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(in chronological order)

February 12

Ariadne Wakes up in a labyrinth carved out of a corn field in South Africa.

February 29

Packages began arriving numerous people in many countries, including the reference to Findthelostring.com, which showed the text:

Ariadne... hang in there, my guys are working on the site as we speak!
I had to call in a lot of favors to get something built so quickly... but trust me, you're going to love it, it's exactly what you need. I'll get the guys to work all weekend on it, it should be up first thing Monday morning. Get the video ready, I'm sure someone will recognize you... -- Kai

March 3

Ariadne is found on Findthelostring.com (which went live today)
Ariadne posts a blog: Meet Kai
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Ariadne posts a blog: How I got here (Part I)
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Ariadne posts a blog: How I got here (Part II)
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Ariadne posts a blog: The strange dream I keep having - what does it mean?
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Ariadne posts a blog: The weirdest goggles ever
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Ariadne posts a blog: The weirdest tattoo ever
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Ariadne posts a blog: Where I woke up
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Ariadne posts a blog: Hello, world. I need your help.
A video blog where Ariadne explains her situation. Key points: After waking up blindfolded in a corn field (a labyrinth) just outside Johannesburg, doctors say she has - Functional Focal Retrograde Amnesia. She has a tattoo on her arm that reads "trovu la ringon perditan", Esperanto for "find the lost ring". There's absolutely no leads as to her identity or history, friends or family. She's in top physical condition, that of an 'olympic champion'.
Markus is found via a flickr photo quoting his tattoo, which leads to his profile.
Meihui is found via a truveo video
Diego is found on Hi5, as well as his google video
Noriko is found on youtube, and her blog that links to it
Markus PMs via Flickr:

Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe. Sie sind die erste Person die mir irgendwie helfen konnte...

Kennen sie mich vielleicht? Komme ich Ihnen bekannt vor? Und wie wissen sie das es Esperanto ist das an meinem Arm tätowiert ist?!

Translation:

Many thanks for your help. They are the first person to me anyhow could help...

Do they know me maybe? Do I seem to you famously? And how do they know Esperanto is in my arm is tattooed?!

Ariadne replied to an email from enaxor:

hi -------,

this is really overwhelming.

on one hand I'm really happy to have some people actually talking to me and helping me. it's been a lonely couple of weeks here in Joburg by myself. and seeing other people in similar situations gives me hope that someone will know what the heck happened to us.

on the other hand, it sounds like no one really knows who we are still, and that's the main thing on my mind. I feel like I must have family somewhere, right? why haven't they found me? aren't they looking for me?

anyway. i'm just babbling because it's been awhile since i had someone to talk to, besides kai, and he is kind of busy with his own stuff.

the labyrinth... it's just a normal labyrinth, but a big one. i think there were like 11 loops around it. it took forever to wander out. i looked at markus' photos and the shape seems similar but the one i was in was huge, much much bigger...

Ariadne replied to an email from redhatty, also quoting an email she sent Diego:

you're so nice to be helping me even though you don't recognize me.

i'm very overwhelmed, can you tell?? 5 of us??

one of them sent me an email already, and I wrote back.... (see below) it's lucky because i seem to understand some spanish, so maybe diego and i will be able to help each other. but german? japanese? chinese? i am pretty sure i don't speak them AT ALL. like, even less than i speak esperanto. which at least now I know 4 words in.

ariadne

From: Ariadne Lost <ariadnelost>
Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Hi !
To: Diego Nose <malabar>

hola diego! this is very weird! muy extrano! i see you speak some english. i know a little spanish. maybe we can work together.

i woke up in a laberinto too.

has anyone recongized you yet?

your friend,

ariande

Diego replied to an email from redhatty:

Hola --------, gracias por contactarme y ayudarme! Me contacté con Ariadne, todavía no puedo creer que haya otros en mi misma situación!
Respondo: estoy en Buenos Aires ahora, al despertar tenía una venda negra tapandome los ojos, joggings negros y una remera blanca.

Gracias por la ayuda, espero sirvan de algo mis respuestas para desentrañar este misterio, realmente lo necesito!

Translation:

Hello --------, thanks for contacting me and helping me! I contacted myself with Ariadne, I cannot believe yet let should be others in my same situation!
I answer: I am in Buenos Aires now, to the awakening it had a black blindfold wrapping the eyes up, joggings blacks and a white rower.

Thanks for the help, I hope that they should serve of something my responses to unravel this mystery, really I need it!

Markus replied to an email from HitsHerMark:

Ja! Wie wussten sie das denn?! Ich hatte eine Blinde um den Kopf - ich konnte überhaupt nichts sehen als ich erstmals im Irrgarten erwachte!

Ansonsten trug ich weisse Shorts und ein weisses, enges T-Shirt. Ich hoffe, das hilft ihnen irgendwie weiter. Sie haben keine Ahnung, wie dankbar ich für ihre Hilfe bin.

Translation:

Yes! How did they do it? I had a blind to the Head - I could see absolutely nothing when I first Awoke in the maze!

