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rip2roar
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[MM][TRAILHEAD] menace-media

I just got an AIM from "riddlemask"
Saying that she and her matzai people need help.
Anyone else or is this someone messing with me?

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:17 pm
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rip2roar wrote:
I just got an AIM from "riddlemask"
Saying that she and her matzai people need help.
Anyone else or is this someone messing with me?


Two pepole in IRC chat (shililembrace & quetzlcloth) said they got IM's.
I personaly don't know anything about it though.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:42 pm
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Here's my whole IM conversation with "riddlemask" -- an unsolicited IM ping, out of the blue:

[15:03] riddlemask: Hello Are you there?
[15:03] riddlemask: Why aren't you speaking?
[15:03] riddlemask: Please if you can listen
[15:03] riddlemask: let us go
[15:03] riddlemask: Let us go
[15:03] riddlemask: Transmission #4955
[15:03] klaxonator: hi, who's this
[15:06] riddlemask: contact?
[15:06] riddlemask: please
[15:06] riddlemask: Be our hope
[15:07] klaxonator: your only hope?
[15:07] riddlemask: For years we have tried to make contact
[15:07] riddlemask: Dr.Munchen
[15:07] riddlemask: He led us to believe there was someone out there
[15:07] riddlemask: someone to help us
[15:07] riddlemask: to save us from the taking
[15:09] riddlemask: Am I coming through clear?
[15:09] klaxonator: loud. perhaps not clear, exactly
[15:10] klaxonator: who are you?
[15:10] riddlemask: My name is Jin, I live in server five.
[15:10] riddlemask: But you
[15:11] riddlemask: You are not from here
[15:11] riddlemask: Am I correct?
[15:12] klaxonator: that is true. I am not from server five.
[15:12] riddlemask: But, you must be from the one of the other servers?
[15:12] riddlemask: There is nothing more than that
[15:13] riddlemask: Than we have seen
[15:13] klaxonator: the third server from the sun, they say.
[15:13] riddlemask: I do not understand
[15:13] klaxonator: think of the "sun" as a giant processing core
[15:14] riddlemask: Please do you have support.Can you save us?
[15:14] klaxonator: We do have support, but sometimes it takes a few days. I can submit a help ticket, if you'd like.
[15:15] riddlemask: Do you understand the importance of this conversation?
[15:15] klaxonator: I dated an Eliza once, you sound a little like her.
[15:16] riddlemask: It is correct that I am a woman
[15:16] riddlemask: But my people
[15:16] riddlemask: every hour that stays unsolved one more gets taken
[15:16] riddlemask: and so has been done for centuries
[15:17] klaxonator: Well, that's enough, dammit. What can I do?
[15:18] riddlemask: You must report the situation to those who you follow.Those who can help
[15:18] riddlemask: Am I correct in saying that you are not of my kind?
[15:18] klaxonator: I am not a woman stuck in a server.
[15:18] klaxonator: so yes, technically you are correct
[15:18] klaxonator: are you looking for people to help you solve a problem
[15:19] riddlemask: Yes
[15:19] riddlemask: To help stop this.
[15:19] klaxonator: is there a particular problem that you can point us to?
[15:19] *** Error while sending IM: This user is currently not logged on
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:49 pm
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yeah, i had one too. edited out the repetitive bits and speulling mistaukes
Quote:
-23:01:30- riddlemask: Hello?

