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Post by grandmasterstab on Jun 16, 2007 21:46:22 GMT -5
Alright, time to come clean. A jackass friend of mine (The Detector) logged into my account one night... That was the guy "chosen" to recieve the 6th video, right? Makes sense... How active was the mystery man here on the board? Edit: And what can you tell us about the re-appearance of the original happy cubers?
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Post by kaldais on Jun 16, 2007 23:21:18 GMT -5
My brother is a big SAer, or so he tells me, and he showed me the videos for the first time. Scared the shit out of me, and it definatly screwed up my ability to stand darkness by myself for very long. That's why I've never really been able to discredit this, even when twas for boners, even when the PM started spewing out seemingly random information with hardly anything linking together, and even when he abandoned us entirely. Nothing has ever done that to me before. I've always been a brave person, at least I thought so, but I'm still seeing black-eyed kids in the shadows, and it's been months since I last watched a video or read through the threads on this board.
What bugs me the most is the fact that there was basically no one here to share in the last days of this. After the big reveal, nobody was left except for a handfew of us loyals. The thing is, interesting shit still continued to happen. He had to know that, but he kept going.
Senorbambos's information surely expounds on a thought that I could never truly get out of my head; we were all part of something bigger than we think.
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Post by senorbambos on Jun 17, 2007 1:59:56 GMT -5
I've spoken to him over email, but he constantly changed it during the course of the project. The last one he used may be "obsolete" now, but I've emailed it twice just in case. I've sent theembodiment a few PMs. The only message he sent me of decent length (excluding all video description outlines and similar things) was the very first message he sent me. It didn't really explain much about the Wyoming Incident, but he seemed to believe that, if talked about in the right places, it would catch on like wildfire. That first message was almost like a sales pitch or a company trying to get some sort of celebrity to endorse a project, which is strange as I was a relative nobody on the internet before this all happened. He does not post on SomethingAwful. He found my original post on a Coast to Coast (referring to the radio program) message board. I posted once after some big mystery was revealed to be viral marketing. I was one of the few people not extremely pissed off, and I was actually quite interested in doing something similar. A couple of people chewed me out and I pretty much left the site immediately afterwards. The fact that I went back after leaving it was pure luck. I just remembered it one day a little more than a month afterward and decided to just casually browse the lastest topics. Had I not done that, I more than likely would have never spotted his little proposal. The PM or Detector? PM was much more active than any of us, but he did seem to have resting periods and stuff. It definitely wasn't 24/7 like some people seemed to believe. He did pretty much everything except uploading videos, adding detail to descriptions, and a couple of stories. The Detector, who posted under ViralDetector77, lurked on the boards a lot, but I think he ultimately grew bored with it all. His plant job was actually not that interesting at first. He was requested to make suggestions/posts that could subtly influence what the rest of board believed. Being chosen to get the information for the sixth video was the most he ever really interacted with the project. He never told me it was going to happen. It just did one day. I thought it was a nice twist myself. He had alluded to the possibility more than once, but the foreshadowing wasn't so heavy that everyone was expecting it. Like I said earlier, I don't really understand his motivations. At times he seemed to treat this as some sort of social experiment, sometimes he treated it as a story, sometimes he treated it as a game, and oftentimes he treated it as a job. It seemed almost as if it was something he absolutely had to do. As far as I know, he's made no money from this, and his anonymity deprives him of any real fame. I think these videos have a definite effect on people. Most people are at least unnerved by them, but a smaller number seems almost obsessed with it. There was the Dead Kids Foundation who set up a phone line to get information about the videos, I've seen at least two blogs that thoroughly examine the videos, and there's of course a handful of people who linger here even though the game's seemed dead for weeks. Speaking for myself, I feel a lot about these videos. I feel remorse for being partially responsible for the death of this project and upset that I will more than likely never get closure. It's been months since I was involved with this, and I still find myself lurking on this website at least a few times a week. The lack of closure is what gets me the most. Since it was mentioned that even insignificant-seeming things could be important, I figure it'd be best to post this. This was attached in an email he sent me a few days before the Boner Incident. I figured it was something he was going to post at some time, but he never did, and I don't think the Church of the Seven was mentioned until weeks after I saw this image. He didn't mention it in the email, and it seemed to be a sort of afterthought. Still, it's just not the same as a new video.
