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GLOSS
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MattDunn wrote:
TheIllustratedMan wrote:
ok, so here's this. someone else can email it to mikey, i'm tired.

Anybody send out the e-mail yet? I can do it, saying I'm related to someone else he's already corresponded with, if no one else feels like it.
Funny though, I can't steg/desteg anything on my mac... Sad


I sent it out a few hours ago, just waiting for a response and/or update to Mikey's blog at this point...

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MattDunn
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 		coolio, thanks!

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GLOSS
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 		Mikey got the message, I'm sure we'll have a new blog post soon enough, in the meantime:

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Senorgloss,

I don't know what I would do without all of you helping me with this. I still feel a bit out of place communicating with someone like this. The whole hidden message in a picture thing, but I do feel as though it has a purpose for him. I'm still wondering what exactly these awlyn are. Hopefully I'll be able to work that out of him sometime soon.

I do have one question that maybe you and your friends can help me with. I was looking at those documents he had sent me in the last batch. I'm trying to figure out what the deal is with the black cat. Here's this government lab that is doing experiments on the awlyn and the guy who is observing this makes a list of what is in the containment area (I think that's what he called it without looking back at it now). There are people in there and a cat. I keep thinking about that and it feels strongly familiar. I even had a dream last night that one of those girls I was following had turned into a cat. It is strange because I don't even remember what had happened that day, so I wonder if that's some sort of repressed memory trying to surface. It seems a little far stretched, but then I read about this girl mentioning that she turns furry once a month. Let me know your thoughts.

Surf Safe,
Mikey Surry


EDIT: Mikey updated his blog with the supplied photo, which means we'll probably be getting a Parvulus update sometime tomorrow...

EDIT2: Isobella's Youtube that was right after the Surry incident started with her holding a black cat, and telling it to "get a grip." I think there may be a connection there, and I just sent the Youtube link to Surry to see if it rings any bells...

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:33 pm
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MattDunn
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GLOSS wrote:
EDIT2: Isobella's Youtube that was right after the Surry incident started with her holding a black cat, and telling it to "get a grip." I think there may be a connection there, and I just sent the Youtube link to Surry to see if it rings any bells...


Forgot about that. Just went and rewatched that part. First time I watched it I thought the way she talked to the cat was a little odd, but now that you mention it and i rewatch it, is the black cat Sarah? Or some other family member? Good call on sending that in. It is more intriguing now that we have some context.

[meta]
I see Mikey mentioning his son and relaying more about his alcoholism and divorce, think the amount of info has anything to do with our discussions here?
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GLOSS
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 		Mikey just responded to my E-Mail again:

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No it doesn't (ring a bell) specifically. That's the girl, I recognize her, but no I don't remember anything else. Like I said the dream is almost like the other girl changed into the cat. The video maybe supports that, I don't know. I mean it could just be a cat right? If she did change into a cat, how?

Surf Safe,
Mikey Surry


So he recognizes Isobella, but it didn't jumpstart anything new in his head. Maybe we're having a Sabrina: The Teenage Witch ARG? If we get Nick Bakay involved with this I'm down Laughing

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petunia
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 		Maybe when Diego said Sarah was little, he was referring to her cat form. "Get a grip, seriously..." Maybe Sarah was still freaking out over what had happened and couldn't calm down enough to turn human again, or kept flopping back & forth. Laughing

Watching Diego's last couple videos again, it'd make sense that he would get suspicious of Mikey'd change in tone if he didn't know about Amun. We think Amun's a good guy, right? I'm sure D et al would be highly skeptical, so it's probably too early to say anything yet. But do they even know that Sarah's missing??

I noticed he also mentioned that he was going to reply to some messages when he went to upload the vid. YouTube messages, again? Maybe we should be using this as a way to communicate with them?

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[meta] I see Mikey mentioning his son and relaying more about his alcoholism and divorce, think the amount of info has anything to do with our discussions here? [/meta]

MOSHO is that this is either meant to assure us of his good intentions, or to draw us inexorably into his evil sticky web of deceit. Twisted Evil But I've been thinking: Mikey's never seen the cipher wheel (of DOOOOOOOM). Has anybody ever sent him the layout of it? (plain text, spreadsheet, awesome applet, whatev) Because if not, he has no way of knowing what we and Amun are sending to each other, or if the "messages" we claim to decode & encode for him are really what they say they are. He's having to trust us.
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TheIllustratedMan
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 		I think Dio sent him the spreadsheet, and I know that I sent him the first version of the app. He wasn't too keen on it though, which is why he's still having us do the encoding, and why I haven't sent him any updated versions.

Mikey wrote:

Nathan,

You'll have to excuse me, but I'm not quite sure how to use this? I see that the letters move, but how am I supposed to use it? I did get an e-mail with a cipher and a solution for the cipher. I just can't figure out what you're doing with your program?


