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luke
Just received a package today in the mail, at my Oshawa, Ontario address.

*looks through topic*

I get to play an ARG with the cool kids??!? Awesome! Wink

I'll work on getting the scans up in the next couple of hours. For now, I've typed the personalized letter part:

Quote:
Luke,
When the moon is high in the sky, lunacy reigns.
My dreams lately have been of madness. I've seen men hanging, cities burning, people running. I've seen you. This is not a place for someone so nice, so innocent. Perhaps you'll feel better knowing that you are not alone but part of a parade of intent on marching into the unknown.
"Find them. Warn them.
Make sense of this together.
It is the only way.

Seeing you,
B


I'm not THAT innocent Wink

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 1:13 pm
danteIL
Re: Kiss of the Beast
Worker wrote:
Nice work! It looks like it's not just a catalog, but an actual book, complete with ISBN (1876509082). Maybe someone with a well-stocked library nearby can manage to find a copy.


I just requested it through Interlibrary Loan. Hopefully it'll be quick..

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:40 pm
notgordian
Since we're talking about sources, I think the "At the Mountains of Madness" pages came from this version--the font and spacing matches perfectly for pages 3,4 according to Amazon's "search inside".

EDIT: I'm an idiot. The full list so far is on the wiki

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:28 pm
Lola
I'm new to ARGs but I'm jumping in. I'll be lurking and try to help where I can. I did respond to the Los Angeles Craig's List posting.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:21 pm
Worker
Re: Kiss of the Beast
danteIL wrote:
A long chain of Google searches has left me pretty convinced that all of these images are from an exhibition catalog for an exhibit at the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia entitled "Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong" by Ted Gott and Kathryn Weir.

Nice work! It looks like it's not just a catalog, but an actual book, complete with ISBN (1876509082). Maybe someone with a well-stocked library nearby can manage to find a copy.

Edit: this Queensland Art Gallery Annual Report (PDF) on page 30 shows some shots of the book, and mentions that it's 128 pages long.

Edit: Probably out-of-game, but awesome: http://www.kissofthebeast.com/

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:18 pm
danteIL
Kiss of the Beast
I think that I *might* have found the source of the various illustrations and images of gorillas, etc. in the packages. My primary clue was the name "Ted Gott" in the most recent page from inio's package.

A long chain of Google searches has left me pretty convinced that all of these images are from an exhibition catalog for an exhibit at the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia entitled "Kiss of the Beast: From Paris Salon to King Kong" by Ted Gott and Kathryn Weir.

I haven't been able to independently find any images of the book contents, but the description of the book here seems to fit the illustrations we're seeing pretty well...

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:10 pm
Phaedra
Gertrude Wellie wrote:
Need some technical assistance. . .

For those that got packages, I'm assuming your address is posted somewhere - like on another ARG you played. But is there anything in place for this one? Should we be sending an address to our appropriate craigslist posting or something?


Thanks


So far, I think, they've gotten our addresses through Nefarious Means. Wink

(I.e. we played earlier games, or...I'm actually not sure where they got mine. They might have gotten an address for PST Productions from a domain registration or something similar.)

Later in the game you may get a chance to have swag sent to you, or there may be something you can receive at the end (their last game had a commemorative poster), but at this point, no, there doesn't seem to be an in-game channel for sending them your address.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:29 am
danteIL
Re: My package
Worker wrote:

Looking at the other page he got (53/54), it makes sense that this one is 77/78. The wiki has a good overview of all the pages, and is starting to put them together in order.


Very useful, thanks.

This is probably already obvious, but I find it interesting that the vast majority of the page numbers from the Lovecraft works are *5/*6, which is similar to the initial *5 numbers in the sets of three numbers following the I Ching phrases.

In the non-Lovecraft 2600/Monsters pages, though, the *5/*6 numbers are the rare exceptions -- and furthermore, in the 2600 pages, the two *5/*6 pages that are included so far are the only ones with words circled. What it all means, I don't know.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:26 am
Gertrude Wellie
Need some technical assistance. . .

