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[aninterloper]

I sent:

[JohnnyCon7]

 

[aninterloper]

I am fairly convinced eldoradowatcher responded as he did because of the precise numbers I provided; that is, the solution to the "brace of cerise" numbers mini-puzzle. However, it may be enough for you to have mentioned my name.

[negativeview]

I have been trying to get situated in DC. Unfortunately I'm green, which might interfere with my plans to infiltrate the white side. *shrugs* Here's what I sent:

[JohnnyCon7]

As a heads up, Ethan still hasn't responded, assuming hes seen my message (theres some spec Foo monitors DC interface messages).
So, you probably have to send the numbers that are "wanting" for him to respond.

As far as the whole IG/OOG controversy that taking sides inevitably brings up, wouldn't we here at tCotSA still have to be working as a group and communicating outside of the interface for their previous puzzles to make sense? We couldn't have figured out most tCotSA's puzzles if we wern't working as a group. I think it makes sense then to trust eachother in-game regardless of karma or actions. I'm atleast going to put everyone from this thread as a trusted agent.

*sigh* one more tangent, I started red, have put greens, blacks and blues as trusted, and distrusted Foo and ADPrince; sent info to the Underground; and submitted a couple karma sensitive puzzles wrong, but I'm still red. Not really sure how much these things affect one's karma.

sorry if thats long-winded and unhelpful

[negativeview]

I mentioned both of the numbers that aninterloper did, just in an (imho) less obvious way. I did this precisely because "theres some spec Foo monitors DC interface messages". I didn't want Foo seeing me say "omg liek I on your side!!! die fooz!" Especially since I'm still considering being an agent on several sides where my real loyalty is unclear to everyone.

I can see who you have marked as trusted. I assume that Foo can easily see who I have marked as trusted. I don't want who I have marked to betray my true loyalties. This means that I have to decide on my "public" loyalties and paint a consistent picture.

It may not matter... but then again it may.

Yes, we at tCotSA would have to communicate. But that doesn't mean that Foo/Brakin/other in-game characters have to know that. I personally am going to pretend to not know any of you, for now. I hope that doesn't upset you, it's all in-game. Feel free to mark me as trusted though. I just may deny knowing why you did so.

As far as what affects your karma, the only thing known is puzzles. There is some spec that things like who you trust etc. affect it, but it's unclear if that's true or if it is, to what degree. Things are infuriatingly opaque on that site.

[JohnnyCon7]

I understood about the numbers, I only submitted my red numbers to try something a little different than aninterloper, the solve on jamieroert's letter (made by aninterloper actually ) is pretty clear to me.

But, thanks for clearing up the allegiances for me negativeview. I misunderstood that you meant you would/wouldn't trust an agent just so Foo (or others) wouldn't suspect you. The reason I didn't jump into Deus City earlier was because I felt far behind, I'm not entirely sure I want to be playing now because I really don't like these games where you have to takes sides, it becomes overly competitive and infinitely confusing. It's the reason I stopped playing Lawn Games.

With the combination of my late arrival, side-taking, and unclear rules makes me feel really lost most of the time. I'm going to try to stick with it, and keep/catch up; just feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about anything.

And I thought the boot, plume, and beetle had me confused.

[negativeview]

The whole taking sides thing is one of the main reasons that I didn't get into DC back when I first looked at it. Truth be told I was sitting around, waiting to see if anything happened to pull me back into the game when I got the letter. If not for that, I likely wouldn't have continued with this game.

However, once in it, I'm going to give it a fair chance and role play like crazy.

I haven't so far seen anything to change my initial feelings about the DC side of this game, so I'm not going to actively encourage you to join in on that side. I just can't help but suspect that the people behind tCotSA are also back there somewhere, and something is going to happen "real soon now" that makes my qualms about DC less prominent.

Most of the puzzles for both gray and white have been solved, and it seems like there hasn't been a new puzzle in a while. I'm starting to suspect that once all of the puzzles are done (there is only one left, I beleive) the next phase of this game will begin, and I hope that it adds some elements that aren't in the current phase. The current phase is too "time-waster" for me.

I do have a red and a green side now... so I could friend you on the appropriate side, possibly.

[notgordian]

Just as an explanation of the general way gameplay progresses, here's what the pattern has been recently.

Every week (or every other week) a few new puzzles are added--usually one or two for each District. In addition to that, conversation with characters "unlocks" other missions/puzzles. That is the real "ARGish" part of the game.

Currently, there are two "ARGish" puzzles going on and one timewaster-style puzzle. The first involves the folio page that morelaak received: we need to find Phil and contact him, but we don't know how. It appears as though the prophecy should help us, but that is not yet determined.

The other "ARGish" puzzle is BrumGuy's book cipher from Father Ziod--its purpose is unknown (ok, three if you count finding more folio pieces).

Then, there's Audiophile--the puzzle that just never goes away. It was in our first batch of puzzles December 15th. Solving "timewasters" does not necessarily lead to new puzzles, although I (and a few other players) received communications from Foo that new puzzles would be posted extremely soon.

Our big hope is the opening of other districts--we were able to visit them briefly (confirmed existance of Yellow, Red, Green, and Blue districts) by changing the url. Likewise, WillForth and slewth are up to something that we will soon discover and begin working on.

[negativeview]

Not trying to step on or insult your awesome work and patience notgordian (I also just noticed that you're the primary/only person behind the wiki -- good job there, too) but I thought that I'd augment what you said for some of the tcotsa people:

[aninterloper]

[notgordian]

[negativeview]

[JohnnyCon7]

I got a response from Brother Theophilus (we might want to start a new thread here for this stuff), doesn't seem important though.

[notgordian]

That is Adam Brackin's blogspot account (present time). The email to reach him is ALBrackinSPLATgmail.com

That blog was started when he started doing the Brotherhood thing (mid November) and ended when he was taken to Defense-Corp headquarters in late December.

Mostly, it was about the "Location Puzzles" and you'll find information about it in the Information from Brackin thread. The only thing really significant other than Location Puzzles was a picture of the First Folio page, the St Augustine Prophecy. I would assume Theophilus is telling you to email his present self, though.