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The Thing From Beyond Time

 
  

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deja_vroom
15:55 / 17.09.02
Grant: to help people buying the story more easily, I wrote a comment as if I worked in a mental institution and had seen much worse stuff (with a little sick story to boot). See what you think of it...
 
 
grant
20:15 / 17.09.02
OK, that was scary, Jade.

I don't think I like you ANY MORE.

It was still moving....
 
 
ill tonic
01:00 / 18.09.02
I like the commentary touches you've all thrown in ie.the cultist calling minty a bitch etc.

Once again, great job & sorry about crapping out on you & not contributing.

Peace.
 
 
grant
02:15 / 18.09.02
It's not too late - we're only halfway through the story....
 
 
Captain Zoom
12:28 / 19.09.02
Soon as I've got a little more internet time, would it be okay to get the keys to the Minty suit? Or is that one a suggestions only one to maintain the same voice in the posts? Either way, I wanna get back into this.

I've got a Call of Cthulhu game running right now. I might have my investigators look into Art's demise, perhaps through looking into Phil's group. Not to worry, it'll be an alternate universe version of the story, won't impact on our current narrative.

I can't tell you how sorry I am I missed most of Art's last few days. I read it and it creeped me out a good deal. I find I'm feeling quite sorry for Minty too. Poor girl.

Heh heh heh.

Zoom.
 
 
Hieronymus
15:08 / 20.09.02
Okay. I just want to go on record as saying I stupidly never followed this thread and never read Minty's blog until grant linked to it in the Blog-stalking Conversation thread. Having read it, I was. seriously. creeped. the. fuck. out.


I want in.
 
 
gridley
15:18 / 20.09.02
tell your friends. we need word of mouth on this venture.
 
 
ill tonic
16:54 / 20.09.02
Hmm? I wonder if there is anything the members of the "Invisible College" could do with our own (real world) blogs to help fuel the story of Minty and late Arthur Blake ?

Other then, promotion -- ie "hey, check out this creepy blog ..."
 
 
grant
17:05 / 20.09.02
yeah, sure - spread word. personally, i'd love to make memepool....

so what's the next thing in the story? is Our Heroine gonna start trying some investigation?
Is she calling the cops?
 
 
Logos
01:04 / 22.09.02
I had a dream about this last night, oddly enough. I think that when minty gets the mystical gizmo home, she sets it on a table near some moths/butterflies on display pins. After a while, the moths start fluttering while still impaled inside the cases.

Second, I think Stephen needs to bump into Phil, or possibly one of Phil's cultists who's managed to escape whatever happened to the group...if, for example, Arthur ate Phil...
 
 
Spatula Clarke
01:52 / 22.09.02
Have you lot checked out the latest reply on Arthur's blog?

well i can say i was very surprised when i found you on my friends list, but then again you arent the first random person to read my journal and ive got to say this is the best random journal ive read. whats odd is it reminds me of the diary from a game called dreamweb. its kind of the same writing style and very odd (then again the diary was the tail of a man turning into madness so you might not like the comparisson). hmmmm id see a doctor if i were you. and have a bit more of a vacation

Either the gig's up, this is somebody here or it's time for an "I love it when a plan comes together" moment.
 
 
Logos
10:50 / 22.09.02
I love it when a plan comes together.
 
 
gridley
13:22 / 23.09.02
ok, stephen had a run in with a crazy guy, who while ranting mentioned Minty's name. He's warned Minty, and Minty mentioned it too.

Question: Is it time for someone to post to Arthur's blog again? Something perhaps a cryptic but not quite so frenetic as the last post? I'm thinking that if the cult is bothering to keep tabs on Arthur's friends, they'd probably bother to update his blog now and again.

It might be interesting if the next post from Arthur's blog was kind of mocking of Stephen and Minty's concern, maybe even directly insulting to them in general....
 
 
deja_vroom
13:25 / 23.09.02
I really think Arthur should be gone and his blog finished... They're trying to make everybody think everything is ok, right?
 
 
grant
13:48 / 23.09.02
Yeah, I agree - he's dead, and even though "he" tried to acces the blog From Beyond, it didn't work, and now he's got other things going on.

On the other hand, there's no reason why Minty and Steve can't reply to random comments on there, asking the people if they know where Arthur is....

That should generate some interesting hype. Especially if the minty & steve comments include URLs to *their* blogs.
 
 
gravitybitch
14:24 / 23.09.02
YES!! I'd been kind of wondering about the lack of pointers/links between the three, chalked it up to my inexperience with blog tech..
 
 
gravitybitch
14:30 / 23.09.02
So I was pushing random buttons on Art's blog, and for some reason, this

No Entry

There is no journal entry following this one.



was particularly chilling.
 
 
deja_vroom
18:31 / 23.09.02
Boston and bizarre cockroaches: A history of success. But you all knew about that, right?

