Franklin Parrish

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Vapor, Inc.
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Subject: Parrish, Franklin

Vapor, Inc:  Consequential Target Order / Grandiloquent Estate Err Co.

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To:
Vapor Loft Renovation Project: Atlanta Branch
Vapor, Inc.
Box 19743
Atlanta, GA 30325
+1.770.861.8401

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Subject: database clearances 1

Vapor, Inc:  Information existing on current internal reference database has been cleared.  Please observe and correct/remove information threatening security as is necessary if it is considered to be compromised by outside sources.

"What is the gateway?  Where does it lead to?"

 

"Perhaps we should ask the question differently.  Perhaps we should ask ourselves where WE can lead IT."

 

"Can you provide images, or video?  Any sort of proof?"

 

"I will see what I can do for you.  But don't quote me on that."

"It is a well-known phenomenon that we do not notice anything happening in our surroundings while being absorbed in the inspection of something; focusing our attention on a certain object may happen to such an extent that we cannot perceive other objects placed in the peripheral parts of our visual field, although the light rays they emit arrive completely at the visual sphere of the cerebral cortex."

Rezso Bälint, 1907 (translated in Husain and Stein 1988, page 91)

 

Anne Is Scared

24 September 2005 @ 03:09 pm

Missing Information

It looks like Vapor has deleted the wikipedia from their site. I hope this doesn't mean that they've found this journal, read over it, and decided that I'm potentially making a bad name for them. That could be bad in a number of ways.

Some comments (that I removed) have been left in previous posts about encrypted files and "cipher text" on Vapor's Atlanta site... I haven't really looked into what those are all about, but I just want to say that I don't think it's a good idea to be snooping around on their web site and talking about it on my journal. I've had a really weird feeling inside about Vapor, Inc. ever since I noticed the ghost in their video, but I really would be unhappy about them seeing something and thinking that I am compromising their business in any way and then cutting me off of their payroll.

Don't get me wrong! I appreciate that I'm not alone in thinking that something strange is going on with Vapor, but I like the money. I'm thinking about changing this journal over to "friends-only", anyway, just in case Vapor has discovered and taken an interest in it. Things might be safer that way. What do you think I should do?

I'll think about it while I'm out. I'm tending the bar tonight while the guys play a long set of classic jazz numbers, so I have to go and help them set things up before they open. I think that they'll have a really good turn out tonight. I also need to ask Moses if he or any of the rest of the guys have any audio production experience. Maybe I'll let them see the tape.

Don't Follow Me

Don't Follow Me

From:
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To: Parrish, F.
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What is worth dying for? Love? Like ghosts, it doesn't exist.

Love Notes Gallery

The Second Voice

28 September 2005 @ 02:06 am

A Second Voice, Updated

I'm not sure how he accomplished it, but it seems that Mr. Paris has some connections who know how to work with difficult audio files, and he followed through with an unbelievably more intelligible clip of the second voice from the Vapor promotional tape.

The Second Voice

Needless to say, just like the unexplainable ghost image in the video, the voice in the audio makes me feel more than a little anxious and nervous, and even a little frightened of what's really going on in Atlanta. On the other hand, the more that I look into Vapor's Atlanta project, the more interesting it becomes to me. It seems like every question leads to two or three others, and I've gotten some thought provoking emails from some people checking out the Vaporlofts web site that have started to make me really wonder why it is that I'm involved with them in the first place.

Perhaps ominously, Vapor hasn't returned any of my phone calls or emails lately. I suppose it's possible that they've written me off of their payroll already, and they're just waiting for me to take the hint and go away. It's not very professional of them.

I've got to take a copy of this audio clip up to the bar. I'm sure that the guys will be really interested in hearing the voice extraction that Mr. Paris's connections performed. They'll also be able to tell me if he faked it somehow in order to gain my approval, which is entirely possible.

