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[AA] Live Drop - Austin, TX - August 17, 2008, 1:30 - 2:00PM
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MattDunn
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vapor wrote:
Hehe, Cool

I thought that was pretty sly too.

I wonder if we'll get to see this awesome player interface thing we've heard about soon. Case numbers like Wiley18x9037 at the top of the forms make me want to go looking for a terminal we can use to look up the files.
/me giddy at the thought

Oh, and has anyone sent a link to Mikey with the new findings? petunia since you picked up the drop ( Worshippy thank you so much BTW) could you email him? mikeySPLATsurryinvestigations.com


LOL, I thought the same thing when i saw all those case numbers. I almost popped open a new window to open up the SRPA Terminal... Darn R2's got me looking at every weird string of numbers/letters as a terminal file name now. Smile I'm psyched to see exactly what this new interface is going to be, too.

I forgot to say it before too, Petunia great job on the pickup. Thanks!

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 		delurk
After a careful examination of the DoubleK page....

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
One of the META tags in the source code is 'myspacerefuge'. Going to http://freewebs.eyegasm-design.com/doublek/myspacerefuge/ reveals the girls' blog.


Yay, go me Smile More details after I check it out.

MattDunn wrote:
Two things, for the moment, I'll spoilerize, since it's new, and may not even be relevant:
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-A quick look at the source of the DoubleK page revealed an images directory. Looking at the knkbffs.jpg, it looks really forced, they're "best friends", but it looks like neither one of them wants to take the picture. How do I say this without sounding creepy? It looks like kiddy porn. Also the images directory shows all images uploaded on 15 Aug - Friday. This directory might be considered OOG so I don't know if that's really relevant yet, but those girls haven't been seen since 20 Dec. Also, there's one image in the directory that is not actually used on the site, the template_logo.jpg. Now, obviously that's just the logo for the template that was used to make the page, but, the logo reveals it's apparently the Undertaker Template. That page looks like a funeral announcement, not a couple of best friends.

And that about sums up my initial observations regarding the package, aside from this, and it was already posted in the main AA thread... Sarah Wiley(confirmed spelling) has been missing since the 19th, Diego and Isobella got taken to Europe on the 18th or 19th, based on the July 17th youtube post by Diego. Does it freak anybody else out that she disappeared from the same place that we told Mikey to say he had been to for the first message to Amun? Vapor your not a plant are you?
Geektastic posted this a couple days back:
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So he can't get in touch with Sara, but can't do much snooping due to house arrest. Seems like an invitation for us to provide some assistance.

I think we should see if Mikey is willing to help. Since this is connected to his original investigation and now that he knows about all the weirdness going on, maybe he'll be willing to snoop around and/or give us some useful information.
I'm thinking now is probably a good time to try and hook them up in some way. Since the girl he was investigating by accident went and vanished into thin air a few days later, I'd think he might take an interest... Anyway, I need to get away from this screen, I'll check in with ya'll later.[/spoiler]
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 		GREAT find!

Also, found a chat log at http://freewebs.eyegasm-design.com/doublek/myspacerefuge/novahelix37.html
by looking in the myspacerefuge source

Heh, didn't need to dig through source. Link right on the page

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vapor wrote:
I wonder if we'll get to see this awesome player interface thing we've heard about soon. Case numbers like Wiley18x9037 at the top of the forms make me want to go looking for a terminal we can use to look up the files.
/me giddy at the thought

I know. I can't WAIT for the kids to go back to school!

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Oh, and has anyone sent a link to Mikey with the new findings? petunia since you picked up the drop ( Worshippy thank you so much BTW) could you email him? mikeySPLATsurryinvestigations.com

I wasn't sure about that since I haven't emailed him before, but I have been listed on his BlogLog from early on, so yeah that's okay I guess... I should be able to get the docs properly scanned tomorrow.

