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[Weezel]

Step 3: The setup

Additionally, Monica has 4 blank postcards which we were going to use to setup and bait Theo into believing the contents of what we called the 'artifake'. Ultimately, we decided to utilize 2 now, and then save 2 for later. We debated having the contents of the postcards have puzzles on them, etc, but that never come to fruition.

Ultimately, here is the text I suggested for the first two. The couberteam plan was have these postcards get 'found' before the theft happened. But that didn't work out that way, possibly by PM choice. Not sure when, how, if they are going to come into play.

Monica needed to create them, so the translation you'll see below is a Google one, not one done by a Spanish speaker. Additionally, the {They} was going to be a handwritten version of the symbol found on Markus' abduction notice, referred to Theo. We didn't know if we were accurate in our assessment of what that symbol was, so we didn't want to use it if it truly wasn't the word 'Theo'. We asked in an IG way of course, and were told that we should use it, so that clarified that for us.
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Postcard 1:

I've grown suspicious of some of those who said they are trying to help me. What we do is too important to fail now, but I cannot let this information fall into their hands, and it is no longer safe with me. I will be sending you something that you must guard with your life. I trust you, my friend.

Postcard 2:

I have seen the labarum. This cannot be a coincidence! But how do they know? Who could have told them? Guard your family and my package well. {They} are everywhere. We can only hope that Pierre's brilliance will help us succeed.
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Postal 1:

He crecido sospechosas de algunos de los que dijeron que están tratando de ayudar a mí. Lo que hacemos es demasiado importante como para dejar ahora, pero no puedo dejar que esta información caiga en sus manos, y ya no es seguro conmigo. Me va a enviar algo que usted debe tener mucho cuidado con su vida. Confío en usted, mi amigo.

Postal 2:

He visto el Lábaro. Esto no puede ser una coincidencia! Pero, ¿cómo lo saben? Que podría tener les dijo? Protege tu familia y de mi paquete. () Ellos están en todas partes. Sólo podemos esperar que la brillantez Pierre nos ayudará a tener éxito.

[runeix ftlr]

[Weezel]

[AUZ505]

[Khaos]

[Weezel]

Our team:

Here's the folks that participated in this (I don't think I missed anyone)

Me
Jasper
Javier
lehall
MauroKing
Mr. Judkins
Tenchizard
[Mac]

[Weezel]

[AUZ505]

[Khaos]

[thebruce]

Ok, I'ma pipe in... like auz, I had no idea what to do with couberteam on the wiki either.

Right now, I'm pretty confused about events now, because so much has happened without us knowing... is it important? is it not? does it get wiki'd? some of it is listed there now precisely because we didn't know if it was IG or OOG. And this kind of community controversy is precisely why we encourage everyone to share and not hold secrets - not just because it helps keep anger and frustration down between players, but it help not to confuse people.

If couberteam doesn't need to be mentioned at all IG (or on the wiki), then again, why the secrecy? If it is important for the game's progress, then again, it could have been shared here, OOG, and still retained its potential for success - PM's know (or should know) where their players are at, and have a sense of what to do with info they're given, how it meshes with the story they want to tell.

Plus, as Ariock's been ranting about recently if you've got a secret, don't tell people you've got a secret and not share. While no one in couberteam specifically did that, the same applies to misdirection - leading other players astray, purposely, OOG. I'm not sure how many times it happened, but dante's link to a comment by a team member 'playing dumb' about couberteam - on UF - really, really bugs me (not so much had nothing been said). To the same degree as a PM posting in their game thread anonymously, only here it's not a PM pretending to be a player, but one of our own pretending to be one of us (who don't know about couberteam) - both have the intent of misdirecting players.
If you've got a secret, don't tell people you do and not them the secret.
If you've got a secret, don't publically pretend you don't, in a place no one is expected to have one, and not expect a backlash when people find out you did.

That doesn't sit well with me.

Alas, what's done is done. Everything's in the open now (is it?).
What I want to know is - how does this all play into the grander story, is it important or not, was anything new IG revealed?

If a separate section needs to be made to handle 'player made content' (shakey terminology at best), then it effectively has no bearing on the game or story itself, as in it didn't reveal anything new IG. Did it? If so, then yes it should be included in the timeline and recorded to whatever degree, not in a separate section.

*deep breath*

[Khaos]

[ariock]

[Khaos]

[ariock]

[Tenchizard]