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nunyo · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

Possible ARG: John Dies at the End

**Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:41 am

Leyton Stone

Well, sounds very... Interesting.

I've got a feeling it's when his book suddenly goes on sale in mainstream stores but eh, I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:37 am

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Colmy_DD · Decorated Joined: 08 Aug 2008 Posts: 162

Time to re awaken this thread as itll happen soon.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:10 pm

jelloarm

I love this book! I actually got a paper-back version already, it's been on sale for at least two years (when a friend picked it up for me, seeing as it sounded Lovecraftian and my name is John), so I don't know if the main-stream sale idea is necessarily accurate. Maybe a sequel? Only reason I'd say that is
OMG MASSIVE PLOT SPOILER (I'm serious, if you're thinking about reading the book, don't read this.)

**Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:13 pm

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nunyo · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

I'm hoping that its more than just a sequel release. I think this would be a great premise for some kind of interactive or semi-interactive game.

Of course, everything he says could be real and he accidentally angered something and now he's gonna pay for it.

**Posted:** Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:56 pm

jelloarm

Just to heads-up, the announcement is up, and it's not an ARG, though it's pretty exciting for David Wong - he got a book deal on the same guy that published an A-list of other books. Somethings still going to get thrown up on Halloween, so I'll be checking back then - but tragically, no JDatE ARG.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:40 pm

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Zaranai

Of course I'm only halfway through the reading when it gets taken down. :/ The nearest Borders to me is an hour away (stupid slow ferries) and gods only know if it's even there. Guess it's time to wait for the new publisher's run to come out... Or to buy it for $100 dollars. XD

/me is a sad sad panda.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:32 pm

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signguy · Veteran Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 112 Location: Tacoma

I will sell you my copy for...umm...LESS than $100.00

**Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:32 pm

degravedi

**Posted:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:05 am

degravedi

By the by, the sequel is still online (though not complete since Wong's yet to write the rest) here: http://www.johndiesattheend.com/jdate2/intro.html

**Posted:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:29 pm

Arson Fire · Greenhorn Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

Looks like this turned out to be the start of an ARG after all.

http://www.cracked.com/forums/topic/39489/new-john-dies-at-end-website-alternate-reality-game-adventure21

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:59 am

Caffiend

Yeah but where do we go from here??

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 4:05 am

nunyo · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 63

wow...just wow

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:16 am

Arson Fire · Greenhorn Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

Well John Cheese started up a myspace page with the first part of a story to go along with the announcement.
http://www.myspace.com/johncheese

Also highlighting some spaces between paragraphs on the new website gives you some more messages from John along with a link to this picture
http://johndiesattheend.com/new/photos/johnghost1.jpg
which someone has already linked to a town called Cairo, Illinois.

There is plenty of other stuff on the website to work with but that is about where things stand right now.

Most of the discussion is currently taking place in the thread I linked to earlier, so if anyone finds something new it should be posted there.

**Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:22 am

Caffiend

the comments might hold clues??

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