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Did anyone ever mail anything to the PO Box? I think at one time they were expecting us to do that I just think we might have all brushed that off. Anyway it is prominently displayed in the picture of the black cube on B's blog.

Just on the off chance that this is what might be needed to get the game moving again I am going to mail something off today. Perhaps while C and B are on the lam they will rely on snail mail.

**Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 1:28 pm

Nacman · Boot Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 22

The PO box was for the company, so I imagine that the nameless corporation owns that just like they are taking over the cell phones.

I have to echo what Dante said. If this is the end, then we need something clearer than Bertram's blog post. We never seemed to follow his train of thought anyway. Also, if there's something more for us to find, then we need to hear from them on that point too. Again, B's blog isn't going to be a clear indicator.

So... is it over?

**Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 10:17 pm

QuinceTheCarpenter · Boot Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 40

Picking up on some earlier posts in this thread ( April 26 and April 28 )...

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 7:04 am

Nacman · Boot Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 22

From Bertram in April

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 10:48 am

Timetobuzzthetower · Boot Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Mesa, AZ

I kind of hope this isn't the end, but at the same time... this never actually shaped up to be what I thought it could turn into...

And is it just me, or did B not do anything but piss you guys off, cause that's about all he did for me....

This can't really be over though, can it? Too much unanswered, and last I checked, we didn't even get through all the puzzles!

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 11:44 am

roc3 · Guest

It was speculated early on that this entire game was a final project for a class at the University of Dallas, so, since classes are about finished, this game might be finished as well. It seems odd, though, to create such content like the consoles only to drop it two months later before everything was solved.

As for B's code, he did state that a child could break it, so it is hard to believe that it has anything to do with genes and chromosomes. He also mentioned in one of his comments that we should 'think like him' and imagine ourselves as the sender instead of the receiver.

This is why I suggested T9 or other predictive text: simple enough a kid could pound out the numbers and get the message, plus the numbers are what the sender would enter, not what the receiver would get.

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 2:34 pm

Datango · Decorated Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 194

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 4:18 pm

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Timetobuzzthetower · Boot Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 37 Location: Mesa, AZ

I'm hip to it probably being a final project, but really, why do it if you're gonna leave it hanging? We didn't solve the puzzles, we didn't scratch anywhere NEAR the potential this thing has....

I'm not ready to call it over and done, but without a bit more interaction, or ANYTHING pushing us, I'd be likely to call it a fail.

So much promise... and the feeling we were SO CLOSE to really opening something up... kind of frustrating.

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 6:04 pm

QuinceTheCarpenter · Boot Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 40

With the "Thanks for all the fish" reference, and the fact that the cube interface gave a humorous reply to 42 "the ultimate answer", maybe this whole cube ties into Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or Infocom games. I'm pretty sure Ursa Minor shows up in the 'guide' for one. That would be a crazy ending though.

ref command list thread:
http://www.electron-innovations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12

Another speculation is that the currently "disconnected" interfaces are really not disconnected at all - they just show that message unless you type in the correct pass phrase. This could be the meaning of Bertram's things are not as they seem ramblings... but that's a long shot.

If this is, in fact, a school project, it may well be that they are hitting the end of the semester (and maybe the puzzle solve time took longer than they planned for) ... but given they haven't neatly wrapped things up yet, I'd say wait and see. There could be a summer session, or the folks who did this could continue it outside of school (but have to set up some other sites maybe), etc. You can bet that those behind the scenes see this thread and are probably busy or contrained by TINAG at the moment. I think the display of the black cube hints strongly that there is a continuation in mind ... eventually.

At the moment, we still have a couple of unsolved pages, Bertram's number code to figure out, and a probable global puzzle involving the order of all 36 pages, watermarks, dates of historic events and who knows what? Bertram talked a lot about "connections" (which along with the name Cray always makes me think of the cube-shaped Connection Machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine super computer), but in this ARG seems to mean we need to find connections between the puzzle pages to solve this thing.

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 8:27 pm

deathscent · Veteran Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 92

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 9:09 pm

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what i am thinking is this all seemed to start with new computers for kids but it seems to have diverted from that and i am thinking has he had backing on the computers for kids ?????????????? if so why the change ?????? and why has he been allowed to change if he has been back by the goverment " Foily!

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**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 10:11 pm

danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

**Posted:** Tue May 12, 2009 11:13 pm

vapor

**Posted:** Wed May 13, 2009 12:59 am

QuinceTheCarpenter · Boot Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 40

**Posted:** Wed May 13, 2009 2:21 pm

Nacman · Boot Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 22

Sounds like "Game Over" to me.

**Posted:** Wed May 13, 2009 5:10 pm