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[Headman]

WOW! Excellent work xmux! Nice work to everyone, you people always amaze me. Here I was thinking it looked like DNA, lol.

[r.m]

I think the state abandoned the hospital but the city or county is still involved. The Otter Tail County Historical Society still conducts walking tours per the bottom of their website.

www.otchs.org/planYourTour.html

Some of the smaller buildings have been sold and there's a project in the works to turn the big Kirkbride building into a rehabilitation center for returning veterans according to this news story:

www.fergusfallsjournal.com/2011/01/19/vets-center-meeting-set/

There are lots of pictures by laurapalmer813 at this livejournal.com site:

http://pics.livejournal.com/laurapalmer813/gallery/0003ygew

It looks like a cross between the settings for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining. I wouldn't be surprised if Jack Nicholson showed up in one of the pics.

[Jane Smith]

[simplicityjones]

D-12 referrence

[kosmopol]

@Jane
Well, the choice of live event places is very important for such high scale projects as one by Spielberg and Abrams. And even if they choose some abandoned/weird places, they should be always save.

Like that unique place they used for live events in Star Trek ARG, as they led players to Tacheles in Berlin.

Well, not really abandone, but pretty unique:
http://merzmensch.blogspot.com/2009/04/star-trek-kunsthaus-tacheles.html
http://merzmensch.blogspot.com/2009/04/star-trek-erster-kontakt-naja-fast.html
(sorry for spaming you with my blog, hehe).

Anyway, as far as I can see, this hospital is "still party in use" (http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/fergusfalls/), so it is perhaps the right place for thrilling, but not really dangerous place.

Just think about all liability PMs have to assume, if they send people to haunted houses, lol.

[Xeno Lambrose]

Too much emphasis on needing to get to the hospital?

[r.m]

Maybe this alternative energy source is needed to fuel RP SSF1 rocket. So when it's found, the fleets will be able to take off. We're being used by the powers that be behind RP to help find it. Just an idea.

[kosmopol]

well, I see here parallels with "kaitei no mitsu" from Cloverfield ARG:

* an unknown source of energy
* used for many reasons and goals (perhaps as ingridiend of Rocket Poppeteers? like Kaitei no mitsu was ingredient of Slusho)
* can cause something like "out of control" like dancing grannies as beta tester for Slusho by Tagruato (see press-info by tagruato)
* can be very dangerous, see consequences of eating Kaitei no mitsu by Jamie:



versus



Short, perhaps here is involved an unknown but dangerous energy, and somebody want to get it (financial interests? megalomaniacal world domination plans? your turn)

[flibble666]

Re: Too much emphasis on needing to get to the hospital?

[Harry Seldon]

I will be near Fergus Falls next weekend, I will take a look. But we should try to figure out what the other numbers mean first.

[Jane Smith]

 The "other" map markers

[flibble666]

well i diddent see any one else post this http://ksax.com/article/stories/S1908467.shtml?cat=10230 seems the place has been purchased on the 5th of this month this is a bit of a coincident is it not maybe jj and co have borrowed it for a few weeks befor redevelopment starts

also apparently it was sold on Craiglist

August 30th, 2010
A Kirkbride on Craiglist
Just thought it was worth noting that the former Fergus Falls State Hospital campus is being offered for sale on Craigslist: $1 Historic Fergus Falls State Hospital. Alhough I have a hard time believing its fair market value (as the ad states), $1 is quite a bargain. It's too bad "a plan for development and proof of private development capital is also required."

[r.m]

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