Bryan Bishop

@thebuz: I just updated the Character List with information from today. Will be adding to it as stories are shared, so feel free to update forum thread whenever seems appropriate.

Got a second email from my iConfidant tonight.

My first contact had been a @mike special: “Do you like it warm?”

I responded back with a long email about thinking about warmth in terms of home, and security, and just about every other variation possible.

Tonight I got: “Thank you for that great response. I like it warm too. In many ways. Do…[Read more]

Well said @mike. We shouldn’t be trying to steal a job from a wonderful, if financially desperate, man – even if we think it’s dangerous. We should try to help him find a way to not need that job in the first place.

I’m worried about Otis. 🙁

Clifton’s rules all. That’s the spot if they’re open. Good call @thebuz.

Received one as well, just past noon. Number in subject line with my name, simple five word question for email body.

Personally, I’m quite looking forward to seeing what kind of relationship I can build with my iConfidant. The possibility of moving the conversation to a private email address is even more intriguing.

Just one thing gives me pause: isn’t “exhilarating” an odd way to describe an overwhelming data throughput issue? Unless one was excited at the…[Read more]

Just received the below about my iConfidant “pairing process.”

Hello,

I am very excited to inform you that we have begun the pairing process between you and your iConfidant. All correspondence with your iConfidant will come through our secure iConfidant email servers. It is paramount that when responding to your new iConfidant match you always…[Read more]

Just received the below about my iConfidant “pairing process.”

Hello,

I am very excited to inform you that we have begun the pairing process between you and your iConfidant. All correspondence with your iConfidant will come through our secure iConfidant email servers. It is paramount that when responding to your new iConfidant match you always…[Read more]

One other thing worth mentioning: if Granik is confirmed as OSDM, it means we already have the names of several other OSDM members from the previous dead drop email.

-Douglas Marrow

-Brian Blattman

-Melanie Aberdeen

Oh snap! Incredible find!

@kevin right now:

Things are suddenly starting to make a lot of sense.

For whatever reason, Sarah has found herself in a position where she (and potentially her son) were in actual physical harm if things with The System went sideways.

She was acting rash, and militant, and overly aggressive when it came to the press releases and everything else not because she…[Read more]

I was under the impression that giant spiders would not be part of this experience. Help?

@thebuz One big universe, totally, but exactly how literal those connections are (or what forces lurk behind curtains that haven’t been pulled back yet)… we shall see. One thing’s for sure: I don’t expect anything to be as it looks at first glance. 😀

@maxzumstein – first off, I just wanted to say don’t feel bad about posting your comment at all. Talking about all of these things from all different angles is the trick to figuring out how a fragmented narrative fits together, so keep posting away. 🙂

To your specific point, I don’t think we have any idea what the “real” story is at this point.…[Read more]

@lenize: @nothenrygale maybe that’s exactly the point! What if they want us to stop “playing” this as a game and just… I don’t know… “living” the game? What better way is there than to throw us into absolute confusion as to what it’s supposed to be and what is IG and OOG and part of this or that storyline. Just pulling the rug out under us comp…

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@nothenrygale I think it’s probably best to not think of this as a game, and more as a movie. And this one is shaping up to be an Altman or PT Anderson film that takes its time to reveal itself, conversation by conversation, and by the end we’ll be so invested we won’t even question why frogs are raining down upon us.

LOVE THIS.

The comments Marcos made seem to indicate that he is part of a group (he’s an investor, per @thegilded) that are aware of both Tension and Lust as “productions” – things that all of us engage in, rather than being actual, factual realities.

Him asking if @theladyj believed everything she’d seen thus far seems like a huge clue in this…[Read more]