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tokloid · Kilroy Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 1

[NEW] We found the Emerson CD from Indy [Nov 8]

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

I take it you are trip's friend and are talking about the same CD mentioned in this thread, correct? If so you should discuss this in the same thread..

EDIT: Other thread locked based on trip's request. Continue here.

trip · Veteran Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 128

I'm going to post this information to the thread started by my friend tokloid to give him a little credit. So mods can close my other thread and we'll stick with this one, ok Ehsan?

Firstly, my friend has scanned in the images of his CD. I can tell you that the word "Emerson" on the Indy CD looks like different handwriting than the word "Emerson" written on the Chicago CD. But the other writing (Please do not remove, scavenger hunt) look exactly the same as my CD, and as Ethan (and perhaps also Ryan's) handwriting. I will try to get my CD scanned today so you can compare.

Front of CD envelope: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/diskSide1.jpg

Back of CD envelope: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/diskside2.jpg

Secondly, my friend found leaves actually stuck into the book. As if someone was trying to dry press them. These leaves immediately bring to mind the leaf image at: http://thenekodas.com/ (as pointed out by BrianEnigma). But, I think they are a different KIND of leaf. Not sure what that means.

Leaves left in Indy book: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/bookleaves.jpg

thenekodas leaves: http://thenekodas.com/

My friend also scanned the pages that the leaves were placed in, in case they were important. I will link them here.

Leaf placement 1: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/leafmark1.jpg

Leaf placement 2: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/leafMark2.jpg

Leaf placement 3: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/leafmark3.jpg

Leaf placement 4: http://metacortex.netninja.com/ethan/indianapolis_extras/leafmark4.jpg

Thanks to BrianEnigma again for hosting my stuff!

trip

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:09 pm

BrianEnigma

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:13 pm

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trip · Veteran Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 128

I do find it interesting though that Ryan (who we think is the pre-memory-drained Ethan, right?) does something with leaves as does Ethan.

trip

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:29 pm

Lucent · Veteran Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 95

Isn't that a maple leaf? The same leaf on Canada's flag?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:34 pm

trip · Veteran Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 128

The E's look the same... but the P's may look different. Thoughts?

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:39 pm

Insomniac · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 234 Location: 01

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:52 pm

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Anyone else think it's significant that it was placed in the middle of chapters called The Will to Live:

"...6 was filled with the euphoria of having saved a life."

Sympathy and the Nervous System

contains picture very reminiscent of Second Rennaisance Part 2 where they were putting the nodes into their brain stem

The Act of Love

The male orgasm can occur without ejaculation and ejaculation can occur without orgasm, but generally they take place together (ok, that doesn't have much to do with anything)

and A Child is Born

...with the appearance of progressively more complex mental abilities (involving larger brains and birth at an even less ready stage), it took longer and longer for the newborn's thinking patterns to mature and for enough learning to occur that they might be assimilated into social systems that primates were building.

OK, so it's obvious they were placed in specific pages. Perhaps Labyrinth is just an AI program designed to trick the cortex into achieving orgasm without ejaculation? I volunteer to be a beta tester!

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 2:58 pm

yanka

The leaves look remarkably similar to me. Which confuses me SO much more (I've been trying to sort this plotline out) - how could Ryan Emerson, while still Ryan Emerson, have to do anything with the Nekodas' leaves BEFORE he is brainwashed or whatever into thinking himself being Ethan? I mean, nothing about Nekodas even existed at that point (at least not in his brain).

It could be that this person (Ethan/Ryan) is just into maple (or whatever they are) leaves, and that remains in Ethan's memory, so he uses the leaves on his home page... Confused

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:54 pm

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Insomniac · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 234 Location: 01

Whatever happened these leaves definitely seal the connection between Emerson and Ethan for me.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:56 pm

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Tobester · Veteran Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 136

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:29 pm

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bakntime

Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you guys are over-analyzing the writing on the notes/CDs way too much. It's obvious that there are several people working on this game in different parts of the country, and that explains any differences.

For the sake of the "game", I think it's pretty safe for us to "pretend" that all the CDs recovered so far are identical, including any handwriting.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 5:32 pm

aqualung1105 · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 55

**Posted:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 7:06 pm

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Re: [NEW] We found the Emerson CD from Indy [Nov 8]

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 12:01 am