ARG: Geist-Responses

[META] An Analysis of MeiGeist

Rekidk@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:14:15 +0000

I thought that you guys would appreciate seeing the new Licorice Media site's page on MeiGeist:

http://licorice-media.com/Meigeist.html

Game not over?

aliendial@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:40:26 +0000

SPec regarding another Geist game is at

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19977

Game not over?

aliendial@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:33:00 +0000

I am an American who was playing from afar, sort of. Well, I just received this email from "mrplasm@timehole.co.uk", while is of course a familiar site to those of us who played. Here is that the email said:

Mr A Plasm
Outer Spiral
Timehole

Dear sir / Madam,

It seems we share common acquaints!
If times were different perhaps this would be a post of greetings and joy?
But alas I must apologize; my full focus and attention are both currently preoccupied amidst a matter of great urgency.

It also is no help to the virtues of friendship and correspondence that I have come to believe that I unfortunately am in fact ..quite .. dead.

I do hope my current situation is not too much of a .. quandary to overcome in order for me to request a small act of kindness form you?

.. help.

Yours sincerely,

Mr A Plasm.

Any ideas?

[META] An Analysis of MeiGeist

Rekidk@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:08:39 +0000

For those of you who don't listen to the ARG Netcast, you may be interested to learn that Hazel Grian, Jonathan Williams, Kenton O'Hara, and Watershed recent put together a 'Product and Research Report' for MeiGeist.

http://www.ished.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/diffractions-report-final.pdf

You may be interested in checking it out.

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Also, for those who don't frequent News & Rumors...

Check out this update on the latest from Jonathan Williams:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19599&start=6

There may be some exciting news there. :)

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:00:12 +0000

meh looks like the soulless ad-robots have finally claimed the blog comments as their latest billboard... might not be many more clues coming from that direction. Unless, of course, those are the kinds of clues you're looking for.

But you know what? Not ever knowing what the story is with those two posts won't bother me a bit. In fact, it seems entirely possible that they will never cross my mind again. Frankly, it's peanuts compared to never figuring out what the hell NLPEXP was all about...

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:22:44 +0000

Id had occurred to me that this may be what it first appears to be - an April Fools joke that goes nowhere - perhaps Hazel's way of poking more fun at the over-analysers amongst us? Nah, I don't think she'd torment us like that.

Oh well - there appears to be no solve, and nobody has dropped any clues our way, so I'll have to resign myself to disappointment.

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:40:52 +0000

Doesn't a proper april fool technically have to be executed prior to the strict midday deadline?

Surely no would-be prank artiste would be clumsy or crass enough to flout the final sturdy plank of reliability in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world that is the midday deadline? single most important convention of april fooling.
It is.
If you're after midday then its not an april fool, its a tasteless, tardy and possibly blasphemous perversion of an innocent and harmless ritual dating back to... a long time ago.

It could be, of course, that it is not an april fool by a disgruntled former geist-er (perhaps one who thought it all ended too suddenly?) and that instead we are dealing with a new breed of microbially enhanced april fool-subverting supervillain: subject010407.net is online!

Ready to battle for the planet's collective soul one more time?
meiGeist die-hards! To arms! The world needs our collaborative abilities of discussing things at great length more than ever before!
Lost cats a speciality, sort of.

Or maybe... yes, it must be keir and eva trying to tell us something! or erwin maybe! Has anyone tried using miaow as a keyword? ;)

so anyway, it wasn't me obviously...

now let's see, who has been suspiciously non-vocal about it? hmmmm

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:21:02 +0000

This has gone unsolved for far too long now, I was thinking everyone had given up on it.

What amused Tarim most (given that there are no coincidences) is that Bruce Schneier said, "In the future, company names will be a 32-character hex string" and "brwdhvz.mdclvheo", having 16 characters, could be written as a 32 character hex string :) Perhaps it's not in code at all?

However, Tarim thinks you're overlooking a really obvious clue...

snhevmubf oigt mogjvhq pmodiawxz ovcrid nktid rxwne
Posted by hxlujnbrc sbxequom at Sunday, April 01, 2007 20:59:53

hewsotnbi swob fglwvep ptrakvngw rgihzuev bumnihp owvgcjxq http://www.brwdhvz.mdclvheo.com
Posted by wkfirg dozjmxswi at Sunday, April 01, 2007 21:00:47

It was posted on April 1st! Surely the real puzzle is, who generated a random bunch of letters and kept you all guessing?

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:01:34 +0000

Personally, I miss Eva and her vlogs. I really really liked her as a character. :'(

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:07:22 +0000

Nope, haven't given up - I'm just crappy at anything other than a simple substitution puzzle.

Personally, I'd like to see Geist continue. Make it an X-Files thing, Eva and Keir would be Scully and Mulder and Pat and Dave would be The Lone Gunmen.

Besides, I miss all youse guys! :wink:

Bah! Sod Keir and Eva, I could do without them. Pat and Dave carried the whole thing on their own!

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:50:26 +0000

Nope, haven't given up - I'm just crappy at anything other than a simple substitution puzzle.

Personally, I'd like to see Geist continue. Make it an X-Files thing, Eva and Keir would be Scully and Mulder and Pat and Dave would be The Lone Gunmen.

Besides, I miss all youse guys! :wink:

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:50:32 +0000

I'm glad you're back on-board Caremn. This has gone unsolved for far too long now, I was thinking everyone had given up on it.

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:56:49 +0000

It's all right. I don't mind talking to myself here.

I tried simple substitutions as well, and they all came out looking something like: cultisvqw heap shakily jshdeforb hinged umped grout

If it was a vignere cypher and the url was either blogspot or freewebs, the keyword would include the following:

blogspot: pimvxikf

freewebs: togtbxxe

Both posts have the same number of letters in the first four words, which is probably entirely meaningless, but proves that I can count.

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:59:24 +0000

Ooo, how exciting! I have been ARG-free since Geist ended.

Edit: The two entries have the following email addresses linked:

post one: nxbqap@mail.com

post two: njgctwru@mail.com

About the URL and the email addresses: It seems odd to me that the mail.com and the .com at the end of the URL are not in code. There is actually a page at that URL.

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legioninfinity@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:15:52 +0000

I tried simple substitution, a la newspaper cryptoquip, but to no avail. I'm assuming that the second part of the address in the second message is either 'blogspot' or 'freewebs.'

Hm... :)