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Phaedra
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krystyn wrote:
Maybe this was added after you read it, but they mention right at the top that they spoke to Jim Stewartson and Sean Stewart. I guess maybe you meant which of the two were actually answering each individual question ...


I think they must have added it, 'cause I looked -- but I think I happened across it almost immediately after they put it up.

But then again, knowing me, I could have stared straight at it and not seen it, so....
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 		Oh, and another little description of LCP from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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But the site's success is bigger than that, Lee said. Though lastcallpoker.com will fold Saturday, he sees the game as a step forward for alternate-reality gaming.


Oh say it ain't so!!! Even though the story has unfolded, I sure hope the website will continue (if only for more small favors participatory pictures to be posted).
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 		I totally hope they keep the site up after the game ends. It would be so nice to still have weekly tournaments, timewasting games, and the ability to do more favors for the dead. Maybe the site could turn into a secret-divulging site for GUN or something. I dunno, but I really hope LCP stays up.

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 		And a bigger story from the Cleveland Plain Dealer site.
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 		Yeah, that's the one imbri just linked.
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 		New Cnet article quoting some of our favorite people

Last Call Poker celebrates cemeteries
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rose wrote:
New Cnet article quoting some of our favorite people

Last Call Poker celebrates cemeteries


Patricia mentioned my favor near the end...

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She said that one player had written her with a story of going to a cemetery with her young daughter. After cleaning several neglected headstones, Pizer recalled, the daughter turned to her mother and asked, "Did they not have mommies to take care of them?"

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 		Varin - I am so glad you did this favor with your daughter and so glad you shared it with us. This one makes me happy. Smile
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Varin - I am so glad you did this favor with your daughter and so glad you shared it with us. This one makes me happy. Smile


The best part about it is that now my daughter sees a cemetery and talks about the people there. It blows me away that one day in the cemetery has changed her even more than it changed me.
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 		New Cnet article:

http://news.com.com/A+novelist+turned+gaming+innovator/2100-1043_3-5995637.html

All about ARGs in general and LCP specifically, including an interview with Sean Stewart.

I'm still working on reading it, but hee! They mention me solving the hymnal puzzle! And a quote from Rose!
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"We don't tell the story; they discover and tell the story to each other," Weisman said. "It goes through the filter of their millions of minds, so it's never the same in the end as what we wrote."

Watching the players sift through the game's pieces, Stewart was particularly pleased with a comment from a player named "Rose," who--after weeks of "Last Call's" bloody mix of modern gang tension and Western drama--wrote in the game's online forum that she had finally understood.

"Rose" was Sharon Applegate, a "mid-forties" Manhattan lawyer who had been playing alternate reality games since an accident temporarily limited her to her home in 2003. After loving previous work by Lee and Stewart, she'd had a hard time with "Last Call Poker," she said in an interview.

"I didn't like the violence, and the women either being prostitutes or being beaten up," she said. "Then it dawned on me that all of these stories were about family relationships, and I could see it in a whole different light."

It's moments like that which help convince Stewart and his partners that they are engaged in something that is more than just an expensive commercial. Still, there's more work to do.

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 		That's a great article. But where did they get this from?:
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Few ARG players say they've actually read his books.
Surely most of us have read Sean Stewart's books? If not, there's a mandatory New Year's resolution for you. Wink

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Surely most of us have read Sean Stewart's books? If not, there's a mandatory New Year's resolution for you. Wink

Some of us read them long before there were ARGs and then had little heart attacks of pure joy when the credits rolled for The Beast.

Not that I would know anyone like that. I just heard. From somebody.

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Phaedra
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Ikkarus wrote:
missphinx wrote:
Surely most of us have read Sean Stewart's books? If not, there's a mandatory New Year's resolution for you. Wink

Some of us read them long before there were ARGs and then had little heart attacks of pure joy when the credits rolled for The Beast.

Not that I would know anyone like that. I just heard. From somebody.


Some of us read them long before there were ARGs and then had little heart attacks of pure joy when the credits rolled for ILB.

I also know no one like that.
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