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New info about Tom Tooman on CBS Jericho Web page
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briarpatch
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 		New info about Tom Tooman on CBS Jericho Web page
A link to this site on the CBS Jericho Site
There is now a reference to the ARG Tom Tooman on the main Jericho web page for CBS.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/

Note the picture of Hawkins and, "Join the Jericho ARG", and a link to a blog about the Tom Tooman game. There is also a link in that blog to this Unfiction board.

Thought you would want to know about this.

Charlene
aka Briarpatch

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 3:12 pm
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drizjr
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 		CBS goes public with Jericho ARG
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direct link
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INSIDE THE JERICHO ARG
ARG stands for an Alternate Reality Game. An ARG is an interactive story where the plot unfolds over time and across all forms of communication (anything from graffiti to phone calls to stickers to web site puzzles to videos). You can get involved right now with our JERICHO ARG. Read below to catch up with the game and get ready for an exciting Season Two!

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:22:00
Inside the Jericho ARG
How do you like our new toy? Like all of you we are new comers to the idea of the ARG (Alternate Reality Game), so if you know the what the how the where, then this will seem a little silly, but if you're like us, we like this mysterious new medium. Let's start at what it is: the ARG is a medium that breaks up parts of a story into pieces, fragments that the user reassembles. Sometimes there are puzzles, sometimes its like connecting dots, other times it goes beyond these two definitions. Though there is obviously a story, the way the story unfolds is an unusual mystery, here on this short blog, I thought we could give you guys some insight, maybe a hint or two, what might be lurking at your fingertips, access to a kind of Jericho underground, where an amazing story is waiting to be found. The ARG is led by a mysterious Native American named Tom Tooman, who, like our friends in Jericho, has woken up to a changed America and decides to take action. His path crosses with characters you will be meeting in the series and perhaps he might make an appearance himself, some things should remain secret. And, besides, it all leads up to our premiere. Sit tight, don't relax, get ready for the ARG to take you deeper inside world that we began two falls back.


Yay...new hints coming!
Thanks, briarpatch.
(Personally, I think it would be better if they had used this link to uF instead : http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=230 because that trailhead link might just be a wee bit overwhelming to new comers. )

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:52 pm
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NorsU
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 		Officially ties Tom2man as a Native American,

And that this ARG is going to cross paths with Jericho and or weave into season 2.....

I think it will happen,

01/18/08 or Friday.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:49 pm
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Re: CBS goes public with Jericho ARG
for the archives
drizjr wrote:
(Personally, I think it would be better if they had used this link to uF instead : http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=230 because that trailhead link might just be a wee bit overwhelming to new comers. )


How many times can you say your one comment was directly acted upon by a major television network? (unless your name is Spears or Cruise, that is).

The "Tom Tooman" link now goes to:
http://random.despoiler.org/index.php?title=Trailhead:Tom_Tooman
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:48 am
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MerRabbit
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 		This is awesome. I'm hoping our friends "the battery lady", boystown's own "we've killed the adults" and Ryan Archer all show up again. Awesome.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:28 pm
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briarpatch
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 		Another blog entry today
new entry 1/15
There is a new entry on the blog.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/blog_arg.php

briarpatch

PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:57 pm
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GenPatton43
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 		Change to the sjkin site?
Please take a look at the following attachment. I am not sure if anyone was aware of what changes may have been made to the adjkin site.
The following is a post made by Ichtus on the Jericho site.

When I clicked on the link "door open" it took me to ajkin.com site. It seems the satellite map is a little different than the last time I looked at it. After the "solid" states disappeared the outline of the eastern states remain including Minnesota. Could this be a clue to the make up of the different factions of the U.S.?

That white boder on the map MAY represent the "New American Border"
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:16 pm
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TatorsDad
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 		new blog entry of a clue we missed....
This is a copy from the CBS Jericho ARG blog at http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/blog_arg.php

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:36:23
The Game Launch
So the first thing that began this was a sticker. A rather mindblowing but deceptively simple looking thing. We gave away (not us actually) quite a few at ComiCon in July of ' 07, then the people that make the game mailed them to a few people, some of whom have acknowledged the receipt, others have not. This is of course part of the story, then the slow burn of the game began. Like a strange unchecked fire, the story arched through a rather unique board called Unfiction, where stories like this are explored, poked, debated. These players/interpreters began exploring everything to do with the sticker they could find. They tested it in scanners (it didn't read) they added numbers, they tested the possibility it was a real UPC product, but then, eureka, the realized the numbers in the stickers read as an IP address and voila, a doorway opened. Now even cooler, the barcode was actually a code, a form of morse, that taught the user the password. And bang, they were in. The star pattern is cool as well, though no one has figured out what that means. Yet.
[url][/url]

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:51 am
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nightbird47
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 		Re: Change to the sjkin site?
GenPatton43 wrote:
Please take a look at the following attachment. I am not sure if anyone was aware of what changes may have been made to the adjkin site.
The following is a post made by Ichtus on the Jericho site.

When I clicked on the link "door open" it took me to ajkin.com site. It seems the satellite map is a little different than the last time I looked at it. After the "solid" states disappeared the outline of the eastern states remain including Minnesota. Could this be a clue to the make up of the different factions of the U.S.?

That white boder on the map MAY represent the "New American Border"


I looked at the ajkin site tonight/morning and it has changed. Iowa and Missouri have solid lines that flash, except for one short segment of the northern border of Missouri. And the little we see of Arkansas is solid.

I've been following this on the cbs board and reading this one and thought it was time to register.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:18 am
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bgingras
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 		those stars
it seems that maybe the stars are what get this going moving forward again?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:44 am
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TatorsDad
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 		New CBS Jericho ARG blog entry
Ok, after I posted the new entry over here, I went back to re-read about the original clue to see what stars he was referring. I wasn't around for the initial set of clues and deciphering.

Now I have to ask here, where are the stars to which he refers? I seem to have missed it in reading the despoiler recap.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:09 pm
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booba
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 		Re: New CBS Jericho ARG blog entry
TatorsDad wrote:
Ok, after I posted the new entry over here, I went back to re-read about the original clue to see what stars he was referring. I wasn't around for the initial set of clues and deciphering.

Now I have to ask here, where are the stars to which he refers? I seem to have missed it in reading the despoiler recap.


Way, way back. On the original barcodes.

http://random.despoiler.org/images/!raw/stickers.jpg

Edit: Link didn't work, but you can get there by chosing "raw" then "stickers" Someone will post better Smile

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:12 pm
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TatorsDad
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 		Thanks for getting back on that so quickly! The pics of the codes I looked at were too small to see the stars.

Just eyeballing the sticker on the left versus the right, it appears they are not the same pattern. Does anyone have an easy way to stripe out the bars?

If we are comparing star patterns, would it be presumptuous to assume we are looking to identify a constellation?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:28 pm
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Dunia
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 		There is only 1 difference I see other than the mayan numeral conversion.

The barcodes on the left have a third set of smaller hollow stars that are missing from the barcodes on the right.

I guess those white spots on the black bars are also hollow stars.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:05 pm
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briarpatch
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 		Original stickers with star patterns
See thread from CBS Jericho Message Board
http://jerichoboard.cbs.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=151&nav=messages&webtag=CBSMBJericho&tid=19579

You might want to read the post on the end of this thread from need2no2 about the numbers of stars in each sticker.

Charlene

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