unforum

[Palm]

Begin the game

[thebruce]

new email:

[Palm]

Poster

[always.funky.fresh]

PHONE CALL!!

[Palm]

Letter

[thebruce]

Re: PHONE CALL!!

[Suesur]

Re: PHONE CALL!!

[massive]

I got the phone call too, although I was expecting it be some state's Authorities looking for the person who had my cell number before me. =]

So what the heck exactly are we doing? I'm not able to view the YouTube video on the site (the last post of the professor) ... a little help?

[Palm]

wiki

[thebruce]

ok well here's what I've done in a nutshell...

* go to booksofhistory.com
* jump to the contest page (login)
* read the story so far
* watch the message from david abraham (ref: youtube profile)
* watch for the clue, and go to the next stage: find the password to enter the IG wiki, by piecing together the images that form the BoH poster
* read up the info in the wiki - about David Abraham, the Books of History, Project Showdown, Ted Dekker, Sin City Research (and David Abraham's journal extract, PDF), and the X Group.
* from David (DA)'s journal, you're led to info on Miles Huntley, and his site bookyworm.com, where you find some tragic news, and the newspaper article to go with it
* the article contains possible lead info for "Francesco Miller" (craigslist/ebay)

the details of all these people I'll let you read up yourself

seems there's some very deep story going on here, and I'm really excited for the potential... even though there's a contest, and it's a game, and it's all pretty transparent, this story feels very meta, in the sense that.. kind of like a story where the characters find out that what they thought was fiction is actually real. That is, Ted Dekker is considered an author and historian, as though he's a character himself... lots of reference to writing, and stories, and while it's a meta-perspective, it's very much a theme in the game itself. Blurring the lie, to say the least

So far the content seems pretty quality. Methinks Ted Dekker and his team have been doing a lot of studying on ARGs, if not fans of the genre themselves.

The forums are a bit of a mess at the moment; sme comment timestamps got messed up and some of the functions are shaky... but they just launched it this morning, so I'm willing to give them some time to work out the kinks

[massive]

Just some quick links to add:

DA's blog: http://listeninginthedark.blogspot.com/
DA's "failsafe": http://paradisesage.wordpress.com/

A good reference point for "up until now" information: http://www.kaylanah.blogspot.com/

[Palm]

Kaylanah Blog

[massive]

I just found this on Craigslist:

http://denver.craigslist.org/bks/596684734.html

Posted yesterday so it's probably background, but still, a fun find. =]

ETA: The flickr pictures for user:booksofhistory also provide the passcode for the locked document up at Paradise Sage's blog:

[thebruce]

I'm in the process of reading Red (book 2 of the Circle trilogy) so it's great to see the theme of the novels (and specific characters) still used here... there's a bit of spoiler for me, but it's pretty sweet that this is really flowing in Dekker's universe. He's created a series of books all based in the same theme. I was considering skipping to Chosen and Infidel, but I think I'm going to have to read the whole series, not just the Black/Red/Write trilogy.

[Suesur]

Ok this one is exciting and deep. I am new to these games, only participated in the Covet one last winter.

Read and followed all the clues. Just read David's letter to the Friends of the Circle. I think the next step is tracking down Denver bookstore owner Frank Miller that bought the books that survived the fire. David says in the letter that he will be out of the country until next week. The article about the bookstore fire says "Miller plans to sell the books on eBay." Checked there. No listing yet.

David says Kara (who needs the book or one of them to get back to the "other" world) will be contacting us.

That's what I have so far. Whew this one is getting deep, but fun.