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[Jred]

here is the cryptograph thing with all the letters that make up "Our Colony" turned red.

[Hova092]

i hate to say this, but we have 39 pages of info here, and we haven' gotten ANYWHERE outside of stating the obvious. i suggest starting a new post marked NEW CHALLENGE! April 19 2005 (part 2) or suttin. Big ups to the guy/girl who opened the summary page. idk, but i feel like we weren't MEANT to get this puzzle...anyone else?

[NovacaineX]

Just for anyone who doesnt feel like reading 38 pages heres what we know:

kristenrutherford.com - Out of Game
obeygiant.com - Out of Game
etoys.com - Out of Game
ilovebees.com - Out of Game - Yes it looked exactly like that before
princessyumyum.com - Out of Game

The calendar is the april 2004 - april 2005 white sox calendar, the other basball memorbilia is from the 2003 all star game. There have been some blatent photoshopping on the image including:

The word search
the paperscrap with kristenrutherford.com
the bottle's label
the area behind the flowers
the calendar bottom
possibly the etoys sticker

The computer is a dell optiplex, no exact model number found.

The monitor has some reflections in it that are too blurry to make anything good out of.

The toys on the desk:

Battleship Yamato from Starblazers
An unknown spacefighter
Booberry from the cereal of the same name
The Grinch
An unknown elf (maybe a person)
Voltron
Darth Vader Mug

Toys On the monitor:

Charlie the Tuna from Sunkist tuna
The Salacious Crumb from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
The boxing monkey from some old internet banner ad
Bibendum (aka The Michelin Man)

The wordsearch has alot of words in it, most interesting one being gamefind. It also has the word TEMCO in it. TEMCO is not a game company, TECMO is.

Thats all i can think of for now, I'll also be posting this in the summary topic.

[stazi]

what will opening up a part 2 do?
We'll just be restating the obvious again.
Ahhh! Do they reveal new clues on the site?

[stazi]

Check this out..
What do Star Wars, Major League Baseball and British rock have in common

http://cf.us.biz.yahoo.com/ibd/050414/tech.html?.v=1

[Atomicbomb22]

alright here's the link refering to the newscientist idea when you type in "rusty"

also check out these as search terms:

"To err is human..."

"Vector induction"(from humanclock.com)

"alex rosen"

"all star game 2003"

but most interseting of all is result 4 when you type in "rusty" on the search bar: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18324595.300 READ THE HEADLINE weird to be spelled that way huh? caps and lowercase i mean

[Atomicbomb22]

alright here's the link refering to the newscientist idea when you type in "rusty"

also check out these as search terms:

"To err is human..."

"Vector induction"(from humanclock.com)

"alex rosen"

"all star game 2003"

but most interseting of all is result 4 when you type in "rusty" on the search bar: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18324595.300 READ THE HEADLINE weird to be spelled that way huh? caps and lowercase i mean

[DotcuM]

Maybe the game we have to look for has something to do with the 80's seen how most of the toys are from around that era.

Voltron, Booberry (even though it first appeared in the late 70's), Andre the Giant, Darth Vader Mug, StarBlazers Battleship (which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year),

[Geoffrey]

Andre the Giant?

As in Princess Bride, Andre the Giant? Where is there a reference to him on the picture?

edit: Figured it out, went to look at the summary. Maybe less to do with Andre though, and more to do with viral ad campaigns in general. If the same people were putting up the andre sticker and the ourcolony sticker, it would make sense for them to end up in the same places.

[Supercat1]

how is it that people ruled out the kristenrutherford.com website? it was blatantly added in so why not still consider it? do the moderators have access to info no else has?

[krystyn]

I am not a moderator for this game, but I spoke to her personally last night. She is out-of-game. She has no idea the relevance her site has to Our Colony, or why her website URL was placed in that image.

Thanks!

[Jred]

I agree with supercat. sorry.

[stazi]

oh and krystyn, offcourse you have proof you spoke with her

[DotcuM]

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/sports/andre-the-giant/
Then look at the Obey Giant Sticker.
For those asking about the Andre the Giant connection.

[krystyn]

Agree with what, though? She is not a puppetmaster for Our Colony.

The Our Colony PMs may have had a very good reason to include her URL as a clue. As it stands, Kristen Rutherford has no idea what that reason may be. She is currently being inundated with phone calls and e-mail, and she did not ask nor expect this attention.

That's all I'm sayin'.

If you are saying, obliquely, that I am not trustworthy, or that I am somehow lying, that's certainly your thing. You'd be wrong, but I respect the rules here, and wouldn't post what I did if I didn't think it were prudent.