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Post by barbarossa on Jun 17, 2007 5:36:12 GMT -5
Thanks senor. Here is the message that was posted from the Church of the Seven: We are only human, yet we know things which could possibly destroy you and your servants, Muse of Insanity. We are tired of being abused by beings calling themselves "Gods". The tyrannical unions that govern reality have twisted and corrupted existence. It is because of you and your fellow guild members that the loopholes that can destroy the Everything exist. Your ridiculous bureaucracy supports so many different, needless mythologies that reality is no longer stable. The Seven will come. They will punish mankind for its ignorance, and then they will punish the "Gods" for their opportunism. We are done with this account, but you can dispose of it if you wish. We will be passing the message along to the Other Union, your siblings, and any other being that thinks they have a right to determine the path man must take. You Are Not Gods. 2012 approaches. 0, 42, 52, 379 Only the Seven Matter -Church of the Seven- Here is what theembodiment said about the Church of the Seven: Now that they've reared their ugly head, I may as well tell you about them. Up until now I had hoped the connection between the seven mysterious beings constantly mentioned in regards to the War and the Seven Angels worshiped by the Church of the Seven was just a coincidence. Seven, next to three, is one of the most important numbers in mythology, and it carries great significance in many religions. Unfortunately, it's becoming painfully clear that something is going on with the Church. The church is composed entirely of humans. The only reason they are never threatened by outside forces is because of their vast wealth of knowledge. They keep little written documents pertaining to what they know, and most of their beliefs are passed down orally. Destroying them would be destroying many secrets concerning the nature of our reality. They side with the Lost God (mentioned primarily in the "Other Philosophies" thread) on many matters and consider the unions formed by the Gods, Demons, etc. to be a blasphemy. The unions keep Gods in power by having all members attempt to distribute their power evenly. This allows Gods who no longer have followers to stay in control of many elements of reality indefinitely. This is considered a good thing by many, as it ensures that not one aristocracy of beings hold control over mankind. The Church of the Seven believe that the bureaucratic system that the unions utilize is somehow threatening to the Everything. They consider the Everything to be the one true God and seven supposed agents of it to be the only true Guardians/Angels. Not much is known outside of the Church about this seven. In fact, they revealed more about them tonight on this website than at any other time. This means that they are taking this War very seriously. While I do not believe they will fight us directly, they will more than likely be launching a smear campaign against religion, the unions, and myself. For some reason this has always reminded me of the 7 churches of revelations. www.revelation-today.com/Churches7.htm. Though that doesn't make sense as the embodiment said that the church of the seven wished to save everything and actually hated the unions as they thought the unions where going to destroy everything. The symbol in the picture is odd. 7 beside 3 has been mentioned but that picture shows 7 beside 4 small circles and inside a larger circle. Even though the PM may be done with all this something makes me what to try to put the few meager pieces together to get some kind of ending.
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Post by grandmasterstab on Jun 17, 2007 13:06:36 GMT -5
Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions, Senor. Now I'm even more curious as to what this was all about.
One thing, I remember just before the boners fiasco, the end of the story, or so some of us think, was posted momentarily. We figured you had just made a mistake and not clipped enough off the end. Was that the case? It was talking about a ritual that had been done and that we'd released paranoia's spirit into the world.
EDIT: Have you lost your moderator powers?
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Post by dazeytweeter on Jun 17, 2007 17:46:09 GMT -5
Sorry folks but I'm taking this with a grain of salt. No offense to you Senor but after all the horseshit that has happened on this board, I can't trust anything right now. Why, after all this time and with too few people, appear and then tell your side of the story. Why couldn't this have done this sooner? Why come when shit here has completely fallen apart?
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Post by kaldais on Jun 17, 2007 20:09:47 GMT -5
It's not the same.
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Post by senorbambos on Jun 18, 2007 0:10:10 GMT -5
If you're talking about the really over-the-top and villainous post that was basically a modified "the story so far" post, I'm positive Detector wrote and posted that before coming up with the idea for the Boner Reveal.
And yeah, I had my moderator powers removed pretty much immediately after the fake reveal.
I've been following this board even more intensely since theembodiment disappeared, and I was growing tired with the unexplained absence. I figured now would be a good time to interject, offer an explanation for myself (and the situation itself to an extent), and talk with people as myself without fear of getting banned right off the bat.
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Post by kaldais on Jun 18, 2007 0:19:10 GMT -5
First and foremost, I think the first mystery that we should even attempt to solve is the location and motives of the PM.
