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[meta] Bricker had better be IG or there is a very real possibility of copy right fraud going on here. I'd be careful of mentioning the manuscript to him, just in case a) it isn't really his novel b) there's more going on here than meets the eye so far. [/meta]
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 		...okay, Bricker's IG.

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classical wrote:
...okay, Bricker's IG.

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I'm pulling out parts of the story to see if there's any relation to real world events. I do see some shifting of locations/names so far between his novel-verse and the real world.

In the real world:

    There is no Irish Hill or Bodega Knuckle, However there is a Bodega Bay.

    American Indian Movement took over Alcatraz between 1969 and 1971. Alcatraz looks nothing like The Brightman he's describing.

    Bodega bay Coast Guard Station was still there as of 2005.

    Point Arena Air Force Station was a US Air Force early warning radar base in operation from December 1951 to the mid 1980s. It was originally located at Hill Peak Road (now Eureka Hill Road) at 40.333722, -124.10104. Its Air Force Callsign was "Madam". Point Arena is a city/place in Mendocino County.

    The Brightman is a bridge in SF - Brightman Street Bridge Replacement is what Yahoo Search turns up.


The Zodiac Killer was the most infamous person who ever entered San Francisco and the outlying areas. (I need to brush up on my Zodiac info again... There may be some correlation with JJD/Jack/Lenny.)

[Edit - since real murders have played a part in the beginning of this, is it possible that the Zodiac Killer is part of it, or am I reading too much into the placement of the "Zodiac" boat landing where it was placed in the story? Rolling Eyes ]
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 		On Brian Bricker's contact page, there's this: "usoracleproject.blogspot.com" Content all removed by executive order. Most of the urls seem to have started that way, although I'm looking around... I guess I'll edit this, since I'm helping.

Also, Bricker does seem to be associated with emergency medical stuff; the company for the tmp files (Word properties) is "Reach Mediplane" and the authour is "brian_bricker".

Guesses: He started working on the story while there. The TMP files were an accident. (I think this because there are several files; and the red 'put Queenie background here' is a little weird for something distributed intentionally)

Wild guess: The oracle could be Jenny (Port's Jenny); it would tie things together nicely.

Edits: (interesting seeming things)
The very first url is "http://usoracleproject.blogspot.com/2005/06/im-losing-control-of-project.html"
One of the urls is "http://usoracleproject.blogspot.com/2006/11/content-removed-by-executive-order_01.html"
One of the headings (when browsing the previous entries) is "CONTENT REMOVED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER /originalwarren..."
The blog belongs to "Bernard Starr" with the email "starr.bernard@yahoo.com"
"http://www.brianbricker.com/jessica.jpg" which is an image I can't see on his In Progress page.

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 		arlen rage

remember one of the solutions to the sfflyer anagram is

demolay is rage!

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 		Awesome catches--that blog seems to be the blog of Hatch's Dr. Bernie, who was the head of the Oracle project. At least, that's my guess.
I can't seem to find any cached versions of the blog, but someone finds something...

The Jessica image intrigues me. Not sure why, but maybe there will be answers later.

Also, I'm not getting anything out of that string of italicized letters. I've exhausted probably every cipher in existence. If someone else wants to try it, BE MY GUEST.
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 		G O U A O Y N W E F I E O E N S A D E

remains when BRIGHTMAN ORACLE is removed from

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 		found a role-playing wresting site when i googled

jessica "arlen rage"

IG?

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One of the headings (when browsing the previous entries) is "CONTENT REMOVED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER /originalwarren..."


The full title is "CONTENT REMOVED BY EXECUTIVE ORDER /originalwarren.html"

It seems the posts on the blog had their creation dates altered; the original post times all seem to end in 00.000 seconds. [from the rss feed]

Edit:
This is intriguing: (dimensions match the photothumb.db image) http://brianbricker.com/portal.jpg (I have the image in case it disappears)

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 		this is a weird-ass coincidence, or the game has taken a new turn, to put it mildly

Starr's blogger avatar is a cartoonish dude flexing his biceps - the image name is Mighty.jpg - i googled "mighty starr" wrestling - and found another wrestling role-play site - the character's name is Johnny Starr

sorry if this is just a coincidence on top of a coincidence

TTHSK - how are you finding those jpgs? i don't see the links
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 		Portal was me being slightly crazy and trying it for kicks; the Jessica one is placed off on the left of the In Progress page.

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 		found this in the source for http://www.brianbricker.com/contact.html

Code:
 !-- this site hacked by the watchers -->


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 		the content of the keywords tag in source code of http://www.brianbricker.com/about.html is quite different from the keywords on the other pages

Code:
name="keywords" content="bricker, brian bricker, san francisco, writer, writing, wine country, oklahoma, california"


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 		jessica.jpg brought up a potential jphide positive in stegdetect. too tired to sort through passwords.

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 		New Tarot at Port's blog
Trout me if I missed the update here in the thread, but Saturday, April 18 at 2:59pm, http://portking.blogspot.com/ was updated with The Priestess and Strength cards.
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