ARG: The Lost Experience 3-New

Video Announcement E-mail

Loreana@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:08:40 +0000

Came in my inbox today:

Namaste.

As a result of the outstanding assessment results delivered in recent weeks I am pleased to announce an expanded role for recruits in the Volunteer Assessment Program at www.dharmawantsyou.com.

This new activity will draw on the impressive knowledge base of recruits and will offer the opportunity to challenge your colleagues in a friendly intellectual competition.

You have the potential to earn significant Dharma Points with this new activity, which will contribute to your overall assessment results.

Log in and consult your "Progress" page for details.

I look forward to another inspiring display of initiative from you all.

Namaste.

Hans Van Eeghen
Head of Recruiting
The Dharma Initiative

Haven't found anything in the source code, but Gmail seems to be formatting it as one huge chunk; maybe other can see something later.

Dharma Wants You wins Emmy 09!

krystyn@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:40:42 +0000

Even if the story - allas! - collapsed, I want to thank Hoodlum and congratulate for this experience. I loved the riddles and the atmosphere. I loved the team work and the multiple-choices tests we could make for each other. It was very nice, and I hope, Hoodlum will make something new soon.

Here is the video of winning Emmy Award 2009 in the category Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction .

http://vidly.com/adj8

P.S. I didn't knew, there are such beautiful people behind this project :-)
Does somebody know, who are they actually? (The official webpage http://www.hoodlum.com.au/ is not really informative).

NEW ARG! on Twitter

ImissCharlie@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:23:56 +0000

If you are on twitter, check out @simeonhobbes & @epithetalpha

Or simply (if you are not on twitter) google "Who is Simeon Hobbes" there is some pretty concrete evidence that a new ARG is starting because it uses a You Tube video that is on "the lost experience" you tube channel.

TVGuide tries to find a trailhead in episode 4 (and fails?)

jamesi@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:02:35 +0000

Ajira Airways

New!! Jalepeno SLUSHO!!!@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:01:59 +0000

Dan Bronson started a facebook group for Ajira Airways, which he says was founded and is being financed by Ms. Paik.

Fuselage

kosmopol@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:08:19 +0000

Hi people, I just wanted to know, whether there is somebody of you at thefuselage ?

Since there seems to be more interactions about LOST, I'd be glad to have Unfiction contacts also there (let's infiltrate everywhere :-))

Anyways, feel free to add me there. I'm kosmopol - who else? :-)

Dharma Special Access!

kosmopol@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:12:17 +0000

I've got the email now:

The links:
http://abc.go.com/media/email/dharma/week1/week1.html
http://dharmaspecialaccess.com

UPDATE. Sorry for my paranoid secrecy, of course is the password for everybody the same:
lafleur

UPDATE2. Check out the countdown on the dsa-webpage.

UPDATE3. Oh crisis...

[UPDATE]Final Hans Email and Site Update W/ Dossiers

zonkbuster@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:06:46 +0000

New email from Hans...looks like there isn't much more to this game...

Here's the contents:

Namaste.

I am pleased to announce that registered recruits can now log in and download your personalized Volunteer Assessment Dossier outlining your full test results as well as your position within the Dharma Initiative.

I want to personally congratulate you on behalf of everyone at the Dharma Initiative for your hard work and diligence during our testing process.

We hope that you are happy with your results. We certainly are. The tests were extremely challenging and the aptitude and excellence displayed far exceeded our expectations.

Now that you are in possession of your results I am sure you are asking the obvious question: what's next?

Our plan was that together we would commence a glorious adventure: the revival of the Dharma Initiative using the myriad talents of all our amazing new recruits. We imagined not just fulfilling long abandoned goals but taking the Dharma Initiative to a new level of greatness as an organization promoting the peaceful social and technological advancement of all humankind.

Then the financial crisis struck.

Sadly, our benefactors were not immune to this crisis. In fact, unconfirmed reports suggest that much of the money designated for the work of the new Dharma Initiative was tied up in highly leveraged mortgage derivatives. This, however, cannot be confirmed because, I am sorry to report, the principals representing the benefactors - my employers - have gone missing. Based on bills still coming into our office we believe they are somewhere in South America.

This stunning reversal of fortune has forced us to abandon our ambitious plans. In fact, absent this funding, the Dharma Initiative was forced to make the only sensible decision we had available: we sold the Dharma Initiative to the television show LOST.

While this might strike some of you as a shock, the reason for this was not simply that they were the only bidder. As the only remaining Dharma Initiative employee who had not fled the country, I felt that at the very least the show would be able to keep the spirit of the Dharma Initiative alive and in the public consciousness until such time as a reversal of the reversal of our economic fortunes occurs.

