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waitress#2
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Weird what shows up as the preview for the video. :O
Maybe there is something hidden in it.


YouTube: Link


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Stroma
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I captured the static at points throughout the video in no particular order; some may be missing, as, due to my own laziness, I didn't bother to include any images that looked the same.
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elkapo
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This preview is a cosplay, right? This what DNC pointed as imposter... anddd... The evil that men do...it isnt mine... I do not know ...

GuestUser17, how did you find the video? A forocoches user (the biggest forum in Spanish), Guybrush, had given me a code in Python to automate the search for the video, unfortunately I was late to use it or share it.

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elkapo wrote:
GuestUser17, how did you find the video? A forocoches user (the biggest forum in Spanish), Guybrush, had given me a code in Python to automate the search for the video, unfortunately I was late to use it or share it.

I created an Excel spreadsheet of all the possible video ID's from the characters we were given. We were provided 3 of the character positions and then there were 2 u's and 2 r's which helped to reduce the total number of permutations. I then merged those into a long text file of YouTube URL strings and started going through them looking for a link that actually worked. I got lucky in that I only had to go about 10% of the way through before I found that one that worked. Even knowing what the ID is now I still can't see a pattern in that image that would lead you to it.

Did anyone see how the link could have been obtained other than guessing?

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OhWhatProvidence
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Trying to download the video so I can convert to a .gif and then use .gif explode to frame-by-frame in a way everyone can see. The only problem so far is that neither waitress nor I can download the video, probably because it's private. If anyone wants to steal this idea, please do! :[ We're a bit stuck until we can dowload this thing and upload it to something like gifnija, ect.
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OhWhatProvidence wrote:
Trying to download the video so I can convert to a .gif and then use .gif explode to frame-by-frame in a way everyone can see. The only problem so far is that neither waitress nor I can download the video, probably because it's private. If anyone wants to steal this idea, please do! :[ We're a bit stuck until we can dowload this thing and upload it to something like gifnija, ect.

Download it here and you can run it in VLC and go frame by frame - http://www16.zippyshare.com/v/85951057/file.html

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Well the static is clean as anything.

Nothing hidden in it, in fact it sounds like the stock static generator you can download from most places.

Spectrograph shows the wobbly lines you usually get from static

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punxtr
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_That_Men_Do

It isn't mine, is nowhere to be found in that line. Perhaps it is a twist to the line in some other book.

Edit--The private video was just made public. Is this customary? I don't remember.
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elkapo
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punxtr wrote:

Edit--The private video was just made public. Is this customary? I don't remember.

No, but the downturn in followers has noticed. They are not able to make things difficult. They must provide access to the ARG.

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punxtr wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evil_That_Men_Do

It isn't mine, is nowhere to be found in that line. Perhaps it is a twist to the line in some other book.


This one ... Well, I had seen the Iron Maiden song and the film of Mr. Bronson, but do not know how they can fit into the story ...

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jono
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Well the phrase originates from Julius Caesar and is said by Mark Antony the full quote is: "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones"

I would note that this is a funeral oration and said after Caesar is murdered and thus if it is not DNCs blood we can presume it is a victim in which case it may be DNC giving them a funeral.

If it is I wonder if the victim was Don or Melissa or even Emily as they are the ones to have done evil. It would make extra sense if it is Don. Remember how Don said he trained DNC to be DNC? Well if he is dead then the "evil that he did" (making DNC) has lived on after him.


The Iron Maiden angle is interesting. While Bruce Dickinson often quotes the line before the song of the same name the song has no link. However, the lyrics and the album it comes off do have some links.

The album was called "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" and was sort of a concept album (sort of, the plot isn't exactly fleshed out) and is based on the idea that the seventh son of a seventh son has mystical powers such as the ability to see into the future linking to the over arching theme of family ties that MDT has firmly had since the very start.

The song itself has some fitting lyrics:

"The slaughter of innocence/And I will pray for her/I will call her name out loud/I would bleed for her/If I could only see her now"

This could fit with Chris having to leave Lilith to protect her, and it could foreshadow the "face off" of the one videos title, Chris could have to sacrifice himself "bleed for her" to keep her safe from DNC and his ilk

"Living on a razors edge/Balancing on a ledge"

A rather fitting description of Chris' mental state right now

"The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me"

This is a random one, but how many victims has DNC had on video? Because we see him go from periods of killing women at random at a very fast rate to the current situation where he has not made a kill for a while (unless the blood counts as a kill) but thinking of this line and these random periods of activity makes me wonder if his group think they need so many kills for something to happen?


Another thing to bear in mind is that "The Evil that men do" is a very very famous book written by an FBI profiler and if the theory I have of there being more than one DNC is true, this video could be a transition to a new DNC and this one with a new profile.

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OhWhatProvidence
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YouTube: Link


WARNING to headphone users (like me)

And Jono cleaned up the clip around 1:45, it's really clear but also really low
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Also, that fucking scream is annoying. It sounds like a dog. It's freaking Elfen Lied all over again...


That is here:
http://www.filedropper.com/ofsoundmindyoutubeedit1

I say none of us post what we have until we're sure what we hear, to avoid the whole 'hearing it because someone said that that's what they hear' thing. But, that's just me.


EDIT: We have conformation from DNC that it's a phone number. Check the comments on YT. (I'm Sh0eOnaWall, natch)
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elkapo
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Well, things are accelerating.
Interesting the final twinkle in DNC symbol ...

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OhWhatProvidence
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This is what I can make out

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84946687

Which can be either
849-466-87??
or
??84-946-687

The California area codes are here, according to waitress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_codes_310_and_424

The only issue I have with the area codes so far is that they've been rather random for now. Jess's was 909, Chris' was 806.

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Stroma
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I got
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949 446 0540

Which would be a phone number in California, don't feel like trying to phone it while parents are home

Edit 1: Not a real phone number

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