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 Acheron PM Chat - (what questions do you have?)

[rose]

Thanks for organizing this. I'll try to be there if I can flippin' get over it. heh.

[aiesha_anonymous]

yay!

congrats to all of you. what a fantastic achievement. i'm so so glad to have experienced it.

i'll try to be there if i can, but otherwise i hope that someone will post a log? (and please see my question in the 'review from the peanut gallery' thread. i'd be really interested in some chat about how the players influenced the game, other things we might have done, etc.)

thanks!

hugs, aiesha

[addlepated]

For those who can't be at the chat, let's also use this thread to post questions you would like to see answered by the PMs. Post them in a reply; to keep things simple, if you think of something afterwards, just go back and edit your post to add the additions.

Also, is anyone just dying to moderate the chat?

[Guest]

Was Jake an imposter, and John Baxter the one we were really trying to help?

[ramiles]

[addlepated]

Be sure to read all the updates and sites so we don't cover information that's been covered previously. Yes, Jake was the bad guy, and Meg and Reggie are married. The Jake, Reggie, and Meg blogs all contain this information.

[MageSteff]

What I'd like to know is how much of the planned story was snipped out due to real life situations (the hiatus, the server crash)?

How hany puzzles that were hinted at did we not find?

[rosebud]

Questions

[rose]

correction

[choie]

EDITED to add new question.

I cannot wait for the chat! But just in case I miss it, here are my lingering questions -- admittedly not deep ones, but merely stuff that, well, lingered in my marble-laden head...

1) What the heck was SCAMPAT/H about? Did we solve it? Why did John/Reggie change the blinky to two parallel blinkies?

2) Why, when the timelines switched and John/Reggie was no longer a fruit loop, did he still go by the name "Reggie" on his blog?

3) Konamouse's doppelganger staggering into the police station. Was this just a red herring, or was there a subplot we didn't follow? (BTW, It was at this point when I started wondering if she was a PM plant. Actually I started doubting everybody at this point, even myself! Was I secretly a plant? Had I been secretly recruited by the at-this-point-unknown gray people and didn't even know it? Yes, paranoia will destroy ya!)

4) More importantly, were there any websites we didn't discover? Nuances of plot that went over our heads?

5) Something that seemed to blip by in the race to endgame, but kept worrying me: who the heck was Harker's 'insider'??? I was surprised that no one else appeared to take much interest in this person's identity, and maybe it wasn't important. But inquiring minds wanna know. I guess the obvious guess might be Katrina, but personally, I suspect Susan, LOL. (If Jim hadn't been fired, I'd have gone with him. Maybe his incompentence was an act! ) Were we supposed to find out?

6) Silly comment & question: All the "J" names in our major players confused me. James, John, Jake. Maybe it was the biblical theme of the puzzles that makes me wonder this, but was there some apostolic significance? With Jake as Judas?

7) Is playing with the timelines what caused DevilBaby and, presumably, armageddon to draw nigh? This could probably be answered by anyone with more brains than yours truly, so players please feel free to clue in the clueless!

8.) Was there any way to contact Turgenev/Dr. Z? What about Katrina? Were we supposed to try harder where she was concerned, or was she mere set-dressing?

9) Seraphim. Were they more than a nebulous Bad Guy group, or was there a way to find out more about them?

10) I have to second Aiesha's excellent question, probably the most important in the story: How could we have prevented Jake's win? What clues should we have picked up on earlier, and would we have been able to convince Harker/Becker/Baxter (more similar names!) in time to stop him?

11) As the old saying goes: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts like a mo'fo. Was the power over time what pushed Jake over the edge, or was he always a creep?

12) What, if anything, surprised you? Were there puzzles that you thought were much harder that we* zipped through? Puzzles that turned out to be more vexing to the players than expected? Hints that you thought we'd pick up on? Possible ways to interact with side characters (Kat, Becker, Turgenev, hell maybe even Meg's dad) that we never explored?

New 13) Was there any significance to Becker's changing doctor names (from Rodslid to Brown) in his notes, or just a continuity glitch? Probably no big deal, but it's a curiosity that nagged at me.

That's all, I guess. I know I already expressed my gratitude in a long-winded version (the "If 'Tis Done" thread), so here I'll say merely: many, many thanks for one helluva fun ride.

-- Kira

* I use "we" in its broadest and most presumptuous sense, since I myself was utterly useless!

[dmax]

Gone for a week and missed everything.

Questions that need clarification:
1) What is Silas Bodnick's password?
2) What is the greywethers login?

Thanks in advance.

[konamouse]

Who was the woman who looked like the picture that I sent to Reggie?
Just something made up by the BTS person chatting as Caretaker?

[MageSteff]

[binaryanarchy]

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