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[WTF?] The Cyclone
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Katsurame
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 		[WTF?] The Cyclone
AO OOA AA: Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with
Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's
wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be
carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a
roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty looking
cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four
chairs, and the beds. Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in
one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was
no garret at all, and no cellar--except a small hole dug in the
ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case
one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any
building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle
of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
TheKatsurame: o rly?
AO OOA AA: When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could
see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree
nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to
the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the
plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.
Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of
the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen
everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun
blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the
house was as dull and gray as everything else.

When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife.
The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle
from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red
from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin
and gaunt, and never smiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan,
first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's
laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart
whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and she still
looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything
to laugh at.

Uncle Henry never laughed. He worked hard from morning till
night and did not know what joy was. He was gray also, from his
long beard to his rough boots, and he looked stern and solemn,
and rarely spoke.


TheKatsurame: rly rly?
AO OOA AA: The Cyclone
TheKatsurame: What about it?
AO OOA AA: Small nurmbers game
Froum Wikipedian, the free encycloipedia.
Small numbers game qis a term. from the economic deccision-maoking themory, meaning /that in Nan ouligopolistic market, them actions bof one plaeyer haver direct unforeseeable consequences fors other players.
TheKatsurame: I see.
Previous message was not received by AO OOA AA because of error: User AO OOA AA is not available.




First I thought it was someone from another website I go to who was spamming me, but I realized it was way too ARG-ish. Thoughts, ideas?
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 		Re: [AIM] The Cyclone
Katsurame wrote:
AO OOA AA: The Cyclone
TheKatsurame: What about it?
AO OOA AA: Small nurmbers game
Froum Wikipedian, the free encycloipedia.
Small numbers game qis a term. from the economic deccision-maoking themory, meaning /that in Nan ouligopolistic market, them actions bof one plaeyer haver direct unforeseeable consequences fors other players.
TheKatsurame: I see.
Previous message was not received by AO OOA AA because of error: User AO OOA AA is not available.


The errors in that last message spell out "runiq.com/Numbers" - but I can't get either http://runiq.com/Numbers.html or http://runiq.com/Numbers to load. I can get http://runiq.com/ though. It's a blog.

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Katsurame
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 		Re: [AIM] The Cyclone
Ursos wrote:
Katsurame wrote:
AO OOA AA: The Cyclone
TheKatsurame: What about it?
AO OOA AA: Small nurmbers game
Froum Wikipedian, the free encycloipedia.
Small numbers game qis a term. from the economic deccision-maoking themory, meaning /that in Nan ouligopolistic market, them actions bof one plaeyer haver direct unforeseeable consequences fors other players.
TheKatsurame: I see.
Previous message was not received by AO OOA AA because of error: User AO OOA AA is not available.


The errors in that last message spell out "runiq.com/Numbers" - but I can't get either http://runiq.com/Numbers.html or http://runiq.com/Numbers to load. I can get http://runiq.com/ though. It's a blog.



Also notice there are no entries after May 2nd?
Katsurame is officially freaked out.


None of this has to do with anything else. The blog looks like it was written by an insane 8 year old...I'm confused....neopets? Barbaric Microsoft Computers? Mcdonalds? Wha??? Time Travelers Convention at MIT?
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ItWasntMeISwear
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 		The Cyclone
"The Cyclone" is the name of the first chapter of the book "The Wizard of Oz", in which the "wizard" was not a magical and mysterious person but, rather, a man talking into a microphone hidden behind a curtain.

http://www.online-literature.com/baum/wizard-of-oz/1/
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Lewis the Second
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 		It was basically a book about deception and where it can lead people... somewhat ironic, given the nature of ARGs. If this is indeed an ARG, that's the way I can see it panning out.

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 		I saw him on today, so I IMed him.

TheKatsurame: hello
AO OOA AA: Try the puzzle again.
AO OOA AA signed off at 2:45:57 PM.




well okay....
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 		hxxp://runiq.com/Numbers.html works now. Here is the content:

Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him. But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall. She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen.

In the beggining, there is only one number.

FWIW....
I don't know why it wasn't working before, because I did check it earlier. It works now, and it wasn't me, but the word "beginning" is not spelled correctly, the semicolon is in the wrong place or the "and" isn't needed, and looks like a run-on sentence in there as well. Smile

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 		hey if you check out http://runiq.com/images theres some interesting stuff...including a page near the end called 'tryme', which has some interesting 'fake pages' about neopets...
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 		The errors in the passage itself are actually in the original manuscript. Baum wasnt Shakespeare.

The extra g in beggining could mean everything or nothing...
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 		hmm the page doesnt work for me..

oh i got it..your link says hxxp not http
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 		upgrade your grey matter 'cause one day it may matter
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://runiq.com/Number/


Hidden text reads:
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Hello, my name is E

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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Anyone else notice that some of the images have words in them?

Example, http://runiq.com/images/INSAN3.png has the word "explore" in it...


As for the "fake images," for someone who's supposed to seem young or not good with MSPaint, he/she sure seems to know how to blur the text in the urls pretty well... Cool

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shambles
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 		This hellohello puzzle is frying me. I'm such an amateur. Any vets wanna give a hand?

I have much to learn, masters
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Lewis the Second
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 		Given that it's a 'number game'...

There are 30 hellos. Then 10. Then another 10.

I tried taking 30 10 10 into some new context... first with ASCII, which yielded nothing. Then to modular encryption, which in its most basic form gave me DKK if that's anything to go by. Not too sure what to try next.

Do we think it's linked to 'My name is E'?

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 		Possibly linked to the Wizard of Oz. Anyone have a paper copy?
Or it could be a grid to apply over the passages given to us.
Or it could be a way of counting something or other.
Or it could be that he wants my grey matter to go all transparent and flow down to my feet Crying or Very sad
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