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[Trailhead?] Mahkra Asylum / Kana Itsume?
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Twiler
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 		I don't think matters will improve unless some positive action is taken, so yes, I'd say they should go to Mahkra.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:44 am
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Psysop
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Twiler wrote:
I don't think matters will improve unless some positive action is taken, so yes, I'd say they should go to Mahkra.

I agree and will send the reply tonight. I just wanted to see what everyone else thought. At this point, I don't know what I mean by "everyone" though Rolling Eyes I'm starting to get that lonely feeling you had Twiler...

Also: DOCS BLOG is updated.
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Translates to:
DOCTOR DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS?
WHY?
BECAUSE I JUST REMEMBERED SOMETHING.


ETA:
So I told Chio to try to get Deus out the bathroom & also to go to the asylum.
Chio via Deus' email wrote:
Hi again! ^________^

Yeah, I definitely want to get him out of there and bring him back home :/ The hard part, though, is going to be just getting him out of there! He doesn't want to listen to me! D:

Then exactly 1 min later, KANA'S DREAM DIARY was updated with a strange entry with this very strange last scentence:
Kanas Dream Diary wrote:
My name is Chio Kanazawa and I..am my own truth. One no one will ever know...

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Twiler
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 		Doctor's blog updated

Another ciphered message, solved below:

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Reverse the alphabet, and use it as a substitution cipher key (so A becomes Z, etc). I noticed that if 'PZMZ' was Kana, this pattern seemed evident.

KANA ITSUME...
A CUTE NAME, AND A CLEVER LIE.
"DOCTOR, DO YOU KNOW HOW I CAME UP WITH THAT NAME?"
"NO, HOW?"
"IT WAS MY SISTER'S NAME. SHE WAS BORN AFTER MY PARENTS DIVORCED, SO I WAS BORN A KANAZAWA, AND HER AN ITSUME. EVEN STILL, WE LOVED EACH OTHER VERY MUCH. OUR PARENTS, ALTHOUGH THEY DIDN'T GET ALONG WELL, THOUGHT IT WRONG FOR US TO NEVER SEE EACH OTHER. WE WOULD PLAY TOGETHER, WE'D HAVE SLEEPOVERS, ALL OF IT. SHE EVEN TAUGHT ME HOW TO DRAW.
WELL... ONE DAY, SHE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM ME. MANY, MANY YEARS AGO. FOR REASONS NOBODY UNDERSTOOD, SHE WAS FOUND IN A DITCH ONE DAY WITH HER THROAT CLAWED OUT BY HER OWN HANDS. I COULDN'T BEAR IT. EVERY DAY, I'D VISIT THE PLACE SHE DIED, CRAWL UP INTO A NEARBY TREE NEAR A RIVER, WHERE NOBODY CAN HEAR ME, AND CRY. HOURS AND HOURS ON END. I WOULD CRY UNTIL MY PARENTS THOUGHT I WENT MISSING AND THE POLICE WERE SENT TO RETRIEVE ME.
ONE DAY, THERE WAS ANOTHER KID ALREADY IN THE TREE CRYING. A BOY. DO YOU KNOW WHO THAT BOY WAS?"

Hm. Perhaps the 'Chio' with Amadeus is the real Kana. I can't help but suspect the boy is Konstantin or Amadeus.

There seems to be some symmetry here. One brother talking to one sister.


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 		Nice Work Twiler!
Based on the above convos, I had this convo with Konstantin. Note: Kon's last message with the Deus / Chio stuff was sent to me yesterday around 7:00 PM:

Psysop wrote:
Konstantin,
I am interested in your memories...Help me, help you...

Konstantin wrote:
My memories are not the ones that are important. But, if you wish, I can act as the messanger for the one who's memories do have meaning.

Psysop wrote:
Please do that...

Konstantin wrote:
A vision. Hers, not mine.

A policeman. Seemingly of German decent. Looks familiar. The two of them stand in an unfamiliar kitchen.

He speaks. "Well, Chio, at long last, we're home. It's been a long journey, but we still have a long way ahead of us. Let's get some rest, and tomorrow, we'll head for the asylum to talk to Konstantin."

"And, Kana too, right?" These words come from her own mouth, though she didn't command it.

"Kana...?"

"You don't remember?"

"No, I don't think I do."

The room goes silent. Suddenly, the sound of metal being unsheathed. A knife appeared in her hand.

"How?" She says, this time of her own will.

"How can you forget me? After... After all the time we spent...

In that tree...

Even when I fell, you left me to rot in that damn hospital! How? HOW?!

You promised. You promised you'd be with me forever.

Usoda... USODA!"


Oh my lord... It looks like Chio got Deus out of the bathroom and they planned on going to the Asylum. When Chio mentioned talking to both Konstantin and Kana, things go slightly weird...NOTE: "Usoda... USODA!" translated from Japanese means: Liar...Liar! (or: you are lying, Liar!).
Shocked I don't know if anything terrible happened after that, but I suppose we will find that out & also if the two of them went to the asylum as that was supposed to go down sometime today...

ETA: On 15-JAN DUES' BLOG updated. - Looks like Chio did in fact whip a knife out on Dues & he confirms she is the floating chick Twisted Evil . So I guess now I'm gonna ask Deus & / or Kon if they had a talk at the asylum...
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 		Konstantin holding live blog tonight at 7:45PM PST!!!
I sent this to Kon:
Psysop wrote:
I heard from a little bird that you may have had a meeting with your brother. Is that true? How did that go? - Did you learn anything from that meeting, or were you the party that was giving the insight there?

