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elkapo
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I understand that this is the phone of Jessica, the girl of "backpage" on "black friday" and all the videos with her ​​sister Kath, and that. Why Chris has that phone is something that escapes me, the game has been very frozen and do not remember everything perfectly, but if Chris was abandoned in the house of his uncle Don after burying Katleen, could have taken it.
Perhaps we should tweet him and ask how he got the phone.

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It. When he came to and looked around, it was apparently just sitting there. I guess it was a plant so that Chris could be tracked down.
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On IRC OhWhatProvidence asked if we rewatched the DNC videos would we find more Alice refrences or was it a sudden turn in the plot.

This got me thinking...Warning, this is going to involve a lot of fringe logic.

Pain is part of order= The only real pain in Alice is a wasp from a chapter entitled "The Wasp in a wig" it is thought to be part of Looking Glass but it was lost and later readded (but some think it was left out for a reason)

Winner, Winner= Looking glass is about winning a chess game

Last warning= Both the Caterpiller and the Red Queen give warnings. Interestingly the Caterpiller's warning is often thought to be a joke about Algera (which Carrol loved) so loose link to some of the early puzzles

I do not cry wolf= of course a refrence to the tale of Peter and the Wolf, but also now a common phrase. The mini-symphony of Peter and the Wolf is often performed as a duo with David Del Tredici's "Final Alice" based on Alice in Wonderland

The Sisters= TweedleDumb and TweedleDee, but that is very unlikley.

that saved a wentch like me= refrence to Amazing Grace

A day at the races= Chapter 3 of Alice is "A Caucus-Race And a Long Tale"

Quote:
"What I was going to say," said the Dodo in an offended tone, "was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race."

"What is a Caucus-race?" said Alice; not that she much wanted to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that somebody ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.

"Why," said the Dodo, "the best way to explain it is to do it." (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.)

First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle ("the exact shape doesn't matter," it said), and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there.

There was no "One, two, three, and away!" but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out "The race is over!" and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, "But who has won?"

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

At last the Dodo said, "Everybody has won, and all must have prizes."

"But who is to give the prizes?" quite a chorus of voices asked.

"Why, she, of course," said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out, in a confused way, "Prizes! Prizes!"

Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a-piece, all round.

"But she must have a prize herself, you know," said the Mouse.

"Of course," the Dodo replied very gravely. "What else have you got in your pocket?" it went on, turning to Alice.

"Only a thimble," said Alice sadly.

"Hand it over here," said the Dodo.

Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying:

"We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble"; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered.

Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could.


This is pretty interesting considering the video it links to, it was back when we were trying to save the girl. Our "race" is very like the Cacus-Race.
We didn't know when to start or what to do, it ended at random and based on DNCs tweet about it and use of the Devil card had no real winner or loser with both us and DNC getting a "prize" out of it.

cleanliness is next to= refrence to the saying "cleanliness is next to godlyness" I know this was in common use at the time Carrol was writing. While never mentioned in the book, Carrol put in a lot of parodies of educational poems and phrases (as the children he read the tales to would find this funny as they were expected to memorise such things) so the use of chaos within the book could be mocking this phrase. Chances are (the real) Alice would have heard this a lot as the picnics she went on with Carrol often featured some of Carrol's friends who were memebers of the clergy (some of the wonderland characters are based on them)

no more, no less= sort of used in Looking Glass

Quote:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."


Nevermore=From Poe, Carrol knew of him

Just a quick note on the "teach me more.." text, it could be an Alice refrence. After the first book was published Carrol wrote a second version called "The nursery Alice" as people had requested a version more suited for younger children (0-5 was seen as "nursery" age). In this version the darker elements are cut out and Cheshire becomes more helpful. During the book he teaches Alice some things (mostly manners and other things young children should know) and Alice does often ask to be taught more. No idea why they would use that in a text, but it is an interesting idea.


Update/Edit= DNC now has a twitter bio!

"are u alone in the world¿ ·"

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Going a little off-topic...

Kay, so I'll be bringing back DNC for A-kon 2012, and my boyfriend is going to be Gerald/Don/Baghead (the mask with the grommets and eyeholes from the Safety Deposti box video, I'm not sure 'xactly whose mask it was...)

We might, maybe possibly, have a victim who will either just be a nameless victim or Kathleen.

