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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Umm okay.. well I've been holding back basically because i'm not sure how much of a game this is, and if I go ahead with what I have than we are hacking an actual live server, not just the web pages..

It wouldn't be too hard for anyone who knows how to use nmap to check out that institute's IP... look at all the fancy stuff you can find, and access them (not necessarily with a web browser, there's a very interesting service there..)

Needless to say I need a username and password.. but I'm not willing to read the book, the blog, or anything else to figure it out.. and i don't want to announce what I've got to the other group cuz they might bust up a real server which is not a game.. but maybe they already know?? aaaah....

**Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:22 am

LatentMoths · Unfettered Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

Just fixing the link. www.instituteforhigherliving.com

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Ploddish · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Cymru, UK

No, I did mean the website with the passowrd!

Its just that all of these are realted to the book... so it sounded fishy.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:40 am

Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Maybe the thread from Various and Sundry should be moved up here instead of using this new one? It'd make discussion easier, and it probably does belong more in this forum, for all that we don't really know what this is exactly. But, hey, that's what News and Rumors is for, right? Mr. Green

**Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:39 pm

Ploddish · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Cymru, UK

Just wondering, But where is this?

(The first photo)

http://www.wingkidsarereal.com/sightings_photos.html

P.S. Whats with the large gap at the bottom of some of the pages?

Is that just a coincidence or does it hide something?

P.P.S Do any of the photos actually look real to you?

**Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:12 am

Ploddish · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Cymru, UK

Can someone try and guess the email adresses here?

http://66.39.150.166/blog/replyharry.jpg

**Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:22 pm

Abraxas

**Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:04 pm

LadyLovelylocks · Decorated Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Sweden

**Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:39 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:44 am

CloudSleeper · Boot Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 41

The context here is the kids are on the run from the "School" and the "Erasers" (other wolf like kids that work for the school as henchmen). Maximum Ride is the name of the girl who is basically their leader, I think she's 14. So anyway, they are genetic experiments, winged kids and what not and they basically escape to capsulate it and are on the run, went to NY and are trying to find a place called the institute for higher learning. Max hears a "voice in her head" that tells her things and sends her images. The voice basically speaks in riddles. Oooook so, the voice tells max where to find an ATM card (winged kids have no money Wink

) but the caveat is she needs to figure out the password to use it. This is the only real mention of a password in the book. Here' s a caption.

"So do we have money? I hope?" the Gasman asked as we passed a vendor selling Polish sausage.
"Maybe," I said, pulling out the bank card. What do you think?" I asked Fang. "Should we try this?"
"Well we need money, for sure," he said. "But it might be a trap, a way for them to track where we are and what we're doing."
"Yeah." I frowned.
Its ok Max. You can use it, said my Voice. Once you get the password.
Thank you, Voice, I thought sourly. Any hopes of you just telling me the freaking password? Of course not. God forbid anything should come easily to us.
We had to have money. We could try begging, but we'd probably get the cops called on us ASAP��Taking a deep breath, I swerved over to an ATM. I swiped the card and punched in "maxride."
No Dice.
Next I tried our ages: 14, 11, 8, 6.
Wrong.
I tried typing "password."
Wrong. The machine shut down�..
I tried the first initial of all of our names: "MFINGA." Nope
I tried "School" and "Maximum."
It told me to call customer service.
Farther on, I keyed in "Fang," Iggy" and "Gasman."
In the next block, I tried "Nudge" and "Angel," then on a lark I tried today's date�..
Angel looked up and said "Why don't you try 'mother'?" ��..
Fang and I exchanged looks, then I slowly swiped the bank card and punched in the numbers that would spell out "mother."
WHAT KIND OF TRANSACTION DO YOU WANT TO MAKE? The screen asked.

The last page of the book has a "hand written" note that says;

"Remember what I said at the very beginning?
Now, I am giving you a choice:
You can put the book down now-
but you'll just have some of the story.
look other places for more of it.
Dig even deeper, and you could become part of it.
The web of answers is out there.
If you can find the portal.

And be careful. And don't say I didn't warn you.
Max"

The next page has www.maximumride.com

The book is obviously left very open ended as well.

~cloud

I should add that I got this book a month or 2 ago and it is still in hard cover as far as I know so if this is a arg it might actually launch when it goes soft cover. As of now its either VERY shortsided to leave that type of ending only to promote the books website or it'f going somewhere.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 7:30 pm

Varin

Also see here and here where there are already discussions about this.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:40 pm

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CloudSleeper · Boot Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 41

Yup I checked those too. Thanks Smile

Sooooo....anyone have any ideas?

**Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:37 am

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

**Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:50 am