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notgordian
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 		Webishades
Transmedia/ARGish Promotion
So, Steve Peters was interviewed by Jenni Powell at Tubefilter. Jenni Powell works on Bumps in the Night, and mentioned a recent collaboration.

Advertisement at the bottom leads to Webishades.com, which has an email address that provides a phone number you can dial and pictures of a lot of recent web series folks donning some snazzy specs. Is this game on? Possibly....

PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:35 pm
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ndemeter
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 		Gahh!!! I shouldn't have answered the phone when they called me back. Who is the criminal? Did someone catch that?
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notgordian
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 		I think I heard "Mark Gantz" or "Mark Gant" -- also, yay Felicia Day! (you can get the call again by calling the # twice)

EDIT: it's Mark Gantt -- he's the actor/writer/producer of The Bannen Way, another web series. I'm thinking we're supposed to check out that video on the original webishades site (checking back now).

Walkthrough of stuff so far is spoilered, since this has the feel of NMM's "10 minute ARG."

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Tubefilter article linked above has an advertisement for Webishades.com -- going there shows a number of videos with scenes by prominent web series folk using webishades. Presumably, you could have also gotten there via @worldofhiglet (viral for The Guild) on the 30th but no one seems to have followed it through then.

Writing the informationSPLATwebishades.com email returns a phone number to call: 1-888-480-0217

Call that number and you're read a list of web series -- for some reason, the touch tone #s are out of whack so you'll get an English listing for every button except #4. Pressing that tells beta testers to go to webishades.com/betatesters -- login and password screen dead-end.

Audio of the phone calls (out of order, since I couldn't press record fast enough -- also, the beeps towards the end were audio feedback, not something from the call)
http://www.argn.com/images/webishades.mp3

Shows Listed:
squatterstheseries.com
watchtheguild.com
compulsions.tv
anyonebutmeseries.com
bumpsinthenight.tv
mercuryseries.com
agoodknightsquest.com
thequittersshow.com
thetemplife.tv

After about a minute, you'll get a phone call from Felicia Day. She calls out The Bannen Way's Mark Gantt for being a perv. And that's where we are now.


Ah! Figured out the next step.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Websites listed have letters of the username / password listed in advertisements, presumably for the beta page. Will edit more details later.
Squatters: t/p (on junk box)
The Guild: d/y (top of page)
Compulsions: n/p (main page)
Anyone But Me: o/c (season 2 page)
Bumps in the Night: -/k (about page)
The Mercury Men: i/p (blog page)
A Good Knight's Quest: p/o (promotional poster and webishades link, respectively-- might be "D")
The Quitters Show: h/o
The Temp Lie: G/C (and my personal favorite so far for the way they hid it)


None of these permutations work, however, leading me to believe we're still missing something on the "Good Knight's Quest" page (even after adjusting for slackmistress' correction).

PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:47 pm
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slackmistress
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notgordian wrote:
I think I heard "Mark Gantz" or "Mark Gant" -- also, yay Felicia Day! (you can get the call again by calling the # twice)

EDIT: it's Mark Gantt -- he's the actor/writer/producer of The Bannen Way, another web series. I'm thinking we're supposed to check out that video on the original webishades site (checking back now).

Walkthrough of stuff so far is spoilered, since this has the feel of NMM's "10 minute ARG."

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Tubefilter article linked above has an advertisement for Webishades.com -- going there shows a number of videos with scenes by prominent web series folk using webishades. Presumably, you could have also gotten there via @worldofhiglet (viral for The Guild) on the 30th but no one seems to have followed it through then.

Writing the informationSPLATwebishades.com email returns a phone number to call: 1-888-480-0217

Call that number and you're read a list of web series -- for some reason, the touch tone #s are out of whack so you'll get an English listing for every button except #4. Pressing that tells beta testers to go to webisodes.com/betatesters -- login and password screen dead-end.

