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[From the Bethesda Forums]

Hatshoe is a hoax.

[jaeger138]

Hi all newcomers, welcome. Just to clear something up, the thought that this was a Bethesda employee never crossed our minds. It's, as far as we know a game. There is more to this than just Elder Scrolls. Please bear this in mind and try to read through the wiki and the pages here at unfiction to get a grasp of what's going on as we need everyone sharp if they're going to help.

I don't mean to sound rude, I just think it's best if we try to keep some order in the chaos that is hatshoe.

[raithen]

I had a short discussion with him via e-mail about the thread-closings:
Me:

[Dante007]

Uh.. okay? We never thought it was a Bethesda employee or whatever, lol. It's just an ARG, not a hidden announcement for TESV.

[Vicarious Atonement]

I never thought Hatshoe had anything to do With Elder Scrolls, it just wouldn't make sense if it did. I mean, nothing that is in Hatshoe would have a place in the Elder Scrolls universe. Lined paper, scanners, ball-point pens, movies, cameras, high heel shoes, sleeping pills, gas stations, among many other things. I always thought the Elder Scrolls references are just because Hatshoe is a fan of video games, particularly RPGs. He mentions things like movies too, so I got this image of him as a fan of games, films, and the like.


Where does Bethesda come into this at all? Did people on their forums think it was a viral for The Elder Scrolls V? Just because it has nothing to do with Bethesda doesn't make it a "hoax", because none of us over here thought it had anything directly to do with TESV (well, I can't speak for all of us, but I think that was the general opinion).

I will admit "From the Bethesda Forums"'s post made my heart plummet when I saw it until I realized the mix-up... too bad we can't have them edit their post so potential new players don't misread it and miss out on Hatshoe entirely.

I think at this point we can consider Hatshoe a "mini-ARG" of some sorts. I'm confident it's not viral advertising of any sort.

[Vicarious Atonement]

And I'd like to invite everyone to the new chat room I made for us Hatshoe players...

Hatshoe Chatroom

I'll probably be lurking in it constantly so drop in whenever you like. It will probably be easier to discuss clues and hints and swap theories in chat. Bookmark it for easy finding? =P

Let me know if the link isn't working.

[raithen]

[Mar_Vell]

So, I was reading through the twowithout page and the last paragraph hit me like a brick. The recipe is for a device that will free you from being stuck on a linear path through time or "rid the body of all temporal restrictions" but in the last paragraph he says that if you come back to the "that place" (i assume he means that place in time) that you won't be able to integrate with yourself. Pretty scary.

But what hit me was that I think that he actually did this experiment and found it to be true first hand and now he's stuck somewhere outside of the linear reality of time as we know it and it's up to us to help him get back.

I could be shooting completely into the dark with this one, but I have a feeling that this could be the clue we've been waiting for.

[Noodle36]

Wow

[chaos]

[whitecross8]

Wow take a weekend off and bam Bethesda gets all in your stuff.

Thanks for the wiki Jaeger and the chat room set up Vicarious.

First there is a new tweet:

[chaos]

ok
what i was saying about favourite thing..

definite shape, no idea what it is

kinda reminds me of those police body-outlines, but idk

or a spider or something


http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/razielthereaver/favouritething.jpg
EDIT: how do ye do that cool attachment thingie
gonna just have it as a link due to image size

[Dante007]

The only thing that I recall even remotely sounding like Grave (sans guns and van and that sort of thing) is the quest, Unfriendly Competition where a shop owner is greatly undercutting the rest of the merchants in his prices, and is later revealed that he was (unknowingly) buying items from a man who actually retrieved the items from graves. Eventually you have to kill the man, Agarmir, and a friend of his.

This is Agarmir: http://www.uesp.net/w/images/images.new/4/48/OB-npc-Agarmir.jpg

Does he look like Cobain? Not really at all. :S

As for door unlock.. well, you can't chop people's heads off in the game without a mod, and I don't think there's a quest where you have someone arrested and need to kill guards, so it's probably a different game.

Also, Castles is obviously a post about Medieval II: Total War. I e-mailed him about it and he pretty much confirmed, though not in so many words.

[teh_lisa]

I can't remember if this was mentioned or not, but at the bottom, on the left, of favourite things - there is a number 3

[Vicarious Atonement]