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[Trailhead?] Blackhand Corporation
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oogpm
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 		...(...everyone suddenly feels a strong, otherworldly urge to check their Spam folders if they feel they have been missing emails...woosh...then it is no more.)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:29 pm
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TheIllustratedMan
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 		I've been dismissed... guess I came on too strong...

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We regret to inform you there has been an error in processing, and we've lost the necessary paperwork required to utilize your services any longer in a manner that would be considered legally sufficient.

For this we are pained to announce that we can no longer list you as a volunteer at The Blackhand Corporation.


I suppose I could try arguing, but I'll probably just lurk.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:00 pm
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teh_lisa
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TheIllustratedMan wrote:
I've been dismissed... guess I came on too strong...

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We regret to inform you there has been an error in processing, and we've lost the necessary paperwork required to utilize your services any longer in a manner that would be considered legally sufficient.

For this we are pained to announce that we can no longer list you as a volunteer at The Blackhand Corporation.


I suppose I could try arguing, but I'll probably just lurk.

Think it is real or their rogue pm?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:15 pm
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TheIllustratedMan
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 		It came in about 10 minutes after "oogpm" posted here, so I would guess that it's real. Not totally sure what I did, other than left a message at that number saying that I had spoken with 5852 and that I wanted answers.... Don't think that's out of the norm really. Oh well, whacanyado?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:23 pm
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Nessa
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TheIllustratedMan wrote:
It came in about 10 minutes after "oogpm" posted here, so I would guess that it's real. Not totally sure what I did, other than left a message at that number saying that I had spoken with 5852 and that I wanted answers.... Don't think that's out of the norm really. Oh well, whacanyado?


If they've "lost the necessary paperwork"... maybe you can try submitting another application?

(Eh, I'm not familiar with ARG etiquette so this might be crappy advice. Could it be the PM thought that you were in with the rogue?)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:44 pm
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Ad_Arcana_Tutanda
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Nessa wrote:
TheIllustratedMan wrote:
It came in about 10 minutes after "oogpm" posted here, so I would guess that it's real. Not totally sure what I did, other than left a message at that number saying that I had spoken with 5852 and that I wanted answers.... Don't think that's out of the norm really. Oh well, whacanyado?


If they've "lost the necessary paperwork"... maybe you can try submitting another application?

(Eh, I'm not familiar with ARG etiquette so this might be crappy advice. Could it be the PM thought that you were in with the rogue?)


I'd definitely say that would be the best route to fixing whatever it is that happened :/

PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:32 pm
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Ad_Arcana_Tutanda
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 		I got a response from my emails.

The first was:


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Hello and welcome the The Blackhand Corporation volunteer program.

Your job, as a Blackhand Corporation outsource intern is to help us monitor any possible paranormal, metaphysical, extraterrestrial or mystic activity in your varying regions.

This may seem far fetched, but of the thousands of volunteers we at Blackhand utilize, hundreds of cases of 'otherwordly' events have been investigated, researched, and confirmed as legitimate. We have worked for decades with the top scientific, paranormal, and religious organizations around the world, including the AAPR, the AAAS, the Scientific Paranormal organization, and the Vatican. These case studies have been published around the globe and Blackhand Co. remains the leading publisher and provider of extraterrestrial and paranormal texts.

Attatched to this email, you'll find a quick introductory video. After viewing this video, we urge you to sign into your communal "log" to confirm that your Blackhand Passcode is valid.

You are encouraged to use this log to record any strange or mysterious events you witness on a daily basis, no matter how insignificant they might seem. However, fabricating events only serves to damage your Blackhand community's reputation and validity, and we strongly insist you refrain from doing so.

This log can be found at (your Blackhand Community number).co.cc This community number is also your login.

To make your volunteer experience easy to maintain no matter what level of technology you are familiar with, we at Blackhand have opted to use a popular blogging engine to serve as your community log. We hope you will find this easy to manage, although if you have any further questions, please contact us at this email address with the subject "Community log."


Each time you record an event or suspicious/mysterious activity, please sign your log with your name, last initial, and email address. If your information seems of interest, you will be contacted immediately by a Blackhand Corportation supervisor to discuss it in further depth.

We thank you greatly for your participation, and are proud to have you on our team.





Sincerley,

Alphaeus Crow
CEO, The Blackhand Corporation Head Division
Phone: (206) 279-3158


with an attached video. if it hasn't already been uploaded, I'll do that in a little while.

The second was as per my location in vicinity to the (206) number which is in Seattle.

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We've recieved your voicemail and are pleased to hear you are located near one of our main Blackhand Offices. It is our understanding that you are located in Tacoma.

Although not essential at the moment, we would love to have your permission to keep you on file as an in-person contact, so that we may utilize your services in the future, and possibly arrange deliveries or meetings.

We don't require your personal address, however, it would be most convenient if you could please reply and provide a schedule of avaliabilty, as well as areas you are willing/unwilling to travel in the Seattle area, so that we can arrange any future in-person contact to suit you best.


Thank you!


Which I thought was fairly cool. It definitely gives the feeling that there will be some live events/meetups which I'll be more than willing to be part of.

FYI, I'll be posting an entry on the LJ page. No shit, it's something that actually happened to me years ago. Something that I truly cannot explain, and to be completely honest, kind of repressed until I watched the video that was attached. Believe me or not, think I'm crazy or not, it's something that happened to me. :/

PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:39 pm
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Six
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 		OKay, watching this unfold is weird to me because thusfar there are two players who were denied/rejected, which is the opposite effect most PMs want. They must be rejecting people for various reasons that aren't solely to turn people away from the game. My suggestion: argue with 'em/.
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Ifsogirl81
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Six wrote:
OKay, watching this unfold is weird to me because thusfar there are two players who were denied/rejected, which is the opposite effect most PMs want. They must be rejecting people for various reasons that aren't solely to turn people away from the game. My suggestion: argue with 'em/.
i did didnt seem to work i'll give it another shot though

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tomtom224
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 		Have you guys been missing the capital letter messages? there have been quite a few thus far.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"THE TEST GROUPS MEAN NOTHING" was one. Another:
"PLEASE INFORM NEXT ACTION"


...Yeah.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:17 pm
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mgelles
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 		got in sort of but then had trouble when trying to post. The date was screwed up and now I'm being told my ip is temporararily locked due to incorect pasword
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:10 pm
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TheIllustratedMan
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tomtom224 wrote:
Have you guys been missing the capital letter messages? there have been quite a few thus far.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"THE TEST GROUPS MEAN NOTHING" was one. Another:
"PLEASE INFORM NEXT ACTION"


...Yeah.


Yeah, we got it. That second one is actually the one that I sent to 5852.

I think that I might go ahead and try to get back in... who knows why I was out... we'll see what happens I guess.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:27 pm
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qa0s
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 		Now I'm confused what's actually apart of the thing and what isn't. Sad

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snorkle256
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 		they sent me an email back about something I posted, but it doesn't seem important to the game...

PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:45 am
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Ad_Arcana_Tutanda
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 		I got a reply as per my entry on the LJ acct.

Unfortunately I have to go to work relatively soon so I won't have much time to dig into it until later.

Until then, here's what they said:

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Hello!

We are very interested in the experience you've documented. We apologize for encrypting the rest of this email, but would like to keep your experience private and protected.

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Thank you,
Danielle
Personal Blackhand Mentor


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