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bluesylvia
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[TRAILHEAD] Moorpond School for Girls I was recently added on Twitter by two new people: Geneva Ryder , a brand new teacher at a school called Moorpond, and the Moorpond School itself.
Geneva was due to start working at Moorpond next week and now the school has mysteriously closed and deleted all of its past tweets. Shortly before closing, however, they asked that all Moorpond teachers open up Twitter accounts so we may need to be on the alert for others beyond Geneva.
The Moorpond website (http://moorpondschool.org/ ) gives us an admin's email address: adminSPLAT moorpondschool.org but I didn't find anything unusual in the source code.
As an actual new teacher who is actually starting next week (unless my school will close too... ) I'm VERY interested in this ARG and sent off an email to Moorpond's admin to ask if they were in need of an extra teacher...
ETA: Sent off an email requesting to work at Moorpond and received this automated reply:
Moorpond Admins wrote:
To Whom It May Concern:
Thank you for your inquiry. Moorpond School for Girls is currently closed and not responding to emails.
Sincerely,
The Administration
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:20 am
Last edited by bluesylvia on Sat Aug 24, 2013 8:04 am; edited 2 times in total
Tenshi Akui
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Just noticed they followed me as well.
Going to check this out
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:05 am
m0r1arty
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The image of building 821 is named ae8056f39a0c7673b8fecfa4832c2667, could be something to that.
Their logo seems to be a hint towards a puzzle too
Unless they teach the IB though I doubt they're worth attending
Looking forward to seeing how this expands.
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 10:29 am
Amelić
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I was pondering posting a thread on this, I was also added by the two accounts... seems interesting!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:58 am
draghkar
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I was added as well, seems like this might be something interesting..
Did some initial prodding and found the first clue:
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moorpondschool.org/bldg821.html
containing some interesting information:
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Faculty Secured:
16-18-9-13-15-18-4-9-1-12
Joy Sudsworth
Jackie Gregory
Doreen Watkins
18-21-19-20-9-3
Glenna Shelby
Terra Cook
Avis Harrison
9-14-9-20-9-1-20-5-19
Nicolas Wonders
Geneva Ryder
The numbers stand for:
16-18-9-13-15-18-4-9-1-12 = primordial
18-21-19-20-9-3 = rustic
9-14-9-20-9-1-20-5-19 = initiates
none of the listed names seem to follow named twitter accounts
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:10 pm
Tenshi Akui
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Well if that doesn't sound down right cultish I don't know what is.
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:40 pm
draghkar
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and we got another name:
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Phoebe Kennedy-Sharpe
will check if there is anything to find on her after i come home from work
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 12:52 pm
mrshomersimpson
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Noseyness made me TinEye the images....,I didn't get followed on twitter, so it was really just sheer noseyness on my part...
found the school which is actually in NY... but its not called moorpond... so i avoided emailing the principle there... just incase... thought prob best NOT to start poking about there lol
also snooped the image - photoshopped but given the previous information i mentioned... it's no surprise...
Other image no results on TinEye but im pretty sure I've seen it somewhere before... *goes through file history and will edit later when i find it* - second image is also edited... have deffo seen it before because the info was already on my jpeg snoop database (strangely enough) so will have a little poke about.
(will run images through my other snooper software later)
might lurk a bit.. see where it goes... if it piques my mood atm.. ..
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 1:01 pm
draghkar
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did a search for the labyrinth..
came to the following site, looks oog, but might be the source:
http://www.michaelpalladino.net/blog/labyrinth-6/
One weird thing though,
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when I did a reply to the moorpond admin email addy, it told me I was sending it to Geneva..
PM Error? or deliberate?
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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:27 pm
bluesylvia
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After my automated reply from the school, I got a personalized reply from Phoebe Kennedy-Sharpe, who is the Administrative Assistant at the school. She told me that the school was not interested in hiring because they're closing their doors but then asked me if I spoke Latin or Greek.
Naturally, I told them I at least speak Latin so we'll see what comes of that.
draghkar wrote:
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when I did a reply to the moorpond admin email addy, it told me I was sending it to Geneva..
PM Error? or deliberate?
Yeah, I see that too. I think it's a PM error...
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:28 am
Tenshi Akui
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Ok so I've been talking to Geneva quite a bit on twitter and some weirdness has definitely been taking place.
Quick run down of the conversations.
Geneva learned of the school closing after she sent an email of her syllabus to the school admins and got the auto-reply. None of the other teachers were on twitter yet, that she could find anyways, and no one had answered the school phone number and the place as locked up.
She had not met any of the other teachers yet, and was scheduled to meet them at a welcome lunch on Monday. She has however met the student body president Cassidy Rakes, who is out camping with her family at this time and not of help.
I asked her if she had heard anything in town about what happened at the school and she said she was going to head out and see if she could learn anything or find if anyone knew anything.
A number of hours later we get this interaction. I'm sharing the actual tweets on this one because they are so few... and well she explains it best.
Quote:
Geneva Ryder @genevaryder: OK, guys, I've been waiting to tweet because this is weird beyond weird. I, uh, can't leave my house.
Geneva Ryder @genevaryder: I'm not exactly locked in. I just can't leave. It's hard to explain.
Tenshi Akui @TenshiAkui: @genevaryder Something is keeping you trapped? Or you just feel like you can't leave?
Geneva Ryder @genevaryder: @TenshiAkui Every time I try to leave I start looking for my keys, or I check to make sure everything is turned off, or something else.
Tenshi Akui @TenshiAkui: @genevaryder So it's more a compulsion. You can't leave because <insert>. Have you tried ignoring it? Even just to step outside
Geneva Ryder @genevaryder: @TenshiAkui I've tried. I keep being convinced I can do it, but I can't. The weird thing is I don't feel panicked about it at all.
Tenshi Akui @TenshiAkui: @genevaryder That is beyond strange. But hey if your not panicked that's a plus. Who knows maybe tomorrow it won't be an issue... one hopes.
And that was the last thus far that I've seen.
So for some reasons Geneva just can't leave her house, which means she can't investigate this on her end. Not yet anyways. Hate to say it but I also have a weird suspicion about Cassidy being gone. Don't know, just as soon as I read her saying that I thought "Oh yeah she's dead".
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:49 am
m0r1arty
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It got weird for me when she emailed her syllabus to the school's administration.
With the exception of acquisitions they really shouldn't need any of that. Her head of department perhaps, but not the administrative staff.
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:44 am
Tenshi Akui
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That may have been my mistake of understanding.
What she said was
"I emailed for a copy of my syllabus and got an auto-reply. Then I saw that post on Twitter."
Sorry for the confusion, was trying to organize thoughts and did so badly.
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:49 am
m0r1arty
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We just need to bounce ideas back and forth Tenshi. I just like my games to be immersive.
How about the cookies were tainted with some sort of psychotropic and that's why she feels she is unable to leave the house?
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:55 am
Tenshi Akui
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Well apparently she is still having the issue this morning.
I would think if it was some sort of drug or thing like that it would have worn off by now. However, the list that was found earlier makes me think it could be some sort of cult, or spell or something.
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:59 am
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