ARG: (Mnemosyne and) The Widow's Son-Responses

The man behind the curtain

addlepated@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:49:08 +0000

I wonder how his novella fared.

Update: LiveJournal May 25

addlepated@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:36:23 +0000

There's another new entry from October. Looks puzzly.

stleppssrsehasuemtpteettptaeo.

SOLVED: Munin's Note Puzzle, and beyond

obeq@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 21:04:28 +0000

This is funny, sorry for lurking. I used to hang out at Mumuland back in the day. Anyone know if it is still up?

Cheers

o

The man behind the curtain

addlepated@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:36:56 +0000

I was just looking through some of these archive games ond noticed that his journal has updated (as has Ewan's)

It doesn't mean much but just wanted to let you know :)

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 30 May 2004 16:24:03 +0000

I would post URLs to linguistics sites with good guides to unaspired vs. aspired phonemes and voiced vs. voiceless ones, but going back to them now they are all 404.

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 30 May 2004 03:52:02 +0000

No, it's not a name that you would most likely recognize.

You need to take the results of the wav and plug them into a LJ URL.

For posterity's sake: http://www.livejournal.com/users/danguyf/

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 30 May 2004 03:34:07 +0000

Clear as mud......lol

I sort of understand, but I whatever I'm coming up with doesn't translate into anyone I know.........and still resembles what has been posted thus far.

That's why I'm asking? Should I continue in the hopes that an identity will pop out at me or is it a SN that I may not know and therefore (as many are) really wouldn't stand out if I did make the sounds properly (or not make the sounds as the case may be)

:D

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 30 May 2004 00:23:28 +0000

I actually figured it out from a combination of the two. The wav definitely leads straight to you, but requires a bit of research on phonemes. There's not much information out there on what "unaspired" actually means (and several people who apparently mistook the word for "uninspired"). The best analogy I can come up with is:

Focus on consonants. Imagine yourself holding a balloon right in front of your mouth. An unaspired syllable will not move the balloon. An aspired (or what I think of as the 'plosive' after reading Hannibal) will. All that may differ between the two letters is whether you're actively exhaling when you say them. Examples, with the unaspired being second in the lists:

P vs. B
F vs. V
T vs. D

etc. The lip and mouth movements are the same, but the air exhaled differs.

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 29 May 2004 23:39:29 +0000

I suppose it would help if one knew you were to begin with right?

For someone who didn't, trying to make sense out of the "phonemes" is a little tough no?

:D

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 29 May 2004 21:15:03 +0000

I'd like to think addle figured it out from the voiceless unaspired stuff, rather than the Ozy method, but I suppose it doesn't matter.

Posts in my own LJ at various points over the 9 month gestation of the game and the gameplay itself provided clues into the identities of the players and the solutions to puzzles. My irl friends were really perplexed at my posts about three skulled bulls and the like, as none of them were told about the game.

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 28 May 2004 21:42:36 +0000

addle figured it out. :D

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 28 May 2004 14:15:33 +0000

I dunno if this is still the case, but it used to be not-terribly-hard to find out who the PM is. He may have taken down some of his personal websites which clearly signposted his identity. I started by tracking down his various postings on the Yahoo! Cloudmakers board during the Beast (which he references at some point in his Puppetmaster journal) and then working backward from there.

However, that knowledge gave me little or no insight into the identity of his main CHARACTER, Ewan, or the intended arc of the storyline, so I abandoned that line of inquiry rather quickly. Knowing all about the man-behind-the-curtain is not that exciting when playing an ARG, unless you're oriented toward stalkerdom.

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 28 May 2004 13:31:04 +0000

can you run the wav backwards?

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 28 May 2004 13:20:12 +0000

Sorry guys, but i'm not that Justin...

Justin "personation" Case

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lucky_starr@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 28 May 2004 06:22:35 +0000

Also, it looks like "unaspired" is a way to pronounce a sound - like the difference between P and B. P is unaspired and voiceless, you can make the sound even if you do not breathe and don't have vocal cords.

Following that train of thought -

tankuyv becomes... Tinkif? Are we supposed to say it without breathing out and without voicing sound?