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thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
[trailhead] Alphabound / Trisomnem Transcend Earth and avoid another apocalypse Better stay awake for this one. I think? Sleep might be bad.
The end is coming. And there's a game for that!
Alphabound crowd funder
Got pinged on twitter with a few other folks that we're already in this, by @alphaboundgame ... I dunno if I want another end to all things though.
Anyway, Alphabound's goal?
"Create an apocalypse that will abide by the structure and modalities of a video game, allowing players to transcend this earth and become godlike beings in another world."
Rewards and tiers are pretty standard for a video game.
The methods though - those are some pretty lofty, high tech goals. At least we know all the funding must be going to the R&D instead of the graphic design dept. ;P #IKidIKid
There's an odd risk & challenge though...
(source )
Easily decoded, apparently someone is watching... we're directed to SleepLonger.org , wherein we learn of...
Trisomnem (@trisomnem )
Seems they have an irritated staff member though - conveniently, in the web management department: Maryanne Summers .
Her profile picture is...interesting.
*hands off the mystery to the unfickers*
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:03 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
OK, let's poke around...
On http://sleeplonger.org/why-sleep/ there is some colored text off to the side, which hides a link, but the link looks like a dead end.
http://sleeplonger.org/ixtooxalkako22/
i x t o o x al k a k o22 <-- perhaps is not really a link? (the colors are a pain to reproduce here, but i shall try)
(hrm, the font colour tags don't work for me?)
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 3:45 pm
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
Yeah, saw that, didn't go anywhere... didn't think of the colours though.
Listed with colours, and the html structure (probably not as important). The ~i just means it's in the same level as i, using i's colour style instead of its own.
Code:
i =#000000 black
x =#FF0000 red
t ~i black
o =#FF00FF purple
o =#00FF00 green (child of previous o)
x =#FF0000 red
al ~i black
k =#0000FF blue
a =#FFFF00 yellow
k =#0000FF blue
o22 ~i black
hm.
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2014 4:15 pm
Wulf74
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Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 680 Location: SLC, Utah
Looks interesting - so I'm lurking, and looking through the webpage. Been years since I've had time to play, so not sure how much I have to offer. Looks interesting though.
Just a few things I've noticed/found:
tris omnem - is Latin for "all three"
Under the "Why Sleep" link of the page is the painting The Nightmare by John Henry Fuseli http://tinyurl.com/d4ccg5. There's obviously a few differences between the original and the one on the page, will dive in a bit later.
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Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2014 5:38 pm
Babylon The Bride
Kilroy
Joined: 03 Nov 2014 Posts: 2
Quote:
tris omnem - is Latin for "all three"
Somnem is Latin for dream though, which might be more in line with the theme of sleep we've got so far. Though that does leave us with that pesky 'tri'...
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:22 pm
Wulf74
Unfettered
Joined: 04 Dec 2008 Posts: 680 Location: SLC, Utah
Babylon The Bride wrote:
Quote:
tris omnem - is Latin for "all three"
Somnem is Latin for dream though, which might be more in line with the theme of sleep we've got so far. Though that does leave us with that pesky 'tri'...
I saw the same thing, but for some reason or another when I posted it - the number 3 seemed relevant. Or I could've been sleep-posting...
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Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:12 pm
Thunderwolf
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
Well this is pretty interesting. I thoguht the "22" might have been a clue to ROT the letters, but it offers nothing.
If you take just the black characters it spells "italo22" (which at least is pronouncable), but this didn't really lead anywhere.
also tried converting the whole thing to numbers, but no joy there either.
I emailed Maryanne asking why she was so pissed off. It helps to vent to strangers, right?
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2014 3:50 am
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
OK so I worked out where that link goes, thanks to the image on the front page with the multicoloured graph:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
the graph links pairs of letters together. If you do some flipping of letters based on the colour coding on the link, ixtooxalkako22 becomes internalmemo22
Which leads us to:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://sleeplonger.org/internalmemo22/
So we have a new message:
"alert to all lucid agents:
It has begin in earnest. Some
nitwit fellow player of yours
has decided to hasten the
creation of the game. Directive
is to obstruct and impede at all
costs. I am advising a first offense
of a campaign to discret the attempt.
with your species intelligence
such a thing should not be difficult."
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:01 am
astrofig
Decorated
Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 165
Has anyone asked what they mean by 'your species'? That seems an odd wording, or else extremely revelatory.
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 12:24 am
Thunderwolf
Unfettered
Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 419 Location: The Sprawl
I assume they just mean the human race. That does imply that the message was not from humans.
On a side note, I don't know if anything is actually happening with this game, which is a shame.
_________________"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:23 am
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
Signed up just in case I just found this but with only $9 from their Indigogo campaign I don't expect we will see much from it.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2015 1:41 pm
steamqueen
Boot
Joined: 04 Dec 2012 Posts: 43 Location: spain
Has anyone thought of contacting them as they said they are looking for volunteers to help. Maybe something...
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:49 pm
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