Storytime /b/ >be me 21 living in apt. in Boston >get

>>742374574
Do cont

Okay will cont trying to find evidence b4 people call bullshit someone bump

Stop this fuckin trend "cont?", you're here to deliver? Then just deliver for god's sake, attention whoring and validation will not get you anywhere.

Pretype your stories faggot

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>>742374873
Okay will stop just didn't want to go through the effort if no one cared to hear the story

>>742374873
>Probably bait, but here goes.

That 'trend' has been happening on here for years.

p.s I HATE SUMMER

>confused but tell friends, show letter assume its someone fucking with me
>ask around no one admits to it
>forget after a while
>I was a wage-cuck/student/smoked weed everyday so honestly it eventually just slipped my mind I decided someone would own up eventually
> ONE MONTH LATER
>New letter from ZC, this time its addressed from Georgia.
>Same Cypher same key
>Translation takes a lot longer this time
>IFYOUAREINCONTACTWITH
>(cant remember the exact name but got a "Slugworth" from Charlie and the chocolate factory vibe from the whole thing so lets call him slugworth
>SLUGWORTHHEISNOTTRUSTWORTHYDONTTRUST

>>742375226
There will always be at least one person interested man, OC is fucking encouraged !

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Continue OP, dont be a faggot

>>742375407
Wasn't bait, some people don't understand that the main goal of /b/ was to produce OC at all time. As I've said to OP, there will always be someone interested; no OC is posted in vain.

>Friends beginning to get excited
>Me confused as ever but, its fun, and I start getting attention for it
>Attention I relished as this is a new group of friends in a new city and I'm generally pretty awkward nice way to break the ice
>Only a week before the next letter arrives
>Sent from Virginia again
>WEARELOWONTIMEILLLEAVECASEIN1345BOX
>No idea what box this could be referring to, show letter to one friend
>We'll call him brain
>Brian has idea to googlemaps the sender's address
>We do so
>Address Doesn't exist
>Google maps shows big open field
>Looks kind of like a farm I guess idk empty as fuck area
>Actually become a little bit paranoid day to day
>Probably because of my habitual weed smoking
>Spend more and more time trying to out friends as ZC
>Analyzing handwriting
>Ask all of my family
>Literally either think I'm crazy or attention whoring, or couldn't give a fuck so they pay no mind

> inb4 walk the dinosaur

You were sent 2 books, did you cross reference the cypher to the other as well?

>Receive one more letter
>Friends are invited over to come read it and decipher it with me
>Mostly Brian's friends, he goes to Boston University as do most of these heads
>We all decipher it together
>This time letter is from California, a water treatment plant
>Letter is deciphered into legit nonsense
>Maybe we have the wrong key? Wrong Cipher?
>Try SnowCrash
>No success also nonsense
>BU students get heady about the whole thing start offering up clever ways to track him down
>We calculate postage required to send this mail from California to my address at the time
>Realize not enough stamps
>Whole group getting hype/confused
>tinfoil hats break out
>Shits getting weird
>People post on reddit, r/sluething or something like that
>Someone posts on 4chan
>Only bites we get are we find that there is a service where you can send people puzzles
>Send them on real life scavenger hunts and such
>Close-ish but the service is legit and comes with letterheads and nice promotional material
>Nothing quite like this
>I unfortunately never discovered the significance of this letter
>Never satisfactorily translated
>But the fact that there wasn't enough postage makes us believe that the letters are being hand delivered
>Widely narrowing the scope of suspects

>inb4 I died

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>>742376515
Fuck off faggot I wanna see where OP is going with this.

>>742376300
>r/sluething

isn't sluething the case about 5 missing children in a house fire, the father was from italy and moved to the US. he spoke out against mussolini. When the house fire started the fire department was 8 hours late and other weird shit.

