Flash Drive: "eat_me_alive"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC3qM0cYhNg&feature=channel_video_title

This standalone video's filename bears resemblance to that of the earlier Notepad. The video seems to freeze or pause multiple times. That might either be a glitch, or Sam edited it to point things out.

Flash Drive: "tripdownB"

I found the follow-up to "tripdownA." I have no idea who that other person is. o_o

Flash Drive: Notepad titled "EATING ME"

Well. I think we're going to get some answers now.

It is eating me alive from within, tearing at my pores and forcing my insides out through whatever openings they can find.

Oh, my god, please help.dddddddddddd It really hurts

It wants to eat the topographic ocean.

It wants to eat epping forest.

It's already eating its way out.

No one runs faster than it eats.

It eats so fast.

It is eating me alive from within, tearing at my pores and ngjjgjfhergidgddtrrfcirn rough whatever openings they can find.

Please believe me, mom. It is eating its way out of the pond. It wants to eat the topographic ocean.

If it eats the topogapaghic oeawen we'll all ciie. Itf iwl get full control of the wsolrdd's watefd and rplace it with its ikjn.

y vidsoon is alreyad getting foggy. It's eating my eyes from the inside.

It's eating its way out.

No one runs faster than it eats.

No one runs faster than it.

It's eating so fast.

Sleep on, fly on. In your mind, it can eat.

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In your ind, it can meat.

Its teeth grin oddly today. They seem more jagged than normal.

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I'm my own planet.

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turns and runs nothing can stop it

along every river and canal its power is grownig

It is invincible.

Hybrid children watch the sea

Pray for father, roaming free.

Face the thing that should not be.

This started to catch the attention of the unbranched.

Every nerve torn apart. My ship, the rocinante, aaaar9fdkoix

Swimming, disappearing, hellish dream, flooding into the dark eternal night.

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Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.

..or maybe not.

Flash Drive: "feedback"

I found a standalone video. I don't recognize the location or anything at all.

Flash Drive: "questionmark1"

So one of the first things I noticed about the original videos I posted was that they all had names that implied multiple parts. I'm looking specifically for "questionmark," "static," and "tripdown." I found the first questionmark, and here you go.

Flash Drive: Photos part 2

Flash Drive: Photos part 1

Stuff.

I've found all kinds of interesting things in the flash drive, but oh my god my internet sucks today. It'll take me a while to upload stuff.

Flash Drive: "tripdownA" plus photo

This appears to be the only photograph in the initial flash drive.. thing. Everything else is inside the folder in the video. I thought this was special, so I uploaded it. There is also a video.

Anything uploaded from the flash drive past this entry is from that huge folder shown in the video.

I will try to filter what gets posted and what doesn't. Only the interesting.

Flash Drive: "questionmark2"

Up the stairs? Is that Sam's room, I wonder? And that song.. I recognize that song, without a doubt. That's Genesis' "The Battle of Epping Forest."

Flash Drive: "staticB"

This was the first video on the flash drive. I think Sam made this. This whole flash drive was probably hers.

Well, I cracked that flash drive!

So I checked it. I love this video camera, guys; I really do.

Will upload contents of flash drive as I get to them. Judging from how Blogger responds to videos, the videos I find on here may take a bit.

Tesco helps.

My brother told me to bring my camera with me to Tesco, as we were going to get some drinks. ..so there you go, I recorded this. Going there really helped; I feel so much better now. .w.

I think I'm going to take a crack at that flash drive now.

Life, the universe, and leave me alone.

I'd check through that damn flash drive, but just fuck it for now. Please. I got my daily figurative kick in the face, courtesy of life. I hate it when this happens. And yet it happens every day.

Sorry. I feel horrible. I'm emotionally unstable, have been for months now. This whole Sam deal, the investigation, it's an obsession I've needed for a while now. It takes my mind off of things. But right now, my emotions have gone well past the point of getting distracted by something. So just.. give me a bit. A night, tops. I'll check out the flash drive.

I took a walk, part 3: Findings

You may have noticed that the video last entry fucks up at the end. Well, yeah. Lemme tell you what happened. There was nothing different in there. Sam was still there. Though I actually looked around this time. This was on one of the chairs, so I took it and left.

I thought I saw some thin cables up the stairs. I might check up there next time.

In the meantime, I'm checking out this flash drive.

I took a walk, part 2: Video FINALLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivlucKZYEcM

Uploaded to YouTube. Finally. Like I said, the camera deleted the first half the video. Here's the second.

I took a walk, part 2: Video

..FUCK IT WON'T UPLOAD.

I also recorded a lot, but FIRST OF ALL, the camera suddenly decided to erase most of it. Now Blogger won't upload the stuff I did record.

