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[DandA]

[veljko]

Some notebook pages are up. I've transcribed and described the pages as a public service so that we have an easy searchable reference. I've also put in my comments, mostly as footnotes.

Pages 1 and 2:

Date: 11/21/10

Picture of an eclipse (?)

"Throw it in somewhere EMH style."

Page 5:

Date: 11/27/10

Picture of an empty road going trough flat terrain with sparse vegetation. The sun is setting. We appear to be going westward.

"MH homage shot? Sunset.

Page 6:

Date: 12/01/10

Indoor scene. One window, doorway. A figure stands in the doorway. It has no face and appears to be skeletal (?) in nature. Ball-jointed?

"SM. Doorway. [illegible]Night."

Pages 7 and 8:

Entire two-page spread covered with gnarled haphazardly arranged doodles of tree branches in heavily pressed charcoal stick.(?) In the top-left corner there is a doodle that looks like II|II|II[1].

Pages 9 and 10:

The two page spread is covered with dense text in an extremely nervous and crabbed hand. Very nearly illegible.

Top left, sideways: "12/20/10 I don't know what's going on. [ILLEGIBLE] He did it [crossed out] is not happening."

Bottom left, sideways: "He's [heavily crossed out]"

Right side, diagonal " It can't [partially erased, possibly can be restored]"

Pages 11 and 12:
Left side is smeared charcoal/graphite. Right side has two short hastily scribbled phrases.

Right, top: "What?"
Right, bottom: "It's cold."

Pages 13 and 14:

Both pages covered. It is a drawing of a black amorphous mass in the center of the page sprouting branchlike projections. It is done in charcoal with strong motions that deposit quite a bit of the pigment onto the pages.

Pages 15 and 16:

On the top left is an Operator symbol hastily drawn. There is something written but the hand is so shaky as to be impossible to read. Bottom left is a drawing of a oval with what looks to be a network of lines on it. Alternate operator symbol, perhaps? Further writing is evident but impossible to read. Underneath in a very shaky and uncertain hand is 1266[2]. From the right one can see tentacles reaching out. They are much better drawn than anything else on the page. The line is precise and controlled. Top right contains a spiky doodle that could be some form of handwriting. It is illegible.

Pages 17 and 18:


Top left is a a doodle of horizontal lines that resemble smoke curling upwards. They do not appear to conceal anything.
Bottom left is a picture of two eyes with a crossed out iris. This is surrounded by four arrows pointing towards the intersection of the eyes.[3] "No escape" is also written here flanked by two curly doodles. Underneath it says "I."
Right: Either a stylized tree trunk or a very thin human body without a head. The sides of the trunk/body project two groups of lines which curve upward framing an oval. THese lines could be branches or tentacles. The center of the oval contains two eye shaped ovals colored pure black with very slight eyebrows above. Underneath is either the word 'on' or nostrils. Underneath that are the words "Let me in".[4] The hand on this page is a lot more certain and controlled. The text is very clear.


Bottom left: "No escape. I."
Right: "On"(?) "Let me in"

Pages 19 and 20:

On the left we see the entire page covered with doodles of eyes, or rather ovals or dots that are arranged such that they evoke an eye. Some of these pair have small stylized smiles. One pair is more realistic, features irises and appears to be either crying or bleeding. Two phrases are written here "Let us in." and "II."
On the right is a picture of two entities of roughly similar construction. Their heads are ovals covered in a 2x3 grid of lines, just like the one a few pages previous. Both bodies are constructed from what appear to be ball-jointed rods that form a very crude skeleton that hinges under mostly right angles. One figure is much larger than the other. The figures are holding hands. The larger one has what appear to be tentacles or wisps of smoke extruding from it.[5] The smaller figure is holding a yet smaller figure that resembles a doll.[6]

Bottom left: "Let us in. II."

Pages 21 and 22:


The two figures from the right side of the previous page are drawn again across both pages diagonally. Both figures no longer have the 2x3 grid across their faces. The larger figure no longer has a few tentacles/smoke curls but has an overabundance of them. Their branching and sinuous pattern means they are most certain the former and not the latter. That being said, the tentacles appear to be either cradling or crushing the smaller figure which is barely visible, trapped among them on the bottom right.


