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AUZ505
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 		Some "corrections"/speculations:
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Assuming that there is some small PM error:
4° means really 4°
32h should mean 32 min
46 min should mean 46 sec
22 sec should mean 0,22 sec or 0,366 sec (does not make much difference)

This would lead to a place on the island:
N 54°13'24.30'' W 4°32'46.22''
http://tinyurl.com/kndy46

Not sure what the 383m are in this case


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The Grim Axel
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 		Holy Crap. having never played before, (and anxiously awaiting the beginning of Rachel's Walk) I'll be lurking this thread just to get an idea of how this whole thing works. I might put in my thoughts or suggestions every now and then... but good luck guys.

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 		Nice job AUZ! So, the Isle of Man again... well, all I can say is hopefully Abie or Tylean don't go there/get captured again Laughing .

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Abraxas
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 		Thanks AUZ for course-correcting, literally! Smile

And yeah, looks like Abie goofed with the hours, that's not part of any notation, I think.

I still believe the 383m is the height aka distance from...yeah, what? Sea level? The height at the point given by those coords is 402m on my count. Only if you zoom out a little on GE you might get something at 3xx. Possible. Or maybe whatever-it-may-be is underground?

I just sent a corrective email to Eve, telling her to forget about Mali for now. Laughing
Instead, I asked her where Evandale North is located at the Isle of Man and if these coords are somewhere close.
Also asked her if she trusts Rhea Soutaine enough to bring her in and if there is a chance she has seen herself and not freaked out about it. Because I really wonder about that the most of all.


For the new players:
O.P. Smith is living in Hobart, Tasmania. The mountain you see on the videos is Mount Wellington. This was an important place in the pre-game. The Scattering happened there and the energy released was focused on this place. You can find some shots on the net that show a similar view to what you can see in the video. The tower stands out.
The date doesn't check out, but OP might have witnessed the Scattering live in a different version of our dimension...stuff like that. Or some kind of ripple.

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 		This just in:

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Eve: Sorry not to have written to you before. We had to abort the escape attempt.
This place is crawling with police! I don't know why yet. I only know that the hospital's Deputy CEO said that I should be ready to update the website with an announcement shortly.
I think someone has died, but I don't know who or how.

Needless to say, our plans have to be put on hold for a short time at least.


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 		Good run with the picture, I messed up that the hour hand is pointing to the 54 and thus the 54 comes first. I've not played the original game so I have catching up to do.
As for the script at the bottom, if part of it translates to "Where is (the) stone?" we now know where to look.

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 		Disturbing news from the hospital's main page:

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The Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hospital regrets to inform the public of the passing of the Hospital's Chief Executive Officer, Professor Rhea Soutaine. Her passing was sudden and unexpected. We are unable to give further details as requested by the Office of the Coroner of Evandale North. Associate Professor Keir de Hill has been appointed Interim CEO and will take over the running of the Hospital until the Board of Directors and the Evandale Health Minister appoint a replacement.
Professor Soutaine served the Hospital and the community for 35 years and she will be sorely missed. Funeral arrangements have not been made at this stage, but a memorial service will be conducted for any who wish to attend at the Hospital Chapel on Friday at 11:00am.
Rest In Peace Professor Soutaine.


Naturally, I fired off an e-mail to Eve.

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Me: Rhea is dead? How did she die? And do we know which Rhea it was?


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Eve: Your last question is a scary one. I'm pretty sure it was the Professor who was killed, but I guess I can't be certain.
Please tell the others to be assured that I will try to see which one it was. It would be helpful if there were any distinguishing features of OP Smith's Rhea, but I don't want to ask OP because I'm worried he might get anxious. Anyway, snooping around for me will be a little difficult for the next while. The interim CEO is a nightmare. He is a scary man. Just came to the hospital last year and started moving up the ranks very quickly. A little too quickly if you ask me. People who were pretty settled, just moved to a different hospital or died in accidents or just didn't turn up to work one day.

Anyway, now, the Professor was murdered, but that's not official. Eve and I (that will never stop sounding strange) were at the hospital when it happened. The Professor was working late (as always), and we heard the sirens. We were worried, so we went back to my office to hide Eve. Then I went to ask the Professor what was going on, I saw her lying on the floor of her office...it was horrible. The security guards were there. Her body was as they found it, blood everywhere around her body. Her lab coat was laid flat on the floor next to her body and her severed head was propped up somehow on top of the lab coat, in the middle of a strange-looking symbol drawn in what looked like blood. I don't think I will ever forget that.

Needless to say, I'm spooked because of the video OP got. I mean what are the chances, on the night that we were about to let them free, there was a murder as threatened if we did not stop "snooping". They must know about us somehow. Are you sure about your friends? Could someone have tipped them off?

By the way, you're probably wondering why I didn't tell you all this before. All I can offer by way of explanation is that I was in shock. It took me a while to get my senses together, so I asked the other Eve to cover for me at the office while I recovered. I didn't give her any explanation so, my last e-mail was actually from her (I gave her access to basic things like e-mail and website in case the boss wanted something done straight away and what can I say, she already knew the password!). She covered very well for me.


