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[subbes]

Jumping back to the note -- feel free to trout me if this has already been stated.

His supervisor (or whoever wrote him the note) calls him "Morlock."

Morlocks are a race of underground-dwelling humanoid creatures from H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. They eat other humanoid creatures -- the Eloi.

There's lots to digest here. From Wikipedia:

[Esteed]

Update to the blog.

[j2n4me]

As much as I hate to say it, time travel actually seems plausible. But why would the boss-type guy want to keep him away from there, then?


_:(

[fairlady]

You'll have to excuse my delay in responding to this thread topic. I have not had much time lately to devote my all to figuring out this game.

As for 256 and some of the theories I have been pouring over for the last few days...

I believe that you all are on the right track and I think that if we work together we will be able to discover what is happening to 256. Recently his inactivity has worried me and for a while I thought that you all had gotten him killed and ruined what was turning into quite a bit of fun for me.

It seems that just recently we have been informed that 256 is alive but still does not sound well.

I have been sitting here racking my brain and going over all the different parts of the site to come up with an answer to what we are supposed to do next but I am also drawing a big blank here.

I'll see if I can compile a list of the things that I think are important that have not been addressed yet.

[fairlady]

[j2n4me]

Okay so wait. If he has the /x/ keys, are those keys for the ones on the map marked with x's, or are they for keys that he can already get into? (And that the map has without x's?)

[Xestrix]

I always just figured calling him "morlock" was just a nice little easter egg type thing for anyone who knows a bit of literature. Since he always works in the basement you know, I don't/didn't think it really meant anything, but who knows~

Also, I really don't think /300zx/ was supposed to "lead" to /x/ I really think that they're both different doors that each need to be solved, not one lead to the other.

[ash32]

[Xestrix]

[ash32]

[Jabba]

He's back from the dead!

[fairlady]

[j2n4me]

Email.

[Jabba]

[Esteed]

So, since I came in late I'm just going to do a quick little recap here to make sure I've got everything straight about this darkness.

When he enters it, his flashlight quickly stops working.
His cell battery dies quicker in there.
He's rarely able to find any kind of signal while his cell does have charge.
The walls hum.

Sounds to me like something is drawing the energy out of the devices he takes with him. Drawing the power out of the flashlight or its batteries, eating up the power in the phone, interfering with the signal, the hum, it all points to something being down there that's messing with either some kind of electro-magnetic field or some kind of creature that eats up the energy.

Another thing to note: In reports of close encounters of the third kind (not just abductions, and yes I mean aliens) people report their cars suddenly stalling, their headlights going off, their radios playing static or just plain dying, and oftentimes, their cell phones not working.