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OhWhatProvidence
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Text from Tracy's phone (meaing DNC):

DNC wrote:
i would cut off your hands but then the handcuffs i have for u would be worthless

OWP wrote:
oh? what would the handcuffs be for?

DNC wrote:
they keep your defensive wounds to a minimum.


DNC wrote:
interesting present left for Chris, was it not?

OWP wrote:
Yes... it certianly was.

DNC wrote:
mean anything to u, or did it just fall... flat?

DNC wrote:
how is a matchbox like a rug?

OWP wrote:
Both burn if you strike them hard enough.

DNC wrote:
clever girl

OWP wrote:
So now you're a hunter instead of a savior?

DNC wrote:
i would have accepted that they both tie things together

OWP wrote:
Ah, but bones are so hard to char...

DNC wrote:
I think the raptor and I both like to see people's insides on their outsides.

DNC wrote:
think symbolically not literally

DNC wrote:
the matchbook is important. i have been saving it for the right time. do not let it be forgotten.


We tried the Secrets store, and it came back with nothing, it's a legitimate store. The matchbox gives "245 3008" as the number. maybe we should try diffirent area codes?

How is a matchbox like a rug...they both tie things together."
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:39 pm
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M3thod
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Just coming out of lurk mode to say hello to all. Seems like the following for this game is ah, how shall we say, intimate. I'm not sure I caught all the decodes and extra content, but I'm excited to see where this game goes.
Either way, you guys are clearly code-solving pros. It'll be a pleasure playing with you...or more likely piggy-backing off of your cleverness. ^_^;

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OhWhatProvidence
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Okay, so Chris texted a lot, a lot of it stuff I can't get to because my phone is broken and won't let me scroll up...
BUT. Important highlights:
Chris is gonna talk to Adams about getting himself a gun to protect him/Lilith.
Chris bugged me more about the matchbox so I had him put it under the blacklight like he did with the lockbox, and this showed up:
http://i.imgur.com/2PmYVbr.png
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Cleanliness.
Which led us here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zkGq69i6_o
Which was posted Jan 10th, 2012.
A year to the day when Chris found it when he's supposed to meet Em and found the matchbox.
No idea what it means so far. The victim of the day on the 10th was "Cassandra", if that helps at all... :s


We're still figuring everything out.

EDIt:
DNC stuff:

http://mibpaste.com/WwVQKD

So, yep. More Cassandra, sacraices, and we need to dig DEEPER DEEPER DEEPER DEEPER.
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Quote:
Okay, so Chris texted a lot, a lot of it stuff I can't get to because my phone is broken and won't let me scroll up...
BUT. Important highlights:
Chris is gonna talk to Adams about getting himself a gun to protect him/Lilith.
Chris bugged me more about the matchbox so I had him put it under the blacklight like he did with the lockbox, and this showed up:
http://i.imgur.com/2PmYVbr.png


Well we know DNC found the matchbox...so why does he sit around in gutters and add backlit things to them...

So rabbit holes and Cassandra allow me to put on my theory and symbolism hat for a while.

The most popular version of Cassandra is "A daughter of Priam, who was given the gift of prophecy by Apollo. He caused her prophecies, though true, to be disbelieved." So what prophecy could Cassandra be part of, DNC has announced his own death and Chris's downfall but neither have come to fruition.

After the fall of Troy she was taken by the Greek warrior Agamemnon but murdered by his jealous wife Clytemnestra. So maybe DNC is someones wife? I mean maybe all of this is just overly aggressive flirting on his part?

Now this Cassandra has become a bit of a Trope and is such used by Psychologists. Mostly contrasting her with Apollo and how this could be a massive symbol for male/female relations. Melanie Klein is quite famous for suggesting Cassandra is the human conscience that issues warnings but must always feud with the super-ego (Apollo) which makes a lot of sense in our context as DNC would have to kill his conscience and submit to his more aggressive self-focused Super-Ego (If we insist on using such outdated models of the mind)

In a slightly side point, my personal favorite (read: most used) Cassandra metaphor is the one by Jean Shinoda Bolen. And when quickly consulting her works to make this post I read her description of someone with Apollo traits:

"Individuals who resemble Apollo have difficulties that are related to emotional distance, such as communication problems, and the inability to be intimate… Rapport with another person is hard for the Apollo man. He prefers to access (or judge) the situation or the person from a distance, not knowing that he must "get close up" – be vulnerable and empathic – in order to truly know someone else…. But if the woman wants a deeper, more personal relationship, then there are difficulties… she may become increasingly irrational or hysterical."

That fits DNC down to a tee. I mean the idea of distance viewing was shown by his habit for stalking victims first, he does not confidence trick. The one time we saw him fawn over a girl it was long distance. When Melissa got close to DNC she did so by becoming more irrational and more insane. It is most likley coincidence but hey, I have a soft spot for over reading things.

