Chronology May 11-17
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Monday Summary: What Happened May 11- May 17
(Players' names are green)
- May 11
- The Hunt (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php?title=The_Hunt_for_the_Great-great_grandfather_of_Alecia_Church.&action=edit) for the Great Great Grandfather of Alecia Church continues and is found to be Benjamin Church. Quickly followed by hints to not one (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Lake%27s_YIM_Status_Message_Puzzle), but two (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Sophie) puzzles during landau_luckman_lake status messages and chat in YIM. These are solved, and lead us to this new site: www.omniscienteyes.com. It belongs to Alecia Church (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Alecia_Church). The site soon becomes password protected.
- May 12
- Lake is angry with our approach following the discovery of Ms. Church's site. See this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39511&highlight=#39511) thread at UF and this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4254) thread with two chat logs.
- Contact with Elias: here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39519&highlight=#39519), here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39521&highlight=#39521), and here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39523#39523). He tells us that he overheard Sandy on the phone with Church, talking about TOBI.
- Update (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39476#39476) Melody's blog: She and Thad had a picnic lunch on the back porch. She links to some places in/around Amboy. There's some hand holding, but still no kiss.
- taytay1104 won the ebay auction for the Yanomamo Gathering Basket with a bid of $25, as noticed by rowan72 at UF (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39493#39493). (We're not certain that this is Marcus, we're just keeping an eye on it.)
- Sauceykat finds Elias on Amazon Listmania (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/19Y5G0W4PE50Q/103-3656790-7917408). (Is there a puzzle here? Maybe with the capital letters in the comment section?) Rowan noticed that under LIST it shows his name as Daniel Laudonio--on this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/1VAZ7N3MMIN97/ref=cm_aya_bb_wl/103-3656790-7917408) page. As per this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39519#39519) post at UF.
- Chat with Thad Tidwell in this UF thread (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4256)
- May 13
- Rasputin chats with Marcus here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4255). Tobi got into the Omniscient Eyes site and Marucs sees a hit list. Also, in this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39559#39559) chat with Marcus; he tells us, "What we saw, you don't want to mess with ", "We are just happy Alecia has no imagination when it come to passwords", and that Ideltech employees should stay away from the site, "stay low-key as possible." (To crack the pw or not, that is the question)
- Alecia Church responds to emails with threats. See this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4258) thread at Unfiction.
- ramiles gets a phone message saying,"Stay out of Church, Reid".
- Marcus leaves this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39544#39544) message on intellIM.
- Update at Melody's blog with a second poem puzzle.
- Update at Marcus' blog.
- Update at Melody'sResearch telling us that she set up her intellIM Ideltech account. Her name there is mheller.
- May 14
- In this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/1277_1084544950.txt) chat with rose: Marcus talks more about his IntellIM message from yesterday. He gives rose his cell phone number (edited out of text). Marcus leaves for Switzerland.
- In this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39587#39587) chat we learn : Lake sent us the Sophie (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Sophie) puzzle without Marcus' knowledge; rose asks for help from Lake, he says "Call Marcus. See what he will do." " L3 will not get involved any deeper than it is now." "There are days like this when I should have become a farmer."...of "Corn. Wheat. Soybeans."
- Lake chats (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39609#39609) in #l3 Summary of L3 chat-May 14th and with enaxor here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39620#39620). In the latter, Lake gives information about Alecia_Church (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Alecia_Church).
- sauceykat chats with Thad Tidwell here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39635#39635). Summary: Thad's a bit tired; views being lonely and not easily trusting of people, as a "hazzard of some of our professions", "trust is earned not given freely and someone that trusts without forcing people to earn it will find themselves surrounded by wolves." (Is this prophetic?)
