...not that it matters. Jason as his two idiotic friends already outed my name through Facebook anyhow.
As for the Tybee Bomb incident... it's amazing how someone can "lose" a twelve foot long, four ton NUCLEAR DEVICE (that contains 400 pounds of high explosive and enriched uranium). And why would a plane perform a "simulated combat mission" off the Georgia coast with a nuclear weapon?
I know it wasn't "live" per se, but still.. Stupid military...
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:38 am
Sylvia
Hawk Jones updated his blog and sent me message.
Various things wrote:
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Just got home from work man...actually, I got home at around 2:45, but i was up playing some games and whatnot.
I've decided I am done with that one ARG I was playing a while ago, but I guess I had finished playing it a month ago. Just barely decided to get rid of the unneccessary and unrelated friends that came along with the game, you know. Don't want to make anyone who's looking at my friends think i'm a freak; that arg profile was pretty weird.
Truly, this whole Bowty thing is interesting, but I haven't had much time to mess around with it. Just been way too busy. I got past the second part of it, but I've been having some trouble with the third part.
Maybe I'll spend my free time tomorrow figuring it out.
If you ask me, I'm not too sure what to think of this Bowty guy. Is he real? Is there really a virus? Does he mean a computer virus or is it a real virus? How would someone just be able to contain a virus and just spread it at will anyway? Who knows man, but I just hope that I don't become a zombie or something. That would suck.
I had left a comment on his previous blog about solving it to the point where we are now and he sent me this message:
Wait, wut? wrote:
You solved that thing?
What happens? Does he mention what this 'virus' is?
I responded with:
RE:Wait, wut? wrote:
Yep,
Solved it and a bunch of my friends did too. He didn't say what the virus is but it doesn't sound good. After solving it I had to become one of his disciples, the first one actually. But the cool part is I made contact with and Endrid Mercy from http://lazarusunion.org/ . You'll hear from him if you finish the test. He told us basically for the time being to do as bowty says and he will be in touch later. I'll turn you on to some of my freinds, you may already know some, and let them fill you in on more of the details or if you get stuck on one of his test and don't want to contact him for a clue. Once you get to the end, though, he wants you to send a picture with..Well you'll see. I left you a link to mine in the comment on your last blog.
Good Luck
Sylvia
So, I'm turning him on to you guys. Go get acquainted and fill him in on your version of what's going on and let him share his ideas with you. As for me, I've been up like almost 24 hours and I'm going to go lay down for awhile.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:28 am
Sylvia
Quote:
A Cruel Thee Ow
Table Gash Nil
123456789
429761358
This is what I got:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
A Clue To Where
All This Began
I'm not sure about the numbers but my guess is 627185493
What the numbers mean, I don't know.
So it's pretty clear this is about the 50th anniversary of the Tybee Bomb incident.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:03 am
Palm
Here is a transcript:
Something's happening
Looks, almost looks like something is falling. What's that?
Looks like A plane exploded near the ring. (or rim)
There's another plane.
I can hear it.
Something's happening.
Whats, almost looks like something is falling?
What is that? A plane exploded
near the ring. (or rim)
There is another plane.
I can hear it.
As far as the legacy game goes, I can't see how it is intertwined because now that we know more about this, nothing goes with each other; but I noticed his site before this game started because he is listed as one of the friends on whoismrwillson myspace. So he must be playing that game.
EDITED: Right after I wrote this I noticed that HawkJones removed his friend whoismrwillson and removed some of the other characters from whatisthisgame/joinmylegacy off of his profile. There are still people left who are friends that are playing the game, but the main ones are removed. A new friend suddenly appeared on whoimrwillson and it's icon is an eye; although a different eye. So maybe he made a new myspace site just for whatisthisgame playing.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:46 am
Cyrus
It occurs to me that his poem mentions "a watery war starting in Wassa" In the context of the Tybee bomb that makes a whole lot more sense, as it was lost in Wassa Sound. I can't work out much more of the meaning though beyond that first line.
I'm trying to think what the words and numbers that came with your message mean Sylvia. At the moment the only anagram I can think of is the first line: A Clue Whereto?
I'm not sure what the deal with the numbers are, maybe theyre just there to tell us the letters need to be rearranged.