Floorplans Are Back

Top left = POWER CONTROL
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Top middle = Rear Courtyard Entry
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A One Night Stand

Hello, Glitch.

Pretty forward of you to ask, I'd say. I'm heading out right now, so I'll make this pretty simple. What I haven't said is kind of personal, but I'm not really big on secrets, either.

I met Frank Parrish (aka Mr. Paris - what a stupid nickname) when I was on vacation in Paris earlier this year. The long and the short of it is that I ended up drinking way too much and didn't really feel like going home alone. The next day, he took me to Gare Du Nord station, where he proceeded to drop my camera while attempting to be charming. I was so angry!

He posted the Craigslist missed connection ad after that, I guess, politely avoiding mentioning the night before (such a gentleman), but still dropping enough clues so that I'd know it was him. I didn't want to really acknowledge him, because I thought I'd never hear from him again after that, but recently he turned up on my journal, so it seems that he's back (for the time being).

Anyway, I've gotta run. Don't worry, everything will be fine. He doesn't know where I live.

Anne

Family

01 October 2005 @ 03:07 pm

Family

The thing about Jenna is that she doesn't usually stay in one place for very long. I was surprised that she decided to stay in New York after her apartment was basically destroyed by vandals. She said that her friends there needed her, at least for a little bit longer, and that she'd be there for a little longer before she started considering new cities. I met a couple of her friends while I was up there, and they're a really eclectic group of people. She fits in with them so well. It's almost as if she's finally found a family that's worth holding on to.

I've been thinking about things like that a lot this week. While I keep an apartment here as a kind of "home base", I try to get away and travel whenever possible. What are we running from? What are we searching for? Family?

There's no broken home story here. My parents were still married all the way up until the day that my father died of a heart attack a few years ago. My mother passed a few months after that.

Jenna and I had a normal enough childhood. We spent a lot of summers with Gran and every now and then a weekend or two with my grandfather on the other side of the family. Summers were for adventure, winters were for studies. There were a lot of things that our family never talked about though, like Gran's love of all things magical, mystical, and mysterious (and why the subject was always off limits with my parents).

If Jenna's found the thing that she's been looking for, then where does that leave me? While I'm not looking for a family in the same way as Jenna may have been, I definitely feel like something is missing from my life. Some days, I feel like I'm checking my watch, waiting for someone who's late to arrive, without any idea as to if they'll even show up at all.

It’s a simple bronze milestone, sealed in a stone of the parvis, about twenty metres from the cathedral. Completely concentrated looking at the western façade of the church, the tourists just trample on it, pass by, don’t notice it without ever seeing it. It is true that nothing announces its presence; only that discreet inscription: ”Point zero des routes de France”. But this milestone is important: it materializes the zero point of France, since several centuries, from where distances are calculated between Paris and other French or foreign cities. The stone was sealed on 10th of October 1924 on the proposal of municipal adviser Georges Lemarchand.

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To: Parrish, F.
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VaporLofts London, Tokyo & Johannesburg

And he asked him, What [is] thy name? And he answered, saying, My name [is] Legion: for we are many.

How Shinpu Ofuda Saved The City

A long time ago, there was a river city in the valley, and the people there lived and worked off of the land and the river, and they were happy. It was a time of peace throughout the valley and the neighboring lands.

There was a man who was More Than A Man who lived and worked among the people of the city of the valley, and his name was Shinpu Ofuda. Ofuda did many jobs around the city, helping out his neighbors whenever he could with whatever they needed. Being skilled with lumbering in the forest, he helped to mill the wood that was used to build the docks at the shipyards. With his knowledge of agriculture, he helped to plan the best ways to dig the canals the farmers needed for irrigation. Since he was much stronger than many men, he helped to carry the stones on his back from the nearby mountains which were used to construct the holy temple in the city square.