Pages 23 and 24:

The left side is shaded almost completely black. Has some text on it. Specifically "Where was I?" on the top left and "The Dark IV" on the bottom right. On the top of the left page we can see a doodle that looks like I|I|II[7].
Between the pages we can see a doodle with angular protrusions that is evocative of a figure but could be more tentacles reaching out or just the remains of the violent shading of the left page.


Top right: 1/2/11 "I'm okay. Calling my friends."
Bottom right: 1/3/11 [crossed out, looks like I see him(?)] "Hello"

That concludes the released pages. There are a few instances where I was unable to read something, I hope you will have better luck.


[1] Possible theories: It is a date: 11/11/11 which could be endgame. It is encrypted data of some sort: Either binary (00100100 = 36 which is $ in ASCII or 11011011 = 219 which is impossible to display in ASCII) or Morse (.._.._.. which cannot be easily deciphered without a place to put in character breaks).
[2] The way of writing evident on this page is eerily childlike. First, this is disturbing. Second, someone who grew up with the Latin script and not the Cyrillic one, i.e. someone not me, can possibly figure out some fragments by reversing common childish mistakes. Maybe. Is this regression? Shades of EMH, perhaps.
[3] The crossed eyes is, I think, a Tribe Twelve thing. The arrows remind me of the EMH logo.
[4] The appearance of the "face" is reminiscent of the mask worn by Masky in MH.
[5] Looks exactly like the Slenderman drawing near the start of the notebook.
[6] Could be an artifact of the simplistic style but the doll resembles the Slenderdoll from MH.
[7] 1/1/11 perhaps? The diary does pick up on 1/2/11.

[DandA]

On Pg 15 I got minging and 1266-which he pointed out. Minging means nothing to me. I could be minoing, or minoting. Any ideas? Neither mean much to me.

Anyone else think the symbol under the operator symbol on 15 looks like a beetle or scarab of somesort.

Pg 16 the weird writing on the top looks like follow me- but thats just a guess.

[Dixie_Wolf]

We've got ourselves a playful little hacker over on Rivers' Tumblr.

He's initiated a game of Hide and Go Seek.

Anyone care to clean this picture up, see if they can spot anything abnormal about it? I'm working with Irfanview over here -- it's not really doing me any good.

[Gus23]

so far i like it.

nice reveal on the slender man concept.

one thing i struggle with is my firm belief that slendy doesn't touch people...and if he does, they sure as hell aren't gonna be found again. i feel like the way he's making slendy sound like another serial killer is unimpressive. then again, i'm not to far into the story...

[Lewa]

[DandA]

Part of me really did want it to be a meme based serial killer. I'm really not sure how I feel about the hacking though....its weird. And the whole game thing.

So given the whole Rivers has seemed to vamooshed. Any ideas? Obviously we're supposed to be figuring things out now....

As for our pic, it kinda looks like a dark city skyline with all the dim lights at the bottom. But I dunno- someone who has photo checking skills? As for the title... maybe something will happen tomorrow?

[Dixie_Wolf]

Our man Rivers is fine, if this hacker is to be believed. When I asked where Rivers was, I got this response:

[Lewa]

[Cougar Draven]

[Anonymousity]

Looks like a mask...

Also, post to the blog: http://simulati0n.blogspot.com/

[Dixie_Wolf]

Sorry, Draven. XD I'm an impatient little rabbit, and was on my way out to the hospital, so I hurried you into it.

Although, according to our delightful little hacker, we don't have this thing solved yet.

In response to you, Coug:

[Wolfloner]

To me, the picture looks vaguely like a guy, taking a myspace-esque picture of himself. the lightest part of the image being teeth, obviously.

But I can also kind of see Slenderman in there.

I wish I had my picture edited software in this laptop, but it's just on my desktop that that's out of commission at the moment.

If stuff hasn't been solved (ish) when I get my desktop working again, I shall investigate further. :3

[Cougar Draven]

[Dixie_Wolf]

I'm honestly not sure what we're looking for. There's gotta be more to it, though. I just wish I wasn't so technologically inept.

Can someone post a cleaned-up version of the picture?

And Draven, are you absolutely positive that's the only message there is to make out with the hex encoder stuff?

I'm wondering about some of the puzzle-solving strategies listed in the ARG Player Tutorial, but all of the ones pertaining to pictures are going straight over my head. ._.