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SteamPunkV
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 		Is SL implying that Jeremy has a Twitter account do you think?

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SteamPunkV wrote:
Is SL implying that Jeremy has a Twitter account do you think?


Yea, I thought about that but I searched and couldn't find anything. If it exists, it might be another something like "squareDARK422"

I also wonder if it's supposed to have been Jeremy who went off to the South Pacific, eating fruit bats? If so, then why did that photo get posted from the shapeLITE twitter? Plus, I thought that Jeremy was posting these videos. I'm pretty thoroughly confused.

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 		Jeremy apparently "does what he is told." , so you are right, I don't quite know why SL is linking to Jeremy's stuff if Jeremy is playing up....

PostPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 12:50 pm
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 		So according to tweets, the answer to the question of Jeremy is in my hands... I dropped JN a note asking if we could help him (via Google+) and got this response:



Jeremy Nigellus
Shared privately - Yesterday 8:31 PM







Quote:
Vicki,

You don't know me but we have a mutual friend. Listen, this guy is impossibly dangerous and more than a little unstable. I reached out more than a month ago to someone else, but they never responded and I think sl480 found out. This is my story:

It started abruptly with letters. Real letters, written with postage and everything. They were insane, talking about dreams, and history, and characters, but they were also oddly formal. Sometimes they would make predictions about me, other times they make wild speculations about things that had already happened, if one or two things had been just a little bit different.

I read each one as they arrived (sometimes 2 or 3 in one day), but ultimately threw them away-- I honestly thought they were part of some viral marketing campaign. As abruptly as the letters started, they stopped. A few months went by, work was going well and I had gotten an unexpected promotion and raise, which was actually something the letters had predicted. It was then that the emails began, hundreds of them, most just said "There is Only One Writer." When I got a new email address it would start again within days. I told people about it, but no one knew what to say.

When it finally turned into dozens of phone calls, ranting and raving about "the Mountain" and demanding that I work for him, I called the police. They did what they do, but each call came from a different number, in different parts of the world. I don't know what the police did, but the calls never stopped. About a week later I started getting very specific threats against me and my family. I'm not say how, but he "convinced" me to work for him. It started very small, I wrote someone's email address down and sent it to a journalist.

I have to go soon, I'll finish my story later. This is my real point:

Vicki, be careful. He can't be trusted. He knows I am sending you this, he has all of my accounts, all of my passwords. He is a virus that has invaded every part of my life and is poisoning the things that are important to me. I will find someway to contact you in a few weeks.

shapeLITE is a killer and a liar, and he turns others into killers and liars.


I'm going to ask about the journalist for now, anything else I should ask (bearing in mind anything I say is being monitored..)?

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 		Sorry for the double, but this is my reply:
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Hi Jeremy,


Thank you for sharing this with me. I know that SL480 is, well, a bit unusual. He has threatened to kill someone so that's clearly a bit wrong. My friends and I are actually enjoying conversing with him on Twitter, he represents something of an enigma and that is intriguing to us.


If you don't mind, I have a couple of questions - like I said we would like to help.


SL said you do what you are told, is he telling you what to do by direct e-mail now? And the videos and pictures you have posted, are they all from him or have there been a couple from you?


The journalist you contacted, who was that? Did they write anything about your problem?


If you want to contact me privately you can - vbernathsplat....

SL doesn't have access to my account and although he is off schedule today I'm sure you can find a time to get in touch without him knowing.


I'm going to let a couple of friends know about our conversations, don't worry, they won't tell him but they talk to him too and need to know what you have said.


Stay safe, and I hope to hear from you soon.


Kindest regards,

Vicki


ETA: Twitter convo between me and SL:

Me (after SL said he hadn't threatened JN's family):
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He clearly believes someone did.The Mountain thing, why did you rant and rave about that? Or did he imagine that too?


SL:
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He told me his family has a history of schizophrenia and he is in his early 20's... He didn't imagine it, he's just unwell.


Me:
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That doesn't mean he is schizophrenic. But he is clearly scared, not a nice place to be, wouldn't you agree?


SL:
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Correct. That's why its very important, if you hear from him again, to tell me so I can send someone bring him home.


Me:
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Don't you know where he is? And you will know if he contacts me again, surely. Problem is, it's you he's scared of.


No reply yet. I've told JN he seems to be safe for now as SL doesn't know where he is.

Further Edit: SL's reply:

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I don't know where he is, but I know he's scared. Jeremy, if you read this, you shouldn't be. We wont hurt you. Come home.


Unusually caring for SL. and who is WE?