One day, when Shinpu, carrying a great sword which had been in his family for generations, was exploring new hunting grounds in the forest, he came upon a great and mighty stone. The stone was easily as large as the town square, and although it was buried partially beneath the earth, it rose almost to the tops of the tallest trees surrounding Shinpu.

"How did this stone come to rest in the middle of the forest?" Shinpu wondered as he investigated the surface of the rock, which appeared to be almost as old and worn as the world itself. 

"Perhaps it is the top of a mountain, and not a stone at all," he reasoned. "I will try to overturn this stone," he decided, "for underneath all stones are great secrets, and if it is a mountain, then it will not budge."

With that, Shinpu began to push as hard as he could upon the side of the stone. With a great amount of effort, and after a few moments, the stone began to budge. This encouraged Shinpu, and he redoubled his efforts at overturning the rock. Many days and nights passed as Shinpu worked on gaining proper leverage for overturning the rock. Finally, he decided to use his sword to pry beneath the edge of the rock and overturn it. After a few more hours of work, the rock seemed to move as if a force below it was pushing it over, and Shinpu fell to the ground, exhausted, as the ancient rock slid across the ground, knocking over trees and generating an incredible rumble, like an earthquake.

A demon who had been hiding in the darkness and the cold beneath the stone rose out of a hole in the ground that the stone had previously covered with an explosive blast of wind, laughing, and flew into the air, heading in the direction of the city by the river!

Shinpu saw this, and realised that he had unleashed this demon, and though he was exhausted, he rose to his feet and ran as fast as he could to the city by the river.

When he arrived, he saw that the demon had already ravished many parts of the city, spreading fire and destruction, and he had destroyed the temple. 

"Shinpu, you must save us!" cried the people of the city. 

Shinpu drew his great sword, once again, and engaged the demon in a fierce battle which lasted for many hours but appeared to be evenly drawn. Whenever the Shinpu would gain a tactical advantage over the demon, the demon would find a way to reverse their standings. Whenever the demon would use his tail to attempt a fatal blow, Shinpu would block it with his forearms or his sword. AS the battle raged on, the duelists moved closer and closer to the dam which controlled the flow of the river into the city and contained the lake which was on the other side of the mountains.

Finally, Shinpu had the demon pinned, and he prepared to deliver a final crushing blow to the demon, but the demon was very intelligent, and knew of the ways of battle and that Shinpu loved the city on the river and the people who lived there. The demon used his tail to smash into the dam, and the waters of the lake were immediately unleashed, washing over both Shinpu and the demon, but more importantly, heading for the city on the river.

Shinpu was faced with a difficult decision then. Would he destroy the demon that he had unleashed, or would he release the demon from his grasp and attempt to save the city? For Shinpu, there was only one choice that could be made, for he knew that if he released the demon, it would be free to destroy many other cities, perhaps even the world, and he did not know that he could stop the flood waters before they reached the city. 

Shinpu Ofuda struck the demon with all of the might remaining in him, delivering a deadly blow that instantly killed the demon. The blow to the demon impacted with such force that Shinpu's sword was broken, and the pieces flew into the air.

As the fates would have it, one of the larger pieces of Shinpu's sword fell into the path of the oncoming floodwaters, and when the waters arrived, they were parted to either side of the city. Shinpu noticed this, and though he was exhausted and injured from his efforts at overturning the rock in the forest and then battling the demon who had attacked the city, he knew that he had a chance to save the people of the city. He once again ran into the city.

When he arrived, he began to move the stones that had once been the holy temple into a large pile where the fragment of his sword was diverting the rushing floodwaters. 

This is how the city on the river became the island city between two rivers, and also how Shinpu Ofuda saved the city.

Anne Spills the Beans

09 October 2005 @ 03:54 am

Why Not?

Just a quick update:

Yesterday I decided to roll the dice by sending an e-mail to Vapor about the ghost video, along with the attached video file and audio samples. The image on the tape has been bothering me since I first noticed it, so I decided it was time to stop wondering and get their opinion on what could have caused the face and voice to appear in the video. I haven't heard back from them yet, and don't really expect to until early next week, but I thought I'd make a note of it here.
Hope all is well for you.

