OCT 20

On October 20 it was revealed that Hunter confirmed "Dark Morning Conspirators" to be a Crash Love B-Side that was not finished. Read about it here:

http://afitalk.blogspot.com/2009/10/dark-morning-conspirators-confirmed-b.html

OCT 17

An e-mail was sent:



"Hello,

I am a personal friend of the originators of the hoax.
They are personal longtime friends of mine.

However entertaining it was to watch, I do feel bad that several of you
went out of your way to solve the mystery.

I wish to remain anonymous at all costs, for more information,
feel free to contact my cell at any time. I will reveal their identities.

Cell: 724-984-1492 724-984-1492

Email: darklight5002@gmail.com

I congratulate you on your completion of the mystery, and even
the originators are impressed."





Bring The Gun texted this number: "in response to my question if the people who were doing it were DF members....

"no they arent. we all knew the best way for this to spread was via the DF. u dont understand how well we researched this beforehand"

"there is no intention of continuing now that its been found to be a hoax. i do however believe it would have been continued via on the spot ideas""


FULL "INTERVIEW" HERE: http://afitalk.blogspot.com/2009/10/if-you-still-care-my-interview-with-one.html

OFFICIALLY FAKE!!!

On October 15th Gavin posts "Nothing in this thread has been done at the behest of the band, the DF, band management, or the record label."

here's a video of the meeting from Shasa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm92PLvqPcw


So it's fake, but is it over?

OCT 15

On October 15th an account with the username of "veronica" posted a thread in the AFI Everything forum of the official message board saying "Dear Conspirators Mark your calenders, October 31st, 2009. That's all I can tell you for now." The account was quickly called out for being a troll and later on the account was banned.

About a half hour after the post was made, an infraction for tony666 was given for multiple accounts. tony666 denies making the "veronica" account.

OCT 14 Late Night

On October 14th late in the night, there is much confusion as there are some who swear they went to the correct starbucks to find no one wearing pink headbands. People start to question the legitimacy of the accounts from those who did find "Veronica" at starbucks. No one found "Veronica" at the show even though she said "See you at the show". Some think this was a reference to a secret show to be revealed in the future.

Read Mark's account of what happened here: http://despairfaction.com/showpost.php?p=3597858&postcount=1631

He verifies what others said about meeting "Veronica" and Charles but adds some pictures:

Top: The code that Charles gave sitting on Mark's DF card

Bottom: Mark's printed out ID card

OCT 14

On October 14th (day of the starbucks meeting) a few of us went to meet veronica. so far we have this information from JillyQ: "Met Veronica she gave us instructions to meet Charles".

From Shasa: "We got codes. In the apple store now trying to submit them."
"we went to starbucks, veronica was there. She told us to go to macys where charles was buying a tie. we went to macys and charles was there. he gave us codes and when we plugged them in (yes, in the apple store) we were given an ID card to print out. some of us have printed it and now we're trying to figure out what's next. I'm taking mine to the concert. we also bugged charles but he literally will not say anything."

"Veronica" puts a new status on facebook that says "Good work. =] See you at the show. Have your ID."

A more detailed account from Chilling Silence:

"My girlfriend and I got there about 3:30, no one was around. I called Sasha (Shasa) and she said she was walking over soon with some people. I actually think I texted her but whatever. She gets there. A couple more girls get there. We all go in (Starbucks). Nothing doing. A couple more people got there. Sasha starts wandering around the Starbucks, which has 2 rooms. She comes back from the second room and says "hey, I found something"

So we followed her in and there was a girl who looked like any old college girl sitting at a table with a placard on it that read "Reserved for Veronica Sawyer". I'm actually not positive the last name was on it but that's really neither here nor there. She had a headband on. She told us "Charles is at the mall at Macy's buying a tie." And then said that's all she was allowed to tell us.

So we went to the mall, to Macy's, to the tie section and saw no one. We started branching out and wandering around and someone (I'm really sorry guys but I don't remember anyone's name other than Mark and Sasha ) came back saying they saw a guy standing there with a pink headband and a pink tie on just outside of Macy's in the mall. So we approached him and he handed us each a tiny little rectangle of paper with the Crash heart and a code on it. I honestly don't remember what he said, just that each code is different and can only be used once, and that "this is only the beginning".

When you enter your code it prompts you to enter your name, email address, and a picture of you wearing the headband. As soon as you do that a file pops up of an "ID card" that has your picture on the left and the sing the sorrow logo (circle with falling leaves) on the right. It has your name and email on it, as well as "Dark Morning Conspirator #xxx"....my number is 003."

OCT 14 Early Morning

On October 14th "Veronica Sawyer" posts this picture on her facebook account confirming the meeting place.

OCT 13

On October 13th a copyright note appears on the bottom of the-reapers.com.

Later that day the copyright sign becomes a clickable link that goes to the-reapers.com/rw5ok05j9jy/ where there is a code box. the code is most likely to come from the meeting at starbucks. but feel free to try everything you can think of.

OCT 12

On October 12th gulez gives us this conversation between herself and smith after he gives her an autograph:


smith: here ya go girl. nice headband it matches your eyes.
me: bullshit it doesn't you know why i'm wearing it.
smith: *grins widely*
me: so who is charles atlas?
smith: *blank stare* i don't know.
me: bullshit.
smith: *grins snickers wide eyes starts to lose his straight faced expression*
me: don't think i don't know, i do.
smith: *grins and runs away*


her theory is that smith is charles atlas.

OCT 10

On October 10th "Veronica" and Charles sign back onto AIM at almost exactly the same time leading us to believe more firmly that the two accounts are controlled by one person.

OCT 9

On October 9th both "Veronica" and Charles signed off AIM and have not been back on.

