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Boot

Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 61

SnareRushJunkie wrote:

Finally, please tell me I'm not the only one who got scared and thought this was a huge advertisement for the new Bright Eyes album at the first mention of Cassadaga.

You definitely weren't the only one - although I love Bright Eyes so the thought of a Bright Eyes ARG definitely didn't get me too scared. I'm about as certain as certain can be, though, that it's just a coincidence.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:36 am

DrTachyon
Boot

Joined: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 53
Location: Montgomery Village, Maryland

aeonswife wrote:

As the website was established in 1999, I don't think it's involved, but certainly an interesting read!

Yeah, I should have done a WHOIS before opening my mouth Confused

I've been Googling stuff about Lovecraft's Dreamlands given the various clues (Lovecraft, Cats, Providence, Dreams) and I found this synopsis of the very beginning of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (one of Lovecraft's stories published posthumously):

Quote:

Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal city, they do not answer. Undaunted, Carter resolves to go to Kadath, where the gods live, to beseech them in person. However, no one has ever been to Kadath and none even knows how to get there. In dream, Randolph Carter descends "the seventy steps to the cavern of flame" and speaks of his plan to the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah, whose temple borders the Dreamlands. The priests warn Carter of the great danger of his quest.

I found it interesting, given BA's reference to fire and all the Lovecraft info.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:19 am

lostykitkat
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Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 11
Location: Wiltshire, UK

Hi from across the pond

Okay, I am in....

Joined Perplex City too far in to get hooked but this one looks exciting and I get to be involved from the start.

Based in the UK, so will get as involved as I can from across the pond!

Going to read all the posts now...

losty

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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:20 am

bedouin5d
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Joined: 25 Feb 2007
Posts: 4
Location: Naptown, USA

speculative math

so, i've been trying to figure out how many package we should be receiving. from erosieo's exaustive seach of craigslist us and canada, we have 13 known city listings (fourteen if you count providence on the 1st, though i'm not). we have 7 known pakages (from the wiki:varin, phaedra, loumac, spacebass, rowan, addlepated, molecularr). each package has a piece of a watercolor. worker has started piecing these together, though it's still missing rowan's, which i figure goes in the lower left corner (page 6 of the forum). if we assume the watercolor is rectangular, three pieces tall, and extends out to the right to see the mountain, we should have a total of 12 or 15 pieces. assuming each city (qty: 13) has a package, and therefore a water color, my guess is 15. if this is right, then we have 2 more craiglistings (international?) and 8 more packages to receive.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:07 am

Pixilate
Guest

testing
testing

hey all, I'm planning to join up as a full-on lurker from SA, so lets see where this takes me! this looks like a lot of fun, only recently found out about ARG's. hopefully I can help/add some info.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:53 am

Worker
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Posts: 233

Re: speculative math

bedouin5d wrote:

my guess is 15. if this is right, then we have 2 more craiglistings (international?) and 8 more packages to receive.

I was thinking the same. I looked at some international craiglistings (because I could have sworn we had some big-shot ARGers in the Netherlands and Great Britain), but didn't find anything. I didn't cover all international listings though.

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:58 am

JimK
Boot

Joined: 02 Mar 2006
Posts: 45
Location: State of Confusion

poeticexplosion wrote:

Welcome to all the new people! This is only my second game, so I know exactly how you feel. Don't worry, it'll be fun. Smile

I've been doing some playing around with the I Ching and the numbers. We have so far the I Ching hexagrams numbered:

1, 3, 6, 9, 11, 12

The speculation is that the numbers following the I Ching names refer to Page Number, Line, and Letter. Here are the numbers in the order of their I Ching names, and the letters they would represent if the above theory is correct:

1) R = 5, 1, 6

3) R = 335, 20, 25

6) I = 95, 35, 11

9) G = 35, 35, 26

11) ? = 55, 14, 2

12) ? = 245, 3, 10

One thing of note is that first number of every series ends in a 5, and as I was looking through the page numbers of the torn pages, a disproportionate number of those end in 5 as well.