One of the other popular applications of the Cassandra myth is as an example of the Novikov self-consistency principle. To cut a very very long idea down it basically says you can not create a time paradox as you can only alter the past but not totally change it. Thus Cassandra is not able to change the flow of time despite being able to view it. I don't know how this links to the plot unless DNC is time traveling but if he is it brings up so many plot holes my brain my spurt out my ears. EDIT: Ohhh man...DNC has sort of made a time loop with the matchbox, by giving it to Em. As if Cassandra is saved by some Moffat-esq time fiddling then the box wont move on removing our motivation to to save Cassandra in the first place....my poor brain. So could this be a reference to the flow of time? Maybe a mistimed sacrifice?


From the Greek for "She who entangles men" so could link back to DNCs prostitute obsession, something that has not come up for a while.

The name has also been used in a few books. Cassandra Mortmain is the heroine of 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith but I doubt DNC and broken English castles and blocked writers have much in common.

Also he keeps mentioning rabbit holes maybe linking us back to Alice in Wonderland but I don't see how that links to matches, porn or boxes.

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OhWhatProvidence
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Argh blargh blargh, i forgot to mention that Roger found the matchbox on Cassandra's desk at 00:25 in the "Cleanliness is next to" video....
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jono
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Right....so matchbox...this is one of those times I plan to throw everything at the wall and see what fits.

Alice In Wonderland

So Rabbit hole makes me go back to Alice for a bit. Fire is not a common theme in the books. Alice does say there will be a bonfire tomorrow in Through the Looking Glass. This actually dates the tale to November 4th one day before Guy Fawkes day during which the University her father worked at would have a rather large bonfire.

So....not useful.


Cassandra

So why would Cassandra have matches....we could presume she picked them up while working at an adult theater but it seems an odd thing to keep.

In myth Cassandra's prophecy was that she brought forth a fire from which many serpents spewed from. This led to her outing Paris who would later get judged.


Lilith


I cant find anything relating to Lilith or Succubi and fire...some places use candles to summon them, but nothing directly linked.


Adams

Now I can logically think of why he would have matches. Cigars. They are the only people who really use matches anymore (as opposed to lighters) and he is of the generation that would smoke cigars.

And we know DNC knows something about Adams, maybe he knew his favorite hooker?

Someone from an old video

We did see silly masky smoke in the one video and he is one of the very early and old videos. He would use matches as well as it was common at that time to use them for all kinds of smoking.

Why did it turn up now? Did DNC find out he had someone else perusing him and decided to clear up the evidence.

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Quote:
finally made it here¿ i should have given u one of those jigsaw puzzles. u seem to enjoy wasting time on inane activities. u are very see through. after this long i thought u might actually learn something and perhaps start paying attention. u are what is wrong with the world. luckily for u, i am here to balance u out.

the phone number is here. can u find it or have i wasted my time again with u¿ ø

01100100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01110101 00100000 01100101 01101110 01101010 01101111 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110111 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01110010 01101000 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101111 01100100 01111001



The binary, "did u enjoy the swedish rhapsody watch?v=nTz9Obp9ez4"



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elkapo wrote:


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Quote:
finally made it here¿ i should have given u one of those jigsaw puzzles. u seem to enjoy wasting time on inane activities. u are very see through. after this long i thought u might actually learn something and perhaps start paying attention. u are what is wrong with the world. luckily for u, i am here to balance u out.

the phone number is here. can u find it or have i wasted my time again with u¿ ø

01100100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01110101 00100000 01100101 01101110 01101010 01101111 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110111 01100101 01100100 01101001 01110011 01101000 00100000 01110010 01101000 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101111 01100100 01111001



The binary, "did u enjoy the swedish rhapsody watch?v=nTz9Obp9ez4"



YouTube: Link


We've found this like a month ago. Is it in the new video?

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OhWhatProvidence
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Chris has an instragram now. (wut)

http://instagram.com/mydadstapes

Not much on it now. -shrug-
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OhWhatProvidence
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Sorry, not any actual IG updates, just wanted to get this out there to maybe have another discussion over on Mibbit (which has been dead for a while, since it's been a month since the last update... not that I'm impatient... XD)

Anyway! I was going over stuff and things about the matchbox, again at 1AM because apparently that's the only time I think of ideas... What if Don's barn is where the next clue is? Maybe the shop itself isn't that special, but the clue is that there's something in the shed/barn with the random horse that Chris missed? Or in Don's house? Also I think maybe next weekend/whenever I have more time to spare I might go through the early vids to find the one wit the matchbox in it because I KNOW it was on one of the VHS tapes, wasn't it? :/ Maybe it wasn't...
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Is there a new IRC? There's never anybody in https://widget00.mibbit.com/?server=irc.chat-solutions.org&promptPass=true&noServerTab=false&channel=%23mdt and it makes me OP

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elkapo
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Hello. Long time since I entered here, things of work ... Too bad it's dead. I wonder if you have continued to gain clues, taking calls and working through irc ...
Viewing DNC last video, I think it was not difficult to find that phone number. The video is made up of scenes from previous entries. Chronological order could be the key ... but it's too late for that.

Greetings to all.

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*Sigh*

Okay, this is dead. I'm no longer going to follow this page then. Sad.
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