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thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
[email] Central Av. / Edward Eckels (trailhead?) Don't know if this is connected to anything else, but "Edward Eckels" shows no search hits...
got this email just after 1am my time:
Quote:
From: Edward Eckels (edwardeckelsSPLAT gmail.com)
Subject: Central Av.
Have you ever wanted to change a decis io n you've m ade in th e past? I try to thin k back to where it all went wrong , where the trajectory b eca me skewed . Th is is the wrong rea lity; it wasn't supp osed to be this way. If I can trace back in my head the s equence that leads to a vertex -- a branching off point -- it always takes me to Central Av. That damn night.
It doesn't matter though. I'm going to fix it.
Note the italics...
spelling out: "something bad happens"
that's all I got...
ETA: oh, of course - http://somethingbadhappens.com/
page source loads http://s92251467.onlinehome.us/something/ in a subframe. But other source notes:
description: Something Bad Happens, indeed.
keywords: video, online, narrative, game
A video plays, named video01.mov
video02 doesn't exist, but video03.mov does (though watching this might be..strange..spoiler).
video quality seems to be pretty indie (higher quality than home movie produced =)
but um. not sure what to think after video3. credits? thanks for playing?
... *confused*
ETA: Video03 has been removed. Definitely something we weren't to have seen. something bad happened, indeed
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:22 am
Last edited by thebruce on Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:32 pm; edited 1 time in total
Sarah B
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Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 616 Location: Stonehenge, UK
I'm never sure what I'm supposed to spoiler or not, so... XD
In the first video there is;
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a man dialling a phone. He dials 8666 596 4450, I think. Since he appears to be in a hotel room, I assume he dialled 8 for an outside line, so the phone number we want would be 666-596-4450. Is that even a real numer? I don't know, I'm English. Haha. XD
I've no idea what he's saying though. Couldn't understand it, and didn't want to turn up the speakers too loud because it was freaking me out a bit. XD
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:59 am
dev
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Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Posts: 75
Sarah B wrote:
I'm never sure what I'm supposed to spoiler or not, so... XD
In the first video there is;
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a man dialling a phone. He dials 8666 596 4450, I think. Since he appears to be in a hotel room, I assume he dialled 8 for an outside line, so the phone number we want would be 666-596-4450. Is that even a real numer? I don't know, I'm English. Haha. XD
I've no idea what he's saying though. Couldn't understand it, and didn't want to turn up the speakers too loud because it was freaking me out a bit. XD
666 is not an area code for anywhere in the US or Canada.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:37 am
jono
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Joined: 07 May 2008 Posts: 299
Quote:
but um. not sure what to think after video3. credits? thanks for playing?
... *confused*
Just a thought is the original e-mail says
Quote:
Have you ever wanted to change a decision you've made in the past?
Maybe were going backwards, undoing things in the past
Sent E-mail same format as the one The Bruce got:
Quote:
Sometimes I sit still. For what reason I dont know. Do I keep moving, do I dial you on a hotel telephone. Other times I need to drink, tea usually, anything hot and wet. I've looked back in time and saw my position again. Just tell me.
Jon
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:58 am
tallerbird
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Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Birmingham,UK
Sarah B wrote:
I've no idea what he's saying though. Couldn't understand it, and didn't want to turn up the speakers too loud because it was freaking me out a bit. XD
It sounds like he says "Don't get on the train"
Also even though it looks as if he presses 6 three times i think the button only clicks twice. So the number may be 866-596-4450
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:10 am
Last edited by tallerbird on Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:13 am; edited 1 time in total
Vancanek
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Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 205
It looks to me that he dials 866-596-4450. So, I called the number and get this message:
"Hi you've reached Edward Eckles. I wont be answering my phone for a while and I probably wont call you back, but if this is who i hope it is, please please come and find me before I attempt to do something drastic."
There is some beeping in the background... possible morse code?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:11 am
Sarah B
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Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 616 Location: Stonehenge, UK
OK, so I fail at the whole "getting numbers from a video" thing. Never mind. XD
I'm not going to dial that because it'll cost me a fortune. XD Obviously. Any other noises in it?
Also, seems like the guy in the vid isn't Edward Eckles, but the guy who sent the email was. Unless he called himself, of course. lol
Perhaps the hotel was on Central Avenue. Not that I can narrow down one hotel on any particular Central Avenue at the moment, but it could be something in the future? *shrug*
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:27 am
tallerbird
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I thought that he was calling himself, telling himself not to get on the train (going back and fixing a mistake like he metioned in the email).
EDIT: I removed info we gained after watching a video we were not supposed to find yet.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:45 am
Last edited by tallerbird on Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:31 am; edited 1 time in total
Vancanek
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Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 205
Re: [email] Central Av. / Edward Eckels (trailhead?) There aren't any other noises except his voice and the morse code which starts about halfway through the message. Can someone with a microphone upload the message? That would make it much easier to translate the morse code.
Is it me, or does video3 no longer work?
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:48 am
Sarah B
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Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 616 Location: Stonehenge, UK
Ahhh I see. I couldn't get video3 to work, so haven't seen that.
I'll keep trying it.
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:02 am
tallerbird
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Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Birmingham,UK
Yeah it looks like video 3 has been taken down. Looks like we were not supposed to see it.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:06 am
Sarah B
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Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 616 Location: Stonehenge, UK
*wipes own memory of anything related to video 3*
Video? What video?
So, looks like we're back to video one. And the phone call.
There's a Central Av subway/metro station on the brown 'M' line in New York. See map here: http://www.mta.info/nyct/maps/submap.htm Don't know if that's relevant at all?
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:17 am
Vancanek
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I'm glad I didn't get to see video3.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:23 am
tallerbird
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I edited my post to remove details about the other video. I don't want to spoil the game for the rest.
Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:33 am
Leyton Stone
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Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 2302 Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
Had no idea how to play this so I just emailed Eckels.
Quote:
For what it's worth... We don't know eachother and I'm not too sure how it happened that I came across your email address.
But while surfing on the net I stumbled upon a weir d pa ge in which a video was embedded and this page was attached to your name in some way.
Can I be of assistance?
Just to point out for those who aren't sure my italics spell out "What happened on the train" As he definitely says "Don't get on the train" in the video.
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:13 pm
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