Also, is 12 too large of a number? Could there be 12 packages out there?

Good catch! Since the recent posts seem to indicate we could have up to 15 packages, 12 is obviously not too large...

I've expanded the list to 15, assuming the order of the iChing is the correct order, and added additional info from the latest scans:

1) R = 5, 1, 6
2) ??
3) R = 335, 20, 25
4) E = 175, 5, 3
5) ??
6) I = 95, 35, 11
7) ??
8 ) ??
9) G = 35, 35, 26
10) ??
11) ? = 55, 14, 2
12) ? = 245, 3, 10
13) ??
14) ??
15) ??

I can speculate the the first word in the series (assuming at this point, that it is a series) it RARE. However, that's total speculation on my part - for all we know at this point it could be one 12 or 15 letter word or a combination of smaller words...

Thoughts?

Jim

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:06 am

Pixilate
Guest

perhaps irrelevant...

okay, mebbe this is irrelevant, but nonetheless:
Lovecraft seems to have had a bit of a love affair with cats.
In The Cats of Ulthar, it is declared that "no man shall kill a cat". (This after the cats eat two baddies.) Some praying to gods and clouds involved, strange people appearing that make you think of Egyptian gods. "They had painted on the sides of their wagons strange figures with human bodies and the heads of cats, hawks, rams and lions." Check it out.

Also wrote poem called "The Cats". Seems to promise the end of all things, except for the lean cats slinking around:

Babels of blocks to the high heavens towering
Flames of futility swirling below;
Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flowering,
Lanterns that shudder and death-lights that glow.

Black monstrous bridges across oily rivers,
Cobwebs of cable to nameless things spun;
Catacomb deeps whose dank chaos delivers
Streams of live foetor that rots in the sun.

Colour and splendour, disease and decaying,
Shrieking and ringing and crawling insane,
Rabbles exotic to stranger-gods praying,
Jumbles of odour that stifle the brain.

Legions of cats from the alleys nocturnal.
Howling and lean in the glare of the moon,
Screaming the future with mouthings infernal,
Yelling the Garden of Pluto's red rune.

Tall towers and pyramids ivy'd and crumbling,
Bats that swoop low in the weed-cumber'd streets;
Bleak Arkham bridges o'er rivers whose rumbling
Joins with no voice as the thick horde retreats.

Belfries that buckle against the moon totter,
Caverns whose mouths are by mosses effac'd,
And living to answer the wind and the water,
Only the lean cats that howl in the wastes.

he was pretty much a cat person... don't know if there's anything useful about this, but thought it interesting!

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:15 am

PST Productions
Boot

Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 39
Location: Maple Shade, NJ

The Mystery Delivery
B.A. St. Feline Package

With a little Google-Fu I found this forum and it has answered a few of my question on the package I got in the mail yesterday.

I figured it was part of a game. Being one that runs Live Interactive Fiction events at many cons along the East Coast, it had that game clue feel.

We run Lovecraftian Events using the Cthulhu Live system. When I got this I thought it might have been from some of our past players. We do ahve many players from Florida.

Now that I know it is part of a larger game, of some kind. I just wanted to let anyone else participating in this event that I now have a package.

Addressed to me in Maple Shade, NJ, Actually it says Maple Shade Providence, NJ

If I get a chance, I'll post the images and such included inside the package.

Love the coin by the way.

Well, as Holmes would say: The Game Is A Foot...

