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[Eddy]

[SPEC] Dead-End Boneyard - Leaps of faith and other random..

[MonTag]

id say the faint number's on the we'll miss you sign at the party, no one ever seemed to definitevly get any numbers from it, and doughtnut circle guy.

[mhovis]

Those damn hands on the Slusho store page!

[Eddy]

Alright. Here's one that's still bugging me even though I'm totally burned out on it.

With the addition of Tagruato Corp. and their drilling activities, I'm that much more inclined to accept John Murphy's 1/3 plot outline as legitimate. I will say it's less "ugh" inspiring now that I've had time to get used to it, and now that it looks like the makers are going to at least attempt to give is a hard science fiction edge.

With the hard sf stuff in mind, I decided to try and divine one possible name for the movie. In particular, and with the global warming metaphor in mind, I started connecting mass extinction events, Pangaea--mid-Atlantic ridge, etc. I learned a lot about geology and extinction-level events, but the closest I got to a name for the movie was The Seventh Extinction (i.e. the one that buries man). So anyway, I still get the sense that I'm missing something.

[firelight]

how about if the friend ID numbers of all the myspace characters have some type of algorithmic or numerical relationship. I read somewhere one of them is in the form of a geometric progression...

[lighter]

Attempting random pwords for the jamie & teddy site, each wrong entry produced the "incorrect password please enter correct..."screen, but typing in teddy2 yielded a blank screen the first time. im sure my computer just pooped out, but, whatever. Also, the slusho 7's surnames,(family crests, coat of arms, mottos) were mildly interesting in regards to how the story may unfold...(diamond-i learn to succour the distressed; Hawkins-always ready;mcintyre-thru difficulties; etc). Extremophiles in general; the words:"bear" and "hotness" pertaining to Jamie; i could go on for a while. I appreciate all the brain power you folks have put into this. Here's to hoping this movie is one to remember.

[R30028]

i'm willing to bet that anagrams and intricate number combinations/analysis have NOTHING to do with the movie or clues. most likely stuff will be pretty straightforward and out in the open

[firelight]

longshot here, but right now we need all we can find...

anagrams for tagruato= 'Gar At Out', 'Gar Tau To'


According to WordWeb:

Gar = Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

At = A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium

Tau = The 19th letter of the Greek alphabet

Gar [is] out - let out? Disturbed? Moved from resting place?

[CloverfieldClues.com]

[firelight]

[firelight]

followed the above to 'http://www.lawoftime.org/home.html' looks odd and like an ARG sort of page but I think it is OO this G.

[LC_from_The_Hills]

[Cthulhu]

Here's mine.

[Eddy]

More on theoretical metaphorical parallels and guessing at what you might expect to find. The sea nectar (secret ingredient) analogous to oil/fossil fuels, while unsubstantiated, is nevertheless hard to escape. Given the nectar's apparent curative effects (among others), it also parallels fossil fuels in that while not addictive, not the sort of thing humanity is likely to wean itself of regardless of whether it gives rise to monsters from the deep. With that in mind and in this day and age, what other fictional roles could you expect to be filled/useful to the story?

The first one that comes to my mind is the environmentalist (or group) taking issue with Taguato's deep sea drilling practices. Could be a blog, could be a website, could be a marine biologist or disgruntled ex-employee who knows the true extent of Taguato's environmental disregard not to mention its questionable bioethics... Basically, a character whose warnings, while prescient, only get attention after the disaster has happened, i.e. serve to explain what happened and why.

A black-market in sea nectar? There sure as hell would be one if it were real.

A cult of sea nectar devotees or group of sea nectar supremacists?

Etc.

That said, I do get the sense that the ARG is still catching up with its own success, so while I think it makes sense to at least look for other metaphorically consistent real world parallels, I sorta doubt the people charged with creating them have the time to do it justice.

[Dr. Awkward]