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colbyrook
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 		Communications with Rob and Tagruato Corp
Suggest any further communications via Colby Rook in this thread/previous message speculations
So guys this has moved way past the tagruato corp topic and now, I think, I have earned my own thread! Very Happy

If you have no idea what I am talking about with this 'talking to Rob' stuff go to the tagruato corp topic/thread.... it all starts about page 10, and goes to about page 21, including transcripts of the messages, screenshots and html downloads.

So just whack in anything you think you want me to say to Rob in future messages (if there are future messages) or any speculation about his past ones in the other thread.

*This is my first topic post, so please dont leave me hanging out here with no posts! Evil or Very Mad*

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 		Maybe as a reference you could post all communications that have already happened. (edit: it just might be easier to have them all in one spot then to navigate through the other monstrous thread)

Right now, I'm in the process of starting a conversation with him myself, just in case a different angle produces different clues.

Great job on everything by the way colbyrook, that revealed quite a bit of information.

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 		Personally, I think someone needs to talk to Jamie about Teddy.

Also, I'm very interested to see what Rob has to say about the doctor and the site's registrar that I asked you to reference. This could definitely take it to a whole new level.

So far, you have successfully pulled from him the fact that he already WORKS at Tagruato, which completely changes what everyone was thinking at the start.

New responses will lead to new clues, let's hope.

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 		I agree on the focus needs to go to jamie. With enough people asking about her infection and commenting her with the youtube video. Thats why she talked about her infection, for us to tease her about it to get a response.

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dtweedokay wrote:
Maybe as a reference you could post all communications that have already happened. (edit: it just might be easier to have them all in one spot then to navigate through the other monstrous thread)

Right now, I'm in the process of starting a conversation with him myself, just in case a different angle produces different clues.

Great job on everything by the way colbyrook, that revealed quite a bit of information.



All occurances in reference to this issue:


colbyrook wrote:
iconsumer wrote:
colbyrook wrote:
On the interactive map of drilling stations, has anyone thought of or tried to use a program like BB flashback or another screen recorder to slow down the flash, and analyse the code that comes up below whilst the station details are being formed? Do you know which one I mean? Maybe chuai the station would be of specific interest?


Pretty sure it's just random gibberish, as every time I click on the same one it comes out with different symbols (trust me, I have a good eye for patterns like that).


Ok then.... if you say so. My computer is crap Crying or Very sad so I'll trust you to know . Anyone know if the contact e-mail for the site works? I got a plan....


colbyrook wrote:
InAFieldofClover wrote:
colbyrook wrote:
guess no one's gonna ask me what my plan is then...... Sad


I'll take the bait. What's the plan?


Thank god! Very Happy

Ok... so back in The Lost Experience last year, I found that some of the info was gained by gamers actually interacting with the game creators.... [e.g. hanso foundation, apollo candy, mittlwork, lost ninja, etc.]. If they hadn't of done this, the games would have not progressed (or taken longer to do so). Second thing..... earlier this month, a guy over on cloverfieldnews or cloverfieldclues (cant remember which one) messaged one of the characters on myspace...., and got an actual response- people are obviously there to interact with


So here's my plan.... instead of waitin around for things to be discovered like I've been doin, I'm gonna try and get into it. I'm about to e-mail the following to the taguato email contact (18kagashimadSPLATtagruato.jp):

"


To Whom it May Concern,

I am somewhat interested in employment opportunities with Tagruato Corp, specifically working with marketing of Slusho! products. On you website you have stated that "A search is on for top marketing professionals who will be tasked with duplicating the drink's Asian popularity in the Western market". How is it possible to become an applicant for these positions? If you can give me contact information for your head of marketing or head of employment, I will send my extended resume to your offices with haste.

I will briefly tell you about myself: I am currently living in New York City, United States of America, in a small apartment in Manhattan. Previously residing in Australia, I have gained a degree in Bachelor and Masters Business Marketing (University of Sydney, 1999). I have had previous experience in marketing international events and products, specifically boating races (for example, I was the chief marketing organiser for the Sydney to Hobart Australian Yacht race [http://www.rolexsydneyhobart.com], as well as international world boat races for several concurrent years [http://www.widmorerace.com] [http://www.microtransat.org]). I have also been involved in the trans-national marketing of specific products and services, including Gannon Car Rentals, "FULL O' NUTS" candy bars [http:\\www.apollocandy.com] and Ripple Potato Chips just to name a few. I am currently just finishing work with an airline company, helping it 'get back on it's feet' after an incident numerous years ago- I can offer you a referral from them about me if it is appropriate.

