Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:37 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
[Possible Trailhead?] E.S.S/The Order?
View previous topicView next topic
Page 5 of 6 [78 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
RAD24
Entrenched


Joined: 26 May 2009
Posts: 795
Location: Behind the wall
paperbound wrote:

HUMAN ILDEN VESSELS


Alright, I don't know WTF this site is for or how it got its info, but I found it after looking for "Ilden" on google: http://home.comcast.net/~earlwajenberg/onlinestorage/Aliens.html

Under the "Summary Listing" it says this:
Quote:
Ilden & Ilden machines: saintly, turtle-shelled octopi and their faithful robots


You said tentacles were in the sketch, right?

Also, there is more about the Ilden further down:

Quote:
The inhabitants of Ildel resemble octopi in turtle shells. The shell is slightly more highly arched than an exact hemisphere and gray, gray-green, or gray-brown in color. The lower edge has flutings to accommodate various tentacles. There are four large walking tentacles about 1.5 meters long, four manipulative tentacles about 1 meter long and tipped with gecko-like adhesion fur, and four eye stalks. The skin is pale gray. The whole animal weighs about twice as much as a human.

Ildel is a low-gravity world circling a K-class star, relatively dry, with large seasonal variations. An Ilda can tolerate Earthly conditions, so long as it does not have to endure the high gravity for too long. Ilden are pair-bonding androgynes living in extended families. They had been at a high iron-age technical level, with steam engines and heliocentrism, for over a million years when contacted.

The Ilden are noted for their linguistic abilities (being semantic zone 0), the Ilden Gardeners (low-key, low-tech, but very widespread and persistent terraformers) and for the Ilden machines. These are AIs based on Ilden neurodynamics and raised in Ilden cultures. They are much more widespread than the organic Ilden and are the fourth largest population of non-Terrans in the Core. Ilden machines seldom resemble organic Ilden; instead, they are usually smooth levitating spheres or spheroids, spangled with individualized patterns of tiny lights. Since psi-tech came in, they almost always perceive by claivoyance and manipulate by telekinesis. Ilden machines, like organic Ilden, are almost always at least somewhat telepathic.

The Ilden's high Darbrin Klo status indicates that they have no need for social institutions dealing with crime or war, living in near-utopian social and spiritual conditions, and use the time and energy thus saved in secretly plotting to do each other good (called "amalo" an Ilden word that has entered general galactic culture). The Ilden machines continue this condition, and it is widely believed that the Core could not sustain itself without the salting of Ilden machines in its culture. Ilden and Ilden machines strike humans as gentle and saintly; humans strike Ilden as ... tragic.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:16 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
TRodS
Boot


Joined: 12 Oct 2007
Posts: 61

 		I'd cheer for alien parasites in the head, that would be awesome though nothing particularly new.

I want one as a pet, I'll keep it in a fish tank and feed it hobos.
_________________
I read the news today oh boy, doesn't seem to have changed much.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:39 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
plugs
Unfettered


Joined: 17 Sep 2006
Posts: 430
Location: Behind you.

 		Still Cthulhu-ish too!
_________________
Playing: Not much.
Lurking: Many, many things.
Working on: Something supersecret and awesome.
CONTACT:cloudycalmSPLATgmail.com

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:04 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
paperbound
Veteran


Joined: 16 May 2009
Posts: 135
Location: Texas

 		Okay, so to save myself a tiny bit of time (because we're getting storms at the moment that seem to be making my connection choppy), instead of linking individual pictures, I'm linking to the whole Order album I have on TinyPic-

http://tinypic.com/a/1926u/4

Some pics are duplicates (thanks to the above-mentioned choppy connection), and as always, they're not the greatest quality, but it's really difficult to get the full image on the back in one pic. I tried to make sure I got all of the parts that appear to be words in code.

