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[Ryutso]

Summary of what happened?

[Obfuscatus]

Re: Summary of what happened?

[Keltalas21]

Sorry if ithis thread was dead and i psot here but i have seen wiki dot and it's not really update at the time why any one update till now?

[redct]

Following is a very very summarized summary of the game. It should catch you up, but you'll miss a lot of the little details. Some you need, some you don't.
Stage One:

Rough summary: Junko contacted several people. Trailhead. We were lead to <http>, or Japan New Health, which had a link to the Junsui project. This led to several links including the Junsui facebook and a now-defunct secret forum, which was Nighthawk's first of many disagreements (to put it lightly) with the PMs.

We were then led back to the Junsui Project page, which gave an error. It held a short puzzle which led to a fake Google page. This leads to Alfa-Tsentr, a Russian paramilitary group.

Stage 1.5, now with more PM-player feuds:

Parallel to this: several members of uF, including me and Nighthawk try to clarify the lines between in game and out of game. We dig and find the (presumed) PM and post the evidence. This leads to another blowup, heated IM, Facebook and email exchanges, more blurring of the lines between IG and OOG, some minor threats, and total confusion and insanity all around. It also leads to:

Junko posts on 4chan, attacking people on uF. In addition, the Facebook account becomes more active. We also find a shirt on sale referencing the game: http://junkojunsui.wikidot.com/headlineshirts

At this point: the Junsui are a mysterious group either having to deal with a maternity cult, a fashion campaign, or genetic modification. Alfa-Tsentr is a mysterious Russian paramilitary group. We're all confused.

Stage Two:

Alexander Dubrovin, an agent from the Men of Taste contacts me (redct). He says that the Junsui and the people we're dealing with are dangerous. Junko is just an actor and a Georgian(?) separatist group has stolen her identity for their own. Junko posts on the 5/8 music forums, which leads to an entire series of events that I will briefly summarize below.

Parallel (5/8 forums): Junko and her 4chan cohort start spamming and causing general havoc on the 5/8 forums. Dissentience, a member of 5/8 has had his information posted all over 4chan and has had some minor internet trolling problems. All hell breaks loose when Junko implies an attack on 5/8. Lawsuits and the FBI were threatened, but it all settles down in the end.

"Informants" gain access to Junko's inner circle and gain access to a meeting where it is stated that they plan to spread disinformation. The effort was strong at first but almost immediately died out.

Stage 3:
Dubrovin starts up a Men of Taste Facebook group dedicated to intelligence gathering and organizing. Several puzzles ensue, in which we find out that Patrick Marckesano, the presumed PM of the game is in fact being hunted by A-T. A dead drop is hinted at and several more puzzles are solved. At this point, Alexander Dubrovin, the previous manager of the Men of Taste Facebook group is booted out in favor of Yuri Tretiak. (To say the least, Yuri is a bit more… annoying than Dubrovin.)

Another presumed designer/PM of this game, Won You led us to a Brazilian social networking site, where we found information that turned into a puzzle. This information eventually leads us to a dead drop at "Cafe Moto", a French cafe in Brooklyn. An anonymous Unfiction member, presumably from 4chan, picks up and scans an image of a photo with a message written on the back <http>. On the back is a message written that mentions a Marusya Tchailenov, who is found to be on Second Life. She originally had out of game content on her profile, but is now in game as she has an image of Junsui on her profile and her description relates some in game themes. See <http> and the following few posts for a good overview.

So, now what? This is about our current resting place. We're proceeding on the Second Life (yuck) front and we'll see where this rollercoaster goes next.

[redct]

Also, me being me, here's some totally baseless speculation I'm going to attach to this.

On the PMs' plans:

[cjc813]

Okay, so I just made an account here because I have no idea what's going on.

I first saw the fake google site, and the video feed on it. That really has me interested in how this narrative is going to go.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what the hell is going on and, from reading some of the discontent on this forum, I'm kind of worried that I may be disappointed.

I've seen:
the fake google
the cam feed (bits of it)
the two pages on http://shineisei.jp/
the Alfa Tsentr/Men of Taste sites
the slew of Facebook pages (seems kinda hamfisted to me)
the http://junkojunsui.wikidot.com/ site

And, I think that's about all I've seen outside of some of the threads here.

Is there anywhere else I can go to get a rundown of what has happened so far, who the characters are, and where to watch for future developments?

I apologize if there's something simple I've overlooked, but I'm brand new to this ARG thing (never heard of unForums).

Like I said, the first slew of websites really grabbed me and I'd like to see how this whole japanese-russian-bioengineering narrative plays out.

EDIT: And what's this trailhead everyone is talkin' about?

[Deiwos]

[cjc813]

[adolgonosov]

The Second Life lead (Marusya Tchailenov) was a bot that asked a series of questions, eventually leading to a TGA screenshot of the Second Life interview room with the filename "6420608 - THE CONCEPTION". See the following thread: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28406

The Junsui urged followers to find "where on the internet" that could be; Yuri suggested it might be media related to the recent security breach at Alfa-Tsentr. It turned out to be a video at http://www.vimeo.com/6420608. User nrkey420 got in with the password "Yamantau", referring to Yamantau mountain. The symbol on the fake google intro (looks like a lock and key) was a symbol for Mt Yamantau, a Russian nuclear storage facility and bunker (the approximate Russian equivalent of US Area 51). The intro to the fake google also provides coordinates for Yamantau.

The video shows some behind the scenes stuff at MoT. See the following thread for translations and discussion: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28438

[nomad]

Could someone please update this thread from time to time? It would be really nice.

[cjc813]

I'm considering typing up a brief "the story thus far" thread so people who are new (like me) or who haven't be around in a while can come and get the gist of what's going on w/o having to spend a day (like I did) getting a feel for who/what is involved here.

This would serve the same function as those half-minute blurbs before TV shows where they say "Previously on Battlestar Galactica," for example.

I don't know the whole story, but like I said, I spent the better part of the day yesterday looking around and wondering what all was going on.

I've got classwork (that I should have been doing yesterday) to get done first, but after that, we'll see.

[nomad]

[cjc813]

[CMcKnight]

[EverBlue]

He's just saying that the majority of Junsui followers seem to be Chilean, thus an "army" of followers. As you can tell by looking at her facebook page.