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chasswow0413
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 		Just a little conversation wit our Wessen, original in binary, but will post translation here:

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me: What do you know about the boy Daniel?
Wessen: heseeswhatotherscant
Me: He can see spirits?
Wessen: hecanseestories
Me: Are you alive or a spirit, Wessen?
Wessen: lingerbetweenboth
Me: So the boy can also see you, just like Nancy. What about Mallory? Why is she so frightened?
Wessen: notmyproblem


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Zobot257
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 		Ok. I've got more conversations to put up! With "Wessen" and with Trist. Translated, of course, for your convenience.

Trist first:

Me:

Quote:
Arrrrgh.

I hate hate HATE breaking my word, especially so quickly.

But you need to know this: Someone's sending emails from Nancy's email account. I thought only you had access to it, so last night I already instant messaged you complaining about how your joke "wasn't funny."

But my friends are getting emails too. And I don't really think you'd be sending them out like this.

Can you think of anyone else other than yourself who might have the capacity of getting her password and username information?

Zobot


Trist:

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I dont know, I'm watching Nancy's emails but im not seeing any strange activity. Apparently though there is.
I dont know, I've been looking for viruses and all manner of things but I have no answer yet.


Me:

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Hm... So is this what you do? Handle the technology and such at Lavender Meadows? Sounds like a pretty cool job. But it keeps you away from your wife and kids? When did you get to leave the facility last? I am going to try and gather some further information on what is going on with Nancy's email account from my friends and their communications. I don't know if you'll believe me but I promise to tell you what I find. Is there anyone else at Lavender Meadows you know of aside from Nancy that is acting strangely? Zobot


Trist:
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nothing that needs mentioning. I came here three days ago, before that i had been on a break for about a month and a half. You keep looking into it. I'm going to see if i can get in the security room again.
and yes thats basically what i do, among other things. My job is hard to explain.

Me:

Quote:
Ok. Here's what I have learned so far...

Someone calling himself Wessen is sending strings of binary with messages in them from Nancy's email account. My friends and I have been speaking with him/her/it and they have been rather... Mischevious. Like they're playing jokes on us.

Have you been able to get into the security office? Find anything?

-Zobot


Trist:

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yeah, your not going to be happy with what I got though kid.


Me:
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We'll exchange bad news, then. You won't like what "Wessen" has been telling us either.

What did you find?


Trist:

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I managed to get into the security room, checked out the footage. Manged to pull up the kids going downstairs to the third floor. Then, they were just gone. I fucken swear to god...
It was as if the camera was tampered with, like footage missing. One second they were there, then they were gone. I couldn't stay long but i didn't find anything to suggest who tampered with it, or how.


Me:

Quote:
Craaaaaaaaap.

A new theory is forming in my head. And you won't like it, but I think I need more info about Lavender Meadows to be more confident voicing it.

As for what I have found, "Wessen" seems to want people to go to the bottom of the facility, as near as I can tell.


Trist:

Quote:
Hmmm what is it you want to know


Me:

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I'm not trying to extort information out of you!

But at this point does it really matter? If things are as you describe then the best way I can help you is if I know.

From what I know thus far, a child named Hadley was one of the kids who vanished. This child either had a case of pyromania or some form of supernatural control over heat or fire. Nancy once said Lavender Meadows was a hospital for people with "unusual conditions". Is this a place for psychics or people with some sort of supernatural mental conditions?

My theory involves someone being able to manipulate the electronics in Lavender Meadows remotely...


Trist:

Quote:
Understand that if this information gets out, if people come looking for this place. I'm going down. and if i do I am taking all you with me
that being said...yes. I think it is.


Ok. that was a bit too long. Sorry. I'll post the Wessen one in a smaller format.

