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22:37 [Wyatt] Riley something bad happened
22:41 [Riley] what happened?
22:41 [Wyatt] Sm9zaHVh went to station 85 and saw [TGlseQ==]
22:42 [Riley] did you also go
22:42 [Wyatt] I'm talking to you so obviously not
22:42 [Riley] okay good
22:43 [Riley] I'm so sorry to hear about him, did you tell him not to go?
22:44 [Wyatt] Of course I did but he went anyways
22:44 [Wyatt] It showed him [TGlseQ==] exactly as she appeared when they worked together
22:45 [Riley] that's what it does. it uses the memory to lure you back to it
22:46 [Wyatt] We need to stop it
22:47 [Riley] obviously
22:47 [Wyatt] It was stopped before, right? Do you know how?
22:48 [Riley] I was just a grip, I didn't even know it existed until it started spreading and didn't get any info about it until long after upstaged closed, so no
22:49 [Wyatt] We need to figure out how it was stopped before then
22:49 [Riley] yeah
22:51 [Wyatt] Are there any other employees still around?
22:53 [Riley] yeah. the ones I know that are are thomas, nashiko, and penelope. thomas + nashiko have a chat thread going on, but I can't look into it or message them. marionettes only let me message you, for some reason, and won't show me any other threads, if they exist. penelope hasn't been active but afaik she's still okay
22:54 [Wyatt] I could try to message one of them, see what they're up to
22:55 [Wyatt] I don't know Thomas but Nashiko was the anchor at 48, right?
22:56 [Riley] yeah, I think she was. thomas was the audio guy at 85
22:56 [Wyatt] I'll try to contact Nashiko first, then Thomas if she doesn't respond
22:57 [Wyatt] Could you try to reach Penelope? Maybe she knows something
22:58 [Riley] I'll see if I can find her, but no promises. so far I've seen her once since station 85 fell, and she didn't recognize me, I don't think
22:59 [Wyatt] Okay
23:01 [Wyatt] Wait, didn't you say you had access to all the logs from Marionettes?
23:05 [Riley] no
23:06 [Riley] oh wait I did, that was poor phrasing
23:07 [Riley] I can see all open chat threads and some chat logs, but not all of them. for some reason marionettes won't let me enter all of them, even though I can see that they exist
23:07 [Wyatt] Oh, okay
23:08 [Wyatt] Just keep me updated, then
23:08 [Riley] will do
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It feels important to mention that, as of right now, all of these chat threads have been taking place between October 3rd, 2018 and October 20th, 2018. I'm posting them in rough chronological order. October 20th was also when I received the package. I will make note of when there's a chat thread dated to outside that time frame.
[TGlseQ==] translates to Lily, and Sm9zaHVh translates to Joshua. It appears that, after he saw Lily, his name started to be censored the same way. It's obvious that's not a coincidence.
I'm still not sure what they're talking about. Not about "it" spreading, nor about station 85 falling. Riley seems to know a lot, though. She feigned ignorance to Lily to start with, but she knows more than she's letting on, and is apparently willing to backtrack on what she said before. I wonder what all she knows/knew.
I saw something unexpected while looking through this log. I recorded a video of it, so I should have it up soon.
You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/nApQX8emugw
For the record, I do not know how that happened, or what whoever--or whatever--it was is talking about in any capacity. I don't know what to think.
I uncorrupted the image to the best of my ability. It's still heavily distorted, but there's something visible there now.
Something weird happened when I was accessed the uncorrupted image. I got a recording of it, which I'll upload it onto the youtube channel and link here.
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13:44 [Wyatt] How are you doing Josh?
15:11 [Wyatt] You around?
15:21 [Joshua] Okay, I guess.
15:24 [Wyatt] Look, I was thinking about popping over later. Just to talk about some of this stuff. What time would work best for you?
15:25 [Joshua] I'm not sure, maybe around 9?
15:26 [Wyatt] Okay, I'll see you then.
20:48 [Wyatt] Hey, I was thinking of heading over now. Want me to bring anything? I can get pizza or something.
