Marionettes 2 - Lily Image Retrieval

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.

Joshua and Wyatt: Image 1

I uncorrupted the image to the best of my ability. It's still heavily distorted, but there's something visible there now.

I think that's Lily. 

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.

Joshua & Wyatt: Chat Log 3

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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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22:25 [Joshua] I am remade
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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.

Email update

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.

Marionettes 1 - BLOCKED

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.

Riley & Wyatt: Chat Log 1

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12:48 [Riley] wyatt reed? my name's riley donnelly. I think you were at station 48, right? I was at 85, but I filled in for [TGlseQ==] at 48 one time.

12:50 [Wyatt] Oh wow, alright. I think I remember you. I didn't realize there were any other former employees using this.

12:51 [Riley] there are. I'm not sure how many, but there's a lot more of us that remember what happened than I thought at first. all just employees, but still

12:52 [Wyatt] I did not realize that.

12:53 [Riley] yeah. look, I have access to all the logs from marionettes. you're planning on going to the building tomorrow, right? please don't. [TGlseQ==] went there yesterday, and she's gone. she saw it

12:55 [Wyatt] By it, do you mean the pendant?

12:55 [Riley] yeah

12:56 [Wyatt] Holy hell, okay. I didn't realize that was still around. I thought it died with the company.

12:57 [Riley] apparently not. I got a video from her after she saw it. it's safe to watch, don't worry; you can run the check from marionettes if you really want. but watch it, and don't go to the building tomorrow.

12:58 - Riley sent QkxPQ0tFRA==.mp4

1:03 [Wyatt] Jesus Christ. I'll talk to Josh about it. 

1:04 [Riley] good. keep me updated

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I know there was more that I missed in the 3rd chat log between Riley and Lily, but I didn't realize there was a video file there. I'm going to try to find it, uncorrupt it, and upload it to a YouTube channel, which I'll link here. I haven't made one yet, though, so it might take some time.

The file name translates to BLOCKED in base64, which might mean it was blocked by Marionettes. We'll see.

Joshua & Wyatt: Chat Log 2

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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.