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[HAAS][SPEC] Mindstorm is a Front?
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Angstfild
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 		I am still not buying into the fact that they (MSL) are a legit company. None of the sites are even working now.

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Whitenoise
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 		heh [probbaly the thousands of people trying to find a contact number to send hatemail sucked up their bandwith crashed their sites:P

PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:19 am
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Mullet Man
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 		I'm thinking Mindstorm and AlphaOmega is a distraction set up by the Mezin, since the logo is the Mezin symbol.

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Whitenoise
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 		Im starting to hope that they are real because AO looks awsome

PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 6:18 pm
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TheBeginningIsTheEnd
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 		They're real. They were at WizCon and are already set up for being at the other thing.(I forget the name)

Their logo has nothing to do with the Mezin..

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Kojiro
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 		GenCon Indy.

PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:05 pm
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Myridean
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 		Ottawa native here
Using Nighthawk's addy info to check out MSL
By the address, I was given, it looks like their office is located in the Glebe. I'll be driving by it tonight to see if there's at least a sign but I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't. It's not uncommon for a successful Canadian enterprise to be born out of an apartment. Just look at the Broken Saints (http://www.brokensaints.com) phenomenon, coming out of Vancouver. Three guys, one website all out of a parent's website but they did it. Who's to say that there's three guys making this venture fly?

*crosses fingers*

The good thing about my work is that I work with the publishing industry and a part of the government where legal depository regulations are in place. ¨

Myri

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Myridean
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 		 Address confirmed
Sorry to double post btw.
As a follow-up, I was able to use Nighthawk's address and visited the building where they work. It was after work for me so the office building was officially closed. However, there was a woman there who did work in the suite next to theirs (so yeah, it's not an apartment Razz) who I bumped into at the door and talked a little about the guys and even offered to let me meet them but they had gone home already. Sad

I was able to grab a couple of pics (It felt a bit like geocaching actually Razz) of the office directory sign where they are. So yeah, long story short:

They do exist. Very Happy

The premise sounds fab and although it may not be an ARG, it could meet halfway if reworked to be a LARP. I myself when I first heard about it was asking why it wasn't being developed as an MMORPG but hey, we Canadians like to take baby steps with our ventures.

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Nighthawk
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 		Hellooo... competition!

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/welcome

Rumor's that D&D 4e being released today.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 3:34 pm
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kolixela
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 		Mind Storm at Gencon
Well Day 1 of Gencon is concluded and I have a fair number of answers related to the whole ethan haas alpha omega thing.

1: This was not designed to be an ARG, the creators hadn't encountered the term previously, it was simply a way to get people who would be interested in a little digging to have a fun way to find some information about the game in a non unique game.

2: 8-1-07: Wow.. well that's the big thing here eh? From what I gather the whole issue was completely unintentional, the site upload was being handled externally, there were a few issues with that and they are as unhappy about how the day went as the rest of us are.

For the Future: well.. the crew was awesome, I met Van (i'll not reveal his secret identity for reasons ill explain later) and got a little more info...

We missed several things, several pages have had changes that were not found that contain more information, there are several more sites that have not been uncovered; I don't have the information on those sites for good reason however they did let me know that the forumers here have missed something.. There are sites not spoken of on unfiction (yes, they are watching us here Razz) that are "community related" that are "used commonly" that have not been found and reported that include more information. I assume they are referncing something relating to My Space or Live Journal etc. (no time to check till after con) We have missed updates to previously found pages.

the divinus page; they are aware of the fact we have the site address, as to if the page will be posted it's currently "maybe"

ethan's journals; there are more of them, THE WATERMARK WORD IS NOT A CLUE, it was apparantly part of the paper on which the journal pages were written that doesn't show to the naked eye, it's an unintentional red herring (verified by ethan himself - the journal writer that is) I did comment about more of the pages being released and it did seem to meet with a positive comment so I'd keep a close look.

Internal delays have caused some issues within the game that cascaded into causing problems within the Alt reality story, there are 3 minds behind this game they are making the game, setting up the con stuff, testing the game, designing histories and doing all of the work for the Alt reality story so understandably an issue in one area can cause issues in another.

The 2 cons seem to have taken up a lot of their time lately, after speaking for about 2 hours there's want from the company to continue to get players involved in the AO universe and Van said that we can expect a continuation of the story in one form or the other (there was talk of written media of several forms that all sound great) we may see a continuation on the ARG aspects of ethan and we may not, perhaps they may find some way to subsidise adding a Puppetmaster to the pay roll, we know that perplexcity did it with the cards to play the game, perhaps we may see clues leading to journal pages available via private mailorder (journal leads to online, online clues lead to new pages where you can purchase a journal packet with another page or two, a little background on some aspect of the game, etc) If so we might expect to see some cooler rare swag randomly in those packs or even some cool exclusive reward for those clever enough to help Van and possibly find out what is happening at Triton's now abandoned facility, there's a lot of cool possibilities.

Either way I'd say to give it a week or so while they get all done with Gencon stuff before looking around all that hardcore, it's not likely Van will get a chance to seek access with the Mezin in force now.

..Bix: Those at Mind Storm seemed awed by your abilities Smile

Oh ya, and you were wrong! it's a 20% discount in the store Smile

I know ^_^ I bought the first AO sourcebook; the store will go active soon, PDF version, hardback version, AO shirts and hats, Ethan haas was right shirts, even Triton Enterprises Golf Shirts (LOL read the description)
Expect store access online this weekend and several updates to the AO site in the coming weeks.

Combat demos start at the con tomorrow, I'm gonna check it out and see what it's like! Smile

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vera_ferns29
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 		interesting article........

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