From: laura@karr.aol.com
To: john@soda.berkeley.edu
CC:
Subj: Help!
Received: From laura@karr.aol.com by soda.berkeley.edu
Sun, 8 Oct 1995 20:36:26 PST
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 18:34:15 MST
John? It’s Laura! You gotta help me, I’m in deep trouble. I’m at the institute, I feel so strange. They’ve got me hooked up to this machine, and I’m cold, I can’t feel a thing. I’m afraid they’ll pull the plug on me, joh;owqihefp8y2er99@@oweh934yrhflknflkjsndfk
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Then the message breaks off and continues for a while with several kilobytes of ASCII-trash. Attempts to mail back are futile, as the Internet connection is now offline.
The message is from Laura Sinclair, with whom the recipient (John) has extensive email communication. Six weeks ago, Laura, a psychology student with a background in computer science, left college to participate in some kind of cutting-edge research program with the Karr Research Institute located about 35 miles outside Golden, Colerado. Laura never told the investigator what kind of research she was to do there, but she was very excited about it. The investigator hasn’t heard from Laura since.
However, there is something weird going on. The email is dated around 6:30 p.m. and was sent from the Karr institute. However, according to Golden, Colorado authorities, Laura died in a climbing accident near the Institute. She was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. on the day the email was sent – a full three hours before she sent the message!
Possibilities
1 The Karr Institute, high up and isolated in the Rocky Mountains, has recently been taken over by the mi-go, who run a mining operation nearby. The Fungi from Yuggoth killed the scientists and placed their brains in control cylinders. They attached Laura’s brain to the institute’s powerful mainframe computer in order to examine this human technology. The mi-go dumped the bodies in a crevice, but accidently dropped Laura’s, which was found.
In a clear moment, Laura’s brain sent the email to John. After noticing this, the Fungi disabled all the computer’s connections to the outside world and have since left.
Laura’s body, with its surgically removed brain, has caused a stir in some parts of the FBI. News of the body’s odd mutilation has been quietly suppressed as the authorities mount their own investigation.
2 It is a trap. An old enemy of the investigators infiltrated the harmless Karr Institute and murdered Laura. He staged a climbing accident and then wrote the mysterious email to get the investigators attention. If they take the bait, the villain will blow up the only bridge to the institute, trapping them. Then he, she, or it, summons a dimensional shambler to drag his enemies to screaming hell.
3 The Karr Institute is headed by Dr Lawrence Karr, a brilliant but unscrupulous psychologist. Karr, funded by a secret government agency, runs a research project in human-computer communications combining virtual reality technology, neuronal networks, hypnosis and certain drugs. Karr’s real goal is to establish mind control with virtual-reality enhanced hypnotic messages. He has met with success.
But something went wrong. Laura, a latent psychic, somehow merged her mind with the institute’s computer during an experiment, leaving her body dead. Karr panicked and had his brainwashed assistants stage a climbing accident in order to avoid investigation.
Laura’s mind, trapped in the computer, managed to access the email program and write a message to the investigator at 6:30 p.m. Karr noticed and turned the computer off, garbling part of the message.
Any investigation runs into a dead end - and the cover-up operation of a government project turned sour.
© Markus Huenemoerder
To: john@soda.berkeley.edu
CC:
Subj: Help!
Received: From laura@karr.aol.com by soda.berkeley.edu
Sun, 8 Oct 1995 20:36:26 PST
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 18:34:15 MST
John? It’s Laura! You gotta help me, I’m in deep trouble. I’m at the institute, I feel so strange. They’ve got me hooked up to this machine, and I’m cold, I can’t feel a thing. I’m afraid they’ll pull the plug on me, joh;owqihefp8y2er99@@oweh934yrhflknflkjsndfk
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Then the message breaks off and continues for a while with several kilobytes of ASCII-trash. Attempts to mail back are futile, as the Internet connection is now offline.
The message is from Laura Sinclair, with whom the recipient (John) has extensive email communication. Six weeks ago, Laura, a psychology student with a background in computer science, left college to participate in some kind of cutting-edge research program with the Karr Research Institute located about 35 miles outside Golden, Colerado. Laura never told the investigator what kind of research she was to do there, but she was very excited about it. The investigator hasn’t heard from Laura since.
However, there is something weird going on. The email is dated around 6:30 p.m. and was sent from the Karr institute. However, according to Golden, Colorado authorities, Laura died in a climbing accident near the Institute. She was pronounced dead at 3:30 p.m. on the day the email was sent – a full three hours before she sent the message!
Possibilities
1 The Karr Institute, high up and isolated in the Rocky Mountains, has recently been taken over by the mi-go, who run a mining operation nearby. The Fungi from Yuggoth killed the scientists and placed their brains in control cylinders. They attached Laura’s brain to the institute’s powerful mainframe computer in order to examine this human technology. The mi-go dumped the bodies in a crevice, but accidently dropped Laura’s, which was found.
In a clear moment, Laura’s brain sent the email to John. After noticing this, the Fungi disabled all the computer’s connections to the outside world and have since left.
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| The dimensional shambler attacks! |
2 It is a trap. An old enemy of the investigators infiltrated the harmless Karr Institute and murdered Laura. He staged a climbing accident and then wrote the mysterious email to get the investigators attention. If they take the bait, the villain will blow up the only bridge to the institute, trapping them. Then he, she, or it, summons a dimensional shambler to drag his enemies to screaming hell.
3 The Karr Institute is headed by Dr Lawrence Karr, a brilliant but unscrupulous psychologist. Karr, funded by a secret government agency, runs a research project in human-computer communications combining virtual reality technology, neuronal networks, hypnosis and certain drugs. Karr’s real goal is to establish mind control with virtual-reality enhanced hypnotic messages. He has met with success.
But something went wrong. Laura, a latent psychic, somehow merged her mind with the institute’s computer during an experiment, leaving her body dead. Karr panicked and had his brainwashed assistants stage a climbing accident in order to avoid investigation.
Laura’s mind, trapped in the computer, managed to access the email program and write a message to the investigator at 6:30 p.m. Karr noticed and turned the computer off, garbling part of the message.
Any investigation runs into a dead end - and the cover-up operation of a government project turned sour.
© Markus Huenemoerder
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