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ArawnSengir
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Blue K wrote:
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some might say IÕve never recovered

There's an interesting misspelling from Kevin's About page...2nd paragraph, 4th sentence. Should be I've instead of IÕve. Fat fingered mistake?

Given everything related to the stars here, I'm betting it has something to do with Jupiter (Iove was one of Jupiter's names in latin). Gonna try and dig some more into this.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:23 pm
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mapmaker
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 		%#!$
So the newest BOIL file from Kevin's site comes with two new updates. They follow.

Quote:
The city is quiet tonight – no one wandering the streets, no cars zipping past my window. A haze blurs the sky, the stars hang like watery drops on the tips of quivering eyelashes. Peaceful, really. Am I standing in the eye of the storm, or resting in the lull before it? In the end, I suppose it doesn't matter – its coming. She warned me.
Us.
I laughed, thinking I was invincible.
Unstoppable.
I laughed, thinking it was a joke.

Which one of my many missteps led me here? Which path was I supposed to take? Stay home, grab a job at the local store, settle down, marry young and have a bounty of children? Somehow I don't think even a life like that would bleach the stains of my earlier sins. I crossed the Rubicon, slipped into the city, and brought with me whatever clung to my clothing, what got trapped in the fibers as I brushed along the walls of the cave. I didn't know they were arms, weapons turned to us, poised to slice us into the minor tones of tortured screams.
There's no end at the beginning. The finality doesn't set in until the last act. A tension builds, the madness stirs - there's no peace in that process. Not until the curtain drops and the heavy velvet dampens the noise of the crowd. Then.
Then there's peace. A peace of Heaven, if such a place exists.
My fingertips, shoved into my ears, can't dam the noise.
Can't stop my heart racing, my hands from shaking.
I can guess what's coming.
I don't think I turned it on, but maybe the dog followed me home. A carrion stench wafting from me, drawing it closer. Maybe it's all because of me. Maybe in my hunt for my path, something found me instead. I can't stay. I can't wait. Whatever pestilence flows through my veins draws the dogs with the rotten stench of flesh. I'm no antidote, and my guess to a cure… it may not even be one. Tip over my King. Fold my hand. Ante up.
Just another viral cog in the grinding wheels of the catching machine.
Another soul wasting time.
Another faceless cry trapped in the dreams.
How could I?
Peace.

This update came not at the usual midnight, but at 20:40. Note that the chunks of text are substantially greater, as well.

Today I sent Marie this message.
Map wrote:
Yeah, totally worried about Kevin. Did you see the stuff from the BOIL file I posted? He's beginning to sound like BA, I think. Plus he hasn't read my PM I sent him yesterday 'round 4PM EDT.

The following volley rapidly occurred. Curse words have been replaced with symbols.
Marie wrote:
$&%+. No. How did I miss that? When is that from?

Did you read it the same way that I did?

$&%+.

Map wrote:
That's from, well, I don't know. Maybe yesterday? All I know is I found it in the boil file.

I just reread it.

I think I know what you're thinking.

I hope I'm wrong.

Map wrote:
Please be there, Marie. What's happening?

Marie wrote:
Crying or Very sad He's not answering his phone. It's a Friday night though and it's prime time out there on the east coast. He's probably out having some crazy time and will wake up tomorrow with a hangover that he'll %!*(# about. He'll blame it on getting old and not the however many drinks he had. And then he'll get online and he'll come to the outpost and he'll see this and say it was just some stupid thing he wrote for some crazy performance piece at a park making some stupid statement.

And as if this isn't crappy enough Rusted Root's Beautiful People just popped up on the stereo. That song has always annoyed me. It's too !&(<ing pretty.

He wouldn't have. Would he?

I can't believe this. Not him.

Map wrote:
Our messages crossed paths, I see.

!&(<, I hope so.

I hope the BOIL file update tonight talks about beer.

Marie wrote:
Crossed messages, I think.

I've tried to reach him - no answer Sad Trying Jen - maybe she's heard from him. I hope.

Map wrote:
We keep crossing. Heh.

I just got more worried.

The new BOIL file. It updated yesterday.

At 20:40.

Not midnight, like the one on ronomi did. 20:40.

And it contains those pieces of text whole. Complete.

Not snippets, like the one on ronomi had.

And 20:40 has come and gone with no update.

Not daily, like the one on ronomi was.