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>>742376602
Fuck off tom holland im enjoying the story

>I formed close friendships with these people over this event
>I still keep up with them all even though this was 4 years ago
>Life slowly goes back to normal
>Forget about the whole thing
>Except for occasional
>"You ever hear from ZC again?"
>"Nah not since that night"
>"We must have fucked up somehow..."
>type stuff
>Begin dating
>Lifeisgood.jpg
>Come home from work
>Brian hits me up, wanna hang out
>Too tired, but tomorrow I'm free
>Passout
>Wake up
>Mom is banging on the door
>Dad is in Hospital
>Hardcore Alcoholic, needs medical attention/help with detox
>Mom drags my ass out of bed, go visit him
>Shitty morning whatever she drops me off and tells me I need to pick up my contacts which got delivered at our family home today
>Great I'm legit totally out of contacts, only have one in my head right now
>Walk inside apartment
>Brian there.
>It has been OVER 6 months since the last ZC letter
>He is holding the telltale ZC envelope
>"This was in your mailbox dude"
>This time its from Germany oversea postage

>We decipher together
>Literally shaking as we get closer and closer to finishing
>easily the longest letter he has sent
>EWIASSUMEYOUAREINCONTACTWITHSLUGWORTHBUTJUDGINFFROMLACKOFMOVEMENTIEXPECTYOUARENOTCOMPRIMISED
>THEKEYISTAPEDUNDERTHECOMPUTERTABLE
>INTHEGEORGEWASHINGTONROOMOFBPL(bostonpubliclibrary, at copley)
>IFYOUINTENDONTRACKINGMEDOWN
>YOUBETTERBRUSHUPONYOURLANGUAGESKILLS

>>742374574
Banp
Hurry up OP, I can't wait for moar greentext!

>brush up on your language skills a reference to it coming from germany probably
>What fucks me up though is we have already decided the letters are probably hand delivered
>Foreign postage though
>Also how could he put the key in the library if he was in Germany
>plus still don't know what box he was referring to

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>>742376784
bro go to some fap thread if you dont enjoy creativity and originality

>>742376963
Christ, would it kill you space out the words? For those who struggle with a bit of dyslexia?

>>742377133
guy is posting exactly what the deciphered text looked like, can't complain too much about authenticity

>>742377118

in before mom's spaghetti.

>>742377205
It's not the authenticity I'm worried about, Its just bloody hard to read

>>742377118
The box from the previous post. It's at the library. Probably a locker or something.

>>742376300
It only takes one stamp to send a letter from CA to MA. Was there a postmark?

>>742377118
Where'd you go OP? (you) were doing good

>>742377133
I mean thats how we translated it, he didn't say where the spaces were we had to suss that out ourselves.

>Anyway after the long morning/translation time it takes its getting late
>Probably 4pm
>Ask Brian if he will meet me at Copley BPL at 7:30
>He says we should go now
>My eyesight is so fucked up though
>Tell him contacts came in at my family house
>Town 20min South of Boston
>Have to go there and get ready because who knows what the fuck is going on
>I'm nervous as fuck honestly
>He says cool
>Public transportation home, too poor for car in the city
>Get home grab contacts
>Sister there yelling at mom
>Talking about dad and hospital and blah blah
>get dragged in for longer than I wanted to
>Public transportation all the way back to Boston
>Make it to Copley
>Library Closed
>Brian says fuck it he'll skip his 8am tomorrow and we'll go together
>Go in the next morning

> i brush up my language skills and discover the illegible cypher is actually german

>>742377592
Well fair enough. Sorry OP my morning coffee hasn't hit yet. You've got me hooked m8

>>742376300
Blew it right there.

It doesn't cost any more to send a letter to Boston from Georgia, North Carolina or California. A first class stamp will get it delivered around the block or cross country.

>waiting for dinosaur or uncle in Bel Air ending

>>742377602
Jesus christ next time you greentext write it beforehand

>>742374574
Snow Crash is easily Neal Stephenson's weakest book. Go Baroque Cycle or go home.

>>742377602
WOW holy fuck maybe you're right jesus christ fuck me I never thought about that

>Anyway we get to the George Washington room and look under every table
>Nothing
>Look under as many computer tables as we can find in the BPL
>Nothing anwaywhere
>Eventually someone comes up to me
>The fuck are you doing
>Librarian
>Explain the situation as best I can WITHOUT sounding fucking insane
>This was 2 months after the Boston Marathon bombing
>I don't know if you remember but they evacuated Copley during that
>Get told to wait there
>Security
>I'm escorted outside with Brian
>Squad cars outside waiting for us
>Cops detain us on the street
>Get questioned like crazy probably for 20min.
>We don't have anything on us
>Eventually tell us to fuck off

>we slide down pants in front of the officers
>both got boners from the scavenger hunt excitement
>we happiliy fuck off
>married to Brian ever since

>>742377949
you didn't? noob.

