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[pancito]

@cyng >> Thanks for the text file. Can't tell the players w/o a program.

@faeryqueen21 >> too fuzzy for me too.

@tygr20 >> no Holomove here. As near as I can figure out we are all in the contact thread, have been around for a couple of years, at least, and have pretty good post counts. Other than that, I got nothin...

[cyng]

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

i spent hours on those audio files...i suck LARGE at it (i mean literally from 8 to now and its almost midnight)



best I could do:

the final line from what the bruce decoded before the he couldn't hear is:

"She shall be murdered."

oh and no problem, pantico

[LordIllidan]

Just got a message from our good friend Shadowy McShadowface. "If I wanted to spill blood immediately, I would have." MP3 attatched. Trying to listen to it and play TF2 at the same time is difficult, however.

EDIT: Gave it a listen through, and... Couldn't pick up much. It's a guy and a girl talking to each other, the guy is apparently painting the girl's room? Girl mentioned something about a guy spilling a drink (Guessing that's @hollowasthewind), and also talked about being stalked by someone "with an interest in languages" writing her things. Is she LD, or just another victim of Mr. Shadowydude?

[MageSteff]

[pia ward]

I agree LordIllian. Looks like LD = Logan Darrington. Also mentioned in the Mp3 is that she got herself a cricket bat for protection which LD mentions in an earlier email. (Early clue to LD's gender may have been when LD says "my friends call me D" which now in retrospect sounds like Dee but looks very masculine just as "D".) And this discovery that LD is female also seems to fit in rather nicely with the last poem We Wear the Mask. Maybe LD is supposed to be a lesson in gender prejudice on the internet?

[cyng]

I respectfully disagree, Magesteff.

I am willing to agree the Sound Guy is not a part of this ARG, but I was not referring to those sound files, which were embedded in video with music...I was referring to the files that amessageSPLATgmx sent. The Sound Guy emails were from ptsmusicblog (at) gmail.com.

We really have no evidence that the messages from amessageSPLATgmx are connected to the Sound Guy at all other than the coincidence that they were also sent to the same players as those playing Hollow Men. Yes they both contain sound. But one is audio embedded in videos, the other is strictly audio files. Yes, Darrington said he had nothing to do with music files. That doesn't preclude any and all audio files without music. The ones sent by amessageSPLATgmx were not music files.

The messages from amessageSPLATgmx are very like the ones from L D. Nigel's tweets seem much more connected to this ARG than the Sound Guy: references to Poetry that specifically talks about unstable mental conditions in a dark time, shadowy figures, strange occurrences, etc.

While I'm willing to concede that it is likely two trailheads were sent to the same old school players at the same time, I think it is unlikely there were three.


So this is my suggestion:

We split the amessageSPLATgmx/nigel into a completely separate thread

or

we decide which trailhead it belongs to....My vote is clearly with Hollow Men

I'll even go further: If everyone agrees that amessageSPLATgmx/nigel belong to the Sound Guy, I will migrate all the information we have about that over to there.

[LordIllidan]

[cyng]

well then, if nigel's twitter account came from L D, then THAT is in game

...but it weakens the case for amessageSPLATgmx.com because I thought nigel's account came from that

hmmm, well I wont post in this thread anymore about ammessageSPATgmx.com clues until we get confirmation either way

ETA:

sent message to L D to get confirmation if she is Logan

[faeryqueen21]

[pia ward]

Here's an interesting little factoid about the name "Logan"

The boy's name Logan \l(o)-
gan\, also used as girl's name Logan, is pronounced LOH-gan. It is of Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Logan is "hollow".

[RAD24]

[MageSteff]

[pia ward]

RAD wrote:

[faeryqueen21]

A few emails back D mentioned to me that she "loathes games and those who play them" and "loathe" was italicized. Didn't think much of it at the time but stored it away for future use. In her latest email she said it again, "I can't stress how much I loathe games and those that play them." I don't know if this is just the PM forgetting who they said what to...or if it's a hint to something.

[MageSteff]