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[INTERACTION] PM from GetMEout
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Obtusitivity
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actually, cassadaga is explicitly mentioned

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Personal Meetings - My hours are a bit short as I've been completely obsessed with this other project that is taking far too much of my time. So, currently, I am only meeting with my regulars and only in my home here in Cassadaga. As things change or I'm feeling ready to travel again, I will let you know.


but someone said they traced the number back to stafford, Fla which (i believe) was a small suburb of cassadaga.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:44 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
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How embarraskin!
But it actually serves as a good example of how I came to a point where I was only skimming the content of this game because nothing ever seemed to go anywhere
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mapmaker
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Had my own chat with him:

Mapmaker wrote:
Hey GitMO,

So ZOMG you went to see BA! WTFBBQKTHXBAI! Anyway, I dunno if you asked/remember, but I figure it can't hurt to ask, right?

First off, I mentioned this in the thread, but does BA seem OK? Well, no, I gather she's not feeling peachy-keen. But do you think she's a danger to herself? She got anyone to take care of her? I mean, I'm guessing you didn't talk about next of kin over nachos, but y'know.

Also, did she tell you anything else about her dreams? I mean, basically here's what I've been curious about. A quick look at the Google makes me think 13-story buildings in Cassadaga aren't very common. She doesn't live by a harbor. Basically, it sounds like her dreamscape ain't where she actually is, right? But did she recognize any of it? Like did she go, "oh, hey, I lived there when I was six" or "isn't that the Mitchell Corn Palace" or "man, too bad it's Sunday or I'd hit up that Chick-Fil-A" in her dreams?

Anyway, have fun down in the Triangle.

Map

GetMeOut wrote:
Asscrackers. I had half of this replied to and then I whacked the wrong button on my browser and closed the damn thing and lost it all. Stupid laptops. Stupid fingers. Murggglggfajffraaaaaaak. You'll just have to trust me that there was some brilliant comedy in there about GitMO and diapers and forcing you to dance around and sing Shirley Temple songs that wouldn't do well in a recreated state, man But it was pretty good.

So, what I was saying before that you never saw what I was saying was that BA seems fine in terms of not being a danger to herself or others, man. She's totally upset and kinda pissed off, which kinda makes sense considering the circumstances and the fact that she like, doesn't understand anything that's happening to her. She wasn't a dreamer before, certainly didn't see shit when she slept, let alone have someone show up and tell her some of what she dreamed came true. I think the greatest danger she poses to herself is taking up smoking to have something to do when she's awake and twitching over dreams, man. She seems a bit of a loner anyways, man. Didn't look like she did much cleaning in prep for company.

I asked her what the dreams were. She said she didn't know. She said she sees people and places and things, and they're familiar because of their repetition night to night, but nothing from the real world. I joked and told her she needed to contact Sylvia Browne, but she turned and gave me this look of abject horror (understandable really. Sylvia doesn't look all that great). I asked her if she'd had one of those dream interpretation books, but she didn't. Thinks they're crap, which is a shame, because they're pretty fun to read - everything ends up being about sex or the lack thereof, which is awesome. We're such base creatures, man.

See you in the public, Maps

K


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WolfHawk
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I gotta wonder... BA obviously has access to a computer if she is posting the CL stuff. WHY doesn't she talk directly to us through SO??!!
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jjason
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WolfHawk wrote:
I gotta wonder... BA obviously has access to a computer if she is posting the CL stuff. WHY doesn't she talk directly to us through SO??!!

Maybe she's shy?

Or possibly she didn't even know about Sentry Outpost before Kevin told her about it - it's entirely possible if she didn't send out the packages. Maybe if we all ask her nicely and convince her that we're all nice people she'll join up.

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ArawnSengir
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Obtusitivity wrote:

but someone said they traced the number back to stafford, Fla which (i believe) was a small suburb of cassadaga.

Cassadaga is a small town, I haven't visited it in about 13 years (I went to College in DeLand, not that far away), but if memory serves there's only like 100 people that live there. Sanford, FL is about 20 minutes away by car. I think they're even the same area code. Cassadaga is not a town that one just drives to. It's a ways off the beaten path and its so small if you blink you miss it, lol.

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Lovek
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WolfHawk wrote:
I gotta wonder... BA obviously has access to a computer if she is posting the CL stuff. WHY doesn't she talk directly to us through SO??!!


Maybe she isn't posting to CL...

Dun Dun Duuuuuuun!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:36 am
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tipsila
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Lovek wrote:
WolfHawk wrote:
I gotta wonder... BA obviously has access to a computer if she is posting the CL stuff. WHY doesn't she talk directly to us through SO??!!


Maybe she isn't posting to CL...

Dun Dun Duuuuuuun!


Watch out - you may be courting the wrath of Biff! Razz

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sidtheduck
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Lovek wrote:
Maybe she isn't posting to CL...

