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sapagoo
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 		[SITE] sentryoutpost.com
new site
Grumpyboy found a new website.
Using the letters we had from the i ching pages, we had
T_NT_Y_UT_OST

Given the fact that the PM's are only human, grumpyboy found
SENTRYOUTPOST.com, which is In-Game.

Please post information about the website, their forum, and wiki here.

sapagoo

PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:10 pm
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notgordian
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 		The wiki page has an interesting explanation of Sentry Outpost's history: the final version is a rather dumbed down version, so I'm linking to the original draft that seems to make some slight references to the Cthulhu mythos.

Highlights from the older edition:

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Frontiers are inherently dangerous places. Sentries, patrols, watchtowers, garrisons, and outposts become our response to the dangers lurking beyond our safer interiors and along the roads of culture and commerce. They are the mechanism by which society first begins to humanize the threats of the wild, the antithesis of those who seek the lawlessness of the wild as shelter. The networked age is no different than the age of those ancient watchtowers, as the network now brings the frontiers into the very shelters of our homes: brigands and man-eating beasts enter our living rooms through the same portals that bring us the trade and learning we crave.


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In February 2000, Sentry Outpost became a way for these patrols in the wilderness to share intelligence and strategy, to contemplate together what the next move of chaos might be so that we could anticipate it rather than just react to it.


PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:25 pm
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 		Identical Users
Anyone notice that the user Xestrix is the same on both the origins BA Feline posting and the postings on Sentryoutpost.com?

Or did I find something I should not have?
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Randomeis
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 		I think Mkaos saying
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Welcome back Xestrix! Is this a new username for you? If so, what did you use before. If not, I'm sorry that I don't recall it. It's a crazy day at work and my brain has been stuck on stupid. But, yes, here's to new friends and new life on these boards!


would be the PMs way of saying, Who are you? & Don't you try to Hijack our game.

Edit: to add the rest of the quote
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IcyMidnight
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 		I just read through the blog archive and noticed a couple of weird trackbacks linking to:
http://www.sentryoutpost.com/MT/sentry_mt-tb.pl/12
http://www.sentryoutpost.com/MT/sentry_mt-tb.pl/13

They lead to nowhere, but that directory contains a (broken?) MovableType installation with only a test post from 2006. It is filled with the standard (as far as I can tell) filler text.

Might be nothing.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:22 pm
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Logos
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 		I did a technorati search to see if anybody linked to them and came back empty handed.
I've been browsing the forum there though and the Pandoras Thumbdrive thread is pretty interesting it's got talk of another ARG. Interesting. It's also linked from the homepage in one of the early posts.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:29 pm
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 		Re: Identical Users
PST Productions wrote:
Anyone notice that the user Xestrix is the same on both the origins BA Feline posting and the postings on Sentryoutpost.com?

Or did I find something I should not have?


Just to clarify:

I think this demonstrates the difference between in-game (IG) forums and chat, etc., and out-of-game(OOG) forums.

Unforums is strictly and always OOG -- it is used to discuss all aspects of the game, and only players can post here. PMs and other characters (NPCs) cannot.

Many games, however, have IG forums that allow and encourage players to post more or less as 'themselves'-- or to be more accurate, as their IG personas. This is one way to interact with NPCs and to get information, and it makes the experience more immersive. IG emails and replies to your postings are fun!

So, Xestrix is a player of this ARG, but he posted to the Sentrypostforums forums in 'character,' where an NPC chose to respond IG. Even so, he can still post and comment on the game here as a player. The NPCs don't know it's a game, so it's all about maintaining that fourth wall..

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aninterloper
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 		The Pandora's Thumbdrive thread is interesting, especially this post. Social hacking, as he points out, is pretty much what we do. Laughing

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IcyMidnight
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 		Reading through the edits on the Outpost History wiki entry I found the name Arthur Lyndon. Apparently his nick on the wiki/boards is Y2Kveteran.

