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iheathen
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Edgemaster wrote:
themandotcom wrote:
As of around 4:14 findthelostring.com has this error message
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Sitename is heroine

Error Code is 200
Error Message is General Application Error


I wonder what that can mean?

/methinks its the gag reflex to pre-written content discovery.


yeah you're right... I emailed Ariadne about it, and she replied that she doesn't know anyone named Tyler, and that the funny picture is probably one of Kai's friends who were helping him set up the site. (in-game version of her telling us it's just them testing the site)

and all the links I found are now gone too.

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 		Re: Martin
negrito_funes wrote:
Hi Everyone.

I'm Martin From Argentina, I received this morning the Fedex, with all the elements as you inside. My message was "You will soon demonstrate great courage".

I know this is a Game, but what I have been trying to figur it out is why me? I mean, doesn anyone ever thought the reason they have picked all of you and me to receive this package, I haven't met anyone from Argentina with the same package than the one I received this morning.

Anyway, I will try to follow all the clues up and see what's all about.

Cheers from Argentina.


Welcome Martin! This game will be a real challenge for those of us whose second language is not featured in this game. Glad to get another spanish speaker in the mix.

Regarding 'why you?' - Have you played any ARGs that involved Jane McGonigal (where you might have given contact info)? She also apparently posted an invitation on twitter and got some contact info that way. Did you give your name and address to some random stranger recently? Shocked

Another thought - as we have a South American character in the game - is that an acquaintance of your may have put you on the list...

Anyway, it'll be fun!

Catch up quickly with TheBruce's Awesome Wiki (TM)!
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riquardo wrote:
How stupid am I: in Diego's profile in Hi5 there are pictures of when he woke up and it's like a pijamas (should have seen that before I emailed him). Also to note, he says when he stops to rest for a bit, he starts drawing a maze, he doens't seem to be able to get that out of his head:
http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?photoId=1275918715&ownerId=201448994&albumId=154477842
http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?photoId=1275918714&ownerId=201448994&albumId=154477842


I thought he said in an email with somebody that we woke up in a black running outfit?
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 		So I'm guessing Renata, the brazillian girl, is another person who probably woke up in a maze somewhere - but wasn't found yet.

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riquardo wrote:
How stupid am I: in Diego's profile in Hi5 there are pictures of when he woke up and it's like a pijamas (should have seen that before I emailed him). Also to note, he says when he stops to rest for a bit, he starts drawing a maze, he doens't seem to be able to get that out of his head:
http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?photoId=1275918715&ownerId=201448994&albumId=154477842
http://www.hi5.com/friend/photos/displayPhotoUser.do?photoId=1275918714&ownerId=201448994&albumId=154477842



I thought he said in an email with somebody that we woke up in a black running outfit?



Sorry to double post but sometimes we don't read the edits!

HitsHerMark I must've missed that email, will search for it in a minute, but I went again to the pics in hi5 and when he is with with what looks to me like pijama pants, he says "that's where woke up, blidfolded, knowing nothing about my past". When i read that i thought that's how he woke up, clothing and everything, so that's why I wrote that he woke up like that (the pijamas, I mean). My bad!

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riquardo wrote:
So I'm guessing Renata, the brazillian girl, is another person who probably woke up in a maze somewhere - but wasn't found yet.


Spec is always interesting, but I have learned along the way that some things you find when digging were never meant to be found. Renata may have been some early ideas put in to help get the site set up and may never come into the actual game. So while i wouldn't forget it, I also wouldn't spend too much time thinking too hard about it either. SEE BELOW AS I EAT MY WORDS, YUMMY

It would seem we are already ahead of schedule - March 3 and we found her & the others, the next one is him & then the secret Smile Oh, and of course, we will save the world before the summer is completely over Smile

ETA: And as I posted this, in came an email from Ariadne
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hi XXXXX, good news!

well, big good news and little bad news, but I'm more excited about the good news than i am annoyed by the bad news.

so even though i have no idea who all those people you found are, i am convinced of course that we have to join forces. i mean, clearly we are connected somehow by our weird circumstances... and kai is going to redo my site so everyone can have their own blogs and we can all do this investigation together!

of course i have no idea still how to talk to most of them to explain this, maybe you and your friends can help me out with that!

