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[whitecross8]

Change of the page to the server stacks pic and the song, Uninvited.

Also went back and looked at the Tokyo/Web map. The "How It's Used" section seems to add some insight into the "Sun Mine Map" we have and imho, reinforces some of y'all's thoughts on it.

[fernandocarulli]

thats new in source code:

[amandel]

Kewl find, fernandocarulli. Looks like "37°" in my source code. And 37 degrees Celsius = 98.6 Fahrenheit (normal body temp.)

[classical]

Okay, so I sent Craig an email basically requesting his permission to be friends with Shanna, because his intervention was getting so ridiculously out of control, I decided to try something equally ridiculous!

But he finally responded:

[syntacticAtrocity]

so shanna is terminally ill? with the same thing as her mother?

guess we have to look for the blog now.

[whitecross8]

Re: Shanna's picture

[ironnikki]

Huh... Well, if Craig is dropping all of his work to spend time with his daughter, does that mean that the course of time has been changed? Does Craig no longer have a hand in the creation of IRIS?

[Wulf74]

Wait, if CR drops the project to spend with his daughter - that would ultimately mean Iris is never built - which would explain as to why Iris isn't sending emails any more (at least so far as I'm aware).

As to CR spending more time with his daughter "the last few years" - I didn't read that as Shanna being terminally ill -but more I read it as he found out something terrible is going to happen in the next few years, that would finally put an explanation as to why we are mining the sun, etc...

[syntacticAtrocity]

[Wulf74]

[syntacticAtrocity]

[ironnikki]

I was thinking the same thing as you were Wulf, but I thought that he said that he had already built the computer with fluid memory (i.e: the toaster that downloaded the internet). Wasn't that IRIS? If so, she already exists, but Craig is no longer caring for her. Perhaps she is discovered by someone else, or maybe she's been pawned on someone else. Or maybe I've got my facts mixed up (most likely).

I agree with Syn as well: From my read-through and short participation in I'm Sorry, it definitely seemed to me that the story was evolving. It wasn't being laid out for the players; the players were shaping the alternate reality. Perhaps IRIS was not meant to go down, but now she has, and so the game will compensate for that. Exciting!

As for me, I don't believe that she's really gone. I think whatever time link that was allowing us to communicate with a computer from the future has closed, and that's why her email is gone. I wouldn't be surprised to see her pop up again later.

[whitecross8]

Change of picture to the yellow space station walk and back to Creedence.

The code this time has 22' so maybe the 37 degrees was longitude and latitude.

37 degrees 22 minutes oddly enough is only 2 degrees latitude from where I am in Bakersfield, California at 35 ^o 22'

And after some research if it is latitude and on Earth it would be smack dab in the middle of Sierra National Forest (of course it is a long line).

[jessie1326]

From a purely in-game perspective, I have a few other ideas about why we might have stopped hearing from IRIS...some of them are a little space-time paradox-y, though.

1) I got the impression that Craig was genuinely surprised that IRIS was somehow sending messages through time. It could be that calling his attention (and Fred's) to this "feature" caused them to program related bits differently, thus resulting in IRIS not being able to do that. Then, voila, no more IRIS for us.

2) If one prefers a parallel time-stream theory, maybe IRIS will be shut down in the "real" ARG when it starts - either by evildoers or by us - and that has "happened" in the future - so no more IRIS for us.

3) IRIS had some pretty obvious affection for Craig and Shanna. Maybe she's mad at him for leaving her.

4) Maybe Fred just figured out how to shut her down.

Alternatively, it could be IRIS has nothing at all to do directly with the main ARG, and the Sunshine Mine is a nearer future than we previously believed...and all of this is just a way to introduce the main themes of the ARG subtly.

[whitecross8]

Change of pic to the lightning over a city (tesla looking) and the music is the repeat of Metallica.

New in the code is: 20.38"

Put it all together and you get 37 degrees 22 minutes and 20.38 seconds.

Added: That equals this number in latitude 36.37238333333333 and a negative 37 degrees ,etc. just makes that same number negative.

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/