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Jegger
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 Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 12:53 pm Post subject: Stacy? |
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Does anybody here know a Stacy from Miskatonic University? I think she was in Computer Science.
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Mkaos
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Stacy? The name rings a bell. An old sentry? 
Howard - didn't you go to Miskatonic? Any of your fellow alums here?
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HPhack
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Howard - didn't you go to Miskatonic? Any of your fellow alums here? |
I dropped out and was in the tiny grad program, which means they wouldn't be "fellow alum". I think Peter did a visiting scholar program there after I left (but, god, we haven't seen him around here in ages.) I try not to think too much about the graduate degree I didn't finish.
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Phaedra
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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Peter's another pre-crash sentry? How about Scott?
And Howard, was there a faculty massacre at Miskatonic on Halloween?  |
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Jegger
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Just curious. I talked to her for a little while online about a year ago, and it occurred to me that she mentioned Sentry Outpost. It went in one ear and out the other at the time, but it popped back into my head recently. Small world, huh? She dropped off the planet not long after I started talking to her, so I didn't know her well at all. She did mention some pretty weird stuff happening at school though. Something to do with some faculty deaths or something? I think it was around Halloween. Makes me think of Michael Myers [shudder][/i] |
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HPhack
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes it feels like it is getting claustrophobicly small, Jegger. Between Lovecraft's campy horror memorializations and then that massacre in 1999, it was a strange time to be in Arkham. I'm not sure their CS program ever recovered, what with the cultish implication of the murders and all. I'm much happier in Boston.
I think the Stacy Marie is thinking is someone else, wasn't she one of Jen's friends?
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Phaedra
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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Can you tell us more about it, Howard?
Or is there something online about it? A memorial page or something? |
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| HPhack wrote: |
| I think the Stacy Marie is thinking is someone else, wasn't she one of Jen's friends? |
*Was* being the key word, there. The only Stacy from here that I remember was the blonde one with the bad attitude. I liked her for a while - we had similar feelings about a lot of things, which was endearing. Plus, being in a program surrounded by nerdy, unsocialized men, I needed some females to play Slumber Party with (which is also why Marie is such a good friend  ) She didn't go to Miskatonic, though, for sure. Some backwoods, small, state school, if I remember right.
She used to push some buttons around here. I was honestly relieved when she left. She was like sandpaper. It was getting difficult to pretend to be smiling - I don't know how those Miss America girls do it 
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HPhack
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Can you tell us more about it, Howard?
Or is there something online about it? A memorial page or something? |
Gawd, I hope there isn't. If it is, it is probably same kind of trashy tabloid Weekly World News coverage that always comes when they can't recover the bodies and have no suspects. The way they trolled for students willing to say whatever outrageous rumor was circulating the campus for a $100 was absolutely depressing.
CS professors plus spelunking gear equals disaster without resorting to such improbabilities as the rumor their spelunking guides betrayed them, left them dead a half mile underground, and then disappeared into the night. Satanists, Chorazos cultists, the Illuminati and Mothers Against Drunk Driving all got fingers pointed at them (but I think the later was in The Onion, which you can take with a grain of salt.) Crazy thing it was really a physics experiment, the CS faculty were just along for support.
Why the sudden prurient interest?
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Jegger
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, must've been a different Stacy. Maybe she knew Peter and learned about Sentry Outpost that way. You said 'cultish'. "My" Stacy didn't mention anything about cults. She actually was rather vague about it, but I imagine she didn't want to remember it too vividly. With all of this Yogh-Sothoth blah blah blah, and Miskatonic is in Arkham, do you think that they could be related? Man, I can't imagine actually going to Miskatonic. I think that I'd be just a little freaked out, even though I know there's nothing to it. They don't happen to have a "Necronomicon" in the Library, do they? LOL |
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Phaedra
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| HPhack wrote: |
| Why the sudden prurient interest? |
Oh, just a fragment of text found in one of those files we got at port 1031.
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| ars later. To think that I actually used to enjoy Halloween. Now it just makes me think of faculty massacres. I'm getting out of here, get a fresh start someplace like Bo |
The reference to a fresh start in what I'd assume is Boston made me wonder if it was something you had written.
ETA: With what you've said above, was this you as well?
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| u thinking you'll get some hot Weekly World News scoop from me to round out your CV? You're essentially ruining my one lifeline of support when I have to worry about private messg |
I'm sorry to hear about this. It must have been awful. I think I would have switched schools just to get away.  |
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HPhack
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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| ars later. To think that I actually used to enjoy Halloween. Now it just makes me think of faculty massacres. I'm getting out of here, get a fresh start someplace like Bo |
Huh, I remember writing something like that a few years ago, so there are chunks of the old discussions in there, huh?
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| With all of this Yogh-Sothoth blah blah blah, and Miskatonic is in Arkham, do you think that they could be related? Man, I can't imagine actually going to Miskatonic. I think that I'd be just a little freaked out, even though I know there's nothing to it. |
It attracted more than the normal share of freaks and trust fund babies, even for a little liberal arts school. The fact the investigators decided the basecamp they found underground was last used on Halloween was like the worst PR move in the history of law enforcement. Everyone loves a good Halloween horror story, even if they have to play loose with the facts to make it sexy. Disgusting, really, the dark side of human nature.
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| They don't happen to have a "Necronomicon" in the Library, do they? LOL |
Oh, that was always the rumor, even on campus. One "secret society" of trust fund babies or another always claimed to have an unlimited access to the rare documents collection and "all the secrets of Miskatonic". Cue the "muwahahahahahaha" villian laughs. But, in all seriousness, not just anyone can wander into a rare works collection, so the rumors persist.
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| HPhack wrote: |
| CS professors plus spelunking gear equals disaster without resorting to such improbabilities as the rumor their spelunking guides betrayed them, left them dead a half mile underground, and then disappeared into the night. Satanists, Chorazos cultists, the Illuminati and Mothers Against Drunk Driving all got fingers pointed at them (but I think the later was in The Onion, which you can take with a grain of salt.) Crazy thing it was really a physics experiment, the CS faculty were just along for support. |
Is that what this bit we found refers to?
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| d, who knows? Makes no sense what so ever. Something about heavy particle detection and noise cancelation. Spelunking sounded fun at the time, but now it is the stuff of nightm |
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HPhack
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Is that what this bit we found refers to?
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| d, who knows? Makes no sense what so ever. Something about heavy particle detection and noise cancelation. Spelunking sounded fun at the time, but now it is the stuff of nightm |
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Yup, that's probably me again, but that must be even older than the other fragment (to be honest, I've forgotten the fact that I ever once ever for a moment thought "spelunking sounded fun" but there it is.)
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HPhack
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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[ETA: With what you've said above, was this you as well?
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| u thinking you'll get some hot Weekly World News scoop from me to round out your CV? You're essentially ruining my one lifeline of support when I have to worry about private messg |
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Crap. Just noticed your edit. Bryce: looks like whatever that corrupted datapool is has old PRIVATE messages in it. What the hell can we do about that?
Jeeze, I remember that message too. That was when I really had my falling out with Peter. He was relentless in probing me for details, just like all those macabre journalist vultures. Ends up his interest was purely academic in the experiment, but like I said, it was a physics experiment that needed alot of CS support.
I sound whiney in retrospect. History can be cruel.
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