One thing I did find a little bit funny when I was researching some of the names on the front side of the certificate was that there is a W.M. Lively on faculty at A&M - in Computer Science and Engineering.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 10:36 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
I Am The End Of The World
Decorated


Joined: 11 Aug 2009
Posts: 188

 		Hmm... A lot of planetary symbols in there.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:49 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
lulz89
Guest


 		*wishes paperbound had a better camera for higher definition and would take pics of the envelops too.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:06 pm
 Back to top 
sarissa
Guest


 		http://home.comcast.net/~earlwajenberg/onlinestorage/Aliens.html
Is the work of some author , who seam to realy like making fairly indepth worlds.


http://home.comcast.net/~earlwajenberg/ this is hid home page i assume.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:52 am
 Back to top 
Trillian
Decorated


Joined: 13 Aug 2008
Posts: 262
Location: Germany

 		I think I had some luck with the writing below the skull. Using substitution I got this cryptogram:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
THE NAMELESS SO?RSE OF LIFE ON EARTH
THE NAMELESS VOID THAT DREAMS AWAKE

Any ideas what SO?RSE could be? I'm not sure if I got it wrong, if it's a word I don't know or if the person writing the code made an error, e.g. SOURCE would fit nicely in this context but then it's spelled wrong.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:11 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
someonefromSANC
Guest
Trillian wrote:
I think I had some luck with the writing below the skull. Using substitution I got this cryptogram:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
THE NAMELESS SO?RSE OF LIFE ON EARTH
THE NAMELESS VOID THAT DREAMS AWAKE

Any ideas what SO?RSE could be? I'm not sure if I got it wrong, if it's a word I don't know or if the person writing the code made an error, e.g. SOURCE would fit nicely in this context but then it's spelled wrong.


I'm sorry, but i have to ask this:

Is this pointing towards the skull with the tentacles? Or is it just generalizing off the entire page?

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:32 am
 Back to top 
I Am The End Of The World
Decorated


Joined: 11 Aug 2009
Posts: 188
Trillian wrote:
I think I had some luck with the writing below the skull. Using substitution I got this cryptogram:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
THE NAMELESS SO?RSE OF LIFE ON EARTH
THE NAMELESS VOID THAT DREAMS AWAKE

Any ideas what SO?RSE could be? I'm not sure if I got it wrong, if it's a word I don't know or if the person writing the code made an error, e.g. SOURCE would fit nicely in this context but then it's spelled wrong.


I actually got almost the same thing by just plugging letters in place of symbols..
I couldn't figure out what so?rse was either.. unless pm misspelled source..
but I doubt that's the case.

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:50 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Trillian
Decorated


Joined: 13 Aug 2008
Posts: 262
Location: Germany
someonefromSANC wrote:
Is this pointing towards the skull with the tentacles? Or is it just generalizing off the entire page?

Judging from the pics paperbound provided I'd say it is left and below the skull, pointing away from it into the left bottom corner. Best you use the link I posted above and see for yourself.


I Am The End Of The World wrote:
... just plugging letters in place of symbols..
Yes, that's a cryptogram. Wink

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:22 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
I Am The End Of The World
Decorated


Joined: 11 Aug 2009
Posts: 188
Trillian wrote:
someonefromSANC wrote:
Is this pointing towards the skull with the tentacles? Or is it just generalizing off the entire page?

Judging from the pics paperbound provided I'd say it is left and below the skull, pointing away from it into the left bottom corner. Best you use the link I posted above and see for yourself.


I Am The End Of The World wrote:
... just plugging letters in place of symbols..
Yes, that's a cryptogram. Wink


Haha cut me some slack.. i'm new to all of this.
Wink

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:57 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Nighthawk
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 14 Jul 2007
Posts: 4751
Location: Miami, Florida, USA, Earth
Trillian wrote:
I think I had some luck with the writing below the skull. Using substitution I got this cryptogram:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
THE NAMELESS SO?RSE OF LIFE ON EARTH
THE NAMELESS VOID THAT DREAMS AWAKE

Any ideas what SO?RSE could be? I'm not sure if I got it wrong, if it's a word I don't know or if the person writing the code made an error, e.g. SOURCE would fit nicely in this context but then it's spelled wrong.


I admit I haven't quite followed all of this, but it does seem that the "?" can certainly be a "U" (letter doesn't appear elsewhere), and then I could write off "SOURSE" as a misspelling (note that "C" doesn't appear anywhere either).
_________________
"Omne ignotum pro magnifico"

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:07 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Jack Nile
Guest


 		Anything New?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:32 pm
 Back to top 
Ad_Arcana_Tutanda
Unfettered


Joined: 25 Aug 2009
Posts: 531
Location: Denver Colorado

 		Did this seriously just die off? :[

if not, I'll gladly correspond snailmail.
I might write a letter off just because :p

PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:15 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 5 of 6 [78 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group