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[Abilor]

With regard to Nico, I think there's got to be a way to handle him that's beyond good and evil, i.e. it doesn't matter what his intentions are. Before you freak out, what I mean is that Gracesmom, with Gala_Teah and Yucky covering her back (along with Uncle Frank and Tom) should be able to extract the info he has. If he needs a little cash, so be it in my opinion. Get the info, that's the important thing. It doesn't sound like Nico is in a position to seriously hurt anyone at this point, regardless of his particular intentions. Personally, I predict his assassination sooner or later, but that's just me. I watched too much X-files.

[jegger]

Re: The whole Nico thing

[Sirius B.]

Has anyone else noticed this at the bottom og worldwithoutoil.org/teach ?

"WORLD WITHOUT OIL is a collaborative alternate reality. It begins April 30, 2007.
Play it � before you live it."

...followed by a number of real-world sponsors (CPB, etc.). The page makes it pretty clear that there will be a new site design on Monday and that it will cater to teachers and students in one flavor or another. This is my first ARG, so I'm not sure about this - I'm assuming that this is quite unusual for the PMs to not only identify the game as a game, but to launch a public campaign for involvement (as the sponsors would suggest). Regardless, it would seem that the intent of WWO is true to what the creator mentioned in those interviews - wanting to break the mold of the ARG genre and trying to affect the real world, which, I think, is pretty groovy.

So I guess they've just been doing all this pre-game storyline and interaction to get ARGers behind it before it goes public?

Anyway, just pointing that out.

[lirath]

nico

[RedHatty]

Since the crisis is going to happen in less than 96 hours, exactly what information do you think we can get that can change anything?

Yes he leaked the news & yes it is the right thing to try and keep him safe and alive, but I doubt knowing what brought on the crisis is going to have any impact on surviving it. It is certainly too late to avoid the crisis.

If the guy had any real stones, he would have done whatever he could to alert people in power not just some random folks at the Denver Airport.

[CaptainZ]

Thats a nice plan and all Lirath but i am quoting you when i say...

"The problem is, anything we discuss
on our forums can also be monitored by folks that have access to us."

Which means they read your post and now know about the plan. Its going to be very difficult to communicate about this without disclosing the information to any lurkers since we have no one of knowing who is watching but not saying anything.

[poeticexplosion]

[Slyfox]

[jwiv]

We don't really have a way to influence Nico outside of perhaps trading the information in the video to him in exchange for additional info. But even then, that decision is dependant on two things 1) What does it say in Bulgarian and 2) Having a member of the 8TSOC pass it on.

#2 is a bit important here. We don't have a way to contact Nico directly which means that we would need to get the buy-in of not only the community to agree to do so, but also that of an 8TSOC member to do it (gracesmominnh being the most obvious one as she's had the most face to face contact with Nico). From the impression I'm getting from gracesmom, I don't think she's going to be willing to lie to Nico, and I'm not willing to risk destroying her trust by lying to her.

My instinct is saying to play this straight for right now. There are games that require a bit of cloak and dagger and misdirection from the player base, but I don't think this game is one of them. It might shift at some point, but for right now, I think we need to play it on the up and up with the characters.

[jegger]

[jegger]

[Wise One]

[Abilor]

WWO.ORG

[jegger]

Re: WWO.ORG

[RedHatty]

Ah yes a good little tid-bit of info to help us understand the gameplay a little more