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EMAIL from Alecia Church: May 19
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rose
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EMAIL from Alecia Church: May 19

I got this just now. I guess because I didn't email her back about Thad and the Restorers ( still haven't heard from him) she has me on her list.

Any advice on how to handle this?
Should I send it to Marcus and Steve Lake?

I did tell Thad she was asking me for information about him and the Restorers.



Quote:
Spies,
I have your first *real* assignment. We are trying to find a way to
break
into Ideltechs computer systems. We need more personal information
about
the boys. Please find the answers to the following 10 question so we
can
gain access:


1) What is the name of Marty Manson's Dog?

2) What are the middle names of Jude, Marcus and Marty?

3) What girl in college did Jude, Marcus and Marty get information
about as a way to test TOBI?

4) What is Jude's secret weird fetish?

5) What was William Roddingtons's "catch phrase" at beginning of
class?

6) Where did Marcus meet Sandy?

7) What was Marty's favorite childhood movie?

(8) What is Marty's favorite book?

9) What color did Jude Dye his hair in college to impress Ginny?

10) Where/what is Marcus's small tattoo of?


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PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:36 am
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Rasputin42x69
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Now THIS is the kinda spy-work that I can see the PMs having the player-spies doing. This makes perfect sense.

Question is, are they up to the challenge? Smile
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PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 1:51 pm
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KyraB
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In my opinion here we have the perfect opp to "catch" the spies. If any of this info has to be gained by asking Marcus or someone within Ideltech, then we just need to let Marcus know what the questions are so that he can tell us who might be asking them. -- Just a thought altho if the spies are now reading this then, maybe they won't ask. Geesh this whole thing is just too confusing for me. Spies trying to catch spies trying to catch spies. Ugh. Wink

PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 8:17 pm
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SquareKnight
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An alternative

Nah, that's not the way to do it.

See, the spies are an information source on Alicia's side of things (hopefully). The longer we wait on making a choice, the more information we'll have when we make it, and we'll be more likely to choose wisely. I don't think we should out the spies. But we probably shouldn't harm Ideltech either.

Here's my solution: Mention to Marcus or whoever some random article about information security and the importance of choosing passwords. If it's mentioned often enough, Marcus might have people change their passwords so that none of them are based off of the information Alicia wants. Maybe that way we could make sure that no secure information will be gained, even once the spies ferret out the information.

Just my two cents. And my first-ever post regarding this ARG.

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PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 9:28 pm
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konamouse
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The idea here is that if this is posted in unforum, it is just to let every player know what is happening on both sides of the fence.

If a non-OE agent "outs" the mission to Marcus/Melody, then the in-game characters would have to ask "where did you get this information?". Players cannot point in-game characters to unforum, since in the AWARE universe, unforum does NOT exist.

So, if you are not an OE-agent (aka 'spy for Alecia'), then sit back and let the agents try to get the answers from the Ideltech people.

If you are pretended to be an OE-agent, but really are staying an Ideltech employee, then you might find a way to warn Marcus about the attempt by Alecia, without Alecia or her real OE-agents to find out and rat you out as the double-agent.

See, this is more fun "pre-game" stuff; but too bad it isn't puzzle stuff that any of us could do on our own. I sure hope the real game doesn't have so much player-character interaction required. I miss mulling over webpaged puzzles. However, I think that this is going more towards a Majestic approach than Metacortechs.
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PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 9:48 pm
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what I decided to do

Thanks for the ideas. I have no agreement with Alecia, just the open emails which I haven't answered one way or the other. Maybe she has another reason for letting me know about this...maybe she wants Ideltech to know she's after them and that she has employees getting data for her.

Since I don't have this agreement I decided to communicate the information to Marcus.

What I did:

1. Told Marcus about the above email from Alecia on an offline intellIM message.

He responded in an offline intellIM to me that he couldn't talk to me about this because of the temporary restraining order.



2. Told Steve Lake in the chat tonight.
I emailed it to him and he said he will talk to us about it in the morning.

Another idea:
Do we (as players or any particular player) want to use this somehow?
Anyone want to be a double agent or maybe join her cause openly so the rest of us can have some idea what she is up to?

If there is a way to do that go ahead and take this and email her...

I would like to get some more people working with her for the benefit of the group here. So that emails and chats with her will be posted.

We've already established that I don't know how to be an agent. And so any and all ideas are appreciated.

