[DaelaParticipant]

My major unanswered question is – is there anything specific that Addison/Overseer/Sabrina wants to ask Anoch?

She seems desperate to hear his voice. She’s willing for people to die for her cause. Is there any particular crisis she’s hoping that Anoch will solve? Any reason for the urgency?

If she gets all of her oracles up and running…what will she say to him?

[DaelaParticipant]

Good god, the feels. I am so grateful to know you, Iris. And I’m in awe of your ability to express something that’s been so difficult to express. Love you to pieces – and may we all remain a community for years to come. <3

[DaelaParticipant]

Other puzzles that haven’t been solved (I’m taking some of these from the topic Sean started in June):

– The series of numbers and letters that was given to Derek – 14 18 31 N L 15 S S? (Or F S)
– The red letters and punctuation marks that were in Four’s correspondence (F.Y and CSPATH.-)
– The meaning of the five points of the OOA lantern
– The meaning of “scope and mirror,” which L2D seemed to hint to @coryphella was still unsolved (“What is the composition of such a device? Does it have alternate meaning or an alternate view if tampered with? Much more cannot be said.”) (unless this was a just reference to being monitored, spied on? L2D certainly leaned hard on the hints though, I feel like there might have been a solution we missed)
– The letters QSD that used to be on the “sense” page
– The meaning behind “Los Angeles” casting a shadow that says “La AnGelez”
– The meaning of the numbers being reversed in the radial lines at the top of the eye chart (so that instead of starting at 0 and ending at 180, the arc started and ended with 90)
– “what5youseek” on an early video
– any potential meaning behind the 39th underscore in the “scope and mirror” page
– any meaning behind the word “Conform” on the disclaimer pop-up
– the meaning of the June 6 Facebook image, in which the number “5” was hidden even though we had moved on to GK4, and the words “she is still amongst you” were hidden (who was still amongst us? Addison? Four? what did being “amongst” us even mean – like a plant?)
– quests.guests&gatherers %

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[DaelaParticipant]

Thank you for doing this Derek! <3

I’ll be there

[DaelaParticipant]

I’ll be there if you’ll have me.

– Lauren Bello (daela)

[DaelaParticipant]

Thoughts, in no particular order:

– “She is dangerous. She has convinced herself that the only way forward is expose the Identity of One.” – We can extrapolate that these people (ODSM folks?) do NOT want One’s identity released? Why? Conversely, why does Addison believe that revealing One will help her cause? Is it because she believes we know and trust One? She did say that most of us have already seen him…

– “she is going to use them to expose the ONE….Release his name…hell, let’s xxxxxxxx coming recruitment operation for Ascension. As much smoke as we can blow. I believe DLB can sell this…” What does “Release his name” mean in this email? They DON’T want One’s name released, right? I assume that “Release his name” here means “Release DLB’s name as a distraction and a cover,” not “Release One’s name”. Everyone else read this the same way?

– How is releasing DLB’s name going to prevent the identity of One being known?

– “One has her ear. Has had her ear since this all started. / I want him pushed in front, not next week, not tomorrow, now.” Again I had some pronoun confusion. They switched subjects here, right? So the first line was talking about One, but the second line, the one about wanting him “pushed in front,” changed the subject to talk about DLB? Is that how everyone else read this?

– “This feels too small.” <– Ascension? or the press push?

– “We all saw what happened to III.” It seems III was “reprogrammed” unsuccessfully, resulting in his blank, sleepy initial personality.

– Given that Addison / @gatekeeper2 now knows that her enemies intend to capture and reprogram her, I hope she is discreet about communicating a time and place to meet on 9/7. Even her Periscope was a risky move: her location was pinpointed within minutes. I would hope she is well-guarded.

[DaelaParticipant]

It seemed as if Addison said “most have already seen the One,” right before she lost reception for a few seconds. Any guesses as to who the One is…someone most of us have seen?

[DaelaParticipant]

It’s an old phone number for Allianz Insurance Company

[DaelaParticipant]

…I think you solved it

[DaelaParticipant]

Perhaps, but I am a bit confused as to *how* what we did could have assisted OSDM.

OSDM was already present, undercover, and among us. Yes, they kidnapped Addison. But weren’t they already planning on kidnapping her? How did we play any role in that?

(oops, this was a reply to Ethan, not Mike)

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[DaelaParticipant]

Sentries, do you want a new topic for discussing the emails themselves? @thegilded @mkarrett

[DaelaParticipant]

That was incredibly fast. Thank you so much for posting!

***SPOILERS IF ANYONE WANTS TO READ THE EMAILS FIRST***

TLDR: It seems they plan to kidnap and “reprogram” Addison in the next few days, before September 7th. However, based on her Periscope, Addison now knows of their intentions.

GK1 actually doesn’t sound like a threat to Addison, he “has her ear”. They are in contact.

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[DaelaParticipant]

Keep us posted!

[DaelaParticipant]

Um.

[DaelaParticipant]

I always perceived the “anointing” to be similar in tone to Rosemary Luther’s Ascension, in which she appeared to voluntarily destroy her own eyes to the point of bleeding so that she could “truly see”. Something along the lines of self-flagellation in certain religious sects – the torture of the flesh in order to achieve some sort of spiritual truth.

It made sense to me that Addison would theoretically want to earn that supposed truth, yet at the same time physically and psychologically shrink from the process. This didn’t seem like a contradiction.

(That said, it is clear that she lacked a sense of agency for most of her life, and particularly that day was not in a position to voluntarily consent to that anointing.)

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