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[OCTAF1SH]

[DavFlamerock]

[somniate]

[another_pilot_dwn]

Sorry it took me awhile to respond. No, I don't have edwards email but I wish I did. My pc is down w a virus tonight missing all the fun too!

[konamouse]

Where is my tinfoil hat?

Just a heads up that I'm following along with all of you, even though I'm quiet as a mouse these days.

[Laguz]

new video

[daendil]

[October]

And an update on Peg's blog. In the bucket was a cassette tape labeled "The Magician". Peg is going to tell us what's on it tomorrow. AGH, can't wait!

ETA:
Also. Does anyone besides me find creepy the fact that everyone becomes totally enamored of the Snow People once they go out and look at them for a while?

[Zobot257]

Something I just thought of!

The strange spaces in Peg's blog entries..

The spaced letters don't seem to remind me of any sort of code or anything, but what it DID remind me of old ASCII pictures.

You know, like

[]
==[]=====>
[]

(Argh that's really shitty sorry)

Looks like a sword or something?

Has anyone tried to play around with the different blog posts positioned next to each other in different ways and seeing if the white spaces make some sort of image?

[October]

Someone has suggested before (sorry, can't remember who, I'm too lazy to click back) that those spaces are a formatting issue, and I'm inclined to think that's so. It looks to me like the entries are being c/p-ed from a document into the blog editor, which may cause the spacing issues. There might be a message in there somewhere, but I'm kind of leaning toward the idea that it's just formatting.

We do have to consider everything, though, just in case.

[DavFlamerock]

I also thought of that, that the spaces were supposed to make the text into secret messages or something (sorta like "read the first word in each line down")... but it doesn't make anything coherent, so I'm gonna go with October.

ETA: Just got a response from Ruthie.

[October]

Some thoughts:
1. Private was definitely terrified about the "they" that was "coming" but now is all "Yay, Snow People! I was so silly to be scared!" Weird. :/
2. The Cassette Tape is labeled "The Magician", and Ruthie says that the Snow People will bring "a magical time". So, probably literally "magical"?

Are the Snow People doing something to make people like them and think that they are good?

[operator0013]

the townspeople are definitely changing their collective minds about the snow people, but none are really saying why. How can so many people who were terrified before suddenly be excited and happy in such a short amount of time with no real reason?

[malevolentNeon]

It's pretty obvious that the Snow People are having some sort of effect on the residents of Snow Town, like a glamour to make them believe that their coming is a good thing. Given how terrified Private was before, it simply doesn't make sense for her to suddenly be happy at the arrival of creepy snowmen.

The only question is, where does this leave us? I doubt Private is going to be inclined to continue investigating; they seem to be under the spell of the Snow People. Unless we can somehow convince them that this is a bad thing?

On the other hand, we have Peg. She seems to be affected too, yet she has that tape. Which means she may still be able to look more deeply into this. Perhaps the message on the tape will convince her that the Snow People are bad?

I'm not sure there's much we can do in the meantime until Peg plays that tape, beyond contacting Private and trying to make them see sense. Any thoughts?

[luci]

Peg's blog & The Magician