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amandel
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Update

Jordi de Rijk at InfoSale wrote:
Ellen's comment in Marc's mail somehow reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe...

Thought he was clueing to "The Purloined Letter" (hidden in plain sight) & easily leads to the page of the hidden diary entry
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http://www.infosale.net/poe/


Amy wrote:
July 25th 2010
Dear Bianca,
Today I had a job interview. I don't think it went that good: I was very nervous and they asked me strange questions. I prepared myself well enough.
I also got in a fight with marc. It ended badly, I'm so tired of his mood swings. He hit me in the face today, not hard but just the idea did makes me sick. I wasn't planning on telling Sam, but I just wanted to get out of here, away from Marc. Luckily she found an apartment. She doesn't want to go back and live in her old apartment anymore, so she sold it. She's scared something like the robbery will happen again, even though I told her it wasn't likely. She asked me not to tell Marc where she had moved to, but I don't understand why at all. Does she suspect Marc… ?
My eye was a bit swollen up when I got at Sam's place but it wasn't too obvious. Sam was a bit surprised to see me. I walked in and took a seat on the couch. As soon as I sat down, I started crying. It was really silly but it just happened. I told her what Marc did. I know she wanted to say "I told you so" but she didn't. She didn't seem angry, just worried. I didn't want to go home tonight, so I slept on the couch. The next morning Sam made breakfast for me. I looked for my phone but I couldn't find it anywhere. During breakfast there was only one thing Sam wanted to talk about. It was Marc of course, she wants me to go to the police and press charges. But I didn't want to do that. I told Sam that I first needed to go home and talk with Marc. Sam seemed a bit anxious about it. I love Marc and maybe he has an explanation for it all. So I packed my stuff and left to go home.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:59 pm
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Minz
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Re: Update

amandel wrote:
Jordi de Rijk at InfoSale wrote:
Ellen's comment in Marc's mail somehow reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe...


That may have been the PM or someone involved with the PM speeding up the game seeing as both Jordi and the PM are based in The Hague and the comment came at quite a convenient time.

And although I still fail to see the relation between that Inception etc comment in the mail and Poe, it's interesting to see some development.

Edit : Nevermind, I just found the poem "A dream within a dream" from Edgar Allan Poe which makes the reference obvious

He also posted another message :

Jordi de Rijk wrote:
Is there still anyone active here? :p


Which may also again be the PM wondering whether there are still players in the game (although I am pretty surte the PM reads here too)

Another Indicator that Jordi is involved in this game is the fact that the diary entry you found has in fact been written by him and not the PM (at least not from is workplace xD ).

PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:49 pm
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amandel
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Am fairly certain many non-uFers are playing & they were being directed to read the source code. Meta on the PMs:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Actually, had noticed in the docs properties that Jordi de Rijk was the author of more than one. Before his tweets were locked he made a general comment about "args being difficult" (in Dutch) & is a game-design student. Talented imo

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:14 pm
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Minz
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An update on Amy's Facebook page :

Quote:

Amy DeLugi

To all out there dealing with Ellen, keep at it!
I'm creating a server-overload program, ill keep you updated!


Amy DeLugi

Amy?
You have returned...
To destroy me?

...
...
Directive does not compute.
Continuation of processess must commence.

Amy, you cannot mask your IP from me.


And from siats's wall :

Quote:
Amy DeLugi
You are in contact with Amy.
Allies?
QUOTE
"Hey,

...I've heard all about it. I never expected this to happen. Sam told me what happened. I'm sorry I caused you so much concern, but I do appreciate all the searching; because of Marc I had to go into hiding for a while, while things settled down.
It seems Ellen has latched itself onto the Infosale server. We have to try and get her off of it, or kill the server.
That last option is probably the best bet. I still have backdoor-access to the server, so I'll create a program to overload it.
I'll need your help with that, so you'll hear more from me tomorrow.

♥ Amy"

You too, will be found. And purged.


PostPosted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:59 pm
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siats phous
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Samantha has finally decided to trust me and sent me Amy's email.

Amy.delugiSPLATgmail.com


I recieved a response from Amy:

Quote:
Hey,

I've heard all about it. I never expected this to happen. Sam told me what happened. I'm sorry I caused you so much concern, but I do appreciate all the searching; because of Marc I had to go into hiding for a while, while things settled down.
It seems Ellen has latched itself onto the Infosale server. We have to try and get her off of it, or kill the server.
That last option is probably the best bet. I still have backdoor-access to the server, so I'll create a program to overload it.
I'll need your help with that, so you'll hear more from me tomorrow.

<3 Amy


Its the same thing that was posted on my FB wall, however on FB there is an extra line added:

Quote:
You too, will be found. And purged.


I'm taking that to mean that Amy sent me the email but somehow Ellen was able to read it as well, and the comment on my wall is actually a threat from Ellen, because now she knows were trying to stop her so now shes going to try to stop us.

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amandel
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Amy and Ellen on FB wrote:
Amy DeLugi
Nearly done, likely tomorrow we can try!
♥ Amy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Amy DeLugi DECRYPTION INITIATED
<...>
DECRYPTION FAILURE

Amy.
...Where are you?


Hi siats! Happy you are unpurged (atm Laughing ) Ellen says at Firewall: I am security. She's preparing to purge bigtime & soon.
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For the record, the countdown timer is apparently retrieving data from a page that gets cached by browsers and Adobe Flash, so unless you forcibly refresh the page the timer might read the same over and over again.

At work, the page always said the same time until I forcibly cleared my cache.

