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[SilentKyle]

There was a new track played today.

[VioletSage]

[Endzo]

Admin can post whatever they want, but MarCar is my friend. Any MarCar submissions on the polls so far has been her.

Those music chimes are played at the start and end of most of the audio clips. It was like this back on AMNA-A too. I'm not sure if its a code.

[the_comestible]

Anyway, Mark Carter has been active again on the Facebook page, and his comments are the only ones that I've ever seen get a "like" from the Ascensionism Records account. He wrote, "understood" as a reply to the latest FB post regarding the radio transmissions, which also garnered a like. That was two days ago, and now we have this new track, seemingly connected.

At some point back in 2015, a visitor complained about being kicked out of the "music group" by Mark Carter. The visitor said something about trying to expose Illuminati symbolism of the group.

Even if he's not MarCar, he must be riffing on the similarity of the names, and possibly throwing a little misdirection our way by claiming to be "her."

EDIT: Could anybody understand the new audio?? All I caught was something or things being "placed away" and then "grayscale panoramic."

[Endzo]

Bits I've clipped out but could be wrong on:
"
I pushed them all away

you let them
blood omen
grayscale panoramic"

I tried tossing it into Audacity to clean it up, but I am not familiar enough to do much other than cut out some static.

[the_comestible]

Seems like this ARG is largely on the backburner right now. But I just wanted to point out that there seems to be a pattern with the tweets wherein the posts that are bolded in enlarged fonts tend to be liked or retweeted, and not always by the same person. This makes me wonder if these users are using them to form a message that eludes us.

[SilentKyle]

Something new on the radio station played today. Nothing really new just letting us know that the TCA vote has went through and there is now a strawpoll for us to vote on.

Something interesting though, MarCar's proposal had 60% of the votes and should have won, but the announcement on the radio said that Sigil's proposal was the one who passed with 100%.

[Endzo]

Very odd on the poll. I checked it just a couple days ago and it only had 3 suggestions, only 2 had 1 vote each. The shift in poll source seemed to chase off most voters, unless Admin is basing off the previous site that was changed.

For reference:
Old Poll link: http://www.rkursem.com/poll/view.php?id=6d7ee7323d367ab52
New Poll link: https://poll.ly/#/GRxNpyjP

[the_comestible]

I'm on Discord most of the time these days for other ARGs, so I figured I might as well make a server for Ascend as well. I really like how Discord saves all chat text messages indefinitely. I'm going to start compiling and organizing recent Ascend data and clues into various channels in a couple days. The chat might be pretty inactive for a bit, but I hope to make it a valuable resource in the coming weeks. And I have a few friends from other ARGs who will likely help as well.

Here is the invite without expiration for anybody interested:
https://discord.gg/ju3tDaq

[Endzo]

I understand the appeal of covering live action as it occurs, but I am unable to use Discord. It slows down my computer and I get no audio out. In my opinion it is better to keep work and records in a more openly accessible place than behind 3rd party software.

[the_comestible]

Sorry to hear Discord bogs down your computer. As far as audio, the chat will be almost entirely text-based. I definitely see the benefit to continuing a presence here on the forum, and I will post anything that might be found through Discord.

Discord has some benefits, especially in regards to maintaining interest and keeping people motivated. For example, whereas the NationSquid ARG has basically stalled on this site, it's still progressing on Discord.

[Endzo]

If this is another ARG to disappear into Discord, I guess that's that. I've tried following ARGs that went into Discord with someone popping on to summarize once in a blue moon and it just doesn't work. 80-90% moving into a private zone to work on things and leaving everyone else actively interested or future participants out in the cold only to hear about things after they are solved is no fun.

This ARG isn't stalled and waning interest due to lack of effort. It is more due to the lack of clarity and long periods of inactivity from the host. What were once clear and solvable puzzles and narrative are now just voting polls and vague strings of text. I sometimes wonder if he is just hoping we all peter out because he doesn't have the time to really push much more into this for one reason or another, however if that is the case I wish he'd just say so. I think folks would be more than understanding.

[SilentKyle]

I just wanted to let y'all know that I am currently moving between apartments and I don't have access to my desktop computer so I won't be able to record the radio station right now. I should be able to set everything back up around next week.

[the_comestible]

With help from Discord, I was able to come up with more of the Regarding Tenet 305 YouTube transcript. Perhaps it is a reference to Stanley Culpa, whose office had a desk and monitor?

"It was on this day that A1QPLR came down to us, and (he said that?) an empty cube... what a great wall, one masked in an LCD screen. But the box isn't heavy so he looked to the air conditioner; it was brisk, a perfectly unnatural feeling for the Australian summer. And he released the plastic onto the desk, and no one was sitting in his seat. Freedom! He reached a hand into his jangling pocket. And the key clicked into the cabinet. And it was the right one. First try. And with a twist, and then that metallic ticking, like an old typewriter, still marvelous after so many years. But then the green ... jolted into his hairy paw. "Those are mine," he said. "Rip 'em off the stem like I'll do to your fingers. I was first to the top. The grapes are mine. He had to have them all. He took them from MY rock. Grapes. Mine. Now he sits there feasting. Abide my time. They'll be mine. Grasp a big stone and crack! Peel them from his clutches. My grapes! Mine. And I'll want my rock... and pop... out of nowhere... life is sometimes for nothing."

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkRB9WTFVx0&feature=youtu.be

[WhatIsTruth]

The Discord server doesn't seem too active either. I think this will continue to be the primary place to discuss. Mostly since this is such a slow paced ARG.