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Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:26 pm

Hate to be an ass, but I'm not certain of just about anything.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:41 pm

If you've got cold iron sigils in your comp, you should be adequately protected from spells and spirits alike. Just, don't watch the videos themselves, and don't stare at the coding for too long...

Alright. Adama, Shadow, whenever y'all can get yourselves over here, let's sit down and do what we were told not to do, hmm? I had a craptacular day at work. If there's some demon in this here disk, I could use the amusement of watching it try to take on Gabe, me, Adama, and Shadow...not to mention the dragons, the spirits, Lex, and Akasha.

I think we'll be adequately protected if we're all together...

And yes, this thing did set off my alarms and wards when I walked into the house with it this evening.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:44 pm

Bad mojo.

stay on your guard.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:45 pm

Always. Never forget Rule #1: "Always proceed with caution"...

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:21 pm

Actually ever since I caused a small fire with a batch of photos on a disc (taken in a raid on a kotodama practitioner's lair) I have tended to strip electronic media down to it's constituent data streams, seems much less harmfull that way.

Unfortunately, it takes a bit to strip things down to binary while the feeds are going through, and then it take even longer to recompile into other formats.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:51 pm

Well, good luck with that. Like I said, just don't watch it too closely.

Shadow and Adama seem to be off for the night... Hmm...

AdamaGeist · Post by **AdamaGeist** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:57 pm

Give me a minute, I'm putting groceries away, then I'll be right over.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:13 am

Well, that was...anticlimactic.

Apparently, my wards are a little too strong... Gabe is over here laughing his ass off, first time I've heard him laugh in quite some time. Just for reference, not a pretty sound.

The audio was almost entirely static... I heard something else, almost subliminal, but I couldn't make it out. The video showed a guy watching something on his screen, then his shadow rears up and kills him. That's when the subliminal sound played...

It's also when my CD player fried the disk, and my wards all went off at once. Something tried to get in, but completely and utterly failed to do so... I was hoping for a confrontation, so we could keep...whatever it is from killing anyone else.

...Hey, Adama, do you smell raw meat?

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:20 am

I guess it is a fair day when you can complain about overkill, huh.

AdamaGeist · Post by **AdamaGeist** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:20 am

Interesting that I heard somthing you didn't...

I heard a voice say "We are watching you." just after the man was killed.

One thing tho... This reminded me of the Tome of Shadows incident, which I never finished reporting about. I dare say it's about time I finished telling everyone what happened.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:20 am

Well I have a 2,500,000 yen system that just cooked when it played the image, when I went over the code, there was subliminal audio and subliminal video imbedded in the tracks. I would like a couple more combative specialists available when I check the drive that my cameras were feeding to during the event.

The message in the code was "we are watching you" just as a shadow strangled 2 young girls who were intently viewing a monitor. At least my Staff credit card hasn't been revoked, and electronics being burnt out through power surges is not uncommon for my budget.

Koralth · Post by **Koralth** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:21 am

Evil murderer code? If someone burned a copy of that disc, wouldn't it be on both discs, thereby replicating whatever it is? Or is it one entity living in some sort of "In between" world or something? Whatever it is, creeeepy.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:25 am

My guess is one entity, using some inlaid ritual in the video. If the video is replicated, the ritual is completed, and the entity comes out, makes its kill, and uses the energy it reaps for...something. Maybe to further replicate the coded ritual, maybe just to feed, maybe to power another ritual... Not sure.

That's my guess. It's why I'm a little disappointed that my wards were so far overkill.

If anyone watches one of these videos, or walks into a room to find a staticy image of someone watching a monitor, start watching your shadows very, very closely.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:27 am

I need some combat persons to arrange a meeting with ASAP. No time for details right now, got to check my records and off system database, something came through, and I am still trying to figure out what it is.

Why do I feel like Pandora this month?

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:27 am

Kei, where are you? If you're in the area, get yourself up here, NOW.

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:29 am

Hey, if someone can teleport me there, i'm more than ready for a fight.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:36 am

I am in the nashville area, the hotel manager is having a fit about the electicity, but since the thing was a shadow of some sort, I have set up all of my lighting over many wavelengths while I am going over digital copies of some of teh world most expansive occult libraries.

I am also working on a few surprises for this thing. I don't care for things that make veiled threats and then leave. Either it was happy to be free, or it's power was based in part on the fear of it's victims.

Tell me where I am going, and I'll book a flight. Sorry Holister, but it seems something has come up.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:39 am

Get a flight to either Midway or O'Hare in Chicago. We'll get you a ride here from there.

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:41 am

I'll be on a flight to O'hare, landing at 16:45. I'll bring my luggage. Might want to bring a minivan, or something of that aproximate cargo capacity, and leave the rear seats out. Oh and before you ask, this is travelling "light" I wasn't able to get clearance to bring my mobile lab.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:45 am

Don't have a minivan... We do have a Mazda6, and we can lay the back seats down. If that's not enough cargo space...well, we'll figure something out.

It does have a rather spacious trunk.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:50 am

If you're going to do that, get yourself to a well-lit area... It'd be better for you if you came up here, if you're going to insist on doing it.

And it felt like something bounced off my wards, like any other negative spirit trying to get in, and couldn't...

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:53 am

Where did it bounce to then?

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:56 am

Wait untill we have more data, and you have some backup, this thing is not friendly, and it has friends waiting to get out the same way. Do we really need more than one of them loose?

The message was not "I am watching you" but rather "we are watching you".
For help, the most logical thing to do is to find and destroy any remaining copies of the disc. I have a copy of what occured in my hotel room, given the results of the original, I am not going to play it without combat support. The data I have currently does narrow the field down to approximately 795 entity types, teh list is shrinking as I calm myself, but I will not be sleeping tonight, to much to do.

AdamaGeist · Post by **AdamaGeist** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:03 am

Alright people, as I promiced, my Tome of Shadows tale is just about complete. Check War Stories for what happened to me almost a year ago, and tell me if you can't see simularities.

GhostSpider · Post by **GhostSpider** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:10 am

I didn't watch the disk i got because i'm to attached to my laptop to let it fry. So...wait, where the hell am I?

Damn it to hell. Umm, guys, does anyone know any location spells, I seem to have re-located myself.

Voice, when I find you I am going to rip your arms off and feed them to you.

KonThaak · Post by **KonThaak** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:19 am

Find a newspaper. Otherwise, if that's not a possibility, describe where you are...

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:41 am

Just getting my equipment packed up, need to get the address of the location I am going to so I can have the parts to repair my reasearch system there by the time I arrive.

Also since the vehicle tou have is so small, I will rent something a little more substantial. A great deal of my equipment is rather bulky, as well as fragile.

Koralth · Post by **Koralth** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:30 pm

This just isn't your week, is it GS? Aside from sudden relocation, is everything alright? Do you need backup again?

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:35 pm

Are you sure the entity is inside the disk rather than summoned by it? If so, how do copies of the entity get made with the disc?

Kei Nakamura · Post by **Kei Nakamura** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:56 pm

That is one of the things I intend on finding out.