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Post by senorbambos on Jun 18, 2007 19:28:10 GMT -5
I'm almost positive that the PM lives in Lusk or at least has connections to the place. It might seem unique in its isolation and smallness at first, but there's plenty of towns and counties even emptier (a place in Texas or Alaska holds the record for least populated county, I believe) so Lusk is completely arbitrary. I think this theory's reaffirmed by that obituary for Donald Wilson that was found. The chances of him just randomly making up a name and there happening to be a person with the same name, living in the same town (of less than 1,000 people), and dying around the same time as the identical character in-game seems pretty unlikely. I think I remember reading that Wilson was the mayor of Lusk in real life for some time, which indicates that if the PM lived there he would definitely have known about the man and his death. Too bad I've lost the link to the obit.
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Post by dazeytweeter on Jun 18, 2007 20:10:36 GMT -5
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Post by k on Jun 20, 2007 16:07:20 GMT -5
this story is more odd than you all think from now dazeytweeter is the only man you have to follow
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Post by otherunion777 on Jun 21, 2007 9:56:57 GMT -5
dazeytweeter, you have proved your worth to us. you will make a fine replacement for our departed theembodiment. as one chapter closes, another begins. TO THE NEW GENERATION!!! happycube.proboards83.com/index.cgi?
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Post by kaldais on Jun 21, 2007 11:45:34 GMT -5
NOT. THE. SAME.
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Post by k on Jun 21, 2007 14:17:32 GMT -5
I'm the new messia!
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Post by k on Jun 21, 2007 14:19:36 GMT -5
I'll be a sort of guide for you all...you'll receive homeworks but you haven't to do them if you don't want...dazeytweeter will be your guide in understanding our great purpose.
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Post by nouseforaname on Jun 21, 2007 21:18:11 GMT -5
So is this site dead now that we have the other site?
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Post by kaldais on Jun 22, 2007 3:59:49 GMT -5
This site is over, but not because of that one. That one is rubbing salt in a wound. That one is desecrating a grave. That one is an impostor, and I will not be a part of it.
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Post by dazeytweeter on Jun 22, 2007 8:55:57 GMT -5
Then by all means don't be a part of it. I will not be offended. This site is over because it allowed itself to turn into a deformity. It should serve its purpose now as purely a reference point. An archive.
Now with that out of the way, it's time for a bit of homework.
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Post by pepeshka on Jun 22, 2007 12:03:00 GMT -5
This ARG's done, stick a fork in it folks.
Next time, remember Occam's Razor. Should save you quite a bit of time
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Post by Xzore on Jun 23, 2007 2:05:42 GMT -5
I'm in no way bashing the other site, but it is definately not the same, not because of "it's an imposter" but because whoever the pm was isn't doing it, he just had a certain style. Anyway, even before he left it was still beginning to go downhill, just too many letdowns and unfinished things that were promised. i remember lurking when it started on unfiction, eventually forming 30+ pages of speculation as the videos appeared and the happycube formed, it was all i could think about, so mysterious and intriguing, discussing BEK's and the creepy videos, it was great. This whole experience has been great and has been a very memorable one, i sincerely thank senorbambas for giving us some sort of finality to it all. Despite it all, i know i will still visit this site occasionally to see whats going on. I wouldnt say i was ever obsessed with all this, but very close, thinking about it, checking the site and forums every day waiting for news. I just hope either we find out who the PM really was and his intention or just leave this in the past and remember the great times weve had here and admire it all. Thanks everyone for this entire experience weve been able to share, i know you won't be seeing the last of me though. Oh and one more thing, this has gotten me interested in ARG's but has set my expectations a little high for them as being so entrancing. Peace out.
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Post by dazeytweeter on Jun 23, 2007 13:37:39 GMT -5
The new Happy Cube was a work in progress. What I was aiming for was totally different because I didn't want to copy the PM style. That would have been impossible. Seeing as how this is over I would like to post my storyline. My HC site was deleted for reason and I really don't feel like doing it all over again, especially since nobody wants to play along. Sad to see such pretty things end but I got to meet alot of cool people and got introduced to the ARG world.
Anyways, here it is. The ending might be a bit hoaky but at least it would have been an ending.
