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[Crea]

Haven't seen this posted before, so here I go. I just found Suzee's blog at:

[Duckie]

Hmmm you brought up a lot of good points there, Phaedra. There seems to be two different ways that players can interact with a game-- follow along, or deliberately mess with whatever direction the game is going.
The ideal game will be able to stand up to such messing around. Whether it falls back on sheer number of players willing to play "properly" or if it goes beyond and allows the game to play a bit off course, a well planned game should be able to survive.

There are certainly many types of "interference" and much of it is either purposefully to hurt the game, or winds up hurting or inconveniencing it. But might there be room for positive interference? I suppose all this is better for a meta thread, but right now I'd like to see a game that could bend to different interpretations (I am in no way implying an opinion on your part either for or against this). I'm not saying that this will be the game, but perhaps a game could be designed where players are asked to work either for or against the desired outcome of the game.
My $0.02

[skilletaudio]

All games that rely on reinforced "pretend" states have a sort of 8-second "rewind" button. If somebody messes with the reality proper and you let it go, then the game is ruined.
In other words: if someone says "I shot you!" and you say "Nuh uh!" then you are messing with the reality.
But if there are 20 other players who can see that it was an obvious screwup, everybody hits the 8-second reset button, and we all re-write the matrix. You just cant let it go for too long, iut has to be plainly obvious, immediately, in some way, that somebody broke the game, while we're still interpreting the reality of the situation, and theres a wink, and a nod, and we roll the train back onto the tracks and look the other way until we've passed the cow;)

[Duckie]

NICE FIND Crea! I'm reading back on the ILB days, and I must say... I'm reminded of how I myself found the genre. This is indeed intruiging.
I'm reading now.

[skilletaudio]

VERY nice find.

[skilletaudio]

[Duckie]

Even worse is the talk of ARGtalk... and whatever it is shes planning to do to it. Looks like she had planned SOMETHING for the night of the talk show. Check it out:

[skilletaudio]

So, is dear suzee sticking it to the ARGers by starting off her own experience to shock and amaze?

[Duckie]

She's still posting about being creeped out by those weird messages that keep appearing at ARGtalk (which I STILL haven't seen PLEASE help?)

So it seems there is A) The generic ARGtalk site, just used as an ARG tracker/commentary
B) A PM that is sending them weird stuff
and
C) Suzee's plans to do something that night.

There is also
D) CG, the college age guy that hooked up with Suzee but then turned weird on her.

[skilletaudio]

So, Suzee discoveres ARGs.
Somehow, she finds that Bees changed her life(man, so much 42 stuff going on. You guys sure you dont want to put money down with me on this one?)

And she gets a plan together. I say, dear suzee decided to be a rogue PM. Now, was the kidnapping part of the plan? Or is it the perfect crime, to kidnap somebody who was going to be weird and drop a bomb on people in the ARG world, to have them assume it was all in fun?

Is it Wiki time?

[Axys Denyed]

I think the real question is, is Suzee working with the rest of ARGtalk, or were they not made aware of her plans? This line:

[skilletaudio]

Consider: Suzee wants to make a splash, so she's not going to work WITH ARGtalk, she's gonna pull the wool over their eyes too.
But she's gonna make a big splash, she she doesnt tell ANYBODY.
Nobody knows what was supposed to happen but her.

Or maybe not?

[taozero]

[skilletaudio]

I have sent the following email to ARGtalk:

[Axys Denyed]