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[lotusflower]

Hmm, could that be the infamous 'key' at the top on the back of the wordsearch card that came in the parcels?



Can't scan, sorry : (

[mason623]

possible key

[mason623]

oh, and that is defenitely the bluetooth logo partialy covered byt the paper on the button with the left arrow.

[Ehsan]

I'm not sure about what you're referring to.. I just see a Nokia 9300.. where's the "key"?

[lotusflower]

Well, a scan of it has been posted above.

It's at the top of the card, as I said, overlapped slightly by a ripped piece of paper with the web address on.

[mason623]

thanks for the info, i didn't know that was an actual product. the earlier post fueled my suspicion, and my cynicism.

[yanka]

[lotusflower]

Ah, there also happens to be a very clear picture of a mobile phone at the bottom. I thought he meant that that was all he could see. I'm not up on my mobile phone technology Thanks for the link, I see now.

[invfish]

I thought I may as well did this thread up as we now know for certain that the key is a physocal object and that it is some kind of gizmo

[Kastanok]

I think they have a better system of co-operation between companies. I mean, we're perfectly able to create Key like things right now just there's too much trouble getting everyone to cooperate. You need some one to do the phone, someone to do the MP3 player, someone to do the internet password thing, someone to do the house key ability... it's all very complicated. Different businesses on Earth just don't work together that well, in general.

[dopefiend]

sounds like my Nokia 6630- it's a phone, mp3 player, video camera, camera, address book, organiser, can hold credit card details and has GPRS internet... and it's not even state of the art! I read somewhere about a japanese company putting chips similar to Transport For London's Oyster Cards into phones so you can upload money onto it and use it in shops and at vending machines by touching the phone to a panel. That technology could be used as a "key" to gain access to sites etc too if your computer had one of these panels... So we're not that far off having these things anyway.

[nichtwahr]

Speculation: could the Nokia 9300 actually be the earth equivalent of a Key? Or, to put it less obliquely, could Nokia be one of the (not-a-)game's backers? And while I'm on the subject, can anyone identify the device used on card #110? Is it one of Nokia's as well?

[SteveC]

Nokia Game

[BrianEnigma]

[Leeravitz]

Well, my immediate theory on the keys was that the PMs are deliberately withholding acccess to certain 'clues' already available - plenty of Sentinel articles listed that we can't read, for instance- until such time as certan clues are cracked and players are maybe given a password or something that allows them to possess a key. Remember: there is that section of the paper that allows you to authorize (although I agree, it doesn't come up with any fields to enter data into).

In other words, is key access going to be some kind of prize for solving certain of the puzzles?

Given that the 'equivalent' of a key in our world might be a Nokia phone (or whatever) could it be that we'll end up using our own tech as an interface with the Perplex City set - up?? Seems like the game could end up working at different levels of 'reality', but then, surely that would be the whole point?? After all, we don't know that Perplex City isn't to be considered some kind of 'virtual world' in the first place...So what would be happening is that virtual characters are reaching out to make contact with real people, in real time...which is essentially what the game seems to be telling us is occurring anyway...it's all recursion from that point on...