Greg Agostini
PST Productions

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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:19 am

JimK
Boot

Joined: 02 Mar 2006
Posts: 45
Location: State of Confusion

erosieo wrote:

I am a perpetual lurker on these things, but I thought I'd throw this info into the discussion. I searched all of the personals in the US and Canadian cities on craigslist for bseeingu and came up with this list:

Austin http://austin.craigslist.org/mis/311591739.html
Baltimore http://baltimore.craigslist.org/mis/311569124.html
Binghamton http://binghamton.craigslist.org/mis/311574771.html
Gainesville http://gainesville.craigslist.org/mis/311571151.html
Houston http://houston.craigslist.org/mis/311581432.html
Louisville http://louisville.craigslist.org/mis/311593398.html
Lynchburg http://lynchburg.craigslist.org/mis/311580382.html
Milwaukee http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/mis/311583433.html
Providence http://providence.craigslist.org/mis/311564036.html
Penn State (or State College) http://pennstate.craigslist.org/mis/311578481.html
Kitchener http://kitchener.craigslist.org/mis/311567561.html
Windsor http://windsor.craigslist.org/mis/311577207.html
Winnipeg http://winnipeg.craigslist.org/mis/311590898.html

I know most of these have been found, but I think there are a few new ones in there. Also, there are thirteen, and, as has been mentioned, all of them were posted on Friday the 13th (except for Louisville, which was posted 5 minutes after midnight EDT on the 14th). Seems appropriate in light of the black cat.

I am supposed to be writing a paper right now, but this is much more interesting!

With Greg's Post, I looked for and found a Craigslist posting in South NJ:
http://southjersey.craigslist.org/mis/313956649.html

(I can't access the link from work, so I can't post the contents...)

Jim

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:41 am

aeonswife
Boot

Joined: 15 Mar 2006
Posts: 13

Quote:

The guy all dressed up and ready to go - w4m
Reply to: pers-313956649SPLATcraigslist.org
Date: 2007-04-17, 11:47PM EDT

You: Heading out the door

Me: Standing at the curb

It's a crazy place, isn't it? So many of us just wandering about, on our own. Looking. Observing. Wondering. Groups are forming to make the journey together. Nobody seems to know where they're going except out. But where does that go? What does it lead to?

I'll bseeingu
BA

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:42 am

Mosestrotsky
Veteran

Joined: 18 May 2005
Posts: 147
Location: Brighton, Uk

Hi,

Unsure whether this has been covered but what about the scrunched up text on the Main and About Me page - looks like Save Me.

Has this been covered? Or is it just my browser making things small and it actually says About Me but scrunched up?

Also - great to see PST Productions (never been to one of yours living in the uk) but the inspiration that help us run out own in the uk is great

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notgordian
Unfictologist

Joined: 23 Nov 2006
Posts: 1383
Location: Philly

Chicago one, too. http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/mis/313961050.html

Quote:

Date: 2007-04-17, 10:57PM CDT

You: Hanging out with your friends down by the corner
Me: Walking by

It's as if you went into your own little world. A dream within a dream. If you think it will stop the madness around you, you're wrong. The madness goes on, you just stop seeing it.

I'll bseeingu
BA

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:52 am

JimK
Boot

Joined: 02 Mar 2006
Posts: 45
Location: State of Confusion

Mosestrotsky wrote:

Hi,

Unsure whether this has been covered but what about the scrunched up text on the Main and About Me page - looks like Save Me.

Has this been covered?

Also - great to see PST Productions (never been to one of yours living in the uk) but the inspiration that help us run out own in the uk is great

I had the same problem, but I think it's the Welcome image (images/welcome.png) that had a problem loading (at least, it id for me yesterday, but seems to be okay today):

Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:56 am

cissmiace
Entrenched

Joined: 24 Mar 2007
Posts: 867
Location: Manchester UK

Re: speculative math

Worker wrote:

bedouin5d wrote:

my guess is 15. if this is right, then we have 2 more craiglistings (international?) and 8 more packages to receive.

*crosses fingers for a package arriving in Manchester*

PST Productions - Your icon! Scanners is love!!! Very Happy

Not sure if this has already been said (excuse me in this case I had a tooth out feel sorry for me xD) You know the torn pages with the circled words? I was wondering if linked together they form a legible sentance OR could they perhaps be anagrams by themselfs? Just thinking outload Very Happy

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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 10:57 am

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