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suncrusher
Boot

Joined: 09 Jun 2014
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 		Correspondence between myself and Voronica:

Me
Aug 18 (1 day ago)

to Voronika


Did your father not care for you?

We act on scraps of information…sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

We want to help you. If it can be done.

-D


V Voronika
2:11 PM (52 minutes ago)

to me


Hi.


He did.
That is what tragedy means.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:06 pm
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Twiler
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 		New email:

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Subject: Self-check: 0,28125

Hi.

So, how do you like the girl-y diary? Neither do I. Every sick person hopes for a miracle—for someone to save them. That's because sickness makes you dumb.

I'm not sure if my disease is infectious. That's probably why I left the city: if injections and detersions do nothing, I should probably at least try to insure the rest from my plight, yeah? The only things I can infect here are snakes and weird three-legged creatures that come out from the moss in the twilight when light is indistinguishable from shade. And for them I don't care.

There'll be nothing girl-y here anymore. There'll be a nickelodeon.

Walking alone is indeed a bad idea. There was a four in the town that knows that better than anybody (little is left from the four now). They've made a revolution. Keep its number in mind.

There was another famous four—even less left from them nowadays. Unlike me, they walked a lot, and they wrote even more. My favourite writing belongs to the namesake of the revolutioner I told you about.

Take the number you kept in mind and add your teeth to it—and you have an answer. The first three words of the phrase (without spaces) are the name of the first movie I want to show you. The final two words (once again without spaces) are the name of the second one.

See? My secret is quite mysterious.

There are special people in this world. Unlike us, they're not poisoned by ignorance. They're not poisoned at all, actually. They're the blue blood, the premium product, and they raise us, commoners, like cattle. They've been called different names in different cultures and societies, but I'm sure you know them.

You know who corrects typos in our copybooks inconspicuously.

Or maybe they're mere civil servants, clarks, bookworms, and illuminati. They definitely believe it themselves, and I'm sure a lot of you would prefer this thought to the opposite. It's nice to believe your strings are being pulled by someone clever and benevolent.

Only I don't find it nice. I don't, you hear me? Whatever you think, it doesn't justify anything.

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

P. S. Why did I throw a pile of mysteries at you if I actually wanted to share a secret? That's because I hate fast travel. Roads have to be walked by foot.

P. P. S. Everything I read I read in the original.


I think that the number mentioned here is
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1 or 9. The Beatles had four members (for the most famous stage of their careers) and released the songs 'You'll never walk alone', 'Revolution 1' and 'Revolution 9'.


PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:29 am
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dbwj787
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Joined: 10 Aug 2005
Posts: 26
Location: New York, NY
Twiler wrote:
New email:

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Subject: Self-check: 0,28125

Hi.

So, how do you like the girl-y diary? Neither do I. Every sick person hopes for a miracle—for someone to save them. That's because sickness makes you dumb.

I'm not sure if my disease is infectious. That's probably why I left the city: if injections and detersions do nothing, I should probably at least try to insure the rest from my plight, yeah? The only things I can infect here are snakes and weird three-legged creatures that come out from the moss in the twilight when light is indistinguishable from shade. And for them I don't care.

There'll be nothing girl-y here anymore. There'll be a nickelodeon.

Walking alone is indeed a bad idea. There was a four in the town that knows that better than anybody (little is left from the four now). They've made a revolution. Keep its number in mind.

There was another famous four—even less left from them nowadays. Unlike me, they walked a lot, and they wrote even more. My favourite writing belongs to the namesake of the revolutioner I told you about.

Take the number you kept in mind and add your teeth to it—and you have an answer. The first three words of the phrase (without spaces) are the name of the first movie I want to show you. The final two words (once again without spaces) are the name of the second one.

See? My secret is quite mysterious.

There are special people in this world. Unlike us, they're not poisoned by ignorance. They're not poisoned at all, actually. They're the blue blood, the premium product, and they raise us, commoners, like cattle. They've been called different names in different cultures and societies, but I'm sure you know them.

You know who corrects typos in our copybooks inconspicuously.

Or maybe they're mere civil servants, clarks, bookworms, and illuminati. They definitely believe it themselves, and I'm sure a lot of you would prefer this thought to the opposite. It's nice to believe your strings are being pulled by someone clever and benevolent.

Only I don't find it nice. I don't, you hear me? Whatever you think, it doesn't justify anything.

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

P. S. Why did I throw a pile of mysteries at you if I actually wanted to share a secret? That's because I hate fast travel. Roads have to be walked by foot.

P. P. S. Everything I read I read in the original.


I think that the number mentioned here is
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1 or 9. The Beatles had four members (for the most famous stage of their careers) and released the songs 'You'll never walk alone', 'Revolution 1' and 'Revolution 9'.


Bringing it home:

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Using Revolution 9 and adding "teeth" to it gives 9/32. Another famous four were the Gospels, so taking the namesake of her favorite we look at John 9:32. She mentions she reads the original, so the Greek translation of the words she specifies gives us https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXNwJ6NxX5lYMltoPqJ0iQ


PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 3:56 am
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oli
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 		Amazing solve dbwj787 - well done!

Any russian speakers who can tell us what's being said in those videos?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:12 am
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Kaefha
Boot


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 		Google-translate in the reddit thread pretty accurate. Not much information in those videos yet. Maybe it's kind of placeholders so we could find the channel itself.

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:41 am
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Syke
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 		reddit
reddit thread?!

oh god...not that again ....last ARG I played, that started and ran ON a reddit thread was such crap, and so hard to follow >.< lol
_________________
-Syke (AKA Fazer)
NowPlaying:
NUNYA
Lurking...AlwaysLurking Shifty Eyes

PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:35 pm
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Kaefha
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 		I hear you. They had some pretty stupid ideas. Tracking IP? Why?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:47 am
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Syke
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Kaefha wrote:
I hear you. They had some pretty stupid ideas. Tracking IP? Why?


