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NovaChild
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I'll spoiler this too, for the people that want to go and check out the blog post for themselves. Here it is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

you hear
it's not what you think
none
of it

find her

the world doesn't always go from your right to your six. Sometimes it skips steps. Sometimes it goes widdershin

find her


EDIT: From Wikipedia: Widdershins (sometimes withershins, widershins or widderschynnes) means to take a course opposite the apparent motion of the sun (in the Northern hemisphere), going counterclock-wise, lefthandwise, or to circle an object, by always keeping it on the left.The Oxford English Dictionary's entry cites the earliest uses of the word from 1513, where it was found in the phrase widdersyns start my hair, i.e my hair stood on end. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widdershins

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Gadjilitron
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I find it interesting that the formatting doesn't fit with the rest of her blog posts. I think that Twitter may be the next thing to be messed with. Do you think it would be worth trying to get a backup method of communication with her? Like a secret email? Something secure to fall back on in case everything else gets interfered with.

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Telos954
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Gadjilitron wrote:
I find it interesting that the formatting doesn't fit with the rest of her blog posts. I think that Twitter may be the next thing to be messed with. Do you think it would be worth trying to get a backup method of communication with her? Like a secret email? Something secure to fall back on in case everything else gets interfered with.


That would be a good idea. I say each of us suggest it as individuals and not as a group - so it would appear as if each of us is coming to the same conclusion. I'm about to send her a new email, so I drop it in.

From what I can tell, she knows a few of us are talking to eachother, but I don't think she knows all parties involved are working together, so, if each of us tells her, she may take it as a higher priority, as more people are pushing the point.

just my take. If one person told me something, I may shrug it off, if a bunch of people did, I may consider it. Y'know what I mean?

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NovaChild
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Left, backwards, counter-clockwise. I'm recording the audio from the new video now, to play backwards. Something's in there, I know it.

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Gadjilitron
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NovaChild wrote:
Left, backwards, counter-clockwise. I'm recording the audio from the new video now, to play backwards. Something's in there, I know it.


I'm no good with audio, so i'll leave that to you. Lemme know if you find anything.

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since this is my first ARG, perhaps you can help me out here. If I contact her now and suggest that she find another way to communicate, won't that sound fishy? Should I leave this to the people who have already contacted her?

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NovaChild
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I dunno. There's definitely noises and stuff, but no actual words are being said that I can tell. I'm gonna keep working, but if anyone else can do this stuff too, please help me out, I suck at this.

EDIT: MzStock, she has a couple, her email, blog, YouTube and Twitter being the ones we've seen thus far. The only one that hasn't seemed to be tampered with is her Twitter account. A couple of us have been talking to her on there, too. If you have one, search for adulvizedonna, that's her name on there.

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Telos954
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"The world doesn't always go from your right to your six. Sometimes it skips steps. Sometimes it goes widdershin."

The 'go from your right to your six' made me think about when one of my military-obsessed friends plays Halo. He never says 'they're behind you'. He always says 'To your six'.

It could be nothing, but when I read it, I pictured someone standing on a clock face - looking forward to 12. Their right side would be on the 3, turning 180 degrees to the right would have them on the six. (or, 90 degrees to the right, from their right side.)

It may be nothing at all, but it's what came to mind.

I think the post time (00:56) may have something to do with things as well, as does the post category (which is "1" ). Again. It may be nothing at all, but it caught my eye.

After I finish my email, I'll post it up and take a crack at that audio. Also said I was going to watch the video on slow and see if I saw anything new - so I'll do that as well and report back.

At MzStock - I would leave the 'another way to communicate' part to people who are already in contact. But, you might be able to say you found her twitter or blog through a friend and use that as an in.
Also, this is the first time I'm actually participating fully in an ARG - and I'm learning as I go. Don't let it being your first time put you off or anything:D

Edit :::
Email here. Waiting on a response from her.
Subject : Some News wrote:

Good morning. Hope you got some sleep last night. Not good to run on empty.
Any way, to the news..
I'm suggesting that you make a backup email, soon. It seems as if your blog has now been messed with as well.
This email has already been compromised as well. I think you should continue with this one, so the people who are
looking in to all of this can continue to watch what it's doing, but, a backup would be a good idea, incase other things start happening.

