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danashulps · Veteran Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 91

[TRAILHEAD]There Is Only One Variable

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:03 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

Hmm... if you click the (X) link on the first page and hit "ctrl+a" you see some white dots that look kind of like stars.

EDIT: this does seem suspiciously argish, but it may just be the beginning of a comic book.
I'd keep an eye on it anyway.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:24 pm

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.Trace · Boot Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 53 Location: England

x-unleashed.com comes to the same site. X-Unleashed is on Hypercomics, and Lulu.com, yet comics has no info on it. There's also no info on the publisher on google, 1x-Studios. Also tried looking for an ISBN number, and couldn't find one.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:39 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

It could be a webcomic.... (EDIT: Never mind, this is clearly hinting otherwise)
But why would it sponsor the keywords "Alternate Reality?"
Definitely fishy....
There's also what appears to be hidden text in the documents section, but it turned out be be blank spaces.....

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:46 pm

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.Trace · Boot Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 53 Location: England

in the caffepress.com source theres some text, no idea if its lrelevant. Also, in the training logs, it mentions MetaVXR.. wasn't that part of MetaCortechs? Probably just grabbing at straws here...

Found http://www.onevariable.tv/ in one of the pics aswell.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:48 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

Private site... damn....
This comic book excerpt looks like a bad attempt to get kids to exercise, really....

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:53 pm

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DeadbyDawn · Unfettered Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 678 Location: S Mart

comic

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:57 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

Pardon my bluntness but GOD this comic is bad....
I hope this really is an ARG....

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:08 pm

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danashulps · Veteran Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 91

If you ask me, the onevariable.tv site confirms its ARGyness. Needing to get a login name and password to access restricted videos? Sounds that way to me.

And typing a note to the owner of the site? Character interaction, anyone?

I'm gonna go read through the comic now... if its as bad as you say it is then yeah, i hope someone's not actually trying to sell it. Razz

As horrible as that sounds.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:36 pm

the_velociraptor

Sites are down for me... tried e-mailing the people IC? What is this about?

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:45 pm

danashulps · Veteran Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 91

shudder. Yipes, this is pretty bad stuff. I laughed out loud on pg 18 where you see the woman wearing the UnderArmor shirt... cause it's supposed to be an X, obviously... haha. There's no way that's a real comic. It's badly done photoshop art, is more like it. But it's elaborate, which is good i guess if it's an ARG.

I signed up at the onevariable.tv thing, but no one wrote back and I haven't received a login yet.

I see that the "thereisonlyonevariable.com" site was created on macweb... can we get user info? The real site is http://web.mac.com/xmantraining/iWeb/ONEVARIABLE/The%20Machine.html

I don't know how that works though to maybe find an owner. If this is a real comic book, then where's the author's name?

ETA: if you mouse over the "RECEIVE NEWS AND UPDATES DIRECTLY FROM THE DATABASE" you can see that the email address is contactSPLATx-database.com. X-Database.com is parked free courtesy of GoDaddy. Wonderful. lol.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:48 pm

Chronus_Valtiel

It seems that the only way to get in is to request an invite....

**Posted:** Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:14 pm

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.Trace · Boot Joined: 17 Aug 2007 Posts: 53 Location: England

I sent in an invite yesterday, nothing so far..

**Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:39 am

Fry · Guest

thereisonlyonevariable was indeed created with .Mac... and judging by the URL the username who created it is "xmantraining". Maybe try e-mailing xmantrainingSPLATmac.com?

**Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:47 pm

Colori · Veteran Joined: 11 Jul 2007 Posts: 132

Seriously, they stink at spelling. to the max.

Also, on page twenty two, last thing on the bottom right, it looks like some hidden text.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 19, 2007 4:25 pm