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thebruce
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 		Well here's my input to the discussion...

My email to him:
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Hi "L D" - just thought you should know that your email may have been hacked. I received this message from you and it seems pretty odd and random. Has anything else been happening to you recently? You may want to change your password.

The subject is a code that reads: "We are the hollow men/ We are the stuffed men/ Leaning together/ Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!" And it's the first few lines of T.S. Elliot's The Hollow Men. Seems fairly intentional.

Just thought you should know!


and the response (italics are in the source email):
Quote:
I've been getting a lot of that. Thank you for your concern, though. I have indeed changed my password, and I've asked someone to let me know if they get another strange email from this address.

If you wouldn't mind informing me if the same happens to you, I would be grateful.

Ah. That person had the nerve to encode the work of T.S. Eliot? That's disgraceful! Poetry is something to be appreciated and enjoyed by all people, not the few that happen to know codes! However... that would explain why so many people are asking me about Hollow Men. It's not just a load of hokum...

I'm sorry that your day was interrupted by this nonsense as well. I've been going back and forth trying to figure out what exactly is going on. And for some reason, I have a feeling it's just begun.


ooooooooooooo
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battlecat
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 		Wow. He replies quick.

Quote:
From LD:
I've said to someone else today, and I suppose I'll have to say it once more: you must run with an interesting crowd.

I thought the odd things might be my friends. I'm not so sure now, but it surely wasn't "do I have enemies?" The only thing I can really think of is that perhaps PETA still hasn't forgiven my friends, and as an extension, myself, for that bacon incident... Er, sorry. My mind was drifting. I am a bit tired, and it's getting late. But I think I can assure you I have no enemies.

As for my location, I think it might be prudent to keep mum on the subject for now. I really don't know any of you quite well, though I am extremely grateful you're willing to help me find the person sending things on my name. It is a far cry from poetry, though...

The odd things are basically papers with phrases and the like. Rubbish, in my opinion--more annoying than menacing. But still bothersome, as I'm sure you can imagine.


Pretty sure the PETA quip is a throwaway line, but what do I know? Anyway, responded with this.

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I can only imagine how bothersome that must be. You say you are getting odd papers with phrases and the like - any chance you could provide samples (or better yet, pictures) of these? We're pretty good at figuring stuff out like that.

I can understand your desire to be low key with your location at the moment. Especially with strange things going on.

And the crowd I run with is far more interesting than you can imagine. Some of the brightest and the best. Smile

Looking forward to hearing from you.

BC


PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:38 pm
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cyng
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Quote:
Poetry is something to be appreciated and enjoyed by all people, not the few that happen to know codes!


bahaha

ETA:
Quote:
The only thing I can really think of is that perhaps PETA still hasn't forgiven my friends, and as an extension, myself, for that bacon incident


bahaha 2x...nice

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battlecat
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Quote:
Poetry is something to be appreciated and enjoyed by all people, not the few that happen to know codes!


I lol'd.

This just popped up in my email, as well, from amessageSPLATgmx.com:
Quote:


Don't think I'm not watching.
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Also had an audio file attached. I suck at audio stripping/recoding, so I'll leave that to you guys. I'm just amped to actually get something first, for once!

Things be heating up, gang!

Roar.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:40 pm
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RAD24
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 		Wow. I couldn't understand anything from that audio (I heard the blips and static, I just don't know what they mean).

But, I'm never good with audio.


EDIT: Aaaand I just got this, from that same address:

Quote:
Something less than your brother, yet without you he is less than you still.


(it was oddly placed, over on the right of the email)

And this attachment:
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battlecat
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Quote:
(it was oddly placed, over on the right of the email)


Yeah, I forgot that detail. Also in a gray font.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:12 pm
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thebruce
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 		well, uh, the two audio files mix together to produce a mechanized digital voice that's been greatly slowed down, but the mp3 quality is so low it's hard to make out really what is being said when sped up... closest I got at this point is:

You are dead. You see what you do not fear and you fear what you do not see that is if you try again (something) it shall dot
she shall give you...

yeah, I have no idea... mp3 attached
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:21 pm
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battlecat
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 		I have a sneaking suspicion that more is coming. I mean, we have all emailed him back at some point, and so far we have 2.

Nice clean up job, thebruce. Far beyond my meager capabilities.

Reading Eliot's "The Hollow Men" now. Poetry. Ow, my brain.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 8:39 pm
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jscdragon
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 		hi all, i haven't been following ARGs for ages but fancy dipping my toe in again Smile

My only thought so far is that rather than his email having been hacked, perhaps we're dealing with some kind of multi-personality, demonic possession or jeckell/hyde style thing going on?

"I want to say that my email was hacked, but I don't think it was. "

He mentioned something about stuff being moved too and on the subject of the poem

"However... that would explain why so many people are asking me about Hollow Men. It's not just a load of hokum... "

Just my observations so far Smile

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battlecat
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 		New Email....
Quote:
United the pair fail, both so blind.


Maybe for now, I will play the Father and help my children see.


Take your toys and run







and I will follow.


All gray text, all right oriented. Sent to myself and RAD (according to the details block of the msg).

3 audio files enclosed.

Order of attachment in the email is:
YOUARETHEBLINDBROTHER
YOUAREBLIND
YOUARETHEBLINDFIRST


No clue. Looking up how to clean up and back-track audio now.
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RAD24
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 		Alright, I received 2 more emails from "a message."

First, I replied to the other one with:

Quote:
My brother, hmm?

And who might that be?


He replied:

Quote:
The one who holds the key to this completion. The one with which you have already failed.


So...does that mean battlecat? And I don't know how we've already failed...

Then, I got this (subject, The First and the Brother):
Quote:

United the pair fail, both so blind.


Maybe for now, I will play the Father and help my children see.


Take your toys and run







and I will follow.



With these files attached:

EDIT: It seems I've been beat Wink
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battlecat
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 		My guess is brother could either mean you and I (which I figure, due to the fact that you and I are the only ones that he sent the message and files to that we know of), or one of us and our guy L D. No clue. But really amped. Smile

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waitress#2
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 		"United the pair fail, both so blind." made me think he was talking about the music blog email.

I did not receive the hollow men email but I did receive the music blog email.

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spysect
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 		Blimey, its been a while since I last got on here, but this guy sent me an email causing me to think it's an ARG so I'm back!

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pancito
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 		Another 'old timer' here. I got both emails but that's as far as I've gotten. Re-reading the thread now. I think they are both part of the same thing, simply because I haven't gotten a trailhead in over a year. The odds of two games starting the same day and both sending me trailheads is approaching nil. Nice to see so many familiar faces...

And hey! Secret Santa if you haven't...
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30496
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