It's almost as if it wasn't updated

I don't want to type it

I really don't

but wasn't updated automatically.

Marie wrote:
I don't understand (or maybe I don't want to understand), does that mean that Kevin put it in there purposely?

Please let this be a joke. Please.

Map wrote:
I don't know Marie. I wish I knew. God, I wish I knew.

Maybe it updates differently than the one on ronomi.com. That's possible. There are different ports and a different MUD set up on this computer.

But it's different, and given everything, it's got be worried. Really !&(<ing worried.

I'm chewing about eight sticks of gum right now.

Marie wrote:
Me too Sad

Me too.

*hugs*

Not so much on the gum, though. That'll rot your teeth. Don't rot your teeth. Better than smoking though. Don't do that either.

I'm so scared, Map. I'm really scared for him. I hope he wasn't alone. Or isn't alone. I don't know. I just hope he's ok.


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WolfHawk
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 		Dang! I hope we don't lose another one! Sid mentioned pitchforks etc. I say lets go! Where is Kevin? Are any of the sentries close to his location?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:27 pm
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mapmaker
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 		Kevin's in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I don't know of any Sentries near him.

Another quick exchange:
Map wrote:
Well, it's Extra. Sugar free. So I'm good there.

Did you get through to Jen? Anything going on with her?

You tried calling him, right? Dammit. If he's joking around I am going to smash something. I might if he's not, too.

Marie wrote:
Yeah. I just talked to her Sad

Apparently they usually play isketch on Thursday nights and he never showed or called her back. Didn't think much of it but now she's a bit worried. I think she'll probably be on the boards to see the message for herself. Like me, she just can't see him doing something like this.

Dammit. If this is a joke it's his worst one ever. But I really hope it is Crying or Very sad


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 		NOoooo, not Kevin. He's the main reason I keep coming back to SO. I love reading his posts. He's got this amazing acerbic wit about him.

iSketch? Wow, we could have an ARG character interaction in iSketch? That would be very interesting.
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roseModerator
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 		What happened - Kevin updated the boil on his own? Or someone did it for him?

Any chance he followed my advice and got out of there and stayed with other people for a while?

If I were him I might just totally go off the grid. Maybe send a letter to my friends.

But, if this is based on a Lovecraft story, I think the idea is that it gets bad. Then it gets worse. And it goes downhill fast. To a horrifying end.

creepy.
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mapmaker
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 		Next exchange with Marie:

Map wrote:
I had been talking with him after we found his web site. Here's our conversations:
(Conversations omitted as they are earlier in this thread)

Marie wrote:
Thank you for this. It really did bring a smile to my face reading the things he wrote. Even when he's scared and upset, he writes funny things. I've always thought it would be fun to meet him in person Smile

Nothing there really leapt out at me. I did reread some of the Craigslist posts. That combined with Jjason's post in that thread. It doesn't make me feel any better Sad

Have you seen any changes in the BOIL? Funny drunken ramblings, maybe? We can hope.

EDIT: FYI, the original thing was actually one big text thing, not two.

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 		Aw man, not Kevin! He's one of my favorite Sentries. I hope he's alright. Sad

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WolfHawk
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 		I can't seem to get to the site. It keeps telling me it "was not found."
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mapmaker
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WolfHawk wrote:
I can't seem to get to the site. It keeps telling me it "was not found."

The site seems to be going up and down. Not that surprising given that it seems to be hosted on a home DSL account. There's also been storms in the area, although seemingly not within the last few hours in Chapel Hill.

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JimmyMcForum
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mapmaker wrote:
WolfHawk wrote:
I can't seem to get to the site. It keeps telling me it "was not found."

The site seems to be going up and down. Not that surprising given that it seems to be hosted on a home DSL account. There's also been storms in the area, although seemingly not within the last few hours in Chapel Hill.
Corroborating: most of the storms down here have been south of rhe Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. The storms back in MA are nothing compared to the crap down here.

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mapmaker
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 		Next series:
Map wrote:
*Sigh*

Now his computer isn't responding at all.


Sad

Map wrote:
It came back.

No changes to the BOIL file, though. Sad

Map wrote:
Hey, Marie,

I'm going to be out the whole day. But if you need to talk (although I'm sure you've got people closer to you), feel free to give me a call. 800-588-2300.

Marie wrote:
Thanks, Map.