My current living position being America, I think, would suit your motive to move into the western market appropriately. I would greatly appreciate any opportunity you could give me.

Awaiting your reply,

Jason Mc Gillan

[extended contact information can be supplied if need be]

"

So good plan or no? Remember this site has been around for a while and we haven't noticed it... how much more stuff is already out there that we just haven't made the move to access it? Maybe the big drought of information we've just had is our own fault....

lol if its stupid don't rip into me please Embarassed At least I'm tryin


colbyrook wrote:
Uninvited wrote:
colbyrook wrote:

So good plan or no? Remember this site has been around for a while and we haven't noticed it... how much more stuff is already out there that we just haven't made the move to access it? Maybe the big drought of information we've just had is our own fault....

Well, we only found it because of the picture on 1-18-08.com. Which was put up two days ago. So, I'd say we found it on time.


Yeah I guess so... just thought I'd pose the question.

*btw my name is colby rook, not J. Mc Gillan, and I live in Australia, not Manhattan. Just thought that, along with the lost ty-ins in the e-mail might spark something (as well as similarities to what we know about Rob).


colbyrook wrote:
tiny420 wrote:
I think it would be better than trying to send an Email. Considering will we probably get the same email. But if this is a real location, who knows.


check my post on page 10 buddy... still waiting for a reply


colbyrook wrote:
stugots wrote:
anyone try telling Rob that this company is looking for marketing talent?


just sent him this:

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Hey man read ur profile... I know you've just finished your stuff with marketing and I found this on the net..... www.tagruato.jp

go to the 'slusho' section in subsidiaries... they're lookin for western marketers dude!
Listen... I know a guy who knows a guy that works with slusho over in japan.... he said they'rll b big bucks in western marketting of the drink.... the Asians are crazy over the stuff apparently.

Anyway, I've sent them an e-mail to apply myself.... they dont give much info but hopefully they'll reply soon... I told them about my work with the widmore race and alike.

Anyhoo... check it out man.... you may have a future in this sort of thing!
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colbyrook wrote:
W-Three wrote:
When you say an OOG site, do you mean www.youcantdrinkjustsix.com or the site it defers to? Because the site it defers to is defiantly OOG.

But still there does seem to be a connection between the Bloop and the monster.


I was referring to the defferal... maybe an in-game figure organised it to give us a clue? or then again maybe the admin of http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/sounds/bloop.html is just a 1-18-08 fan and bought the domain name.

Anyway stay tuned to this thread... I just got a message back from Rob (see pages 10 & 11) on MySpace... doing the transcript and screenshots now.... VERY excited


[quote="colbyrook"]
colbyrook wrote:
W-Three wrote:

Anyway stay tuned to this thread... I just got a message back from Rob (see pages 10 & 11) on MySpace... doing the transcript and screenshots now.... VERY excited


Sorry about the wait... Microsoft paint decided it wanted to uninstall, and then I had to use Macromedia Freehand to save the screenshot, which takes like 10 mins to load on my crap computer... it was worth it though...

Here is a transcript of message:

Quote:
Date: 01 Oct 2007, 6:42 PM
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Subject: RE: hey man... got some info for you
Body: Hey colby....

Not sure I remember you from anywhere little man.... Do you live in NY? Were you at NYU?
Anyway... I'm sorry if I've forgotten you; I'm real bad with names. If you do know me then you should know that I'm already working with Tagruato... I've been with them for two months now- I started as an intern. I work with slusho and paraFun... what are you looking into? If you like... I think I could organise a meeting with Ganu... lucky for you we're pretty close. Did you say you worked on the widmore race?... I had a friend who raced in that.... Do you know Gareth?

Anyway if you want to apply just send me your resume and I'll see what I can do. They're looking for marketting roles now in paraFun more so than slusho. Also, with the new station up and running, I've been told they're looking for NY residents *if that is what you are!*.

Thanks for the message!

Rob

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: *~*~*--:colby:--*~*~*
Date: 01 Oct 2007, 08:29 AM


Hey man read ur profile... I know you've just finished your stuff with marketing and I found this on the net..... www.tagruato.jp

go to the 'slusho' section in subsidiaries... they're lookin for western marketers dude!
Listen... I know a guy who knows a guy that works with slusho over in japan.... he said they'rll b big bucks in western marketting of the drink.... the Asians are crazy over the stuff apparently.

