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ASimulacraOfAlex
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New picture, and more new songs in the rotation:

Sara McLachlan, Angel:


Spend all your time waiting for that second chance
For the break that will make it ok
There's always some reason to feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction oh beautiful release
Memories seep from my veins
They may be empty and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of an Angel fly away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

So tired of the straight line, and everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
It's easier to believe
In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
That brings me to my knees

In the arms of an Angel far away from here
From this dark, cold hotel room, and the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
In the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

You're in the arms of an Angel; may you find some comfort here

and

Madison Park, My Personal Moon:

The moon will affect the tide
And you will affect my mind

The moon will affect the tide
More than the sun
And you will affect my mind
We will be one

Making me high

Your waves of energy
A current pulling me
You are my moon
My personal moon

Making me high

Your waves of energy
A current pulling me
You are my moon
My personal moon

The moon is my guiding light
Filled by the sun
I follow the moon at night
It leads me home

The moon is my guiding light
Filled by the sun
I follow the moon at night
It leads me home

Making me high

Your waves of energy
A current pulling me
You are my moon
My personal moon

Your waves of energy
A current pulling me
You are my moon
My personal moon

Making me high

Pulling me closer
Pulling me closer
Making me high

Pulling me closer
Pulling me closer
Making me high
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:26 pm
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ASimulacraOfAlex
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3v1L Schwinn wrote:
ASimulacraOfAlex wrote:

EDIT: also, B.E. Intl. and Martin Aggett? What did i miss?

How does Martin Aggett tie in with B.E Intl.?


They were just both aspects of the story I didn't see anywhere. Maybe i just dont pay enough attention to twitter?
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Will be lurking this one as much as possible

While I agree that the answer to "why is Iris feeling ill" sounds a like like a computer gone haywire, this is interesting to me from that reply:

peoria//neworleans//omaha//lascruces//tesladownloadat67%


It could just be places the mainframe is connected to by routers. Or, it ould be some type of code involving the names of places; P,I NO,L O,N L C,NM, PNOOLC or ILNNM.

Tesla Download is interesting in and of itself, I believe that may be an encryption system for mainframes? Can't look it up right now, but it may be worth a google if anyone has the time.
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ASimulacraOfAlex
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Re: Will be lurking this one as much as possible

BlackandBlue wrote:
While I agree that the answer to "why is Iris feeling ill" sounds a like like a computer gone haywire, this is interesting to me from that reply:

peoria//neworleans//omaha//lascruces//tesladownloadat67%


It could just be places the mainframe is connected to by routers. Or, it ould be some type of code involving the names of places; P,I NO,L O,N L C,NM, PNOOLC or ILNNM.

Tesla Download is interesting in and of itself, I believe that may be an encryption system for mainframes? Can't look it up right now, but it may be worth a google if anyone has the time.


No luck finding anything about that on google...

EDIT: New picture up. This is interesting...a picture from 2029!
Photosynthesis is the process of converting light to energy.
I've got a few theories about this ARG...I'm not saying anything till I get some confirmation though. I'm so excited!!
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Ryutso
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Over on the email front, I got a couple of people to send an email to Iris to see if she says anything different:

Quote:

From: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com
To: "Henock Sileshi" (kconeh14SPLATyahoo.com)
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:18:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: J'ai voulu demander comment vous vous sentiez


KDFW121553Z25007KT10SMFEW140SCT25025/16A3009RMKAO2SLP181T02500161//resetconnection/…………./teslaconnectionlost0%//sicksicksicksicksicksicksi

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Hey, I wanted to ask how you were feeling.
From: Henock Sileshi (kconeh14SPLATyahoo.com)
Date: Sat, Sepfatal//error
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

I j t wa ted t k ow w y u ar sick, d wha y u ca ht.


Nothing odd here. I see the "teslaconnection" mentioned. And the subject lines is in French.

Quote:

From: (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Subject: none
To: Aneesh Kumar (aneeshkumar1995SPLATgmail.com)



Вы получаете эту передачу? я irisonefive и am пытая контакт с Tesla784 Сибирь Southwest. Пожалуйста upload quad9G28845.89 немедленно. Это аварийная ситуация.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Yarn Corn Jetplane
From: Aneesh Kumar (aneeshkumar1995SPLATgmail.com)
Date: fatal//error
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

Hello, I am sending this email to ask you why are you sick?

Thanks


I see "irisonefive". Iris one five? Hmm. The text also looks Russian or Ukrainian, I can't tell which. Again "Tesla" is mentioned.

