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catherwood
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Almijisti wrote:
why are we "potential CF" and they are listed as definite?

This game is a full-fledged ARG. The category isn't "potential games" but "games with potential". (The recent change to "Chaotic Fiction with Potential" was to encompass more types of games.) This only means that the game started out with a small audience and a single linear thread to discuss the puzzles. It had the potential to grow into a faster-paced game with more participants and the need for many concurrent threads. At the time the move was made, there were only two websites, and discussion was rather dormant in anticipation of something big to come on August 1st.

The important milestone was the day it moved out of the News&Rumors category, and into this area where you can start multiple threads if necessary. We still have the potential to need room for character interaction, multiple unsolved puzzles, timelines and story elements, etc. It's already been declared a game. Definitely.

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Nighthawk
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theonetruebix wrote:
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So, untilt he PMs make another move... Divinus and the other domains are still unknown... anything we can continue on? The text on the journal pages?


Unless I've missed someone figuring them out, I still have some missing/unknown words in the journal entries themselves.


Seems like you're missing words only in Schedar, right?

Looks to me like "... I saw that beneath [?] the surface...". That question mark is odd; it looks like a lone letter or something. It's not punctuation, and the next word is defintely "the" because it matches other appearances of that word.

BTW: After seeing Tom's signature on the Articles of Incorporation in SunBiz, I have reason to believe this might be written by his own hand.

theonetruebix wrote:
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On one of the pages - I don't remember which right this second - there is some written text. There were some characters below the main text body to the bottom left, and near the bottom of the page it almost looked like some text from the other side was bleeding through.


Well, there's the block letters vaguely showing on both Caph and Schedar, which we still haven't figured out. And then at the bottom of Caph, towards the left, there appears to be something in reverse, as if there's something on the back, or transfer from a facing page. All I can see of that is what appears to be "HE" backwards.


Schedar: RA_IAN ("RADIAN"?) or RA_PAN. It's too blended in.

Caph: Not a chance. I can only baraely make out the last "N" and the middle character looks wrong ("A"?).

Opinion?

And attached is the "he" from Caph, contrasted up as best I could and circle highlited. Note the two trailing/leading Os as well.
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theonetruebix
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Nighthawk wrote:
BTW: After seeing Tom's signature on the Articles of Incorporation in SunBiz, I have reason to believe this might be written by his own hand.


Wait, where? Apparently I missed a document because the only thing I've seen from that filing doesn't have a signature on it.
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Nighthawk
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theonetruebix wrote:
Nighthawk wrote:
BTW: After seeing Tom's signature on the Articles of Incorporation in SunBiz, I have reason to believe this might be written by his own hand.


Wait, where? Apparently I missed a document because the only thing I've seen from that filing doesn't have a signature on it.


If you go to the SunBiz site I've linked to, at the bottom of the page is a link to a TIFF file download that's an actual scan of the document filed.

Oh, what the hell... I'll attach it here (it IS public record in Florida). It's a multi-page TIFF document. In your case, I think QuickTime can open the multiple pages.

You can see his signature, albeit not discernible or legible, has a strong cursive influence. Call it a hunch, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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theonetruebix
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 		I apparently have absolutely nothing that will render multi-page tif documents.

ETA: Scratch that. Preview does, it just doesn't make it obvious how to get to the other pages.
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ISammael
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Nighthawk wrote:
Schedar: RA_IAN ("RADIAN"?) or RA_PAN. It's too blended in.

Caph: Not a chance. I can only baraely make out the last "N" and the middle character looks wrong ("A"?).

Opinion?


In addition to that, on Caph there are extremely faint letters towards the bottom right hand corner (begins straight down from the word "with" in the last line). I can't make up much, but there seems to be possibly three lines of writing. The attached picture is poor quality, but is a 2x magnification of what I'm talking about. The first line shows 2x magnification facing the normal direction, and the bottom two pictures show flipped horizontally. The blue is a reverse-color image. I don't have any editing software, so someone else will have to analyze it further... bix? nighthawk?



It seems the first line is a capital "A."
The second line, read forwards, appears to be 8820, with characters after that I can't make out. Read backwards, those numbers appear to possibly be 0800, which is bizarre, since you wouldn't think it would change that much.
The third line, faintest of all, I only see in reverse, and it looks like a Euro-styled '9.'

I originally thought they may be a clue to the url of another journal page, but that could be wrong. I've been staring forever with little success, so I want to get some other opinions.

I also see a "6.8" in the picture below. It is also reverse-color and 2x magnification. Perhaps, in the picture below that (4x), these are arrows pointing from something? I circled them in red for clarification.


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theonetruebix
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 		Huh. Those are completely the other side from where I see a reverse "HE", right underneath the start of the word "war" in "only war".

There's definitely something in there somewhere.
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Nighthawk
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 		Now that you mention it, yeah, there's something there. Almost as if the page has two sides and the text is slightly bleeding through.

Perhaps once we get both pages, the union of them will blend to make something clearer.

I've tried all the blending tools I have (Photoshop, Fireworks, etc...); there's not enough contrast and pixel difference to make anything out.

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Nighthawk
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 		On a side note, should we start to consider fully documenting the complete chain of events, separating the corporate hunt from the game? I think there's a lot of people that might show up on the 1st knowing only the word "Divinus" and will not have any idea what's going on.

Should we create a timeline thread or something?

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Almijisti
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Nighthawk wrote:
On a side note, should we start to consider fully documenting the complete chain of events, separating the corporate hunt from the game? I think there's a lot of people that might show up on the 1st knowing only the word "Divinus" and will not have any idea what's going on.

Should we create a timeline thread or something?


Fully agreed. Are we all convinced that nothing more is to be found re: ethanhaaswasright.com? For that, all that's needed is a walkthrough for newbies. For the deep story, another summary would be helpful to the perplexed.

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theonetruebix
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catherwood wrote:
Almijisti wrote:
why are we "potential CF" and they are listed as definite?

This game is a full-fledged ARG. The category isn't "potential games" but "games with potential"..


I suspect the confusion is about 1-18-08 getting its own section, but EHWR doesn't -- especially since there's pretty much NOTHING going on with 1-18-08 since it launched, and a whole lot has been going on with EHWR since it launched. It seems a little lopsided and based not on the story activity, but on mainstream popularity. Heh.
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Nighthawk
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 		Well, we don't have a 3000+ post thread yet.

Although a lot of posts in that thread are arguably related to this. I wish we could lay claim to... oh... thirty pages, maybe more, or so out of the nearly three hundred.

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theonetruebix
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Nighthawk wrote:
Well, we don't have a 3000+ post thread yet.


Yeah but you realize that the reason 1-18-08 got and gets so much attention -- despite there being next to nothing to talk about except wild and unsubstantiated speculation -- is because everyone wants to be able to say they were "involved" in the Cloverfield matter.

Meanwhile, we're in the ghetto despite having an ACTUAL game underway. Heh.

*shrug*
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 		It pretty obvious to me that the writer wrote something on white paper, then scanned and transposed that onto other images of worn, antique paper. Caph is clearly transposed and somewhat sloppily done since there was no attempt to make the ink appear to bleed into the paper and the ink itself is too transparent. It also looks like these are cards, rather than sheets of paper (notice the "dented" corners). I think any faint impressions you might see are probably just vestigial traces of whatever was written on the other side of the originals, or perhaps pencil marks that were erased.

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Is it just me, or do the graphics on this site look just like the graphics on EHWR?

And the date is 2007.8.1

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