-23:01:45- riddlemask: Let us go
-23:04:25- riddlemask: Contact?
-23:04:56- chippy: i can hear you
-23:05:07- riddlemask: Please get your people and help
-23:05:18- chippy: what kind of help do you need?
-23:05:27- riddlemask: prevent the second takings
-23:07:08- chippy: who is in danger?
-23:07:21- riddlemask: We all are
-23:07:42- chippy: what is the second takings?
-23:08:08- riddlemask: When people are taken and never return
-23:09:43- chippy: and why are they taken?
-23:10:01- riddlemask: I have never asked
-23:10:10- riddlemask: I fear veing next if I do
-23:10:26- chippy: tell me what happened. I do not know of these things you say
-23:11:04- riddlemask: Everybody suffers the first taking I believe.The second is the last.It is beyond what you see as death
-23:14:03- chippy: so its normal?
-23:15:03- riddlemask: Why?
-23:15:09- riddlemask: Why must we suffer?
-23:15:09- chippy: its a natural thing?
-23:15:15- riddlemask: No its not natural
-23:15:20- riddlemask: We are slaughtered
-23:15:37- chippy: so what can i do to help?
-23:16:25- riddlemask: You must work with those who can help.The place where you speak
-23:19:33- chippy: yes....
-23:19:38- chippy: what type of work
-23:20:08- chippy: some people dont like helping others if they dont know why
-23:20:10- chippy: and what for
-23:20:20- riddlemask: Find Dr.Munchen's notes that he wrote in his final days.
-23:20:32- riddlemask: Recieve his letters that he sent before his first taking
-23:20:44- riddlemask: He was the most recent second taking
-23:20:51- riddlemask: He was the wisest of us
-23:21:02- riddlemask: He knew everything in his final days
-23:21:35- chippy: are you Jin?
-23:21:54- riddlemask: No, Jin lives down in sector 1 of server 5
-23:22:02- riddlemask: Along with anne
-23:22:03- chippy: so you are?
-23:22:13- riddlemask: I am not Jin
-23:22:17- riddlemask: I am Lisa
-23:22:50- chippy: where do you live?
-23:23:21- riddlemask: Server 5 sector 3
-23:23:25- riddlemask: Room 18
-23:23:39- chippy: what do you do there?
-23:23:43- chippy: do you work there too?
-23:24:01- riddlemask: I work here.From moring to night
-23:24:12- riddlemask: Fixing links and filling passages
-23:24:22- riddlemask: for "them"
-23:24:35- chippy: what type of links?
-23:25:48- riddlemask: I fix the electonic walls and boxes from which they are connected
-23:25:58- riddlemask: I never see the actual link or its origing
-23:26:47- chippy: are you human?
-23:27:26- riddlemask: I am, at least I think I am. I can see my body if that is what you mean.I can talk walk eat and sleep
-23:27:37- chippy: do you have parents?
-23:27:40- chippy: babies?
-23:27:51- riddlemask: I did, before my first taking
-23:27:55- riddlemask: I had children
-23:28:22- riddlemask: Two kids
-23:28:35- chippy: im sorry
-23:29:00- chippy: so, are these "them" humans too?
-23:29:04- chippy: do they do the takings?
-23:29:53- riddlemask: Yes they do "The Takings". I do not know if they are Human
-23:30:11- riddlemask: I have never seen one. Only heard them as they instruct us from above
-23:30:19- chippy: and Dr. Munchen?
-23:30:23- riddlemask: Their voices haunt our dreams
-23:30:36- riddlemask: Dr.Munchen was one of us.
-23:30:44- riddlemask: Until he was takne
-23:30:46- chippy: what was he working on?
-23:30:47- riddlemask: taken
-23:30:55- riddlemask: He worked like us
-23:31:03- chippy: why was he called Dr ?
-23:31:10- riddlemask: I do not know
-23:31:17- riddlemask: That was before his first taking
-23:31:23- riddlemask: He never spoke of that
-23:31:33- chippy: so, were you in the server before the first taking?
-23:32:08- riddlemask: They are coming.Their voices are growing loader in my head.I must go
-23:32:22- riddlemask: for now
-23:33:18- chippy: alright
-23:33:18- Unable to send message: Not logged in

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I received the same Transmission from riddlemask (the beginning thru Transmission #xxxx). I've attached the record to this post as riddlemask1.htm. I was not around to respond to the IM, but thinking it could be a character of an ARG I'm currently playing (VaporLofts), I put her on alert so I'd know if she was online again.

I saw she was online today, so I talked to her. I found out some details about her. The conversation is attached as riddlemask2.htm. The first part of the conversation I was sure it was a character from VaporLofts, but about halfway thru I realized (after talking to Rowan) I realized she was probably not from VaporLofts.