Your blog put out a password protected post, with a poem in the title. After about 10 seconds on google - I got a title - The Shrike.
Using the password 'shrike' (after trying the full thing a few times, like a moron..), I got in. There's a message that appears to be formatted like a poem, along with a cryptic message at the end. The only words capitalized are 'Sometimes'. Hm. Strange.

Any way, I said I'd take a look at the video slowed down and stuff, so that's what I'm going to do. I'll keep you updated.


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Maybe I'll leave the contacting to you guys - I'm going to tackle the audio and video this morn.

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dawndilion
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@Telos - That's what I got from "right to six", as well. Clockwise, while widdershin would be counter clockwise.

I don't have the means to dissect the audio, but the growls that are heard sound a lot like a large cat -- lion, tiger, etc. What is the object she keeps fiddling with in the video? I know she says it's a nervous habit, but what it it?

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NovaChild
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Yeah, I was thinking that, too. From your right "to your left" would have made more sense, but since "to your six" is behind you, it's not a full 180 degrees, that would just be ninety.

Hopefully this handy diagram clears up any confusion:


Now that is SCIENCE.

EDIT: Oh shit, Dawn, you're right. that would not be widdershin, because that would be clockwise. Hm.
EDIT2: Nevermind, it said "the world doesn't always go from blah blah, it goes widdershin." So it does make some sense.

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MzStock
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Is she playing with a locket? A necklace of some sort?

EDIT: Have you noticed the glitch in the video at 3:30? She begins talking about the video and the word "camcorder" is repeated.

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MzStock wrote:
since this is my first ARG, perhaps you can help me out here. If I contact her now and suggest that she find another way to communicate, won't that sound fishy? Should I leave this to the people who have already contacted her?


Get to know her first a bit! ^^

NovaChild wrote:
Don't worry, Emile, she knows you're a dude now, haha.
Not much else to report from this email, but I'm gonna let her know about the video (that it wasn't just pixelation and that the entire thing went to static).


Well, super!
Let us just keep it with Kobrosti;-)



dawndilion wrote:
@Telos - That's what I got from "right to six", as well. Clockwise, while widdershin would be counter clockwise.

I don't have the means to dissect the audio, but the growls that are heard sound a lot like a large cat -- lion, tiger, etc. What is the object she keeps fiddling with in the video? I know she says it's a nervous habit, but what it it?


Maybe a groundhog?

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I send her another e-mail, just asking some random stuff and why her blog was protect with a password and the fonts and stuff..

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Telos954
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NovaChild wrote:
Yeah, I was thinking that, too. From your right "to your left" would have made more sense, but since "to your six" is behind you, it's not a full 180 degrees, that would just be ninety.

Hopefully this handy diagram clears up any confusion:


Now that is SCIENCE.

EDIT: Oh shit, Dawn, you're right. that would not be widdershin, because that would be clockwise. Hm.
EDIT2: Nevermind, it said "the world doesn't always go from blah blah, it goes widdershin." So it does make some sense.


'Sometimes it skips steps. Sometimes it goes withershin'
I think that has got to be very important some time soon. With the only words in that entire post being capitalized in those two sentences, and capitalization being a major part of the puzzle already...

Not just to find what skips steps, and what goes withershin.

My mind says it's the video and audio:
Skipping steps - skipping frames.
Goes withershin - playing it backwards.

I know we're already working on that all, but i think that's what it was hinting at.

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NovaChild
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dawndilion wrote:
I don't have the means to dissect the audio, but the growls that are heard sound a lot like a large cat -- lion, tiger, etc. What is the object she keeps fiddling with in the video? I know she says it's a nervous habit, but what it it?


This is what I was trying to play backwards to see if it was something we'd be able to understand. Problem was, it wasn't. I still think someone else should give it a try though, because I'm bad at it.

Also, the video DID skip, it skipped during the word "camcorder" at the end, as MzStock pointed out.

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