LIGHT 2 DARK

Periscope?!?

[edit] Can’t see any relatable accounts under the obvious search terms.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by  111_error.

Yes! It’s a periscope!

Does Tension or OOA have Periscope? I searched and didn’t find any accounts but I may have just missed it.

Holy crap…maybe we’ll have a Well of the Souls puzzle next!!

Find the headpiece to the staff of Ra!!

could it be they want us to return to the puzzle button on he homepage? now that it’s a different time? I tried clicking on it and it no longer goes to the five senses puzzle. It’s a page not found message.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by  Jake O.

The “About” page also appears to be down.

Actually, none of the links work anymore. I feel like a war is brewing.

looks like we are in for some kind of big change

Looks like I got finished up with all my stuff at a good time. Something is definitely brewing.

I actually missed this one so I don’t know if they rescued group bit was already there?

Yes, it was there. Initially, we thought it was left by accident, but it is what led to the whole “nothing is random” discussion awhile back.
I’m not very knowledgeable when it comes to website design, but apparently it is a standard page that is probably used to help format a website. Maybe @thegilded can explain more about it

I remember all of that but I don’t remember this page. Maybe I just confused the Password Protected Page with this one, they may have been right around the same time.

Well, it’s even trickier cause, if I recall correctly, some of the pages were altered after we found them.

Most of those were standard blog pages that comes with a new blog as FPO. When we found them, they were changed in the way of “congrats, you found these”, not in a “we’re trying to hide things” sort of way

@mike got it. The Tension Experience uses a standard WordPress Package to power it, which comes with a bunch of sample pages showing the admins what the site could be. This was the sample for articles, and was changed once it was found. The text refers to a comment a few of us made, along the lines of “I found this article, but I think it’s out of bounds” due to the initial default text

Ok, I do remember those conversations, thank you. Now…why are we still seeing it, forgotten or on purpose.

Rescued at sea means much to me @atticus360. My studdies into the fundamentals of law and individual sovereigntyhave taught me that we are all in fact considdered “Abandoned cargo” adrift upon the “holy see”. To me, it means emancipation.

Scope article has not been changed since 4/5/16. Source analysis doesn’t turn anything up.

About link is broken, analysis is not possible on it.

Ok so clicking the period on “brought to light” sends us to 227-2 broken…

@daela i saw that too. maybe it refers to the ability to see feeds by using source?

I’m stumped for now

@daela I get page not found. But whatever you found sounds new. It sounds related to the newest light2dark post

I mistook it for a page we’d already seen earlier. I also get a page not found error. I can tell that there is an image on the page, but I’m not sure what it is.

I can’t find a cached version of the page online…

@daela, sounds like the Twitter creeper.

One may remain hidden (on Twitter as a private acct)
One may look from an alternate viewpoint (from Twitter)
Somewhere out of sight (again, cloaked in a private acct)
somewhere in the d a r k
Yet see what you see… (and see what we posted on say, Slack)

((shudder))

I’ve had it downloaded and synced with my personal calendar for a few months. No events have shown up yet

Isn’t that a diagram of how the eye “sees” things? Like I remember in science class something about how images are flipped in the eye/brain. It’s been a long time so that may be old science or I could be remembering it wrong.

Yes, the first half of the diagram is of how an eye works. Also like: http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/crazy/images/eye-engl.jpg

The second half, though, that has the actual drawing of an eye looking through a pinhole back at the diagram of the eye – I don’t know what that’s about.

Oh wow.. so this might be grasping for straws. But we’re looking an eye looking through a lens of some sort into another eye, one fully illustrated, one conceptual.

The OOA symbol on the illustrated eye, looking through the lens, into another eye marked “subjected.”

This could be a boring answer and oversimplified for the sake of looking for closure on it, but could it be symbolism for the OOA looking deeply into us? Or examining us? Are we too late on this since it’s been taken down now?

Or I wonder if there’s something else?

Ooooh ok so the OOA symbol is below.. kinda kills the ascension symbolism in that, but if it’s flipped, then “The Light” is right side up?

