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[francinum]

Around how many disks?

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[MsMatching]

I bring you photo evidence! I uploaded the pictures here: http://imgur.com/gallery/rd61q

Sorry some of them are blurry/repeats!

More video to come, as soon as it finishes uploading...

[medras]

Just jumping onto this! Seems hilarious so far

Does anyone even have floppy disk readers anymore? We could be in trouble here... Also they were all wrapped in tin foil. Does this mean they're from ~the futureee~?

[MsMatching]

[MsMatching]

Video! Video! Finally finished uploading! Here you go, adventure with us! More video to come soon! (Though this probably has the better sound quality)

Frog Fractions ARG video!


Sorry, there are a few skips where I paused recording. Should have all the important bits here though! A more complete, but less audible video to follow.

[francinum]

I hope you guys have a floppy disk reader. best to try the frog one first, but theres none with a fraction.

[Ratteler50]

Second video is now up!
http://youtu.be/iJrPxRW-kts

[Friedlemar]

OK, here is a rough narrative of events from the fifth.

I arrived at the entrance to campus around 2:30 (half an hour before the prescribed time). There were several people hanging out, talking, lying down, playing guitar, etc: the usual Berkeley scene, nothing appeared amiss. I didn't really know what to expect, so I took some video starting around 2:45, but I don't think I captured anything interesting.

At around 2:50, a guy showed up wearing a gaming T-shirt and a tall top-hat with an orange ribbon -- kind of weird, but not necessarily indicative of anything in Berkeley. Here is a bit of video of the scene at that point:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vxmaszsa47c5th0/Frog.Fractions.2.At.The.Scene.mp4

Eventually, we identified each other as both there for Frog Fractions 2. He gave his name as Dan (I think) and said he had been lurking on these forums. He didn't really say much more about himself. I asked him about the top hat, and he said he just "felt like wearing it."

At about five past three, another guy and his girlfriend showed up (they are the ones that posted the photos/video previously in this thread). At about 3:10, Jim Crawford appeared. No tricks or anything; he just walked up to us and said "Butts", presumably to identify himself, but we pretty much knew who he was. Jim was wearing a lanyard with a GDC badge, but it didn't have his own name on it. I need to look in the videos to see if anyone got this fully, but the name was "Riccardo" something, and it had the URL king.com on it. Hopefully someone can confirm whether this is the same badge he wore at GDC proper. He also had business cards behind the name tag, which he happily provided when asked. Again, not sure if someone already had these from GDC, but here is the text:

[aklreaxmer]

Damn this is getting crazy! Can't wait to see contents of the disks.

[Friedlemar]

Here's an exhaustive list of everything (aside from the business cards) that we recovered from the excursion on Saturday. The contents of the floppy disks are unknown for now.

Brown Paper Bag: Looks like a normal takeout bag. It has some grease stains. While probably not important, there is a barcode on the bottom with the annotation "1 79594 13603 4". There is a heart-shaped ladybug sticker on the inside of the bag.

12 napkins, 4 plastic forks, 4 plastic spoons: Typical takeout fare. One of the napkins has a flower sticker with a ladybug on it.

A Wooden Frog Statue: It has a bug sticker on one side of it.

Flower and Cactus Leaf: They are real plants, not plastic or anything.

Floppy Disks: 10 Floppy disks wrapped in tinfoil. Most of them have some bug or frog stickers on the foil. Here is a summary (the numbering is arbitrary, I don't know how they were originally stacked in the bag):

1: Stamp
2: Flower and Ladybug Flower
3: Ladybug and Bubbles
4: Ladybug on Leaf, Flower, Bubbles
5: Ladybug on Flower
6: Inflated Frog with Bubbles
7: Dragonfly, Ladybug on Leaf, Lilypad
8: Frog with Tongue
9: Frog on Lilypad, Ladybug on Leaf (Also has a jumping frog on the back, not shown in the picture.)
10: Ladybug on Lilypad, Dragonfly, and Bubbles
The disks are all unlabeled. They each have the text "259E013" stamped into the plastic, but I think that's just from the manufacturer.

Foil-Wrapped Rosencrantz Character Sheet: It was wrapped similarly to the 10 floppy disks, but contained only this piece of paper. High-resolution scan is here. It appears to be a character sheet for Rosencranz in a role-playing game set in Shakespeare's Hamlet world, the sort of thing a creative high school English teacher might employ. The foil for this one has a ladybug sticker and a lilypad sticker. The lilypad sticker partly obscures the text "Jack HS" written in marker on the foil.

We also found this plastic sword, dropped by the second group running up the street. It looks pirate-y but has no identifying marks; it's unclear if they dropped it intentionally or not.

In summary, the most important things seem to be the contents of the floppy disks (unknown until I can find a floppy drive) and the Rosencrantz character sheet.

[Oniune]

[aklreaxmer]

Plastic swords sometimes have easily removable hilts; if it was dropped intentionally, there could be something hidden there.

[Friedlemar]

[MD1500]

I just Googled and the Rosencrantz page comes from this:

http://www.shiftingforest.com/gamefiles/Hamlet.pdf

Seems to be a Live Action Role Playing site. (See pages 43-44 for the Rosencrantz section.)

EDIT 1: After a quick glance, the text seems to be the same.

EDIT 2: There's another Rosencrantz section on pages 67-68. That seems to be what was dropped at Berkeley. No differences to the p43-44 version except for page numbers.

EDIT 3: I'm using the PDF page numbers here, not the page numbers as they are in the guide. [Pages 67-68 in the PDF shows pages 61-62 of the guide]. Confused yet? You will be.

[Oniune]