OCT 6

On October 6th Charlotte from the Five Flowers mystery was randomly called again and her voicemail was found to be up again after a period of the number being disconnected. Some think that this makes the Dark Morning Conspirators (DMC) more legitimate while others believe that DMC is overlapping with and official mystery.

Charlotte's number: 1-337-935-0150

Read about the Five Flowers mystery here: http://panasonicyouth.buzznet.com/user/journal/19310/

OCT 4

On October 4th it was figured out that the 1 and 16 from http://www.the-reapers.com/(1%7Ccold_as_a_razorblade%7C16) refers to the track time 1:16 which on the Pink Floyd song "Cold As A Razorblade" is the time when these lyrics are sung: "you have grown colder".

From this, the site www.the-reapers.com/youhavegrowncolder was found. This site is a snapshot of an IM conversation between Charles Atlas and "Veronica Sawyer" which is how "Veronica's" screen name was found. In this conversation Charles asks "Veronica" "are you frightened?" the next line shows that "Veronica" was typing.

catlas1221: hey
catlas1221: are you there, veronica?
catlas1221: hello?
catlas1221: are you frightened?
veronicasawyerx3 is typing a message...


When "Veronica" was IMed "are you frightened", she replies with the link www.the-reapers.com/remember/

This is another IM conversation where "Veronica" informs Charles that she will be meeting new "Conspirators" at a coffee shop next to City Burger before the AFI show on the 14th of October in Rhode Island. "Veronica" says that at 4pm she will meet the "Conspirators" who will be wearing pink headbands.

veronicasawyerx3: the pink headband brigade is unstoppable! lmao
catlas1221: haha, breaking those things out again?
veronicasawyerx3: you know it.
veronicasawyerx3: =P
catlas1221: do you guys really have to wear those to EVERY show?
veronicasawyerx3: yes. it's what sets the Conspirators apart from those who don't know.
catlas1221: alright, lol, if you say so.
veronicasawyerx3: anyway, i'm meetin the new ones at the coffee place this time -- if we have any new ones, that is.
veronicasawyerx3: frappuccino before the show as usual?
catlas1221: sounds great =)
catlas1221: where?
veronicasawyerx3: our favorite.
catlas1221: oh, right, lol. next to City Burger?
veronicasawyerx3: yepp.
veronicasawyerx3: around 4. meet up after that?
catlas1221: of course
veronicasawyerx3: see you on the 14th. can't wait! =)



From the City Burger and frappuccino references, we deduced that the coffee shop is a specific Starbucks.

Board members immediately started to see who would go to Starbucks the day of the Rhode Island show to meet "Veronica". Some even planned to wear pink headbands to all shows in every area.

OCT 3

On October 3rd another call was made to Mike Marton who said some kids he knew wanted to set up a website and Mike let the kids use his information to create the site...

OCT 2

On October 2nd Charles Atlas's facebook shows his screen name to be catlas1221.

When this screen name was instant messaged, (on AIM) Charles replied "stove burns on my hands.." This was found to be lyrics from a Crystal Castles song. When Charles was IMed "Crystal Castles - Dating Engagement" he replied with a link to www.the-reapers.com/maxwelledison.

This link takes you to a picture of a bunch of very difficult to read numbers. The name of the picture is "abesttcerinoiw" which says "better now" if you take "ascii" out of it.

This photo was edited so the numbers are clearer. (see sidebar link abesttcerinoiw Edited)

When the numbers are translated using ASCII, the translation gives a link http://www.the-reapers.com/(1%7Ccold_as_a_razorblade%7C16) which doesn't go anywhere.

"Cold As A Razorblade" was a song by Pink Floyd. When Charles was IMed "Pink Floyd - Cold As A Razorblade", he replied "you're on the right track, but the wrong time. don't you remember when everything was hunky dory?"

OCT 1

On October 1st Mike Marton's number was called. A woman answered who had no idea what AFI is and was confused as to why she was getting calls at all hours of the night telling her to beware the reaper. (These calls were from the Despair Faction and board members of the official message board trying to get answers.) She was apologized to as she was freaked out about the calls.

"Veronica Sawyer's" facebook shows her e-mail to be veronicasawyer@the-reapers.com.

SEPT 30

On September 30th the-reapers.com was entered into whois.com (see sidebar) where we got the information of the creator of the site: Mike Marton 184 Bennington Rd. Pensylvania. Phone number: 724.439.5807.

"Veronica Sawyer" updates her work information on facebook to "Route 37 Mechanics".

Charles Atlas shows up on facebook as "Veronica's" friend. (see sidebar)

His buddy info showed this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptoclib which we haven't found significant. Do not download it; while there is no virus it is a waste of time and space on your computer.

TheDarkAssailant from the message boards informs us of this exchange with AFI:
"Me: So what/who are the "Dark Morning Conspirators"?
Adam: You know, I don't know. (looks to Jade)
Jade: (kinda' playfully) Ask Davey. But he's got different secrets to everything so don't believe his lies.

Me: So Davey, what IS "Dark Morning Conspirators"?
Davey: It's a song. But it's not on the album.
Me: Really? Will we ever get to hear it?
Davey: I don't know. Probably. I mean, all our stuff usually gets out, right?"

This leads us to believe that this mystery is fan-made. But we shall solve it anyway!!!

SEPT 28

On September 28th an unofficial Veronica Sawyer facebook account was found. (See sidebar for links)

From this account's status, we found http://www.the-reapers.com/ which shows a picture of davey with mirror language written on it. The picture was edited (see sidebar First Clue edited) and from this we got the e-mail address charlesatlas@the-reapers.com.

Many people e-mailed this account. None got a reply.