Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Wed Nov 20, 2024 10:46 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
[Trailhead] Yori Tanaka and the Junker Corporation
View previous topicView next topic
Page 4 of 18 [265 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 16, 17, 18  Next
Author Message
wolfgirl86
Veteran


Joined: 12 Jul 2008
Posts: 127

 		Got the same email as thebruce. Didn't play the Conspiracy 08, but it looks familiar to me, nonetheless.......... reminds me of another game.


Did Conspircy 08 have anything to do with Eklipse Global? Cause that's what their site reminds me of.

Thanks for the links to the wiki and past threads. I think I'm just going to observe for a bit. Might join you as it gets off its feet.
_________________
Previously Known As: vawood

Played: Lif3, BahHumbugElf, Deceptech
Playing: ???
Playing Offline: The 39 Clues
Following: Wolf
Awaiting: Rachel's Walk
Wasting Time With: WoW ^.^

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:19 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
blawk359
Boot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009
Posts: 29

 		Sent an email earlier to the "Contact Us" link on the junker corp website.....just got this email from KItsune G <kitsune229> with the message "no message for you". And this photo:



Might be unrelated to this game, but I'm not really involved in a lot of others....

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:12 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
blawk359
Boot

Joined: 15 Jan 2009
Posts: 29

 		Then I just got ANOTHER one....

" Thank you for contacting us and the interest shown by you. However we already employ a rather extensive network of Lawyers for our International business.


Best of Regards & Dont forget to purchase some of our newest products such as our Helper Monkeys!"

This one from contactSPLATjunkercorporation.com. Now I believe that image might be in another game....unless that picture is a helper monkey?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:13 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Wulf74
Unfettered


Joined: 04 Dec 2008
Posts: 680
Location: SLC, Utah
blawk359 wrote:
Sent an email earlier to the "Contact Us" link on the junker corp website.....just got this email from KItsune G <kitsune229> with the message "no message for you". And this photo:



Might be unrelated to this game, but I'm not really involved in a lot of others....


I just got this same one as well. I'm pretty sure it's related. Anyone good with Kanji?

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:18 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
el Igore
Veteran


Joined: 18 Jan 2009
Posts: 101
Location: Bavaria, Germany
Wulf74 wrote:
I just got this same one as well. I'm pretty sure it's related. Anyone good with Kanji?

I don't think that that are Kanji. That's some other language or code.

edit: Except the one on the top of course. ^__^

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:33 am
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
kosmopol
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 27 Aug 2007
Posts: 3167

 		Well, actually, 狐 is Japanese for Kitsune, and Kitsune was in the universe of Con08 a PETA or Greenpeace alike group, who had radicals methods to save the world Smile

So it's the same game.
(See the recap of the game I posted before)

Another signs are NOT kanji. We can solve them with substitution.
_________________
kosmopol Merzmensch: http://merzmensch.blogspot.com
Speaks German/Russian/Japanese
Leonard Nimoy calls me by nickname: http://tinyurl.com/gvuvydr

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:43 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
wolfgirl86
Veteran


Joined: 12 Jul 2008
Posts: 127

 		looks familiar, I wanna say it's something i saw in my codes and ciphers book (or looks a hell of a lot like it) but the book's at home and I'm at work for the next 5-6 hours.
_________________
Previously Known As: vawood

Played: Lif3, BahHumbugElf, Deceptech
Playing: ???
Playing Offline: The 39 Clues
Following: Wolf
Awaiting: Rachel's Walk
Wasting Time With: WoW ^.^

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:46 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Lunatech
Veteran


Joined: 04 Apr 2007
Posts: 138
Location: South florida

 		Kind of hard to start cracking at the picture for me since im in bed now using an ipod to keep watch of activity. Ill get to work on this asap

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:07 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 4310
Location: Des Moines, IA

 		Started looking at math symbol fonts, but haven't found a match yet.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:21 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrT
Decorated


Joined: 06 Feb 2008
Posts: 253
Location: College Station, Texas, USA

 		Those symbols have been used before. They were used for the original game that Eric Remington found out was not a game. When I leave work (about 9pm central u.s. time), I can crack it if no one else has by then. I'm sure that I have some decoded stuff left over from that game.

Also, I emailed Junker asking about jobs in Texas. Here was the reply:

Quote:
Honorable Mr. xxxx.

The building is still under construction, however we do not have use for your skills in Texas. We however might need people with mechanical engineering in our project in Madagascar.

