/mythology.

It's possible that Slendy might be "gwyllion" ("night-wanderer" is a pretty good description of him, I think), or he could be a separate villain, a la the masked gentleman of MH.

Any meaning to the lack of punctuation in this entry? Maybe an anagram in the capital letters, or some such?

Also: I'd be willing to bet that tickticktick is some kind of code, perhaps implying Slendy/Gwyllion. Do we have any experts on the history of clockmaking here? :P Some of that description sounds like rubbish.

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Another post up. Looks like Lexiconical's gone missing, which begs the question of how he posted that post earlier.

Looks like some Welsh up on that page. I'm gonna make another call to my cousin and ask him what he thinks it says. Nevertheless: sounds like the writer(s) has (have) a bizarre love of Wales ._. Oh, and the author(s) seems to think "pacing" is something that he/she doesn't need.

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[Yotogi]

Provided the translation available on the interwebs can be trusted, (I know, I know,) Y DYN TAL TENAU appears to mean "the tight tall thin" and TYLWYTH TEG, "fairies." Familiar enough imagery for the subject matter.