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[switch]

..and that's exactly the point. This sort of "dead space" so early on isn't great for game play. There's basically no *solid* story, only one character who's totally AFK at the moment and a single site filled with basic clues (not counting the blog though). So we're either TOTALLY missing something or this wasn't thought out very well by the PM :'(

[Cyphex]

Please note that there are still some puzzles yet to be solved.

I read somewhere on these forums that in a developers conference some of the PM's for the Beast gave some info about how the game went. They said they had puzzles that were planned to take a day, some a week and some that would take 3 month's. They were all cracked in one DAY.

The PM's will no doubt have learnt from the Beast and will have cranked up the difficulty. So be prepared for a tough challenge.

I think the leads are there, they just need to be dug out.

[switch]

Oh no doubt, I look foward to some tough times..but not without a little more story first..lol. It's like any good game (of any type). Things start off with a good background story, a little build up of things to come, some story filer..then you get to the meat by diving into the hard stuff. I guess my big "fear" here is that with nothing new to feed on, this could become orphaned really quick. :'( Even with the Beast, you had lots to feed off of while you were trying to solve whatever was in front of you. That's really all I want at this point..heh

[MageSteff]

Re: [META] Is it common in ARG's to wait awhile between upda

[MageSteff]

[Rougewisp]

[cpip]

I just want to go YAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgh. Because I'm feeling stumped and stymied and no idea what to do.

*sigh* I can't help but feel there's something eluding us, something obvious, something we SHOULD have caught already.

And time is ticking away. We've lost Dana, temporarily; presumably we've gotten all the info we could from her -- or was she, as everything, on a timer? Catch the info quickly, so to speak, or it's lost...

[wargod22]

Tick...tock...tick...tock. No idea if we have to trigger somehting or if an update will eventually come on its own. Time can only tell. All we can really do is go over the evidence we have and wait.

[switch]

LOL..that makes me wonder. Say we're all missing something big here..given all the press around this, do you think the PMs would start throwing clues our way or just try and pretend this whole thing never went down?

[cpip]

I figure, if we've missed everything, then they'll throw something easier at us at metastasization...

[Giskard]

My take on ILB at the moment is either this is still pre-game and the "real thing" starts when the countdown timer reaches 0, in which case it wouldn't be odd that nothing much happens right now. After all, this is kinda how Project MU started out: one site, related to a subject a lot of people were attracted to (the Matrix movie), but unsure how and why it was there exactly, that has a timer counting down to the start of the "real thing".

Or, after august 24 it stops and turns out to be a Official X-Box Magazine tie-in thing that isn't all too elaborate.

In the first case, weekly updates aren't necessarily too long away, because an ARG usually spreads over several (in case of The Beast a LOT of) websites, and a week is usually what you need to figure everything out, solve some puzzles, spec on some storyline, before going on to the next.

In the latter case, a lot of people will be very disappointed

[Steffeny]

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[Wolf]

As for slow starts, a wise man* once said this at the start of another fabled game (edited a bit):

[Astald]

It could be possible that this is just time to gather a larger audience, I for one have never played an ARG before, and only stumbled onto this one yesterday. Although, I have read through all that I could within these past two days, and wonder if the game hasn't already moved onto another site. It is possible if this AI, melissa or whomever is gathering the links on the Fun Stuff page, couldn't have actually moved herself onto one of those pages. That could be what we are looking for. But, I am new to this so most likely I am wrong.
But anyway, this seems like fun, and I hope I can be accepted and possibly a help to this group.