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[FCR] [TRAILHEAD] Findings Cedar Rapids
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Strikethrough
Boot

Joined: 01 Jan 2007
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Location: Midwest, US

 		Back from the depths
or something like that
Hello, everybody.

I haven't been on here for almost a year- it's possible that some of you, Sylvia in particular, might remember an absolutely terrible Pay-to-Play ARG called "Township Heights," a game which managed to rather thoroughly turn me off the whole concept of alternate reality games.

That said, on a whim, I logged back into this place to see what was shakin', and I happened to get locked into this thread. I've spent all afternoon reading it, and I'm all caught up. Not only that, but I live in Iowa- like an earlier poster, I live in Iowa City. As a matter of fact, I had plans to drive to Cedar Rapids next weekend with a group of friends- if things work out well, I might even be able to visit our haunted cemetery (and maybe, just maybe, meet up with our schizophrenic demon zombie engineer friend). In other words, I do believe I'm in.

Also, regarding the emails we got from the ghost-who-is-not-a-ghost way back when? "a theta torn I miss to reap" contains letters enough to make either "reanimate" or "reanimator." Just throwing that out there.

-ST

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Sylvia
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 		to lie or not to lie, that is the question.
Welcome back Strikethrough. Yes, I remember that silly game. Glad you have decided to jump on board Findings Cedar Rapids and you might have a chance to visit that cemetery.

Ok, everyone this is what I'm going to send Jeff using the Advanced Text Cypher we started out with. But only if we all agree that I should tell him the truth. Because honestly, I don't know what else to tell him.

Quote:
Jeff,

I'm not good at telling lies or half truths. So I'm going to do my best to fill you in on what Dan has told us and wants us to do. That is also the reason I am using our original code and emailing you instead of commenting on your blog. And hope I don't get the both of us MIA or KIA. Your right, I wouldn't want to go to some cemetery to meet someone with out knowing what's going on either.

Here is what Dan has told us.

He said that you are "the latest link in our push for success." Success at what, I don't know he want tell us any more. He said that Steve (not the guy that you thought was Steve but the one in the obit picture in the /mail directory) was before you and countless others were before him.

He says that you work for him as part of the JASON advisory group but that you "no longer realize that." He says that you are sinking deeper into psychosis and no longer have the ability to discern this world from the other. What other, I don't know. I didn't know there was another but Dan seems to think there is. Personally, I think he is the psychotic one but I feel that I have to go along with what he says in order to get that next pill that may mean the difference in you living or god knows what.

He says that the line between reality and the dark matter of this reality (I assume he means the reality of the other world) has been erased for you and that the things you see are real, but that it's not natural for anyone to interact with them.

He says there is no way we can stop what has started,(once again he does not say what IT is) and the only thing we can do is to help you finsih since he is not getting what he wants from you. He says that we have only TWO PATHS either YOU SUCCEED or YOU and all of US who have watched (the videos) will follow Steve into the dark. He says we must help you control the dark matter so you can resume a normal life. However, life as we know it will change for all of us. To be honest with you the guy freaks me out.

He believes that you can no longer process this information and believes that telling you will only increase our chance of failing and that if you fail we fail and you and all of us will be cast aside like all those before you as "someone who's lost their grip."

This is the threat he gave us and if he is as psychotic as I believe he is, I'm inclined to believe him. He said not to tell you anything about him or that you would not exist anymore. So you can see why we have been hesitant to tell you the full truth or how to go about telling you. It was to protect you and give our selves time to figure out what to do. But we are coming to our senses and realizing that by not telling you may actually be putting you in danger.

Dan also said we should not go to the police. He said, "that would be useless as I don't exist." I don't know what he means by that unless Dan Bullerman is not his real name. But he also says we will understand in time. He says he wants to meet you at the cemetery and will let us know the time when he is ready. He says all he wants to do is talk but then he says, "Send him my way and we can get this silly nonsense over." Which worries me what he might mean by that.

