The Emails from Periscope "Emails"

To address the first point that I have any commentary on, I don’t think that III’s reprogram resulted in the initial state. 4 essentially called him a premature baby, I believe the timetable was rushed leading to his initial state. The reprogram is what lead to his coherent, if destructive state.

As a second point, the “This feels too small” email was sent 4 hours before the LA Times article and only shortly before the No Proscenium podcast. I suspect that they were talking about the Media Blitz just before it happened, having engineered the whole thing

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by  Sean (@TheGilded).

What a coincidence! I just finished reading “Black Dahlia Avenger” and there is quite a bit of handwriting analysis in it…so obviously, I’m an expert now

I don’t think they’re written by the same person. In the letter you got, the some of the “S”s and “E”s are more backwards 2s and 3s. In the “Friend” letter, every “E” looks similar and with a strong down stroke to start it.

Actually, looking at your letter again…I would say that the “Russell” and “BOS” was written by someone other than who wrote the actual message.

Yes, @mike, I agree with you! When I first looked at the note after the hotel, I thought that “Russell” and “BOS” did seem different. At the time I think I even mentioned to you that I wondered if BoS had Tom write the note but then put their own “stamp of approval” on it by later identifying who should receive the bear.

The other letter I mentioned… T … if you look at the cross of it, the bear note seems to be straight across and the other note seems to be consistently slanted.

Hi, I’ve been lurking and reading all this for some days now but handwriting analysis is my jam so I had to register to just say this:

If you look at the writing on the envelope addressed to Addison and then compare it to areas in Addison’s own diary (places where she writes in all-caps like the section where she talks about moving in with Sadie) the letters look extremely similar to me, specifically the internal loops on the double Os and swirl to the right at the end stroke on the Ns. It makes no sense that Addison would be writing notes to herself but I can’t shake my suspicion that they were probably written by the same (out of game) person.

Interesting stuff, @melarune. Thank you for jumping in with the comparison to the journal! There has been the theory proposed elsewhere in these Forums that Addison may have had some sort of personality “split” at some point. Personally, I am not a believer in this, buuuuuuuuuuutttt… with what you just said, is it possible this is evidence to support that theory?
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I suppose it’s possible, @reaton and proponents of that theory could certainly try to use it to support their argument. If it turned out to actually be the case and the handwriting was a clue all along it would speak to a level of attention to detail that would impress the heck out of me I’m actually far more inclined to believe that it is simply a coincidence or a red herring, however.

I agree, I think it probably coincidence, but an interesting avenue to walk down.

My main reason in pointing to it was to see if anyone had theories on the “Friend.”