View topic - Episode 6 Analysis

unforum
a.r.g.b.b

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.

Our Esteemed Contributors

The time now is Wed Nov 13, 2024 9:29 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 » ARG: We Lost Our Gold

Episode 6 Analysis
Moderators: rose

Page 1 of 5 [67 Posts]

Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next

Author

Message

ccl28
Veteran

Joined: 14 Dec 2010
Posts: 103

Episode 6 Analysis

Episode 6 is fairly difficult to analyze. I've made some solid connections, but I don't see a coherent stream of clues like I did in previous episodes. I think the best thing to do is examine the comic one page at a time and see what we come up with. I've started rebuilding some of the pages/panels from the comic by taking different shots from the video and piecing them together in photoshop.

Here's the cover:

There is an obvious connection between this comic and most team-up style Marvel Comics. For instance:

Notice the hero head box in the upper left hand corner. Having read through some of those comics, I don't see anything linking the cover to a specific comic book.

Black Tom looks like he is an position to deal a Karate Kid style crane-kick:

Mulligan is holding a hamburger. Knowing that there is a Segar tombstone later, this seems to be a Whimpy reference.

Notice the buttons on The Captain and Crothers. These change in each panel. Here it almost looks like Morse Code, but it's unclear how you would read it.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:52 am

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Re: Episode 6 Analysis

ccl28 wrote:

There is an obvious connection between this comic and most team-up style Marvel Comics. For instance:

You are amazing CCL!!!

Crane stance is used more for balance according to most of the sites I looked at.
Crane - Bird/construction equipment to lift things heavy things.
Cranes - construction can also be used to lift boats off of piers.

There is a lot of references to Mulligan and his favorite foods. From jelly beans, sandwiches, now hamburgers and soda. Mulligan is a giant child. He is the boy who never grew up.

Is there a Popeye's hamburger place anywhere near the area you are at?

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:16 pm
Last edited by captain12fingers on Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:32 am; edited 2 times in total

ccl28
Veteran

Joined: 14 Dec 2010
Posts: 103

page 1

I have two corrections for the transcript (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=733215&search_id=1112389858#733215). I believe the the Tutty card stats are suppose to be 12, not 18. I also believe that the bold words on the bottom should be CAPS LOCK and not CAPS SOCK.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:38 pm

ccl28
Veteran

Joined: 14 Dec 2010
Posts: 103

Re: Episode 6 Analysis

captain12fingers wrote:

Is there a Popeye's hamburger place anywhere near the area you are at?

I looked for them, but I don't think there are many in NYC area. There are some Popeye's Chicken places.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:41 pm

ccl28
Veteran

Joined: 14 Dec 2010
Posts: 103

page 2

In panel 1, Crothers is drawn to look like Wolverine without the claws. Wolverine's slogan was "I'm the best at what I do." The text says Crothers is not the best at what he does, but what he does... I likes it.

I haven't been able to make much out of the second panel except that Black Tom seems to be pointing to the left.

In panel 3, it looks like a giant spider is crawling out of a hole. It's holding a sword. I'm not sure if this is a reference to Spider-Man or Spider-Woman (in S.W.O.R.D.) or maybe even that spider thing in LOTR. It's also interesting that the flame just in front of the spider has a lower-case omega and a wishbone looking symbol. This might be the artist's signature.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:55 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Re: page 2

ccl28 wrote:

Wow thanks for making the images because I can't do it on my machine and picking these up are really hard to do.

We'll question is what does Crothers like to do? He is not to bright! He is a pirate. He likes to drinks a lot. He gets drunk. He looses limbs and body parts. He goes to the bathroom a lot. He does what ever the captain tells him to. The Captain can't give him anything to do because he is not competent. We're looking for a drunk with missing body parts? Are we looking for a drunk frat boy with missing body parts? LOL! A doll or puppet with missing body parts.

Is Tom pointing to Crothers? The Captain? The page before? Over his head? What is over his head or the Captain's head? Or are his clues to the panel, page or to the last video?
Why is the Captain's pants missing again? What does that mean? What is the deal with him, he can't keep his pants on??? Oh, and he looks like he has two right arms & hands.
I can't make out the words on this one? I could make out 'Ain't Nothing ???? Us From ???? Lost Gold ????'.

It looks the spider is crawling out of volcano. He has 5 legs that we could see? One looks like a crutch. So what could spider/volcano/sword mean? The word BUT is beneath that.
What do spiders represent? They have 8 legs/scary/weave webs?
By the way what is LOTR?

I used a magnifying glass so I could see this because otherwise, I just can't make these out.

*******************************************************
I really get this feeling we are looking for a place where children or college age kids play. The personalities of these puppets do fit that of children or people in their late teens or early 20s.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 3:57 pm
Last edited by captain12fingers on Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:40 am; edited 1 time in total

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

The Captain Has 2 Eyes??

Another thing about this page: How come the Captain now has 2 eyes?

Eyes are a HUGE thing in this puzzle. Tom has no eyes. Crother's, Captain, Crother's bird have one eye. Only Mulligan has 2 functioning eyes.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:05 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Sword/Volcano/Spider

Besides Spider Woman here are some others I found on Google:

Spider/Sword & Sword/Spider
Sci -fi thing with blade like appendages hard to kill.

John Adams"There are 2 ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is debt"

Added volcano and came up with a game Pocket God originally released by I-phone /I -pod.

I don't know about any of you but, I found an awful lot of references in these videos to APPLE.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 4:26 pm

sickshotbri
Guest

Re: page 2

The second panel starts out "Ain't nothin ta stop us from find our lost gold..."

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:19 pm

sickshotbri
Guest

Re: page 2

sickshotbri wrote:

The second panel starts out "Ain't nothin ta stop us from find our lost gold..."

Sorry, I meant to say "Ain't nothin ta stop us from findin our lost gold..."

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:21 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Morse Code - Captain & Crothers

.-- is W
. is E
... is S
.. is I

I again!

Can't make out the other side is it .---. or .--. or even .--.-? There is no .---.
.--. is P.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:07 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Re: page 1

ccl28 wrote:

Arthur's the Scotsman - Arthur's seat in Holyrood Park place on high rock an extinct volcano!
Spider with 5 arms (one with crutch) with sword coming out of extinct volcano??

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:24 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Volcano?

Hmm Volcano here. Beer Volcano in the last episode??? Which bars/clubs/frat clubs/distributors/manufacturers have something related to a giant beer fountain volcano???

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:46 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Re: Sword/Volcano/Spider
APPLE

captain12fingers wrote:

New York City race courses were dubbed the 'Big Apple' by a horse hand who was working in another state back at the turn of 1900.
Then the Jazz musicians in the '30s & 40's dubbed Manhattan the 'Big Apple'.
Guiliani officially named Broadway and W54 the 'Big Apple'.

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:39 pm

captain12fingers
Decorated

Joined: 12 Sep 2010
Posts: 209

Re: page 2

[quote="captain12fingers"]

ccl28 wrote:

Why is the Captain's pants missing again? What does that mean? What is the deal with him, he can't keep his pants on???

Dreams: Hard time covering self, people with big secrets, fear of being uncovered, vulnerability, shamefulness, hiding something, feeling defenseless, fear of being caught, identity problems, fear of being ridiculed.

Also an event is held every year for the past few years where passengers ride the subways with no pants on. Several meeting places with in the 5 are set up and then the groups gets on the trains and proceeds to take off their pants. Looks like the next one is coming up shortly. Sounds like fun.

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 11:52 am

Display posts from previous: Sort by:

Page 1 of 5 [67 Posts]

Goto page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next

Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » ARG: We Lost Our Gold

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