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dmax
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 		SPEC: STG
We've been pointed towards the STG teens at least twice with the gentle "I wonder
what STG means" in someone's email.

I figure that we should should have enough clues at this point to meet that challenge,
exactly as we successfully met the greywethers login (joke).

What are our possibilities, figuring that at least one of the letters stands for
something in the game that's unique to the game. (That could be a wrong assumption,
but I think it's a good starting point)

Also, my answer to "STG" would be colored by the idea that the PMs have had no
problem making cute references to real world "us" along the way: Chasing the Fish,
Collective Protective, and others.

So, I'd suspect that STG will end up making a cute oblique reference to a group
of gamers who have appeared in Aglaura. They traveled there with their GPS and hand-made
shirts to create a little impromptu group.

That narrows our choices for words in the title a bit.

Seeking/Searching/Solving/Sarah/Sam/Synthasia/Sprague
the/to/Trithemius
Guides/Grand/Glyph/Greene/Grove

others?
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Myssfitz
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dmax wrote:
others?


How about it is meant (for us) to mean: Stupid to Gullible? Or Sam Trimetheius Green(e)?
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drizjr
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 		stg
How about "Seeking the Genie" ? Laughing
driz

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Caterpillar
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 		Estigie = Stigma in Spanish...lol

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Geist
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 		I've mentioned STG to TP before but not got anything back apart from Output is forthcoming. The only other idea I had was it could be Shadow Talk something.
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dmax
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 		Shadow
Talk
Groupies!

Woohoo!
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That sounds like something HITLER would say!

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MageSteff
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dmax wrote:
Shadow
Talk
Groupies!

Woohoo!


Laughing I like that one.
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Caterpillar
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 		I'm posting this here as I still don't know what to make of it...looks like it might be in-game.
The flash + STG + treasure got me thinking.

http://www.searchthegame.com/
created May08/02
last updated July16/03

Quote:
Search The Game
An ongoing, interactive adventure.
Online and in the real world.
Use your internet skills in a real-life Treasure Hunt.


Beta is done...maybe our teens were a part of the Beta?
Check it out...CTW familiar?

http://www.searchthegame.com/info.html
(Check out the pic of someone holding a GPS)
Quote:
Other kinds of searches include searching for locations on maps, identifying places through longitude and latitude and many other hard but fun challenges. Each of the online sections give you clues and pieces of the final treasure map which, if you are smart enough, will tell you where that game's real prize is hidden. And then the race is on, to see who will be that game's winner.


http://www.searchthegame.com/nfindex.html
Says the sponsors are Mapquest and Google, but when you click Mpaquest it takes you to AltaVista

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Caterpillar
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 		A minute ago you could enter the flash version...now you can't.
(Which was entirely different)

YUP!!! We found our STGs.....because I just posted about Mapquest directing to AltaVista....it's fixed and now directs to Mapquest:)
(Must be reading the boards)

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y2kbozo
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 		In or out of game?
Certainly the work of our PM's. Its registered to:
Quote:
Organization:
Interactive Worlds
Ben Stottard
P.O. Box 43
York Beach, ME 03910
US
Phone: 310 555-4741
Fax..: 310 555-4741
Email: stgSPLATinteractiveworlds.org

Odd spelling on last name, and a 555 phone number.

Leads us to: http://www.interactiveworlds.org/

which isn't quite finished, but the source code has "synthasia" in it!

Question cemgate2002: where did you hear about it?

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Caterpillar
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 		Re: In or out of game?
y2kbozo wrote:
Question cemgate2002: where did you hear about it?


Domainsurfer is my best friend:) Hours of digging Smile

~cem

EDIT*** I wrote to them basically saying I think a group of their Beta testers happened upon something that wasn't part of the treasure hunt.

I started off looking for sites beginning with searching/seeking...got nowhere, so tried working backwards as I thought the last word might be gamers/gaming/game....

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 		Very Happy Congratulations! Laughing Thanks, Cem! Very Happy

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dmax
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 		So people inhabiting an ingame site (since it says synthasia) are reading these boards?

Of course, that would be in-game treading into out-of-game territory, unless you mean that they're not participating in these forums, but simply recognized that you'd pointed out a web design flaw.

/me begins reeling
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Caterpillar
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 		Nah...I don't know how it fits in (sorta gives ya vertigo if you think too deeply). What I meant was , within a minute or so after pointing out on these boards that the Mapquest link was directing to AltaVista...it was fixed.

To me that was an absolute sign it was something run by our PMs. Verification.

The site is registered to someone who's other site has a synthasia ref. in the source code....too mind-boggling to me at the moment.

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MageSteff
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dmax wrote:
So people inhabiting an ingame site (since it says synthasia) are reading these boards?

Of course, that would be in-game treading into out-of-game territory, unless you mean that they're not participating in these forums, but simply recognized that you'd pointed out a web design flaw.

/me begins reeling


We were promised that there would not be any "in-game" information posted on the boards that we the players did not put here. Nothing was ever said about the PM's not scanning the boards to see how well or not we are doing on the puzzles and other info.
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