>>742378068
Kek

Anyway thats the end. There's no conclusion I never found out anything. Never been contacted by ZC since. Never found the Key, never any conclusion. Literally my biggest regret in life was going home to get contacts instead of going to the library THAT NIGHT. I often think of what might have happened. Brian hates me for it, but we've been good buddies since junior high now its just a drunk story that ends with "AND THIS FUCK GOES TO GET HIS CONTACTS INSTEAD." This story is 100% true by the way so, sorry if you want a storybook ending or everybody walk the dinosuar or something. It's just a story about my biggest regret.

>>742378284
So you mean you told a story that just doesn't end ?

>>742378284
What's the issues with getting your contacts?

>>742378284
This can't be the fucking ending.

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>>742378284
Nice story anon

>>742378428
>>742378441
>>742378450
That's not OP

>>742378284
Brian is suspicious to me

>>742378568
It had fucking better not be

>>742378568
I fucking hope so.

If I were in this kind of situation, I wouldn't give up without trying all I fucking can to know what the hell is up.

>>742378658
Same. I would be come the worlds foremost detective

>>742378450
Yeah idk it was years ago. If I hadn't gone home first I would have had a conclusion I think. I Still expect zc to send me something or announce himself but it's been like 2 years

The answer is always

>Bush did it

I was supposed to be in Boston today but I'm not. I'll check out that room and find the key.

>>742376147
Where did this walk the dinosaur thing originate from?

I mean don't think I didn't try. I put so much effort into it. I still look at peoples handwriting. Sometimes I say out of the blue "I know you're zc" to people thinking they'll admit it. Now I just sit back and plan to be someone else's zc. Carry on his memory. Maybe whoever lives in that apartment now. Maybe a younger sibling or cousin or something. Idk

>>742378068
thx for the laugh /b/ro

>>742378777
You fucking cunt. You could have at least made up an ending. I dropped everything to read this post and you give us this bullshit? Man, good story but fuck you

>>742378911
George Washington room Copley. Good luck.

>>742379130
I mean I could make up a lie but I'm not a writer or anything

OP HERE I'M BACK

>Cops tell us to fuck off, so we get back home
>My Dad still in hospital, his condition is bad
>Tell Brian I can't play tonight but will call him later
>Brian leaves, I go to the hospital to see Dad
>He's pretty mad at me for not coming earlier
>I tell him to fuck off cause he's an insane alcoholic
>Finally put in my new contacts

>>742376963
are you idiot, space this u faggot

>>742379220
Well it's too late now

>>742379451
>are you idiot
>u
Boi

>>742379154
Yeah, was standing in front of it last week meeting my kid.
Cool story though, even without an ending. Thanks for sharing.

>>742379389
>suddenly dad asks for three fiddy

>Doctor walks in
>I see his nametag
>His name is Claude Zangger
>Alarm bells ringing
>He has a strange accent, immediately recognise he is a foreigner
>He talks to my Dad about how he is going to die soon
>Althewhile give me looks from the side
>This must be it
>When he leaves the room, I follow him
>I try to ask him if he knows anything about this business without sounding insane
>He says no and WINKS at me

>>742380106
KEEP TYPING, BITCH

>>742380106
FUCKING GO ON

>>742380795
>>742380875

Not OP you underage gullible tard

>>742380979
if you're watching this thread you're a gullible tard no matter what, let me have some hope

>I'm too confused to insist
>Get back to my Dad and try to calm him
>He is in denial about his diagnosis
>I tell him I don't have time for his bullshit
>When I leave the hospital Zangger stands in the hallway
>He is talking to some people
>As i walk by, he pooints a finger at me and whispers something
>All I understand is 'radiation'
>This is fucked up
>I'm too scared to ask and go home
>Brian is waiting in the driveway
>I tell him what happened at the hospital
>He does not believe me
>I tell him it is true and google Zanggers name to prove he works at the hospital

>>742381252
MOAR MOAR

/thread

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Evidence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zangger_Committee
Zangger Committee

>>742376766
IT'S A FELONY TO GO THROUGH PEOPLE'S MAIL, BRIAN

>To my amazement the first result is not his hospital residency
>It turns out he has some kind of committee going
>It is called the Zangger committee
>Brian and I investigate further
>The committee is trying to restrict the proliferation of nuclear weapons or some shit
>It's online, you can google it
>WTF
>Brian and I realize we are in way too deep
>We decide nuclear weapons are dangerous and nuclear waste poses a big threat to the environment
>Become Hippies and post greentext on /b/ advocating for clean energy in America
>Decide best strategy to suck in closeminded fellow citizens is to disguise everything as a thriller

>>742382000
>Anonymous 08/18/17(Fri)01:27:16 No.742381766▶
so it's not real or what? does it end there?!

