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We Received A Cortana Letter
Posted By: TankRamp. <bigbadzon@aol.com>Date: 9/27/02 10:48 p.m.

This is TankRamp, News Director, Battleground:Halo. We recieved a Cortana Letter today. From what I can tell, it's authentic. I'm freaked. This is the topic I've posted about it in our News Section:

We recieved what we beleive is a Cortana letter today. Entitled "The reaper cometh for thee". It reads:

I walk a barren earth

severed from time and space

I walk a lifeless earth

dead memories I embrace

I walk a silenced earth

no heartbeats but my own

I walk a mourning earth

reaping sorrows that I've sown

I walk a yearning earth

longing for days long dead

I walk a speechless earth

and hear my doom unsaid

I'll walk the shattered earth

for millennia, and alone

For I've walked the ravaged earth

The futile death I've known...

[Inserted text from your friendly neighborhood admin:

It has been learned that this poem was written by T. GhostWolf Davidson in 1967. It can be found on the author's site here. Credit for the find (and information from the author himself) can be found throughout this thread.

End of inserted text.]

The poem is from a member named -Cortana. Cross-examined, she/he/it has an original IP, not one of any member current or past. For all we can tell, this is authentic. I'll look into it. The signature read 'I have won.', which is a pattern in the Cortana Letters. When we researched the IP and talked about it -Cortana posted, 'The messenger is not important.'. Staff Writer Diabolic pointed out that that's a translation from the movie Stigmata. I'm really feeling uncomfortable right now. I'm looking into this further.

If you can help figure out what's going on here it would be helpful. If you want to see the topic for yourself, it's in the Active Topics of our forums. Is this a hoax or the real deal? I'm going to look through the Cortana Letters index here, to see if it matches the patterns exactly.

