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[ABANDONED SERIES] Walker in the Dark ARG
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ieisuk
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 		Tin Eye wouldn't show anything. The images are masked for a reason. Whoever owns John's device is the one making them. I know what it is, just no idea of where to start in order to undo them. It is a puzzle that some people do where a wierd design is given and you have to reverse the mask. The most common results I've seen are nudes. Something tells me that we are looking at clues. If they are related to locations John has been to, we may be able to get someone check out the areas with a gps and camera. Of course, I could be over thinking this. If anyone has the chance to look into it before I do, I believe it's called gmasks or something like that.

EDIT: Found a tutorial poster, though it's NSFW, so if anyone wants to help with the unscrambling, drop me a PM and I'll give a link. Looking at this tutorial, I'm even more convinced that there are hidden images.

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ieisuk
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 		I'm thinking that we'll need a password......... ugh, this will be interesting......

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amandel
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 		Am getting hooked on this story. Agree there's likely a lot more to these pics than their present appearance. Sadly, am in RL time-knot atm.

Walker in the Dark wrote:
Day Three (Monday, February 27, 2012)

You would think, if you were a reasonable person, that finding a man in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven at six on a Monday morning would be something you'd phone in to the police. Wouldn't you?

Apparently not the citizens of Canton, Michigan. Because that's how I woke up. Face up, lying in a snow drift, roughly a mile from where I went to sleep last night. I've no idea how I got here, and given the circumstances, I'm not sure exactly that I want to know.

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ieisuk
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 		I'm seeing patterns that scream out gmask, but one of the masks is called the CP (something Password) mask, which requires a password to undo. Based on rules of most gmask groups I've seen, CP masks are a huge no-no because without a password you may as well not bother. I've been trying to think of what kind of clues for a password would have been given, but no luck so far.

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 		So at some point since the last page http://walkerinthedark.tumblr.com/ was taken down (or renamed).

An interesting coincidence, especially after 12 months of silence.

Edit: And just like that blogger updated.

Walker in the Dark wrote:
Not that I'm anything but a moron myself. I chose to get directions from the GPS machine, not knowing where I am precisely, and I followed them, and didn't think for hours and hours that maybe I should've double-checked them. So I walked eleven and a half miles today. Not bad, really, when you consider that I walked seventeen yesterday. But then you realize that hey, wait a fucking minute, I went seven miles out of my way today! Seven miles.

The machine decided to take me up to Geddes Road, and then down Sheldon until it ended, over to Morton Taylor, and then down to Haggerty road via the I-94 service drive, and at Haggerty I crossed over and walked back. Do I know the names of these roads? Hell no. But what I do know, after studying the map, is that I should have started walking the other way, and it would have cut seven miles off my walk.

I'm not exactly pleased here. Nor should I be. But what can you do?


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ieisuk
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Meri wrote:
So at some point since the last page http://walkerinthedark.tumblr.com/ was taken down (or renamed).

An interesting coincidence, especially after 12 months of silence.


We still aren't getting any communication. I'm thinking unless I'm not being stupid for thinking the pictures are anything but random designs made in GIMP, that we have to wait for May 18th or 19th (depends on if whatever happens is on 1 or 0) and see what happens, or find someone near that area that can check out some of these locations. I'm in BC, so I'm unable to do it myself anyway Razz

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Tharol
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 		Think catching on there people.

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amandel
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In #42 Walker In The Dark wrote:
Currently, I've set up shop in a cemetery just behind the "Diamondback Saloon", a name I couldn't have made up if I tried. And I feel like I've slept in cemeteries before, but man, this place...it just feels wrong. I don't like it here. I don't want to be here, but it's pretty much the safest place I could find. I started feeling extremely paranoid. Once, after I found out that I'd gone the wrong way, I tried to walk into Belleville proper, and I just felt...I don't belong here.

