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[grumpyboy]

Virtuquest.com updated

[konamouse]

Clicking on NEWS expands the headlines:
June 3, 2003:
VirtuQuest.Com breaks its working partnership with
the Psychological Evaluation company known
as Elle Broderick. Due to resent compliance issues
between Elle Broderick and federal regulations, VQC
feels this is best for both organizations.
VirtuQuest.Com will be in no way be affected by
this separation.

Clicking on PLAY shows a new heading design:
PLAY Reality Is Coming . . .
Welcome to PLAY
You need to enter a name to continue:
Play is officially over: Feel free to try for fun:

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http://ellebroderick.com is still not opening yet.

[Ehsan]

umm.. I'm a bit lost.. I'm sure someone can help..

Virtuquest is the game we are playing right? I mean virtuquest is the PM's official site and from there we register for the game.. it is not ingame because it actually talks about real life events and has some info on Alternate Reality Gaming.. we play a game and it even has the scores..

Elle Broderick is a fictional character in the ARG we are playing.. related to all the other sites.. according to elle's site, we are part of an experiment..

Now how can Virtuquest and Elle? This was bothering me from the beginning but I sort of let it go.. it's nagging at me again now with the latest news.. what exactly is Virtuquest and how does it fit into the ARG..

[witchywindy]

i think this is a blurring of the lines between reality and AR, that the PM's are purposely confusing the real world with it's real news and ingame with it's direct links to elle broderick...

[konamouse]

http://www.ellebroderick.com/ is now showing an Index page:

Index of /

Name Last modified Size Description
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Parent Directory 04-Jun-2003 10:12 -
cgi-bin/ 04-Jun-2003 10:08 -


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Apache/1.3.27 Server at www.ellebroderick.com Port 80

[grumpyboy]

the cgi-bin folder gives a "403 Forbidden"

[Ehsan]

Don't read too much into it.. they haven't uploaded or modified their site in any way so you get the standard directory listing.. the domain just finished propogating to all DNS servers today so that's why it didn't point anywhere yesterday..

anyway,

Registrant:
Elle Broderick Corporation
322 8th Ave
# 802
New York, New York 10001
US

Domain name: ELLEBRODERICK.COM

Administrative Contact:
Nagi, Tyra tyranagiSPLATellebroderick.com
322 8th Ave
# 802
New York, New York 10001
US
+1.2088694149

[grumpyboy]

the site is up with the following message:

[grumpyboy]

If you visit virtuquest.com now, you get a pop-up with the following message.

[Guest]

So where do we find page 9?

[Ehsan]

And what is this corporate edition anyway.. I doubt there is a REAL corporation somewhere using this because virtuquest is a front for an ARG.. but it tries to be part of the ARG.. which is just confusing instead of entertaining..

[Caterpillar]

Has it started then?
I'm a bit confused on the "Virtuquest" part....is this the site that is hosting the "game"? Or is it "in-game"?

Why would Jacob Trasky's name become active, and to such an "ARGly inviting" page no less, if it wasn't for the game?

[grumpyboy]

[Karmic_Crimewave]

That would make a bit of sense, taking into account their other venture (pun unintended, but I'll take it anyway...) into ARG was the Experience IT!
game. That would most likely also explain the Corporate Leader Board.

[Ehsan]

no no virtuquest is not real! it just can't be.. the site isn't professional and the elements such as "association with ella broderick" are clearly fictous becase broderick is not real.. but I guess since we are all consufed the PM's achieved what they were looking for..

this is just annoying.. can the PM's please raise the curtain for 5 seconds and explain this because nobody likes to be confused.. I won't even look at the lafcadio page or consider it a puzzle for us until someone can offer a better explanation of what's going on!