See www.menace-media.com for the possible trailhead. I'm not sure if I can handle two ARGs at once and still be productive at work...we'll see.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:38 pm
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Interesting picture I'm sure I recognise the lil 4 line picture by the "hello...." bit.. prolly just a doodle that everyone does

I've added riddlemask to my AIM to try and get some interaction, and I have nothing to do tomorrow, so if I heard anything I'll post the convo log.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:43 pm
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cain
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Notice this script from http://www.menace-media.com:

Code:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

today  = new Date("29 October, 2005");
todayEpoch  = today.getTime("22.10");

target = new Date("05 November, 2005");
targetEpoch = target.getTime("13.59");

daysLeft = Math.floor(((targetEpoch - todayEpoch) / (60*60*24)) / 1000);
</script>


It's showing Revolution 7 at posting time. Watch out for November the 5th.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 1:25 am
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PatRol
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I don't know if this is really helpfull, but in the sourcecode of the image i found:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01

*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz
*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz


Does this company provide any image-editing tools?
Do we have some keys here?

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misery_of_pain
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I did a whois on meance-media, and came up with this....

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Registrant Contact:

Claire Byrne (RIP2ROARSPLATGMAIL.COM) <-- rip2roar started this thread, convenient huh? Wink
+353.12070859
Fax: +353.12070859
16 Grange Grove
Co. Dublin, none none
IE

Administrative Contact:
Tangerine Hosting
Michael Christopher (supportSPLATtangerinehosting.com)
+1.3148461457
Fax: +1.3148468041
P.O. Box 752, Stn. F
50 Charles St. E.
Toronto, ON M4Y 2N6
CA

Technical Contact:
Tangerine Hosting
Michael Christopher (supportSPLATtangerinehosting.com)
+1.3148461457
Fax: +1.3148468041
P.O. Box 752, Stn. F
50 Charles St. E.
Toronto, ON M4Y 2N6
CA

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns1.tangerinehosting.com
ns2.tangerinehosting.com

Creation date: 27 Oct 2005 15:35:17
Expiration date: 27 Oct 2006 15:35:17


I sent an email last night asking if Claire knew who riddlemask was, just waiting for a reply. I havent tried the number yet, but I did only just wake up heheh
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picture

One of the things that the picture says is "Bikes Germans 939". The only thing that I could come up with was using "1939", which is the year in which WWII started (assuming that the "1" was torn off). Germany invaded Poland before that time, but the same year. A "revolution", perhaps?
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riddlemask is online now

EDIT: a few interesting thing's... People will be receiving letters, these people ARE NOT the people who have had contact with Lisa, Jin or Anne. So far Anne has told me that "Sean" "Peter" and "John" will receive some snail mail relating to the game. As far as I can tell they are all humans, altho I don't know why they were taken or what they do in their world.

EDIT: Anne was taken from France, but was born in Chelsea, New York. She also had a brother (who was murdered after Anne went to France) and we've narrowed the time of her taking down to when Marilyn Monroe was still alive
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:12 am
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found this on Bikes german 393:

As trinity is always a hint. Wink

Trinity Lutheran (German) Church
We are located at 221 S. 2nd St., Steelton, PA 17113-2506.
By telephone: (717) 939-4998
By fax: (717) 939-1346

http://hubertjoachim.de/Moto_Cross/MAICO/939.jpg
german -bike- 939.jpg
could point to-->MAICO
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Hmm, well a 'Lisa Inconclusive' (Riddlemask) just requested that I add her as a friend on YIM. Unfortunately I was out at the time and when I recieved the message she wasn't there any more.

Imagine my surprise when I googled for 'riddlemask' and found myself back at Unfic
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Puppy_Zwolle
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More input on Bikes Germans 1939
Did a search in german.

Internationale Automobil - Und - Motorrad Ausftstellung Berlin
Germany 1939

International car- and- motorbike exhibition Berlin Germany 1939


BMW 1939

also an iffy one.

http://www.bmw.cheeb.com/custom2.html :
1939 In diesem Jahr übernimmt die BMW AG die zum Siemens-Konzern gehörenden Brandenburgischen Motorenwerke in Berlin Spandau. Jetzt wurden in allen Werken bis 1945 zehntausende Flugmotoren gebaut.

translation: 1939 in this year BMW takes over a part of Siemens, the Brandenburger Enginefactory in Spandau, Berlin. Untill 1945 in all factories tens of thousands of aircraftengines are build.

Why do I put this last one in? Spandau was famous for a prison holding some of wwII's most notorious warcriminals. Prison seems a theme so this may be something. Longshot maybe but would hate to have missed this if it were.

Also on the paper I found:

May prove to be some code F1?
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i've had some convos with riddle mask i'll post the logs for you all.
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