Audio of the phone calls (out of order, since I couldn't press record fast enough -- also, the beeps towards the end were audio feedback, not something from the call)
http://www.argn.com/images/webishades.mp3

Shows Listed:
squatterstheseries.com
watchtheguild.com
compulsions.tv
anyonebutmeseries.com
bumpsinthenight.tv
mercuryseries.com
agoodknightsquest.com
thequittersshow.com
thetemplife.tv

After about a minute, you'll get a phone call from Felicia Day. She calls out The Bannen Way's Mark Gantt for being a perv. And that's where we are now.


Ah! Figured out the next step.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Websites listed have letters of the username / password listed in advertisements, presumably for the beta page. Will edit more details later.
Squatters: p/t (on junk box)
The Guild: d/y (top of page)
Compulsions: n/p
Anyone But Me: o/c (season 2 page)
Bumps in the Night: -/K (promotional poster)
The Mercury Men: I/P (blog page)
A Good Knight's Quest: ?/D
The Quitters Show: H/O
The Temp Lie: G/C (and my personal favorite so far for the way they hid it)


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I think you have the squatters one flipped. I did the same thing on the first round!

I came up with username: TDNO IPHG
password: PYPCKPOOC


PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:17 pm
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slackmistress
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Just typing in the username and password didn't work for me.

I tried sticking the password into hangman solver, wondering if maybe it's a cipher of some sort (I picked o = e, since there were a lot of 'em and "ee" occurs frequently) but it didn't come up with anything that would fit.

Also wondered if the iSodes or the jailbreaking Webishades would lead to anything, but a simple google search turned up nothing.

Also, it seems weird that squatters led with the password letter first. Wondering if that's a mistake?


PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:21 pm
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emmettfurey
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Pretty sure they're anagrams. Password looks like "poppycock" to me, not sure about username yet.

[/spoiler]

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notgordian
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 		Hi Emmett, I think you're spot on with that on the password, which would make Squatters a typo me an idiot. It's good.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:33 pm
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I tried these for usernames. (Although I was figuring it was going to be two words, each with four letters. )

Dong Pith
Doth Ping
Dip Thong
Pod Night
Pod Thing

Tried all of those.

But TDNO = Dont but IPHG = ?



PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:34 pm
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notgordian wrote:
Hi Emmett, I think you're spot on with that on the password, which would make Squatters a typo.


It's not a type, it's just listed password first! (I made the same mistake)

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notgordian
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 		Got it!

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dipthong / poppycock -- the hyphen serves no role whatsoever in the actual solution other than indicating it's 7 letters not 8.


PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:42 pm
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notgordian
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 		And now, for the full-out walkthrough of this 10-minute ARG, separated with spoilers so you can check where you got stuck.

Check out the fun article on Tubefilter

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Click on the Webishades.com link!


Now you see some crazy infomercial website.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Send an email to informationSPLATwebishades.com and get the following response: Thank you for your interest in Webishades!

OPERATORS ARE NOT STANDING BY, BUT OUR AUTOMATED CUSTOMER SERVICE IS HERE TO SERVE
YOU!

1-888-480-0217

CALL NOW!!!


Call the number, and play around with the options (but don't stay on too long or you'll miss your next call)

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Selecting the beta testers option (#4 when I played through) tells you to go to the webishades.com/betatesters site - you also have a list of websites to check out...


Now check out those web series pages, and pay close attention!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
This is the part that might disappear over time: Websites listed have letters of the username / password listed in advertisements, presumably for the beta page. Will edit more details later.
Squatters: t/p (on junk box)
The Guild: d/y (top of page)
Compulsions: n/p (main page)
Anyone But Me: o/c (season 2 page)
Bumps in the Night: -/k (about page)
The Mercury Men: i/p (blog page)
A Good Knight's Quest: p/o (promotional poster and webishades link)
The Quitters Show: h/o (banner ad at top of page)
The Temp Life: G/C (to the left and right of the facebook link)


So you've got a bunch of stuff to put together...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Rearrange the letters to get the username and password for the betatesters page: username=dipthong, password=poppycock


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leelzebub
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 		That was cute! Do you think there will be more? Smile

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notgordian
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 		My guess is no, but you never know.

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CarnageBlack
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 		I want those shades.

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 		:):):)
lol

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