Hi guys. Did you miss me? Sorry its been so long since my last post i went on vacation.

Update #7

Today is a new day.

I gathered up my strength and went back to the door. I didn't bother opening it or doing anything of the type with it this time; rather, I simply searched around it for clues as to where Jack was taken. And by some divine luck, I found something.

A photo of tall redwood trees lying not far from the door. The redwoods look to be the same type that you find in California.

The creature has taken Jack to California. I'm going after him.

Now I know you guys will say I'm walking into a trap. But I know this, and I want to walk right into it. This thing abducted me, abducted Jack twice. I'm going to find it. And I'm going to kill it.

I'm going to remain here for a few days and gather supplies, and hopefully a weapon. Then I'm going through the door. Let that creature find me - I'll kill it.

Update #6

I can't believe I let it happen.

We were walking through the forest, moving locations again. Jack was more himself than he has been since we found Brandon and Emily.

And then we found another door.

This one was almost identical, but it didn't have the symbol scratched into the paint. Otherwise they were indistinguishable. Different this time, however, was the surrounding area. Whereas the other door was in the middle of an area just as heavily wooded as the rest of the forest, this one seemed to be in a large, circular clearing - as if it were designed to be placed here.

I ran a typical scan of the door. Hinges, doorknob, everything was intact. I then tried opening the door, and to my great surprise, it did. There was no photo in the frame this time, however, so upon opening the door I just saw the forest behind it. Jack was suddenly interested, now seeing that there was no danger, and came up beside me.

I stepped through the door frame, wondering if the forest on the otherside was the same. There were no outward differences that I could immediately ascertain. I turned around.

Jack was standing on the otherside of the frame, looking straight through the center. Directly behind him, towering over him, was the creature.

I'm not sure if I screamed or not, but I was paralyzed with fear. Suddenly the door slammed shut as I lunged forward to save Jack. I opened the door, but on the otherside, both Jack and the creature were gone.

I shouldn't have messed with it. I should have focused on getting out of the forest. He was right. I was wrong. Now he's gone and it's all my fault. I'm alone now - I don't know what is going to happen to me.

Update #5

This was just sent to me from the same number.

97 72 82 48 99 68 111 118 76 50 74 112 100 67 53 115 101 83 57 117 87 107 112 82 100 109 115 61

If you guys translated those last messages correctly, then this creature thing must be the "agent"; and I don't like that. It implies it's working for something greater than it, which is a horrifying thought.

As for "black 13 is notleased"; that didn't make much sense to me, either. I went back to the original text and compared it to my post, and when I was posting it, it looks like I left out two numbers.

1862 2052 1843 1881 2033 608 931 969 608 1995 2185 608 2090 2109 2204 608 2128 2052 1919 1843 2185 1919 1900 874

That is the full text; I've double checked. See if it makes any more sense.

I haven't seen the creature yet, and Jack seems a little more himself today, so that is a good thing. We're still moving pretty often though.

Update #4

The creature found our cave last night. We quickly put out the fire and I think we avoided being noticed; at any rate, the creature just left - though I'm nearly certain that as he turned around, he made brief eye contact - if he had eyes at least - with me before leaving.

As soon as dawn hit, Jack started running faster than he's ever run here. I was only just able to keep up with him. He didn't stop for almost an hour. As we ran I caught a few glimpses of terrain features around us; the trees appeared to be growing denser, and I could have sworn I saw either the same door we had previously found or another one like it.

We've found a new cave, but we've decided to move caves more often now; the creature appears to be better at finding us than we thought.

As for those messages, still not sure what to make of them. "return to the agent"? I'm going to keep digging through this phone to see if I can find anything to make better sense of it.

Update #3

Punxtr decoded the message for us in the comments: "you will not escape. the cycle will not be broken." I don't like the sound of that.

Since we have figured out that these can be translated, there are a few more that look like the same encoding.

Sent August 17th, 2011: cmV0dXJuIHRvIHRoZSBhZ2VudCBub3cgb3IgbWVldCB0aGVpciBmYXRl

Sent August 20th, 2011: ZG8geW91IGxpa2UgdGhlIHRhc3RlIG9mIGNvbnRyb2w/IGl0IGlzIGZsZWV0aW5nLg==

Then there is this one, sent August 22nd, 2011: 1862 2052 1843 1881 2033 608 931 969 608 1995 2185 608 2090 2109 2204 2052 1919 1843 2185 1919 1900 874

I have a feeling that making sense of these messages is going to be crucial at some point. I haven't told Jack about them, though. I don't want to trouble him if I don't have to.

Update #2

Jack is still disturbed. He's opened up a little more, but not much. He still spends much of his time blankly staring off into space. I don't want to imagine what must be going through his mind right now. I think this may even be the first time he is fully realizing the danger this creature poses - his own actions back in Alabama may be hitting him full force for the first time.

Anyway, I decided to take a better look through this phone. I have found it odd to say the least that this phone has managed to stay charged for several weeks. So I opened up the battery door. There was just a normal battery in there, nothing out of the ordinary. After that I decided to inspect the device's software. Everything appeared fine until I started reading old text messages.

Here is one message, from the number "252-2513"; there was no area code: "eW91IHdpbGwgbm90IGVzY2FwZS4gdGhlIGN5Y2xlIHdpbGwgbm90IGJlIGJyb2tlbi4=" It was sent on June 18th. Jack's birthday.

There are a lot like this, but this one message was sent three times on the same day for some reason.

Also: Jack's middle name is Anderson.