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We Received A Cortana LetterTankRamp. 9/27/02 10:48 p.m.
     Re: We Received A Cortana LetterCheerio 9/27/02 10:57 p.m.
           Re: We Received A Cortana LetterTankRamp. 9/27/02 11:00 p.m.
                 yeah, but...Tursas 9/27/02 11:01 p.m.
                       Re: yeah, but...TankRamp. 9/27/02 11:03 p.m.
                             Re: yeah, but...TankRamp. 9/27/02 11:06 p.m.
                                   Re: yeah, but...*Ar-Isildur of *WP* 9/27/02 11:09 p.m.
                                         true. true. *NM*Tursas 9/27/02 11:11 p.m.
                                         Re: yeah, but...TankRamp. 9/27/02 11:13 p.m.
                                               Re: yeah, but...Count Zero 9/27/02 11:20 p.m.
                                                     Re: yeah, but...Tursas 9/27/02 11:35 p.m.
                                                           Re: yeah, but...Count Zero 9/28/02 1:21 a.m.
                                                                 rightTursas 9/28/02 1:44 a.m.
                                                                 Re: yeah, but...Lord Elliott 9/28/02 2:25 a.m.
                                                                 Re: yeah, but...vector40 9/28/02 3:07 a.m.
                 Re: We Received A Cortana LetterCheerio 9/27/02 11:03 p.m.
                       Re: We Received A Cortana LetterToe-Hammer 9/27/02 11:51 p.m.
                             Re: We Received A Cortana LetterLouis Wu 9/28/02 6:44 a.m.
                                   Re: We Received A Cortana LetterToe-Hammer 9/28/02 9:30 a.m.
                                         Re: We Received A Cortana LetterLouis Wu 9/28/02 10:11 a.m.
                                               Re: We Received A Cortana LetterCheerio 9/28/02 2:54 p.m.
                       Re: We Received A Cortana Lettervector40 9/28/02 3:08 a.m.
                             Re: We Received A Cortana LetterCheerio 9/28/02 7:06 a.m.
                             Re: We Received A Cortana LetterReaper7 9/28/02 5:39 p.m.
     Good poetry, though.Red Loser 9/28/02 12:28 a.m.
           Re: Good poetry, though.GhostWolf 10/1/02 8:41 p.m.
     "Ghostwolf"Novakog 9/28/02 1:13 a.m.
           Re: "Ghostwolf"Novakog 9/28/02 1:21 a.m.
           Re: "Ghostwolf"Elan Sleazbagano 9/28/02 1:41 a.m.
                 Re: For the love of god...Hedgemony 9/28/02 1:47 a.m.
                       Re: For the love of god...Elan Sleazbagano 9/28/02 2:01 a.m.
                             Re: For the love of god...GhostWolf 10/1/02 8:55 p.m.
                                   Re: For the love of god...Elan Sleazbagano 10/1/02 9:05 p.m.
                                         Re: For the love of god...GhostWolf 10/1/02 9:17 p.m.
                       Re: For the love of god...vector40 9/28/02 3:10 a.m.
                             Re: For the love of god...Tarrsk 9/28/02 5:05 a.m.
                                   Re: For the love of god...Tarrsk 9/28/02 5:05 a.m.
           Re: "Ghostwolf"T. GhostWolf Davidson 9/30/02 1:07 a.m.
                 Re: "Ghostwolf"*Ar-Isildur of *WP* 9/30/02 1:42 a.m.
                       I concurMiguel Chavez 9/30/02 2:07 a.m.
                             Re: I concurGhostWolf 10/1/02 12:38 p.m.
                       Re: "Ghostwolf"GhostWolf 10/1/02 12:23 p.m.
                             Re: "Ghostwolf"Louis Wu 10/1/02 12:59 p.m.
                                   Re: "Ghostwolf"BOLL 10/1/02 3:53 p.m.
                                         Re: "Ghostwolf"Louis Wu 10/1/02 4:26 p.m.
                                         Re: "Ghostwolf"GhostWolf 10/1/02 8:36 p.m.
                                               Re: "Ghostwolf"Louis Wu 10/1/02 8:45 p.m.
                                                     Re: "Ghostwolf"GhostWolf 10/1/02 8:57 p.m.
                                                           Re: "Ghostwolf"Louis Wu 10/1/02 9:15 p.m.
                                                                 Re: "Ghostwolf"FrogBlast 10/1/02 9:23 p.m.
                                                                       It was uphill coming back, too... *NM*Louis Wu 10/1/02 9:24 p.m.
                                                                             With newspapers wrapped in barbed wire for shoes. *NM*Red Loser 10/1/02 9:51 p.m.
                                                                                   You had newspapers? *NM*Louis Wu 10/2/02 8:20 a.m.
                                                                                         Lol *NM*mnemesis 10/2/02 12:49 p.m.
                                                                                         ROTFL! .. ouch... *NM*BOLL 10/2/02 5:32 p.m.
                                                                                         You had feet? *NM*eric 10/6/02 3:37 p.m.
                                                                             lol *NM*FrogBlast at Work 10/2/02 1:35 a.m.
                                                     Re: "Ghostwolf"BOLL 10/2/02 5:41 p.m.
                             Re: "Ghostwolf"vector40 10/2/02 1:00 a.m.
                 Re: "Ghostwolf"Louis Wu 9/30/02 8:55 a.m.
                       Re: "Ghostwolf"GhostWolf 10/1/02 12:43 p.m.
                             Re: "Ghostwolf"Louis Wu 10/1/02 12:57 p.m.
     I call fake too...here's why.Mr Yun 9/28/02 2:52 a.m.
     Re: We Received A Cortana LetterUriel 9/28/02 5:16 a.m.
     Re: We Received A Cortana LetterTankRamp. 9/28/02 8:31 a.m.
           Re: We Received A Cortana LetterLouis Wu 9/28/02 8:36 a.m.
                 Re: We Received A Cortana LetterTankRamp. 9/28/02 9:21 a.m.
                       Re: We Received A Cortana LetterToe-Hammer 9/28/02 9:35 a.m.
                             Re: We Received A Cortana LetterB-go 9/28/02 12:51 p.m.
                       Re: We Received A Cortana LetterSep7imus 9/28/02 11:09 a.m.
                             Re: We Received A Cortana LetterKP 9/28/02 1:14 p.m.
                             Give the man a prize. *NM*vector40 9/28/02 5:57 p.m.
                       If it's any consolation...Red Loser 9/28/02 2:12 p.m.
                       I thought it was funny!!Dark Helmet 9/28/02 6:35 p.m.
                       Re: We Received A Cortana LetterGhostWolf 10/1/02 9:10 p.m.
     For Future ReferenceMatt 9/28/02 3:54 p.m.
           Re: For Future Referencen3m 9/28/02 4:01 p.m.
                 Re: For Future ReferenceRoss Mills 9/28/02 6:08 p.m.
                       Re: For Future ReferencerampantAI 10/5/02 1:11 a.m.
                             Re: For Future ReferenceElan Sleazbagano 10/5/02 2:02 a.m.
                                   Re: For Future ReferenceRoss Mills 10/8/02 11:07 a.m.



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