Anyway, I've sent them an e-mail to apply myself.... they dont give much info but hopefully they'll reply soon... I told them about my work with the widmore race and alike.

Anyhoo... check it out man.... you may have a future in this sort of thing!


happy time


colbyrook wrote:
vlaka wrote:
interesting.... ask to set up a meeting Very Happy


lol hmmm.... yeah I'll see if I can get to know him well enough to be invited to his surprise going-away party on the eighteenth of january next year... lol


Interesting that he says:

Quote:
Did you say you worked on the widmore race?... I had a friend who raced in that.... Do you know Gareth?


I think he is telling me something... if he is an in-game employee he must know I was referencing LOST.

I am currently thinking on what to reply.... any ideas?


Wiserbud wrote:
Maybe he knows Desmond or Penny?


sorry... vlaka didnt write that... lol Razz still working out how to quote stuff. I hope they are not! I still have nothing from that e-mail to tagruato I spoke about though.

I would like to send him a resume.... would help if I had one Laughing

Wiserbud wrote:
Maybe he knows Desmond or Penny?


I'm not sure if I like the idea of a LOST tie-in.... as much as I am, like, the biggest LOST freak ever, If the monster turned out to be a column of smoke I think I would kill myself- I nearly did when I found out jacob was one Mad

Wiserbud wrote:
If it is the black smoke monster, JJ's career would be over. That would be pretty weak. On the other hand, subtle connections are kinda cool.


Yeah true... if it was in the same universe, but different themes...

So any ideas on what to reply?

I'm so excited right now! I could be the next Rachel Blake Very Happy

colbyrook wrote:
Wiserbud wrote:
Man, I don't know. You don't want to screw it up. It's like figuring out what to say to the hot chick you might have a chance with.


Very Happy yeah.... but when in doubt, (and I quote 'school of scoundrels') "Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and lie some more."

So here we go... BRAINSTORMING REPLIES PEOPLE!

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Yeah man I live in NY... I went to NYU [insert details about NYU that only someone from NYU would know]"...but I finished in 2003, a year after you. lol it's ok... I'm bad with names too- I met you at Jamie's party last month.. remember? The guy with the shaggy mane of blonde hair? Ring a bell... maybe not... I was only talking to you for like five mins. Anyway me and Jamie go way back.

You'd do that for me? Really? From what I've read about Ganu he's pretty high up in the food chain... you must know the right people. Anyway I'm just putting together a resume now... you could maybe send it to him? That would be awesome.

I was more interested in slusho... mostly because I hear employee's get half-off slusho's all the time? lol Do you? Nah actually anything is fine... whatever. Anyway I'll send you through the resume soon enough.

Cheers

Colby


P.S.: Gareth? No... I only worked on the race in 2004... Oh hold on... Gareth, Gareth, Gareth.... maybe know who you're talking about... scruffy-looking scottish guy?"
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iconsumer wrote:
Looks good colbyrook.

Question though : Has anyone involved with the Lost ARG know how the communication IG usually work? For instance... where do you draw the line on making things up (such as Colby saying he's actually met Rob in person).

Very curious to the "rules" that usually go along with this sort of thing.

This new gaming blows my mind. Razz


I was involved with The Lost Experience ARG last year.... but not to this extent. The game never involved Myspace or personal contact with the characters... HOWEVER, in previous posts I have referred to people from TLE actually getting involved and finding information... I was referring to one specific incident half-way through, which one of my friends was involved in, being australian;

Participants were given clues that lead to several official IG hieroglyphs and hanso foundation posters being found on the streets of Sydney... on lampposts and such. This really created a 'realistic' element to the game, and truly immersed the players in the game's world.

Where is the line drawn? Certainly not with personal interaction.... take www.billion2one.org for example

colbyrook wrote:
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Hey Rob...

Yeah man I live in NY... I went to NYU, studied under Geeta Menon.. I also did some stuff at Second City Adult Intensive Training ...but I finished in 2003, a year after you. lol it's ok... I'm bad with names too- I met you at Jamie's party last month.. remember? The guy with the shaggy mane of blonde hair? Ring a bell... maybe not... I was only talking to you for like five mins. Anyway me and Jamie go way back.

