Riley & Penelope: Chat Log 1

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19:01 [Riley] what are you doing

19:01 [Penelope] Holy shit, Riley? You're still around?

19:01 [Penelope] Are you the one in Station 85?

19:01 [Riley] of course I am

19:01 [Riley] why are you here

19:02 [Penelope] I'm looking into what happened

19:02 [Riley] you should know exactly what happened

19:02 [Riley] you started it

19:02 [Riley] you let in the signal

19:02 [Penelope] I have no idea what you're talking about

19:02 [Riley] I don't believe you

19:02 [Riley] there is no way you could have forgotten about that

19:02 [Penelope] Seriously, what are you talking about?

19:02 [Riley] stop digging around

19:02 [Riley] if you won't admit to letting it in then at least don't make it worse

19:02 [Penelope] Fix what? Riley, what is going on?

19:02 [Riley] what you brought in

This is the conversation I had with Riley yesterday. At this point, the program started glitching heavily. Rather than suffer an error, however, the chat thread itself was blocked by Marionettes. I can no longer access it.

Riley and I used to be close. I don't know why she acted this way, or what she's talking about. I must sound like a broken record at this point, but I genuinely don't understand what I've seen so far.

Email update 3

I sent another email. This time, I got an almost immediate response.

He said "Encore!" The bottom changed, too. It reads "An audience applauded and demanded more". 

I don't know what's going on. I don't know if that's Edward responding, or someone else. Or what whoever it is means by "Encore!" or what Riley was talking about or any of this. 

Something here is wrong.

Marionettes 4 - Room Tracker

Video: https://youtu.be/hCvC0EBTKrs

The room tracker showed that Riley was in Station 85. Then she contacted me. She knew I was on Marionettes. I honest to god don't know what she's talking about, and I don't know what caused the glitching at the end there, or why Marionettes blocked the chat thread after that.

I know there's more to this that I'm not understanding.

And yes, my real name is Penelope. Just for the sake of storage, I will upload the conversation in the video separately tomorrow on here.

Thomas & Nashiko: Chat Log 3

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8:05 [Thomas] Ready for round 2?
8:06 [Nashiko] Yup. We're meeting in the middle again? 
8:06 [Thomas] Yeah.
8:07 [Thomas] You heard anything from Riley?
8:07 [Nashiko] Not yet. She said that she'd tell us when she got here.
8:07 [Thomas] Alright, cool.

8:29 [Thomas] Was Station 85 always this big?
8:31 [Nashiko] No, but you know it's fluctuating. That's why we're looking through it again.
8:31 [Thomas] Yeah, but I didn't realize it'd make the thing bigger.
8:32 [Nashiko] Apparently so.
8:34 [Nashiko] Things are getting pretty glitchy around here.
8:34 - Nashiko sent ZG9vcnM=.jpg
8:35 [Thomas] Remember, if you think you see [TGlseQ==] or the other one, get out of there.
8:35 [Thomas] Speaking of which, I feel pretty bad about forgetting his name; what was it?
8:35 [Nashiko] It's Sm9zaHVh.
8:36 [Thomas] Right, right.

9:04 [Nashiko] Oh, I got a message from Riley.
9:04 [Nashiko] She's outside the building now.
9:08 [Thomas] Good to hear. She coming to the middle too?
9:09 [Nashiko] Yup, she is. She's coming in from where I did, so I'm going to wait for her and go with her.
9:09 [Thomas] Sounds good to me.

9:24 [Nashiko] Thomas, are you there?
9:25 [Thomas] Yes
9:26 [Nashiko] You need to stop right now. According to Marionette's tracker, you're right where [TGlseQ==] was before she was taken.
9:26 [Thomas] You have access to that?
9:27 [Nashiko] I don't, but Riley does.
9:27 [Thomas] Thanks for the warning.
9:29 [Thomas] Although, speaking of which: how does she have access to that? I thought only the devs had access to that, and she wasn't one.
9:32 [Nashiko] She says that she followed a trail someone else left in Marionettes, which let her take control.
9:33 [Nashiko] Apparently that trail is how this all started in the first place.
9:34 [Thomas] Huh, alright.