I really do appreciate the thought. Also, that you were around last night.

If I hear anything, I'll let you know.

Marie

Map wrote:
Hey Marie,

Just got back. Sounds like there's not been anything new? Sad

Back to refreshing the boil directory, and back to seeing nothing new.

Marie wrote:
Nope, nothing new. Sad

I've been alternating obsessively checking my phone ringer, voicemail, and email and attempting to just ignore it all. My apartment has never been so clean Confused

I hate that my thoughts are tending towards the negative. I'm usually on the glass half full side of things. I just can't quite get there with this Sad I keep trying to tell myself that he's just going home and getting away from it all - of course, he wouldn't have been in the frame of mind to tell anyone before he left. But even if he left yesterday afternoon, he'd be bored out of his mind and online by now. And why isn't he answering his phone. Or did he maybe go to see BA? I hope he didn't do anything stupid. I wish he'd check in.

And did you see Jen's post? I can't remember ever seeing her like that before. I could strangle Kevin for this.

So, yeah, that's where my mind has been all day. Up and down, back and forth. Cleaning helped. So did making a blueberry pie. I think there might be a piece left, want it? Laughing

Marie

Map wrote:
Marie,

Wanna come here? My apartment has never been so dirty, and I could use some pie. Does BART go to Boston?

Kevin's site keeps going up and down. Maybe his computer can't handle the traffic? Or maybe BellSouth is throttling his access?

I noticed Jen's post. I think we all sort of feel the same way. How long does one wait to file a missing persons report? Sad

Marie wrote:
BART to Boston! That'd be an interesting journey Laughing I'd love to go to Boston, though. I haven't been there since I was a teen and my parents took me on a college hunting trip. It was silly to go, really. I think my mom really wanted me to an East Coast school, but I had no desire to leave California. Still don't Laughing

I wonder why his website comes back up. Does that mean that he's there to restart it? That seems like a good thing, at least.

I was wondering about the missing persons report earlier. "Hello kind police officer person. I'm an internet acquaintance of somebody who has not logged in since Thursday and it's a bit difficult to explain but there may have been a suicide note that appeared in a virus on his website." Somehow, I don't think they'd take that very seriously Confused Maybe I should try to reach his parents. I have their information from when he went home for the holidays two years ago, I think. I should try to dig that up. Or, maybe Jen knows. I don't know what I'd say to them either. I'd hate to make them worry unnecessarily.

Dammit. Why did he do this? Please, if you decide to leave for a couple days after uploading some strange note, let me know. I don't want to worry about you, too.

Marie


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mapmaker
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 		Double posting, I know. But:
Map wrote:
You don't have to worry about it. I sure hope you don't, at least. Confused Besides, you've got my cell now, so you can bug me whenever. Laughing I'm only going to be in Boston until the 11th and then for the first week in August, anyway, so coming to make me a pie would have to be in that small timeframe. Then it's back to Chicago for me.

Anyway. Yeah, I have no idea. The internet's annoying like that. Can't just go next door and check up on someone. Confused If this happened three or four months ago I'd ask my sister to go check on him, but she's out of Duke and now in Baton Rouge. I was hoping I'd find him on Facebook or MySpace or something to see if I could contact any of his local friends, but no luck.

I don't know why his computer keeps going up and down. It could be that it does so automatically. If he were there restarting it I would be furious that he's not bothering to answer us.

Marie wrote:
Hee. You don't know me very well. I worry about people Laughing

I still haven't been able to reach Kevin. I called his parents this morning. They weren't home. Maybe they were at church or something, I'll try again this afternoon. I don't quite know what I'm going to say, if he's not there. I don't want to worry them for no reason. Unfortunately, as the days go by, I'm more convinced that there's a reason Sad

Kevin thrives on reaction. If this is some joke or "statement", he's had to have had enough of the reaction by now. And, surely, he wouldn't want to upset Jen.

I want to thank you for being such a good friend to me this weekend. It's been nice having this conversation. I don't think I'd be feeling half as ok as I am without it. I've started to focus some of my worry on the craigslists posts. Like someone said, this person knows something. She might not know she knows it, but she does. Now if we can only figure out how to get it out of her. That's my new mission Laughing

I'm doing it for Bryce. I hope to do it with Kevin.

