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[Bixter]

Hi guys, sorry. This is my first ARG, and I though I read that domain searching and stuff was part of the game, being in reality and all. I certainly don't want to ruin anyone's good time and will be more careful in the future.

[European Chris]

[Enigmaster]

[Rob_Riv]

Who are ya talking about, Jey?

[Talos D'Loristo]

awww man... Tuesday's the one day of the week where i have to work and get drunk. decisions, decisions...

but i do agree it feels slightly "Dirty" to be here with this info without finding it the right way... this is my first tyme though... but it's like something happening with the lights on and realizing that someone something with some balloon animal.. something... blah...

Star, Power, music<?> any spec that these are all pieces to a bigger chunch of puzzle? I have chapters of chapters on Agrippa's Associations of Musical Notes onto the scales of music and what powers are brought forth from them... It'd fit, in a way.

Also, Isn't Ode to Joy the one that was supposed to show the secrets of the universe? the 9th, right? .. on his composition notes he had bits of egyption hieroglyphs and translated english to some profound statement...

i think that's all the noodly stuff i have at the moment.

[toongoon]

Star (stellar) - Power (forceful) - Music -

Relative or not - I keep thinking of

"Also sprach Zarathustra" by Strauss - a powerful song used in 2001: A space Odessey (the movie) were a new star is born....

[Juxta]

[GuyP]

I must concur, J.

1) Yeah, it's a particularly naff way of finding websites, but good form on Bixter to take it back. It's one of the finer points of ARG ettiquette, and this hasn't been the first thread of the sort (although I shall refrain from linking to 'em, for obvious reasons.)

2) Regarding indiscretion, much as I'd like to make this whole conversation STOPPITY STOP STOP STOP, I think that's a total mischaracterisation and context-stripping of a brief and straightforward conversation on the unsurprising truth that occasionally players miss clues in ARGs, a conversation that certainly didn't reference anything as specific as "websites" and shouldn't be considered a clue or hint in any way - it was certainly nothing so secret that I haven't heard most of the MC'ers talk about similar things (at ARGfest, Cubefest and so on.) Regardless, I still feel it's rather bad form to repeat this kind of thing because informal, insubstantial comments acquire the gravity of a RUMOUR!!1!!one!! through such a process. I think it's a credit to the PM's that they've been so open and receptive to the player community, and it's stuff like this that jeapordises that relationship.[/i]

[quaint]

This is my first ARG, too, so I'm finding this thread really useful (as I would probably have done the same as Bixter - if I'd known how to!).

So on etiquette - does this mean we shouldn't really act on what's been found - even though it's pointing to a date in the very near future, ie next Tuesday? Or does it mean we ought to redouble efforts to find the clue that will point us towards next Tuesday?

[tanner]

the address tells us to Hackett (hack it)

[GuyP]

Let's not hack anything, ever.

However, much like the Pietro's Maze pseudo-debacle: "You've seen it. You can't un-see it." So yeah, let's just treat this site like we found it however we were meant to find it.

[SteveC]

Especially now as we don't appear to have any route forward from the "trail" that started at Biet

Ever get the impression that they're overestimating the number of active players they have in parts of the world?

[Xar]

Hmm

[Juxta]

Re: Hmm

[Mokey Fraggle]

Hm. Well, Tuesday is soon to be upon us, and still no solve for the Long Island coordinates clue. Should we just move ahead with this one and visit the site Tuesday evening for the next step? *still befuddled by the sleep therapy adventure*