Tracking IP????
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NowPlaying:
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Lurking...AlwaysLurking Shifty Eyes

PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:30 pm
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Kaefha
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 		Yeah. One user tried to track IP through e-mail.
So, I guess we just waiting for the next message from Voronika at this point.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:25 am
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Twiler
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 		Another exchange of messages:

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From: voronikavSPLAThotmail.com
To: playhopscotchSPLATgmx.com
Subject: RE: What do you think you are doing?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:23:30 +0000

What do you think happened if I told everyone about our little chat?

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

From: playhopscotchSPLATgmx.com
To: voronikavSPLAThotmail.com
Subject: Re: RE: What do you think you are doing?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:22:09 +0200

What do you think would happen to you if I told you?

-AG

Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 5:19 PM
From: "V Voronika" <voronikav>
To: "Hopscotch Player" <playhopscotch>
Subject: RE: What do you think you are doing?
If it's as vicious as you portray, "my father's circle" is probably supposed to get back at anyone who mentions them. Why don't they?

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

From: playhopscotchSPLATgmx.com
To: voronikavSPLAThotmail.com
Subject: Re: RE: What do you think you are doing?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:00:04 +0200

Remember the story of a young man and Vasilyevsky island? A sweet childhood memory aimed at a wide audience - with a suspiciously exact date in it.

You even admit you kinda sorta know what happened to the boy. Did you ever take some time to check it out? It's not that hard, really.

Did you ever consider that it may have been not an external force, but rather your father and his "colleagues" that's done it?

So your father belongs to a certain, shall I say, circle. Good for him. And you seem to hold a grudge against them (otherwise why would you spread those videos that are clearly not meant to be spread?). A pity. That's not important though.

What's important is the second video contains direct evidence to the existence of that circle.

Why is it important?

You were too lazy to check the Vasilyevsky island boy up, but I knew a group of people that were the opposite of lazy. They tried to get to the root of what exactly the circle your father belongs to is. You say it consists of special people; but doesn't dedication makes you special? The people I'm talking about were dedicated. Dedicated, but not cautious. They had discussions in a place which is constantly monitored by all kinds of governments and… other organizations. But don't blame them for their ignorance - they were separated by oceans, and some of them weren't that good at all this computer stuff.

You know what happened to those guys? You can still find their shadows if you like, it's curious. They were enthusiastic about a certain game, only it turned out to be real life.

And now you're sending direct evidence of the circle your father belongs to to a lot of people.

And the circle your father belongs to is vicious.

-AG

Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 4:16 PM
From: "V Voronika" <voronikav>
To: "Hopscotch Player" <playhopscotch>
Subject: RE: What do you think you are doing?
How would you know?

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

From: playhopscotchSPLATgmx.com
To: voronikavSPLAThotmail.com
Subject: Re: RE: What do you think you are doing?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:14:04 +0200

No, it's not.

-AG

Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 4:13 PM
From: "V Voronika" <voronikav>
To: "Hopscotch Player" <playhopscotch>
Subject: RE: What do you think you are doing?
Hi.

Let's say it's from a family archive.

Voronika,
http://feverishfeeling.com

From: playhopscotchSPLATgmx.com
To: voronikavSPLAThotmail.com
Subject: What do you think you are doing?
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:10:46 +0200

Hey Voronika,

Why are you sending all this stuff to people? Where did you get a video like this, hmm? Your dad should've disciplined you better.

-AG


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Kaefha
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 		The plot thickens.
Alright, new mail.
It's a conversation between Voronika and AG.
So her father was part of some sort of "circle" (sinister oooh). And this "circle" can be responsible for this epidemy.
Also reality of Voronika and reality of Pathologic are not the same.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:56 am
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Revenir
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 		From Reddit, they've found Facebook group related to the last exchange of emails:

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/271423439709293/?fref=ts


Checked out all the group members' pages, and they're locked down. But the posts in the group chronicle what happened to them.

A general summary of what's in the group:
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There was a mole in the group, the group had a previous page but it was taken down for copyright infringement. Apparently, they were investigating The Organization.

They were killed off one by one, in what appeared to be freak accidents. Falling down an elevator shaft, a mysterious "snake" bite, hit by a piano, hanging, car accident, poisoning, cut to pieces, falling into a mechanical device, and drowning. A woman named Madelline was apparently killed in a drunk driving accident before the group was created.

One of the users tried to go to the media about it, but apparently no one would take the story. Even a tabloid paper that initially appeared to be interested.

There's a website of Trans Carrier, which is believed to have sent the rope to the woman who was mysterious found hanging - http://trans-carrier.com/. There's a package tracker. The company has recently become active after being closed down for some time.

The organization - Apparently we should watch out for this logo.

Also, who is this Snr. Inq Orven? What is PGC-25?


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Twiler
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 		Nata has a photo on her profile: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008349169204

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Perhaps this is a clue to her zip code.


PostPosted: Sun Aug 24, 2014 3:13 pm
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 		It occurs to me that we've got an address and a date already from the other puzzle.

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This means that we can put the zip code (199034) and the date (07/31/1998) into the delivery tracker, but we still don't have a sender. I suspect that we need to work out the name of the 'circle' mentioned earlier, which is presumably the same organisation as the one associated with these memos.


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 		Also, I'm guessing that this organisation is some type of
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inquisition. That would fit both with 'INQ' and with 'Snr Inq. Orven', plus the Pathologic source material. None of the variations of 'The Inquisition' I've entered into the sender box have given me anything though.


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