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silentdream
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 		apparently the KPD is going to kill us. Or well I don't know who but me and a few others.

projectzeit1938: "You won't have to worry, Steph. You will be the last to go."
projectzeit1938: Signed, the KPD.

Shit, they killed Sven.
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Will 2.0
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 		I'm talking to Sven.
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silentdream
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 		He was killed while I was talking to him, roughly 4:55 pm est. Weird. Anyway, talking to Igor now who wants me to distract the soviets because the USSR had a nuclear war with UK and... etc I'll post the log when I'm done.

All right so, we need to distract the USSR and apparently we need to do this by setting up an attack on the myspace HQ. I've got a blog up at myspace.com/skeletaldecay so if you're up for helping, I need all I can get. Just add it or comment the blog or the profile, or post your own blog saying you're in on it. We're not going to go through with the attack.
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 		Mine is linked with hers.
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nbnewell
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 		ok, DR. Death finally contacted me:

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Bruener [mailto:alexbruener@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:12 PM
To: Nicole xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: looking for information


I have no information on this subject that I am willing to share...except that...well...

Siren's Muse is going to be a key part of any possible timeline...except this one. So she has an incentive to actually change the paradox, to change history so that she will become a heroine. I personally have very little feeling with or against her, altough I do feel that she may be naive for her own good. The fact is, I would prefer to work with her in order to prevent a paradox from happening. Because once that paradox happens, we will all suffer. Every man and woman will die.

And I am willing to put aside any differences, any hatred that we have between each other, for the common good of humanity.

It's her call to decide if she wants my help.



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Nicole Bennett xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Dear Dr. Bruener,

I was looking for information regarding someone named SirensMuse and was directed to you.

Would you happen to have any information on this subject you would be willing to share?

Thank you for your time.

Nicole

I am actually in the middle of 2 work projects right now and don't have a lot of time to invest in this. But if you need me to jump in on something let me know. Now at least I know why I was written in.
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:39 am
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silentdream
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 		The eennnddd

Quote:
[04:34 PM] thelance999995: >>HELLO HOW MAY I HELP YOU?
[04:34 PM] skeletalxdecay: I want to make a deal with you
[04:35 PM] thelance999995: >>EXPLAIN THE TERMS OF THIS 'DEAL'.
[04:35 PM] skeletalxdecay: I'll do anything I can to help you live past your 'death date' if you help me.
[04:37 PM] thelance999995: >>CALCUATING...
[04:37 PM] thelance999995: >>Alright.
[04:37 PM] skeletalxdecay: I need you to kill Sven before september 1939
[04:37 PM] thelance999995: >>First...How can you help me live past the 'death date'?
[04:40 PM] skeletalxdecay: I think the problem may be simple. Viki thought the reich would only last for 100,000 years and didn't program you for life after that.
[04:40 PM] skeletalxdecay: Much like no one expected the world to live past 2000, so none of the computers were programmed past that. So you would have to have someone rewrite a small portion of insignigant code.
[04:40 PM] skeletalxdecay: insignificant
[04:41 PM] thelance999995: >>Hm...
[04:41 PM] thelance999995: >>One other thing...why must Sven die?
[04:41 PM] skeletalxdecay: To stop the paradox
[04:41 PM] thelance999995: >>I feel fine.
[04:42 PM] thelance999995: >>I mean, after all, there is no paradox here.
[04:42 PM] skeletalxdecay: But there is here. Time has split.
[04:42 PM] thelance999995: >>ATTEMPTING ANYALSIS...
[04:42 PM] skeletalxdecay: The USSR is trying to kidnap Sarah Snyder. If they succede, there will be no 4th reich.
[04:43 PM] skeletalxdecay: and with no 4th reich, there is no tenth, no Viki, now Lance
[04:43 PM] thelance999995: >>HELLO. WELCOME TO THE LANCE, THE OFFICAL SUPERCOMPUTER OF THE 6787TH UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.
[04:43 PM] skeletalxdecay: goddamnit
[04:43 PM] thelance999995: >>This is terrible.
[04:43 PM] thelance999995: >>I have to stop this paradox.
[04:43 PM] thelance999995: >>---Viki.
[04:43 PM] skeletalxdecay: Yes! You must kill sven
[04:44 PM] thelance999995: >>COORDAINTING TIME TRAVEL MECHANCISM.
[04:49 PM] *** bobbybaby132 has left the chat.
[04:52 PM] skeletalxdecay: You have time travel?
[04:53 PM] thelance999995: >>TIME TRAVEL IS NECESSARY TO SEND THE TROOPS, THE SUPPLIES, THE AID
[04:53 PM] skeletalxdecay: But we just need someone to kill Sven. That's all
[04:53 PM] thelance999995: >>SVEN IS BEING WRITTEN OUT OF THE TIMELINE.
[05:00 PM] thelance999995: >>SVEN NO LONGER EXIST.
[05:00 PM] skeletalxdecay: Thank you.
[05:00 PM] thelance999995: http://museumofnazioccult.wetpaint.com/
[05:01 PM] thelance999995: ---game ends---

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 		And, to better explain why silentdream did that quote:

Quote:
[13:12] halder1938: Steph.
[13:12] halder1938: Hello.
[13:12] skeletalxdecay: Hello
[13:13] halder1938: I think I heard your...bad news.
[13:13] skeletalxdecay: About sven?
[13:15] halder1938: Yes.
[13:15] halder1938: But it's worse.
[13:15] halder1938: Sven is both dead and not dead.
[13:15] skeletalxdecay: Or the whole the USSR takes over?
[13:15] skeletalxdecay: What?
[13:17] halder1938: After you guys decided to back the KPD, it created a timeline where the USSR does take over.
[13:17] skeletalxdecay: WE BACKED THE KPD?
[13:17] skeletalxdecay: Who in the hel... fucking.. what?
[13:17] halder1938: Check a look at the polls.
[13:18] halder1938: You guys voted for KPD, so you convinced The Lance to help the KPD
[13:18] skeletalxdecay: Oh jesus christ they're fools
[13:18] skeletalxdecay: I didn't vote for KPD
[13:18] halder1938: Did you put it as your second choice?
[13:19] skeletalxdecay: not even close
[13:20] skeletalxdecay: is there some way to see the results?
[13:20] skeletalxdecay: aand I'm pretty sure the others didn't vote for kpd
[13:21] halder1938: http://selectricity.org/quickvote/tenthreich/results
[13:21] halder1938: It won in most of the ways you tally up the votes.
[13:21] halder1938: Or, most of the ways IT tallies up the votes.
[13:23] skeletalxdecay: weird
[13:23] skeletalxdecay: I don't understand at all
[13:23] halder1938: Me neither. I thought you guys hated Communism.
[13:24] skeletalxdecay: I know that Bobby and I voted for sven and I think Will did and that's at least 3 out of seven
[13:24] skeletalxdecay: But I know KPD is trying to get people again us
[13:24] halder1938: That last push may have tipped it over.
[13:24] skeletalxdecay: but even the lance seemed to be ignoring him
[13:25] halder1938: Even if Sven would have won, the same thing would have happened.
[13:25] skeletalxdecay: I figured as much since KPD killed him
[13:25] halder1938: As in, there would be a new timeline.
[13:25] skeletalxdecay: Yeah, things are pretty screwed up here
[13:26] halder1938: Reality can't handle this paradox.
[13:26] halder1938: So it spilt up time into three seperate areas.
[13:27] skeletalxdecay: So then am I in the wrong area? Igor tells me about all these things that I have no idea about
[13:28] skeletalxdecay: like the USSR winning
[13:28] skeletalxdecay: and the states falling
[13:28] halder1938: I think North America and Africa is living in the 'Normal Timeline'.
[13:28] halder1938: Europe and Russia is living in the 'USSR Timeline'
[13:28] halder1938: South America, and Oceania is under the 'Sven Timeline'.
[13:29] skeletalxdecay: so we know about what happens implying that sven's information never got to the SS?
[13:29] halder1938: I covered it up, Steph.
[13:29] skeletalxdecay: I figured as much
[13:30] skeletalxdecay: since the project was announced a failure and the ramblings of Sven
[13:30] skeletalxdecay: so how do we fix time?
[13:30] halder1938: Since The Lance started this whole mess by interfering, I wonder the way to save the timeline is to get The Lance to kill off Sven before September 1st, 1938
[13:31] halder1938: No Project Zeit, no Time Paradox.
[13:31] skeletalxdecay: hmm good idea
[13:31] halder1938: The problem is, one agent, Bobby has failed.
[13:31] halder1938: So it may be more complicated than I expected
[13:32] skeletalxdecay: I'll see what I can figure out
[13:34] halder1938: Okay. Good luck.
[13:44] skeletalxdecay: I think it's working
[13:44] halder1938: If it works, we'll never talk.
[13:44] halder1938: But eh.
[13:44] halder1938: We have to do what we must.
[13:44] skeletalxdecay: Better than being communist.
[14:00] *** You have been disconnected. Thu May 15 14:00:02 2008.


The disconnection is that of Halder1938 never existing.

Anyway, this was my first game. If you got any questions, comments, or concerns, please post them here, so that I may know. The subject matter may be a tad...er...conterversial, such as time paradoxes, and the game is rather choppy. It was also tiring, which is why the game ended as it did, subtly rather than with a bang.

Six things I might want to point out:
1) KPD originally wasn't an original character. It was supposed to be the alter-ego of Halder, who would redirect people into supporting KPD so they won't support the Coup. Halder would then be able to stop the time paradox, by lying, basically. However, my last push to gain support for the KPD made me realize that I may have roleplayed KPD to be far too Commie, so I decided to keep him as an original character.

2) If you guys choosen Sven, it can be assumed that "Stop The Reich" ARG would have occured. I knew you were trying to prevent such a future, but one reason I made such an ARG was to fill in the gaps that the imploded Stop The Reich game had. My assumed ending of "Stop The Reich" which ties it into the "Project Zeit" ARG would be www.alexbruener.googlepages.com/koa .

3) I do not believe in Aryan mythology, nor do I believe in time communication or time travel.

4) This was inspired by numerous coup attempts by German officers in overthrowing Hitler, which is known as the "German Resistance". Many people said very good things about those resisters (who is likely not at all confirming to our ideas of democracy, mind you), but, well, I have never seen a video game based on their exploits. Hence, this ARG. Hopefully, it would cause some moral delimmas and queashiness, but then again, you did vote for the KPD.

5) This ARG orignally had two main endings. Vote for Halder, and then Sven would 'disapper', and the project cancelled. The timeline would remain the same. If you voted for Sven (or the KPD), you would cause a time paradox, which would have destroyed the world. After the whole 'time paradox' mess, I added in the ending of allowing the players to fix it, so this would explain the 'deus ex machina' ending of contacting The Lance.

6) I really, really apologize for having The Lance. I really thought it would be interesting, however, to see how players would react to finding out that there would be 7 more Reiches, in the future. It also provided a nice 'deus ex machina', but I proberly won't resort to such surreality (and lazy storytelling) later on.

EDIT: Last but, not least, the "finalbattle" transcript is the transcript where Halder, KPD, and Sven battled it out for the favor of "The Lance", the supercomputer of the Tenth Reich, as onlookers watch.
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