Otherwise, I wore white shorts and a white, narrow T-shirt. I hope this helps them somehow. You Have no idea how grateful I am for their help.

Markus replied to an email from chippy:

Die Seite haben mir ein paar Leute gezeigt, ich finde es echt toll das so viele Leute probieren mir zu helfen.

Finden sie es nicht wahnsinnig, das es andere Leute gibt die die gleiche Tätowierung wie ich tragen und in genau den gleichen Umständen aufgetaucht sind wie ich? Ich kann es immer noch nicht so ganz glauben...

Vielen Dank für Ihre Email, ich wunder mich, haben sie vielleicht irgend etwas ungewöhnliches am 12 Februar gesehen da sie in der Nähe von mir wohnen?

Translation:

The site gave me a couple of people demonstrated, I think it's really great that so many people try to help me.

Find it not insane that it gives other people the same tattoo as I bear in exactly the same circumstances as I appeared? I still can not quite believe ...

Thank you for your email, I wonder myself, so maybe something unusual on Feb. 12 seen as they near me live?

Ariadne sent an email to redhatty:

hi --------, good news!

well, big good news and little bad news, but I'm more excited about the good news than i am annoyed by the bad news.

so even though i have no idea who all those people you found are, i am convinced of course that we have to join forces. i mean, clearly we are connected somehow by our weird circumstances... and kai is going to redo my site so everyone can have their own blogs and we can all do this investigation together!

of course i have no idea still how to talk to most of them to explain this, maybe you and your friends can help me out with that!

also good news, I got the STRANGEST emails from a girl named Larissa who says something like this happened to her friend Renata FOUR YEARS AGO. i used the bablefish translator you suggested to read them, it's kind of mind boggling. like even more mind boggling that what has happened to me already because her friend disappeared in the end, and that's actually kind of freaking me out because i really don't want THAT to happen to me...

sorry, i'm typing really fast as i try to sort this all out.

anyway Kai took down the site to try to help get the other pages going, i though your friend might like to know i haven't disappeared entirely,

kai thought they might not be up for a few more days, sigh, that's the small annoying bad news, but whatever! i can't believe how much information you guys have found in just half a day! you're amazing!

i think already i will be grateful to you all for life. sorry to gush, i'm in a very strange mood right now.

ariadne

Diego sent an email to riquardo:

Hola Riquardo, muchas gracias por tu ayuda! Al despertar tenía unavenda (negra) tapandome los ojos, unos joggings negros y una remerablanca. Crees que las ropas puedan significar algo o dar alguna pistasobre quien soy? Muchas gracias por ayudarme!!

Rough translation:

Hello Riquardo, thank you for your help! When she woke up she was blindfolded with a black blindfold, had black track pants and a white T-shirt. You think the clothes may mean something or give any clue about who I am? Thank you for helping!

Diego emailed redhatty:

Me ha pasado de soñar varias veces con patrones que se repiten... distintas figuras que se dibujan una y otra vez, curvas, rectas, patrones... es algo muy abstracto... tendrá que ver con mi pasado?

Translation

I've had several dreams of patterns that repeat themselves... different figures that show repeatedly, curves, lines, pattern... it is something very abstract ... Does it have to do with my past?

Ariadne answered celina about shoes she was wearing when she awoke:

hi celina,

i took a photo of my shoes for you, what do you think? they're like cleats/running shoes. no special marks or tags...

one interesting thing is they're pretty dirty... although to be honest, i don't remember if they were that dirty when i woke up, or just got that way from making my way through the very, very long labyrinth path...

Ariadne replied to an email from HitsHerMark about connecting with Markus, and working with the community:

hi hits!

that's actually good, thank you for passing on my email address... i haven't set up a flickr account to leave comments for markus, so i was hoping someone would send him my way. thank you!

i haven't received an email from him yet but hopefully soon...

weirdly i think i know what you mean about a hive mind. the dream i have every night, the feeling i have when i'm picking up the goggles is like i'm pulling pieces of me together, but that i'm bigger than just me. so maybe it's like a hive mind, or hive eyes, or whatever...!

Meihui replied to an email frmo blaqueice:

Hi --------,

It's GREAT news!! So I am not the only one?

So happy for your email!! Yes, I understand you, but can't write too much. You know people speaking Mandarin?

Who are these 4 others? where?

I am very excited!

Noriko replied to an email from blaqueice:

Hello Brett san! Thank you for email. ^_^ Sorry I understand only some English,　and auto-translation not so good. (@_@)

I woke up with a cloth blindfold.　白いお花の刺繍のある布で目隠しをされていたんですが、おかしな話ですよね。でも、傷一つなかったので、自分でしたのでしょうけど。。。　それから黒のパンツと上着、運動する時に着るような、動きやすい服にスニーカーでした。混乱してて、その姿ですぐ走り出しましたが、全く問題なしでした。　　Athletic Black top and pants and sneakers, easy to run.

