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ThaJinx
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 		Received the card with the sparrow today.

Also worth noting is that I received a message on myspace four days ago from a person with the profile of brokenkites, who also has a webpage at brokenkites.com.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:31 pm
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konamouse
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ThaJinx wrote:
Received the card with the sparrow today.

Also worth noting is that I received a message on myspace four days ago from a person with the profile of brokenkites, who also has a webpage at brokenkites.com.


Why make that page so hard to read????

Quote:
"If there's anything else you'd like to ask, or if you plan on killing me, now is the time to do it," Partain said, sliding his empty glass away from him. I looked in the direction of the bartender, who wasn't paying attention to us, and then put Synchro's device back into my jacket pocket.

"Otherwise, I'd like to continue drinking, now that you've started me down that path for the day," he continued. "You don't mind picking up my tab so far, do you? I'm sure that you can understand how I'm a little low on cash right now."

I ignored his sarcasm and placed two twenties on the bar.

"That should cover it," I said, placing my hand on his shoulder. "Thanks for the information, doctor. I've got to get going, anyway. But humor me for a few more minutes."

He raised an eyebrow but didn't comment.

"What caused the memory loss, really, especially if the initial devices were stable? Did something set it off?" I asked, standing up, still holding my glass.


Is this marketing for a record album????
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:05 pm
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ThaJinx
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 		Figure 2 on brokenkites.com is corrupted with hidden text.

Quote:
I still had to write them, though. You have to say things, not just sometimes, all times. You have to take the thoughts out of the ether, pulling them down from the sky like clouds or satellites or stars, examining them, and then apply them to the paper. Even when nobody's listening. The papers, the ink, they're there to help you get it all out.

I miss you

I love you

Don't go away

Don't come back

I hate you

I can't remember what your face looks like

You know how it is. Stages, relationships, friends, lovers, enemies. I wrote letters, some like lyrics, some like songs, and some like long run-on sentences that didn't make sense. Short and long letters, and folded them, sealed the envelopes, and then I placed them inside of these boxes.

Would you read them if I sent them your way? Would the things that I had to say to you a year ago, two minutes ago, would those things even matter to you? People, how I miss you, you lost parts of my past.

RETURN TO SENDER

origamishadows.com

Spec that the band counts as an in-game entity.

PostPosted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:32 pm
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Sylvia
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 		This Is Not A Game
BROKENKITES.COM > ORIGAMISHADOWS.COM
I think it's safe to say this is not a Time Waster. However, I haven't read all of the orgamishadows.com site yet so I could be wrong. My reasons for believing this is not a Time Waster are:

Broken Kites invited me to be a friend on My Space back when Sammeeeees was going on.

Monday, I received a MySpace bulletin from brokenkites. I almost missed it because I've been getting so many bulletins here lately. But thanks to ThaJinx's post above, I took a closer look.
Quote:
From: brokenkites

Date: Mar 12, 2007 3:18 PM
Subject Shadow Folding
Body:


The alternate text for the image was "Origami Shadows." And it was linked to http://origamishadows.com/ and the original can be found at http://brokenkites.com/familiar_too.jpg

Also at http://www.myspace.com/brokenkites is this:
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"This is not a game," he says to me, looking up from whatever information he's reviewing on the clipboard. "A second procedure has never been attempted on a human subject. We don't know what will happen to you, but our best analysts strongly advise against it."

"What's the point of having free will if you're not going to let me use it?" I ask him.

"Having free will is one thing. Being protected from yourself is another," he pauses for a moment, scratching something out on the clipboard, and then continues. "I've already told you that we won't stop you from doing this."

"Then I'd like to take my chances now," I reply. There is a cold feeling in my gut and I can feel my pulse pounding in my ears.

No turning back.


And at http://www.youtube.com/user/brokenkites the video labeled "This Is Not A Test" repeats the quote from BrokenKites MySpace and the Video itself says:
Quote:
are you out there
This Is Not A Test
This Is Not A Game
I miss you
How do you fold a shadow?
How do you unfold the truth?
Beware the night
Beware the light
please don't be gone forever
BROKENKITES.COM


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 		brokenkites has been posting videos at youtube for 4 months, evidently. Seems interested in manmade and natural disasters. Then a video about paranormal hunters (Ghostech) with a link to: http://www.myspace.com/ebola_entertainment
apparently they had a number of webisodes and this promo has music by brokenkites.

