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[ARG?] Manoa website related to Second Life
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hackshaven
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 		[ARG?] Manoa website related to Second Life
http://www.discovermanoa.com/

Very impressive build in the virtual world Second Life.


(moderator adding description to topic -- catherwood, who fears one day seeing an entire index page of abiguous topics)

PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:52 am
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clownhater7
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 		loads of hidden things in the source, all commented out. I'm to tired to read them though its late...

PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:11 am
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catherwood
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 		pretty fresh find --
Domain registry:
Created 26-mar-2007
Updated 26-mar-2007

nothing much to be gleaned from poking around there
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plugs
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 		Red and yellow colour scheme and...golden arches?

I'm scared.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:51 am
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Jediwannabe
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plugs wrote:
Red and yellow colour scheme and...golden arches?

I'm scared.

I'm hungry.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:11 am
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hackshaven
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 		web site source
Looking at the source on their website it looks like common wordpress functionality. I think the magic (at least for now) is happening inside Second Life.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:09 am
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spysect
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 		Well, I had a browse in this virtual world of Manoa, but I have to say, it is one impressive building!

Attached are what I have found in the virtual world.
Notice.txt
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Get Prepared.txt
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:37 pm
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aninterloper
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 		A second life ARG would be genius. Although I will be disappointed if the obvious corporate tie-in turns out to be true.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:41 pm
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spysect
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 		New website found: http://www.centric.com

From the Centric News Page, http://www.centric.com/news/
Quote:
Centric Seeks Help to Explain Second Life Incident
2007-04-02
LOS ANGELES, CA. The Centric island region in Second Life is the location of one of the strangest incidents on record in this emerging virtual space. It has been taken over by the "Manoa Project," which seems to reflect an abandoned future colonization effort on a distant planet.

"We drop in one day and find we're standing on an alien world," said Jason Stoddard, Centric's Managing Partner, Strategy.

The world, known as Manoa, seems to have been partially developed for colonization before "cost overruns" caused Winfinity, the developer, to shutter the project. Prominent signs indicate that Winfinity is offering a L$100,000 bonus for the best independent information explaining why the project failed. For more information www.discovermanoa.com.

Centric's Director of International Strategies, Ken Brady, believes that the incident may reflect something more than a dedicated band of griefers. "There's information in Chinese, Japanese, and English, and there's logic behind it. They explain why we can fly and change our POV, for example."

Jason Stoddard said: "It's a foreboding, dangerous place. Everything's scattered around like they were in a hurry to get out. And I don't blame them." However, Jason admitted that he'd like to know what happened to Manoa as well. "We're inviting all interested parties into the world to help unravel the mystery—or at least create a plausible explanation for what happened here."

About Centric
Centric, the Agency of Change, is a "new new" media agency working on leading-edge interactive marketing in social media, virtual worlds, and other emerging opportunities. Founded in 1994, Centric's clients include Memorex, Freestyle Watch Company, Imation, LA Gear, Princess Cruises, Canon U.S.A., Mandalay Bay, Veeco, Hewlett Packard, VeriSign, Nestle and Acura. Centric maintains offices in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, and Second Life.

About Second Life
Second Life is a user-built virtual world with over 5MM registered users. More information is available at www.secondlife.com.

Jason Stoddard
SL IM: Fallon Winnfield
jason.stoddardSPLATcentric.com
1-800-9-CENTRIC

or visit
www.centric.com
blog.centric.com



Even more information here! http://www.centric.com/thought/ and if you read the last post, do you thinking they're hinting that this Second Life World is an ARG?

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Now, imagine what an alternate reality campaign might do for you.


Also a link from the site above, by clicking on the first post at the top of the page and in the comments leads to: http://www.velcro-city.co.uk/strange-things-are-afoot-in-second-life/

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«Links for 03-04-2007 »Strange things are afoot in Second Life
It looks like Second Life, home of the weird, just got a little bit weirder. The PR agency Centric have just found their island build taken over by a rogue corporation from another timeline that has been trying to develop an alien world into a human colony. No one seems entirely sure what that means, but Winfinity, the temporally displaced company in question, is offering a bounty of L$100k to the person who goes in, scopes the scene and brings back the best report of what's going on. I've been threatening to get acquainted with SL for months now - I think I just found my motivation. Any regular visitors to the metaverse care to share some tips of good places to visit?


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hackshaven
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 		virtual computer tablets
Keep an eye out for virtual computer tablets hidden across the build. They contain additional text snippets. From the looks of them, the final moments of the virtual staff. I'll post them here when I have time. Oh, I think the boxes contain "nanotechnology."

PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:54 pm
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spysect
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 		hackshaven meet me in Second Life in half an hour if you want! I'll be on there, under the username Eddie Hagoromo Wink

Also me and Rogi (on IRC) cracked the QR code on some of the boxes online

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hackshaven
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 		meeting
Dang, I wish I could! Giving an SL demo at work. I'll be around though -- my SL name is Hackshaven Harford.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:43 pm
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spysect
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 		http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2007/03/31/3865.html

Quote:
Second Life, terraforming, Oversight, ARG?
31 March 2007, 6:10 PM

It seems that Jason Stoddard's company, Centric, has offices in Second Life (as well as in the real world). Recently, a company called Winfinity (which grew out of Oversight, as featured in various of Jason's stories at Strange Horizons and Interzone) seems to have taken over Centric's Second Life region with a terraforming project called Manoa.

The Winfinity people are offering a reward of 100,000 Linden dollars (the Second Life currency) for information about the causes of the cost overruns on the Manoa Development Project.


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I'm not privy to details, but I'm guessing that this is essentially an Alternate Reality Game set partly in Second Life, and tied in with Jason's forthcoming Interzone story "Far Horizon." (Also note that the "development ship El Dorado" mentioned on the Discover Manoa page shares a name with the starship that appears in Jason's SH stories "Exception" and "Revision." Given that Jason's IZ stories may not quite fit into the same timeline as his SH stories, I'm not sure it's the same starship, but I figured the connection was worth mentioning.)

For more info and links, see Jetse's blog entry and Jetse's post on the IZ forum.

I'm not on Second Life, and I don't have time to explore this. But I'm definitely intrigued by it, and I like Jason's writing and worldbuilding, and I like the idea of an interlinked set of web pages, Second Life stuff, and fiction.

Apparently solutions should be submitted via the Data Submission page between June 1 and June 30, 2007. I'm not sure what criteria they'll use to determine who gets the prize if there are multiple correct answers.



http://ttapress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=111
http://eclipticplane.blogspot.com/2007/03/interdimensional-intrusions.html
http://fe18.news.re3.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20070403/bs_prweb/prweb516267

And yes, it is an ARG on Second Life,
Quote:
Discover Manoa! Alternate Reality Gaming in Second Life


(this super-long URL was making the forum window stretch wide, and it isn't even working anymore as a link, but I'll leave it and just break it in half)
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:CvEds_NfUTMJ:secure-web3.secondlife.com/community/fansites.php
+Manoa+Second+Life&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=uk

(I think it was supposed to be linking to a cached version of this aggregator site)
http://secure-web12.secondlife.com/community/fansites.php
(which used to have this link on its "Recently Added Resident Sites" hot list)
Discover Manoa!
Alternate Reality Gaming in Second Life
http://www.discovermanoa.com/

(moderator edits marked above in italics -- catherwood)

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coffeegirl18
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 		Hey everyone,
I'm going on right now! I'm on SL as Chloe Inglis so say hi if you see me.

Maybe we can figure more of the puzzle out.
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