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Is there a Curtain?

A Curtain, but you can freely walk behind it i you wish...
11%
 11%  [ 2 ]
The Curtain is OneDimensional
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Alice is sneaking a Peak
5%
 5%  [ 1 ]
If this were an Alternate Reality game, there would be. But it's not.
29%
 29%  [ 5 ]
But we are All Really Real!?
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Who Cares? It's the Being that Counts!
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
There's a Curtain but it's not a metaphorical one. It's just a Curtain.
11%
 11%  [ 2 ]
It's more of A Bubble. Like Perception
11%
 11%  [ 2 ]
TenXdec
0%
 0%  [ 0 ]
Washington into Islington (chi)
5%
 5%  [ 1 ]
Nothing is Real. Everything is Make Believe
5%
 5%  [ 1 ]
I am a Fool
17%
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Varin
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Edit: toby's email was toby.godden(AT)gmail.com


I'm not entirely convinced that this guy isn't an ARGjacker. I haven't seen any reason yet to believe he's real. Hopefully, we'll get a sign one way or another.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:48 pm
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rowan
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 		Re: sleepinggiantfoundation.com
lazylaces wrote:
[edit]while i'm a gamer i'm new to arg. can anyone tell me what a PM is ? Prime Mover is my guess, but i'd like to know for certain. ta[/edit]
Sorry, we tend to through a lot of jargon around at times.
PM = Puppet Master
Meta = discussion of what happens behind the scenes
Curtain = That boundry between what we see as players vs what happens in secret

lazylaces wrote:
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh......!

Are ARGs always like this? I'm meant to be going to bed and instead i'm reading sleepinggiantfoundation.com which seems to be total nonsense. And yes i think i am meant to call islington tomorrow but since i don't know his number and i'm out all day this will be tricky. i have left my answer phone on though. i have nasty feeling he has my number so we'll see what happens.

Actually, most ARGs are not this chaotic. What you're witnessing now, while not an isolated event, is not the norm either. Unfortunately, the number of games that have "imploded" or caved in under their own weight has been increasing, but normally they have been very small games that do not have a large audience (or the majority of the audience is familiar with the concept of ARGs to begin with). It is quite unforunate that you've had to experience this (and I'm not saying it has competely melted down yet, but no veteran of the genre would say it's gone well).

All I can say is: Have hope that maybe something will be salvaged, and if it's not, try to understand just how cool this can be if done properly. We have several other games in various stages at the moment that are better put together and have some actual experience behind them. If this game does die, I hope that some of you from lazylaces will stick around and give us another shot.
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typoartist22
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 		this is my first ARG as well. So much excitement! thank goodness it's the weekend. I'm a teenager, so I'd have school to worry about if it was a week day!

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typoartist22
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Varin wrote:
Quote:
Edit: toby's email was toby.godden(AT)gmail.com


I'm not entirely convinced that this guy isn't an ARGjacker. I haven't seen any reason yet to believe he's real. Hopefully, we'll get a sign one way or another.


Well, who knows. I sent the original email to the email address for islington, but didnt get the reply from that email.

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Duckie
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 		Nadif: dear god that would explain a lot.
Here's the whole thing:
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Umm.. depends.
Do you have the following:

1x AAA batttery
13pence in foriegn coins
one rixla
a copy of "portrait of the author as an old drunk"
and a lucky phone


On 9/16/05, Riley <rcroghanSPLATmail.colgate.edu> wrote:
I was told by Orkid I might want to contact you. Can you help me?




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www.gravity-design.co.uk | www.vibration13.com

The subject line was RE: contact information from your website... which isn't what I wrote.
On the other hand, I didn't send the email directly... i sent it under the "contact" section of vibration thirteen. I recieved this shortly before Islington's emails started coming from Toby (sorry it took so long to post it) so maybe I started a chain reaction.
Also, I've been noticing some strange references to ARGs. Mindcandy, Perplexcity, and one other that I can't remember right now.

Nadif: saw the asploding going on, and trust me its going on here too, only 1000 times more than Synagoga and with very little logic behind it.

So here's a picture of a kitten. Syn would be proud.
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Nadif
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Duckie wrote:
Nadif: dear god that would explain a lot.


It would be excessive, geeky and radically insane.
Which, under the circumstances, means "disturbingly likely".

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On the other hand, I didn't send the email directly... i sent it under the "contact" section of vibration thirteen. I recieved this shortly before Islington's emails started coming from Toby (sorry it took so long to post it) so maybe I started a chain reaction.


In this case don't worry, we'll find a way to get there and properly flog you. Laughing

Quote:

Also, I've been noticing some strange references to ARGs. Mindcandy, Perplexcity, and one other that I can't remember right now.

The "personalized pages" thing itself, we talked about it yesterday on lazylaces, kinda reminds Synagoga.
But at the moment I'm pretty much betting on just an information overcharge. Not so nice, really.

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Nadif: saw the asploding going on, and trust me its going on here too, only 1000 times more than Synagoga and with very little logic behind it.


Well, I still doubt that a collective brain-explosion of the magnitude we reached with The Syn/WI Merge may be achieved ever again.
And if/when it happens, I WANT to be there.



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So here's a picture of a kitten. Syn would be proud.
-d


"Oooooh! A kittie!!!"
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:17 am
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Duckie
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Nadif wrote:

Well, I still doubt that a collective brain-explosion of the magnitude we reached with The Syn/WI Merge may be achieved ever again.

Quite right. This really is more of a slow motion brainmelt.
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Nadif
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Duckie wrote:

Quite right. This really is more of a slow motion brainmelt.


Yeah. Feels kinda like a bad cognac hangover, if you ask me.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:32 am
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Withe Bartbi
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 		Islington describes 'blinking' as that too. Surprised *shock* *gasp*
Laughing j/k

I couldn't help myself Very Happy
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Rogi Ocnorb
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 01 Sep 2005
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 		I got emails with mismatched IP's as well. I just have the feeling that we are looking at a valid ARG that had some both unfortunate/innocent and nefarious circumstances thrust upon it. Little stuff like the overall quality of the initial set-up and the first half day of clues. "<Meta>" for example... The person that made that graphis is obviously not the one(s) we've been hearing from most recently.
I'll totally believe Toby is Islington when he sends me an email having the same general header info as those I feel I got from I.
I was gonna say, if you're "I" then hack my scribe page, but that's probably all too possible.
I'll hang a while longer.

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Withe Bartbi
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 		Rogi, have you looked at your scribe page lately? Anything changed?
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		No change, yet. And no email.
P.S. Loved your last post on LL. Wink

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Withe Bartbi
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 		Laughing I didn't feel like tiptoeing around it, I just went straight to the point.

Gonna write I and see if he leads me anywhere. Bad idea, good idea? I don't wanna seem like I'm milking for info.
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Mountain Girl
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 		good idea.

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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		One of the primary guidelines of all this is to stay in character.
In other words, "I" doesn't know anything you've done in UF (or LL).
See if there is still need of your assistance as you haven't heard back, etc.

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