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[BOL/SID][META] Beacon of Light/Shadow in the Darkness
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Twiler
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 		The news page at Nyx Telecommunications has updated. The launch is going ahead tomorrow. Presumably, that's what Benjamin Falken was referring to.

http://www.nyxtel.net/News.aspx

PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:10 pm
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jelloarm
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 		The page is already down; I bet this is what Falken was referencing. A bunch of code at the bottom of the error screen - *edited - see below*


*Edit* Um, I guess it's not down... It randomly keeps coming up with a 500 error with the Grauemacht logo in the upper right corner, and that code on the bottom; it happened to me when I clicked the link from Twiler, and when I clicked the recruitment link on the top of the Nyx page once it reset itself to normal.

Also, is the keyhole in the moon new? It leads to some Umbrati font.

*Edit two* Ok, the full text of the error screen -
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Error: 500
The was an unhandled exception on the server. Please contact your network administrator.



EXCEPTION THROWN
Time of event: 8/13/2008 12:46

ExecuteReader requires an open and available Connection. The connection's current state is closed.

Server: GMSWEB_NYC003

URL: /News.aspx

Stack:
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.GetOpenConnection(String method)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.ValidateConnectionForExecute(String method, SqlCommand command)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ValidateCommand(String method, Boolean async)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
at System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader()
at System.DBConn.GetReader(String szSQL) in L:\GMSWeb\Database\DBConn.cs:line 118
at System.DBConn.GetDataArray(String szSQL) in L:\GMSWeb\Database\DBConn.cs:line 196
at GMS.Security.TrafficMonitor.Record(String szIP) in L:\GMSWeb\Security\TrafficMonitor.cs:line 412
at GMSWeb.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in L:\GMSWeb\MasterPage.master.cs:line 129

Debug information:

49 4C 59 43 00: 59 48 4F 20 4D 46 57 4C 20 54 4E 5A 45 2C 20 32 55 31 20 4A 4A 48 46 2E 20 4B 44 47 47 48 55
FF FF FF FF 00: 53 41 20 55 48 54 51 53 58 4F 43 55 53 4D 59 5A 20 46 50 52 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
45 57 52 52 01: 4C 4C 20 4E 55 4B 43 42 56 57 53 20 5A 54 54 2C 20 45 42 44 41 57 48 48 53 52 49 20 52 20 26
FF FF FF FF 01: 20 58 20 49 47 45 4E 4F 20 42 4C 2C 20 43 42 2C 20 50 4A 55 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
57 55 43 4F 02: 41 54 20 33 37 2E 33 30 31 39 20 4C 4F 4E 20 2D 35 30 2E 33 34 32 31 20 3A 20 42 49 53 4D 41
FF FF FF FF 02: 52 43 4B 20 49 4E 54 45 52 43 45 50 54 20 30 33 32 30 20 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
5A 47 51 56 03: 54 47 20 43 53 53 20 45 56 20 44 4D 52 49 50 4B 59 54 2C 20 44 57 57 42 57 58 49 48 20 51 4F
FF FF FF FF 03: 51 2F 52 50 53 4A 20 42 51 20 51 4D 59 4C 46 20 59 46 44 4B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

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Agent Lex
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 		The 500 error is fairly old - it's what led us to GraueMacht.com in the first place (see the thread homepages puzzle).

The keyhole moon is *very* old, and led us to some extra evidence (see Moonlight gateway).

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jelloarm
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 		...*pouts*...

Now I feel silly.
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pancito
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 		New blog here.

Time stamp= 7:51 AM, which would be 2:51 pm GMT. (Blog uses PDT).

Most relevant bits...

Darklight blog wrote:
As far as the game in progress, a lot of people are confused. I don't mean to make it sound bad, but for some reason people aren't taking steps I had expected them to take. And I don't want to say "do THIS!"; it should be their job to figure it out.

For that reason, I keep delaying the launch. It's not a matter of people making progress (because of lack of proper laptop, there are certain things that aren't quite ready to continue on, I admit), but I'd like to see interest in making progress. People are playing the game - I have over twenty console registrants - but it feels like they don't have the same level of curiosity and adventure they once had.

And all this around me trying to (1) make clear that this is separate from LGL, and try to fill in the holes of information for people who hadn't played LGL, (2) try to explain certain aspects of the story and answer otherwise unanswered questions, and (3) wrap up loose ends. Problem with all that is that it requires a LOT of creative writing, which I wish I had the time to do on a regular basis. It took an absurd amount of time as it is to create the console content (which, to be honest, I'm extremely happy about how it came out). I left the "info" subsection available to become a big Wikipedia-like encyclopedia of information, but I need time to fill in the blanks in a way that doesn't appear half-assed.

Yeah, all this stuff should have been written long ago, but this is an evolving project; to be honest, the story has changed considerably from the time I conceived it based on user input and user theories. This is becoming your story, not mine. Maybe I should have YOU write all the content... Wink

So, if you're out there playing and wondering what to do, do a little experimentation. Throw things against the wall, see what sticks. For example, one of the next things I've done before, and I don't mean in LGL. But I don't think I have any active players that were around for that.

"Ever forward..."


So let's try some stuff... like...

ETA: This was posted 3 hours before bigEdog found the acheron.grauemacht.com site, so maybe we've already 'forwarded' ... Still a good idea to try off the wall stuff I think.
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TWINKIE!

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pancito
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 		Wiki
The wiki is up to date except for:
Some links from the timelines into the 'Interactions' hirearchy,
The addition of GMS and LGL personnel to the Characters page (Hey AZ!),
Interaction w/ Umbrati unless it happened recently (Volunteers?),
The recap pages which I will try to do tomorrow unless someone beats me to it. (Top of my to-do list at this point)

I added pages Interactions > GMS and Puzzles > GraueMacht which has links to all the login pages along with what little we've solved so far. Also links to the LGL resources on the welcome page, even though we shouldn't really need it.

If anyone spots any glaring errors or ommissions please let me know (or fix it).
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:42 am
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Mavado
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 		Here's an idea
Why don't we organize a systematic attack on ACHERON.GRAUEMACHT.COM

Someone come up with a comprehesive list of demon/devil names. Divide the names amoung volunteers, we have the days password, all we need is the login name(s) (right?) I have seen a couple of the lists floating around on this forum. Someone take the "A"'s, somebody else take the "B"'s....so on so forth.

What we need is someone to "spearhead" this. An "administrator"...any volunteers?

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Twiler
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 		New emails from Chiaro Oscuros. Both have the subject 'Angels and Demons'. Contain two different files:

Quote:
Jaana@LB005: Any luck?
GRehan@LB017: No. Not a clue. You ever stop to think that they might not mean anything?
Jaana@LB005: I refuse to believe that.
GRehan@LB017: Maybe they're just random numbers?
Jaana@LB005: No. There's got to be something behind them. She's too emotional about them for them to be "just random numbers".
GRehan@LB017: I'll keep running them through the systems, but it'd be nice to know what I'm looking for.
Jaana@LB005: Just keep trying. I'm trying to see if I can guide her thoughts better, maybe shed some light on this.
GRehan@LB017: OK, let me know if you have any guidance on this, 'cause I'm flying blind here.
***END OF LINE***


Quote:
A005: Kevin, you there?
K009: Technically, yes.
A005: I need you to come by my office as soon as possible. Need to show you something.
K009: What is it?
A005: Can't talk about it here, but we might need your "special" services.
K009: What do you mean?
A005: Don't act stupid with your own brother, Kevin. Get over here. Now.
***END OF LINE***


I suspected that the Umbrati might be the devils, and this seems to confirm it. But I've already contacted them about Grauemacht, so I'm not sure what else to do. The numbers mentioned by the Lightbringers might be the ones we saw on Jessica's blog, or possibly new ones. Someone from the Lightbringer side should get in contact with them.

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pancito
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 		New blog a couple hours ago.

Darklight wrote:
I sent an "in game" email to someone yesterday, hoping they would react and post as usual... and NOW I get notification that MAILER-DAEMON rejected it because the GoDaddy mail relay (208.109.80.27) is apparently blacklisted... Well, gee, isn't that nice?


Which explains something, anyway...
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pancito
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 		And another here.

Quote:
Bursting in to Flames
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:05 PM

Took 34 minutes to take down #1... and find a rather major bug in the rest of 'em.

It was an oversight. Even though they are seven sites, with seven definitions in IIS, GoDaddy still treats them as one virtual server. So as soon as someone tried to get to #2 and I changed an in memory static, *every* website became #2.

So I rush to GoDaddy to create seven distinct websites, and once again an administrative action that should by all accounts be almost instantaneous in the GoDaddy system has been sitting "Pending" for ten minutes now. I guess me hitting F5 about four times a minute isn't helping, but still.

F5... F5... F5... GAAAAH!

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 		Another blog
Quote:
Everything is fixed. Actually, it was fixed last night


All righty guys!!! Lets go get em.

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pancito
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 		New blog, 'Resourceful Lot'.

Ummm we weren't supposed to be able to read that stuff... Very Happy

Bits...

Darklight wrote:
Players are amazing sometimes. The can decipher the undecipherable, decode the uncrackable, read the illegible...

The other three signons were scratched out for a reason: they were SUPPOSED to be illegible. I remember thinking "Bah... no way in hell they can read these. Heck, *I* can't read them and I'm standing right here!"
......

Why do I keep getting surprised by you people anyway? You players are amazing, and you've proven it time and again. I should know better than to underestimate you. I'll just have to make things harder next time. Smile

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Twiler
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 		I'd given up on the third as illegible, but after pancito got it, I decided to have a go at the fourth, and succeeded.

The fact that the previous three all turned out to have the same basic form was a great clue.

Of course we didn't need to be able to read them exactly, we could fill in the gaps with the arcane process of 'guessing'.

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 		Suspension of Disbelief!!!
New blog...sounds like someone needs a hug.

I try not to speak for others...so if others don't agree with me...

Anyway,

Nighthawk, I'll tell you the same thing I tell my 7 year old when I whip his butt at Monopoly...It's just a game!!!" Don't take it so seriously.
We come here out of our own free will. We follow your game because we want to. If anybody starts gripping or complaining, "they wouldn't do that", or "thats not possible", they need to go find a nice biography to read and stay away from ARGs. I enjoy my little romp in your fantasy land.

If the game gets too weird, you'll know. Some will drop off, others will cling tighter, just to see how deep the rabbit hole is (how weird it gets).

With that said...BRING IT ON!!!

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pancito
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 		Re: Suspension of Disbelief!!!
Mavado wrote:
With that said...BRING IT ON!!!


Uh-oh. Shouldn't a said that. But, you know, ditto. Hear, hear!
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