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[STORIES] [TRAILHEAD] We Tell Stories
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Max Steele
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 		If you click on the link "See all Six Stories" from the main http://wetellstories.co.uk page, you get this:

Quote:
21 Steps
with Charles Cumming

"I was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time."

One minute, Rick Blackwood is sightseeing at St. Pancras in London; the next, he's caught up in a conspiracy that takes him far away from home. Rick needs to use all his skills to find out why a dying stranger seemed to know his name - and to stay alive. In this homage to The 39 Steps, Charles Cumming takes us on an adrenaline-fuelled adventure written and designed for Google Maps.


If I had to guess from this one description, I would say each story is going to have an interactive element to it. With the first one "21 Steps", we're going to be using Google Maps to follow it.

I'm thinking each successive story is going to have different elements like this, which is where the ARGishness comes in.

EDIT:

Yeah, which is basically what Adrian said in the link chelec just pasted earlier today. Each story will have an interactive element to it, the first one the google maps thing, and the last one will have 'improvisation on writing".

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altrus
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 		Well that was fun.

Good story with a twist at the end.

but arg elements...

on the loading screens this comes up.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Tracking Alice

and
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Alice, Ring 020 8133 8141


Try calling that.

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chelec
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 		You beat me by about 30 seconds with that post - but surely they should be spoilered?

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chelec
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 		Also, just realised I'm about a mile from the desired location, so off there.

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chippy
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 		Yeah, very subtly, the phone number is shown. I gave it a ring, this is what it says:
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Hello? Alice? I've made a terrible mistake. I need your help. I have a story to tell you, but it will only make sense if i tell it in the right place.
If you stand face to face with the statue of john betjamin, in st. pancras station, ring this number.
020 7193 3154, then I will be able to explain more
.

after that, there was some noise on the line? code speeded up? I couldn't record it
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ALISDAIRPARK
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 		Just for interest (as I doubt it's important) these are the locations that say anything more then "here?" in Chapter 12

Inverness Trust Port?
Longman Drive
Inverness, Inverness-Shire

Atlantic Container Agencies?
7 West Bank Rd
Belfast, County Antrim

Container Sales (UK) Ltd?
Alexandra Business Pk
Riverside South, Sunderland

A field in Perthshire?

An aeroplane at 35,000 feet?

Alice, call 020 8133 8141.

Other than those there were two locations that weren't clickable
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Nighthawk
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 		I don't know if anyone has suggested it to the mods here, but considering that we're looking at SIX ARGs from the Pengrin group, shouldn't we make a forum group for all this?
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chippy
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 		I'm sure if it's needed, it will happen. We are only on page 3 of this thread, and the first day with a couple of phone numbers, let's wait and see how wide the rabbit hole gets Smile
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Delusional
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 		Booooooooooooo @ UK only.
Yeah I know there are always numerous US only contests but those suck too.
I actually own more than a couple of the "penguin classics" books and would have loved to participate in this.
Oh well, email deleted.

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Edgemaster
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 		Looks like I might have an excuse to get a train into London this weekend. Or, I wonder if the second part is solvable with Google Maps, for example Smile

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gazmataz
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 		second phone message
Did anyone get to the statue yet?
I called the number and got this message:

hello Alice, meet sir john, saviour of this fine station. but there is little he can do to help me . It is here that i finally found her, the possibly eastern European girl. I watched her whilst she watched him and john Betjamen watched the sky. walk 20 paces to the right then 10 paces right again this is where i intercepted her, naturally enough where the floor is paved with words but this doesn't make much of a story with just me in it. You have to find me her name in order for me to go on. ring 0203 followed by the first word of the poem on the floor, followed by an 8, do it quickly.

Unfortunately I'm in Canada. I tried looking for some photos and tried a few words based on photos on flckr. haven't got anything yet.

Any Londoners near St. Pancras?

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Mary Deoignes
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 		follow the rabbit
if you click on the white rabbit in the bottom left corner of the front page then it takes you down a 'proper rabbithole':

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http://treacleandink.wordpress.com/


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ALISDAIRPARK
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 		The poem I beleive to be Winter Seascape which would make the new number 0203 946 8378

EDIT: Nope didn't work
EDIT 2: OK correct word is Beyond so the new number is
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0203 239 6638
and the message reads:
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Turn around and walk down the stairs to your left, keep going straight to the far end of the station, past the escalators and all those shops, but be subtle, don't let her see you following her. It's not her real name of course, she picked it out of a UK ticket machine. I love my love with a "D" I can't help beginning, because she is devious. Send me the word story in an email to her name at pengrin dot co dot uk and I'll be able to tell you the whole story, and do make sure you're not being watched.


EDIT 3rd: well tried the obvious "hername" nothing back yet
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Cooldrew
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 		Re: follow the rabbit
Mary Deoignes wrote:
if you click on the white rabbit in the bottom left corner of the front page then it takes you down a 'proper rabbithole':

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://treacleandink.wordpress.com/


Gee, what do you know...the link's author's name is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Alice,
just like the rest of our clues here.
And I thought that this would just be some stories to read Very Happy

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ALISDAIRPARK
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 		email bounced back from the hername attempt, guess we actually have to come up with her name?
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