20:50 [Wyatt] Actually, I'm feeling like pizza, so I'll order it now unless you stop me.
20:51 [Joshua] Something's here
20:51 [Wyatt] What? What's there?
20:52 [Wyatt] Where are you?
20:54 [Joshua] It's her
20:54 [Joshua] I went looking for [TGlseQ==] and I found her
20:55 [Wyatt] LEAVE NOW IT IS NOT SAFE
20:55 [Wyatt] Please leave now please
20:56 [Wyatt] That's not Lily anymore you know that
20:58 [Joshua] But she looks just like I remember from all those years ago
20:59 [Wyatt] That's how you know it isn't her
21:00 - Joshua sent [TGlseQ==].png
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This is the last thread in the chat log.
Joshua saw Lily, but apparently she wasn't herself. She was as she appeared "all those years ago," which was a red flag to Wyatt. Joshua didn't seem to recognize that, however, so he was remade. I'm not sure what any of this means.
For some reason, Marionettes handled this error differently than before, with the censorship of certain aspects of it. Perhaps it was an attempt to automatically block whatever it is that's causing these crashes, but it evidently didn't work. Speaking of these errors, I thought it might've been a one-off thing with Riley and Lily's chat log, but it happened again, with the same general context in the conversation.
[TGlseQ==] translates to Lily. The image is corrupted, but I'll try to get it as uncorrupted as possible as soon as I can.
I emailed the email that was shown in the Marionettes BLOCKED message. I wasn't expecting it to really work, but I actually got a response:
If you can't read it, it says: "Hi there! I'm sorry I couldn't reach you, but I'm currently out of town. If you have any queries, please send them to me, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!" The subject was "Out of town", and the signature says that he's Edward Marion, and that he works at Upstaged Communications HR, at Dpt. 85.
I worked at station 85, but I do not remember him.
It appears to be an automatic message, so I'm not sure if he's actually around, but I'll try to email him again later, just in case. I'm still not sure why it'd be a google account.
You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/cnI0g3bkadk
When I attempted to open up the video file in Marionettes, it was automatically blocked by the system, which displayed this standardized message. It's different than what it was before, though; why is the email at the end for gmail? It should be a company email. This means that somebody has updated it since the company shut down.
I will try sending an email to that when I'm able to.
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1:04 [Wyatt] Josh, are you awake?
1:59 [Joshua] Sorry, I was completely zonked. What's up? Is something wrong?
2:02 [Wyatt] Maybe. I'm not sure.
2:03 [Joshua] What happened?
2:05 [Wyatt] I got a message from Riley about [TGlseQ==].
2:05 [Joshua] I don't think I know who that is.
2:06 [Wyatt] She was one of the grips in station 85, which was the third station to fall, if I remember correctly.
2:07 [Joshua] Oh, alright. What'd she say about [TGlseQ==]?
2:07 [Wyatt] [TGlseQ==] saw it.
2:10 [Joshua] What?
2:10 [Wyatt] She went into the building, despite what Riley told her. She saw it. I'm so sorry.
2:15 [Wyatt] Joshua?
2:17 [Joshua] We had to go there anyways. We'll find her.
2:19 [Wyatt] Joshua, I'm sorry, but you know we can't safely approach her. I barely trust Marionettes to even make the building safe.
2:20 [Joshua] I'll figure something out. We're going tomorrow.
2:21 [Wyatt] We can't go tomorrow. Not after what happened to her.
2:27 [Joshua] Fine.
2:28 [Wyat Promise me you won't do anything rash.
2:34 [Joshua] I won't.
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I remember Riley from when I worked at station 85. I was the technician, and she was the main grip, so we worked together rather closely at times. I'm not sure what Wyatt means by "fall", or what he means by it being the 3rd. All I know is that Upstaged existed one day, and then stopped existing the next.
By the sound of it, Joshua is upset about Lily. I don't know who Joshua is. Speaking of Lily, her name has been converted again. Odd.
There are more threads between Joshua and Wyatt, but first I'm going to try to find the one between Wyatt and Riley.