I woke up in the center of the labyrinth in Okayama in Japan.　でも、全く周りに見覚えはありませんでした。

Thank you for help, I appreciate! I wish there were people in Japan who help me can help me too. (T_T)
I have no idea what is going on. Not only me having the same situation. 本当に何が起こっているのか分からなくて、少し怖くなってきてます。。。

Rough translation:

I woke up with a cloth blindfold. [You blindfolding with the cloth which has the embroidery of the your white flower, hurting, it does, but it is strange story, don't you think?. Because so, scars 1 it was not, however it probably is to be yourself... Then when the underpants and the coat of black, exercising, it seems that it wears, it was the sneaker in the clothes which are easy to move. Being confused, the て, it started running immediately with that form, but completely there is no problem was.] Athletic Black top and pants and sneakers, easy to run.

I woke up in the center of the labyrinth in Okayama in Japan. [So, completely there was no recognition around.]

Thank you for help, I appreciate! I wish there were people in Japan who help me can help me too. (T_T)
I have no idea what is going on. Not only me having the same situation. [You do not understand and the て, a little become fearful and increase whether something has happened truly...]

Meihui responded to questions about what she was wearing from blaqueice:

I wear black color clothes, when I run from scary dog very comfortable!

Why going to doctor? you think I am sick??

Asked about the scary dog:

a dog chase me, in park. I woke up and I was there. I don't remember anything to my past.

I need help.
Thank you. You try to help me. I know!

Meihui emailed blaqueice a part of a diary entry she remembers writing:

I write diary and I remember this:
at beginning:

我渐渐的从昏迷中醒来，一阵寒意从脚到头经过，全身发冷。蒙胧中我听到讲话的声音，有些比较远，有些声音听起来好像就在我附近。我的头觉得重重的，而且身旁ㄧ片漆黑，什么东西都看不到。我想办法睁开我的眼睛，才发现我的眼睛被蒙起来了。我把蒙著我眼睛的东西拿下来，但是眼睛还是没办法适应。我记得我醒过来的时候是脸朝下，额头靠在我的右手臂上。我还以为我是八十岁的老小姐，动都不能动。我只好待在原位，让我自己清醒一下，直到我能张开我的眼睛。我发现我在一个好暗好暗的空间。

我左看看，右看看，结果看到大概有七，八个会移动的影子在我身边晃来晃去，指指点点的。我一开始有点害怕，后来就火起来了。"看啥看啊？"我心里想，"也不帮忙，只会瞪著我看…"我就也给他瞪回去！哼，谁怕谁呀…结果他们真的就被我瞪走了，嘻嘻！我可可怜怜的ㄧ个人坐在地上 ::*_*:: 不知道到底是什么ㄧ回事，啥都记不起来。地上是用灰色，鹅卵石似的石头铺成的。又硬又冷又冰…

我爬起来，拿著那条绑著我的眼睛的"东西"，慢慢地跟著之前那些对著我指指点点的人后面走。越走光线就越亮。我才发现我是置身在一个像迷宫样的山洞里，看起来好像是大块大块的石头堆起来的，而这些石头的表面也是冷冷的，粗粗的。往出口的路弯弯曲曲的，而且一开始很窄，后来才面慢慢变宽。到了出口我才发现我身上穿著一件黑色长裤及一件黑色的长袖夹克，后面还有加帽子的那种。我也搞不清楚为什么我全身上下都是黑漆麻乌的。不过用来绑我的眼睛的丝巾倒是充满了色彩，很漂亮喔…

I am sorry. I like write, but not good for english so i write my own!
more?

Mei

Translation:

I gradually awoke from the coma, a while after the end chill from the feet, body cold. Wenglong speech I have heard in the voices of some distant, some sounds I like in the vicinity. I think the first full, and the dark side ㄧ film, do not see anything. I would like to open my eyes and found my eyes kept up. I covered my eyes, things had to, but still can not meet the eye. I remember when I wake up is facing, I rely on the forehead right arm. I thought I was 80-year-old Miss, moving not dynamic. I had to stay in situ, let me clear about their own, until I can open my eyes. I find myself in a good dark good dark room.

I look left and right to see, to see the results, there are about seven or eight will be moving shadow on my side Dangling, and the little finger. I started a bit scared, the fire was on the up. "啥can see ah?" I would like to heart, "does not help, I can only Dengzhe…" I have to go back to destroy him! Sing, Sheiboshei ah… results they really were I to destroy gone, hee hee! I cocoa Lingling the ㄧ individuals sit on the ground ::*_*:: do not know what is ㄧ matter in the end, and consequently can not remember the past. Grey is with the ground, like a stone paved with cobblestones. Also hard cold and ice…

I get up and carrying那条tied my eyes "nothing", and slowly follow the finger at me before those little people walk behind. Vietnam sneaked away more bright line. I found that I was outside in a maze-like cave, looks like a large chunks of rock pile up, and the surface of these stones are cold, the rough. Exports to the winding road, and a very narrow start, and then it slowly widened surface. Exports to me, I found that wearing a pair of black trousers and a black long-sleeved jacket, and also behind the kind of hat. I also engage in it is not clear why my whole body from top to bottom are black paint Ma Ukraine. But I used to tie a scarf However eyes full of color, very pretty Oh…