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[Trailhead] Vampire Squid
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deletia
Unfettered


Joined: 31 Jul 2007
Posts: 304
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

[so, I'm just going to keep editing this post until someone else comes along....]

This came in last night from the squid, in response to some questions I'd asked about who he was, where he'd been:
Quote:
Instant's actually innocent in this one!
I just needed to leave the country for a while. Believe me, it was necessary.

I have a connection with something called Netochka Nezvanova, yes.

Our group is relatively small, to be honest, but Instant brings in new people every week or so.

I wish the confusion could clear up, but...

Hey, do you want to hear one of my most favorite songs?

just "look"

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[I put the above line breaks in manually to avoid a 10-foot long post. The squid sent it to me without line breaks.]

The song is called "stamina rose," and the artist is listed as "Ghost in the Shell SAC." Turns out it's Manga related, and the song can be heard online
here.

EDIT: Here's a better link. This one has a video for the song (complete with dragons and hotties) and an English translation of the lyrics.

EDIT #2:
Ha. This is funny. It turns out the comment 'just "look"' is white-on-white in the squid's email to me. That is to say, it's invisible. I only noticed it upon re-reading what I'd posted here. Not sure what it means.

EDIT 3:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's ascii plus 437. (Still don't know about the Just "look" comment.)

Here's the message, uncoded:

There's a program, Netochka Nezvanova, being developed. We know this because an old friend of ours is on their team.

This program is meant to, among other things, get the names and information being compiled by our government, about every single citizen. They will then use this information to classify anyone who stands against them as terrorists, and have us detained.


I say us because I used to work for a big company. I mean, BIG. Capitalized off of slave labor, treated their customers like shit.

The head programmer of Netochka Nezvanova, Jill Valencia, is the daughter of our only competition's owner.


So, any thoughts on how I ought to respond? On what this all means?

PostPosted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:08 pm
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OES23
Greenhorn


Joined: 09 Aug 2008
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I just got an email that makes it sound as if the whole thing is over... anybody else get that?

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:44 am
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deletia
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Joined: 31 Jul 2007
Posts: 304
Location: Pittsburgh, PA

I did. The message seemed totally OOG. Hm.

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:34 am
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ender_coaster
Guest


It was very clearly OOG. It's just a question of whether or not it means Game Over, or if it's just an apology for delaying. Or, um, maybe there's some reference I'm missing with this Eris ARG? *shrugs*

PostPosted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:31 am
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ineffabelle
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Joined: 01 May 2008
Posts: 700
Location: Southern California

Can someone please post this message you got? I didn't get it, but I'd like to read it. I really hope its not imploded (though I wouldn't be at all suprised). I spent a looong time working on my photo and poem and it never even got posted. Sad panda.
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mizemotional
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I'm not sure if this was the entire email, as I didn't receive it first hand but this seems to be the general gist of it:
Quote:
"I'm just a big fan of that one PM who made the ARG about Eris and really wanted to emulate her style. I guess I can't."


After finding out what was said in the OOG email, I'm pretty disappointed. It was very self-defeatist and seemed to imply that if the game isn't done in a similar style to Eris, that it was a failure. I never played Eris, but in any case, the success of an ARG shouldn't be based on how closely another PM's style is emulated. It should be based on player enjoyment and participation. I can understand a PM having a vision and direction for his game, but at the same time, if it takes on a life of its own and morphs into something completely different from what they first imagined, as long as the players are happy, it'd be better to go with the flow rather than give up. *shrug* Just my two cents.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:03 am
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deletiaXasXguest
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That's the e-mail I'd received. I didn't post it here before because it seemed OOG and had a kind of personal tone to it.

Yeah, I agree with you entirely, mizemotional. I'm a writer, and short of a client breathing down my neck, that's the conclusion I've come to, as well. Expectations will kill you if you don't know when to let them go. I often don't know what I want, or need, to write until I'm half-way through something I don't want or need to write.

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