For those that got packages, I'm assuming your address is posted somewhere - like on another ARG you played. But is there anything in place for this one? Should we be sending an address to our appropriate craigslist posting or something?


Thanks

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:25 am
Exarch
okay, ignore the lats/longs theory. The "Youthful Folly" IChing destroyed that theory. Next one: codenumbers for ninjas!

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:20 am
konamouse
Just to put it out in the open:

Whois info:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Domain name: BSEEINGU.COM
Registrant:
GMD Studios
7057 University Blvd
Winter Park, FL 32792 US

Administrative Contact:
Direct, Domain admin-contactSPLATdomaindirect.net
96 Mowat Avenue
Toronto, ON M6K 3M1 CA
+1.4165312084 Fax: +1.4165315584

Record last updated on 22-Mar-2007.
Record expires on 12-Oct-2007.
Record created on 12-Oct-2006.

Domain servers in listed order:
DS1.ELDRITCHERRORS.COM
DS2.ELDRITCHERRORS.COM
IP Address: 208.97.178.106 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-CALIFORNIA-BREA

What is Eldritcherrors???

Domain name: ELDRITCHERRORS.COM
Registrant:
GMD Studios
7057 University Blvd
Winter Park, FL 32792 US

Administrative Contact:
Clark, Brian
7057 University Blvd
Winter Park, FL 32792 US
+1.407657899040

Record last updated on 23-Mar-2007.
Record expires on 19-Dec-2007.
Record created on 19-Dec-2006.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.DOMAINDIRECT.COM
NS2.DOMAINDIRECT.COM
NS3.DOMAINDIRECT.COM

IP Address: 204.209.45.100 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: CA(CANADA)-ALBERTA-SHERWOOD PARK


Hmmmmmmmm...........

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:17 am
Phaedra
Re: Reply
Gertrude Wellie wrote:
Thanks for the info, Phaedra! Very Happy


My pleasure. Smile

I should also point out that there may have been other reasons that people are chosen to receive packages, and if you didn't receive a package, you still may turn out to be a very valuable member of the player community.

My first game was I Love Bees, which was set in the universe of the Halo video games. It was really neat to watch how various people's backgrounds and talents meshed to make the player community a nearly unstoppable force. A lot of the old guard ARGers helped in organizing the community and keeping it sane, while some of the diehard Halo fans that were new to ARGs helped us by contributing their encyclopedic knowledge of that universe (I suspect that the people from PST Productions know Lovecraft backwards and forwards, which may prove invaluable), and others saved the day just by being in the right place at the right time, by helping make resources, or even just by having random clever insights.

So, if you're new and you didn't get a package, don't think that doesn't mean that we may end up depending on you for something. ARGs have a funny way of making what may seem like someone's Useless Talent or Obscure Background Knowledge vital to saving the day. Smile

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:13 am
Worker
Re: My package
danteIL wrote:
Worker wrote:
inio wrote:
Torn magazine page, opposite site has page number 77, and that's it.

What side is that page number on? The torn side, or not?


Same query here. I've been looking at the wiki and am wondering if the page numbers of these other illustrations, etc. might be relevant too. We've gotten enough stuff now that a lot of the page numbers are starting to look like they connect..

Looking at the other page inio got (53/54), it makes sense that this one is 77/78. The wiki has a good overview of all the pages, and is starting to put them together in order.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:09 am
danteIL
Re: My package
Worker wrote:
inio wrote:
Torn magazine page, opposite site has page number 77, and that's it.

What side is that page number on? The torn side, or not?


Same query here. I've been looking at the wiki and am wondering if the page numbers of these other illustrations, etc. might be relevant too. We've gotten enough stuff now that a lot of the page numbers are starting to look like they connect..

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:06 am
Worker
Exarch wrote:
I'm just gonna raise this just for in case but the matching letters fit my latitude/longitude theory. I have no idea why they might be sending coordinates unless, like with vanishing point, there will be a large intro presentation to the game in certain areas. Of course, that doesn't fit in with I Ching concepts. hmmmmmm

Aren't the numbers much too large to be latitude/longitudes?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:03 am
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