Lauren Bello

I replied to the Briarberg email in Houdini code, the former TMC cipher of choice. The message decoded to “FUCK NO”.

Their reply: “Interesting but we do not talk in riddles and codes Mrs Bello. That faction has served its purpose.”

My reply: “That faction will have served its purpose when Morgan decides it’s served its purpose. As you go forth…[Read more]

Ummmm, no. Not interested in this “alternative”.

Interesting cc’s…feels like a battle cry.

Gale’s description of the retreats pointed to the theory that the New Moon Ritual was, in fact, a retreat.

The New Moon Ritual

• IG said, “The New moon brought with it New life.”
• The recording sent to Sarah involved a man describing a couple in front of everyone “procreating” – at the time, I thought the word was being used as a synonym for…

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To anyone considering “getting out”…you could always join BOS and fight back.

BOS is definitely NOT Briarberg.

@rizzzoooooo That’s what I expected. It fits. Morgan came tonight expecting to discuss a possible alliance. Once he saw Mason, though, he was out.

I’ll let the others share their experiences, but in the meantime:

Melissa noticed a bunch of empty cold medication containers. Were Briarberg drugging Mason, was that why he was so quiet? Or did he just have a cold?

Larry was told that Briarberg were, essentially, deprogrammers – they help people get out. I do not buy it. At all.

Yes, we tried…[Read more]

With the email from “Darren” coming from Briarberg, and the email from Briarberg coming from TMC, I have to wonder if the OSDM has in fact compromised ALL channels of communication. Who knows if this is even a Briarberg meeting we’re walking into tonight.

For context, it’s interesting to look back on what Tom Barrow said about the Helmet at the iConfidant Meet and Greet:

“We became quite used to our old hippies publicly displaying their watered down version of the New Dawn, the Next Testament, searching for Oracles – that the greedy among us decided to publicly outsource, to get more power. ……

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Wait, if all three organizations are connected…what was the point of acting like they were three different things? And why be so obvious with the Midnight Commission email?

@cass – I think that’s a great point. It sounds like Mason founded Brierberg FIRST, so why not keep it going instead of splitting off with TMC? If he knew Morgan was u…[Read more]

I just got this email:

Lauren Bello,

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Jaime Botkin and I am on the board of the Briarberg Foundation.

We have been following your involvement within The Tension universe, but more specifically your position within the organization known as “BOS”.

You are in a unique position to offer us a dif…

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Darren said he was following in slack and wanted to know if Mason sounded scripted. He seemed concerned, really concerned about the Mason call. He wanted to make sure Travis was here, and then he said he was sorry, and said he’d call me right back, and hung up. …Darren left a voice mail telling me to call him back so I do. That’s when I hea…

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Some thoughts on Gatekeepers, Helmets, and the reality of cults:

If you don’t know what a Gatekeeper is, there’s a history of Tension Gatekeepers here: https://thelustexperience.com/forums/topic/tension-lore-qa/page/2/#post-17424

If you don’t know what the Helmet is or how it works, “Addison’s Journal” contains a description from her POV of the…[Read more]

Horace said that he did get a lot of great reading from this, “especially that Bishop (@bcbishop) fellow.”

Is this the first time the OSDM has openly acknowledged their quest for emotional readings, as opposed to Stacey figuring it out or employees mentioning it in leaked emails?

Does he just figure it doesn’t matter what we know…we’ll sti…[Read more]

Been discussing this in #theories but figured I’d take it here.

Mason was working with a “Collective” whose existence Joyce confirmed and even described to Kristin. If that Collective was BOS, Joyce could have simply said “BOS”. But she didn’t: she seemed to know the type of people who were in the Collective, and described them as “too…[Read more]

I don’t want to speak for someone who isn’t here. But I really, really, REALLY doubt that Morgan was on board with Mason tonight. Morgan has said specifically that BOS doesn’t hurt people. We help them. We would rather risk being gullible, risk being manipulated, than allow anyone to suffer. That just doesn’t jive with home invasions and…[Read more]

This seems so contrary to the Morgan I know that I have to assume…or hope, that Mason is operating outside of what Morgan wants.

Same. This seems like an extremely unstable individual going rogue.