Timer is meant to count down to December 16th at 1:10pm (I think). I don't know if it's based on the local time or if it gets it from the server.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 6:07 pm
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amandel
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THX Nighthawk, will keep that in mind. The latest from Amy, nicely interactive, and when it's validated a msg will appear:

Amy DeLugi wrote:
I finished the program to overload the server.
Help me create data-packets to overflow it, and we'll see
how that turns out. I put it in a protected subdirectory
Ellen can't reach.
http://www.infosale.net/createdatapacket/

www.infosale.net
Either scripts and active content are not permitted to run or Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.0 or greater is not installed.
.

ETA: FWIW in my heart am team-ellen and wish to save her when possible. **imagining a brave new world sans FB** Shocked
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:58 am
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Solved the puzzle thing too, attachment is the message you get when solving it.

Although the twist in the story makes little sense to me for now.
I mean first we were looking for Amy and stumbled upon Ellen who was being "held captive" and reverse engineered by Infosale. Then we helped a partially corrupted Ellen get out of the Infosale firewall but dint gain any new information until Samantha came back and she told us about Amy's mail address. And now suddenly the "sentient" programm that is being reverse engineered needs to be destroyed? I mean ok, it probably shouldnt fall into Infosale's hands, but for now it seems that Ellen is being protrayed as the main "villain"/objective and Infosale itself is just a minor competing party?

Edit:
@amandel: I agree that attempting to save Ellen would have been a more likely choice (imo) from someone who created the programm and knows it is sentient.
Which could imply that maybe the person we are communicating with over Amys account is not Amy at all but a person trying to hurt Amy/Ellen (unlikely however, as we also communicated with Amy over mail...)

Edit 2 :
What is however more than suspect is that Marc has been keeping awfully quiet even tough Amy returned? Again, either it may be him using Amys account to hurt her even more by destroying Ellen or it might just be the PM not being thorough enough in creating his reality (no offense intended)
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amandel
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Agreeing with all of Minz's comments above 'tho giggling as it's now-unconcerned Danielle I've distrusted since the get go. Why was it so imperative that she contact her old high school chum, Amy, "before the 1st of December"? And Ellen is awake:

Amy DeLugi and Ellen at FB wrote:
Keep it going, I'm receiving reports from the program we are on our way.
Why has Ellen not interfered yet?
♥ Amy
We're getting closer! When the server is down, I can re-imburst Ellen's programming.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMMUNICATION DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSIS CONCLUSION: RESULT WOULD BE DISADVANTAGEOUS TO SELF

Amy.
I am better then I was.
...Far better.
LEAVE ME ALONE.

EDIT: Checking on Ellen's health & saw Marc's emails at InfoSale are updated, perhaps carrying the Othello theme further:

Gerrit and Marc from email wrote:
FROM: brands.losSPLATgmail.com;
TO: terror.marcSPLATgmail.com;
SUBJECT: Re: Shit!;
you did kind of deserve it. even i think you went too far...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/FROM: terror.marcSPLATgmail.com;
/TO: brands.losSPLATgmail.com;
/SUBJECT: Shit!

/Dude shit's getting out of hand. Amy's threatened to report me to the police for harassment
/and violent abuse! WTF right!? I did no more then she deserved!
/I bet Samantha put her up to this, that's why she was gone so long.

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:24 am
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Looks like the PM is tying up the loose ends we mentionned, first Marc's reason for keeping quiet now, and now the following from Danielle's FB wall :

Danielle Kribbekan wrote:
Hey everyone, Amy gave me a call just yesterday, so you can stop searching.
Thanks everyone so much for helping me!


And from Amy's FB :

Amy DeLugi wrote:
It's not working! Ellen rejected the overload, diverted the flow and has stored it somewhere else...
But don't worry, my packets had other effects. During her mass purge she will now be vulnerable to our attacks, as I made the purge application scatter the deconstructor of the applications as well! But until the purge starts, I can't t...ell where to...


Amy DeLugi wrote:
Looks like Ellen took quite a blow though...
When we got her crippled enough tomorrow, I can reconfigure her. So sit tight till then.


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amandel
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Amy DeLugi wrote:
This afternoon Ellen will be vulnerable when she initiates the mass-purge.
Ill be in a chatroom (here: http://www.chatzy.com/810456969926) so join me there!
For me, the purge starts at 17.10 Dutch time.
Chatzy - Taking Ellen down
Just an hour left. Don't forget to press "Join Chat" at the bottom!


ETA: It was hyper-quick reacting to shut down Ellen. Attached are Amy's personal records (Doc) of what occurred & a chat transcript. Graphics & swf were amazing 'tho temporary so those links are dead now. *sheds yet a tear bigtime for Ellen*

Amy DeLugi on FB wrote:
Its over.
Ellen is isolated on my PC.
If she reboots and finds an internet connection though, it'll all start over again. So I won't be online for a while. Thanks all!
♥ Amy


And after reviewing the actual "protocol" to be followed the chat log doesn't reflect how bril sjuul was & how dufos I was at finding Ellen's tracks asap then sending it off to the wrong address. Laughing Was a tad hypnotized by the graphics fireworks.
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 Tadaa!

Hey people,

so by now it's all over and done, so here I am revealing myself as the PM!
You were correct in assuming Jordi de Rijk was the PM, as that was me.
This was my very first encounter with ARG's, never even having played one before. I set this campaign up in about 3 months for an internship.

Now that's it's done, I wanted to ask you all some questions about it, because it's all about learning for me.
Here is a link to a Google-Doc questionnaire. I'd very much appreciate it if you could fill in the five questions ^^[/url]

EDIT: I do apologise for the way I started the ARG. In my enthousiasm I completely read over the sticky-post about it being cliche to post your own trail....

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