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[kosmopol]

Join the Pirates

[degravedi]

*clutches heart* There's finally a pirate ARG and it's only open to Germans?!?! *dies*

BTW, if you zoom in on the main image (Firefox allows you to do this, dunno if IE does?) there are Latitude/Longitude coordinates hidden in with the parrot and the the longboat. (Looks like there's some kind of text on the crossed swords too, but I can't make anything out.)

[kosmopol]

Thanx, degravedi! Here come real unfictionists!

Actually, people at Patmo-forum found the coordinates, and one player, Spitzohr, travelled to the coordinates and found the treasure chest.
http://www.spitzohr.de/2008/11/15/schatztruhe
Inside there was an USB memory stick with a video (see his blog). He also reconstructed the whole discovery once more time (in the second video).

Now what is this code you've found in the source?..
We cannot get it till now...
(Looks like colors hex codes, but also if - what clue is it?..)

If you or somebody of Unfictionists has a clue, please drop here a message!

[kosmopol]

Sorry for double posting.
Dibtych and DrCool cracked the code:
"Wir geben euch ein Zeichen" (We give you a sign, a signal)

It was reversed hex-code.

[Varin]

I just received a package nearly identical to kosmopol's in the mail!

[faeryqueen21]

This. Is. So. Cool. I wish I spoke German...
Instead I will live vicariously through this thread.

[kosmopol]

Wow people, this game is really addicting. I'll post later what's going on there, but now we need a code.

Somebody got the SMS with weird code

[kosmopol]

Our player, DrCool, found out, which code is it.

Here is his message from chat:

[S.P.I.]

*grumble* *mumble* if only I spoke German.

[kosmopol]

You're welcome. The most ingame sites are in English btw.
Short about the game.

It's highly active, there are many live actions and pages.

We've got a newsletter by a Laudry named Grapnel (http://grapnel.biz/) and we could add there our admission codes, which we've got in package or email.

So all players are divided in 5 groups (=phalanx). We habe an ingame forum and are acting against an (pesudo?)-ecological group, which seems to have some big plans about new energies. We get (dependend by the phalanx) various tasks.

There are some IG pages with clues:

http://www.nieveretrans.com/
The track code is "reprise". If you put in the code, you'll get to the secret dates about a cargo by somebody named T.B. (Tom Burrough). The PDF after log in gives following datas about moving Cargo around the world:

Note the weird added letter or number after every location:

[(^__^)]

i contacted the grapnel website saying

"Pika
Pika"

and i got a hillarious reply:

"chu
chu"

[rose]

oh nice, a Pirate ARG that is interactive and cute.

Thanks for the reports Kosmopol!

[kosmopol]

Actually, there were many things happen till now, so I'll try to describe all the actions of this really vivid and hyperactive ARG. I'll be perhaps a little bit out to date, because I've a lot to do, but I'll try to catch up the quicksilver alike story line

There were all the prologue activities like finding treasure or observing that Limousine. Here is btw the video of that mysterious white Limousine:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-4r4i8folT4

Anyway, it was just a prologue.

People, who registered to http://www.jointhepirates.com, got a newsletter by a laudry company named Grapnel. They have a website http://grapnel.biz/.

We could register at this website and everybody got an access to an insider forum: http://grapnel.biz/forum/index.php

The thing is, we all are divided in five colour groups, phalanx. Everybody, who is in one colour Phalanx (I'm in red] btw), get the instructions from his Navigator and cannot read instructions and discussions of another Phalanx in this forum. So we, beeing social and friendly people are playing double game: we take part on the tasks in this pirate Grapnel-forum. And on the other hand we communicate with each other at Patmo-Forum

And now here comes: we are the pirate alike organisation fighting against very dubious companies. But the companies are really creepy and mighty.

And I was already in a live action, spying out one paranoid... but I'll better tell about it in my next entry

[kosmopol]

Hi people,

this great ARG is over (was over last year). I hadn't really time to summarize all the cool happenings, but here comes official video about the game.

Enjoy it - it's in English!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpVpBcixek4

[thebruce]

posted a new thread which wasn't necessary...

I got tip from Julius Grüneberger at 7:05est, saying..well, this: