Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Wed Nov 20, 2024 2:21 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
Fifteen Days Of Darkness [Ministry of Argon/VA]
View previous topicView next topic
Page 5 of 37 [554 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ..., 35, 36, 37  Next
Author Message
DarkProject
Veteran


Joined: 02 Dec 2008
Posts: 98

Any action on this? Lurking, but can't get in on any Ning stuff.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:11 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
ironnikki
Unfettered


Joined: 13 Jul 2009
Posts: 502
Location: Iowa City, IA

I kind of played the first chapter of this for a little while, but had to quit before it ended. I'd like to play this chapter, if possible, but not sure what help I can be yet. I'll be lurking though!
_________________
An Adventurer Is Me!
Played: Intimation, Purity Towers, Vanessa Atalanta (sort of), TV III


PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:03 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Telos954
Entrenched


Joined: 10 Dec 2009
Posts: 817
Location: Hollywood, Florida

First, I'd like to apologize for my lack of involvement in both the end of the last game, and this one. I had promised to get shots of my postcard uploaded, then got highly busy. I still have it, though and if needed I will get the info up.

I've been highly busy with some hectic IRL stuff, but since I don't want a pity-party I'll exclude those details.

I'm going to try to get caught up when I have some spare time, and I'll try to get involved again.
------------

If someone could kindly send me a quick recap on the whole split time line deal that seems to be happening, I'd be grateful. I was speaking with Vlad just a few moments ago and it seemed that he had no idea at all what I was talking about, and like Claire did in the second game when she began to get information that made her remember incidents - he started complaining about a bad headache. He didn't remember who JPW was, who Claire and Vanessa were, and when I mentioned Alan and Johan, he said I had to have been mistaken.

Since I haven't been around, I honestly have no idea what happened at the end of the last game, but just in the time I've quickly checked messages and wall stuff on Facebook I noticed that Claire and V seem to have become a single person. Vlad seems to not have died (didn't JPW say he killed him?) but went in to a coma, and people's sense of events seem to be different from what I remember. Sooo I'm totally lost here.
_________________
Herpderp WoW. Herpderp Minecraft. Herpderp Skyrim. Herpderp girlfriend. Been out of the ARG scene too long.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:52 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Dagada
Unfettered

Joined: 16 Oct 2009
Posts: 355
Location: London, UK

O has been in contact with me several times, indicating something is afoot - or is soon to be...

Quote:
How are things my home-based friend? Soon the harvest's blade will reap July and we will start the next turn of the circle...


Furthermore, he's been quite active on Twitter, commenting on Mars being his favourite of Holst's Planet Suite and also his latest "fourteen teeth" relates to Romeo and Juliette - the appropriate section is below:

Quote:
LADY CAPULET
She's not fourteen.
NURSE

I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--

And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four--

She is not fourteen. How long is it now

To Lammastide?
LADY CAPULET

A fortnight and odd days.
Lady Capulet seems unsure.  Is the girl fourteen? Apparently, not quite.  Juliet is only thirteen, but she will have her birthday soon, on the eve of a holiday called "Lammastide."
NURSE
Even or odd, of all days in the year,

Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.

Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--

Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;

She was too good for me: but, as I said,

On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;

That shall she, marry; I remember it well.

'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;

And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--

Of all the days of the year, upon that day:

For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,

Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;

My lord and you were then at Mantua:--

Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,

When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple

Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,

To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!

Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,

To bid me trudge:

And since that time it is eleven years;

For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,

She could have run and waddled all about;

For even the day before, she broke her brow:

And then my husband--God be with his soul!

A' was a merry man--took up the child:

'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?

Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;

Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,

The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'

To see, now, how a jest shall come about!

I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,

I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;

And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'
LADY CAPULET

Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.


Lammastide is the 1st August and signals the start of Harvest. I'll wager three men will cone out of the west, their fortunes for to try soon....

PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 7:41 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Dagada
Unfettered

Joined: 16 Oct 2009
Posts: 355
Location: London, UK

Telos954 wrote:

------------

Since I haven't been around, I honestly have no idea what happened at the end of the last game, but just in the time I've quickly checked messages and wall stuff on Facebook I noticed that Claire and V seem to have become a single person. Vlad seems to not have died (didn't JPW say he killed him?) but went in to a coma, and people's sense of events seem to be different from what I remember. Sooo I'm totally lost here.


Yup. There have been a few changes.... At the end of the last section, we managed to prevent the Ministry using time travel to kill Dyson. As a result, many characters are now slightly different to how they were and the Ministry is now a school. Claire and Vanessa are the same person now. They were actually sisters in the past timeline.

Orpheus, aka professor oeargusson somehow remembers the original timeline. He's connected to Vlad in some way and has sent a number of cryptic postcards out - which seem to contain UV hidden writing. He's asking us to stop a period or darkness, but figuring out quite what his motives are is not easy. He did seem to be helping V in the last section, but it's arguable he was actually helping Vlad.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:05 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Dagada
Unfettered

Joined: 16 Oct 2009
Posts: 355
Location: London, UK

O just sent me a message on Twitter: Matthew 13: 38-40

It's part of the explanation to the parable of the weeds, relating to the bad being torn up and burnt by the angels during the harvest.

