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tygr20
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As it turns out, mstrmnd is the company behind Tom Tooman. I sent them an email a few days ago looking for some closure on two specific puzzles: the glyphs page that was beyond itwillhappen and how we were supposed to find Tooman. I'll attach that email and the response.

tygr20 wrote:
Masterminds at Mstrmnd,

As a follower from the start, I've always wondered who to thank for this game.

Tom Tooman was amazing. From the bottom of my heart: thank you.

I do have a couple of questions I hoped you could answer, so for the rest of my time playing ARGs I'm not left wondering, "What about these puzzles?" I went back time and time again to try to solve the glyph puzzle that followed the card game at Sacred Hat, I remember having dreams of those tiles, the text boxes, and the "left hint," and "right hint." Can you please, please explain to me how that worked?

Secondly- I know in the last bit, we were supposed to find Tooman- what were we supposed to do? Where did we go wrong?

Again, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you.

tygr20


Kevin at mstrmnd wrote:
Eric,

Many many thanks for your thoughts and note. I personally followed your path intently and was very excited to observe your discovery process.

The glyph game was designed around a date and time. Not one that we chose, but one that players were invited to create. We had a range selected and kept a door open. The game was finishable without this glyph arena, but it was my hope that the players would select an end date and in effect, be somewhat aware they had chose a time similarly to how an a'jkin 'chooses' time. Instead of solving it for you, why don't I consider a cool way of making it easier for you to solve it and then let you see what were up to?

It was our intention from the beginning to make Tom Tooman a new kind of game. Finding Tom was a multilayered probe of insight. I would say you found Tom the most of any player. Other players like Het Masteen came close too,
finding Tom meant deciding which person he was in the frames of the stream (even his POV, which is the first shot of the stream), which voice he was on the radio, etc.

Crucially, no one was wrong. If you thought the sticker and the final image of the stream (of stars) were mirrors, then you found Tom as far as the game would go (to that point). And of course, if Jericho had succeeded, then there would me many more findings of Tom on the horizon.

Let's stay in touch!

Kevin


Interesting. So maybe we'll get another crack at some of this??? *crosses fingers*
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 		I think the big hint is the "Let's Stay In Touch" part.
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 		There appears to be a new Jericho ARG being started up - I'll forward a link summarizing what has gone on.

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