I don't know if this is useful at this point.

Does that need a spoiler tag?

Edit: Thanks dante. I'll keep a closer eye on the wiki before posting. (Thought that things happened here first, and then were wikified)
I'll figure out the processes here eventually. Smile
I'd forgotten how awesome the people (community) around these parts are (is). Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:56 pm
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danteIL
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IcyMidnight wrote:
Reading through the edits on the Outpost History wiki entry I found the name Arthur Lyndon. Apparently his nick on the wiki/boards is Y2Kveteran.

I don't know if this is useful at this point.

Does that need a spoiler tag?


No spoiler necessary. The BSeeingU wiki now has the beginnings of a nice section on Characters to keep track of who's who..

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Taluria
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 		I went ahead and registered using the same name that I use here, as it is my name on most sites and has had personas built around it before. I'll keep you posted on any interaction.

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 		RFID Info
Beings that my 2600 article dealt with RFID Technology, and I just happen to work with and use RFID tech in the Real World, I hit the link on the sentry site that talked about it.

Here's the quote:

Quote:

Didn't there used to be some big issue with giving kids ID cards because of something like "THE MARK OF THE BEAST!" You know, the devil could figure out a good way to trace RFID...

Or is the devil already tracking us?


The mark of the beast 666 is vague, but might be of interest.


Also there is the user HPHack, who's name on the list is Howard.
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Taluria
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 		HPhack is thowing out theories on if we might be scamming them, it's actually an interesting post.

Quote:
confusor - some look like exactly the kind of new blood we need, requires believing in providence


This part is what really makes me think, because of the slips reading "You Are Providence" that were in the packages. Interesting wording paralell I'll say.

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 		I agree...HPhack had some very amusing points that actually raise some questions with our suspension of disbelief "play ourselves if we were gullible" mentality.

Link to the post here

Some highlights:
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Theory: someone is trying to punk us (who? why? how?)

are "new users" all really unique?
small number makes fraud easy, all come in on one day really sloppy
stuff on other sites more difficult to pull off but not crazily so
automated? pseduo intelligence? forumsocialhackbotnet?
could I write a script that would Eliza posts like theirs? maybe
why? so they can say they punked small security community?

Theory: someone is trying to punk them using us (who? why? how?)

online psychic with "new project"
maybe betting sheet scam cum confidence game?
what role do we play? would our basic nature reinforce a scam?
hidden payload is hiding beneath the surface of reality? something truly vile?


Oh, and to explain something: Howard mentions UCAM-CL-TR-666. This is apparently A Pact With the Devil hacking where malware propagates based on people's baser intents rather than ignorance or carelessness.

The ?ip traceroutes? at the end of the message might even have some significance.

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 		Language Is A Virus
Back many years ago we on the Cthulhu Live list started a thread that dealth with using Language as a virus. This was part of a series of stories that dealt with the Yellow Sign.

Here, found on a link attributed to the Malware issue:

Quote:
How far away into the future are these sinister e-creatures? Bond and Danezis argue that a lot of software today, bundled with adware and spyware functions, already contains traits of the Satan Virus. A user has to put up with dis-utility to reap the benefits. Similarly, peer-to-peer systems are based on a model where the user gives part of her resources to the "network", to get some benefit in return. It is only a small, but significant, conceptual leap to extend already deployed strategies to also include electronic bribery and blackmail. The Satan Virus "would not simply infect a user's machine, but would truly aim to infect the user's mind", says Danezis.



The line that talks about The Satan Virus infecting the user's mind can easily be connected to the mind boggling horrors that one would face if the Mythos was real.

Implanting such a virus, using a Mythos world and Lovecraftian Majciks, would be possible. It would be akin to implanting a subliminal signal in audio, or a trick pixel in an image file.

The IP Traceroutes lead to Dreamhost.com. The 2 IP umbers lead to not active pages at the moment.
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