So there you have it, everything that we know. Well, I did forget this. In order to protect you I told Dan to change the stuff in the /hide directory so it would be a good idea if you went along with us and pretend that you can't solve it either. We are doing our part, you will have to do yours. Just play along until we get what we need from this freak, mainly the pill and hopefully a cure and get to the bottom of what is going on.

Let me know what you think and how you think we should proceed from this point.

Truthfully, hopefully not Stupidly
Sylvia

P.S. When the time comes and if you do decide to go to the cemetery, try to take someone with you. Let them keep an eye on you from a distance, maybe even tape the meeting. That way if something does happen and Dan isn't being honest with us you will have proof and an eye witness. If you want, one of us could do that for you. I think Strikethrough said he would be happy to watch your back.


So if everyone agrees, I will send this to Jeff in an email. And on his blog we should continue to comment as if we know nothing so that if Dan reads it he won't be any wiser. Let me know what you all think and if any changes should be made.

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 		Well, I believe that honesty is pretty much the best approach to take in most any situation... especially with the good guys. That's a fine email, Sylvia. You have my vote to send it.
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 		Fabulous email Sylvia. I think being truthful is really the best way to go. I posted a comment on the blog just now, nothing explicit. I think I may give Jeff a call tomorrow. I'll try as hard as I can to record it in some way so everyone can benefit from it. Even if that means a shotty transcription I have to scribble. Haha.
Strikethrough, if you could go with Jeff to the CR cemetery you would be my hero. Haha. And to answer a question posted a page ago, I sent Natas the grandfather of all texts updating him on everything that's happened. Unfortunately, he didn't text back. He might not have reception.
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Sylvia
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 		ok, it's been sent. now we see what happens.

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 		Any replies yet?

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Sylvia
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 		not yet, as soon as I get something I will come straight here and post. However, if I don't get a response then I guess we can assume the PMs are ignoring it and that is not how they want the game to proceed. If that happens, then I don't know what we are suppose to do.

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 		thank you
New post at bullerman.net/hide

Quote:
You missed the fun. I have everything I need. Thank you for your cooperation.


Not sure what to make of the video though.

Anybody have any ideas?
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 		The video's taking forever to download for me Sad 47:00 left EDIT: Finally done. Just watched it, it looks like Jeff was kidnapped by Steve!

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 		I do not think he was kidnapped because at the end you can hear Jeff getting back in his car. Although Steve/Dan did do some odd teleporting thing that really freaked him out apparently. I am going to watch the video more closely and Ill post anything I find. It may take me awhile to get do it thought, because I have class in about an hour till late. Rolling Eyes
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 		I'm also going to take a closer look at the video. I'm home from school today because of a big snowstorm Smile But unfortunately the snow just knocked down the cable line, so my Internet connection has been extremely laggy for the past 2 hours Sad

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Sylvia
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 		I'm not sure what happened. But I got this screen cap. Maybe one of you who live close to there could go by and see if you can find this:

ETA: I uploaded a copy to Youtube for anyone that needs it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLhN6YyZJPc for some reason that video isn't playing. I'll try to fix it later.

ETA: Fixed, I had to divide it into 4 parts:

part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dfbli9J5Lo

part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8pYFlwqvY

part 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWcwQ11qXQ

part 4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVt7R8ZaXjs
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Strikethrough
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 		I'm stuck in town for tonight. If nobody else can go, I'll shoot up there bright and early tomorrow morning- I'm even pretty sure I know where that headstone is.

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 		Aaarrrhggg why are all the videos he posts so darn huge? I've been sitting here for twenty minutes and the thing isn't done. Thank you for uploading all the others though Sylvia.

From what I understand it seems as though Jeff *may* have been kidnapped. And though I haven't seen the thing yet, I'm sort of disturbed by the lack of a blog post about it. ALSO that the video we got came from Dan and not from Jeff.

Hopefully we'll learn he's ok soon.
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Strikethrough wrote:
I'm stuck in town for tonight. If nobody else can go, I'll shoot up there bright and early tomorrow morning- I'm even pretty sure I know where that headstone is.

If this were a day earlier I would have gone, but I'm out of town until tomorrow night. If you can't make it tomorrow I'll see if my wife was planning on heading to CR or one of my co-workers.

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