Quote:
From: (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Subject: From the racks and the stacks of the best old wax
To: Peter G (badcow043SPLATgmail.com)


you get? i am struggle can not clear help


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: H y
From: Peter G (badcow043SPLATgmail.com)
Date: Mon, September --, 2044 10:58 pm
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

Wh are yu sick


HAH! A non-corrupted email! I replied after I got this in my email and told Iris:

Quote:
Help is on the way. We hear you.


A couple more emails:

Quote:
From: (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Subject: CatastrophicFAIL
To: Brill Murdox (brill301SPLATgmail.com)


syntaxerror//copulatefornicatereproducesexualintercoursescrew//rebootFAIL//65432

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Why are you sick?
From: Brill Murdox (brill301SPLATgmail.com)
Date: Sat, September 26, 2009 9:36 am
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

W y ar y u o fucking si k? ?!


She just trailed off on synonyms for "f#cking". I guess she can't handle expletives.

Quote:
From: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Subject: RE: sendflaw
To: "Courtney Boell" (steam_whistle_28SPLATyahoo.com)
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 10:12 AM

they are in me i can feel them some have survived//manualreboot//clock9

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: one who lives in subjection perhaps?
From: Courtney Boell (steam_whistle_28SPLATyahoo.com)
Date: fatal/error
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

Hell!

How have you been?


VIRUS! Or Nanobots.

Quote:
From: (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Subject: RE: :ER
To: alex scarface (alexscarface572SPLATgmail.com)



ambienttemp136//FAIL//manual…….45993//The whole question of the
Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of sick Baron
Maupertuis are too recent in the rude minds of the
public//exteriorsensor15-4589reportingFOD//*rebootunsuccessful*

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Hello
From: alex scarface (alexscarface572SPLATgmail.com)
Date: fatal//error//tscreboot19.5
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

Not to be rude or anything, but why are you sick? If you wouldn't mind
telling me.


She just referenced a Sherlock Holmes case.

Quote:
From: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Subject: //FAIL//
To: "chris something" (mullenlegend1SPLATyahoo.com)
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 1:13 PM

catastrophic//FAIL//***enid8***//TesladownloadFAIL

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Sick
From: chris something (mullenlegend1SPLATyahoo.com)
Date: Sat, September 26, 2009 9:46 am
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

I have been wondering why you are sick?


Again with the mention of Tesla.
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Quote:
From: (irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com)
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:50 PM
Subject: none
To: Aneesh Kumar (aneeshkumar1995SPLATgmail.com)



Вы получаете эту передачу? я irisonefive и am пытая контакт с Tesla784 Сибирь Southwest. Пожалуйста upload quad9G28845.89 немедленно. Это аварийная ситуация.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Yarn Corn Jetplane
From: Aneesh Kumar (aneeshkumar1995SPLATgmail.com)
Date: fatal//error
To: irisSPLATsunshinemine15.com

Hello, I am sending this email to ask you why are you sick?

Thanks
Google Translate recognises this as Russian, and translates it thus:
Quote:
You get this transfer? I irisonefive and am attempting to contact Tesla784 Siberia Southwest. Please upload quad9G28845.89 immediately. This is an emergency situation.


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3v1L Schwinn
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Quote:
From: IRis <iris>View Contact
To: threevilschwinnSPLATyahoo.com


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

no.contact.could.be.established//paradoxerror42.99//no.such.system.exists

If you have received this response, the intellectsystem ((systemIDerror)) is either offline or has suffered a catastrophic failure. Please contact the nearest Tesla Tower base and provide code: ((codegeneratorerror93))

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 *

Errr I got nothing
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That picture is an "airlockCam", Schwinn.

Honestly that looks like someone being sucked out an airlock and hanging on for dear life.
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ASimulacraOfAlex
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Lol just noticed this in the source:
meta name="created" content="fatal//error"

Makes me laugh.
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Wulf74 wrote:

==edit==
I had a question myself. I was just looking at www.sunshinemine15.com and was looking at the source info for it. I am by no means a programmer, and I understand very little to do with HTML - I'm a network/hardware guy. Anyway in the source it references the flashplayer - and then the "sunshineintro.swf". Shouldn't that be displaying something close to a movie, not just music? Please don't hesitate to beat me down on this one.. Wink


I had wondered this myself earlier if there was something hidden in the movie player, because thats not how you usually embed a music player in a page using swf...at least i would use hidden tags rather than leave1 px visible...so i made this, so you could see it, and there is nothing there, just to kind of verify rysuto.
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I have been out of the ARG world for a while...as you might notice looking into my past posts. But I promise I am a real person! Real life has been...unforginving in the spare time

Reading the emails coming from iris made me think on 2001, HAL 9000 in particular. Could it be that she is an AI of somekind, sending messages to us from the future? Lots of jargon-esqe words...uplinks, auto reboots (which were escaped out of to postpone them), etc.

airlockcam picture? 2001 again, it's a space ship.

