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jamesi

I received a box as well, and have posted about it at ARGNet.

My punch card (image)

**Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:53 pm

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ncfriend

watching.... Shocked

**Posted:** Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:21 pm

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I coded up a spreadsheet to decode the cards. It's at:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=ptjhtHIOvvyTCe0O9mp37YA&hl=en
It does letters, only.

jamesi's card works out to:

**Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:16 am

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**Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:33 am

Nighthawk

Hey guys, Europeans are way ahead of y'all...

**Posted:** Sun Feb 10, 2008 7:17 am

kosmopol

Dear friends,

this ARG is really intensive and cool (alas, mostly in German contents). I will report the news later, but now I need your help.

We have found five joker cards with five persons on it.
http://www.argwiki.de/index.php5?title=Final_Mill_-_Ungel%C3%B6ste_R%C3%A4tsel#Die_f.C3.BCnf_Joker

Four of five people were recognized, but this one is till now a mystery.
Do you know this historian person?

**Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:35 am

guerra001

If I knew how to read anything german I would totally try and figure that one out...all I thought it was was Napoleon and then I relaized im an idiot

**Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:00 pm

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kosmopol

OK, perhaps I've to say, what's going on with this cool German ARG...

Van Velsenmeer Foundation:

They organized an audit for applicants (bloggers, computer science students and just ARG-players) in Berlin. It was a real meeting included a charismatic speech about new society, some weird encoding tests etc. And there was also new drink (Slusho!, where art thou?) named Clarence.

We've found the website of this fictional drink: http://www.drink-clarence.com/
and German "commercial" on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcY_U1X6JpA
It was created for Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein). Frankenstein also plays a great role in this game - perhaps it's about AI.

Meanwhile

Vivien Pastiof: the blogger of http://www.in-a-rush.com/ is really IG. Her friend Daniel was kidnapped (he worked for Van Velsenmeer). Here a video of Daniel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8RMN6-tkXg

She investigates about this and meet herself with another ARG players looking for new hints.

New website was found: http://www.sandmen-inc.com/ A company selling toy tools. Pretending to sell. If you subscribe the infos, you'll get newsletters, which have hidden codes. With these codes people found in Google Map locaion in Munich and travelled to this location with Vivien. And they found the Joker cards (http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=485454).

These are only 2-3 impressions of this big project.

And nobody knows, who stands behind of it. They must have money: they rent a house for audit, they pay the whole travel costs for all part-takers of this meeting etc. etc.

But this is only meta-mystery. The IG mystery will come...

**Posted:** Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:33 pm

nbnewell · Unfettered Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Posts: 548

um, yu ca read the German content..

Use thi site.. http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

in website translation, paste the url and then cose the translation process(ie German to English)

not perfect, but better than nothing...

**Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:08 am

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kosmopol

Btw, our ARG-player are really smart Smile

There was a password-secured library on the webpage of this strange Van Velsenmeer Foundation
http://vanvelsenmeer.org/lib_login.php

One player registered a domain http://velsenmeer.org/, registered there an email-address of a co-worker of this foundation and asked the Foundation Chef about password. And she has got a reply
http://forum.patmo.de/index.php?topic=96.msg1027#msg1027

So here are the data to this library

**Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:46 am

rafigirl

I've just been reading this thread... on the Final Mill site, it talks about discontinuation.

So is the game over? D:

**Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:23 pm

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kosmopol

Oh no, the game is really explosing now.
Vivien, the blogger from in-a-rush.com (IG blogger) has got with our help the codes for the cards. And her kidnapped friend Daniel was returned.

But...

Here http://www.sandmen-inc.com/sandburg/ a shadow rebellic group Sandmen found, that Daniel wasn't kidnapped. It was just staging, because Dr. Homscheid, the Chef of Van Velsenmeer Foundation seems to have another wishes: he is looking for Vivien. Because she is progeny of Ada Lovelace, British mathematician.

Perhaps Dr. Homscheid want to use her DNA. Perhaps perhaps perhaps...

Anyway, the game is really flourishing now.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:38 pm

ncfriend

has anyone figured this out yet?
my first instinct would be Madame Currie. but you may have already thought of her.

**Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:21 pm

kosmopol

Oh, Thankx, sorry to be belate, but we identified them. He is Count D'Orsay,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Guillaume_Gabriel,_Count_D'Orsay

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 4:59 am

kosmopol

OMG...

The "kidnapped" Daniel is the "bad guy". He kidnapped Vivien now and want from us (and the shadow group Sandmen) the masterkey for the 5 codes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs6hLdXaWGQ

**Posted:** Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:50 am