I did reply explaining how it worked, but he just kinda moved on, so I felt it wasn't worth pursuing. Also, some people were a little put off that I would let Mikey decode his own messages, so... ;-P
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petunia
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 		Oh, well never mind then. Embarassed
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GLOSS
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 		Just on a whim, I asked Mikey if he remembered whether the cat was black like the one in Isobella's Youtube and the government document. He said it was a dark colored cat, but wasn't 100% sure it was black. Just in case that comes up down the road for some reason...

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 		Started a new thread for discussing the black cat syndrome.
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GLOSS
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 		New pic up on Parvulus, it's a picture of the Alamo, which is the word that unlocks it. No new documents this time, just another cipher to decode...

Quote:
{.IAWGAB9ITBB8SXSNMRNMFJTTQJMDVVAELFP3F7VIVJONQYGQSAQUIO}
{…ETMM5AEDOME8QOT3ODJAOYEJRXNDJEOEQCDIQDGK}
{..QYLQUBEE4OBMXQLKVVGANX2YWW9LOSFARNIV9HMUYKIDQMQFFNYXLQXOHEGMMUSHCH9LHQ6AVWWMGZBCNKXCMNXEH}
{.MSTJSGZNWRBRZN5XNVUHITU15N9RISGETMMPKBPIYTUWMV9HPCHKTNNXKGPLZPDSD}
{.SQATQVGFFPXBONQIGITBOSKDCBYEREQBXORGGSLAN8JHGYQONJVJSMAQMDZTABUUARNVZVWVLMFNDDMRORJUMLF7KTC[37]}
{..ZYP1YKUXQTGYHVSKFARQDJPYTJ}
{….PEQAOP9TCITJMYDEBNCYKTEBKPEAQCHLWWK3QS}


Gonna get to work on it right now...

EDIT: Got it decoded with TIM, spoilered for those who want to solve it themselves:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Keycode is 6821539740

MR SURRY YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTACT THE CHILDRENS PARENTS
I APOLOGIZE IF THIS HINDERS YOUR INVESTIGATION
PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT WHILE YOU HAVE MY PROTECTION MANY OF THE AWLYN ARE CAUTIOUS WHEN DEALING WITHUMANS
I WILL HAVE AN AGENT DELIVER ANY HARD DRIVES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES TO YOUR DOOR
THE WEBSITE ADDRESS YOU HAVE PROVIDED IS DISTURBING AND WE WILL TRY TO FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THENOVAHELIX37
WE APPRECIATE YOUR ASSISTANCE
I WILL HAVE MORE DOCUMENTS WITHIN A WEEKS TIME


I EMailed it to Mikey already, just gotta wait for a response...

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GLOSS
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 		Just got a new E-Mail from Mikey, he's looking for a better way to communicate with us all:

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So I can't talk to the parents of all of these kids? I haven't gotten a delivery yet, but until I do what does he expect me to do?

Have you got any idea what I can use to communicate with you all in one swoop without this Amun guy knowing we're communicating? Novak is apparently tied up working with a big customer of his. He keeps telling me that it's hush hush and he can't tell me what he's working on. Makes me curious what he's working on.

Anyway Surf Safe,
Mikey Surry


So, would inviting him to the chat at this point be a good idea?

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petunia
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 		[meta]Er, you mean the same chat the PM's been lurking in (for the most part) since before the game started?[/meta] Confused
I dunno, suggest it and see if he has something more like a forum in mind?

Once again, my curiosity re: Novak is piqued. Must be some way to find out what this guy's into.

I'm really starting to think that somebody needs to tell Diego & Isobella that Sarah is missing. It just doesn't feel right to sit on this information, even if we know they won't believe us.

Link never answered my YouTube message, but I'm really tempted to try sending one to Diego.

EDIT: Anybody ever look up that book Mikey's holding in the pic on his main site (not his blog)? It appears to be an earlier edition of this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131481010/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Sounds like some pretty advanced math there. I don't get it.
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GLOSS
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 		Heh, Mikey just E-Mailed me back a few hours ago:

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An IRC??? room?? I was thinking something like a newsletter or something that I could just e-mail to all of you. I'm not even sure what an IRC room is, I guess I could google it. Yes google is a good friend, ok an IRC room sounds too much like a predators breeding ground. I'm glad you pointed them out to me, I hadn't ever looked at those in my investigations before. I think I'd still rather go with a newsletter structure or something.

Surf Safe,
Mikey Surry


So yeah, I guess he'd prefer a newsletter type thing to IRC...

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 		What about something like a message board? A Proboard or something that can be locked to the public and you have to register for?
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