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[ABANDONED SERIES] Walker in the Dark ARG
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Tharol
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 		Links There.

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/33.html

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/32.html

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amandel
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 		66696E6468696D (HEX=find him)....

is the title of the vid posted on 21/4. It's a puzzling 3GPP video taken by a mobile phone. Since John Doe's timeline isn't linear that makes for an intriguing search.

Walker In The Dark wrote:
In Binary #31: I suppose closer to downtown Pontiac, or one of the suburbs, it'd be a little more prone to vandalism. I know some of my friends used to do that when we were in high school. You know the old act: go to the cemetery, knock over the gravestones, maybe steal one. I got over that real quick.....To some extent, I still miss my old friends. I know it's stupid of me, but I can't help it. There were four of us, and I always felt like the third wheel, or, well, fourth wheel.

It's hard to explain, really. The core group was my older brother, Pete, and his best friend Nick Toth. The other guy was Nick's younger brother Jackson, who I had gone to grade school with. But we'd never been really close the way Nick and Pete were, and I suppose that's a good thing. I made a mistake one night, and did the thing that got me arrested, and eventually, sent to prison, and I can't help but think that if I'd been closer to them, one of them might have been with me. I'm glad that's not true. Those boys had enough gone wrong for them.

In Hex #30: I stole a gun today. I'm not going to lie and say I did something creative. What I did was stupid, but I know why I've done it. I just walked into a Walmart and took it. All there was to it. Nobody even looked at me, nobody notices me anymore. But it's a simple task, what I have planned.
I'm not taking chances anymore. No more graveyards. No more sleep, if I can help it. I'm keeping the gun loaded, and I'm counting my shots. If something comes after me, and I can't take it down, I'm going to use the last bullet on myself.

In Hex #29: I've learned, I suppose, that graveyards are not to be trusted. The last two times I spent the night in one...but then, that's something you wouldn't know yet, isn't it? According to this GPS, and every map I've been able to find, I woke up this morning in Alabama. Birmingham fucking Alabama.

This is just not okay. I mean, fucking seriously. Let's take a minor mental checklist here, huh? From the beginning: I have no idea who I am. I don't remember a thing before four days ago. I've been shunted all the way across the United States in fewer than three days, and I've been walking the whole time. All I have are this computer-like thing and this GPS unit, and the few fleeting connections with other people, which I've been trying to avoid.

In HEX #28: Day Five (Wednesday, February 29, 2012)

This is getting objectively ridiculous. There's really no other way to put that. I don't even understand why what's happening is happening anymore, and quite frankly I'm not sure I want to know. I've reached the point where I just don't give a fuck about this shit. I'm not even sure why I keep going, nonetheless. I'm camping out in the woods behind a CVS tonight.

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Tharol
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http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/66696e6468696d.html

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.com/2012/04/28.html

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DaveBGood
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 		I'll try again!
I tried posting this earlier, but ended up creating a new thread.

Embarassed

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/27.html

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amandel
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Hi Dave! and Walker In The Dark poignantly wrote:
In Base64 #27: I even heard Nick disappeared not too long ago.....I guess tomorrow I'll try to make my way back to Pinckney. Not too far, a little shorter of a distance than I walked today, so I'll be able to take my time a little bit. I just hope it doesn't get any colder, and stays as mild as it's been. And maybe then I can finally stop sleeping in graveyards, and understand anything at all about what's happened to me, and why, and what I can do about it.....I guess that makes this an end. It's getting to be well and truly night, and even though that's not really an issue, I'd like to be able to get some sleep tonight. So, until tomorrow,....
Mitch Caruthers

In Binary to Base64 to Text #26: And then, if I must die, then I will die. But I will die knowing that I have made my place in this world mean something. I will not go without some measure of excellence. I will hurt whatever did this to me.

And I will find myself out there, in the void, in the spaces between the stars, when I am gone from this world. And maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to help someone else, keep them from suffering the same fate that I have. That's the only recourse I can even come close to thinking of. God help me.

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ieisuk
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 		Stupid work. Just as things are getting interesting. I have alot to catch up on.

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Tharol
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http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/26.html

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amandel
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In Binary thru Base64 to text Walker In The Dark wrote:
#25:I think I'm going to die soon. If someone were to ask me why I think this, I don't think I could answer them, but that's just the idea I'm having. Too much shit in too little of a time. I've been thinking about just shooting myself right here, right now. End it where it's beautiful, where I won't hate myself. Take care of things my own way. But I know better than that. I know better than to think I have the ability to take myself out of this world without finding out why this has been happening to me. So of course, after today, I'm going to find a way to figure that out. I'm going to find this thing that's following me, and I'm going to catch it, and I'm going to /make/ it tell me what it knows.

#24: I'm sure whatever it is is watching me, trying to gauge my reactions, trying to force me into running. I'm sure there's somewhere around here, probably within two days' walk, that it wants me to go. Fuck it. I just don't care anymore. I have been walking around in the cold and the snow and the wind, and that is goddamn enough. It rained for about an hour here, but it is at least forty degrees warmer here than it was up in Michigan, or New Jersey. So I'm going to enjoy it.

