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[ZoneandonlyBEN]

[BBR] PuppetMaster Death??!!??

[Phaedra]

I don't mean to be overly cynical, but a quick news search doesn't turn up anything about this.

And really, he's been running this game for how long? A month? It doesn't even have that big of an audience. Do you honestly believe his girlfriend would focus her entire memorial on his involvement with ARGs and be concerned about telling the story of the ARG less than 24 hours after he died? I mean, if someone close to you died, don't you think you'd spend some time reacting before hopping on the internet and setting up a memorial blog to talk about his hobby?

This appears to be a very tacky attempt at blurring the IG-OOG line.

[djsampson]

I agree this seems like an poor attempt to implode the game with out repercutions. Or an attempt to carry the game into a different dirrection. But I highly doubt that he died. It really seems to corny to be real.

[konamouse]

Trying to track down info on the PM. I was scrolling thru the threads and most of the websites were free blogging type except for blackrivermovies.tk. Found this Whois data:

[AprilAWZ]

No, I dont' believe for a moment that he died. If someone were to read the posts on this ARG from the trailhead to the present, you can kind of see that it was having problems from the start...some on the part of the PM, some from outside factors...at the pace it was going, it was pretty clear that it was going nowhere.

By the end, the few of us that were still following this one were getting fairly frustrated with it, and were not keeping it a secret. Soooo, I think something just had to give.

Honestly, my gut tells me that the idea came from Anna Nicole Smith dying so suddently. This newest blog was very "argy" in itself....the link left in ROT 13, the gmail acct, the fact that it was posted in the morning, but on the blog says it was not posted until later in the afternoon. The fact that "Clark" made a point to tell his gf that if he were to die, that she was to tell us how it ended, the strange characters in the blog that she brings our attention to, the total lack of any info on deadly fires and Clark Christian..not to mention the "superhero" name itself.. I'm sure others could add this list.

I think he was going out with a bang, if not trying to take the game in a wildly new direction...gotta give him points for creativity!!

[BrianEnigma]

If this is real, then I offer my skeptical condolences.

If this is just to save face after a game implosion, then it is in extremely poor taste.

[Wabonan]

Dono I think if they wanted to announce someone had died. The GF would have made a post on the UF. No codes involved...

[thebruce]

dunno what to think.
If it didn't mention the unforums, I'd be inclined to think it part of the arg, and blurring the lines... technically no TOS is broken, so it might still be an attempt. I dunno. I kind of lost interest after the dealie with uncertain characters/real life people in the forums...
gotta agree though, it's a creative way to end an arg, though a poor 'out'. But if it's part of the arg, then it could be intriguing.

otoh, if this is entirely real, then this thread is pretty shallow

[Rekidk]

If this is true, I offer my sincere condolences. Death is a terribly hard thing to deal with.

I would like to see an obituary for Mr. Christian.

[degravedi]

This is the biggest load of hogwash I've ever heard -.-

[UnimportantHero]

For all anyone knows, the Beast of Black River was not the actual ARG. It could have been an ARG-within-an-ARG or such. The actual ARG that is being run -could- actually be about the death of a PM. I admit the story idea could be really great if it was executed properly exected but who knows. But its been a bit and nothing so who knows I guess. Either someone really did die (sad) or the actual ARG hook just failed to catch anything.