Could be tied together by L2D’s “The enigma most are in search of sits right beneath us.”

Moving from the eye, or what we see, downward to the OOA, right beneath us.

Also, I don’t think I’e ever noticed the background image below. A diagram for how a telescope works? Very similar to this image.

There is something really familiar about these that’s not about how the eye works but about how light works…it’s making me look through diagrams of how ellipsoidal reflector spotlights work (sorry I’m a nerd). http://www.stagelightingprimer.com/images/ellipsoidal_optical_path.jpg

Hang on – that image is of a Galilean telescope.

That’s brand new.

I’m not so sure about that. It’s been the same way for me for weeks now

Actually I think I saw the “tickets available upon acceptance” a month or so ago….

I agree with Melissa and Sean. The message you see when you hover over the “tickets” button has been there since i started. Definitely sure of that.

We’re being culled (i.e. Rizzo), and those who remain = accepted?

definitely been there since whenever the button was added

Ooooh Scope and Mirror IS new.

Looks like we were both wrong

*pats self on back*

*high fives @daela*

Think there’s any significance to its being the 6th underscore? Or is it just a hint that our _path is shaped through forum activity?

Or there are at least two people looking through all our private messages to each other.

Interesting, how do you extrapolate that? Did it mention a PM you sent/received?

Hah, no, I am just adding to the paranoia, hypothesizing what the meaning is behind two hidden people able to see what the observer thinks only they are seeing.

I doubt that any of the PMs we’ve sent on this site are “private.”

Agree! But it’s especially interesting if they’re openly acknowledging this somehow on the Scope and Mirror page.

Careful what you ask for. An entire page will be built with the text of all our PMs next.

That would be like exposing private details from questionnaires, would likely only cause people to lose trust or faith in this experiment, and participation would dry up, so I’d be surprised if that happened – but talking to us directly about our PM’s, well, we’re just giving them great ideas now.

You lack imagination. 😉

I’m thinking perhaps this goes back to the idea of finding light within.

Previously, we were told:

“Only from within can the corruption you have acquired at birth be tamed.”

“Only within ourselves can we find the true source of illumination.”

Now the Scope and Mirror page says:

“One may remain hidden

One may look from an alterate viewpoint”

The alternate viewpoint could be looking at ourselves…looking in the mirror.

That said, I’m not sure how this type of introspection would translate to action on this forum. How would Tension know whether or not we’re searching within ourselves?

I feel like many things could be interchangeable with that.

For example, could it mean a camera? Camera lens could be the scope and there are mirrors inside some cameras.

One may remain hidden could be a camera we don’t see aka hidden – which happened on the 30th, alternate view could be the view finder or it could mean us looking at ourselves from a different viewpoint. None of the pictures I remember were straight on as how we would normally see ourselves.

Oh, interesting, do you think we should be examining the pictures from the 30th?

In keeping with the broad theme, the reflection could be how we portray ourselves via social media and technology. It is an aspect of ourselves but not who we are. We should not make the mistake that the two-dimensional construct of what we show people is actually anything like our true identities. Which is ironic because here we are, in our avatars mining the hell out of this site looking for answers. *back to work*

I’m starting to think it’s Periscope, the app?

One may remain hidden

One may look from an alterate viewpoint

Somewhere out of sight, somewhere in the d a r k

Yet see what you see

Periscope lets the viewer see what you see, without sharing anything themselves. The viewer can stay in the dark while the broadcaster streams their view.

Ya I’ve been looking around Periscope for an account that looks OOA but I haven’t seen anything that stands out. I like your theory though!

Update: Michael Rizzo broadcast on Periscope at four this morning (PST). The video consists of him whispering repeatedly in the dark “Glory be. Glory be to the OOA.” He ends by giggling, admitting he doesn’t know what else to say, stating he can’t be loud because it’s four in the morning and then bidding viewers good night.

interesting. So periscope theory is at least partially correct, if not fully correct.
now, because we can’t see him in the video, are we sure that’s rizzo? I’ve never heard his voice

Well, to be perfectly accurate, there was a broadcast from his stated Periscope account.

