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sherpa
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 338 Location: cam.ac.uk
Doctor Who I'm sure I'm not the only UK Unfictioner to have seen the new Doctor Who on Saturday.
However, you guys all went to the website featured as part of the plotline, http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/ - didn't you?
Now, wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity for an ARG? The guy running the site is dead, the whole thing smacks of conspiracy, and there's even a huge budget TV production to tie in with it.
I've had a look at the site and I'm pretty sure it's just a tribute site which will provide a bit more immersion for TV watchers with news after each episode. But couldn't it have been so much more?
Sigh. Wasted opportunities, eh.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:34 am
JH
Greenhorn
Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 8
Other "in game" sites are http://www.unit.org.uk/index.shtml .
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Passwords bison and buffalo (buffalo was given prominently in show).
Also http://www.geocomtex.net/ from the dalek episode.
If you go to the geocomtex site, there is a comment on the support page
Quote:
I've got a brand new RH-390 S12. The pins aren't properly set.
Whoops! Our mistake. There was a transposition when the manual was printed. The correct sequence is:
-... .- -.. .-- --- .-.. ..-.
The morse translates into badwolf, which is the codename of the swat team in dalek, and the graffiti sprayed on the tardis win world war iii.
www.badwolf.org.uk and badwolf.org are also registered by the bbc but not in use yet.
Badwolf .net and .com are registered to ollieoxenfreeSPLAT badwolf.com through a bulk registering service, which is probably not related, but funny anyway
Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:48 am
Atrophied
Entrenched
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 1133 Location: 53742E 4A6F686E27732C 4E4C00
What's the Doctor's override code for the UNIT website?
All I can get to is some kind of missile launch sequence.
/me is confused
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:21 pm
JH
Greenhorn
Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 8
The doc's code is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
buffalo
which gets you into the missile thing, in the episode the doctor used the code to call an airstrike on his own location to stop an alien invasion. The other code gets you into the site proper which is presumably where anything is hinted at or hidden.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 12:33 am
Shaded Spriter
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 282 Location: England
nice - so many "In Game" related sites.
On the who is Dr Who one they have been updating it everyweek.
This week they got the Idiot doing an interview about his views on the alien invasion of london.
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 3:15 am
Flaag
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Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Near Guildford, England
any one else notice the not so subtle political message on the GEOCOMTEX site (www.geocomtex.net )?
on the support site there is a question:
Quote:
Q: I'm trying to get the Discotron-3 to flash in the sequence MED BIL EOTV
A: It just doesn't flash in that sequence. I'm sorry.
and also the WTFLD generator.
(for those that didnt notice, if you reverse the sequence you get "VOTE LIB DEM", for those that arent british (or just dont care), the Lib Dems (liberal democrats) are the third place party in british politics)
also, any thoughts to possible meanings on this string of numbers?
Quote:
Q: I've given my parents a TVR-312 and they can't get to grips with the multi-region coding.
A: A common query, and one we shouldn't answer - but boy, we get asked it a lot, and you should see they guys' faces fall when they've got to go through it.
You just need to tap in the following code: [SETUP] [SETUP] Then "Menu" then: 384.5544308664
(underlining added)
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 2:54 pm
Shaded Spriter
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 282 Location: England
I just finished watching todays episode.
WOO! Simon Pegg guest staring.
I am guessing when Who is the Doctor website updates again it will be an interview with Adam.
The next episode looks good - I mean who doesn't like a good time travel/changing the past episode.
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Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 4:08 pm
Enigmaster
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Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 274 Location: Jersey, CI
That badwolf site (here ) is now active. It has lots of info, plus some nice spec. Who/what/wherever Bad Wolf is, I can't wait till it shows up in, ur, the show
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:26 pm
Aratod
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And on the badwolf site, at the bottom of the disclaimer page is "Rose - Are you there? Are you getting this? You've got the point, haven't you? Rose...?"
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:58 pm
brat-sampson
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 289 Location: Stark
Just to add, I have been watching it and it's excellent! Final episode soon. Just what is Bad Wolf? All will be revealed...
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:17 pm
Mr. Lund
Boot
Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Seattle
Anyone try playing the audio clip from Bad Wolf site backwards? It definitely sounds like backmasking...
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:30 am
sapagoo
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 1213 Location: Atlanta, GA
Mr. Lund wrote:
Anyone try playing the audio clip from Bad Wolf site backwards? It definitely sounds like backmasking...
I copied the sound on the home page to MP3, and reversed it.
Reversed makes less sense.
Forwards, it sounds like a song with intentional noise on top.
I've also got a zipped link to the wav http://www.unfiction.com/~sapagoo/badwolf.zip
Description
forward
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Filename
badwolf.mp3
Filesize
377.11KB
Downloaded
135 Time(s)
Description
reversed
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Filename
badwolf_rev.mp3
Filesize
377.11KB
Downloaded
274 Time(s)
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:19 pm
Aratos
Greenhorn
Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 9
That reveresed one sounds horribly familiar. It was either in London during the blitz, the victorian episdoe or the one with the nucear power sattion (yep, I don't read names!). One of those though.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:30 pm
Shaded Spriter
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 282 Location: England
I wonder if anyone has theories of who/what badwolf is...
someone on another forum i am on have heard it might be Adam...he has knowledge of the future and the darleks so it might be a good guess.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:16 pm
Aratos
Greenhorn
Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 9
I wonder about Davros. Seeing as the trailer for next week mentions the god of all the daleks, and davros made the daleks.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:48 pm
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