Map wrote:
Marie,

Good call on calling his parents. I didn't realize you had their contact information. It looks like a three-hour drive, but if they can't get through to him either, then they'll probably be concerned. Maybe they know some of his friends in Chapel Hill who can check on him, or maybe his landlord or something.

I just hope this turns out well. I wish I had some idea as to get through to BA. I mean, she doesn't answer her phone calls, and just responds obliquely to our comments via her dreams. We can't ask her direct questions, and she gets to choose what she answers indirectly. If she's not somehow responsible for some of this, she's doing a terrible job of being innocent.

Marie wrote:
Crying or Very sad

Map wrote:
...?

Marie wrote:
I talked to his father. They got the call on Friday. I'm writing up a post right now. I don't know what to say. Crying or Very sad

Visual Studio .NET. FrontPaging Visual Studio .NET.

ETA:
Marie wrote:
http://www.sentryoutpost.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2819#2819

It's just the kind of message that would make him roll his eyes. I can hear him now being all jeez Marie. I'm just not creative like he was Sad

Map wrote:
I'm so sorry, Marie.

Your post was very touching. You said what no one could well.


EDIT 2:
Marie wrote:
Thanks Smile

Is it bad that I'm almost relieved? Somewhere inside, I knew this wasn't going to turn out for the best and that he was just out partying. The not knowing was the hard part. That and worrying that it would take days for people to find him. I can't think of much worse than that Sad

Honestly, how crass can I be. He'll never be back on the forums. He'll never have another fight with Art. He'll never go crazy art geek on us again. Crying or Very sad

I was muttering to myself earlier and said the stupidest thing. "Dammit Kevin, I could kill you for doing this!" But, dammit, I don't understand why he would do this. And that BA bitch. Well. let's say that Kevin is right and she has no control over her dreams - she does have control over what she posts. Why was she posting all of that stuff to Raleigh. I hold her very much responsible for Kevin. If I ever met her, I'd... well, I'd probably just wag my finger or something. But I'd want to do more.

I don't like getting myself so worked up. It's time for some good comfort food.

Map wrote:
I beat you to the comfort food. Lunch/dinner at Popeye's plus a chocolate chip muffin from Dunkie's. Not all that comforting, though, somehow.

There just had to be more to this than some CraigsList posts directed at him. I'm not saying BA was responsible for whatever that something else was. But as briefly as I knew Kevin, he didn't seem to be the kind to wither due to some Internet meanness. Maybe she cast a spell on him or some crap. Is it really a coincidence that the three sentries she's contacted have had drastic things happen to them? Howard's crickets, Bryce's madness, and now this?

Speaking of the others. Now I'm getting anxious about everyone. You, Art, Howard, Stu, Jen, Alan. Given that we haven't hear from some of them in a while, y'know? At least I haven't seen any CraigsLists pointed at their locations. None of them have sites, do they? You don't, do you?

Marie wrote:
Now, that's a meal!

And, no, Kevin's about the least likely to wither from some internet troll. But he met BA and, from the sounds of the things he wrote, he kinda dug her. I think he was crushed by their meeting. Sad I don't know. Maybe she did do something, but I could see Kevin building her up in his mind and being let down by the meeting. And, not only was she not what he thought, but he upset her in the process. Did she just retaliate by writing all that garbage? Again, I don't know. I really don't like her for doing that though :X

I sent Howard an email a couple hours ago. I didn't think to cc Art on it, I should have. That wasn't very nice of me Confused I'm worried about how Howard will react to Kevin, though. Art, too, really. They fought a lot, but I think they built up some respect for each other over the years.

I don't know who all has websites. I didn't think that Kevin did. I don't the last I checked Laughing Well, I guess I have the outpost, especially now that Bryce can't maintain it. I don't think you have to worry about me. I'm not too worried about me. I didn't get a package or anything. I was a bit upset by that at first. I felt left out.

What about you? Do you have a website?


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 		I'm going to be rude and skip over reading all of that text and request a summary. I'm sure everyone enjoys reading their own individual personalized emails and private exchanges, but reading someone else's conversation is a bit like reading chat logs. If there is some story progression in there, I'll probably miss it.

Feel free to ignore this request.

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First, Marie wrote a whole bunch of flirty stuff trying to butter up Mapmaker, and then she wrote:


What about you? Do you have a website?


Don't do it Mappy...you're gonna end up Cthulhu Chow! (Unless you want to give her the Empire site...heh.) Very Happy

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