A place to discuss finishing the fourth fragment.
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We used to be all about the missing memories and Brandon as the cure for breaking open this lie of a world. But I think thereās another group that has spread through us like a virus. And I think Iām the only one who knows. Theyāre using us to get to Brandon, to get to youā¦ to get to the Book. Sacha doesnāt see it. Sheās blind. She was our leader and now it feels like sheās being led by someone else.
You have to keep The Timeline, it is important, aligning with Brandon is our best chance to reach him. I still believe that. But I think the Devoted are going to leave you with nothing at the last hour to take this for themselves. Theyāre not telling you everything. At the park, under the bridge, there was a note with the coin that led them to a buried package Thatās where this latest trial came from. The audio from a cassette, and the mazes.
But theyāre not giving you all the information Brandon left behind. Why? Why would they only dole out help at the last minute if they really wanted all of us to make it to the end together? Because theyāre stringing you along, and planning to leave you stranded. They plan on connecting with Brandon by themselves. And now they want your Book of Briars too.
This isnāt the family I joined ten years ago. I donāt know what The Devoted are anymore. So Iām going to help you if I can, tell you everything I know, but you have to pretend on the forum like you discovered it on your own. Please. Iāve seen people disappear for less than this.
Hereās what I know from notes Iāve seen: Begin at the animals. The frog is in the fountain, the mouse is on the mushroom, the lionās at the library.
I donāt know where the owl is (neither do they, but theyāre close) but they know itās hidden unlike the others and they know it has something to do with knowledge.
Please keep me safe and Iāll do what I can to help you beat them. I wanted to reach Brandon, thatās why we all signed on, but I donāt think Sacha is going to let us. So now I just want out. Iāll send more if I find more.
I have to go. For now. We can beat them together.
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Alright Mountaineers, letās take a deep breath.
Iām all for talking to the devoted, but they have to want to talk to us. Broadcasting what weāre doing without any open lines of communication from them to us in an honest way is just screaming in the wind, at best, and helping those trying to harm the book, at worst.
Even if they talked to us, it wonāt be til 3:33pm tomorrow, and we can get so much done between now and then.
Brandon told us all we need to know. We just have to decipher it.
āMind the times. They will show you the final path you have to walk.ā
We need to pay attention to āthe timesā. Every time we saw and were given that we didnāt know what to do with back then.
Some random thoughts on the matter:
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All of brandonās very first voice messages had days and times associated with the file names. Were all those times 3:33? What were the dates? Were any significant?
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2pm, 7pm, and 10pm are times. Although I think @CRSumner already fgured out what they were for, maybe they have another meaning.
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Were there any times mentions in any of Bradonās other voice messages?
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Maybe train schedules? Brandon was āfoundā in a train station after all.
What else could they mean? Have we seen any other notable times?
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We did look into the glass report, never turned up anything except Glaas Reports from the World Health Organization on water quality around the world. Dead end.
I just looked for glass report 1986 and found a report in the NY Times about glass in baby food, and reports on the glass ceiling, which of course made me think of the subway station, but thatās all Iāve been able to find
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@luxisdead please give us that .zip file of all the documents, we need to know the times! As soon as you can give it to us!
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I havenāt listened to his answering machine message in a while, but relistening to it. Are there more odd voices and noises in it than there were before?
http://forestofdarkeningglass.com/dvtsbtxt102986/
I still hear the backwards words evenly spacedā¦but there are other, slower words mixed in now. Were they always there?
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Yeah, those were always there, but I was never able to analyze them very well. My Audacity skills are novice at best. @Mike has sound engineering skills, maybe he could take a look?
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I donāt think we ever fully deciphered every noise in that file perhaps, we missed something.
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@Robert If they were, we didnāt notice them. Itās worth checking out.
@TheBellsAreRinging Zip file come right up!
edit: of course itās being slow, because my wifi canāt be good to me
edit 2: here it is! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2Nbex-atowJU0hXSTlKQTZPc1E/view?usp=sharing
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One more random thought and then Iām off for some shut-eye. Mind the times could also be referring to the New York Times. Or Times Square.
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Been mannying all day and look what I miss. Great job Cole! @Leigha, Iāll go through the file again to see what I can find. I thought those other sounds were just twisted artifacts of what Brandon was saying backwards but it doesnāt hurt to look again.
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Just took a look at the site, read all that was on it and checked the links. Nothing. There isnāt anything on that site that we donāt already know. I even tried the source code (which is something that isnāt even ever involved in this stuff) because I was desperate, but there was nothing.
Oh, @luxisdead, did you ever get to uploading that archive?
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Yes, they did.
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Oh, haha I didnāt see that they posted it already 
oops! Thanks anyways! 
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No problem. Just getting settled this morning myself and making sure I have everything before I start investigating.
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Guys, i know where we need to be looking.
Mind the Times
Maybe itās in that reversed script we could never decipher. Maybe we need to look harder.
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Also, Iām at least 60% sure that ālook down on The Crafterā Means at some point we have to go here
Itās hard to see, but there are glass blocks set into the ground to illuminate the sky lights of the subway station. These are located in the park in front of city hall. When the time comes I can post a map for whoever goes to show where to look for them.
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Oh yeah! You mean the ghost text in the background? I know we saw it but we initially thought it was just nonsense. Thereās two versions too, right?
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In terms of the New York Times being part of this.
āTheyā implies multiple things will show us the path. That might mean the differences between the two versions of the article will show us the path.
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