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Information gathering?

I know right now we have several summary posts going on at the various venues - but does anyone know what the policy is on creating new Wikipedia subject posts? Is there any here Wiki-savvy enough to let us know if this is possible, and possibly get the ball rolling?

That would give us one solid place to match up info, and as a bonus, it's usually viewable even with websense. Thoughts?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:20 am
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Updated Series 5 table to include 15/20.

^^ Ashes, what if it finishes tomorrow? We won't need a wiki then. Still kind of sucks without somewhere central, but we're gonna have to do without maybe?

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I'm going to hazard a guess and say that Oreo and DJP3DRO have emails waiting for them in their inboxes. Probably Mylaptopisevil from Livejournal also. Not sure who it could be from Evil Avatar.

Robert hasn't responded to my query about 12/20 not fitting with 10/20 yet *sigh*.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:52 am
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From LJ


RobertSPLATNotesToMary.com to me

5/20

02461981

Series five of five.

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Damn you Soapdish I was going to sleep.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=543273#543273 <- table updated with 5/20. Message so far: BenWillG????????ate.Only????????imeIsRig????????llowEntrance.ElevenFifteenPMCST.

Some random theorising - in an older email to me, Robert said to "Find the connection between the two foreign elements". I just remembered that "Valdemar" means "Valley of the Sea" in Spanish (in turn perhaps linking to the "Cancer" wiki article? Though "valley" also implies earth). Perhaps P has some kind of relation to some element. I thought maybe "Peter", because "éter" is Spanish for "aether", according to Wikipedia. Or maybe a fire connection.

Edit: Some good message theorising on 4chan happening. Keep it up guys!

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Zephonith wrote:
Damn you Soapdish I was going to sleep.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=543273#543273 <- table updated with 5/20. Message so far: BenWillG????????ate.Only????????imeIsRig????????llowEntrance.ElevenFifteenPMCST.

Some random theorising - in an older email to me, Robert said to "Find the connection between the two foreign elements". I just remembered that "Valdemar" means "Valley of the Sea" in Spanish (in turn perhaps linking to the "Cancer" wiki article? Though "valley" also implies earth). Perhaps P has some kind of relation to some element. I thought maybe "Peter", because "éter" is Spanish for "aether", according to Wikipedia. Or maybe a fire connection.

Edit: Some good message theorising on 4chan happening. Keep it up guys!


I like your line of thinking, with the Peter connection.

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http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/1119364.html?thread=107558020#t107558020

In a similar vein of speculation, with regards to Cecilla.

Maybe Cecilla is the opposite of Memory, hence why she is against us. As well as blindness, maybe she's forgetfulness too - sort of like the Greek myth idea of Lethe - "forgetfulness or concealment". I can't actually find any concrete Lethe/Cecilla link though, it's just speculation from evidence in notes/emails. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe

[/random spec]

Edit:
GaengDangit on SA wrote:
R= Robert in Memory, P= Present Time

Holy shit, it's amazingly simple and beautiful and I like it.

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Hasn't that been suggested and debunked sometime before? Seem to vaguely recall that, or I could be starting to imagine things >.>

Regards speculating, the corny side of me came out earlier and decided that maybe Cecilla was what she is (or the way P!R uses it anyway) because she has one eye (i) closed. R!P/P!R (ripper?) refused to reply to my query on that though =P

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Zigs wrote:
Hasn't that been suggested and debunked sometime before? Seem to vaguely recall that, or I could be starting to imagine things >.>

Regards speculating, the corny side of me came out earlier and decided that maybe Cecilla was what she is (or the way P!R uses it anyway) because she has one eye (i) closed. R!P/P!R (ripper?) refused to reply to my query on that though =P


Semi-debunked but still possible theory. See thread here: http://community.livejournal.com/sf_drama/1119364.html?thread=107377284#t107377284

I started to consider parallel universes (different dimensions) but I don't know much. Sent an email to P!R to that effect, but seems like he's been sleeping the last few hours.

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Zephonith wrote:
I'm going to hazard a guess and say that Oreo and DJP3DRO have emails waiting for them in their inboxes. Probably Mylaptopisevil from Livejournal also. Not sure who it could be from Evil Avatar.


Unfortunately no - It seems he really has gotten sickof me. I've been pestering both P!R and R!P with just about every question I can think of but I haven't gotten anything back since 2 days ago.

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Continuing along the P being an element line, appropriately enough it is - phosphorous, an element with a reputation for burning long and hot. It would fit well enough with the theme that I'd say that's what P is.

EDIT: Or maybe, if we're going with classical elements, simply representing fire?

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Musical Aspect

I've been following this since day one, since my boyfriend has a something awful account. He doesn't like me posting on his account, so eventually I decided to make one here. I'm a stay at home mom, so this actually has provided a little excitement to me.

I think that one thing that we are not thinking about enough is the music aspect of the whole thing.

If these notes are from around the time that the Smashing Pumpkins released the song that is quoted on the first note, then I think that is important, or at least more important than we are making it.

