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[Caterpillar]

Still trying to figure out how Random Martin and Splinternails tie into all this. In looking back through this thread I've noticed that some passages (email to people, comments left on LJ) are exactly the same as cached entries on splinternails/splinterworld....I'm still confused and trying to sort it out in my head. Anyone have a Coles Notes version, because I've read through and through and am still a bit confused about how/if this stuff ties in.

If these people are chars in an ARG, I find it dificult to just ignore all the cached stuff on them. If they aren't chars, what are they and how do they fit into the story? Do we have a story?

[Phaedra]

[Glecius]

First I will thank Phaedra for her reply and wisdom on the subject, then I will apologize for what seems to be poor wording on my part to convey my concerns. I sent her a PM asking her to read my post and to help my ignorances upon the subject, not realizing having followed the sequence up to this point would have been necessary in order to understand my words correctly. I have read, and would encourage everyone else that might be confused, to read the things she outlined. It is where I gathered my base of thoughts and beliefs upon the subject as they are.

[Delusional]

New sparkrent post.

[Caterpillar]

[Delusional]

"afgrst" only anagrams to one word.

[labfly]

my 2 cents: why all the questions about whether this is an arg?
we've all been playing along, working out riddles and clues.. getting teeny
tiny bits of story, a countdown, interactions.. (all of which seems to me to be pre-game activity) and the pre-game just ended two days ago-- at which time we were given an enormous amount of mysterious info to begin with--

the old cached items may be just something that this pm's building off of.. so what? it's not like nothing is happening -- why are we spending time on this?

[Caterpillar]

[labfly]

sorry, caterpillar... i do understand the confusion with the cache -- it is confusing -- but hopefully as we continue to work on this.. this will somehow make sense --
i just didn't want to see this thread get hijacked with a long "is this an
arg" thing

[Glecius]

[labfly]

[Ekplixi]

Bad news--my friend, who is a haxxor, told me there is nothing in the code. I guess we're right back to square one, guys...

[Maria Cottrell]

Whatever QU13E is, I'm in. Hope Glecius comes back!

For what it's worth (exactly two cents), I think the javacode was just for the password protection. Since the beginning most of the answers have come from the pictures (exception source code countdown), so I'm sticking with staring at the pictures my brain hurts.

My questions-

1. Random Martin and Splinternails one in the same? Or two different people?

2. Does "sound of the rising sun" = sounds like "rising sun" or is this a reference to Japanese?

[Vandino]

haha, i hadn't even thought about that one! sounds like "rising sun" ... gonna have to think about that after i finish this lousy paper.

so do we think that maybe we can find the answer in one of the names back on the old splinterworld site, seeing as how most everything is at least based on that site?

oh, and i googled neobitch's LJ, and it said nothing about splinternails, so i'm guessing she's not part of the game, but just the original splinterbitch. has anyone told her about qu13e? maybe she'd be willing to help out a wee bit?

edit: i don't remember who it was, but whoever speaks japanese, do you know of any words/names that sound like "rising sun" or "the rising sun"? this feels like it might be a step in the right direction ... but that's just my opinion.

[labfly]

great idea, maria
okay it is early on the west coast and i haven't had tea yet but
how 'bout english words? "raisin" "rye son" "resin" "reason" "Ryazan"

edit: and it is ekplixi that speaks japanese - i think
and here's some japanese
Shooting Star (Ryuusei)
Ideal (Risou) Serenity (Seion)
Romance (Renai) Serenity (Seion)

Conscience (Ryoushin) also means parents