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Abraxas
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 		Responses to my 2nd email about the clompass:

me wrote:
We looked at it again and found the correct location. It seems Abie also made a mistake, the medication might have affected her. Pretty sure it's correct this time, because it's the Isle of Man. Maybe you can tell us, how far this would be from Evandale North and whereabouts your town would be on our maps.
Here is the location: http://tinyurl.com/kndy46
We think the last number of the drawing is 383m and it's the height of whatever it is that can be found there.

Sorry for the confusion!

Something else I am curious about...is Miss Soutaine familiar with all her patients? I wonder how she would take it if she met the other Rhea. O.P. Smith has contacted you by now and you know that the other Rhea is his wife and that the children are with her. I have to think that Miss Soutaine didn't see them, yet. Or else, I can't explain how she could stay calm at the sight of her...self. Yeah, still pretty weird to talk about this. Anyway, is there a chance that she doesn't know, yet? And would you trust to show her? We must assume the hospital is under TEDO's control, since they brought the family there. We don't know if Rhea Soutaine is working with them or has no idea what is happening to the patients after her treatment. Personally, I feel like she has no clue. But it's not a call I would dare to make.

Brax


Eve wrote:

Hmm...interesting. The coordinates that you gave me...well I put them in on Google Earth. I was shocked when I saw where it is. Unfortunately my internet seems to be connected with your reality, so it showed an empty field, but in my reality that empty field is none other than Evandale North Outer-Urban General Hosptial, exactly in the central business district of Evandale North. (I guess you're probably wondering why it is called outer-urban if it is in the middle of the CBD. Well the original hospital was built on the out-skirts of the young Evandale North). As for the elevation that you gave me 383m, is that 383m above ground or 383m above sea level?

Oh, gotta go, I can see the public relations people comming over to talk to me. I think it is about the announcement of who was killed.


The big news, the coordinates on the clompass lead right to the hospital. Further, the original hospital was outside of town and perhaps it's important how it was destroyed. As for the 383m, I would say sea level, but how can I be sure. Any ideas?

The public announcement sounds innocent enough. But it was a ritual killing, we can suspect TEDO, I guess. The replacement CEO sounds like a puppet they put in place.
The paranoid in me wonders why someone dies as soon as the other Eve is brought in. But I think that's not connected. She is "our" Eve.

Roses, you probably were planning it, but you should ask her about the symbol. Wink

I wonder why Eve isn't sure which Rhea was killed. Does she think that Soutaine is now in the patients ward and the other Rhea had to play CEO? Soutaine killed Rhea and took her place? If an upcoming storyline has Rhea rescued and her children behave like she isn't her mother... *gulp*

And I'm confused now...did "our" Eve cross over to other-dimension Eve? Because GE does not show the hospital. I guess you could say that GE is not updated, yet. Razz

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 		"OUT IN A HEARSE"
It looks like TEDO kept to their promise.

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 		This is getting to be a great one, I'm glad I jumped down this rabbit hole, Smile

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 		Hey, been lurking on this one and it sounds exciting! Never played the original Rabbit Black but hope I can do something to help, if not just lurk and get immersed in the story.

Don't know if anyone has been looking at TEDO's blog but there's some scary stuff on there!

http://thetedo.blogspot.com/

Wonder what they meant by 'The Betrayer's Are Dead!'?

Anyway, going to try and think of some ideas to help out our two hospital bound friends, maybe OP can do something for us. Is he able to reach the Hospital somehow?

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jaeger138 wrote:
Hey, been lurking on this one and it sounds exciting! Never played the original Rabbit Black but hope I can do something to help, if not just lurk and get immersed in the story.

Don't know if anyone has been looking at TEDO's blog but there's some scary stuff on there!

http://thetedo.blogspot.com/

Wonder what they meant by 'The Betrayer's Are Dead!'?

Anyway, going to try and think of some ideas to help out our two hospital bound friends, maybe OP can do something for us. Is he able to reach the Hospital somehow?


Welcome!

Everything on TEDO's blog, except for the latest entry, is from Rabbit Black. "The Betrayers" were Abie and Tylean, IIRC.

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bluesylvia wrote:
"OUT IN A HEARSE"
It looks like TEDO kept to their promise.


Remind me where that code came from? Just curious.
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 		Morse code from the latest video OP Smith posted.

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 		Thanks for the heads up about the TEDO blog! Having not played RB I wasn't aware how recent it was.

It may be tough now that Rhea's dead, getting info on them could be hard. But has anyone tried contacting Mr. de Hill about all this? He sounds fishy but maybe we could get some info out of him, anything to help, you know?

And considering the Eve's have met, maybe there's another OP who can help in some way. But it might be hard locating the second.

What's the progress on Eve helping out? I'm going to send her a message and see what's going on to try and come up with some ideas to help out our locked up friends and OP's family. Maybe she can contact them too, OP's family may know something or other.

Also, does OP still have his stone? Aren't we worried about him becoming corrupt? I think we need to be careful about that and the information we give him, especially if TEDO have tracked him so easily. Keep him in the loop but don't reveal too much maybe?

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