Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Thu Nov 14, 2024 6:27 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: The Lost Experience » TLE: General, Updates, Spec, & Info
[UPDATE] Mental Health Appeal Project - June 12
View previous topicView next topic
Page 2 of 4 [52 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
Author Message
handofg0d
Greenhorn

Joined: 08 Jun 2006
Posts: 6

I don't think it means anything, but I was testing the box out to see if there is a character limit on it (doesn't appear to be) and I noticed that despite it being a large box, if you exceed the width of the box it will not continue on a new line, just scroll over. Also, you cannot put in return carriages to forcabely go down a line.

It's most likely that this is just an oversight, and total irrelevant, but you never know, so I thought I'd share.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:21 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Strings
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Posts: 334
Location: France

Hey, this is kind of off topic but if you're posting Season 2 spoilers, please write which episode you're refering to. Otherwise it's useless. Just writing "Season 2 Spoiler" when really you're talking about the season 2 finale doesn't help. There's no way for me to know if I've seen that episode or not, y'know?

Also, the anagram "merge those titles" makes sense to me. Just for reference, the titles are:
q9als2002
t9agen75
u8egnce86

Edit: Someone over at Inside The Experience worked out that the anagram is

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
light sequence again


Which happens to be the password for the VIK page.

Then you get a cool game to play. After 4, 8 16 and 23 levels of the game, I got the message:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
department of heuristics and research on material
I figured I'd get one for 42 as well... But I messed up on level 25

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:29 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
oli
Veteran

Joined: 06 Nov 2002
Posts: 121
Location: London, UK

Just to clarify the solve, cos I haven't seen a full explanation posted yet (credit to JustWillow at Inside the Experience):

The "hole" image filenames are

q9als2002
t9agen75
u8egnce86

The clue "timeless" tells us to get rid of the date-looking numbers at the end of each filename. We then turn the 9,9,8 into i,i,h. We then put all the letters "together":

qials tiagen uhegnce

which anagrams to:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
light sequence again


PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:34 am
Last edited by oli on Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:36 am; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
empath
Boot

Joined: 08 Oct 2003
Posts: 14

Strings wrote:
Hey, this is kind of off topic but if you're posting Season 2 spoilers, please write which episode you're refering to. Otherwise it's useless. Just writing "Season 2 Spoiler" when really you're talking about the season 2 finale doesn't help. There's no way for me to know if I've seen that episode or not, y'know?

Also, the anagram "merge those titles" makes sense to me. Just for reference, the titles are:
q9als2002
t9agen75
u8egnce86

Edit: Someone over at Inside The Experience worked out that the anagram is

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
light sequence again


Which happens to be the password for the VIK page.

Then you get a cool game to play. After 4, 8 16 and 23 levels of the game, I got the message:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
department of heuristics and research on material
I figured I'd get one for 42 as well... But I messed up on level 25


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications -- DHARMA


PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:36 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Strings
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Posts: 334
Location: France

empath wrote:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications -- DHARMA


SNAP!

I can't beliebe I played it twice. Man, I did not enjoy one second of that game...

Okay, so because The VIK Institute is all to do with the brain, i'm going to assume that they mean Heuristics in the psychological sense... Which is like, the rules for why and how people make decisions, come to judgments and solve problems.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:42 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
handofg0d
Greenhorn

Joined: 08 Jun 2006
Posts: 6

Ah, you beat me to it. I just ran an anagram search and found that one. Good job though, it was a tough clue. An anagram to find an anagram.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:44 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
empath
Boot

Joined: 08 Oct 2003
Posts: 14

handofg0d wrote:
Ah, you beat me to it. I just ran an anagram search and found that one. Good job though, it was a tough clue. An anagram to find an anagram.


An anagram to find an acronym, technically.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:10 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
handofg0d
Greenhorn

Joined: 08 Jun 2006
Posts: 6

empath wrote:
handofg0d wrote:
Ah, you beat me to it. I just ran an anagram search and found that one. Good job though, it was a tough clue. An anagram to find an anagram.


An anagram to find an acronym, technically.


I'm confused. isn't an acronym a series of letters to create a word from abbreviations? Such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

-EDIT- I see what you were saying, the anagram being DHARMA. I meant the anagram from persephone.thehansofoundation.org (timeless together) to find the anagram from filenames from the hole sites.

So technically, an anagram to find an anagram to find an acronym.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:26 pm
Last edited by handofg0d on Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:32 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
chief
Veteran


Joined: 10 May 2006
Posts: 126

handofg0d wrote:
empath wrote:
handofg0d wrote:
Ah, you beat me to it. I just ran an anagram search and found that one. Good job though, it was a tough clue. An anagram to find an anagram.


An anagram to find an acronym, technically.


I'm confused. isn't an acronym a series of letters to create a word from abbreviations? Such as radar for radio detecting and ranging.

[/b]
Yes, DHARMA is an acronym, found at the end of the Simon game. Just like SCMODS is an acronym.
_________________
63 68 69 65 66
99 104 105 101 102


PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:29 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
terminalskeptik
Unfettered


Joined: 05 Jun 2003
Posts: 351
Location: Onboard the Groovy Purple Derigible

How log has anyone played the simon game? I am on round 80. I don't know if I have the patience to go to 108.

EDIT: Nope, I don't have the patience.
_________________
www.beforethemusicdies.com

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:54 pm
Last edited by terminalskeptik on Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:10 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
smmarl
Boot

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 21
Location: USA

We also have another reference to the TV show with the Apollo Bar mention at the beginning of the game. I wouldn't have known what that was if I didn't watch the show. Just thought I'd throw that in.

-S

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:54 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
djrazz
Decorated

Joined: 10 Jul 2003
Posts: 250
Location: Groom Lake

im in the process of doing this 42 times for no reason at all
im starting to wonder if the symobls are random or if there is a message in the order they appear they seem to be musical as well i've been writing the order down well see
_________________
"Im not a number im a free man"
Trout ARE "FRESH" water fish
and have underwater wepons
http://home.neo.rr.com/djrazz/trout.mp3


PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:24 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Hank Scorpio
Decorated

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 170

the sequence i got leading me through 42 was this
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
5151115212344123422521342215452332542225351

I assigned the numbers 1-5 to the keys starting with 1 on the left. Dont know if everyone gets the same pattern or not. Weird how the music stops once you get there.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:46 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
terminalskeptik
Unfettered


Joined: 05 Jun 2003
Posts: 351
Location: Onboard the Groovy Purple Derigible

So, does this mean that DHARMA started out as a department at the Vik Institute? If that is the case, there is more evidence that the whole island is a mind game, or a play on reality. Also, does the fact that the Vik is in Iceland mean that (episode 2x24 season finale)
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The station we see at the end of the season finale is actually in or around Iceland, and maybe even the island itself?

_________________
www.beforethemusicdies.com

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:57 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
vexingmodstwo
Boot


Joined: 08 Jun 2006
Posts: 46

terminalskeptik wrote:
So, does this mean that DHARMA started out as a department at the Vik Institute? If that is the case, there is more evidence that the whole island is a mind game, or a play on reality. Also, does the fact that the Vik is in Iceland mean that
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The station we see at the end of the season finale is actually in or around Iceland, and maybe even the island itself?


I think it's the other way around. The Vik Institute is a program within Dharma.

The Island being another program within Dharma.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:01 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 2 of 4 [52 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: The Lost Experience » TLE: General, Updates, Spec, & Info
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group