also good news, I got the STRANGEST emails from a girl named Larissa who says something like this happened to her friend Renata FOUR YEARS AGO. i used the bablefish translator you suggested to read them, it's kind of mind boggling. like even more mind boggling that what has happened to me already because her friend disappeared in the end, and that's actually kind of freaking me out because i really don't want THAT to happen to me...

sorry, i'm typing really fast as i try to sort this all out.

anyway Kai took down the site to try to help get the other pages going, i though your friend might like to know i haven't disappeared entirely,

kai thought they might not be up for a few more days, sigh, that's the small annoying bad news, but whatever! i can't believe how much information you guys have found in just half a day! you're amazing!

i think already i will be grateful to you all for life. sorry to gush, i'm in a very strange mood right now.

ariadne


okay web design gurus, what's a good widget or whatever they call it now for insite translation on the main site Apparently reading comprehension doesn't work well for me at this hour LOL
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 		on translation
HitsHerMark wrote:
I thought he said in an email with somebody that we woke up in a black running outfit?

I think we need to start admitting when we use a robot translator.

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 		I think we should start drawing Markus' mysterious labyrinths everywhere! Get the word out, viralize the game! Laughing
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thebruce wrote:
I think we should start drawing Markus' mysterious labyrinths everywhere! Get the word out, viralize the game! Laughing


Draw it on red balloons and let them free!!!

ouroboros wrote:
HitsHerMark wrote:
I thought he said in an email with somebody that we woke up in a black running outfit?

I think we need to start admitting when we use a robot translator.


I figured that was a given.
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riquardo
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 		Just got an email reply from Diego (my first conversation with a fictional character, yay!):

Re: ropas‏
De: Diego Nose (malabar.diegoSPLATgmail.com)
Enviada: segunda-feira, 3 de março de 2008 21:41:16

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Hola Riquardo, muchas gracias por tu ayuda! Al despertar tenía unavenda (negra) tapandome los ojos, unos joggings negros y una remerablanca. Crees que las ropas puedan significar algo o dar alguna pistasobre quien soy? Muchas gracias por ayudarme!!


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I wrote: Diego, soy riquardo de Portugal. Hace poco descubrió su estado de salud y> algunos otros como usted. Ellos se encontraron con extrañas ropas y otros> artículos que pueden ser una pista, que eran demasiado? Si es así, ¿podría> publicar una foto de algún que? Gracias y por favor, ten paciencia, nosotros> le ayudaremos.



Diego Nose?

So I asked him about the clothes he was found with and other items, and he answered that when he woke up he had a black blindfold, black joggings and a white shirt. He then asked if the clothes could mean something. Now I told him about if the goggles sounded familiar to him.

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 		Need a little more translation help - "black joggings"? Does that mean running shorts or sweat pants or something like that?

And were none of these people wearing shoes of any sort?
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Need a little more translation help - "black joggings"? Does that mean running shorts or sweat pants or something like that?


I don't know for sure, but maybe joggings refere to sweat pants.



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And were none of these people wearing shoes of any sort?


When Diego answers again, I'll ask him that. Any other suggestions of what I should ask?

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 		Diego's reply about dreams
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Me ha pasado de soñar varias veces con patrones que se repiten... distintas figuras que se dibujan una y otra vez, curvas, rectas, patrones... es algo muy abstracto... tendrá que ver con mi pasado?

online translator version

It has happened to me of dreaming several times of patterns that repeat themselves ... different figures that show repeatedly, you curl, straight lines, bosses ... it is something very abstract ... will it have to see with my past?

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iheathen
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 		# Ariadne is found on FTLR.com
# Markus is found on flickr
# Noriko is found on youtube
# Diego is found on Hi5
# Meihui is found on truveo


I gotta think that her dream means there are six total... meaning one person is still missing. Could there be another one on Facebook or Myspace perhaps?

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thebruce wrote:
I think we should start drawing Markus' mysterious labyrinths everywhere! Get the word out, viralize the game! Laughing
The shape of the maze that Diego kept drawing on things looks really familiar. I just can't remember where I've seen it before. Confused I need to rummage through some of my books and find it.

And Aliendial, I certainly assumed that "black joggings" are jogging bottoms/tracksuit bottoms/sweat pants of some sort.
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