What does the mining have to do with it? A quick run around google and this is what I think it might be about:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
a search for "space mine movie 2010" led to a story about "Dead Space" which is based on a video game of the same name. The movie is listed as due out in 2010 on a few websites.

Various sites have a quick plot summary along the lines of "You get an automated distress call from a mining ship. Upon investigating it you find that the crew of the ship in distress are dead, their corpses reanimated by some kind of alien parasite." All of that seems to fit. Wiki shows the setting of the game in the 26th century, and that you have to repair the navigation systems before your ship falls into an astroid belt (your ship is damaged upon docking with the distressed ship?)

Timeline is wrong, but a lot of other things seem to fall into place. The "Things are heating up in 2010" line makes me wonder if there might be a supernova to escape or the like vice an astroid belt. Better visuals and all.


But, I might be rusty and completely wrong. When I get off work I am going to try to contact iris myself, and I am going to try some ideas based on the above.

ps- is it right to /spoiler things like the above?

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It's possible, and yet...


OOG:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
From an OOG point of view, BB doesn't necessarily like to do advertising as expressed in the I'm Sorry thread.


I emailed tesla784SPLATsunshinemine15.com and received this reply immediately:

Quote:
IRis to me

show details 8:04 AM (0 minutes ago)

no.contact.could.be.established//paradoxerror42.99//no.such.system.exists

If you have received this response, the intellectsystem ((systemIDerror)) is either offline or has suffered a catastrophic failure. Please contact the nearest Tesla Tower base and provide code: ((codegeneratorerror93))

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 *


It should be noted that the name gmail picked up for that email is also Iris?
Looks like Tesla needs rescuing.

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xomunkixo wrote:
no.contact.could.be.established//paradoxerror42.99//no.such.system.exists


Paradox error... Kind of reminds me of Intimation. Sounds like we might be dealing with something that exists in another time. Exciting!
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ironnikki wrote:
Kind of reminds me of Intimation.


I thought the same thing, just couldn't remember the name of that one. I joined early on - but then gravitated to a different ARG. It does sound a lot like the machine in the beginning tho.

I tried a couple of different emails to IRIs and Tesla478 with no luck. Both are returning the same reply now. I even tried emailing the code to Tesla at first, hoping that would do something. De nada. I'm guessing that the email filter is looking for specific key words, and once it gets them it will respond with something different - and until then we'll keep getting the same replies. Or - we're looking for a different email address.
Is there any significance in the fact that IRIs is spelled with the lowercase 's' at the end? Have we gotten any emails we haven't deciphered yet? Aside from the gobbledygook we've been getting (yeah I said, wanna fight? Smile). I'm just grabbing at anything we haven't covered yet.
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Ryutso wrote:
Martin Agget is this character created by some guy who apparently thinkg's he's real. He has a twitter account, a facebook and a bunch of other stuff to make it look like he's a real person. He started following me on Twitter during "I'm Sorry" and when I started tweeting about stuff relating to this one, he pointed out that the Sunshine Mine was actually a real mine disaster.


Sorry for any confusion I've caused. I'm the "some guy" that created the Martin Aggett character. The character is aware that ARGs exist and is himself working on an ARG for Remix Fiction as part of the current narrative. More info here --> http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28504

Because of the character's interest in ARGs he follows ARG players and designers on twitter. Ryutso - if you would rather Martin didn't follow you or @reply to you just let me know and he'll stop. Martin does play some alternate reality games, but because his involvement can be interpreted as game-jacking I get the permission from the game designer before I get him involved with a game. Since this seemed like just an announcement and not the actual start of the game I didn't think it would hurt to have the character help out with some of the clues.

And to clarify, I don't think Martin is real, and it isn't my intention to trick people into believing that he is real. In fact, lately I've gone to great lengths to make sure that people aren't fooled into believing he is a real person. I've included a "what's going on here" page at http://www.remixfiction.com/whats-going-on-here/ and the character even has a blog about the challenges of being fictional http://www.fictionalrights.org - I've done these things deliberately to avoid having the appearance of a hoax.

So, you can ignore Martin Aggett's involvement in this game - he is not connected in any way.

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