I took a walk, part 1: Photographs

Hey, guys! I took a walk down today. I love my camera, so I took it with me. And I took some pictures!

I admit, my video camera isn't the best photo-taker in the world. But I passed by this dark alley, and oooooh, it's so spooky. >w< I keep expecting to see the slender man in there. So I snap'd that shot.

There's a lot of cool things in here-- a suspicious door leading to a suspicious dark alley, an awesome old-looking pillar.. and.. uh.. a trash can! 8D

That's a cool building. I dunno. I felt like taking a picture.

I don't even need to say what's awesome about this picture.

Sleep, Deep in the Derp

Tired. God, a lot happened today.

Now I'm just kicking back in bed, heart as warm as a submissive boy's heart can get...

Oh, and to throw out yet another prog ramble, Coheed & Cambria's "The Willing Well" is one of my all-time favourite songs ever. I always completely forget to mention it, but it's a downright classic. The title movement, From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, is in all possible ways a progressive master..movementpiece. It's taken me quite a while to get used to the follow-up epic, "The End Complete," but that one's also grown on me. They're structured differently, and the former is quite a tad longer than the latter, but they're both classics in their own ways.

All in all, the collective Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV would have been one HELL of a double album. They should release it as one. With Volume One's cover art. Seriously, that shit's great. Or maybe they could throw on the promotional Willing Well art that's on the back of Volume One's case? That'd make for a gorgeous cover.

Oh, but while I'm on the subject, do you want to know my literally only major complaint about "The Willing Well?" At the end of the final movement (The Final Cut), as the keyboard solo ends absolutely brilliantly, we suddenly hear the silence broken by none other than a little child's muttering. This continues for several seconds before he shuts up and the keyboard finishes up its final notes. Claudio, the one who put the voices on there, said there was honestly no reason to put them on, so he just wanted to. I.. I just.. fuck, man. The little baby voice had absolutely nothing to do with the plot, nothing to do with the music (besides being a relation to you, sure), and it just killed the ending.

So I hereby recommend that, if the collective Good Apollo is ever released as a single double-album, the baby voice should be completely removed from "The Willing Well." Then we shall have the single most beautiful thing to come out of Coheed & Cambria. Ever.

...wow, I'm tired.

Quickie update

Huh. We've got water coming in through the ceiling, mum says.

We're so ghetto. <___<

My video camera sucks.

So, um.. I went to the house again.

I took my video camera this time. Please excuse my clunkiness. It's seriously a shitty camera; it needs SD cards to film shit, and I don't have SD cards, so I had to freaking keep it plugged into my laptop. That's right, I lugged my laptop with me. Please don't ask how, oh god. Then again, I've done clunkier.

So here's the video.

Yeah, my laptop's battery fucked up at the end. There was nothing back there in that yard, though.

..do you guys think that was Sam? D:

Fish, Man?

Just got an email from someone calling themselves Gabriel Colin. Apparently, the story of Progression Enhanced reminded them of another blog, one from quite a while ago. It was up for a while but got taken down. Blog called Fish, Man!

No screenshots were provided. I'll look into this. Maybe someone else has records of it.

On Gorgeous Proggasmic Musical Nirvana Segments

I noticed that how much I like an album depends heavily on how many sections of the music I truly love. Y'know. Musical nirvana. Proggasms. That little section in a song that fucking blows your mind every time?

Between the Buried and Me's Colors has so many of these, which is still surprising as hell considering I haven't had the album that long. On my first listening, I could list about four or five proggasmic sections. Now that I've heard it a hundred times, I can list at least one per track.

"Foam Born" has the intro, of course. The Backtrack is like beauty in the form of one whole song. Though it's only beauty when you listen to the entire album. "Informal Gluttony" has the opening "rebuild" section and the chorus, with the ghost-like synths during the reprisal. Fuckin' beauty. "Sun of Nothing..." every single part of those ten minutes, man. Especially the acoustic-to-electric chorus section towards the end. "Ants of the Sky" has the various instrumental sections throughout it, including the famous random hoedown and following classical chorus. "Prequel to the Sequel..." that intro, man. Just listen to that intro. Fucking gorgeous. The entire latter three minutes, starting just before the polka-esque waltz, are even more beauty. When the song hits the epic reprisal right at the end? Fuckin'-A, man. "Viridian." Just yes. Entire song. "White Walls." Oh god yes yes yes yes yes. >W< The first time I listened to this album, do you know how much I fuckin' came during the outro? That's the best way to end an album, everything after the final chorus ("WHIIIITE WAAAALL" and such). The exact thoughts that went through my mind during that epic riff, the riff before the end solo, the exact thoughts were "This is Colors. This is the definitive sound of Colors."