- sauceykat's summary (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4278) of a chat with Elias. Summary: Marcus still doesn't know about Sandy. Sandy hasn't been around the new building, it's just empty besides Elias. He's not in contact with the Amboy office. He thanks sauceykat for helping him with the files.(See May 5th Chronology)
- rose gets an email from Church with inside/personal information. See this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4272) thread at Unfiction. Speculation follows. (Editor's Rhetorical Question: Isn't the accumulation of this info, a prime example of data mining?)
- Melody'sResearch update: she resolves her IntellIM glich by using Miranda (www.miranda-im.org)
- Ideltech seeks employers on the net. As posted by slyfox here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4269) at jobs.net (http://www.jobs.net/pls/jobs/jdisplay?jobid=J4J99&search1=help&search2=desk) and the same is seen at job-ad-venture (http://www.job-ad-venture.com/Job.cfm/194999).
- May 15
- jonathan emails (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39644#39644) Church in an aggressive stance, which leads to solving her password protected site. See Wiki here (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Omniscient_Eyes_access) for the solve. The transcripts of omniscienteyes can be found here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39661#39661), thanks to LazarusLong. On Church's site, we get a new puzzle: "Sequioa" Code (hit?) list; see Omniscient_Eyes (http://deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Omniscient_Eyes_list).
- Another update at Melody's blog. She went to Dinner and the Movies with Thad. Finally, they share a first kiss.
- May 16
- Update at Marcus' blog: His information about his Switzerland visit. (Does it have clues to the Omniscient Eyes (http://www.deaddrop.us/awareguide/index.php/Omniscient_Eyes_list) Sequioia puzzle?) He mentions outdoor-interlaken (http://www.outdoor-interlaken.ch/).(not known to be in-game)
- jonathan has been emailing Church. She wants him to work for her as a double agent, under strict conditions, as stated here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39733#39733).
- Via email, Mos proclaims his undying, sweltering, obsessive, love to Church. She shoots him down, repeatedly. But from that, Mos discovers www.omniscienteyes.com/mail. Read all about it, in this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39716&highlight=#39716) thread at UF. : )
- Two emails to rose, one from Church the other from Tidwell. Church wants to recuit her, Tidwell tells rose,"DO NOT contact her (Church) again." See both emails here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39703#39703).
- May 17
- A bomb explodes Marcus' car!! We learn of this from Marcus', via a phone conversation to StercusMaximus, and an IM with Shelina. See here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39781&highlight=#39781). Marcus tells Shelina: "When he was going out to his car, he used his keyless entry and his car blew up!!! He says that he's worried that our meddling will get someone killed, and its looking like it might be him. He asked that we back off right now, and that he might be out of touch for a few days. Sandy called the cops, and his dog (Josh) ran off after the explosion. He kept stressing that we seriously need to watch who we talk to...he said we've been acting like a bunch of children who have been given the keys to nuclear weapons...."
- Threatening E-cards are received by ramiles (here) (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39820#39820) and Mos; who gets two of them, (posted in this thread (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39824#39824)). They contain quotes from "The Matrix" and "Kill Bill-Vol.1". They were sent by Alecia soon after Marcus' car exploded. There is speculation as to whether or not these are confirmed in-game.
- Major Meta discussions occur, about spies and exsisting ARG protocols.
- Update at The Amboy Monthly: Modified Mower Contributes to Fire. See here. (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39757#39757) ( Are there any new names of Amboy residents in this article?)
- Work continues on two puzzles: Melody's 2nd Blog Poem of 5-13 and Omniscient Eyes list/Sequoia code.
- IntellIM broadcast from Sandy re: the recruitment bonus. here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39785#39785)
- This (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39749#39749) mass email appeared from Jude, in Ideltech employees' mailbox, about not using internet job search sites for recruitment. See last bullet, May 14th, of this chronology.
- Alecia emails jonathan, here (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39786#39786). She knows that he shared this (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=39733#39733) previous email, and she berates and threatens him. (Just how she knows this becomes the topic of Meta discussion; as players are put in the dilemma of choosing sides vs. sharing information with the ARG community.)
Chronology May 18-24
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