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[amandel]

Fuzzy! Waited awhile to see if you'de edit again your excellent post on the previous page but I gotta sleep & you likely wanna know:
The-Zone.zip solve

[FuzzyGoodle]

Oh doy. Nice job once again, amandel! I kept sticking Earth's first subconsciously because it was capitalized.

Now here's the problem: I also have to go to sleep very soon, and I still can't make heads or tales of these images.

Here they are organized by the small image file names, as Wallace suggested:



...which is a complete mystery to me.

So, either someone else takes over and solves this very soon, or Wallace is able to figure it out, or the world ends.

...Goodnight...

EDIT: Two new posts that seem related.

First Wallace sent me an email:

[amandel]

Searched online for that font with zero success. Wallace has made a detailed blog entry to wrap-up events marking the ARG's ending. Both the blogs & the Janus archive itself standing as an independent, non-game composition were interesting so it's easy to thank the PM for what must have been months of preparation.

[Seadevil4]

Well done people this has to be a first, an ARG that completely destroys the universe you are playing in, it is fortunate my story is set in a multiverse.

Yes thank you all for playing, though I admit my 3rd ARG was not as good as the first two and my attempt to create a truly chaotic nature to the game somewhat blew up in my face. I think information overload was a definite problem too. The pacing of the story was very off too, my terrible spelling and misreading that book title for book codes, sorry about that indeed no excuse really just stupid mistakes on my part.

I needed to give the player some historical background for the storyline and the Janus Archive seemed to be the perfect solution, although less than week after I kicked off the game I saw several ways I could of done it better not mention making it easier to write and build. That's hindsight for you, you live and learn.

Thank you Fuzzy especially for keeping the light on, if only you had spoken to Wallace sooner then I expect the ending would of been quite a bit different. That's free will for you

The font you are looking for can be found in Open Office 3.1 (Wingdings). There is second level of encoding so don't be surprised when it doesn't appear to make sense.

Hope you enjoyed the story, when I find time I'll update my wiki with the story so far.

[FuzzyGoodle]

And thank you for running this!

Although it did get pretty crazy at some points, its clear that you put a lot of time and energy into this, and overall, I had a good time. Many of the twists and turns were brilliantly devised, and I was really impressed by the massive scale of the archive, the blogs, and everything else. I just wish more people had been helping out. Maybe then we could have saved the world (or at least that one world)

Out of curiosity, and I assume this will be explained in the blog post, but what in what direction was the alternate universe with the Baron and Jon going? Were we actually supposed to locate the 3 servants?

[Seadevil4]

 

[Zobot257]

Aw man, I missed the end of this one! Stupid surgery. Stupid long recovery times spent drugged out of my mind. Ah well.