Dun Dun Duuuuuuun!
Sorry to rain on your parade, count your chicks before they hatch, or take a wild goose chase down to Santa Monica, Lovek, but GMO already confirmed that the B.A. he visited IS writing the CLs. Very Happy
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Obtusitivity
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Sorry to rain on your parade, count your chicks before they hatch, or take a wild goose chase down to Santa Monica, Lovek, but GMO already confirmed that the B.A. he visited IS writing the CLs.


Snap.

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Lovek
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sidtheduck wrote:
Lovek wrote:
Maybe she isn't posting to CL...

Dun Dun Duuuuuuun!
Sorry to rain on your parade, count your chicks before they hatch, or take a wild goose chase down to Santa Monica, Lovek, but GMO already confirmed that the B.A. he visited IS writing the CLs. Very Happy


Sure... if you believe GMO....

He's got the shifty eyes. At least in my imagination.

I repeat... Dun Dun Duuuuuuun
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:33 pm
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RavenWolf
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Thought you all might like to know what BA apparently looks like since I asked GMO about it in my own PM so that I could enhance my lucid dreaming abilities and try to actually talk to her in my dreams... the results were... interesting to say the least...

RavenWolf wrote:
Do tell me more about your journey to visit BA because I've been getting rather close to her through my dreams and through what I've been telling her... if I actually knew what she looked like I could enhance my ability for lucid dreaming and actually influence what's going on in her world... and by extension help to solve our mystery... Thanks in advance for your help

Your Pal,

Raven


Hrm. Like I said, the trip was all kinda strange, man. She's pretty Goth - brunette, a couple of studs pricking out from her upper left ear (probably more hidden away somewhere else). She said she used to run a lot, back when she was just a bullshit artist and could sleep with some sense of security, so she's pretty lean, long-legged. Could probably easy rock a pair of hot pants if they ever went Goth. She's got an oval face, pale complexion, with heavy, dark-lidded eyes. Chocolate brown, those were, like Hershey's syrup - they ran when they looked over the copies of the notes I brought with me and shook with confusion, pleading for an answer.

I didn't have one, and neither does she.

Good luck, man. Keep yourself safe in her dreams :p

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So I recently sent a PM to GetMEOut basically saying that I thought that he was being a jerk and that he pissed me off. This is the PM he sent back:

GetMEOut wrote:

Sorry, man.

I wanted to be honest with you guys, and I have been. I never lied to you. I've answered everything I could answer. But I don't have answers to everything, man. I don't know what I was thinking, going down there to see her. I just did. I thought it was a joke, a game, some crazy art shit. I didn't expect to find a real person suffering real things. I was scared. I was stupid. And then I came back and did more stupid shit. I piled stupid on top of stupid. Maybe someday I'll have a whole blanket of stupid to cover my ass You'd probably still see through it, though. You guys are intimidating - smart as hell and eager to pounce. Seriously. You scare me shitless. I need people to ask the questions I don't think to ask myself, so I can put the pieces together right. But man, I freaked when everybody jumped on me, like I was some horse to be ridden hard and fast and whipped when not going fast enough. It's scary, man. I already felt badly, knowing that whatever answers I could give you wouldn't be enough.

Like her name. Jesus, I didn't think to ask what her real name is, or was. I just called her "B" or "BA," depending on how liberal I was with the syllables. I hope it's not really BA Saint Feline, though. What a bitch of a name to give a child

Anyways, it's okay if you're pissed. I'm pretty pissed at myself, and Art's usually pissed at me, so it's kinda keeping with the status quo. Still think you're crazy smart and understand more than you give yourself credit for. You're more of a leader than I am, man. Use that power!

Just, ya know, don't hit me with it anymore? Kinda gettin' a bruise...

K


Uh, yea I asked him if he even asked BA about her real name. Of course not.. that would be too simple.

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The only things I glean from this are that:
1) A player with bigger mojo than the PMs has severely crippled the game.
2) Lack of resources has crippled the game.
3) The game has been abandoned by its creators for reasons unknown.

Since the PMs, if they were taking stock of the player's frustrations and had any respect for them, could easily keep at least some of their headcount with a quick update on the meta site and haven't done so, the first two options are less likely.

GMO might be a junior member of the PM team trying to do the right thing or they might be a player.

Just my take. Your mileage may vary.
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I'm sure that GetMeOut is a Sentry and not a player. I don't know what is happening with the story, although I do remember something about stuff being rewritten in one of the Sentries posts a while back. I don't think the game has been abandoned. edit to add: I wrote this before I read Sapagoo's post.

As for why BA doesn't post on Sentry Outpost, she must have a reason. Maybe she doesn't want direct contact with one or more of the original sentries? Maybe she is worried about whatever stuff is going down on the server? I used to think she wasn't real, she was just a construct of one of the Sentries, but now getMetout says she is real, so I guess that kills that theory.

I don't know who sent the packages to us. That one bothers me because weren't the notes from BA? Someone pretending to be her sent out the packages?

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You guys are intimidating - smart as hell and eager to pounce. Seriously. You scare me shitless. I need people to ask the questions I don't think to ask myself, so I can put the pieces together right.

Not sure what to make of this, I don't have any more questions to ask. Seems that is what GMO is asking us to do though.
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