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[EMAIL] Email from Margaret's account
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RobMagus
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Very interesting drizjr...

the connection between "contact me" and "problem quite interesting" makes good sense.

I guess this means we have to email the ladybee account to communicate with the being.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2004 10:49 pm
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Yliandra
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Don't know if this will be anything. But there are some comics illustrated by a Frank Forte, Hex of the Witch and Satan Gone Wild, that I got when putting voodoo, witch and forte into google.

http://www.asylumpress.com/new.html
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Temporis
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New Email

If nobody minds, I'm posting everything I get from Dana here, even if I don't see much clueage. I had to reply to her thanking her for mentioning me by name (I was very shocked in a good way, but feel bad for kind of taking credit for your work finding the text in the first place)

Anyway, here's the mail:
Quote:
Hi Marc,
gave you a little shout-out on the blog (thanks for all of the help so
far). I also posted some more tech info in the comments.
right now, head spinning from recent developments (hotmail hack),
trying to sort out, will attempt to post coherent thoughts soon. your
continued attempts at coherent thoughts, of course, also much
appreciated....
-d.


PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:03 am
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rose
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a different idea

Following up on Driz's brilliant insight I interpret it a bit differently.

1. What it is saying is it used our messages to reach us.

keep me

Don't delete me
or protect me

odd behavior cry for help

I hacked the hotmail to get your attention

I'm using it to make some of the messages have ever put together some of the messages

I took the mail to write this message

Just wanted to say that I'm not odd behavior but I danger
You need to know that it's not really "hijacking" but I'm in danger
---
2. of voodoo witch that runs smear into the web the forte the web the forte including the any enemies

Spec: the voodoo witch casts the fell enchantment that destroys the castle and all the inhabitants other than the Sleeping Princess and the Pious Flea ( more spec: does the mean the Pious Flea is aligned with the 'voodoo witch')

so in driz's translation this means something like:

of harm from the entity that destroys [some physical space] and people or similar entities

or, more likely,

of harm from a computer virus of some kind that destroys hardware and software, except for two programs

I am sorry
I'm sorry or frustrated??
---
3. It is trying to learn how to talk to us, it may be apologizing for reading the word "forte" for something closer to" fort" , it may know that isn't quite right but has to use it anyway. Also, I think forte may be the only non-English word used here--perhaps "voodoo "also, which may be why we don't understand the use of that word exactly.

I'm not much of an expert
But I wanted
I wanted to find out more about ordering
some of the messages


I want to learn more about how to communicate with you


the forte I can see the forte

software or hardware that would somehow be analogous to the castle outer walls and the inner keep

----
4. This isn't a direct translation but I think it is saying that the virus is a danger to it, it's parents and to us if we look into it. And maybe we can either warn the parents or communicate with the parents?


and if there's warning voodoo parents of cry for help
????
voodoo parents wanted to cover all my odd behavior into the web
?????
and if you check it might be some kind of seductive danger of get many people angry,
??????
…but I wanted to find all these people willing to help very nice


--
5. I am emailing a message to it through Aunt Margaret this morning, see if I get anything back.

PostPosted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:38 am
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sauceykat
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[SPEC] Hack Margaret's Hotmail Account?

I wonder, the way Dana keeps repeating "Hotmail Hack" (usually in brackets), maybe it's a hint that we're supposed to hack into Margaret's hotmail to contact the entity. Of course by Hack, i mean guess the password according to some words from the site (voodoo?).

Any thoughts?

D-

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Marduk
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It's possible... maybe something from her childhood...

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i can't help thinking there is something here

For some reason I can't help thinking there is something here. Isn't it possible the entity tried to guide us somehow.
I've looked over and over the message but I got nothing.
Has anyone checked any of the other arg sites to see if they also may have received an e-mail?
Did anyone try to hack the hotmail account yet?
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AnthraX101
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Re: i can't help thinking there is something here

dmon_man wrote:
For some reason I can't help thinking there is something here. Isn't it possible the entity tried to guide us somehow.
I've looked over and over the message but I got nothing.
Has anyone checked any of the other arg sites to see if they also may have received an e-mail?
Did anyone try to hack the hotmail account yet?


Quite a few people did. We couldn't figure out the answer to her secret question, her pets name. (It's not Farnsworth)

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RobMagus
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Check the puzzle section for the email hack thread, so we can keep track of what passwords we've tried.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:03 am
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vpisteve
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Hmm, I forgot to mention this, and it looks like it may be significant after all.

The message was in large green text.
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vpisteve wrote:
Hmm, I forgot to mention this, and it looks like it may be significant after all.

The message was in large green text.


I seem to recall that mine was too, but now that it is archived in Gmail, the text has turned black.

Of course, it may have always been black, and I'm remembering a different message.

Oh, and the missing elipsis is there (I think), but is showing up as a question mark on my screen. Perhaps seeing it depends on which browser you are using? The first time I saw the letter (using Firefox in a Suse environment) there was no elipsis, but opening it up today (using Firefox in a WinXP environment) I see the ?.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:46 pm
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RobMagus
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Green text seems to be related to margaret.

the "varrao mite infestation" note is green
and "problem quite interesting" on contactme.html is green.

hm.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:05 pm
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Etymologician
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According to Marathon / Halo folks, the AIs in those games communicated using terminal screens that had green text on a black background, and the Cortana emails used the same scheme. I think rather than Margaret, it's the Queen's method of communication.

What if Margaret is turning into the Queen? Dana said she didn't answer her phone for a few hours this morning.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:41 pm
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Bobman
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Well, that statement is part right. Different AIs used different text colors. Durandal (the crazy one) used green, and so did Leela (while she was active). Tycho (was captured and rebuilt to serve the aliens) used red, and Thoth (ancient alien AI, not the aliens that attack the marathon, though) used white text.

Usally green text means you are listening to Durandal, because Leela was destroyed about halfway into the first game, and didn't appear in either Marathon 2 or Marathon Infinity. But while the Cortana leters were written with Durandal's sarcastic humor, it didn't seem to be him in the end.

If you get an email in a different color, it could be very important. Be sure to mention it if the color changes.

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Fraxxxi
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Re: a different idea

rose wrote:

I'm using it to make some of the messages have ever put together some of the messages
I took the mail to write this message

I, too, think that this line refers to her piecing together emails rather than the snippets on the website. of course there are pieces in these mails that have not been sent by us; maybe the words/phrases we have not supplied it with have come from a... more important source. someone we don't yet know emailing her.

AnthraX101 wrote:

Quite a few people did. We couldn't figure out the answer to her secret question, her pets name. (It's not Farnsworth)
AnthraX101
have you tried pam/pamela? it means honey in greece. not neccessarily a pet's name, but it might well be. for a female dog for example.

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