The more recent videos seem to have some bits of story happening in the video notes as well...
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thebruce
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 		Nice, of all content that's 'piggybacking' as it were, I'm still most intrigued and interested in the dispersal of these bits of story... I'd say it's kind of unique... it's like, by working with the writer/PM and including bits of the story, it's shared marketing of both products... the writer gets to spread into other people's work, with no tangible limit, and those following the story become new 'customers' as it were of whatever place they're next hidden. Of course, if it's all done by the same person/people, then all of that is moot... but I like it. Not an ARG, but unique story-telling
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:53 am
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ThaJinx
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aliendial wrote:
brokenkites has been posting videos at youtube for 4 months, evidently. Seems interested in manmade and natural disasters. Then a video about paranormal hunters (Ghostech) with a link to: http://www.myspace.com/ebola_entertainment
apparently they had a number of webisodes and this promo has music by brokenkites.

The more recent videos seem to have some bits of story happening in the video notes as well...

Checked out Ghostech's myspace page, which has a number of paranormal exploration videos on it. I'm entirely amused that one of the videos they've streamed from youtube is a video from vaporlofts, specifically, one that inadvertently documents the reflection of a ghost in the hallway about halfway through. My, what a tangled web we weave.

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Sylvia
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 		I may be off my rocker and grasping at straws but there is just to much coincidence, IMO, with the boxes. When you read OrigamiShadows.com you will see box/boxes mentioned many times as a place where memories / our past is stored. (note: I haven't read it all yet) I'm finding references to boxes in other places as well. (other bulletins on MySpace) But I don't have concrete proof yet that they are tied together.

However, after ThaJinx posted the link to Vaporlofts on the very fist page is this:
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It is the emptiness inside of the box that holds that which we seek.

That reminded me of The Mystery Box. I think it might be related to this.

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unholychaos
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 		I also received a card with the bird in the mail.

Doing a search on myspace for brokenkites yielded

http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.search&t=Brokenkites

note the "sleep" video with the description:
Quote:
He continued unwrapping the brown paper, revealing a small metal box. He discarded the wrappings onto the floor of the car and removed the top of the box by sliding it open. I leaned closer to him to get a better look inside of the box as he shook an object out into his hand. He closed his fist around the object and cleared his throat. "This object is like a sign post," he began. "It points you in a direction that might help you find your way, though the answers you're seeking won't ever come to you easily." A signpost? He was correct, though. I was absolutely, undeniably lost.


More on boxes if it has anything to do with this or not it's still interestingly cryptic and the music is good too.

Brokenkites has been on myspace since 03/30/06

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Sylvia
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unholychaos wrote:
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He continued unwrapping the brown paper, revealing a small metal box. He discarded the wrappings onto the floor of the car and removed the top of the box by sliding it open. I leaned closer to him to get a better look inside of the box as he shook an object out into his hand. He closed his fist around the object and cleared his throat. "This object is like a sign post," he began. "It points you in a direction that might help you find your way, though the answers you're seeking won't ever come to you easily." A signpost? He was correct, though. I was absolutely, undeniably lost.
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(bold and blue is mine)

Could the keys at Origami Shadows be the sign post??

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Delusional
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ThaJinx wrote:

Checked out Ghostech's myspace page, which has a number of paranormal exploration videos on it. I'm entirely amused that one of the videos they've streamed from youtube is a video from vaporlofts, specifically, one that inadvertently documents the reflection of a ghost in the hallway about halfway through. My, what a tangled web we weave.


You know one of my first thoughts while looking at these pages was of vaporlofts, who friended you on LJ first, and now your friended on myspace for this..... *looks inquisitively at ThaJinx*

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Nabi
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 		Ooh, wow. Definitely looks like a tie-in for an album (albums?).

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Nabi
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 		Looking through the site again, I found this picture on one of the pages. (http://origamishadows.com/cards.html) Looks like the cards some of you got.
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unholychaos
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konamouse wrote:
AR does not necessarily have to have puzzles (we're just used to seeing them as the means to advance the plot in the Alternate Reality). But if no puzzles, then it isn't a Game, it's just a weird way to read a story.

However, maybe something will change once we find the right page?


Check out this link perhaps a right page?

http://origamishadows.com/late.html

It's ROT13, here is the text decyphered:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
you're waiting for something better, always just over the horizon, right around the corner, just out of reach. you lose something that isn't perfect but is still damn good through negligence or disregard, through not caring enough when you should because you're straining to see what's going on in darkness ahead.
tomorrow's not any better. in fact, it's a little bit worse. when you've dropped your guard and you least expect it, in comes the inevitable Fall. what remains? it IS tomorrow. it's far too late.


Found the above link from the 2 below

http://origamishadows.com/life2.html

http://origamishadows.com/life3.html

But NOW the link I hit to get to "late" goes here:

http://origamishadows.com/gnirob.html

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DragonLord
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 		Keys
EDITED: Never mind. Already mentioned in list of sites.

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