Sadly we can only employ graduates, contact us then and we might find a job for you.

Best of Regards and dont forget to try Utopian Farms meat, you can taste it!


As you can deduce, I told them I was a mechanical engineer that was ready to graduate. Some of you might want to pose as actual graduates. We should also be on the lookout for a website for Utopian Farms (if you haven't found one already..too rushed to read the whole thread).

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:43 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 4310
Location: Des Moines, IA
MrT wrote:
Those symbols have been used before. They were used for the original game that Eric Remington found out was not a game.

Original usage:
http://bleedingmaroon08.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/the-message-finally/
and translation:
http://bleedingmaroon08.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/the-translation/

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:48 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrT
Decorated


Joined: 06 Feb 2008
Posts: 253
Location: College Station, Texas, USA

 		Rosetta Stone haha
Hi guys. I'm off to teach a class, but here is the paper used in the first game and the translation. There is a chance the code is the same. The red line is for reference only.

Here's the translation
Quote:
I am writing this mainly as a warning to future generations that some scientific research should not take place. How can I start? Well simply enough my name is Eric Remington. I wasn't your average college student, I was very curious, too curious for my own good. However I specialized in pranks and early in January I started an ARG. Mainly to make fun of my good friend john blacksmith and show him a lesson because that's every thing he ever did. Most of the ARG was set up and it was self contained and surely enough john started a blog for the ARG called "what is the conspiracy" In reality for a few days after it started I stopped caring about it. I wish I hadn't found that book at the library; it is an intellectual curse. I came today to get rid of the book, to burn it, but it wasn't there. I don't think I will be here much longer. How do I wish to get some sleep. Any how, I left this note for you john. I knew that you are the only one that can solve this.

I knew that a lot is going on through your head as you read this, but for sure this is not a game. This is not another silly ARG or a prank. Forget about the Junker Corporation, that was the game that I had set up. When you cry wolf too much nobody will come. Well I hope that you come and help me, even after own death. Every thing has been set up john, it's in the form of an ARG. Just like the ones you love so much. It is self sufficient so you must be able to find it at your own pace. I left the rabbit hole at a letter taped under the table of your living room, near the PS_. I decided to do that because I knew what happened to me was too terrible and I don't have much time left in this world. Perhaps Ill is gone by the time you read this. Warn the world but do not tell them of what happened to me here in the university. Whatever you do, do not try to follow the experiment I did. No matter how good the rewards might seem to be.

n1522740007_30020707_8015.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   45.95KB
 Viewed   47 Time(s)

n1522740007_30020707_8015.jpg
part2.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   66.77KB
 Viewed   49 Time(s)

part2.jpg

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:54 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrT
Decorated


Joined: 06 Feb 2008
Posts: 253
Location: College Station, Texas, USA

 		Haha Toasty beat me.

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:55 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
kosmopol
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 27 Aug 2007
Posts: 3167

 		Yeah! I remind now this code Smile
I've translated it too, I have at home substiutution index of this... I'm at work now though...

Anyway, I get a message per facebook from Yori (notable places marked):

Quote:
i dont know, but I think they want me to interact with people that i knew.

meh... Mr takahashi is indeed a strange man, but he says that the quicker I remember the better. So stimulating my brain with older contacts might help me remember something.

There are lots of Japanese Macaques in here. Part of the lab is for their training as "helper monkeys". they are cute.


I looked for Mr Takahashi in her friend list, and found 3 people, but I doubt, somebody of them is this Dr.
_________________
kosmopol Merzmensch: http://merzmensch.blogspot.com
Speaks German/Russian/Japanese
Leonard Nimoy calls me by nickname: http://tinyurl.com/gvuvydr

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:24 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
kosmopol
I Never Tire of My Own Voice


Joined: 27 Aug 2007
Posts: 3167

 		Got it!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
you are greatly mistaken by trying to contact the junker corporation beware of your actions and your dealings with them i know this from experience and because i am the lucky one to have lived to tell you this yet it is my duty to keep an eye on them to stop them


Ah! Such nostalgic feelings here, people Smile
I am alive again.
_________________
kosmopol Merzmensch: http://merzmensch.blogspot.com
Speaks German/Russian/Japanese
Leonard Nimoy calls me by nickname: http://tinyurl.com/gvuvydr

PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:10 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 4 of 18 [265 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 16, 17, 18  Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group