[redwolf]

home maid vodka the good staf go like 1shot ,2shot's, 6shot's hy were are the last 3shot's    .the bad staf ?well 1shot 2shot's  wham you are at the e.r 

That's "Moonshine" in English, my friend.    I sometimes shorten it to just "'Shine" due to my redneck roots. 

  nop you dont make shine from anti freeze like they make the bad samogonskya, i do belive that ther is not much difrenc otherways .

[The Jake]

Whoever it is seems to hold a grudge of some sort against Hestaby and/or has intimate knowledge of dragons.

If it is someone who can outhack Fastjack? I can only think of one person... Leonardo.

- J.

[Longshot23]

For A Nonymous:  I'm putting in two bids: one for a Black Lodge connection.  Connection, not membership or solidly in the camp.

I just re-read this topic from the beginning and the cumulative effect had the Black Lodge popping into the front of my mind.  Like the expressed anti-dragon sentiments are a stepping stone to (or from) their anti-IE agenda. Go back and read the write-up in Threats.

Bid #2:  a divergent form of the Exchange.  Thinking about that now, it does seem odd that Horizon/the Consensus would go after JackPoint but there's been little about interest in the Exchange.  Last reference I remember was about Rowena O'Malley wanting control of the E.

I'm just saying a sort of copy of the Exchange might have gotten spawned, imperfectly, and locked on to JackPoint as its opposite.

[Wakshaani]

IIRC, Conspiracy Theories starts pulling the sheet off of the mystery.

Not completely, but enough to give you a hint.

[Mirikon]

home maid vodka the good staf go like 1shot ,2shot's, 6shot's hy were are the last 3shot's    .the bad staf ?well 1shot 2shot's  wham you are at the e.r 

That's "Moonshine" in English, my friend.    I sometimes shorten it to just "'Shine" due to my redneck roots. 

  nop you dont make shine from anti freeze like they make the bad samogonskya, i do belive that ther is not much difrenc otherways .

Bad moonshine is just as toxic.

IIRC, Conspiracy Theories starts pulling the sheet off of the mystery.

Not completely, but enough to give you a hint.

Indeed. While it wasn't spelled out, it was hinted at like a sledgehammer to the face that the A Nonymous was a member of the Dawkins Group.

[hobgoblin]

Or at the very least using a backdoor set up by the dawkins group for their memetic warfare, and left in place by Fastjack as a reverse hack. As such i put my finger on a consensus leak.

[Simagal]

I was under the impression that the Dawkins Group was part of Horizon. of course I could be wrong.

[CanRay]

I was under the impression that the Dawkins Group was part of Horizon. of course I could be wrong.

They might be the power behind the puppet, or they might be the intelligence branch of Horizon...  It gets hard to tell at times when you're dealing with plans within plans within plans within plans...

[Mirikon]

As far as I can read it, the Dawkins Group is the 'SpecOps' branch of Horizon. Mostly social adept types, but all quite capable in turning to violence if necessary.

[CanRay]

Of course.

Violence is good for ratings!

[hobgoblin]

Ok, to reiterate:

Horizon flags jackpoint as something of potential threat.

Dawkins group hacks in to try and seed distrust among the members.

Fastjack notices but leaves the entryway open as a means of gathering info on the attackers.

i speculate that while that entryway is left open, there are various postings made that are not Dawkins group doing, but rather semi-random reactions from Consensus that spills into jackpoint. As such, i wonder if Consensus is a group of savants and other mentally unusual people that are fed a ongoing stream of data. Ever so often there is a reaction from said group that points towards overlooked patterns in the data that may be of interest to the people running Horizon. And so the anon postings are such reactions to the ongoing conversation stream from Jackpoint.

[Mirikon]

Latest info on the Consensus isn't that it is a group of individuals, but that it is actually the consensus of the beliefs of every Horizon citizen.

[The Wyrm Ouroboros]

Which, alas, is rife with incredibly ugly possibilities...

[Mirikon]

Sunshine said it best in a recent shadowchat from one of the books. Horizon employees tend to want to do what's best for the world. That's part of the corporate culture. However, every Horizon employee believes that the world is better off if Horizon is in it, which means they'd be willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure that happens.

[CanRay]

Sunshine said it best in a recent shadowchat from one of the books. Horizon employees tend to want to do what's best for the world. That's part of the corporate culture. However, every Horizon employee believes that the world is better off if Horizon is in it, which means they'd be willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure that happens.

Still better than most Megas.