[syntacticAtrocity]

i'm relying on you guys to figure this out while i keep him talking, lol.

note the ever growing IM conversation.

*edit* suggestions for things to say????

[classical]

The term 'salamander card' often appears in fantasy games, but I have yet to figure out what exactly they ARE. If they are anything at all.

COME ON, GOOGLE.

[Grady Martin]

tochter's cards refer to salamanders

[classical]

Quote:

Hell if I know whos under the sheet!! I'm not supposed to look! He hasn't moved in like a day and a hlf anyway.

lolwut

Georgia Blind and Tennessee Cave are, apparently, kinds of salamanders? According to Google, anyway. /continues digging

edit: dang, you beat me to it

[syntacticAtrocity]

Reply from Tochter:

Quote:

OK!! So far I have collected these cards -- GEORGIA BLIND, TENNESSEE CAVE, GROTTO and OKLAHOMA. Lenny said there would be one more once I followed the last instruction for the guy under the sheet. You know who Lenny is silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He even said you'd ask that!!!!! Hell if I know whos under the sheet!! I'm not supposed to look! He hasn't moved in like a day and a hlf anyway. I'm DYING to know what to do!

*edit* Grotto is a cave usually found near high tides. tennessee cave googles as some famous caves in tennessee. georgia blind returned a blind company. haven't looked at combinations of words

*edit2* tochter accepted my friend's request. having a conversation with him now.

so far:

Quote:

strangebr00 hi tochter tvonfantine call me TT -- hi back! strangebr00 ok, TT. are you friend's with lenny? tvonfantine nope!! I met him in The Game. strangebr00 as expected. The Game is fun, isn't it? tvonfantine fucking RAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who are you? sender or receiver strangebr00 both. tvonfantine that makes no sense silly!!!!!!!!!!!!! strangebr00 that seems to be today's theme. what can you tell me about the cards you've collected? tvonfantine GEORGIA BLIND, TENNESSEE CAVE, GROTTO and OKLAHOMA they're salamander cards. Lenny says whoever gets to five first wins!!!!! strangebr00 do you know what you'll win? i'd like to help you get to 5. tvonfantine I get to meet Lenny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! strangebr00 are you only allowed to do one thing with the guy under the shit, or can you do it "trial and error"? tvonfantine your HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!! Guy under the SHEET!! I have the hammer though strangebr00 have you found the nail? tvonfantine Nail????? No nails!!!! Lenny said you would tell me what to do to get the next card. Are you you? helloooo? strangebr00 sorry, i'm here. tvonfantine Lenny's calling...BRB!!!!!!!!!!!!! strangebr00 ok. i'm interested to know what you two talk about. tvonfantine Whats your name? strangebr00 syntrocity tvonfantine He says to ask you again. Just first is OK! Come onnnnnnnn! strangebr00 i'm working on it. i very much want to help you win tvonfantine working on your own first name????? Lenny says your not the guy strangebr00 oh sorry, i didn't read that properly. my first name is asher. vonfantine OK!! He says good. did you see the flyers down on Geary? strangebr00 i must have missed them. where abouts were they on Geary? onfantine all around the theater. Curranno silly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for The Game! they have the rabbit pictures on them strangebr00 i haven't been outside the Curran, i'm afraid. do you happen to have a .pdf of the flyer? tvonfantine uh no!! he says to say where he was last strangebr00 have you ever heard the name DeMolay? tvonfantine nope. he says if you don't know where he was last i had to use the hammer on the guy i kind of dont want to -- but he says i'll get the last card strangebr00 would you use a hammer on someone for a card? tvonfantine FUCK YEAH!!!! strangebr00 he was at O'Hare tvonfantine good job!!!!!!!!! he wants to know if you've found a bricker yet? strangebr00 yes Port King used to be a mason... a bricker tvonfantine oooh! he says strike one!!! strangebr00 are we to find Brigham? tvonfantine he's just laughing now he says who's alive? strangebr00 who is not? tvonfantine strike TWO!!!! Lenny likes you strangebr00 he does? tvonfantine he says your a good egg strangebr00 tell him i'm flattered

[Grady Martin]

Lenny Bruce - Live at the Curran Theater (amazon) - (clip and dl links shared here)

[syntacticAtrocity]

lmao i LOVE this character:

reply from tochter:

Quote:

OK! Um, I was supposed to watch my email and I would get instructions about what to do with the guy under the sheet. Lenny's been giving me tasks for days. Its all part of The Game. This RULES!!!!!!!!!! What do I do now?

i replied:

Quote:

your task is to give me all the information you have. i am a middle man in the game. who is lenny. where do you know him from. who or what is the guy under the sheet.

obviously we are supposed to find out wtf the guy under sheet is, what to do with him, and then let tochter know so he can do it. googling "the guy under the shit" links to a poem called Gag by David Gewanter.

This is not a nice poem.. lol.

also notice "The Game" is capitalized.

i also added tvonfantineSPLATyahoo.com to my Y! Messenger. doubtful that will result in anything. looks like email only communications. still waiting on a reply. no twitter that i could find.

[windup angel]

re craigslist ticket

Tochter Von Fantine wrote:

You're like the fifth person who contacted me!!!!!!!!!! Do you give me my next clue?

actually no, I'm clueless... help help help

[classical]

Whooooa, what?
I do anticipate this reply.

/popcorn

[syntacticAtrocity]

HAHAHA - wtf?

Reply from Craigslist:

Quote:

Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He said that somebody would email me today! I didn't believe him. Are you part of The Game? I'm guessing by the "Horhez M11" thing that you are!!!!!!! What does that mean? Who do I tell? Okay -- what are my instructions now? (This is too weird!)

I replied:

Quote:

What were your instructions and who gave them to you, and how were they given?

i sent a tweet rallying the horde.

*edit* tochter von fantineis a character from Les Miserables... i think. the google sites are in german, which i don't know.

[syntacticAtrocity]

i don't think we're at the spoiler phase yet. we're at the WTF IS GOING ON phase.

no response back from the seller, so either PM hasn't checked email, saying i want the ticket was wrong, horhez in m11 was wrong, or that's not our next point of contact.

lol.

[Grady Martin]

There's no contact info at Kade's Korner, and comments are open only to "team members"

I googled "b f kade" (with omitted results included) - found some discussion of Kade at rigorous intuition here and here - this is not light reading (I need a long walk now) - another blog is mentioned in both threads, with reference and a link to a comment Kade made at that blog, which is cocoaandtruffles.blogspot.com, which no longer exists (except in cache) - from the 2nd link to RI above: b. f. kade said... "Looks just like Natalee." - the blog has been removed, but I expected some residue in the cache, so I googled cocoaandtruffles.blogspot.com and found this on page two of results (this is from google cache) Hugs For You: Christmas is lost to Gammers - from 12/21/2008 - it's a criticism of Jesus scholarship and the interweb, but check out those comments - there's one from someone going by the name JJ (!!!), and another from "kyra's vengeance" - someone using that name posted to this thread several pages back, basically saying that this ARG doesn't play by the rules

Is this OOG or META? I need to get a better handle on ARG jargon. Should I have used the spoiler function on the above?

going walking now

[windup angel]

to quote syntactic from earlier today:

syntacticAtrocity wrote:

I can't cover all this information myself! Where are you guys!

[windup angel]

don't know, but did you get a response back from the craigslist email?

[syntacticAtrocity]

Why is the listing title "Curran Theatre Ticket - Odd - $1"?

Here's a detailed seating chart:

http://www.shnsf.com/theatres/section.asp?key=45