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[carmenmiranda]

It's a bit weird, because I've agreed to keep a diary, but everything that happened did so before I got the notebook, etc. So there are some things about other games and whatnot, but not really anything about this one, other than the occasional, "Checked the website for updates."

At any rate, I did see that certain PMs had other projects that they were working on, so perhaps those are taking up time right now. It does seem a bit odd that the other mscapes never got uploaded. I mean, yes, those of us with ipaqs got the Water one, but that feels kind of like cheating. Like we don't officially have it until it's online and available for general use.

[Jediwannabe]

[Pied Piper]

Okay, so now I'm wondering--would any of you who have the iPaqs be willing to check out another game from the mscape web site to see if the problems are just with these particular mscapes? It seems like if all of the other mscapes have these same problems, then it wouldn't be very popular with anybody. Because I think it might be useful for the PMs to know so that when they come up with mscape number three, they could fix some of the problems.

I feel kind of abandoned, too. I keep wondering if we actually have enough information to figure out SOMETHING, and we just haven't found it yet, but it's kind of difficult to know if that's true because we haven't really gotten any feedback yet. I'd particularly like to be provided the missing letters from the geocache that got partially dismantled (in letterboxing, we would say the box had been "muggled"). That at least would be a little more to work with.

Has anyone taken a look at the dreamcatcher document I loaded in that spec thread? I'm wondering if that might spark some thinking to help us figure out how this whole thing links together.

If we really have to find ALL of the geocaches for us to solve this game, I think that is a major fault in it. Finding the caches is a fun thing, but being able to rely on finding all of them makes for a very precarious game solve.

I had a document, actually, in which I listed all of the information about each shard in terms of the symbolism, and then a power failure trashed the drive I had the data on. I'm going to be sending that drive in this week to retrieve the data, but I don't know how long it is going to take them to get it, or if they can get everything. I don't know if that is even going to help, but at least it felt like something I could do.

[zinc8900]

Im back!!! to FQ, thanks sooo much for trying!!! and, welcome back natas! so we are still at a brick wall- and i see u guys are doing something about the MS- i wish i could help, but i dnt know what equipment i need!!! (i dont even know what an ipaq is)

[Jediwannabe]

[Sylvia]

it's ashame

[zinc8900]

Wait, so your sayin we cant complete this arg if we cant get this geochache and mscape crap working?! That will be very disapointing, after all the work we did for poor wendy!



(hope she all right) (ponder)

[natas]

Sorry, guys, I haven't really tried to do any work on this since I got back home. I'll try to take a look at what we have so far and see if I can't piece anything together. FCR is at a standstill also. Gah.

[setters393]

Here's a hearty echoing of sentiments from me as well..

I've tried really hard with the mscapes & just can't seem to get on with them. I even tried using a statue with bollards round it as markers & the stupid thing still had me walking to the 'wrong' places even though I was using the markers!

anyway, I still think that the clues sound like cryptic crossword clues for example 'regina most low' could be Queen Titiania or something - regina = queen & most low = bottom from midsummer's night dream

I don't know, I'm racking my brain over it though

and I think I'm giving back my ipaq today as I'm meeting Jo & Vanessa to do some filming for TSR. I'll see if I can get any hints & update later

[Nighthawk]

Either we're missing something blatantly obvious or this is somewhat awkward design.

The way I see it, this game is at a standstill because we have gotten barely any geocaches. Considering the amount of caches that they are, compared to the amount of people playing and their physical locations, it feels strange that this is a required step and that NOTHING has happened in almost two months.

Also, based on the clues we have so far, it seems like we need ALL of the geocaches in order to proceed, which is borderline impossible within a reasonable time frame especially considering there are some in places where we have no presence.

If the PMs see that this approach isn't working, they should at least try to do something different.

BTW: the TSR site comes up blank for me.

[natas]

[Russell]

Not much I can really add tbh that hasnt already been said. I am also meeting with Jo in a couple of weeks so will have a discussion about where this is all going...

[zinc8900]

[Nighthawk]

It's been blank for weeks now for me, and I've tried multiple browsers and multiple machines.

[natas]

I wish I had some sage technical advice to throw your way, Night, but alas, I don't have the elite skills as a lot of others on unfiction do. All I can say is that it still works for me. Hate to be repetitive, but at least you know it IS there and running properly.