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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

[UPDATE] Cryptic messages back and forth

iamthatdizzy · Veteran Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 128 Location: My iBook

huh, well.....

that helps us...... do......

what exactly?

it tells us she is meeting with hanso himself?
it tells us... she has been uncaptured?
it tell us... she cut up the hanso film?

what use to this is that?

**Posted:** Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:12 am

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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

Now it's the Ninja's turn to receive a cryptic blue message:

[img]http://f3.yahoofs.com/ymg/lostninja/lostninja-606445401-1157934891.jpg?ymsMkO8CPAM1YWiL[/img]

Here's the solution:

**Posted:** Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:16 pm

matt_the_pale · Decorated Joined: 05 Jun 2006 Posts: 215

Now it's Other Girl's turn.

Here's the message decoded:

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:38 am

Strings · Unfettered Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 334 Location: France

Conveniently saved by someone previously unmentioned?

Surely not.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:29 am

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Man, that ARG's got potential!

danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:25 am

theShaggy

Rachel Blake is a woman on a mission, remember. She's convinced herself that Hanso is evil, and everyone keeps telling her so. Even though Hanso is showing itself to be, y'know, LESS evil than maybe everyone is saying, I don't think she'll give that up.

Though I doubt Persephone would have thought so much horrible... wait...

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:24 am

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SpiralBoundBook · Veteran Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 115 Location: Oahu

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 1:49 pm

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sidey77 · Boot Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 28 Location: Londinium

"I'd planned for this. All I needed was a secure, high-speed connection. The Hanso goons knew it too. They surrounded the place while I was uploading. "

"...With the wolves at the door, I decided than instead of just uploading the mother to youtube quick, a better idea would be to break the video into 70 separate fragments, and then design pretty little gyph pictures for each one. Then I just needed to put the fragments on loads of different sites, some of which needed to be hacked. Then I ran away from the goons"

IMHO, this game is stupid and has abandoned all pretence of credibility.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:44 pm

Scott

man! people are really down this game!

Personally, I'm extatic I know more about Lost than some of my other more obsessive fFriends. This game is a vehicle to let people see just what some of those weird-ass things are on the island. They want to tell all these things; They really want to explain the black rock, and the numbers, and why amongst all this other fFood there's brand name chocolate bars ... They want to -- but they can't. So they've employed some fFans, made up some characters, and are spilling a story.

I get a sense that the enthusiasm fFor the game design is quite high, while some of the planning is a bit low. I, fFor one, am perfectly willing to fForgive some logistical and writing holes in exchange fFor some deep plot about the show. Bear in mind the game isn't really quite about Rachel Blake.

I'm calling the game a general success, in that regard. They are giving fFans of Lost deep access to the hidden bits of the plot. And every now and then there's a puzzle or something. Ok, so it's a search opera. I've definitely played better. But this is delivering on what it was intended to, I believe.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 11, 2006 10:13 pm

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theShaggy

See, I'll totally agree with you on most of your points. It's delivering on Lost mythos, and it's giving us insight into the story behind the second season (which we likely wouldn't find out about in the coming season, since yet again it has changed direction; oh man I love the show). The problem is that it isn't just a few small logical holes, it is huge gaping chasms of logical implausibility, an issue of pacing and an issue of condescension towards the ARG community (say what you will about the non-ARGer; if you're making an ARG for anyone, you have to do better than to fake a chocolate bar hunt and then not actually show up, or to stretch a two-month act into a search for codes/glyphs).

Anyway, beyond that, you've hit right upon the reason why I check this particular subsection of Unfiction every day - I want to learn about the Lost story that I wouldn't learn otherwise. I will keep checking because I love the show and the stuff we're learning is sweet information which I can throw at my friends who mocked me for playing. But that doesn't mean that the game itself was a success in any way.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 5:50 am

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Astald

I feel exactly the same way Shaggy. I haven't really felt any reason to participate in the game anymore. An island we weren't supposed to find, glyphs that are found within seconds of release, and candy bars that are handed out a very large distance away from where I live (yummy dark chocolate candy bars). So now I just check to see what new info is out there. Doesn't seem to be much else to do.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:58 pm

Jenna

[EDIT] nevermind.....

Anyway, I'm still enjoying it Smile

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:25 pm

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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

Another message. This time it appears when you highlight the shutdown THF.org page:

**Posted:** Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:14 pm

missphinx · Unfettered Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 395

I noticed that makomk@TLEC had posted:
MakoMK said...
Login to Hansoexposed.com; click the flashing star by the "submit sequence" button. You should get http://www.hansoexposed.com/message/message.mp3

strifey translated this morse code mp3 to:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:24 pm