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 		And out of left field things get even more interesting.

How did you find Jeremy on Google+? Not that I have ever even bothered using my Google+ but I'm curious.
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Tenshi Akui wrote:
And out of left field things get even more interesting.

How did you find Jeremy on Google+? Not that I have ever even bothered using my Google+ but I'm curious.


When I signed up to You Tube I had to create a Google account - then there is a + sign in the top left corner of the Google home page to get onto Google+

Chances are you already have access to it, search for JN and or me ( Vicki Bernath, not my real name of course!) and add us to your 'circle' et voila!

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 		New Tweet:

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shapeLITE480 ‏@shapeLITE480 8m
O'Driscoll scattered the cards / And out of his dream awoke: / Old men and young men and young girls / Were gone like a drifting smoke;


Which is a line from

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
WB Yeats: The Host of the Air: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/47550/


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 		For someone who is so obsessed with stories, this guys sure is lousy at maintaining a continuous narrative thread. None of these tweets/videos/etc. have anything to do with each other. This is really frustrating and makes it really hard to actually care about any of this. I hope that there is some forward momentum soon...

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 		I think we are agreed that we are in the pre-game, so it may well be that when it kicks off proper in November the bits and pieces we have seen so far will weave into a more coherent thread.

In case you hadn't noticed, I like random Laughing

There is a link between the latest poem and the latest video though... Wink

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SteamPunkV wrote:
There is a link between the latest poem and the latest video though... Wink


and what is that? Please don't be coy when it comes to sharing links, connections and speculations.

Plus, I'm not sure this is "pre-" game -- I just think this is 'game' period, and that the game leads to something final in November. It might just be early game.

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 		I must admit some times it seems like we're just being strung along, however the new stuff with Jeremy is making me curious.

We also got another email, one i think is adressed to Jeremy.

Quote:
Were you on AA65 from JFK to DFW yesterday? I knew I should have watched that flight. I've sent someone to come and get you.

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danteIL wrote:


and what is that? Please don't be coy when it comes to sharing links, connections and speculations.



The link is the titles, both of the poem and the video.

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 		An e-mail from Jeremy
I got this e-mail just now, to the addy I gave JN the other day:






Quote:
This message is on a time delay delivery. I've left my laptop behind to try and throw SL off. Though if he checks this email account to quickly I suppose that wouldn't work so well. I saw his tweet about coming for me here, to Texas, so I'm already on my way out of the state. I'm not going to say where I'm heading.



I know what he's said about me. I might have a family history of schizophrenia, which I never told him about, but I do NOT have schizophrenia myself. I'm paranoid right now, but not delusional. My dad and step-mom are gone already, maybe dead, that was within hours of me leaving. But the consequences of the "little" things he made me do... they're too big.




As far as your questions:




I would get a sign, a red check mark painted on a billboard or inside of a bus stop, it would be somewhere I'd see on the way to work. Then I would know to check the dead drop location for a generic looking thumb drive packed in a little black box. The videos were always on the drives, and they all came with instructions on when to post them. For one video, the numbers one, he told me to go out to my car and record the radio, set to AM, for 3 minutes and 96 seconds and email it back to him. I sent a video that was 4:36 long and a couple of days later he sent me the finished product and told me when to put it online. If I wasn't so scared, it would have seemed overly dramatic.




"I did what I was told" because I was forced. I had no choice. But I am not a killer- no matter what cost SL hangs over me. And the repercussions of killing someone... I mean, that email address I sent to that journalist? It resulted in "the most significant leak in US history" earlier this year, so what would a murder lead too?




Is this something a schizophrenic would worry about? When I try and think about it, the entire situation barely makes sense. It seems like some poorly written plot device in a SyFy Original Movie. I don't know if you have that exactly over in the UK, but its just c-list movie of the week thing. I hope I'm not being patronizing.





I also wanted to mention that he has something up his sleeve in the future, something about getting a bigger audience. I don't know what he has planed exactly, but hopefully it'll focus a little attention away from me.




Since my laptop is gone, it really will be a few weeks until you hear anything from me. Feel free to share this email with your friends. The more people who know, the better. I'm chasing something down, something to hopefully protect myself. I'm not trying to be cryptic but I really don't even know what it is I'm looking for yet, but I know that I'll need help eventually. Keep your ears open and listen for me, please.

JN


ETA: His e-mail address was Jeremythemook - I wonder who gave him that name? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mook

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"the most significant leak in US history"
- Wow, that was quick for jumping on the Snowden bandwagon.

Although I do admit to have used ongoing news items to add colour to my own args in the past.
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