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[MauroKing]

[Markus] New photo on flickr

[danteIL]

Interesting!

My translation:

[dreamerblue]

If it were a personal labyrinth he were running, we would expect him to see something. His seeing nothing might signify that these people are making him run the labyrinth in an improper way...but wouldn't he, a natural Thumos, be able to tell if something were wrong with the path/etc.? Wouldn't he not be able to navigate it properly?

Oh, I see why Babelfish didn't get the last part: it's not "Duriehst" but "Du siehst" (two words, and a s rather than an r).

P.S.: there is much mention of darkness...perhaps because this fit's with Theo's command to "Stay Blind".

[AUZ505]

I think there is one small spelling error:

It reads:
"Kalte Hände haben diese Augen blinde über meine Augen getan"
which probably should be
"Augenbinde" (blindfold) without th "l" ("blinde" does not exist, even though "blind" means "blind" .

So I would translate:
"Cold hands have put this blindfold over my eyes"

[Canzonett]

[MAIL] Letter from Markus

[dreamerblue]

Someone needs to relay this information back to Kai--that forced runs don't work. Hmm, but that could have been like a training labyrinth, not the personal labyrinth (which doesn't have to be run, or blindfolded, as far as we know), which is what we're going to try to get James to do?

It could also be helpful to keep prodding Markus for information about his experience...how was the running different? Is it possible that Theo made him run the labyrinth backwards (from the outside to the inside, rather than from the centre out), for example? This is important, because if (for example) Theo made him run it backwards, that could explain why it didn't work (why he didn't see anything), and it is still possible that forcing James to do a personal labyrinth correctly could still work.

[mr.judkins]

I agree - do you want to forward this to Kai, Canzonett?

As you say, dreamerblue - we don't know WHY exactly Markus didn't see anything. Whether it was the forced nature, or something else entirely. And yeah, this sounds much more like training rather than a ponderous considering personal labyrinth...

[Canzonett]

I will - do we have a personal mail address for Kai? Otherwise I'm going to use my Flickr account to contact him.

I've already written back to Markus and asked him to tell us anything, really anything else he might remember.

[dreamerblue]

I think the only way we have right now to contact Kai directly is through Facebook...but make sure you let him know via a personal message there, rather than writing on his wall, so that James can't read the details of the plan etc.

[Canzonett]

Right-ho. At least we can be pretty sure that Kai's plan to force James into a personal labyrinth and synchronize with his other selves probably won't work.

[dreamerblue]

Well...see my comment in the thread for that discussion...I am of the opinion that the idea is to convince James to do the personal labyrinth willingly (since one person is assigned to convince him he has nothing to lose), and that the overcome-James-by-force part is basically to ensure that he doesn't immediately take off running when he sees our team.

Also, again, I think the personal labyrinth James is to do differs from the type of labyrinth Markus was forced to do. A personal labyrinth does not involve a blindfold, or running.

[Oriza]

*twitch* *twitch*
I'm still so pissed that only people in SF can do it.

At least now we know that TheO was lying about how Markus willingly came over. Because clearly he didn't. TheO is not trustworthy....

[Weezel]

[Canzonett]

Kai's reply:

[lhall]