I was in school around that time as well. People were really into that song and the other songs by the Smashing Pumpkins. And the lyrics to the song quoted, I can kinda see fitting in. Also I believe the song "Zero" was released around the same time. I can also see those lyrics kind of tying in to this.

These are the lyrics from "Zero"(from azlyrics.com)

My reflection, dirty mirror
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm the face in your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we're really gonna need'em
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?

She's the one for me
She's all I really need
Cause she's the one for me
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me
Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness
B******t fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
You blame yourself, for what you can't ignore
You blame yourself for wanting more
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
She's the one for me
She's my one and only


I bolded the parts that I thought were most important to this, or were similar to things we've found out. Especially the part about Wanna go for a ride, because I remember that a message from P!R said something similar

Also the lyrics to "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" (again from azlyrics)

The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game

Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show?
And what do you want?
I want to change
And what have you got, when you feel the same?

Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son, yeah.
Tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was the only son for you

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
And someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Despite all my rage am I still just a rat in a-
Despite all my rage am I still just a rat in a-
Despite all my rage am I still just a rat in a cage

Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son for you

[x4]
And I still believe that I cannot be saved


Both songs have things about being fake, which was in one of the original notes. I might just be trying to hard. Especially since these songs were popular about ten years ago.

If I also remember correctly about The Smashing Pumpkins, they were 3 dudes and 1 chick. Which is a similarity to this whole situation. I also think one of the original guys in the band did die. I might be wrong about that though.

Again, this could all be completely wrong, or maybe this is some kind of advertising for something Smashing Pumpkins/Billy Corgan related. Maybe a greatest hits album or something along those lines. I emailed RobertSPLATnotestomary.com some lyrics from some of the songs, just to see if I could get some kind of response.

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BenWillG????????ate.Only????????imeIsRig????????llowEntrance.ElevenFifteenPMCST.

Just a guess but the second part of the sentence could be

Only ???? ??? ?ime Is Rig?? ???? ? ?llow Entrance
Only When The Time Is Right Will I Allow Entrance

And that time is 11:15pm CST

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Hey Jessickah. We need some good discussion at this venue, glad to see you on board Smile

Edit: Hey Murt! Go Team Unfiction!

Hmm, I guess we haven't really established a timeline for exactly when the notes were written, like a specific year other than "the mid 90s".

Looking at the Bullet With Butterfly Wings lyrics (with the "despite all my rage" quoted in Note 1), it's a bit chilling. If we take R!P to be the one with rage, it would indicate that P!R has control over him. Which gets creepy when you start seeing "Tell me I'm the only one/Tell me there's no other one".

If this were advertising something, yeah, I'd say some sort of album would be the most likely. Several bands have run ARGs before (the Nine Inch Nails one is classic, and led to some lucky Los Angeles ARGers getting a secret concert!) and I can't see the dark content as being really suitable for anything more mainstream like a movie. But... The Pumpkins have already released a Greatest Hits, and the band member died of an overdose, so I'd say it's unrelated other than the quotes.

Sighence wrote:
Continuing along the P being an element line, appropriately enough it is - phosphorous, an element with a reputation for burning long and hot. It would fit well enough with the theme that I'd say that's what P is.

EDIT: Or maybe, if we're going with classical elements, simply representing fire?

It's a bit frustrating because Robert doesn't really reference a lot of stuff other than the Bible, so a lot of interesting guesses are probably invalid. I've been wracking my brains to come up with a fire related name beginning with P, but don't have anything.

Talking on IRC, Stskeeps brought up another connection - June 24th is the Feast of John the Baptist, which is celebrated with bonfires. In Denmark they put dolls of witches on these bonfires, but Robert probably isn't Danish. John was decapitated and his head brought to the king on a platter, but that might not mean anything in our present context.

The first 4chan thread wasn't bumping any more, so there's a new one - http://zip.4chan.org/x/res/744780.html

We've put in a request at 4chanarchive.org to archive the old thread, and I've saved it also. Hopefully you can download it below.
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Glitter_Poo
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Murt wrote:
BenWillG????????ate.Only????????imeIsRig????????llowEntrance.ElevenFifteenPMCST.

Just a guess but the second part of the sentence could be

Only ???? ??? ?ime Is Rig?? ???? ? ?llow Entrance
Only When The Time Is Right Will I Allow Entrance

And that time is 11:15pm CST


That's definitely along the lines of what people are thinking.

The problem with that, is that after "imeIsRig", the next code reads:

} ` i q o J i F

according to the cipher that we've been using to decode everything else in this series, the } can only be any of the letters 't through z'

I don't know about you, but I don't know of any words that start with Rig and are followed by any of the letters 't-z'

I'm hoping this is just a typo on Robert's part, but he hasn't really been wrong thus far...

The other option is "Time is Right Will He Allow" Will, He and A follow the corresponding capital letters in the code (` J F), but again, there's still the problem with "right" missing an "h"

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