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[Trailhead] Obrad Make Happy (The Twisperers)
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diszaster
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[Trailhead] Obrad Make Happy (The Twisperers)
creepy or funny? i can't tell....

Yesterday, I wrote in the Could This Be a Trailhead thread:

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It's pretty rare I get a trailhead, so I don't know what the criteria really are, but I just got followed by Obrad_K, CEO of SecServe. Can't tell if by "secretaries" he means something else. Something gross.

http://twitter.com/Obrad_K

http://www.secserve.org

Tweets lead to http://obrad.posterous.com/

His friends are also creepy, but they all seem to have the same grey and red icons:

http://twitter.com/JeremiahWebb
Dealer in, and acquirer of, specialized materials, particularly arcane matter. Discretion assured for the highest bidder.

http://twitter.com/Herod_The_Great
Collector of material relating to demonology and the arcane.No myth too obscure. Particularly interested in talking with Iraq War veterans, 2003 and earlier.

edit: Oh, they've been mistaken for human traffickers before....
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SecServe is a business and secretarial services company ONLY. It has been pointed out to us that our name, if spoken aloud, might be open to some misinterpretation, but we will not be changing the company name on which our reputation has been built. Anyone calling SecServe and making inappropriate or obscene suggestions, or seeking massage, conversation of an arousing nature, or any other form of sexual service will be reported to the law enforcement authorities.


In the last day, there's been more stuff on the posterous site. Obrad posted his emails to his lawyer there. It seems like one of Obrad's clients, the Guttlieb Foundation, a mysterious purveyor of antiques, is annoyed at Obrad for investigating them. Apparently, Obrad accidentally opened some of their mail.

edit +1: there a gazillion characters on twitter, all with the same general color scheme for their icons:

http://twitter.com/JimmyJewel
http://jimmyjewel.blogspot.com/
Bar owner and proud collector of worthless real estate, so just like everyone else, then, except I own a bar.

http://twitter.com/Earle_of_Maine
Bartender trying to make up for all those years he spent beating up on people who read books. Will swap notes, but not homework!

http://twitter.com/Dam13nP
Iraq war veteran seeking to leave old ghosts behind in the desert, where they belong. Keep it light, folks, and I'll try to do the same

http://twitter.com/joeltob
Missing

http://twitter.com/bobbyJans
Disabled veteran and counter-recruiter. Want the truth about why the military is seeking to recruit your sons and daughters? Try here.

http://twitter.com/ange1_666
Missing

http://twitter.com/louis_or_die
Male seeking to explore new and interesting ways to access things that people would rather remain locked, including warehouses, homes, safes, strongboxes…
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degravedi
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Some more apparently related twitter accounts:

http://twitter.com/charles_parker1

There's also a Twitter list here: http://twitter.com/brrdatplay/sailmaker

I definitely vote for it being a game as none of the media predates April 14th. Well, that and of course threats to the character from mysterious corporations that buy all manner of strange antiquities. Very Happy (And the page here lists their number under a 555).

Edit: to keep most of the twitter links towards the top.

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degravedi
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Well, I've interacted with a few of the accounts and they're certainly responsive. I'm not hugely great with getting the "right" information out of live game characters.

I've suggested that Obrad try contacting a private detective about the threats as the Charlie Parker character is one. Other than that I really don't have any clue as how to move the plot forward, so some more people on this thing would be great. Very Happy

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RAD24
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Well, Herod the Great wants to talk to Iraq War veterans, so maybe someone should tell him to talk to Dam13nP.

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Tenchizard
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I've been followed by Jimmy Jewel and Jeremiah Webber too, so this must be a game after all. I was quite convinced after doing a search for Jimmy Jewel and finding a wikipedia page about a deceased actor... There are also some pages in facebook and myspace about Jeremiah Webber, but they don't seem to be part of the game.

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Deanodon
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I got followed by all of these too, and dismissed it because I currently have a team putting together a game and I thought they were accounts that I hadn't been briefed on yet.

But it seems to be a whole thing.

Also, Obrad is local to me, which is kind of weird.
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to those that have been in since the first can us newcomers get a brief summary of whats been going on? also are there any more accounts that are active in this and what about the mention of @antiquitydealer by jeremiahwebb? anything to that specific post?

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LargeWu
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It seems that the antiquties dealer JeremiahWebb had come into possession of a Grimoire, which is a magical spell book. Apparently he had some trouble getting rid of it, but was able to sell it either last Thursday or Friday. The sale of this object apparently somehow allowed him to remove some obligation he had to Guttlieb, perhaps a financial debt he owed them?

I've created a Twitter account of my own, Large_Wu, in order to ask Mr Webb more about this Grimoire transaction.

Update: JeremiahWebb seems to repeatedly imply that the Grimoire cover is supposed to be made of calf skin, but might possibly be made of human skin. Creepy. And he can possibly acquire another one?

http://twitter.com/JeremiahWebb

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I think I'm in. Probs going to talk to Mr. Webb on Twitter about getting a book.

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PC Tex Ripley
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Hope you had that talk with Mr. Webb about the book, for it may be to late now.. ^^


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PC Tex Ripley wrote:
Hope you had that talk with Mr. Webb about the book, for it may be to late now.. ^^


Tex...


Yeah, I sent it when I got done with work today, but it seems I did send the question far to late.

It seems the dude has become an hero.
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Jacks
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Facebook

Searching through fb, I have found accts for Joel Tobias, Karen Emory (Joel's gf), Damien Patchett, Bobby Jandreau, and Ricarco Sanchez. They are easy to spot since they use the same icons for Twitter.

Edit: New post on Jimmy Jewel's blog with a nice pic of Jeremiah Webb

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The tinyurl.com/gutelieb address on the business card points back to the Secserve website.


Edit 2: Just got a tweet from Herod (I am now following him):

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If you are truly such a great sleuth... maybe you'd like to do some work for me.


So I told him that he had my interest.
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OOookay.... a few things have been going on that bear summarizing:

-- Dam13nP keeps hearing voices
-- bobbyJans was supposed to meet joeltob, but joeltob is an insensitive jerk.
-- JeremiahWebb was supposed to go to dinner with his daughter but now he's dead, and there's a picture of it on JimmyJewel's blog.
-- Herod_the_Great is talking now.
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Jacks
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Herod's Recruiting

Got a tweet from Herod_The_Great after I told him that I would be willing to help him out:

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Good. I'd like you to start looking for something.. If you know of anyone else like yourself who can help... that would useful...


Told him that I would try to get some help, so if anyone wants in, just follow him and let him know.

Edit: From the looks of Earle_Of_Maine's tweets, Jeremiah Webb's daughter, Suzanne, got away.
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katya2032
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Re: Herod's Recruiting

Jacks wrote:
Edit: From the looks of Earle_Of_Maine's tweets, Jeremiah Webb's daughter, Suzanne, got away.


I think he's still ticked that Joel beat him up.

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