The Other Union started in San Francisco in 1969 as Conquering Phobia And Self-Doubt Through Hypnosis. An enigmatic leader (the voice) was using these people and controlling them through NLP techniques and through a numbers station he had set up. This leader was using these people to achieve Yellow Field, a metaphoric name for mass suicide, He believed the planet should be cleansed of population of the mentally weak (not retarded, just disturbed) and easily manipulated. Each time Yellow Field was accomplished, the old leader would appoint a new leader (to be named the voice), and the old leader would join his followers, as he/she believes it is most righteous. With newer times called for new ways to reach people. Gone are the days of free love, communal living and hypnosis. Technology would be used to reach the masses. Changing with the times.
Mysterious videos were made and spread anonymously across the internet. A forum was set up in conjunction with the videos. The focus on the mystic side was to make sure the site attracted the right portion of this element. A very convincing story of a TV hijacking in Wyoming was its own cover story. With this enticement in place, the Other Union set out to weed out who was and who wasn’t mentally unstable. Different people (iliketofix/ilovetofix/theembodiment) were who the forum members turned to. Stories of deities, muses, rituals, Church Of Seven, and a supposed war in 2012 (set up as a game) were the measuring stick to see who followed and who abandoned. The more people stuck around for these wild goose chases, the more the Other Union was pleased.
But with using technology, sometimes it can backfire. Incompetence can occur. Iliketofix was disposed of by the Children. The Children are members of The Other Union, not mystical Black Eyed Kids. Ilovetofix, though better suited at his job than Iliketofix, could not handle the responsibility. His “T’was All For Boners” speech was his suicide note. A new representative emerged calling himself theembodiment. He even set up his own story. He was named Alex Lynn and was from a town called Yellow Field. All of the inhabitants of Yellow Field were killed by what was called “The Sickness”. What caused theembodiments downfall was taking “the game” too far. He started to mock and challenge The Other Union in his threads. His grasp on reality was already hanging on by a thread as it was. He asked a forum member, dazeytweeter, to spy on the Other Union. He accepted. Little did theembodiment know was that dazeytweeter was in contact with the Other Union for some time.
Dazeytweeter bided his time and played dumb. When the loophole was “discovered”, dazeytweeter took advantage. For you see the loophole audio was the signal from The Other Union to “sell out” theembodiment. As a reward, dazeytweeter became the new recruit leader and got a new Happy Cube forum.
More stories followed, this time in a non mystical fashion. Slowly, dazeytweeeter pulled away the curtain (true intentions) of the Other Union. A new CubeCon was arranged (by the voice), in a small town in VA. Many of the forum members attended. Dazeytweeter was about to pull a swerve The Other Union. The “selling out” of theembodiment was to get on the good gracious of the Other Union. He faked his loyalty to the Other Union. Yellow Field was to be accomplished but for the very last time. All of the members (including dazeytweeter) drank the cyanide laced punch. Dazey had sacrificed himself to destroy the Other Union once and for all.
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Post by kaldais on Jun 24, 2007 0:28:56 GMT -5
Why was your other forum deleted?
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Post by dazeytweeter on Jun 24, 2007 11:17:05 GMT -5
Why was your other forum deleted? I have no idea. I think either A> Somebody hacked into it B> Someone complained about the content and had it deleted Either way it's gone. It was still up around noon yesterday, I went on and put up an avatar on my account and then came back a hour or two later and it was gone.
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Post by k on Jun 25, 2007 14:24:38 GMT -5
you must not give up!there will be some changes
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Post by tomparis on Jul 22, 2007 13:54:56 GMT -5
ok seriously i ahve been reading over this borad and everythign seems so disconnected with everything wtf is this can somebody explain and whatt he hell is cubing? is it killing people and if so let me get this straight you people had conventions called cubing convention where you would go each other or others? this whole thing interest me very much but i cant really tell whats going on who is paranoia the church of the seven is this like a role playing thing which it seems like or do you people actually think this is real and if so where is your evidence? other than pictures of craigslist pictures of ripped couches...please somebody connected all this confusion
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Post by kaldais on Jul 22, 2007 20:18:25 GMT -5
We had a party. You missed it.
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Post by tomparis on Jul 22, 2007 20:31:35 GMT -5
ok that answers nothing...what is cubing what is the church of seven what is the book what is paranoia who is jamie and all the other things and how do they relate!!!!! ??
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Post by kaldais on Jul 22, 2007 20:51:44 GMT -5
Ask TheEmbodiment.
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Post by tomparis on Jul 22, 2007 20:53:26 GMT -5
im asking the whole board....i want answers
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