They were, for the record, printed on cream-colored paper, no visible watermarks, nothing on the back of any of them. Nothing interesting about the envelope either.
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 		Good find! I went back and looked and I had read that and glossed right over it. Sad
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So, it appears to me this Katia girl is some sort of worgen/werewolf/whatever and Kelsi is apparently an Awlyn. Though they both celebrated Samhaim(guessing Halloween-but that's commonly spelled with an 'n' at the end) as an actual event, so is Awlyn more of a generic term for these people and some of them are telekinetic types, and others (the chaneque possibly - 15 Dec entry) are other "creatures of myth and lore" shall I say? Both kids were reported to the DC for investigation...
So, yeah, not exactly sure what to make of all that, except maybe since Mikey is supposed to help find all these kids, you should let him know you found additional content on these girls' website. Oh, and is he gonna think it's weird that we shared the contents of an envelope addressed to him? I haven't dealt with drops before...

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 		So... first off, Thanks petunia! Next, just so I'm getting this right, Kelsi and Katia met some older guy on the internet, decided to meet him in real life, and then subsequently got kidnapped. Wow, Mike Surry, the man who devotes his life to fighting internet predators, is gonna be thrilllled..... /sarcasm.

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 		just FYI, Samhain is the Gaelic New Year.

heres what wikipedia says on it

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Samhain (pronounced /ˈsaʊn/ or /ˈsɑːwɪn/; Irish /ˈsˠaunʲ/ from the Old Irish samain) is the word for November in the Gaelic languages. The Scottish Gaelic spelling is Samhainn or Samhuinn (for the feast), or an t-Samhain (for the month). The Festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is generally regarded as 'The Celtic New Year'.

The same word was used for a month in the ancient Celtic calendar, in particular the first three nights of this month, with the festival marking the end of the summer season and the end of the harvest. A modernized version of this festival continues today in some of the traditions of the Catholic All Souls' Day, the secular Halloween, and in folk practices of Samhain itself in the Celtic Nations and the Irish and Scottish diasporas. It is also observed by various types of Neopagans.


dont know if that is very helpful but i figured it may be
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 		I think "awlyn" is a generic term, and they're all different. The word "awlyn" means "others". There's more info in the main thread, too lazy to go paw around in there and find a link.
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 		Ok, just emailed Mikey the scans (which are now also on the flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35236708@N00/sets/72157606792566789/)

I also told him about the doubleK myspace refuge page. Asked how his visit w/ his son went, then asked how he was doing keeping off the sauce.
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 		I know, double post, sorry... first one was news, this one will be endless rambling and random thoughts on the DoubleK site. Sleep deprivation... it's what's for dinner. Shocked

October 27, 2007 entry
So, there was a pervert who tried to befriend the girls (and succeeded, at first), and that's why they ending up taking their myspaces down. But they obviously kept in touch with at least one of the people that they still trusted ("nice guys" all, I'm sure Razz). Although NovaHelix37 is a "new" friend.
So they go to Diego's school! And Iso and Katia used to email each other! But they don't know why the sibs don't go to the same school, so that's still a mystery.
Kelsi wrote:
I used to have a crush on Diego, but he's so emo now, I can't stand it.
Laughing
Wonder what Diego & co. were told when the Ks didn't come back to school after Midwinter break?
Kelsi wishes NovaHelix would send a pic soon, and that she & Katia would've saved more of their IMs with him. I wish those things, too. Confused


October 28, 2007 entry
Okay, so Katia's big secret is that she goes "all furry once every month." And Kelsi doesn't. Katia's gymnastics trainer's name is Evelyn.
This is weird... she says she hasn't seen NovaHelix on IM "for a long time", but the logs show she just talked to him on Oct. 26th, two days before. So do they IM like constantly, or did she have a memory lapse?