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Dream Theater) has tons of gorgeous sections, at least one per track.

"The Glass Prison." .....fjudvn0ghv rdfuewfjd. >W< The 'chorus' that plays at the start and after the first movement. That little chorus there is one of my top three favourite melodies ever. The heavy riff to the first movement, the nice time signature fuck at the start of the second movement, and the entire third movement, those are all gorgeous. I'll never forget them for as long as I live. .w. "Blind Faith," ah yes. We have the entire intro, the entire melody throughout the song, the choruses, the entire instrumental section, that piano interlude... just yeah. "Misunderstood," the ghastly intro, choruses, "from a thief to a beggar" bridges, the amazing ending with the heavy guitar distortion.. leading into "The Great Debate." Dude, I love "The Great Debate." The entire intro is another one of my all-time favourite intros ever. The second verse plus "Are you justified" bridges, the real bridge, the choruses, the instrumental section, the solos, the fucking outro.. yeeees. "Disappear.." the chorus is unforgettable. That bridge, too. Then we get to the title track, hoo boy! "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence." 1) The entire overture, 2) the melody of About to Crash, 3) the reprisals of the main theme throughout, 4) the second chorus to War Inside My Head, 5) the entirety of The Test that Stumped Them All, 6) the entire instrumental section to Goodnight Kiss, 7) most of Solitary Shell, 8) every part of the reprisal of About to Crash, especially that killer intro and gorgeous outro, 9) the entirety of Losing Time, and 10) the epic Grand Finale.

See that? The title track has ten (off the top of my head) gorgeous proggasmic musical nirvana sections, alone. That's how much I love Dream Theater.

How 'bout The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway? Let's give it a try.

Title track. 1) That intro. friaefgjdsg09es YEEESSSSS, that intro. >W< 2) "And the laaaaaaaamb... lies dooooowwwn... on Broaaaadwaaay!" 3) All the lyrics. All the sounds. All tehrrejf esgj0dsgrgj0igs aEe.. 4) THE BRIDGE. 5) ALL THE FUCKING LYRICS, I quote them so much. .W. 6) That ending. "Fly on a Windshield." 1) The entire start. 2) The entire solo. ..so the whole song. xD "Broadway Melody of 1974." 1) THE ENTIRE GODDAMN SONG. 2) The entire outro. Oh god, that's memorable. "Cuckoo Cuccoon." 1) Melody! 2) Flute solos! "In the Cage." 1) Entire intro! 2) Keyboard ostintato in 12/8! 3) EVERYTHING. 4) SOLO OH GOD YES THAT SOLO. 5) BRIDGE OH GOD YES THAT BRIDGE. 6, 7, 8, 9) "Outside the cage, I see my brother John. He turns his head so slowly 'round. I cry out 'HELP' before he can be gone, and he looks at me without a sound. And I shout out 'John, please help me' but he does not even want to try to speak. I'm helpless in my violent rage. A silent tear of blood dribbles down his cheek, and I watch him turn again and leave the cage. My little runaway!" Best. Lyrics. Ever. Takes up four spots. 10) Spinning round and roundsajifdgg0h. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15) The outro interlude. Most people don't even mention this damn thing, but it's my favourite part of the fucking song! It's just ei9tgjigd9igh9gqg8jgw and the j0efisnfiung but it's so ghoulish and creepy, solemn, quiet, ominous, mysterious, GENIUS! Takes up five spots. .w.

...I'm not doing this. xD This'll take all day. I think I might see if I can't check out Sam's place again.

Call me stupid..

..but I think I want to go back to that house. It's weird. It's like a craving I want to satisfy. I can't stop thinking of Sam, what might have happened to her. Besides. Maybe she just wasn't in that day.

I intend on checking again.

Wait, what?

So this is gonna sound weird.. but there's a video on my computer I don't remember. I watched it, and it's pretty strange. Here, I'll upload it.

All I recognize is the music, which sounds like some Emerson, Lake & Palmer piece.

Sam's House? Pictures

The lead I got was vague. Just a specific address, with the caption "Sam." It was in an e-mail from someone calling themselves "Skye Blue." I followed it and took some pictures.

This is the neighborhood in which I found the house. Thought I'd take a picture for reference.

The house in question. This is what I found at the address provided by Skye Blue.

I decided to take a look in the window. Yes, I was wearing white gloves. And yes, that's an iPhone. It's my brother's.

Second picture of the front of the house.

Second picture of inside the window. Things seem darker. o.o

Final picture taken out front.

I could've sworn I did more than just look out front and in the window. I think I saved more photos, but this damn iPhone saved them all over the place. Dammit, Apple.