9:52 [Thomas] Nashiko I'm cornered
9:52 [Thomas] Cornered by two
9:54 [Nashiko] Riley and I are coming.
9:54 [Nashiko] She thinks she has a way to get you out.
9:55 [Nashiko] Can you find a place to hide?
9:55 [Thomas] I'm in a closet, they know I'm around but not specifically here
9:56 - Thomas sent c3Vycm91bmRlZA==.jpg
9:57 [Nashiko] Stay put, Riley and I are on the way.
10:00 - Thomas sent 2222.jpg
10:00 [Nashiko] Don't you dare grab that Thomas.
10:02 [Thomas] It's like how it was before
[MESSAGE BLOCKED]
[MESSAGE BLOCKED]
[MESSAGE BLOCKED]
10:05 [Thomas] I am remade
[MESSAGE BLOCKED]
[MESSAGE BLOCKED]
ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR
ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR 
[!corruption_fix]
- 10%
- 20%
- 22%
[!corruption_fix_failure]
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ZG9vcnM=.jpg recovered. Displaying:

c3Vycm91bmRlZA==.jpg recovered. Displaying:

2222.jpg recovered. Displaying:

Of the things translated to base64 here: [TGlseQ==] decodes to Lily, Sm9zaHVh decodes to Joshua, ZG9vcnM= decodes to doors, and c3Vycm91bmRlZA== translates to surrounded. 2222 shares a name with the image Lily sent Riley, which was also of the same pendant. 

It appears that Thomas and Nashiko are--or were, in Thomas' case--working with Riley, although they didn't mention her until now. I wonder who reached out to who. Maybe Riley reached out to them after whatever happened to Lily happened, in the same way she reached out to Wyatt?

From what I've seen so far, it appears that Riley, Wyatt, and Nashiko are still okay, while Lily, Joshua, and now Thomas have all been taken.

I still don't know the status of Edward Marion, or any other former employees. I'm also not sure what Nashiko and Riley were referring to with a "trail" through Marionettes--do they mean when someone broke into it? I broke into it, as I stated before, but I covered my tracks pretty thoroughly, so I don't know if it refers to me. I'm also not sure how, even if I didn't, that would have caused any issues.

Marionettes appears to have tried yet another method of protecting itself from crashing by deleting and replacing the message instead of just censoring it, but that didn't seem to work, either. It crashed again once whatever happened to Thomas happened.

There was also another image buried in the blocked messages, called RW5jb3Jl.jpg. RW5jb3Jl translates to "Encore" in base64. I'll try my best to get the picture uncorrupted as soon as I can.

I also plan to check out the tracker thing mentioned. There's a program within Marionettes called Room Tracker, which lets me input a station to look at the layout of it, + track individuals in it. 

Marionettes has a lot of unexpected features.

Email update 2

I've been emailing the email in Marionette's BLOCKED message for the past few days, trying to get any different response. I emailed it again today, and it was almost exactly the same, except for one change.

I almost missed it, but at the bottom there's something new. There's a divider, which is made out of eight dashes, a space, then five dashes, and that.

"I am sorry for what you think you have lost"

When I received that weird message while recovering Lily's image, this is what it said before it cut out.

Interesting.

Marionettes 3 - Station Monitor System

You can find the video here: https://youtu.be/X9qBhd5wOC4

I was looking through the latest chat log when this prompt came up. I did not know Marionettes was still monitoring stations, and I don't know how Station 85 can be operational. It died back in 2006, along with the rest of the company. I also don't know what structure integrity means, what "Signal" means, or why it being active apparently requires a warning.

There's a lot I don't know, it seems.

Riley & Wyatt: Chat Log 2

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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.