This is the only place I can sleep without feeling like I'm going to be woken up by a police officer to be placed in handcuffs. I can't do this much longer. I'll lose everything I have. I've already lost so much. How can this be the life I have to live? How can this be all there is?

It can't. I refuse to believe it. I refuse to accept it. I will find my answers.

Gotcha! John Doe is at the Denton Cemetery. Am following along with Google maps tho I'm not familiar enough with the area to see what that GPS detour signifies.
*humming..."it took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw..all come to look for America* while I watched the trafic camera on the I-94 Haggerty Rd. in Belleville Laughing
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ieisuk
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 		The real question is why did he all of a sudden start posting in binary. Are any of us from Michigan wgo could possibly know anything about the locations? I also wonder if there is anything at these previous locations?

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Tharol
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 		People got updates for think.

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amandel
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 		Why? Dunno #41 was written in HEX:

In #41 Walker In The Dark wrote:
Day Four (Tuesday, February 28, 2012)

At least. I think it is.

This is going to be a long story, so hear me out here, okay? I feel as though it shouldn't be, but the events just can't agree with anything that should have happened. If I was confused yesterday, I'm even more so today, and there's just no excusing it, not by any logic I can come up with. So here we go, let's just get this over and done with, yes?

I'm in Ohio. A small island off the northern coast of Ohio. In fact, from where I am, I can look off to the east and see Cedar Point across the bay. This is a problem. I am just over fifty miles, as the crow flies, from where I went to sleep last night. Of course, considering you can't drive or walk across Lake Erie, I'm more like a hundred miles away.

I woke up this morning in a cemetery, and almost immediately knew something was wrong. Not just the confusing scenery; I've grown somewhat used to that. No, it was the fact that I was clearly was in a different place. First of all, this cemetery is closer to the road. Second, no bar in sight. Third, I'm on a fucking island.

in #40 Walker In The Dark wrote:
This is just not okay. I can't accept this. I shouldn't accept this.

I'm on an island, as I've said. It's a small island, accessible only by bridge, from a larger island, which is technically a peninsula. But man is it a fucked-up one. Anyway, I don't know how I got here, but I walked about twelve miles, and now I'm hunkered down in another cemetery. It doesn't look like people come here that often, so maybe I can hide here while I think about what I'm going to do next for a few days. I don't even know what the fuck I'm doing here, anyway.

I don't know what I'm going to do next. I never do. Of course, I suppose that if I did know, I'd probably not want to do it. I don't really want to do a damn thing. It's like I said. All this shit, I'm just doing it to do it. I don't want to be a part of this any more.

I haven't really found anything on this, so I'm just going to keep going until I do, or until I drop dead, or until I'm picked up by the cops. That's all I am, all I have.

I don't want any of this anymore.

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ieisuk
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 		So he briefly was in Ohio the day before the first few entries took place? I'm really unsure about what's going on here. Also, the first part, up until it was taking place a week before the initial entries (51-4Cool, were just written in normal form. Then the Day One post came, from a week before the 51-48 set. That week seemed it like it didn't happen in the earlier posts. All of these (47-42) were binary. So far two sets of 5. Now we have hex and a new state. Assuming unless the pattern is going to be broken up, we'll see a new code on 38. The question is what will happen on the island before February 29th (seeing as these are apparently the 28th). I'm also thinking there there seems to be a different style to the images. I'll have to look closer for similarities later.

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Tharol
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 		Bases Think.

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/40.html

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ieisuk
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Tharol wrote:
Bases Think.

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/40.html


You never cease to confuse the fuck out of me tharol. However, you linked in this one. This is new for me from you...... and now I'll be confused all night.

However, thinking like that, we have base whatever basic writing would be considered, then base 2, and now base 16, so I haven't a clue about the pattern. What I can say for sure is that whatever happens will be on May 18th and not the 19th (post 1 will have a different code assuming that it changes every 5 days.)

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Tharol
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 		For There.

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/39.html

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