..wait, how could this be Sam's house if she's not British?

New lead?

I think I've found something. An address. Will keep you guys updated.

Bah. Here are some hearts. ..never mind, it breaks the HTML.

I sleep too much. Y'know, I really should look into looking for Sam. Besides, she sounds like a totally fun person to talk to. :3 ..but just as a friend, of course. I already have someone. Who's totally the funnest to talk to. >w<

Y'know what's fun? Going online and seeing kind words directed at you. This is why I try to randomly be nice to people when I get the chance. :D I want people to enjoy their lives. I want people to have fun. This is also why I like to serve. ...but only girls, though. Female supremacy is a weird thing. >w>

I'm rambling now. Y'know, I think me and this blog are gonna get along juuuust fine. .w. It's waited, what, three or possibly four years now for someone to use it! D: The poor thing! Well.. I'm finally using it. And boy, am I using it a lot.

Almost forgot!

Among the screenshots of the entries, wiseaufan had also sent a bigger picture of Sam's drawing of the "(Epping) AquaTarkus."

Last Screenshot

Told you I'd get it up.

Random banter 6.


Sam goes to see Doctor Telmac and perfects the name of the creature in her dreams. Yeah, that's another thing. Sam's a girl. I've been calling her a guy all this time! That's incredibly embarrassing. ^^; Sorry, ma'am.

So yeah, we have a name for that there.. creature thing. Whoo. Epping AquaTarkus. ..hey, that spells EAT! :D That's cool. I like that. I like that a lot.

Oh, and there's that comment there, too. "The Camper." Sounds kinda like a troll.



So there you have it! Those are all the screenshots provided to me by wiseaufan01. If we take his word for it, then that is the last entry of Progression Enhanced. Now the blog is unavailable; it has to have been removed. I have no idea why. All we're left with are these screenshots showing some kinda odd events happening.

I'll keep looking into what might have happened to Sam, the possibility of any more entries, whatnot. In the meantime, that's it.

Some real progress.

We're approaching the end of the screenshots. I went ahead and looked through these in advance. They're.. well. Odd? I dunno. I'll let you decide.

Random CHRISTMAS banter 5.

Sam keeps talking about that "Aquatarkus" character from ELP's "Tarkus" suite. I tried looking up what the original Aquatarkus might have supposed to look like, but the only pictures out there relate to the original Tarkus beast.

Telling the Secrets of Silent Earth

Sam analyses In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, by Coheed & Cambria! ..though this analysis seems pretty lackluster. It sounds like Sam's starting to get distracted. And note that comment there. "Guitar." This person claims he or she can provide Sam with a scanner. There were no further comments on this entry after Sam asked for contact info.

The Aquatarkus

This is where things get strange. First of all, the "Guitar" commenter from the previous entry has most likely actually provided Sam with a scanner. This person somehow knew Sam's last name. Anyway, uh.. so the creature from Sam's dreams was drawn and scanned. Take note of the three.. shapes to the right of the tentacle.

Comments to "The Aquatarkus."

Here we have a random commenter asking about the shapes, and Sam explaining their relevance: Sam always sees that face during dreams featuring the Aquatarkus. Rather eerie. And then we have a Doctor Telmac asking to meet Sam by the pond the following day to discuss Sam's developing "obsession." I think I know what the Doctor's talking about; it's that obsession with the Aquatarkus thing. Note how the comments end after Sam asks for a designated meet-up time.

..dammit. Blogger won't let me upload the last screenshot. I'll keep trying. In the meantime, I'll post this. If I get the last screenshot up, I'll post it.

Venturing into the unknown screenshots

So here we go. Let's see what Sam did while I was gone.

Random banter 1.
Sam mentions a pond nearby. I remember him mentioning something like that in the comments to me.

Escaping from this Octavarium
Oh hell yes, Sam analyzes Dream Theater's Octavarium! Hell of an album, that is. ..though this analysis doesn't seem quite that.. in-depth. That's entry-level information gives, nothing much deeper. Though I didn't realize "Dream" had 5 letters and "Theater" had 8; that's awesome.

Random banter 2.


Sam talks about a dream. Something in the pond? Reminds me of the promotional ARG to Bioshock 2, "There's Something in the Sea." And there we have a comment from some "Trumpet" dude.

Random banter 3.


It would seem Sam's got some health problems. o.o And hey! It's wiseaufan! So he did frequent this blog.

More albums, random banter 4!


Sam's got some new albums-- Coheed & Cambria's second and fourth ones, and King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King. Solid music here. I like Sam's taste.

Will continue in next post. God, I'm distracted tonight.