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[TRAILHEAD] The Jejune Institute
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CaptKing
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Well, I was thinking of making a blog of some type, dunno still might. But, for right now I'll just tell you about what happened. ***NOTE: IF YOU LIVE IN THE BAY AREA AND STILL WISH TO TAKE PART IN THIS GAME, DO NOT READ. ALL OF THE FUN OF THIS GAME IS FIGURING OUT WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO***

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So, I arrive at 580 California St, and go up to the 16th floor. When I get to the front desk, I tell the guy I'm was there for the Jejune institute. He then hands me a key with instructions how to get to the Jejune office. As soon as you walk in the door, a voice instructs you sit down. Then, automatically the TV came on, and there was a little video that tells you the history of the Jejune institute. Then Octavio Coleman came on and instructed to fill out a small form, and place the info in a dropbox behind me.

After the video ended, I poked around the room a bit, to see if I could find anymore information on Jejune, nothing was there, so I decided to start on my "quest."

The first steps stated:
TO BEGIN: one must depart the building undetected by front door security.
BUT DO NOT: leave the building without gaining intelligence.
TO DO SO: ever so casually, return to the 1st floor lobby
DON'T go out the main entrance
...

It then instructs me how to sneak out of the building. But not before I find 7 tags attached to a pipe on the wall. These tags helped me fill in blacks spots on the card, that instructed me what to do next.

As I was finishing up, all of a sudden I heard footsteps outside of the door I was in. Somebody started yelling, asking if anyone was there. So, I took off, and as I was leaving, I noticed a security camera that was following me the entire time, freaky!

The rest of the time, all I had to do was follow instructions. More or less it told me to go to certain places, read things placed by the PM's, gather envelopes, you know the usual real world stuff.

Eventually, it led me BACK to the same building, and to the same floor! Well, when I got up to the receptionist again I got another key, this time with different directions. They led me to lockers. In the first locker, there was another key with a cerberus action figure in it... WTF? Well, the key opened ANOTHER locker, with a little porthole in it. Inside, there was a mirror that rotated and showed a little scene with animals, and a woman's face (just watch the video, it will make sense). If you look in the background the message says "3ls3wh3r3."

Nothing else, no other clues just 3ls3wh3r3. At that point the card was filled out and there was nothing else to do. All that was left was a story about a queen returning "to form." And how "it may well be your own breath that resurrects her." At that point I was stumped, but in the message, certain letters were capitalized, they spell out "LOGIN." So I hurried home, and sure enough jejune.org has a "login" page. Type in the code, and a countdown timer appears. It's counting down to Oct, 18.

SO WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE


TL;DR version:
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After a short video, I was sent around SF using clues left by the PM's. It led me back to the building, to a small locker with "3ls3wh3r3" written inside. Enter that into jejune.org's login page, you get a countdown timer to Oct 19.


BTW, I'm uploading the videos and pics here right now. So you'll get them soon. [/spoiler]
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MatrixofReality
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Hey Everyone! I was asked by waitress2 to post a recording of the message and options for some of our international players that are unable to dial in. I apologize for the sound quality as this is sort of a rush job... If you need me to clean them up some more I'd be more than happy too... Enjoy!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:23 pm
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CaptKing
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BTW, here are a few photos, didnt grab too many because I didnt want to ruin anything for anyone:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31067456@N07/

Now, what does this say??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31067456@N07/2911261012/

I cannot make it out. It was in one of the clue boxes
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:26 pm
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You can't spoil the truth

Here is a link to a very nosy Capn King during his induction center at the Institute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ug_it6a2w

New things happen all around us all the time.

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CaptKing
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Not going to lie, I think I just shat bricks.
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MatrixofReality
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If that isn't Big Brotherish I don't know what is. Too bad the institute doesn't have a satellite office in Memphis. Sad
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gaffeofthecentury
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CaptKing wrote:
BTW, here are a few photos, didnt grab too many because I didnt want to ruin anything for anyone:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31067456@N07/

Now, what does this say??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31067456@N07/2911261012/

I cannot make it out. It was in one of the clue boxes



I believe that says www.organelle.org. As in the name of the second person who posted on this topic.

And that video is freaking creepy.

PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:55 pm
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Sylvaness
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Ok that's kinda freaky. And awesomeish. o.o;

So very tempting to take the 2-hour drive to SF for this...

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MatrixofReality
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*CRASH*

That, my friends, was the sound of the 4th wall being pulverized into dust.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:03 pm
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CaptKing
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MatrixofReality wrote:
*CRASH*

That, my friends, was the sound of the 4th wall being pulverized into dust.


Unfortunately, the 4th wall was kind of destroyed for me when the receptionist asked me what I was doing, where I found out about this "game" and stuff.

So, in retrospect, I dont think posting the video really breaks the 4th wall, at least for me it adds a WHOLE NEW TWIST of unease.

I'm not knocking the PM's for taking the video whatsoever. I just think in the future, do not post it on unforums, e-mail it to the respective person.
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MatrixofReality
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I wasn't referring to the video though. I like the big brother take on it and posting it was genius. I was talking about creating at least 2 new accounts on UF to pass along information. And as for organelle.org.... whoa... information overload...
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Sylvaness
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Yeah, would be nice if the PMs wouldn't post here anymore. Maybe, uh, "hide" it on their website for us to discover (because we /will/ Razz) , or the email works too. But yeah... rules of the forums be good to follow.

Still, vid is quite creepily cool. Smile

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Yea I agree with CaptKing. They shouldn't have posted the video. Maybe just emailed it to him.

And yes, organelle.org is very VERY full.

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Yeah, the organelle thing was a stretch, posting the vid too is just kind of bad form. Which is suprising because a lot of thought has gone into this in other levels.

The organelle site meanwhile, is another layer. It seems pretty clear there's a rivalry between Jejune and EPWA. I'm curious as to what side organelle is on, given the Greenpeace references at the bottom of the home page, I'm guessing EPWA, but it might just be another faction altogether.

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CaptKing
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Funny thing is, I thought EPW and Jejune were rivals, but on the instruction card given to me, the tags that first helped me start my mission were called "EPW Guidance Tags" So, I dont know what to make of it.
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