November 1, 2007 entry
Kelsi & Katia seem to be two different types. Katia goes all furry once a month. Kelsi, OTOH, causes some kind of mental/psychic havoc when she has strong emotions, actually causing humans to go insane. (This sounds an awful lot like what happened to Mikey, eh?)
Samhain (on Halloween?) is Awlyn Near Year?
Kelsi wants a "new awesome phone & plan with txt messaging" Laughing which, I admit, sent me straight to the search box on Twitter. Oh well.

November 8, 2007 entry
Katia says there were more IMs with NovaHelix after Oct. 31. Too bad she didn't post them!

December 15, 2007 entry
So SEAL's goal is human-awlyn equality, but still keeping humans in the dark about their existence. Um. What? Katia thinks there's no way in hell the DC will allow such a group, but Prof. DeGrance okays it.... why? Is it a trap? Lure out the troublemakers?
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And that equal rights between the species had not even been thoroughly established. Like the chaneque. They were not fully accepted as Awlyn because they're essentially human with a spiritual symbiont.

This is confusing. Are there different species of Awlyn? Anyway, sounds like Kelsi is a chaneque. BTW, is it chaneque or chanuque (like in the treehouse login)? Ooh, then that would mean Diego & Iso are the non-furry-but-can-make-you-crazy type? And WTH does she mean by "spiritual symbiont"? Confused

Is anybody else bothered by the big empty space near the top of each page? Is it just a template thing, or should something be there?
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 		email from Mikey
Mikey wrote:

Thank you for going and making that pickup for me. The weekend with my son was great and I feel like I'm still recovering from it. He's a whippersnapper that's for sure. I don't blame his mom for not letting me see him that often, I'm still trying to prove myself to her. She just has a hard time trusting me after I attacked her thinking she was cheating on me. Then I got fired for drinking on the job (at a strip club of all places). I let the alcohol get to me and it got to me hard. I regret every drop I ever took so no I don't ever get the urge to drink again. I've been depressed a bit since our divorce and I feel like such scum for what I did. I cannot say that I'm not an abusive man, because I did what I did. I can say that the monster that came out in me while I was drinking isn't the man that I strive to be every day. The ritual, it made me see who I was and opened my eyes to the possibility that I am a better man than I've been giving myself credit for. It allowed me to forgive myself.

As for the documents, there is some really disturbing information here. Some of these appear to be potential runaways while others may be child predation. I'm assuming they're all connected, and Amun said before that they were awlyn children. I'm going to try to send him a message and let him know that I'm going to start with the two girls with the myspace refuge thing. The novahelix37 guy is definitely a child predator. I'm going to do some research and see if I can find out any more information about him, hopefully the girls are still alive and unhurt.

Again you're a doll for doing this for me and remember to keep surfing safe,
Mikey Surry


Potential runaways? Which ones do you think he's talking about?

Still don't think Mikey's a bad guy.
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 		Re: email from Mikey
petunia wrote:

Potential runaways? Which ones do you think he's talking about?

Still don't think Mikey's a bad guy.


Maybe the ones that had no internet access at all and therefore catacting them is not so easy.
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 		I also thought it was strange that Samir was apparently taken from Morocco which means either there's more than one kidnapper or our kidnapper is able to travel to get these kids. Another strange thing, all the missing kids' first names begin with either S or K. Odd.
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 		Maybe the kidnapper is Stephen King!?

er...

Probably just a lot of common names that start with S and K

...

I was under the impression that we were talking about kidnappers. As in: US government funded scientists. If the Awlyn are worldwide, then the DC is too. Could one of the members of the DC be in league with the experimentation teams?
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TheIllustratedMan wrote:
I was under the impression that we were talking about kidnappers. As in: US government funded scientists. If the Awlyn are worldwide, then the DC is too. Could one of the members of the DC be in league with the experimentation teams?


Or someone in Amun's group could be in league with the govt:

Amun wrote:
i am perplexed by the recent disappearance of saarah wiley who vanished the day after we removed our agents assigned to
monitor her activities

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