It is with a heavy heart that I must bid you farewell. Despite my fervent commitment to the mission of the Dharma Initiative, the realities of a broken marriage, heavy casino debt and some unfounded police charges have required that I change my present circumstances. It is with great excitement that I can inform you of my pending senior sales management job at a large multi-brand auto dealership in Dubai. I have enjoyed our brief association more than I can ever express, and if you are ever in the Middle East and need a car, please e-mail me for a special "Dharma rate".

In the meantime, you will hear shortly from LOST showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. They will explain to you their future plans for the Dharma Initiative and how these plans might affect you.

Thank you again, personally, for your unflagging commitment and support. I hope our paths will one day cross again. In the meantime may the spirit of the island guide you.

Namaste.

Hans Van Eeghen
Head of Recruiting
The Dharma Initiative

Seems like a huge cop-out to me...very disappointed in this if this is it for the game.

The site's been updated and it says you can download your dossier, but when i click on it, it's not giving me anything. There are also some other bugs in the site...maybe they're still uploading?

*Edit- Ok, it looks like I was having troubles because I was using the Chrome browser. works fine in Firefox

*Edit 2 - I had 2 accounts. On my Cheat account looks like i'm a Research Assistant with a recommended department of "Human Interaction Analysis Program" . With my non-cheat account it looks like i'm a Radio Operator in the "Communications Division" . On my non-cheat account, for some reason they gave me 0 on the last 3 tests...but i took them and i know i got great scores...it even shows groups I was assigned to, but i guess the scores didn't read in for some reason. Wonder what job i would have been assigned if the scores entered correctly.

[OOG] LOST Season 5 Trailer

buildingblock@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:19:58 +0000

As pointed out by AICN and posted on DarkUFO:

http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-real-promo-for-season-5.html

Total coincidence?

maladylis@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:44:19 +0000

All right, probably total coincidence, but just curious on if anyone else thinks so. I was bummed about this just ending and all and I thought maybe there was another site somewhere that I could maybe report to as an official Dharma employee in like and underground movement and what not. Basically just killing time. Anyhoo, I went to www.dharmainitiative.com on a whim. On the site there is a countdown in the upper left corner that states a return to the island in X number of days and there is a video of a band. The name of the band? The Cheaters. I thought that was extremely coincidental given the nature of the tests and the cheating variable. Anyone else think this is worth investigating? Apologies ahead of time if this has either been discussed previously or if it leads to nothing.

October 7 Site Update

zonkbuster@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:31:26 +0000

Updated. The links to the tests are gone, and the other buttons have changed. The labels for the remaining links have been changed to "New Recruits", "Recruitment Update" (which leads to a message stating that the results will be released in December), and "Registered Recruits"

The home page now says "Test Results Available After December 15, 2008

Test 7 - Integrity Honor and Honesty Test

GalvanicSpiral@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:38:43 +0000

Test 7 is up! sort of...

Jesse Heiman's message to Lost fans.

dharma22@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:29:06 +0000

In case you have forgotten, Jesse Heiman is the name of the actor who portrayed Dan Bronson at ComicCon 08. The guy who gave us the Dharma Video.

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Dan_Bronson

http://lostoctagonglobalrecruiting.blogspot.com/2008/10/small-update-from-jesse-heiman.html

Just wanted to pass this on (not sure what its relevance is though) i was on facebook and Jesse heiman's status update says: "Jesse Heiman is letting all his lost fans know the hack is never over" like i said i don't know if this holds any credence or not but hey!

This may be completely out of game, but it's interesting. We ruled out that Bronsen/RukusGuy was the Black Swan, but that doesn't mean that Jesse isn't trying to drop a hint to Lost fans.

Test 6 - Specialized Departmental Evaluation

The Mirror@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:29:57 +0000

Well test six is up. My questions mainly geared towards psycholgy, but who knows if others will be as well. Would be neat if previous groupings had an effect on what type of test you get considering this is supposed to really narrow down what our role in the DI will be.

Anyway, took the test, no cheat, and I'm in Apollo.

Edit: Figured out the cheat from the strange voices thread:

If you hit C on your keyboard as you right click, you will see a Black Swan option in the normal right click window. Clicking on it will cause the correct answer to flash. This can be done on every question. Go cheaters go!

Also, just in case nobody has noticed, you can't take test 6 unless you're logged in. As far as I know, this is the first test to do this. That is what leads me to believe that our progress thus far could dictate what type of questions we recieve for this test.

What's Next?

dposse@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:25:39 +0000

I wonder if anything else is going to happen between now and December 15? I hope so... I'll have nothing to blog about, lol.

I have the transcript of his video on my blog - nicoleslost.blogspot.com

I got in the group Black Swan too, btw.