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Notice how the clues get shorter?

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 8:54 am

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cs178 · Boot Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Germany

I don't think that this is of significance, although you never know...

Does anyone have an idea how the last set of clues might fit into the existing countdown? The next sequence number should be '20'.

What is the connection between this number and this two symbols?
It's not ASCII, that would result in '18'.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:07 am

labfly

and the framing is again getting smaller around the gate... Shocked

http://www.qu13e.com/

and the source is:

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:29 am

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Vandino · Boot Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 61 Location: Colorado

i wonder if the size on the frame is significant?

start - 800 x 600
11/09 - 600 x 450
11/10 - 500 x 375

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:02 pm

valkyrie_lisa · Kl00 Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Colorado, USA

I was thinking that too, Vandino. Coloradans must think alike.

Does anyone know when the gate graphic first appeared?

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:57 pm

labfly

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:38 pm

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SnareRushJunkie · Boot Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Minnesota

Woohoo! An ARG that's just starting up! I miss the paranoia and sleeplessness... anyway, enough with that. I found some things, and I thought I'd share.

I Googled "maroo seven sins" (without quotes) and the first hit was http://www.splinterworld.com/oboenai/splinternails/archives/lust/index.php, the title of which is "Archives of lust." On the webpage is what appears to be anything you guys've ever gotten in an e-mail, and then some. I couldn't find the meaning of oboenai, though. (Click here to go right to the Google cache)

Also, by taking the first letter of everything in

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:20 pm

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Randomeis · Unfettered Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 426 Location: AL

oboenai

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:17 pm

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SnareRushJunkie · Boot Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Minnesota

With a little more playing around, I found that there are archives from May through August of 2005 in the www.splinterworld.com/oboenai/splinternails/archives directory that can be accessed through the Google cache.

**Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2005 11:36 pm

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I'm starting to see why they're called "ARGs"... it's not because it's short for "Alternate Reality Game". It's because that's the phrase you continually want to yell while playing them.

Vandino · Boot Joined: 03 Nov 2005 Posts: 61 Location: Colorado

maybe we should try and find the dates for the extracts that we find in our emails. because i've checked on almost all the messages we've gotten, and even the message written in the gate picture, and so far they've all been almost direct quotations from the splinternails or splinterworld site, although they usually have a few words changed, added, or missing.

oh, and labfly, i clicked back and forth between the images i have saved from the fourth and today at least fifty times, and they look identical to me.

does anyone else see half of a face on the left side of the gate?

edit: tried to send a message to saintless.splintersSPLATgmail.com, but i got an error message saying that it failed permanently. also sent another reply to rebirth.tenth.movieSPLATgmail.com

i'll wait until tomorrow, see what happens, then maybe retry the saintless addy again

**Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:45 am

cs178 · Boot Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Germany

Apart from the size the images are identical, I just checked.

You are right, with a bit of imagination you could make out some features of a face in the wall next to the gate. But if so, I think the eyes are kind of strange.

**Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 3:06 am

draghkar

Since there are talks about comparison, Holw many of you have seen the soulcellar flash?

There were several images and texts there.

I have an spreadsheet where i collected a lot of these things.

If there is anyone interested, I can post that here.

Greetz,

Draghkar

**Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:18 am

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cs178 · Boot Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Germany

That would be great, as I have missed that.

**Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:08 am

u05mpb · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 81

http://www.splinterworld.com/oboenai/splinternails/archives/lust/index.php

this page now just says 'catch you later' ?

**Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:10 am

Delusional · Entrenched Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 839

Here's your daily update.

The gate pic is now at 300px by 225px.
And the source says.


I wonder if this guy is just messing with us. :/

**Posted:** Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:18 am