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[Pixiestix]

[skilletaudio]

Its a game pretending to be a game pretending to be real people pretending to be a game pretending to be real crime that is pretending to be a game.

Or to put it better: I dont think anyone is challenging the game. I think we realize that its all part of a game, but we need to know what the game thinks of itself, and the contingencies and realities harbored within. Its a few layers deep, I feel.

[hkdl]

[Pixiestix]

I was just responding to phaedra, who did make some very valid points, but based on a misunderstanding of what I said/did. It's good to clear things up - and in the process hopefully get a better understanding of what we are doing. I'm sure if/when this game explodes and this gets turned into multi-boards, this will be a meta type page... in the mean time, we only have one board to discuss the issues of this game on. No harm done.

[skilletaudio]

So, can we all agree, noone is trying to derail the game, but we are all trying to undertand it? Yes?

[hkdl]

[Phaedra]

[CreativeEmbassy]

Back to the game...

Looking at the source of the frame page, I see <!-- m --> at the very bottom. Is this relevant at all? Or is "M" something placed by the engine that makes the page?

[skilletaudio]

Allow me to share what we discovered about the suzee's blog source tonight in #Argtalk, and we could really use someone who wants to catalogue and post this data:

You'll find that every post has an id number in the header tag., like id="a00013" or whatever. This id number has no apparant meaning to the browser, or the server, but they are presumably unique.

Not only that, but they do not behave. If these were getting assigned by the server, or a computer, one would expect them to be in chronological, or even just predictable order., but they arent. Sometimes they follow general trends across chronology, but not always.

So, the question arises: what does it all mean, Basil?
Two thoughts:
1. The numbers mean something. We should take a look at the numbers in chronological order and try to find a message within the numbers,
OR
2. We should use the numbers to re-order the posts and look for messages in the re-ordered text.

If Suzee is gone, then there should be no more updates to the site. This gives us a discrete set to operate on.

There are also pre-made categories on the blog, Args, General, and Quizzes. It may be possible that we should only concentrate on those sets seperately, or combine everything into one big set.

[ProfMoriarty]

[taozero]

If it is a Mantis game, it surely has some high quality...uncanny, given the recent asplosions

[Pixiestix]

FINALLY got a reply... not helpful, but it's something.

[Saevitia]

Okay here are my observations/speculatiosn so far.

Suzee is the MFD. it is strongly implied in her blog Also, it makes sense because no one outside ARGtalk knows where the file drop point is

She was starting up her own arg, and was supposed to finish the launch on Radio day (without ARGTALK or oldtim3rs knowledge)

According to her blog, Suzee is in fact a 17 year old emo kid with teenage angst, who is looking for attention by starting an ARG. SHe got into the genre with ILB, and had her first kiss with some random kid at an Axon The kid then completely rejected her. She is HEARTBROKEN and BITTER

Suzee has been prepping some 'big thing' for many months which will 'knock the socks of of argtalk' therefore, her kidnapping may or may NOT be part of her original plan

Suzee's stalker is the only character not directly mentioned on ARGTALK prior to the radio broadcast, therefore if any person is meddling or operating independantly it is MOST LIKELY to be Stalker.

The Mysterious Buyer may or may not be part of the preganme of Suzee's ARG

A Fan may or may not be the Mysterious Buyer, OR may or may not be Scaryclown, the disgruntled ex-argtalker, OR may or may not be the Stalker, OR may be completely independant

[hkdl]

[Saevitia]

Argtalk now has a wiki here: http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/argtalk/

The characters and Summary pages are up, but the puzzles page could do with a bit of filling out.