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[Raevyn]

[distilled]

Hey guys, I have a request - you may have seen the thread I started asking for guest writers to put together a short article in a weekly ARG report. I'm hoping to get a different writer in each week to write about a particular ARG, hopefully each week people will be able to go to my blog and read the article and learn about a game they might not have heard about.

With any luck it will be a good resource to bring enthusiastic players over to unFiction and into ARGs in general.

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in writing one for The Hollow Men? I would like to leave the content down to the writer and it wouldn't have to be very long, just introduce the game, summarise the story etc.

If anyone is interested in getting involved then the link to the thread is in my signature (theres also more info there on what I'm trying to do) - either leave a post there, PM me, leave a comment on my blog (also linked in my sig) or email me at will.r.knightSPLATgmail.com.

Thanks!
Will

[faeryqueen21]

Nigel's tweeting that some dude followed him onto a train and then onto a bus.

I have a theory...Shadow wanted us to contact the friend Logan is staying with, Patrick. In my emails with Patrick it seems he thinks Logan's fears of being harassed are either delusional, or are over dramatized. Also, in my emails with Logan she continues to assert she has no idea what is going on and has never hurt anyone.

I'm thinking there's a chance this may be a "So I Married An Axe Murdered" kinda thing. What if Logan really is innocent and it's actually Patrick that's been doing everything to the men she dates? In the audio recording Logan also says something about Patrick always stealing her men. I dunno, just a thought.

[ndemeter]

I am getting the same reaction from Patrick. That this has been basically blown over proportion, nothing to see here, etc.

I think it's interesting the lack of empathy from Patrick's side to D's perception of the stalker.

/edit: Just got this interesting info:

[faeryqueen21]

D is just staying with Patrick because she's too afraid to stay at home.

Got an email from Shadow that had some Welsh in it translating to:

[amandel]

You and Google were right there, fairyqueen. It's from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

[Raevyn]

Nigel sounds like he thinks the guy from the train and bus is still out to get him, and wants us to find and help him before that happens:

"Still on the run. Need someone I can trust. I posted a picture of my awesome cat last night. Use him to find me."

(edit to add link to cat pic)
http://yfrog.com/gyefsp

[MageSteff]

[cyng]

the image name is efs

which i presume means encrypted file system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_filesystem

[ndemeter]

I bet he used stenography to hide something in the image.

I have tried to decrypt the image using Invisible Secrets but it's asking me for a password in order to decrypt it. I already tried "efs" with no success. I have some concerns with the accuracy since it's an older version but if someone has the newer version you might want to try running the image through.

Info on stenography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

[cyng]

i thought stenography too, and tried a few online ones, but they turned out gibberish...and not the RIGHT kind of gibberish either; i don't want to download a desteg program on this computer as it's not mine

i tried using "gyefsp" as a key, no luck

hollow
shadow
logan
Elliot

(again...using only online programs)

I thought maybe the cat's name??? but i can't find anything about it

[MageSteff]

[cyng]

or you could always use gawker's list of most common passwords (revealed this week after the gnosis hack)

http://www.duosecurity.com/docs/top250gawker.txt

eta: hmmm...just noticed there is a "efs" embedded in gyefsp -- is it possible that gyp? could be a password?

Eta2: blew up the picture of the cat's eye...my husband and i both think there are letters there, but hard to make out; increasing resolution doesn't help...a magnifyer might: our best guess is: "happy"

[MageSteff]

CONTACT: email from Logan

[cyng]

yeah, don't send her the picture! especially if there is a password in the eye

by the way

don't you think it's strange she would ask to see it? kinda creepy????

i'm really bummed out about the passwords

i had tried last night to run the eye through filters/levels/contrast...nothing

when i fist saw the eye, i thought it was a keyboard in the reflection....

so maybe we need to be literal? like catseye???

i know...grasping at straws here

i also was hoping that some veteran would come out and say: Oh, gyp! Of course, he is talking about the generic yield password system...or something equally esotheric