Konstantin wrote:
Yes. I'm done simply being an observer in my dreams. It is time for me to create a vision of my own.

http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=0280ead8f8&height=550&width=470

ETA:
OK so the live blog just went down and you can Click the above link to replay it. Basically just got "Cliff hangered"...

Final Note: The above stated Live Blog was titled "One Final Vision" and at the current time I think that was the end game scenario. With that, I mailed the PM('s) with a few questions that I will post here if/when I get the reponse.
Also: All of the blogs have been taken down. The MAIN ASYLUM PAGE and the DOCS TWITTER are the only live links left from this.
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LordIllidan
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 		Hi everyone! The PM here (or, one of them, at least), just want to thank everyone for playing!

Kind of wondering if anyone's interested in a Post-game chat. This is kind of the first ARG I've pulled off that was fairly successful (My last one, Eternity's End... Kind of ended up as a train wreck, at least from my point of view XD), so I'm really exited about hearing what everyone thinks Very Happy

And, of course, any questions you all may have, I'd be happy to answer.

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Twiler
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 		I'm interested.

1. Did the story deviate from your expectations?
2. How many PMs were there?
3. Where did the original idea come from?

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Twiler wrote:
I'm interested.

1. Did the story deviate from your expectations?
2. How many PMs were there?
3. Where did the original idea come from?


1. As far as how the players influenced events, not really. But, a lot of the story did sound a lot better on paper than how it turned out >.>
2. 3-ish. This was actually part of a school project about the internet's power as a means of mass communications, so I had one group member take over Kana's email account and backstory, one group member do all the non-ARG related project work, and I did the rest XD
3. I was actually heavily inspired by Tsukimiya Ayu's arc in Kanon. I've always wanted to do a kind of super romance-y Kanon inspired ARG... This clearly only fit half that description XD Maybe someday, though...

Of course, American McGee's Alice also had more than a bit of influence over the process, as well Wink

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 		I'm down with a post game chat at any time Smile. With that stated, it's been very entertaining (Amadeus was hillarious), and I'm stolked to have played this with such a fun / intelligent group of players! I also greatly appreciate the fact that this ARG did not implode! Again: Thanks to Illy and the others who developed it!

The questions Illy answered:
LordIllidan wrote:
If you really want to know, this was actually part of a humanities project we did about the internet and the potential it has as a medium for getting out information/entertaining the masses. You all definitely helped impress my teacher Wink Hehheh. Thought I'd try to do something a bit more fun than a webcomic or a blog about animal cruelty or something, like everyone else was.

1. Yes, story went pretty according to plan, at least on my half. Don't know if my classmate playing as Kana got any surprises or not, though Wink I'll try to drag her in for a post-game chat sometime soon.

2. Off the top of my head... All I can think of was that there was a lot of clever musical references I scattered throughout the game XD Not quite story related, but... Something fun to try and spot Wink I'll try to put the blogs back online once I get home tonight, so you can look for that. I was also kind of hoping people would notice how ironic it was that Amadeus kept making humorous references to his childhood, but didn't remember Kana/Chio. Although, I suppose I didn't really give anyone much time to ponder about that XD I'll try and review everything when I get home, and get back to you on what else y'all missed. As for cell24601.wmv... There was nothing there other than the message. Me and my team were actually spazzing out quite a bit because everyone was looking too deep into it XD I suppose that's my fault, though. I didn't take into account all the spectrogramming and stegging and whatnot XD

3. I did have a classmate play as Itsume-chan for most of the game, but she kind of unofficially backed out once Winter Break started (Kind of... More accurately, I just never saw her online), thus the short hiatus for me to get my shite together and figure out my next course of action. XD We also had another team member who did a lot of the other assignments that were related to the project, but had no effect on the actual game.

4. (Where was the pic of the Asylum taken?) Remember where I got you to get that drop? On the other side of that shopping center is a school Wink Look around there for a bit, and I'm sure you'll recognize it.

5. Me and my team usually referred to it as either "Mahkra Asylum" or, more simply, "The ARG."

6. I'm considering it Wink May not be a sequel, but I definitely want to do another ARG over the summer if I have time. I'm finally getting the hang of it XD

Again, thanks for playing Very Happy It's been a hell of a two months, and I'm looking forward to seeing you all around uF!

-Illy

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 		Sweet. I'm definitely down almost anytime on Saturday, but if that's too long, I could try to get on tomorrow night. No promises, though.

Also, speaking of Kanon... Was running through the thread again so I can do a little write-up for my teachers, and I noticed this post again:

Twiler wrote:
Kana Itsume = Kitsune

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune

She could be a fox spirit with amnesia?


A little fun fact here,
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this is basically Makoto arc from Kanon in a nutshell... Heehee. I'm a bit of a Kanon fanboy
I almost considered running with this, but... The other puppetmaster(s) on my team... This was their first time ever hearing about an ARG, let alone participating in one (Hell, let alone RUNNING one), so I didn't want to be so mean as to change the story that majorly on them Razz

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 		Could you do one about a computer named the VMK-523?

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StarBP wrote:
Could you do one about a computer named the VMK-523?


I'll talk to you about that on the other forums.

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