BUT! Any MDT fans who live in Texas, listen up! You don't need a badge to wander around the con, so if you wanna come say hi please do! And, if anyone wants to drop me a PM and has some plainclothes to wear/no costume, we were thinking about a Melissa (we have a Fool's Mask for you) or a Kathleen if we can't find one, or hell, an Uncle Don if you've got a suit, but we don't have the red/bubblegum mask, sorry. (don't worry, we won't actually bury anyone, I swear XD) Or, really Det. Adams and Chris need some love too!

SO! Any fans of MyDad'sTapes in the area who have about an hour to spare anytime during the con, just get a hold of me and we can plan this thing out. I was thinking seeing if there's a construction area around the con for the burial and if not, then the parking garage for a kidnapping scene of some sort. :} I'll be DNC, so naturally I'll have a video camera with me- who knows, I might even send the video/photographs/whatever to the real DNC and see what he thinks. He is still doing the 'belikeme' thing, after all.

After the shoot we can all get together and talk theories and freak outs about the story or something. I'd love to meet some other MDT fans or ARG fans in general!
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You guys I got a call from Jess' phone.
The one Chris has.
That he turned off.
After gfinding a creepy ass-text message.
The call was just silence, maybe a bit of... Something in the background, my house is nosy right now but I'm 99% sure it was nothing. Just silence.
So I called back, got a pick up and silence again with hints of static
And another callback.
And now we wait and I have my video caera, fuck yes.

Wtf is going on you guuuuuuuuys. Is Chris okay? ;n;
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Good to know, however the current pace of events has given me more than once, the impression that it was over. The unsuccessful bid for funding through this web of projects may be behind this, you can not carry out a job like this without money. I guess now they try to keep the project alive, but it is complicated. Not much to talk about or who do so. I hope this can be traced, and give us back something we think and discuss for hours.

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Yea, but you should never underestimate how dedicated PMs are to their projects. Wink We can find ways to make it to the endgame regardless of what happens, hell or highwater.it's just taking longer to update cos of the money stuff, they said as much earlier on during the kickstarter.

Anyway! Goin' to the library today to uploda all... 30 minutes worth of creepy-ass noises and stuff. The last two calls were voicemails from Chris' phone... So DNC has his phone too, which worries me more. ;n; expect vids around 12ish, that's when library opens.
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Sorry guys, lots of crazy shit going on in my life.... So much insanity... ><
ANYWAY!
Videos will go here when they uplodad.... which they are right now. It'll take an hour or so. :/ There's a lot of 'em, some of 'em about 10 minutes long or more. :< This is just a heads-up that I AM uploading them, I didn't forget.

EDIT:
Playlist be Here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shlTmM-ckIQ&feature=BFa&list=PL24ADC9D85548A388

Just finished uploading the 20-minute one. ;n;
One of the calls I had, the ver last one and thel ast few minutes of the 20-min one, are missing because my memory card ran out of room and then my camera died. Sad The last call was just all of the voicemails I had ever left for DNC with the voicemail from Kathleen at the end:
"Look, LI'm sorry for acting that way, for shutting down, if you wanna talk about this maturely then we can, but I just can't (distorted). Call me. I love ou, call me."
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Thank you! I just caught up with these posts a few weeks ago, and don't want MDT to end yet!

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OhWhatProvidence wrote:
Sorry guys, lots of crazy shit going on in my life.... So much insanity... ><
ANYWAY!
Videos will go here when they uplodad.... which they are right now. It'll take an hour or so. :/ There's a lot of 'em, some of 'em about 10 minutes long or more. :< This is just a heads-up that I AM uploading them, I didn't forget.


Don't forget to post the links in here. Wink
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The last video just finished uploading, links and other info have ben added to my ealrier post. Smile Perfect timing, beastriker! ;p
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Seriously creepy phone messages...I wouldn't be able to sleep

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New long video of Dads Tapes...

#64, Self Medicate



YouTube: Link


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Chris has a dog. Very Happy Nice he has some company.
Transcript is attached.
I would transcribe the phone calls that OWP received but I can't understand them.
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Wow, LONG video. Even though the police don't seem to be helping much, I'm glad he isn't burning any bridges. Adams could definitely be useful down the line.

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