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[pancito]

[BoL/SiD] [SPEC] Who do you trust?

[Coffeebean]

Jessica's numbers were used to get into Umbrati.
One number from each column, clicked on umbrati font number pics, that filled bar/meter.
The puzzle was Moonlight Gateway, discussed Here

[MrToasty]

That brings up an interesting thought. Jessica seems to be headed for the Light, but her dream gave us a key to the Shadows.

[jelloarm]

and Jada is not going to the dark, even though that's where our speculation had her pegged.

I was thinking that maybe good ol' CO, with his seeming omnipresence on both sides, might be playing the two as saps. Maybe he's more violent than we thought.

[machina]

Thanks for this thread, pancito - that was an excellent idea!

I don't really trust anyone at this point.

My sympathies were with Chiaro at the beginning, since I liked the middle-position, not being aligned with either of the extremes, but over time I grew more suspicious about her, too. I understood her as a sort of benign manipulator with a want for "balance" at first, but since all the killings, I've grown quite wary about her possible motives.
Talking about motives - what are the Lightbringers' and Umbrati's goals, for that matter? "Spreading the light/darkness" and "pushing back the dark/light to where it came from" is quite the weak agenda, and I'd be very interested in what they are actually trying to accomplish.

Storywise, I think it could be going in a direction where it will be necessary for the Lightbringers and Umbrati to cooperate against the "evil mastermind" (though probably not so clichéd - and Chiaro would be a possible candidate for the role). Trying to get Jaana and Helen to work together would be an interesting diplomatic mission .

Another possibility I can think of - we find out that both sides are bastards, and have to prevent them from doing whatever they are planning (Nyxtel have a satellite that could be a potential danger, and BlueGenics with their cloning/eugenics-thing going on...)

Somehow I don't think it will play out as a "either the Lightbringers or the Umbrati win"-situation, although it'd certainly be interesting.

I do think Jessica and Jada can probably be trusted, since they seem to be rather ignorant about the whole matter, but they probably won't shed any light on the business, either (except maybe some very vague dying-candle-kind-of-light through one of Jessica's cryptic dreams. (If she's not, in fact, just making them up to get attention. ))

[pancito]

I wrote to Chiaro asking what his/her motives were.

[Lunsford]

I know that we have had all the fonts "released" .. so what would happen if we wrote letters in those dedicted fonts to different "key players" and seen what the reaction was??


Didn't someone say that we could use them in messaging?

[ineffabelle]

I sent out a message to Jess yesterday suggesting that the person in her dreams might be Jada and gave her Jada' contact and blog info. No response yet.

I keep coming back to the chat feature... can we access it somehow to talk to the characters? We have all of their screen names... it sort of seems like the next logical step.

[Agent Lex]

[Lunsford]

duh... just don't mind me....

and I actually read the blog every morning..

[kolixela]

So evil mastermind it is.

help the seer (jessica)

help the action (jada)

neither side knows whats really happening, both sides need their help.



And all of Jessica's dreams have machinery sounds in the last part where everyone starts screaming.. "Yet both sides have more in common than they realize. With smoke in their eyes, neither side can see he who works the machine. "

[ALISDAIRPARK]

Well I'm still more swayed by the dark's "trying to tell the truth to the world" than by the light's "we know best" attitude, and as for Sharon Obscurus is she/he playing Sanjuro, or the wizard of Oz? I def don't think it's altruism that's at work there...

[Fishjp]

So far everything is a little vague to determine who to trust. It would help if we could figure out what everyone was actually trying to do, then we might start to have a clue as to which side to support. Those of us who are Project O veterans will recall that game had a similar problem in which we werent sure which side to help until the very end.

[jelloarm]

So we need to stay on the LB and Umb's good sides long enough to get more info before we can decide who, if anyone, to help. Which is fine by me because I trust Chiaro very little, given his seemingly unfettered access to everything, by both companies. We'll see, I suppose...

[amandel]

Agree with all of the comments about Chiaro. Yet it's unlikely that he/she could be working alone. Is there a third group of which we're unaware,maybe comprised of members within both the Lightbringers and the Umbrati?