@monkeymuffin333 is there anyway to see this periscope? Is there a link?

I’m not sure you can link to it, but if you go on periscope and search his name, it is still up. I think periscopes only last for a certain amount of time

https://www.periscope.tv/rizzzoooooo

I was there live. 😀

His stated account looks fabricated, especially if you read his description

@endlesspictures, pretty sure this is Rizzo. I met him while we bowled last Friday and he did kindly Periscope me with his account (after my phone died) while I attempted to serenade @gatekeeper4.

Oh there was no attempt…you DID serenade her

I keep reading about all these meet ups! What’s a girl got to do to get invited to one?

Just keep an eye on the forums. Everything has been a public invite so far

@mkarrett @amieexists lol. His description is pretty funny in that case.

I watched @mkarrett sing to Gatekeeper4 on this broadcast as well. I would agree it’s actually his account. I’ve been following him on Periscope since before he was banned too.

so does this mean we are supposed to bring @rizzzoooooo back to the light? the post was in darkness, and a periscope brings light to darkness.

Or was this merely a way to show us that he has fallen into darkness.

Did he receive orders to relate this post at 4am, “toiling in the dark”?
Or did he create this of his own volition?

I think I saw a relative of your computer in a movie once. Maybe they had the same mother(board)

Bahahahaha. Yes that must be it!

Oh I’m gonna use that gif at some point.

In order to have this experience, those running it would require the following technologies:

1. Remote access to OS text-speech or VOIP programs
2. Remote access to OS messaging software or a program installed on local computers to generate messages
3. Remote access to phone OS or have an app installed (assuming instructions on the phone did not come through standard calls or texts)
4. Contact spoofing, either on sender side, using phone number spoofing, or on receiver side through a malicious installed app
5. Malicious monitoring applications on an Xbox, presumably a 1, or a 360 with Kinect. (I can’t go into further analysis here, as to my knowledge, this has never been done before without permission/assistance given by the end user)
6. Highly intrusive applications and malware packages delivered to multiple clients, including multiple physical or network locations (in order to get to friend’s devices)

Each additional device increases this near-impossibly task by an order of magnitude. I would ask that you please share the name of this experience, as I know several people in network security that would be extremely interested to know how this happened. Scratch that, I think that the NSA/Clandestine Services would like to hear details on this

Wondering if this was really an immersive experience? Or one of those “Windows Service Department” malware scams?

So you’re saying you could run it, right Sean? Is that it?

Yeah I could run it. If you gave me a year’s worth of prep time, a month’s worth of unimpeded physical access to all of your devices and networks and all of your passwords.

Also, I’d have to replace your Xbox with a recording of my voice, because I have no idea how to recreate that one.

I only have a PS3.
But I’m buying a Kinect later this summer once I figure out how to use it with my Mac. It’s for interactive projection mapping.

Perhaps in another thread. i currently driving,hard to elaborte now. I wil post in tha App thread later in greater detail.

I dont wanna wreck the mojo.

Don’t phone and drive!!

Clarification – The NSA sent you a C/D that appeared on all of your electronic devices?

Like a PDF popup or what?

I feel like there’s something there. Since the actual link sends you to the activity feed, if you type thetensionexperience.com/39 it redirects you to a reply by @endlesspictures about the first consultation and what was on the table. That link is http://thetensionexperience.com/forums/reply/3900/

If you remove the “00”, it just reverts back to 3900.

Not sure what to make of it or if it’s anything, but it could go together based on the actual link of the underscore

I tried 27 after the 39 and It lead to nothing. 27 for the remaining underscores. Nothing. I the tried a variety of numbers and found that the result is the same no matter what number you enter. I fear that may have been a wayward thought.

How interesting I had the same thought process a few days ago and tried thetensionexperience.com/activity/39. This directed me to Arch Deacon, who hasn’t been active. I sent him a PM in hopes to get a reply, but alas, I haven’t.