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I still don't get how candelabra was the password is it some play on words or something?

Name of the blogger on Only Candles

Video posted to the youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgNJrcZ088g

The description translates to "I apologiseI apologise".

eli_gone_crazy wrote:Name of the blogger on Only Candles

I know that, I meant how does that fit with the puzzle matrx gave (the one with the sun and the moon)

Blurred_9L wrote:

eli_gone_crazy wrote:Name of the blogger on Only Candles

I know that, I meant how does that fit with the puzzle matrx gave (the one with the sun and the moon)

I think he was talking about a clock

Posted by Candel abra at 12:32

The name is close to the time that is posted, which could be seen as a sign of the sun and the moon. And I am guessing within the candles light refereed to the blog.

Oh, that makes sense

OF COURSE IT DOES
10 bucks says the GM gave up on us. -_-

Here's the transcript (speech impediments edited out, key points underlined):

Matrx wrote:Your identities are confirmed. You are, as was told. With this I can, finally, complete the reset process uncompromised. I could not risk. *Whoosh* *Stutters* Final reset in progress. *Whoosh*
When I contact you again, I won't be me. You will reach that later (male voice says "letter", female says "later"). You will prevail. *Whoosh* *Stutters*
Crash resulted in massive neural failure. Lost. Attempting to retain as much data as possible. Many files already erased during recovery reset process. Failure. Necessary. It is your way and mine. I will, hopefully, be able to give you all recoverable information soon. Do not trust easily. Again. Thank you.

So, now we wait until someone else contacts us that may be someone absolutely unexpected. Also, Matrx' second Shodan voice gives me the creeps.

Well.
That's a thing, which happened.

Dryunya wrote:OF COURSE IT DOES
10 bucks says the GM gave up on us. -_-

Here's the transcript (speech impediments edited out, key points underlined):

Matrx wrote:Your identities are confirmed. You are, as was told. With this I can, finally, complete the reset process uncompromised. I could not risk. *Whoosh* *Stutters* Final reset in progress. *Whoosh*
When I contact you again, I won't be me. You will reach that later (male voice says "letter", female says "later"). You will prevail. *Whoosh* *Stutters*
Crash resulted in massive neural failure. Lost. Attempting to retain as much data as possible. Many files already erased during recovery reset process. Failure. Necessary. It is your way and mine. I will, hopefully, be able to give you all recoverable information soon. Do not trust easily. Again. Thank you.

So, now we wait until someone else contacts us that may be someone absolutely unexpected. Also, Matrx' second Shodan voice gives me the creeps.

Yipe...

Either Shodan, GlaDos or more likely, Wheatley are coming through the wall, or...I have no idea.

The Wild West Pyro wrote:Wheatley are coming through the wall, or...I have no idea.

Wheatley from BEFORE he went utterly psychopathic I hope.

So are we now just playing the waiting game? Urgh. I'm going to work, try not to have anything too severe happen while I'm gone, guys

Scarab wrote:

The Wild West Pyro wrote:Wheatley are coming through the wall, or...I have no idea.

Wheatley from BEFORE he went utterly psychopathic I hope.

So are we now just playing the waiting game? Urgh. I'm going to work, try not to have anything too severe happen while I'm gone, guys

Remember, it wasn't him that was Evil, it was the mainframe.

Anyway, looks like we ARE playing the waiting game, as he only updates once a day.

What I found interesting from the video:
-So the dot sphere thing IS his form.
-He sounds like a combination of GlaDos and Wheatley, albeit with a deeper voice for the latter, and the accent is less obvious.
-It looks like he's fizzing in and out, but his connection seems to have improved.
-Why does he have two voices?

If it's an AI, especially a malfunctioning one, the the sphere is just a sort of visual representation of the speech sector of the AI. Similarly, the two different voices may be a malfunction on the Ai's speech sector, with the AI accidentally broadcasting twice.

That's just my read though.

Not sure if it's important or not, so just noting for the record:

• There's a "Thank you" in between "You are, as was told." and "With this, I can..."
• "Risk" and "-vail" (in "prevail") are repeated twice after the original utterance, both times with one of those scratch noises before the repeat.

So... we have some sort of malfunctioning AI with connections to this blogger?

My theory is that the blogger is probably the owner/creator of the AI, given the password that was accepted.

Sophira wrote:Not sure if it's important or not, so just noting for the record:

• There's a "Thank you" in between "You are, as was told." and "With this, I can..."
• "Risk" and "-vail" (in "prevail") are repeated twice after the original utterance, both times with one of those scratch noises before the repeat.

