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[thebruce]

I was just about to post all mournful about not getting a package, not finding a google link on craigslist, when celina posted the non-google link for Kitchener. If I get a package this week (expecting late/slow deliveries), I'll be all squeee!

[Phaedra]

Wikified! Thanks, jamesi.

[chixor1]

Ohhh Im in Louisville!

*jumps up and down*

[Insane24Seven]

No ads for Middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania?

[LouMac]

OK, here is the description of the total contents of my package:

- The BA St. Feline coin (previously shown)
- The Providence Craigslist Missed Connections printout from April 1 (previously shown)
- The "You Are Providence" note (previously shown)
- A "BSEEINGU.COM" postcard with phone number.
- A handwritten note addressed to me. Transcribed below.

[chixor1]

Do we have a list of all the names that the letters were addressed to?
Maybe listing them can lead us somewhere?

[notgordian]

Not sure if this warrants mentioning since it's fairly straightforward, but B.A. ST Feline is probably a reference to Bast the Egyptian cat-goddess. Hence, the affinity with cats.

[bagsbee]

Ooooh package swag! Yummy!

No love for the Big Apple?

/me pokes rose

[aliendial]

Yeah, no ads in the DC area either...

[Centipede]

Based on the (admittedly few) args I've played, New York gets very little love.

Having been on hiatus for a while, this looks fun.

P.S.: I'm allergic to cats, will that matter?

[blessedSophia]

Chicago gets left out too.

[Worker]

Stagnation

[poeticexplosion]

Re: Stagnation

[Phaedra]

So, since it's been almost 24 hours since I've METAed or spec'd...

A few oddities crashing around in my head:

Are the packages and the Craigslist ads coordinated?

• It would appear so, since packages seem to be going to the same cities that had ads posted.
  
• Why no ads for Varin's and Spacely's cities? Theory: Varin is still "alone" and "trapped" and SpaceBass either can't or doesn't want to listen to Bast (yeah, I'm going with it), while the rest of us (with the possible exception of LouMac) seem to be headed for safety -- might this have something to do with it?

If so, why focus two rabbitholes on the same individuals?

• Craigslist is a public medium seemingly more suited for recruiting larger groups of people, and they already had gotten our attention with the packages. It seems redundant to focus so much on a few individuals.
  
• Theory: Despite ostensibly being addressed to us, are the Craigslist ads actually intended for others? Are we, by getting the packages containing dream descriptions and clues, being essentially brought in-game as characters with background information that other people need to find?

Where is the Big Public Rabbithole?

• Theory: Are we in a pre-game of sorts?

Is there a chronology to the dreams?

• From Varin's letter: "People are walking towards the mountains. They say that is the way towards freedom."
  
• From Rowan's letter: "Find those that you can and walk with them to the mountains."
  
• From SpaceBass's letter: "It's there that I see you walking with the others towards the mountains and the thing that just cannot be described. I try to stop you..."
  
• This seems contradictory. If the way toward the mountains is the way toward safety and freedom, why try to stop SpaceBass? Also "the thing that just cannot be described" sounds very ominous in a Lovecraftian sense. So, at some point does Bast learn that what looked like safety isn't?
  
• If so, should we be trying to figure out a chronology for the bits of dream-story told in the letters and ads?

What are we supposed to be doing?

• Letter recipients are variously instructed to "save," "warn," "find" and "tell" the others.
  
• Which others? Other letter recipients? Or others who haven't gotten the warning?

[thebruce]

another quickie: did the first package arrive yesterday (monday)? or today?