Wessen:

Me: My friends think you're Wessem. I'm not convinced just yet. If you are Wessem, how'd you get Nancy's email address information?
Wessen: closerthenyouthink
Me: "Closer than you think"...? Are you using someone else to send this message for you?
Wessen: hehehehareyou
Me: I see. And what are your intentions?
Wessen: whatareyours
Me: At the moment? Learning more about you. Even at the price of my sanity.
Wessen: sanityisasmallpricetopay
Me: Perhaps. So are you trying to get revenge for something?
Wessen: whatdoyouthink?
Me: Tough to tell. You certainly seem mischevious. What happened to Hadley?
Wessen: youblameme
Me: I don't assign culpability until I know all the facts, no. I do think you know what happened, however.
Wessen: whatmakesyouthinkiknow
Me: For one thing the video put up that had Hadley and Daniels story.
Wessen: youwrotetheirfate
Me: I'm aware that we're responsible. But assuming they're dead we weren't the ones who took their lives. Thanks for confirming that you know what happened to them, by the way.
Wessen: yourwelcome
Me: Why did you want us to talk to them, anyway?
Wessen: youneedstepstogodown
Me: So our goal is to get to the bottom of Lavender Meadows for you?
Wessen: toknow

And that's all I've got! I sent a reply or two, but he clearly doesn't want to play with me right now.

But we have Trist confirming what I already suspected, and I'm sure most of you did too... Lavender Meadows is a place for psychics.

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OmegaX
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 		Now that we have this info, this is looking more and more interesting to me, but I fear it may be too late for me to get involved (a new 'face' out of the blue might scare Trist or Wessen out of sharing any info), plus I don't know how I would get involved in any case.

That said, I'm wondering if there's any (fan-based most likely, if so) connection with the Shop, from Stephen King's books (notably Firestarter)?
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inkflamewriter
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 		Really not sure what to do with this...maybe someone else can figure it out. I hadn't emailed Wessen for half a day, then suddenly I got this email:

Quote:
9


I swear, that's all it said Confused

Can anyone help me out here?
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Dawnesen
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 		9 could be the ninth letter of the alphabet "I" (which is still not saying much) or the ninth of a month. Could also be a countdown (9 days till something; I'm just guessing wildly here).

I thought perhaps it was the floor number he's on, but it said somewhere that Lavender Meadows has seven floors. Then again, if you counted backwards (1-7 then back to 1) he would have to be on a basement level.

We might need a better floor plan of the place...

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 		Hmm...

I asked Trist if "Case Saints" meant anything to him. He said he didn't know, that it could be a code, maybe that the letters were scrambled. Seems like a pretty obvious hint to me.

I'll work on unscrambling it. Hopefully there's something there.
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 		Might just be a coincidence, but

"CASE SAINTS" = "ASSISTANCE"

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 		You are...awesome! Very Happy

Given the context, I suspect you're right...
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aquarius904
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inkflamewriter wrote:
Really not sure what to do with this...maybe someone else can figure it out. I hadn't emailed Wessen for half a day, then suddenly I got this email:

Quote:
9


I swear, that's all it said Confused

Can anyone help me out here?


I got two emails like that from him. One said
Quote:
!
and the other said
Quote:
:


Not sure what to make of that...

Edit:

Got another colon emailed to me. I sent back a semi-colon. I got a reply that said
Quote:
playyourpart


I asked if I should use the stairs then. He said
Quote:
usewhatigive


I asked him to give me something and he sent me another colon. I replied to that with "Colon. The logical consequence or effect of a fact stated before."

He replied
Quote:
workcolaberategetsmarter


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Zobot257
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 		I got an email from Wessen with just a number as well:

Quote:
4


That's all that was in it.

I'm thinking that Wessen is sending us puzzle pieces and we have to put them all together to figure out what's he's trying to say or have us do. Like maybe all the numbers we've got make out a room number or a number-letter substitution hidden codeword or something.

That would make sense with the other email he sent me:

Quote:
worktogethercolaberate


I think we're all being given different pieces to some sort of puzzle we're expected to solve.

Who else got a number? What numbers have we got so far?

Oh, and I had another conversation with Trist today. Here's what it says, but there's not a lot of new information there:

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Zobot says:
I will be on all day
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
well i will be around for a while.
Zobot says:
Ah. Give me five minutes
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
take your time
Zobot says:
Ok. I am here and NOT about to die if I reply on my phone. You mentioned you had a meeting?
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
yes with my employer
Zobot says:
Didn't go well?
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
well shit in a whole hasnt been going well. I mean the way he spoke to me made me feel her was blaming me and then he threatened me in some 'polite' underhanded way. Left me leaving pretty worried.
Zobot says:
Man, I am NOT gonna make you feel any better, then. I wanted to talk in chat rather than email because I don't think you'd trust me with a cell phone number even if your phone worked where you are and its impossible to meet in person. I needed to make sure you would actually recieve this message in a whole and unaltered state. If I am right....
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
understandable
Zobot says:
Ok... A while ago an associate of mine in an email to you mentioned some of the words in your emails were being randomly capitalized. You didn't see it in your logs and said, quite logically, that he was beong crazy. The thing is, the capital letters spelled out a word or two. And the SAME thing happened to Nancy in emails we had with her. I don't think either of you are crazy. I think someone's intercepting the emails while they're being sent and changing them.
I work in the cell phome industry and I know its POSSIBLE, albeit complicated, to do that
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
Who could be doing that and why?
Zobot says:
I have a hunch its whoever is sending messages in binary from Nancy's email account that you don't see in the sent messages log.
And it... Potentially... Gets worse
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
this 'wessen' that you all think you have been talking to.
how so?
Zobot says:
I won't believe its the same Wessen you're thinking of until I see more proof
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
well good, at leased some of you are sane
Zobot says:
But think about it, Trist. Someone put up that video with the voice of two kids who vanished on that youtube account AFTER your lot locked away Nancy. And even of she did put up the first videos, I am.guessing that the security you all have down there would have never let her get close enough to the kids to record their voices.for the fourth video put up after she was gone
Whoever is putting up those videos either has access to Lavender Meadows survelliance equipment, assuming you all are monitoring what people say as well as using camera survelliance, or.they have the clearance or capacity to move through the facility with impuny
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
yeah i know, i know. Guess I've been trying to ignore that.
Zobot says:
At my most paranoid I'd say it was some sort of.ghost in the machine. Something able to manipul8 the systems you have in the facility itself. But I'm not even sure that'd be POSSIBLE unless you have all your security systems networked together. And its STILL a crazy theory. The more rational guess is that there's one or more people who are in on this with high level security clearance doing all this for... Some reason. But that's still crazy to consider
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
i could try asking around, among the security. Dont know if it will help though
Zobot says:
Regardless, thats what I think. Someone had to be able to get into the security room to pull that footage of the kids, right?
I think that's the best option we have, Trist. I don't think we have much more to go on without more sources of information. But there is one other thing..
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
yeah?
Zobot says:
My friends and I have been talking to "Wessen" through Nancy's email account. He/she/it seems to, at least, know things you and I don't about all this. We can keep helping you by emailing him more, seeing if he'll play with us. I will let you know what he tells us, but you might want to try emailing that account. See if he'll respond to you. Its crazy but short of poking around and doing what you're already doing I think we're reaching the end of the sane options available to us
And my friends will help you more than I could, if you'll let them
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
egh
i dont beleive in this shit, but i suppose it cant hurt
Zobot says:
I'm an idiot. Some of them are halfway sensible
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
what do you mean?
Zobot says:
Look at it this way: What else other than speaking with security, which is a good idea, can you do?
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
true
Zobot says:
I mean that my friends, crazy as they are, are smarter than me. That means they'll be more useful to you if you trust then
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
mmm...
Zobot says:
Anyway, I wanted to make sure you were aware that someone might be tampering with our emails.
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
im aware, I've been looking into it.
Zobot says:
I have to go for a bit. I have an hour and a half to travel to get a cast removed from my arm. I will be back later. Could you email me this conversation? I would like to keep my friends on the same page as I and my smartphone doesn't save logs.
ldmtristSPLAThotmail.com says:
yeah, sure


Trist's getting in trouble... I hope we can figure out what's going on soon!

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 		Any updates on this one? Guys?

I'm not sure what else we need to do right now! There's only two numbers, at first I thought they were gonna correspond to a room on that map we got, but they don't make any sense.

Has anyone heard anything from Trist or Wessen?

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 		I haven't heard anything and I'm a bit stumped as to where to go myself.

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 		I sent an email to Trist saying we were concerned over not hearing anything and got this:

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been busy, trying to get my employer to let me talk to Nancy. Give me a little more time


Also, a note from the PM saying that she's got some family stuff to deal with, so things will be going on a very short break, just a couple days.
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 		So, I find it odd that bug larva was included in the first and third videos, but no one mentioned anything about them. First video they appear at about 0:25. Not a bug person so I don't have a clue of what they are.

And Wessen saying something about "your kind" -- makes me think that he sees himself as separate. Maybe not even human?

What if he isn't the thing/person living in the basement? What if it's something else entirely?

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 		Aw, please tell me this one's not dead...

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