The 251958.mp3 was attached to the email (don't worry I checked it for viruses, it's safe). The internal name is TybeeIsland251958 and what you hear is a guy witnessing the planes crashing back in 1958 when the US airforce lost the bomb. So back to the Wikipedia for more info on the Tybee Bomb.
your probably thinking of this Smithy111110
It had an AI in it that was named jon jones. But I don't think bowty and jon jones are connected in any way.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:00 am
Oriza
Sorry I confsed you
Maybe Gateway is the one I was thinking of...I thought Hawk Jones had to do with WITG....
I'll go take a look at Gateway.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:33 am
Sylvia
elite.fencer wrote:
Great....so this really DOES have to do with "What is this Game"....
Now I have to go read eleven pages of backstory Oi vey.
EDIT:
I just read a few and I realized I never registered for WITG...do you suppose its too late to do so now?
You've lost me. Exactly how does this relate to "What is This Game?" I sort of doubt they would have posted here to start this thread.
I'm curious to see if it might have something to do with this. Project Gateway
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 3:11 am
Oriza
Great....so this really DOES have to do with "What is this Game"....
Now I have to go read eleven pages of backstory Oi vey.
EDIT:
I just read a few and I realized I never registered for WITG...do you suppose its too late to do so now?
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:56 am
Sylvia
I know it's a copy of bravenet's 404 page. And I agree that Karl Corcoran the man himself and his related websites are out of game. But I'm not sure about the one on freewebs. That's totally different. If I was PMing and needed a separate url for only one item, I wouldn't want to pay to register another doamin. And yes, there may have been other ways to introduce the info, if it is in game, but maybe not as clever. The only reason we can't reject it yet is because of the message that Karl Corcoran preaches (about being evanglist/disciples) and how that concept relates to our game and how the freewebs site seems to be saying he is a fraud. We'll see, emails have been sent. Neither of the phone numbers are valid and I doubt that Karl Corcoran has a hotmail address. So, if we get an answer from that, we can be 99% sure that it's not Karl Corcoran the evangelist. And of course, the whole thing could be totally unrelated to our story. I may be seeing patterns and making connections where there are none.
elite.fencer, interesting date on the Muellerburg Muse blog about the Mercy Virus. Dec. 10, 2008. I'll have to read it more in a bit.
Now Palm brought it to my attention about the two domains registered by bowty that he has a strange name for his business, Malicious Alias Studios.
Domain servers in listed order:
ns6.bravehost.com
ns5.bravehost.com
Quote:
Whois Record
Domain ID:D151187040-LROR
Domain Name:LAZARUSUNION.ORG
Created On:12-Feb-2008 23:53:30 UTC
Last Updated On:12-Feb-2008 23:56:35 UTC
Expiration Date:12-Feb-2009 23:53:30 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Directi Internet Solutions d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.Com (R27-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:DI_7603092
Registrant Name:Jacob Jones
Registrant Organization:Malicious Alias Studios
Registrant Street1:953 Celebration Dr.
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Las Vegas
Registrant State/Province:NV
Registrant Postal Code:89123
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+0.7023365682
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email: bowty25SPLATgmail.com
I believe the name Jacob Jones pretty much seals it that hawk jones is in game.
I can't find any info on Malicious Alias Studios. And considering that our plot has to do with a super virus makes it sound scary. But surely no one would give their real address and phone number if they were going to do something bad, maybe their enemies. The phone number is legit (702) 336-5682 Type: Cell PhoneProvider: T-Mobile USA Location: Las Vegas, NV. The address on google earth shows a house with a pool in the back. I don't think the game has anything to do with real computer viruses but keep your scanners running just in case.
The best I can understand is that bowty is some sort of Artificial Intelligence that has escaped from his maker and has the ability to infect all the internet with a virus. Maybe he is a Virus. I don't really understand the whole AI thing. And exactly who Endrid is, I'm not sure yet. But at some point we will probably be working with him to stop bowty until then we have to keep bowty humored.
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:44 am
lhilt
Sylvia wrote:
The way it is now presented makes me think we are to look for a site on freewebs.com.
as far as I can tell because he is hosted on bravenet, i believe him to have tried to spoof the 404 page not found page... Im thinking this freewebs guy isnt IG
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:41 am
lhilt
Sorry been out the last few days, however I have caught up by reading, great work guys.
got my 'reward'.. it is great. (note, I used an interesting image from a google search and gimp'd it. not my own)
Taking a leaf from your book, Sylvia, I wikipedia'd some stuff on Lazarus and the union and found a few things. Don't know if anything stands out, but it's eleven pm where I live and my eyes are beginning to glaze over, so I can't really analyze it right now x_x