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[Incitatus]

This is the phone call cleaned up a bit via Adobe Audition.

Also posted is the spectral analysis view to show what i'm talking about.

Second part seemingly saying "You (Kill/Killed/Tell) (them/him)"

And just in case, a Frequency analysis to show that infact, there are two distinct (Green-First, Blue-second) time in which the man speaks apart from the background noise (Red/multicolor).

[Lucy]

To me, the noise at the start of that audio clip sounds like glitchy blips or perhaps a synthetic duck quacking.

[Gus Raja]

I adjusted equalizer settings various ways and listened to it several times. The best I can figure is this...

You have one voice at the start saying two words. It sounds to me like its saying "Mike's dead." then near the end you have two more words spoken by a different voice further away. It sort of sounds like "he's not." Then during the tail end of the last word you here a click that ends the call. This click sounds very much like a sound you might use when you close your cell phone.

[matt_the_pale]

Does anyone know who takes the credit for first finding this video at Monster.com? Usually people are quick to point out that they were the first to do something, but strangely, in this particular instance...

[Coelacanth]

The first I heard about it was on the tailsection when a person named "jrock"posted this:

[ziot]

We were trying to figure out how someone could find it yesterday and this is what we came up with.

If you go to monster, take the celebrity poll, then click on the video archive link, it'll send you to a list of videos which doesn't include Rachel Blake. (It may have). But if you open up a video, take the url, replace the archiveid 2 with a 1, you'll get the rachel video and a lost trailer.

http://content.monster.com/pop/default.asp?archiveid=1

Something cool that Cather pointed out:

http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/video_skin/icons/lost1.gif
http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/video_skin/icons/lost2.gif
http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/video_skin/icons/lost3.gif
http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/video_skin/icons/lost4.gif
http://media.monster.com/mm/usen/content/video_skin/icons/lost5.gif

Judging by the "Post 001" and the 5 icons, i'm wondering if they are going to have 5 videos.

If anyone wants to toy with the video, you can download it through a stream program such as SDP Multimedia.

If you're having trouble downloading it, contact me in IRC and i'll give you a link to a downloadable source. I don't want to post it for copyright reasons, they're vicious!

[Coelacanth]

[catherwood]

[matt_the_pale]

[colin]

While the video was released early it probably hasn't done that much harm. The hanso site has shut down now, so it doesn't predict the future, which would have been bad. My guess is that the next update (tuesday?) it would have been released.

[matt_the_pale]

Actually, I am almost 100% certain Monster.com is no longer affiliated with the Lost Experience -- note that in Speaker's newest post, he fails to mention HansoCareers.com as a possible clue outlet. In the comments he hints that Monster.com will not play any more part in this ARG.

I suppose we're just to pretend the video hasn't come out yet.

[theShaggy]

Wow, this was quite a controversy, eh? I still don't know how I feel about the whole thing, myself, but hey, a small stumble in the game isn't all that horrible. I'll pretend to be shocked when the video comes out, methinks.

I hope they don't ditch Monster.com in their story (especially since they seem unable to work on the fly to explain stuff away - they should hire those Vaporlofts people, who had none of the actual ARG puzzles set up when the game launched, and made them up on the fly), because Monster has had the best subtle advertising thus far.

[Coelacanth]

I really hope this is not the PM's idea of damage control. So the vid got out too soon... is this not an easy thing to add into the storyline? This "speaker" may be in-game but he doesn't seem to handling that responsibility very well:

[matt_the_pale]

theShaggy & Coelacanth -

I think Pandora at ITE said it best.

[theShaggy]

I agree with her, too.

In this case, from reading the comments that weren't deleted on Speaker's blog, it seems like all people want is some sort of acknowledgement that it's there. A "odd that we found that - maybe it'll be important next week" or something. Instead, Speaker and the producers figure that they'll ignore it and it will go away.

I hope the PMs read this stuff closely and realize that we're not TOO finnicky when it comes to continuity, but ignore the players' treasure hunting devalues our part in the game.