I've asked O how he would define those who are good and evil, and where he stands. I don't expect a straightforward answer. Smile

Edit -
Quote:
Oeagrusson: On the poplar is my harp hung,I do not side with Benjamin.I do not define others, just their actions&who they side with.The choice is soon.


This is a direct reference to the Rivers of Babylon Psalm. O's very biblical today.Benjamin could refer to one of the tribes of Israel....

PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:48 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
dreamerblue
Unfettered


Joined: 14 Mar 2008
Posts: 710
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dagada wrote:

Quote:
How are things my home-based friend? Soon the harvest's blade will reap July and we will start the next turn of the circle...



I got the same DM, but he called me his foreign friend rather than home-based (since I'm in Canada and not in the UK like the Professor and Dagada).

I'm also sorry I dropped off the face of this alternate 'verse...the course I'm taking has been really intense and I've been mentally and physically exhausted. Tomorrow is the last day, though. I'll be spending some of August getting ready to teach new courses in September, cleaning the house, taking mini-trips, and playing video games, but I'm planning on making a return to this game/the next chapter as well.

Oh, and Matthew 13:38-40 was sent to me, too. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who got it...I was afraid he was calling me a weed for a minute!
_________________
Played: The Lost Ring, Intimation, Vanessa Atalanta, Ministry of Argon, some of Fifteen Days of Darkness
Playing: Callum Felderi (if I have time)
...& have poked my head in on various other things here and there.


PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:30 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 15 Jan 2008
Posts: 4096
Location: Nederland

HI Bigtime to all. Am rushing but just saw this tweet:
Oeagrusson wrote:
1999 Day of Gratus 11:56:49 UTC 38.11N 23.60E "I have this feeling that if they put me under I'm not coming back" previously unknown...


Am clueless regading the quote but the date etc. refers to the epicenter of 1999 Athens earthquake. And the feast day of Saint Gratus of Aosta is also celebrated on Sept. 7th. Also got a DM similar to Dreamer's.

ETA: Ahaha...the the quote is from Jim Keith who died on Sept 7th 1999. And found this Elizabethan Calendar info :
Quote:
September 7
Harvest Home (date varies)
The completion of the harvest . A time for village festivals
Beasts are set out to graze on the harvested fields
SOURCE

_________________
"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."


PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 6:36 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
ironnikki
Unfettered


Joined: 13 Jul 2009
Posts: 502
Location: Iowa City, IA

Could someone point me towards Orpheus' Twitter? I didn't see him listed on the characters page of the wiki, other than a quick note about him not being registered on the Ning.
_________________
An Adventurer Is Me!
Played: Intimation, Purity Towers, Vanessa Atalanta (sort of), TV III


PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:38 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 15 Jan 2008
Posts: 4096
Location: Nederland

HI there Nikki: http://twitter.com/Oeagrusson
_________________
"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."


PostPosted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:45 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
ironnikki
Unfettered


Joined: 13 Jul 2009
Posts: 502
Location: Iowa City, IA

*facepalm*

Thanks, Am, apparently I can't work Twitter search.
_________________
An Adventurer Is Me!
Played: Intimation, Purity Towers, Vanessa Atalanta (sort of), TV III


PostPosted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:29 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
Sirannon
Veteran

Joined: 07 Jul 2007
Posts: 148
Location: Boston/New Jersey

Probably an obvious question, but is anything new going on?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:49 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Dagada
Unfettered

Joined: 16 Oct 2009
Posts: 355
Location: London, UK

It's funny you should ask... I've just had a pm tweet from O.

Quote:
Oeagrusson: His teeth are sharpening as we speak - he will recruit and soon...


Looks like the harvest home is on its way....

We've still not located all the postcards and put them together. Is there anyone who was a member of the ministry and on the mailing list missing?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:28 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 15 Jan 2008
Posts: 4096
Location: Nederland

Oeagrusson on twitter wrote:
need people to put pieces together.Why an earthquake in a previously unknown area? Sept 7th? No.Other dates are more important..


<3 my postcard 'tho I'm totally runes, astrology challenged and view the Athens quake where 143 people died as only a natural disaster. Am baffled atm. The harvest and "sharp teeth" theme maybe refer to Jason sowing the Dragon's teeth? Dunno
_________________
"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."


PostPosted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 10:42 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 15 Jan 2008
Posts: 4096
Location: Nederland

Very sorry for the double post but Oeagrusson has been on twitter and also sent a DM which sounded urgent.
Oeagrusson wrote:
The sun will rise soon, Venus and Jupiter are known to be there but not posted for all. The date can be calculated from the others - just.

and in the DM
Oeagrusson wrote:
Who has Venus, who has Jupiter? Holst may help...


Guess I'm stating the obvious by saying we're meant to be charting a date horoscope. His reffy is to Gustav Holst's musical suite The Planets. Hope this helps someone savvy. Have I mentioned a zillion times now am astrology clueless? Embarassed
_________________
"I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."


PostPosted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 5:24 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 5 of 37 [554 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ..., 35, 36, 37  Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group