P.S.: Grant, WHAT IF you searched with your web-probes for recent, bizarre and REAL events that occurred in the Boston area? Preferably, involving murder and/or strange sightings? What if we make Minty or Stephen comment on this and make them suspicious...

Say the police found a half-eaten corpse in a basement (remember, it has to be a TRUE story, with a link to the source and everything). We could just say that... that neighbourhood... if Minty is not mistaken, that was the neighborhood that Arthur had his meetings with the loonies... wasn't it?

This is just an idea. You may not be able to find anything now, but if in the near future, something odd happens in the Boston area, you people be alert, ok?
 
 
grant
14:14 / 24.09.02
eyes open!
 
 
Hieronymus
15:11 / 24.09.02
Food for those bloodthirsty peepers. Nothing really worthwhile yet but anything's possible. (Kind of sad to be anxious to see a murder story. Ack. Down with you, conscience! You muse killer!)
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
22:16 / 25.09.02
wow, i really like what is going on in this
I am glad stephen is getting used, ive been kind of anti computer lately
cheers to everyone
 
 
grant
12:55 / 26.09.02
So what happens next? How does Minty start unraveling the AWFUL TRUTH??
 
 
Hieronymus
15:15 / 26.09.02
I would think she's not about to visit Arthur's place again without somebody with her. So a joint blog thing of two different perspectives (Her and Stephen go over there maybe?) on the same experience could be done.

Maybe the AWFUL TRUTH begins to drag her in. Someone on the street, a creepy smelly homeless person offering her sage advice about 'the bugs'?
 
 
gridley
17:58 / 26.09.02
how does minty unravel her way to the awful truth?

easy. she already suspects it has something to do with Phil and his buddies, right? so, she tries to join the group. with Phil gone, there's probably some kind of power struggle going on amongst them, and maybe one of the would-be leaders thinks having Minty in the group might get him more access to whatever it is that Arthur became.

how's that sound?
 
 
grant
20:12 / 26.09.02
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=arthurblake&itemid=14480&view=16528

Heheheh!

Having her join the group... hmm. It seems like she'd be much more confrontational than that. Although if worn down enough, she might consent to sit in on a ritual. Hmm.

What would a Lovecraftian hero do?
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
22:25 / 26.09.02
wake up in a beachfront village babbling incoherently, to for the rest of his days be known as that mad man from daytona?
 
 
grant
16:46 / 01.10.02
Well??
 
 
gravitybitch
17:20 / 01.10.02
Maybe something should happen with that little woodcut she brought home with her. Maybe the picture changes? She's already really not sure what she saw in the apartment; it would be nice if that started leaking into the rest of her life.

Don't know if we want her to be swarmed by bugs - that might be too much. Maybe weird dreams of an alternate reality that's mostly identical to this one? And then she's not sure what's dream and what's real...
 
 
grant
17:45 / 01.10.02
I'm thinking about weird computer malfunctions, too.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:12 / 01.10.02
When I was a kid, we had a C64. It started to becime more and more unreliable-- switching itself off, doing odd stuff generally. We opened it up to see if there was any kind of obvious electrical fault, such as a short or a dry joint.

Inside was a large nest of tiny black spiders. These were duly evicted, and the C64 was reassembled. It was found to have stopped working altogether. Eventually it seemed to recover of its own accord. We never opened it up again to find out why.

I'm thinking: bugs can make cocoons, right? So what if they were evil bugs that made a special conductive silk? Then they could get into Minty's 'puter and rewire it to their own evil spec. They could even make some big blobby structure which funtioned as a CPU.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
18:16 / 01.10.02
... and of course, the first ever computer bug was an actual, y'know, bug, specifically a moth that crawled into some inconvenient region of an early computer and died.
 
 
grant
19:14 / 01.10.02
wriiite it mooordddaaaant... you knoooow you waaaaant to!
 
 
gridley
19:43 / 01.10.02
interesting, but how does it move the story along?
 
 
grant
21:06 / 01.10.02
This is the way the THING that was Arthur gets Minty (or not).

You think not?
 
 
gravitybitch
07:21 / 02.10.02
Seriously, do we want to continue the bug thing or shift to a different flavor of weird? Minty should definitely find that things are less real / constant than she thought they were, and I'm tempted to have the hive-mind concept work its way up the complexity scale... (pigeons with group intelligence would be very scary to me)

Parts of Art's last e-mail could start popping up as graffitti, and since Minty brought home that woodcut it should do something interesting. Soon.
 
  

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