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[SITE] EldritchErrors.com early analysis
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 		I love the part about IcyMidnight's "digital dream catcher." Smile

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konamouse wrote:
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DanteIL draws a map of her dream wanderings.


Well, they are her dreams, correct? They're just her dreams of someone else's experience.
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Lovek wrote:
konamouse wrote:
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DanteIL draws a map of her dream wanderings.


Well, they are her dreams, correct? They're just her dreams of someone else's experience.


Oh, yeah, d'oh! Embarassed
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 		S'Ok, I thought the same thing. Wink

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 		[Update] May 15
May 15 update.
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 		That image on the page, what building is that anyone know?! I know the overlay is of the seal that was on the packages, but I'm sure I recognise that building.
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 		I don't recognize it, but perhaps it's a building at Miskatonic University.

ETA:

Text from site:

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Your journey is a difficult one, Providence, and you see no clear road signs to mark your way through the dreams. You seek a guide. You seek a missed connection. You seek a broken angel. You seek lucidity. Saint Feline resists doing what she is telling you to do: what makes connection so difficult?

Something else has been making connections, hidden just out of view and drawn from nightmares. While Dante labors to continue the translation of an unspeakable text, others dive into the practice of arcane protocols and obscure dialects to tease meaning from mystery. Techno-sorcerers like Occultus, James Stone, Rogi, Krispy and 4thElement test the limits of the screamer and the boil with a strange incantation. What unspeakable secrets have you uncovered?


So. What can we learn from this, if we're in a META-y mood?

1) That looks like a confirmation that we are, indeed, Providence the dog.

2) We're still missing something we are supposed to be seeing. ("Missed connection" links to here, to a quotation of the CL post about the dog with the comment about taking more hands that are offered.)

3) Lucid dreaming may indeed be important somehow. ("Lucidity" links to this post about lucid dreaming.)

4) It links to a script 4th Element posted, referring to it as an "incantation." Apparently programming = a form of magic in this world. Wink

Questions I now have that I didn't have before:

1) It talks about BA resisting doing what she's telling us to do, and links to the CL post that says this:

Quote:
A low growl greets me as I approach the fence, but I am not afraid. Providence cowers. Too timid to attack. Too skittish to look me in the eye. As people pass by, he barks at their shadows reluctant to confront them head on. The yard shows signs of digging, but there is no evidence in this world of what, if anything has been found.

Evil lurks. Its sinewy web radiating out from the corner. Providence howls.


What's BA not doing? This all seems to be about Providence, not BA...

2) The gigantic use of bandwidth is apparently "something making connections." "Drawn" in the phrase "drawn from nightmares" is linked to the Yogh Sothoth text. Some of the other fragments in the files were old posts from the SO forum, notably quite a few in which HPHack references the faculty accident/massacre at Miskatonic U that apparently upset him quite a lot and drove him to Boston. So, was this thing, whatever it is, eating text from the forum and wiki that referenced nightmarish scenarios, whether real or dreamt?
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cissmiace wrote:
That image on the page, what building is that anyone know?! I know the overlay is of the seal that was on the packages, but I'm sure I recognise that building.


The image reminded me of this: (emphasis mine)

http://www.geocities.com/soho/9879/necquot.htm
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Armor against witches and daemons, against the Deep Ones, the Dholes, the Voormis, the Tcho-Tcho, the Abominable Mi-Go, the Shoggoths, the Ghasts, the Valusians and all such peoples and beings who serve the Great Old Ones and their Spawn lies within the five-pointed star carven of grey stone from ancient Mnar, which is less strong against the Great Old Ones themselves. The possessor of the stone shall find himself able to command all beings which creep, swim, crawl, walk, or fly even to the source from which there is no returning. In Yhe as in great R'lyeh, in Y'ha-nthlei as in Yoth, in Yuggoth as in Zothique, in N'kai as in K'n-yan, in Kadath in the Cold Waste as at the Lake of Hali, in Carcosa as in Ib, it shall have power; yet, even as stars wane and grow cold, even as stars die and the spaces between stars grow more wide, so wanes the power of all things -- of the five-pointed star-stone as of the spells put upon the Great Old Ones by the benign Elder Gods, and there cometh a time as once was a time, when it shall be shown that:

That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange eons even death may die.

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 		I can go one better. Actually found that while looking up Miskatonic images to see if I could find the building.

/me returns to lurking where he should be.

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 		Yes, this is what was on the coins we were sent. Smile
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cissmiace wrote:
That image on the page, what building is that anyone know?! I know the overlay is of the seal that was on the packages, but I'm sure I recognise that building.

Hey good visual memory there, cissmiace. I just happened to be catching up on the SO forum, and saw that HPhack posted a link to Neo-Ruins: Lithographs of post-apocalyptic Tokyo. It's this shot , of the Ginza 4-chome Intersection in Tokyo.

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 		Wow Shocked I cant believe I actually remembered! Not bad for someone with memory loss Laughing
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 		Not really important I guess, but just for the record, GMD has ronomi.net, .org, and .info as well.

None are actually operative, not sure if ronomi.net is supposed to be but it flies the Dreamhost "bad_httpd_conf" flag.

Quote:
Jeff @ DreamHost (staff) said:

"... bad_httpd_conf errors in general mean that something interfered with the generation of your site's entry in our Apache web server configuration file. You can sometimes work around this yourself by editing your domain* from the web panel, 'submitting' it (even with no changes), and waiting a bit. This forces it to be re-generated, which may work. Obviously the error shouldn't happen in the first place, but if you want to get the site up ASAP this can sometimes help."


I know nada about this kind of stuff, so I'm not sure what it means if anything.

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 		We're no longer in a "Pilot", we're in "Book 1", "The providence prophecies"

http://www.eldritcherrors.com/book1/

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danteIL
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 		So why do we think the EE Meta site hasn't updated since May 21st?


I'll get it started:

1) Paris Hilton is a PM and she couldn't log in from jail.

2) The intern-monkey responsible for the updates is on summer vacation. Mmm, bananas.

3) They ran out of adjectives like "strange" and "mysterious" to describe the game, and thesaurus.com is down.

4) There's only so many times you can update "You struggle to interpret the dreams that B.A. is sending."

5)

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