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[LOCKED] [TRAILHEAD] 500 Rads - (Cloverfield sequel?)
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Kilroy

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 		[TRAILHEAD] 500 Rads - (Cloverfield sequel?)
Hi. Total noob here. Hope I'm doing this right. Apologies in advance if I'm doing it wrong. I've never discovered an ARG and I can hardly contain my excitement.

http://500rads.blogspot.com

Saw it mentioned in the Cloverfield forum at IMDB. I've just started snooping for clues there and I am pretty sure it ties in with:

http://4272010.com/

I sort of documented my following the breadcrumbs on the blogspot site from oldest post forward.

If this has already been investigated and debunked or posted, again please take it easy on the novice.

If it's valuable intel, then enjoy and see you on the trail

PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:23 am
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alogicnamedjoe
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 		I noticed some ones and zeros that appear to be binary under "Labels". However, they don't translate into anything meaningful. There is also a string of numbers and letters ("Y3J1ZGUgZXh0cmFjdA==") which turns out to be base 64 for "crude extract". "Crude extract" appears to be a medical term meaning among other things "a concentrated preparation of a vegetable or animal drug". Don't know where this leads, but it is interesting.
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catherwood
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 		Take a look in Forum index » Archive » Archive: Cloverfield (1-18-08) » Cloverfield: General / Updates (buried in our archives)

The thread "500RADS and Cloverfield 2" here has a discussion about it. I believe they determined it to be a fan-made project. You'll find several other threads in the same archive section:
[OOG] http://500rads.blogspot.com/ ("OOG" = Out Of Game)
500 rads is fake!

PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:11 am
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Kilroy

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 		Embarassed

Yeah. I felt like I'd stubbed my toe on a Spanish Galleon in the middle of the Mojave desert. Got a little carried away.

About halfway through the blog archive it occurred to me that the writing was clunk, the trail was phony and went to sleep.

I thought it started out strong but it all began to look poorly imagine and was relying on Deus ex Machina to bail it out of the awful, undercooked plot arc somwhere around the middle of April in the blog archives.

I should be kinder but I'm a little burned over staying up a few hours past bedtime following a trail of breadcrumbs that were most likely leading to a Rick Roll at best.

Well, I'd actually respect that level of commitment to a Rick Roll.

And I'm gone. Happy trails, folks.

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FullOfStars
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alogicnamedjoe wrote:
There is also a string of numbers and letters ("Y3J1ZGUgZXh0cmFjdA==") which turns out to be base 64 for "crude extract". "Crude extract" appears to be a medical term meaning among other things "a concentrated preparation of a vegetable or animal drug". Don't know where this leads, but it is interesting.


Another way to say Y3J1ZGUgZXh0cmFjdA== is Crude Extract.
Another way to say Crude Extract could be Natural Nectar.
Could Natural Nectar be Seabed Nectar (Kaitei no mitsu); Slusho's main ingredient that Tagruato claimed has "health benefits"?!

Just a thought Embarassed

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 		as Cather pointed out, there is already a thread located here so i'm going to go ahead and lock this one. Locky!
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