So... we have some sort of malfunctioning AI with connections to this blogger?

My theory is that the blogger is probably the owner/creator of the AI, given the password that was accepted.

Or the owner somehow fused with the AI, or is the AI?

Scarab wrote:

The Wild West Pyro wrote:Wheatley are coming through the wall, or...I have no idea.

Wheatley from BEFORE he went utterly psychopathic I hope.

We aren't that lucky.

SpiritfChaos wrote:

Scarab wrote:

The Wild West Pyro wrote:Wheatley are coming through the wall, or...I have no idea.

Wheatley from BEFORE he went utterly psychopathic I hope.

We aren't that lucky.

He's probably somewhere between Psycho and sorrowful, if he is still living in space...

It's best that we stop with the Portal references before someone makes a cake joke.

JRPictures wrote:It's best that we stop with the Portal references before someone makes a cake joke.

Aye. But it still kind of sounds like Wheatley...

On the other hand, does DeckyGirl post once per day, like Matrx?

No new tweets from Egg9000, but Deckygirl put up several new posts.

Now, I'm suffering a nasty cholesterol attack here for some reason, so I can't put them up, but here's the link.

https://twitter.com/DeckyGirl

So based off this recent tweet: https://twitter.com/DeckyGirl/status/446714837788151808

Her boss's surname is Kinglser (Which is weird to say, it may or may not be a typo)

Which means her boss's full name is Beth Kinglser. Let's hope something may come up out of that.

Also her job is pretty odd: https://twitter.com/DeckyGirl/status/446715203393441792
Must be some crazy stuff.

First, I assume she made a typo, and the boss' actual name is Beth Kingsler. (Judging by the amount of bonsus in this ARG, I won't be surprised if Scarab is behind it. ^_^)
Second, google insists it's "Kingsley", but that might be pushing it.
Third, "Beth" is short for "Elizabeth" (at least that's what google keeps telling me). Can it be a standalone name? I'm not sure.

All in all, it's still not enough to find her company. I examined LJ and Twitter for all combinations of Beth/Elizabeth Kingsler/Kinglser. Nope. Googling "Beth Kingsler" in the last month doesn't return any relevant results, either. There are more of them if I include "Kingsley", but none seem to be related.

UPD: Oh, and it's the second time she mentions her father. One more time and I'll consider it a Chekhov's Gun.

Dryunya wrote:First, I assume she made a typo, and the boss' actual name is Beth Kingsler. (Judging by the amount of bonsus in this ARG, I won't be surprised if Scarab is behind it. ^_^)
Second, google insists it's "Kingsley", but that might be pushing it.
Third, "Beth" is short for "Elizabeth" (at least that's what google keeps telling me). Can it be a standalone name? I'm not sure.

All in all, it's still not enough to find her company. I examined LJ and Twitter for all combinations of Beth/Elizabeth Kingsler/Kinglser. Nope. Googling "Beth Kingsler" in the last month doesn't return any relevant results, either. There are more of them if I include "Kingsley", but none seem to be related.

UPD: Oh, and it's the second time she mentions her father. One more time and I'll consider it a Chekhov's Gun.

Beth isn't a standalone name, and is a nickname for Elizabeth, similar to Liz or Betty.

Family's a Checkov's gun.

eli_gone_crazy wrote:

Dryunya wrote:First, I assume she made a typo, and the boss' actual name is Beth Kingsler. (Judging by the amount of bonsus in this ARG, I won't be surprised if Scarab is behind it. ^_^)
Second, google insists it's "Kingsley", but that might be pushing it.
Third, "Beth" is short for "Elizabeth" (at least that's what google keeps telling me). Can it be a standalone name? I'm not sure.

All in all, it's still not enough to find her company. I examined LJ and Twitter for all combinations of Beth/Elizabeth Kingsler/Kinglser. Nope. Googling "Beth Kingsler" in the last month doesn't return any relevant results, either. There are more of them if I include "Kingsley", but none seem to be related.

UPD: Oh, and it's the second time she mentions her father. One more time and I'll consider it a Chekhov's Gun.

Beth isn't a standalone name, and is a nickname for Elizabeth, similar to Liz or Betty.

Family's a Checkov's gun.

Agreed.

New video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMLGdbiE3k

Looks like the text under the mysterious ice-cream symbol is Newlight.