Gateway Errors

To:
Vapor Loft Renovation Project: Atlanta Branch
Vapor, Inc.
Box 19743
Atlanta, GA 30325
+1.770.861.8401


Subject: Current Research & Development Studies, Image Errors


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Please use care when uploading images to the Vaporlofts server. Data errors in images must not be permitted.

Conversations

Anne Adds an Image Backup

i'm all alone in here

i shouldn't be

messing with her files like this

i feel like my job is in danger but i don't think they know that i am leaking information to the world yet

DO NOT TRUST PARIS

i am an agent for vaporlofts

if they find out that i am leaking information they will surely kill me

JUST LIK ETHEY

JUST LIKE THEY DID WITH BELTON

another failed experiment?

Samurai (? or sometimes ?) is a common term for a warrior in pre-industrial Japan.

Most samurai were bound by a strict code of honor (??? bushido-) and were expected to set an example for those below them. A disgraced samurai could regain honor and respect by committing suicide by a gruesome and painful means: stabbing himself in the stomach with his own sword, an act called seppuku (??). When time was available, samurai would have a friend or student, called a kaishaku (??, executioner), decapitate them after the initial cut across the abdomen. Even in death, samurai were beholden to honor.

Mr. Paris Speaks Latin

The Invitation

15 October 2005 @ 04:23 pm

The Invitation

I heard back from Vapor about the ghost footage. They said that they'd review the tape for anything unusual. They said that no one involved in the Atlanta renovation project has reported anything like that to them, and that they'd investigate the matter promptly to see if it is some sort of prank on the part of one of their crew members.

They also invited me to Atlanta for a tour of their project grounds, insisting that they'd foot the tab for my travel expenses. This would be an excellent opportunity for me to travel to a city I've never been to before as well as check out the lofts.

I have some hesitation about leaving, though. I've been working a lot more down at the bar, and have lost interest in doing work for other potential clients who've been contacting me. The tips that I make at the bar are more than enough to supplement the regular paycheck that Vapor's still sending to me.

I talked to Shinpu (I still don't think that's his real name, for the record) about taking a few days to go down to Atlanta. He sipped his coffee, as usual, and didn't say anything for a moment. He regarded me, unblinking eyes never breaking contact with mine, then suddenly he looked away (I was always good at staring contests).

"You're not even officially on our payroll, Anne," he said. "Follow the path that suits you the best."

It was a rather strange response, but Shinpu never talks that much, really, and when he does it's more often than not the kind of thing you've got to think about for a minute. I felt like he disapproved of the idea, but that he was being polite.

"Do you disapprove?" I asked.

"Do you feel that I should?" he replied, questioning me. Before I could answer, though, he continued. "If you feel that going to Atlanta is the only way to answer the questions that you're asking yourself, then you already know what you're going to do."

Good point.

I've emailed Vapor again to let them know that I'm interested in taking them up on the offer.

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Towards Death...err, Atlanta

20 October 2005 @ 03:12 am

Towards Atlanta

I finally heard back from Vapor about the trip to see their Atlanta project. If everything goes well, I should head out early next week. I haven't told Shinpu yet, but I'm hoping that he's still supportive of my decision when I do let him know.

I'll be in Atlanta for three or four days, since they are insisting that I tour the city while I'm there to get a general feel for its style and the way the people in the area "live, work, and play". In other words, I'll do a quick tour of their project and then it's time for a short vacation (and possibly some innocent snooping)!

I'd post more details about the trip, but I don't think it's really the best idea with my current track record for running into suspicious characters while travelling about.

I'll keep you updated if anything changes and will definitely make a post when I get back home again. I'm really hoping that this trip will shed some light on the strangeness that seems to surround Vapor, Inc.

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