#23: The Third Day (Friday, February 24, 2012)....No.....This simply cannot be happening. There is no other excuse, no other answer, no anything at all. I thought Jackson was lying. I swear to god I didn't mean anything by it. And now the bastard is following me.....I woke up last night, didn't think anything of it, really. I'm not exactly used to sleeping outdoors, and I saw it. That fucking tall...man-thing. It was watching me in the cemetery. What kind of fucked-up shit is that?....

Anyway, I got up and split, at that point. What else was I going to do? I managed to get out of the cemetery, and I wandered around for a while. Eventually, the sun did come up, and I managed to find my way into Pinckney, which is...a hell of a lot smaller than I remember, to be honest.....I spent the day in the library today, just reading the newspaper, and, I guess you could say that I understand a little bit more of what's going on here than I did before. Apparently, Jackson hasn't been writing in his blog a lot recently, but I guess I've got to hand it to him (and Nick, who if I believe Jackson about that, is apparently also up and kicking) for putting the right words here.

#22: Day Nine (Sunday, March 4, 2012)
It's happened again. And yet, somehow, I really can't find myself giving a damn. It's beautiful, it's warm. Fuck, man, I'm on Key fucking West. I've always wanted to get down here, and at the beginning of March? This is just glorious, man. I'm sitting on the beach, just not giving a fuck.

#21: I've been wandering through these woods all goddamn day, and for what? I keep making sharp turns, I haven't seen anyone else, I'm not even sure I'm not going in circles. For all I know, I've been following the same path over and over. I wouldn't know. I can't tell which way I'm going, because I can't even see the sun through the tree cover. It's just light, and growing darkness. I'm being followed. I'm almost certain of it now. Something, possibly whatever is moving me across the country randomly, has been following me from the beginning. It's been there every time I go to sleep.

And I can't get away. I don't know why it's there, and I don't know if I want to. It could almost be...blissful, to not have to exist anymore. I checked, and for some strange reason, I still have the pistol. It doesn't bother whatever (or whoever) is transporting me that I'm armed. I suppose I'm fucked if I ever get caught by the police, but for some strange reason (likely that I haven't seen one in three days) I don't think capture by the police is a high likelihood.

#20: Day Eight (Saturday, March 3, 2012)
Where the fuck is this place? I mean, god damn it. This just...this cannot be happening. I can't accept it. I won't accept it. Of course, accepting something even a little bit presumes that you understand it, and that I do not. According to this little GPS unit, I'm somewhere in New Jersey. I have no idea where. None whatsoever. Some place called "Kuser Mountain", but I've never been to New Jersey before that I can recall (ha. ha.) so I've no idea what this means.

This shouldn't have happened. I remember...I don't even remember much. I was preparing to go investigate something I'd seen, I reconfigured this thing to accept speech instead of just typing, and then I walked off. I don't remember anything other than that before waking up in these woods, and when I woke up, the thing was still configured for speech-to-text, but everything after I reconfigured it is gone.

#19: What I believe is happening is that I have somehow been shifted to another universe. I don't know if it's the same one Jackson got shifted to, or if I'm in an entirely different one. He's said that he's been followed by that creature in both universes, so I suppose there's no reason to suspect that I'm in any particular one. I really hope that I will be in Jackson's new universe, I'd really like to talk to him, figure out what the hell's going on, get our shit together, and either escape or beat this menace.....That's, of course, if I can survive the night. I'm holed up, again, in the cemetery, this one right outside the library. I didn't see the thing all day, so maybe I'm all right.....Or maybe not. Just heard a noise. Gonna go check.....Oh no.....No no no no nooooooooooooooooo

UPDATE: (bigtime...HeHe) Found Jackson Toth's Blog existing since 2010. Unsure how much is relevant to Mitch's story yet the Feb. 24th entry is of interest.
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 		Sorry for the double but this is new. #18 contains a 7.Zip file that won't open with WinRAR & I don't wish to install www.7-zip.org/ b/c my comp is overloaded atm.
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Tharol
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http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/19.html

http://thewalkerinthedark.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/18.html

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ieisuk
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 		1) Two weeks and counting.
2) I'll check at home.
3)Hey guys, I'm baaack!

Edit: Could you post the zip? I don't know how to extract the files from the images. I should br able to at least open it on my phone.

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amandel
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 		Sorry, ieisuk, that's not possible. You can save #18 as a JPEG & open it with WinRAR which identifies it as a 7-zip file but can't extract or export any data etc. from it.
Nbrs 17 and 16 don't appear to contain anything hidden. I was sorta hoping someone already had www.7-zip.org/ installed.
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 		7 zip isn't opening it except as a image

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 		It's not a 7zip file. That much I've gathered.
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amandel
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 		THX so much, punxtr. You already know I value your expertise. And I know you value a good puzzle so am just attaching a screenie of what WinRAR spouted out.
*insert 'truly-befuddled' emoticon here*
tumblr_mystery_image_nbr.18.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   14.07KB
    35 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.
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