PostPosted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:05 pm
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Shelina
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Re: what I decided to do

rosie wrote:
Anyone want to be a double agent or maybe join her cause openly so the rest of us can have some idea what she is up to?

If there is a way to do that go ahead and take this and email her...

I would like to get some more people working with her for the benefit of the group here. So that emails and chats with her will be posted.

We've already established that I don't know how to be an agent. And so any and all ideas are appreciated.


Well, Mos has accepted Alicia's offer (seehere) so we have at least one agent "in the other side" already Smile

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Myssfitz
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I'm posting this so there is no confusion. I am on Marcus's side. So I guess that makes me his spy. I will not mention anyone's names or UF. But I will relay info to him.
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PostPosted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:32 pm
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Myssfitz wrote:
I'm posting this so there is no confusion. I am on Marcus's side. So I guess that makes me his spy. I will not mention anyone's names or UF. But I will relay info to him.


I'm so very confused...I thought we just had a huge todo that UF is off-limits for any kind of spies? If it's not okay for one group, it shouldn't be okay for another imho, unless you get the info directly.

D-

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saucey wrote:
I'm so very confused...I thought we just had a huge todo that UF is off-limits for any kind of spies? If it's not okay for one group, it shouldn't be okay for another imho, unless you get the info directly.


I've gone into detail in my Meta essay, but I'll summarize it quick-like here. If there's a plausible, IN-GAME reason for you to have access to said info (it would be "water-cooler" gossip, direct contact with characters, etc.), then it's good to go. If not, and the only place you could get the info is here, #ruaware, and/or the guide, then no touchee. This applies to both sides, natch.
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Myssfitz
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saucey wrote:
Myssfitz wrote:
I'm posting this so there is no confusion. I am on Marcus's side. So I guess that makes me his spy. I will not mention anyone's names or UF. But I will relay info to him.


I'm so very confused...I thought we just had a huge todo that UF is off-limits for any kind of spies? If it's not okay for one group, it shouldn't be okay for another imho, unless you get the info directly.

D-


OK, let me rephrase it better. Will I tell him anything directly, no. Well I give round about clues to lead him in a certain direction without outing anyone at all, yes. Spy was the wrong word.

The reason why I'm saying this is because I found out an answer to one of the above questions. But since this forum doesn't exist, I technically don't know about the questions. But since I know about both how do I go about doing this the right way, to make everyone happy here on UF and in the game?

So I said I'm on Marcus's "side" so everyone knows where I'm coming from. I won't give out the answer to the question, since the questions don't exist and I warned him not to answer any strange questions, but didn't say why or who or anything, but just to be careful. Was I playing right??

I'm soooo freakin confused too. If I'm wrong, I give up. Shocked


*Edit - Rasputin posted before me, so I think I understand better. Could I have found out about this list from around the water cooler? Maybe.
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PostPosted: Thu May 20, 2004 2:00 pm
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Sorry Mysfitz, didn't mean to jump on ya Embarassed I just wanted to be sure that everyone plays fairly and follows their own rules. It bugs me when somebody goes off and says you must do XYZ but when it's their turn they do something completely different (not referring to anybody in partucular--because it hasn't happened). I just hope with all this stuff going on that people remember what they had requested of others and to follow their own example.

Ok, now I'm not making any sense...

/me goes back to work

Smile

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rosie
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an idea

Here's a suggestion:

If anyone needs to tell a character about this, just tell them I told you. I don't know if I'll hear from Alecia again, as I haven't yet responded to her request.
And I gave it to SLake also.

So knock yourself out if it makes you feel better.

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If players plan to pass on information to an in-game character such as Alicia or Marcus and decide to post here that they have done so would it be useful if they posted both the information and it's in-game source?

Here are to two FICTICIOUS EXAMPLES of the kind of thing I mean,

Quote:
I finally had an email back from Marty today. You won't believe this but Jude has a cupboard full of red, size 10, 4 inch stiletto heeled shoes in his apartment!

Information passed to Alicia
Fetish: ladies shoes
Source: email from Marty


or

Quote:
Chad Hopkins stuck his head into #toolhire this morning. I got chatting about the boy's childhood and he told me that back in the 70s Marty has a dog called rex that kept stealing Chad's lunch from the office.

Information passed to Alicia
Marty's Dog: Rex
Source: IR chat on #toolhire

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