You'd do that for me? Really? From what I've read about Ganu he's pretty high up in the food chain... you must know the right people. The person I said my Japanese friend knows is named Hero Takanawa/Takawshi/Takanshi (not sure... all sound the same Very Happy) Anyway I'm just putting together a resume now... you could maybe send it to him? That would be awesome.

I was more interested in slusho... mostly because I hear employee's get half-off slusho's all the time? lol Do you? Nah actually anything is fine... whatever. Anyway I'll send you through the resume soon enough.

btw Jamie tells me you and Daiske Kagashima are getting on fine indeed!


Cheers

Colby


P.S.: Gareth? No... I only worked on the race in 2004... Oh hold on... Gareth, Gareth, Gareth.... maybe know who you're talking about... scruffy-looking scottish guy?"


The above is just about to be sent off... any final changes?

Oh and yeah being the middle-man may be hard atm, but I'll do my best (I'm doin my HSC exams in 2 weeks, australian equivelant of SAT)


colbyrook wrote:
ok its gone. I'm not gonna be watching his profile so some one tell me if he goes online please Cool .

Strangely, he has not accepted my friend request that I initially made. Anyway....

So what next? Personally I think we should be looking for clues in that blog entry of Ganu's http://ganuyoshida.blogspot.com/ ... is it IG or no?


McPhearson wrote:
colbyrook wrote:
ok its gone. I'm not gonna be watching his profile so some one tell me if he goes online please Cool .

Strangely, he has not accepted my friend request that I initially made. Anyway....

So what next? Personally I think we should be looking for clues in that blog entry of Ganu's http://ganuyoshida.blogspot.com/ ... is it IG or no?


Something rings fake about it. I would take it with a grain of salt.


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 		somewhat interesting that Rob spelt 'Paraffun' wrong (only put one f), seeing as though he works with them. Probably nothing though

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 		keep up the good work.

hope you get some more responses, maybe with more info. I'm sure that will come later after you have been through the nice friendly talk.

No reply from tagruato i c. I never through they would.

Its cool that Robs replying, but with the amount of hoaxes around i'm weary.

anyone tried contacting Jamie to see if she's got rid of her bowel problems (joke)

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 		Just sent this off to Tagruato's contact email (18KagashimaDSPLATtagruato.jp) ... hopefully will get a bite. Crying or Very sad

iconsumer wrote:
To whom it may concern,

I run a manufacturing company creating electronics for the music industry and am interested in possible applications of Parrafun Wax in my industry.

I've been a big fan of Slusho! and was very happy to find out that it was part of a larger corporation involved with things more related to my field of work.

The Paraffun link on your website doesn't appear to go anywhere, so I was curious as to how I might obtain more info about Parrafun products?

I'm looking forward to see Slusho! get bigger in the states. I first found out about it when I used to visit Japan often a few years ago (my Japanese retailer is a big Slusho addict), but it's been so long since I had a chance to visit!

Thank you for your time.


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 		i doubt there will be a reply.

I think we all need to focus on the myspace accounts. Sending messages to all of the ppl involved. I've sent a few little messages trying to get a response, but no response as of yet.

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keeno_82uk wrote:
i doubt there will be a reply.

I think we all need to focus on the myspace accounts. Sending messages to all of the ppl involved. I've sent a few little messages trying to get a response, but no response as of yet.


I dunno. Seems odd they'd put an email out there and not expect people to try to get an IG response from it. Maybe just takes the right set of questions... coming in from the right angle.

Seriously. They'd didn't _have_ to put an email address there, ya know?

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 		they also didn't have to put dead links to site map, help and other dead links on the site, but have done to make the site look authentic. Maybe they'll work one day.

Try asking your e-mail server to obtain a receipt of delivery from the other side, to ascertain whether it is a authentic e-mail adress.

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 		This is all absolutely incredible. Congrats on your contact success and actually getting to be a part of the game and interacting with the game to get game details... Good job!

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 		I've sent a professional email to Rob as an employee of one of the largest freight forwarders in South Florida (which, to be honest, is the trutyh), expressing interest in expanding marketing operations for a company like Tagruato to South America (which, if they were real, I can actually do).

A shame they're not real... might be good money in it.

Anyway, will advise.

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keeno_82uk wrote:
they also didn't have to put dead links to site map, help and other dead links on the site, but have done to make the site look authentic. Maybe they'll work one day.

You mean like the way Slusho.jp had so many loopback links to start with?
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