[Exarch]

cissmiace wrote:

EDIT: And I dont know if it will ever be of use, but if this game ever goes dont the, somewhat 'spooky' side shall we say, Im qualified in Anomalous Phenomena

Me too! I have a degree in Spooky Weirdness from the University of Fortean. I eat Ghostbusters for breakfast.

[caveat
Mind you, the ghostbusters DO rock. The Real ones, not the Xtreme or Rad or So Awesome Ghostbusters.
/caveat]

[luke]

Better late than never

I (finally) got my pics uploaded. Hope the quality is good enough for most of 'em. You can see them here.

[myf]

I remembered FT having an article about Lovecraft a while ago, so looked in the archive and found it. Interested persons can read it here.

[cissmiace]

myf wrote:

Maybe not psychics, but I'm sure some forteans would be very interested - I was hanging around fortean sites long before I ever got involved with ARGs, and now I'm firmly lodged in both communities I'll keep an eye out for anything relevant cropping up on the Fortean Times forums, just in case

I agree! (Is also a Fortean Times nut and subscriber) especially with the refrence to random crickets appearing out of nowhere

EDIT: And I dont know if it will ever be of use, but if this game ever goes dont the, somewhat 'spooky' side shall we say, Im qualified in Anomalous Phenomena

[myf]

Maybe not psychics, but I'm sure some forteans would be very interested - I was hanging around fortean sites long before I ever got involved with ARGs, and now I'm firmly lodged in both communities

I'll keep an eye out for anything relevant cropping up on the Fortean Times forums, just in case

[Cu Roi]

Hello Friends!

Just sounding off right now...I was lamenting not have to the time to follow Year Zero...then I check in here and find out that there's an ARG using Lovecraft and my childhood as backstory material! Guess I'm going to be losing lots of sleep!

I grew up in Deland, Florida...Cassadega was quite literally in my backyard.

Many of the local legends and urban myths use that place as a centerpiece...I've sat in the Devil's Chair at midnight on Halloween, I have!

Although it looks like I'll be up here in NJ/NY for the duration of this game...I'll be around to help in any way I can.

This looks very promising!

[konamouse]

Caterpillar wrote:

Seems to be some convergence tactics and attacking the possible player base from different angles by areas of interest ... that said, I wouldn't be surprised to find similar banner ads on psychic or fortean type sites.

I'm not sure that people who go to psychic websites are the target audience for ARGs. I'd stick with the IT sites.

[Caterpillar]

Seems to be some convergence tactics and attacking the possible player base from different angles by areas of interest ... that said, I wouldn't be surprised to find similar banner ads on psychic or fortean type sites.

[Occultus]

Caterpillar wrote:

The listing of Arkham Productions at IMDB is actually how I found the movie site. When I said "Maybe this is the actual movie site.", I didn't mean the actual movie site for In Search of Lovecraft, I meant generically as in maybe it was the possible "commercial" link for the game. Might have been better phrased as "Maybe this is the movie site for the actual movie this game's connected to". Not that there is a commercial connection, I've just had nothing better to do besides dig for one.

I see

There'd been some question about whether that first site was really associated with the movie or not, because it had been vandalised. So I misinterpreted what you'd said. Sorry about that.


Going back to the sponsored advert at "Worse than failure" ...

I've been thinking about that some more and it does seem to be a little out of place. It's a fairly high traffic Tech site so it might just be an OOG way to attract attention, but ...

One of the packages contained a Dilbert cartoon about deliberately generating viruses to profit from an anti-virus tool - which could just be a reference to viral marketing, but why put an OOG reference into a package designed to kick start everything?

Then there's the phrase "Eldritch Errors" - why errors?

The WTF site is for sharing stories about horrific code / software mistakes.

Maybe I'm readin way too much into it and finding connections where there aren't any (especially as I'm a techie, it would be nice if it had that link )
... but could there be a tech angle to any of this?


Edited to add:
Ok after checking danteIL's post above I've realised I misssed the whole Sentry Outpost thing when I read through the 30+ pages here last night.
So there is a tech angle

[DavFlamerock]

Thanks, and...

[bwochinski]

Just wanted to say a quick goodbye to everyone here, as I'll be flying out to Belize for my honeymoon early tomorrow!

I'm having a great time with this game and I hope to jump back into things here when I get back next weekend!

[konamouse]

Okay, get uF folks going first so we set up the backstory and start the Alternate Reality. Then advertise with linkage back to us & the wiki.

Girdle our loins; prepare for influx. Awesome!

[danteIL]

Re: AH!

[Caterpillar]

Occultus wrote:

I had a quick look at the cthulhuthemovie site. From the page source the production company is Arkham NW Productions. Searching on that gives: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478126/combined, so it's a different movie.

The listing of Arkham Productions at IMDB is actually how I found the movie site. When I said "Maybe this is the actual movie site.", I didn't mean the actual movie site for In Search of Lovecraft, I meant generically as in maybe it was the possible "commercial" link for the game. Might have been better phrased as "Maybe this is the movie site for the actual movie this game's connected to".

Not that there is a commercial connection, I've just had nothing better to do besides dig for one.

[danteIL]

Occultus wrote:

Oh, and hi btw - my first visit I don't know if anyone has spotted these yet, but I got here via a banner advert: http://worsethanfailure.com/Default.aspx (the 'Sponsored by' half way down on the right hand side). There are several links from the advert to google searches, the 'missed connection' one brings up a lot of the craigslist links.

Welcome!! And thanks for the heads up about the banner ad.. hadn't spotted that yet! I find it interesting that they are advertising on an IT blog. Hrm.