>>742382159
this is the one from germany, you can see the postage
>>742381985
I forgot about this one we never really got to the bottom of what it said but the translation was

>NO NEWS DAMASCUS BUSY DAWN ON FARM YOUR KEY UNDER TABLE IN EMPTY

>>742378284
you better solve that shit you fuckhead I have the worst blueballs right now who was watching you???

>>742382199
its all real 100%

........... What the fuck did I just read? Is that really how you're ending this? God damn it next time write your story in advance so trolls don't derail so bad.

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>>742382344
>>742382000

>>742381844
>>742381985
Handwriting on front of envelope and bottom of letter look too similar for my liking.

>>742383046
>Zangger committee
That guys isn't OP


Non canon
>>742381252
>>742380106
>>742379389
>>742382000

>Be this thread.
>Fucking cancer...

>>742383426
You're not a cannon!

I just want to know how real OPs story ends :(

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>>742376300
>>Realize not enough stamps

Nigger, have you ever even SEEN a letter sent by the USPS? They're postmarked with the post office of origin.

It's WRITTEN OVER THE FUCKING STAMP.

>>742384271
idk young dumb and stoned. Someone offered that up, made sense to me at the time.

So you never found out who E.W. was?

>>742385664
Those are my real initials

>>742385878
Is that you Elly?

>>742386695
no I'm male

>>742386870
Bullshit. I already tracked you down. Why don't you tell us all what you studied at BU and your current job.

Does 5454 "ring a bell"?

>>742387323
No because I didn't go to BU my friends did 5454 means nothing to me

>>742387522
Is Estelle still alive? She'd be up there in years these days if she is.

>>742387698
Idk anyone by that name dude

>>742385878
So how does your story end? There fucking has to be more

>>742388017
>be me 2-3ish years later
>Relay this story to /b/
>Everyone clamors for a conclusion
>Realize that I too need a conclusion
>But may never find MY zc
>Decide theres really only one way to continue the story
>Break out a piece of paper and an envelope
>Pick two books at random from my bookshelf
>Allston is only a 20min drive from where I live
>Put two stamps on the envelope, but I have no intention of sending it
>I'm dropping it off in person
>In the middle of the night
>Still have the key to my apartment
>Made a copy while living there
>Never told land lady
>What are the odds that she changed the locks?
>Become EW

>>742388017
You've been had.

EW is was a journalism student in Boston. Probably made this who this up either as a writing exercise or to plug the books mentioned at the start of the story.

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>>742388724
I was an illustration student at massart

>>742389074
Please continue the story and ignore these fags

>>742377774
This. Also postmarks are a thing.

>>742388628
OP Cont.
>After two years I only vaguely remember the sensation of receiving my first ZC note.
>I wonder if they will react in a similar way
>I wonder if the current tenants are male or female
>I remember that my landlady said she originally intended for the space to be used by her son
>But I have since seen her in person and she told me he is living in Germany now
>Coincidence
>I wonder to myself if ZC watched me through our windows.
>It is a basement floor apartment but there is an alley out back which is level with our windows and gives you a good view inside
>Should I watch their reactions? Did ZC?

>>742389074

The only illustration was this story.

Don't get me wrong... you said storytime and you started out giving us a decent story.We all like decent stories but you sort of died at the end. Should have pretyped.

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>Two books that I know I can find the exact same edition of
>It would need to be the same for the cipher to work
>I enjoy the impression Blood Meridian might leave on the recipient
>How far will I take this?
>What will I leave for them in my box
>What will they find?

>>742376662
No it means to slueth. ....

>>742389984
Story is true I went to Massart and UMASSdartmouth before that but I have to run to the bank thats the end of ZC story time. Maybe I'll pick it back up after I send these books/notes