The Msscribe Story, Afterword One
for Aja, for the poem, the trendsetting apology, and -- most of all - the fabulous close shave! But my heart belongs to Mina...



It looks like I will not be required to pay that $1000 to Msscribe's favorite charity. Both Angua9 and Oulangi have called the police department that Msscribe told Nimbus Security chief ari_o had handled her case and confirmed that they have no records of such a case. I'll quote both of their reports.

Angua:

Record of a Phone Conversation
Date: June 20, 2006
Time: 8 AM central/9 AM Eastern
Called: City of _____ Police Records Department
Talked to: Gwen
Number: xxx xxx-1062

I called the number of the police department Msscribe told ari_o handled her case and made the arrest. I talked to a woman named Gwen in the Records Department, and told her Dionne's real name, Louis Movello's name, the date (March 2003), and the alleged circumstances. She could find no record of such a case. I tried calling the number for the alleged police officer again, and again got a recording. I did not leave a second message at that number.


I understand that my word might be considered suspect by many, and I suggest that someone from the "other side," such as ari_o, heidi8, or praetorianguard might want to repeat the experiment, to make sure that everyone is satisfied with the facts. I have emailed ari_o with more complete details.


ETA: 9:10 AM Central/10:10 AM Eastern - I finally got through on the number for the Special Investigations unit, and described the claimed crime and the name of the alleged officer. The person I talked to, a Sgt. W______, said "that would be difficult, because he didn't work here in 2003." Sgt. W______ confirmed to me that they have nothing resembling such an incident in their records.


ETA2: To clarify, because there are some questions. Here is what ari_o emailed to me, with the identifying info blanked out:

Hi,

Here is what she told me:

"It was (name of officer) of the special investigations unit who handled it."

http:// (website of city phonelist)

I hope to hell he can tell you something. I really don't want to believe that she lied to me about that too.


I believe, but don't know for sure, that this is what Msscribe told Ari way back when. My impression from talking to the people at the station is that (name of officer) hasn't been there for quite a while, and the website information was stale even three years ago when, I assume, Msscribe got his name and telephone number from the website.

In another email, ari_o told me that she deleted her LJ because she can't handle the volume of comments right now (she's swamped in real life) and she already got trolled by one person. She named the person, but I didn't recognize the name. She said she gave the detective's name to Oulangi, and she hopes Heidi or someone can call. I can forward the information on to Heidi, if she doesn't have it yet.

Oulangi:

I was talking to ari_o off and on here, and she was really struggling to get a handle on this. It was clear that Dionne had deceived her and been quite nasty around the net. At the time random people were showing up in ari_o’s journal or emailing her, demanding she explain herself and give them proof. This is hella uncool guys. No, really. It also tends to make people feel like they’re backed into a corner. I doubt she wanted or saw herself in the role she was being cast as defending Dionne. Instead I see her as being blindsided by a truck, only to get up and get hit by the bus coming from the opposite direction.

She certainly wanted to know as well if Louis was fake, if she’s been manipulated by someone she thought was a friend. I offered to check the information on the so-called police report. She also thought it would be a good idea to forward it to someone on the GT side so they could check it out themselves. This seemed like a bully idea, and it was decided I would wait until the GT representative, in this case angua9. I did not know angua9 at the time. I also wrote eljuno letting him know that I had the info and what I planned on doing with it.

I think ari_o knew what the answer would be, but being honorable she wanted the answer out there, shredding any doubt at all about the truth of Louis/fermentojams identity.

Here is angua9’s post


She sent me an email detailing who she talked to and what they said.

I can confirm that I also called the Ohio police department. The number is from the online phone directory .

They confirmed she had called AND they confirmed that they had no reports with either Dionne or Evan [realname]. I asked him to try various spellings of her name in case I had it wrong.

He also confirmed there was no fermentojam / Louis [realname] in their DB. Again I tried variations of his spelling.

In fact, there were no hits at all with the last names provided.

So yeah, I hope that’s enough confirmation for people.

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I want to address two real people. One is the actual "Louis", a man in his fifties with the same name as Msscribe's alleged stalker, who was found in various online databases by commenters in the Bad_Penny community. I feel badly about him. I learned of his existence about two days before I published my account, and I then had to think carefully about whether or not to include the full name of Msscribe's "Fermatojam" in this account. Obviously, I decided to, because I thought it would help in getting the truth out. I sincerely hope that no embarrassment or harrassment ever comes to that man because of Msscribe's actions or mine.

The other is Babygrrl/Infinitus. The additional information provided in the comments by flyingphoenix -- both her memories of Babygrrl and the IP she provided, which does not match any of Msscribe's -- have convinced me more than ever that Babygrrl was a real person, as has some other information I have received. Both Flyingphoenix and a commenter on my LJ named _____faith have noted that Babygrrl seems to have visited Portkey recently. She last visited on April 20, 2006. I believe that she might have gone there to delete her fanfiction. Four stories were posted and I skimmed some of them when I began this write-up in April. Her author page now contains no stories.

Whether Babygrrl/Infinitus was Msscribe's dupe or accomplice I still don't know, and I don't plan to pursue it, or her.

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About the venue... As many have correctly speculated, I chose to publish, or rather to publicize, this unauthorized biography on Journalfen rather than Livejournal because I feared the sometimes capricious and hastily-applied Terms of Service deletions on Livejournal. I also should admit that I cherished hopes of inspiring Fandom_Wank moderators to do some IP investigating, for which I do thank them very much. flyingphoenix's contribution from Portkey.org was an unanticipated and glorious surprise.

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What I plan to do next is to leave the ten chapters as they currently are on the Bad_Penny community, without making any further revisions. They can stand as a historical record, along with the comments. I will -- at my leisure -- revise the ten chapters on my LJ and JF accounts to reflect all the new information I have already received, and that people are still sending me. If I'm feeling energetic and generous, I may even provide a reference list of the people involved in the story. My intended audience was people in the Harry Potter fandom, and I perfectly understand that the many names might be frustrating to an outsider. I mean, Aja's LJ names alone...!

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Afterword Two