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[truthsnomiracle]

[The following message is accompanied by a close-up image of a pair of round silver cufflinks with this design etched into them. They're apparently pinned to the end of a burgundy sleeve, and are small enough to make it unlikely that the design was hand-carved.]

While I can appreciate the craftsmanship of these cufflinks, I don't recall owning a pair like these. I have as little idea concerning how they came to be pinned to my suit as I do of how I came to be on this unfamiliar island. If anyone has seen a pair of silver cufflinks studded with a pair of half-carat garnets each or can shed light onto the origins of this pair, I would appreciate the lead.

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[truthsnomiracle]

[Timespan Notes jotted down in Organizer. Seriously, though, that's more substantial than he had before, and fits with Ada's much vaguer assertion.]

Very well. Since you have been here for some time, clearly our captors are not simply leaving us to starve. I presume that you're capable of describing the living situation here.

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

By all rights, it seems like a normal city during the day. Restaurants sell food, people can buy groceries, jobs can be acquired. The night is when things get strange.

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[truthsnomiracle]

The locals think nothing of the fact that strangers who make bizarre claims are appearing in their midst?

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Appealing to them has done nothing so far. Their memories are suspect.

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[truthsnomiracle]

Can you provide evidence of their memories being where the fault lies?

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

For a period of about a week, strange disappearances, and reappearances as corpses on the shores, killed off most of this island's population. It was everywhere. Everyone was in panic, those kidnapped and the natural residents. There was not a person on this island who did not know what was going on.

When I returned from my untimely death during this incident (and I'll get to that later) not a one of the natural citizens remembered any of it, the disappearances or the bodies. Thus, I have reason to suspect that their memories are subject to tampering.

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[truthsnomiracle]

[The turnaround on this one is slightly longer than the time to read such a long message would account for alone.]

I requested evidence, not testimony. Can you prove that events of this nature occured at all?

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

I have widespread testimony, but nothing considered 'evidence' immediately on hand, no. Let me check back for old entries on this phone.

[Attached: a video with bodies littering the shore. (http://thevelvetkey.livejournal.com/43747.html)]

That's the most I have that's hard evidence. It's not something pleasant to record. In addition to that, almost all of the messages from that time frame mention something about the bodies.

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[truthsnomiracle]

In brief, as I investigate further, I should expect to hear two stories -- one consistent among the locals, the other consistent among the kidnappees?

[The murder of Detective Bruce Goodman is jumping straight to mind here.]

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

Exactly so.

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[truthsnomiracle]

Very well. I appreciate your cooperation, but I believe it best to attempt to verify what you've already shared now. [Mostly the parts about the locals having incompatible claims and simply letting those brought to the island unwillingly take jobs...]

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[unknownrival.livejournal.com]

No problem. Please let me know if I can do anything else to help.