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[TRAILHEAD] The Darkest Puzzle
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danteIL
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JenniPowell wrote:
I doubt Morbus, Labfly, and myself are the only ones tapped so it may be too early to work out the connection.


Don't forget the package sent to the Japanese ARG site.

I was a Cloudmaker, and I've been following along with this, and I gotta say that I'm a bit disturbed by the 9/11 connections. I'm waiting to see how it plays out, but right now it seems like a bad idea.

This seems to be one of the PMs:
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Hugh Davies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Davies_(artist)
"He has presented and published papers on pervasive and alternate reality experiences and continues to explore the fuzzy between reality and fiction in a range of immersive experiences. "

And is mentioned here: http://www.freeplay.net.au/program/speakers/

and here: http://thethousands.com.au/melbourne/stray/the-darkest-puzzle/

as being involved in this.


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JenniPowell wrote:
I've PMed and am also a journalist who has covered quite a few ARGs, so in my case, yes that is what I would mean. Morbus might have meant differently.


Pretty much the same, and yes, that's what I meant.
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danteIL wrote:
This seems to be one of the PMs:


Good find.
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Ogawa
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 		Gotta love the old IE interface from the floppy disc caps. Thanks for posting.

I feel like I'm walking among giants with all these Cloudmakers around. Because of the huge 9/11 tie-in I've started watching footage and reading into the conspiracy theories behind the attacks. It's all the same stuff we've heard before. I'm not well into politics or anything so I couldn't hope to comprehend what some of these people are thinking.

It is definitely quite spooky though. Also, I think it's safe to assume everyone's already checked the URLs from the AskJeeves image. Nothing works except the Blogspot link of course...which is locked.

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keysofsoloman
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 		LaTanaka
If anyone noticed, one of the user names on the darkestpuzzle blog is LaTanaka. Looks like Lauren Tanaka is one of our first characters.

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keysofsoloman
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 		Wow. Check out the new youtube video.

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revcasy
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keysofsoloman wrote:
Wow. Check out the new youtube video.


That gave me chills. If I wasn't in before, I am now. 23 hours to go.
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iRobotZombie
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 		I think it has started

http://www.thedarkestpuzzle.com/demo44/
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"CLUES
Clues are hidden across the Internet, and across the planet. Some you wont recognize as clues. Some you will have difficulty accessing even when they are right in front of you due to password requirements, obsolete media formats, or because they are camouflaged into the backdrop of reality."


I assume that we need to start with the "Music from 2001" section first(?) So you have:
The Dandy Warhols - Godless (uploaded 30/07/2011)
Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates (uploaded 30/07/2011)
Jennifer Lopez - Play (uploaded 04/08/2011)
Gillian Welch - Revelator (uploaded 17/08/2011)
Gorillaz - 19 2000 (uploaded 19/08/2011)
Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World (uploaded 19/08/2011)

....?

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mspixieriot
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 		And "Godless" by the Dandy Warhols. Six total.
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JumboTron
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 		Where's the Dandy Warhols? I see only 5...

EDIT: Oh, I see it. Had to clear my cache...

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danteIL
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 		Kylie seems to be the critical video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vi6YYFmRVM

It contains a long message about repeating mistakes etc etc that I haven't had a chance to transcribe yet.

Also, it was uploaded by TheDarkClouded: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDarkclouded

who also has another really short video with the familiar jet-puzzle image:
http://youtu.be/iE-YcfiiGEY

EDIT, transcription:
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2001
THE FIRST YEAR OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
THE FUTURE HAD ARRIVED
AND HISTORY HAD ENDED
BUT FOR HUMANITY
THIS IS ALL TOO MUCH
TOO TRAUMATIC
SO RATHER THAN MOVING FORWARD
WE SIMPLY TOOK EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD DONE IN THE LAST DECADE
AND DID IT ALL AGAIN
WE BEGAN LIVING AN EXACT COPY OF THE PAST
THE SAME
BUT ALSO DIFFERENT
WE CREATED A TIME QUAKE
ANOTHER GEORGE BUSH
ANOTHER WAR WITH IRAQ
AGAIN THERE WERE PROTEST
AGAINST MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, CORRUPT POLITICIANS, AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
BUT WE KEPT THEM ALL
BUT AGAIN THEY FAILED US
THE WTC WAS ATTACKED
AGAIN
BUT NOW
ONE DECADE LATER
AND HAVING REPEATED EVERYTHING
WHAT SHOULD WE DO NEXT?
OF COURSE, THE EASIEST THING
WOULD BE TO DO IT A THIRD TIME
SEDUCTIVELY APPEALING , ISN'T IT?
THE SAFETY OF FAMILIARITY
NO CHOICES
NO DECISIONS
REPETITIVE
BUT CONSISTENT
SURE, IT MEANS MORE WAR, POVERTY ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
REMAKING ALL THE SAME MISTAKES
BUT BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW


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keysofsoloman
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 		I agree about checking into those songs. We might also take a look at this
http://www.archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive
It's the source for the new youtube video. There's a lot of material, but I'm sure we can find some things that stand out. The amount of overlap between whats real and whats augmented is going to be more than a little daunting this time around...

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Lystella
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The Terms of Use page has grey letters that spell "mime-net"


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keysofsoloman
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danteIL wrote:
Also, it was uploaded by TheDarkClouded: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDarkclouded

who also has another really short video with the familiar jet-puzzle image:
http://youtu.be/iE-YcfiiGEY


The video shows the plan traveling backwards. I looked frame by frame at it, and reversed the audio, but there is nothing mentionable. The two towers at the end are the Petronas towers in Malasia. Wikipedia tells us there was a false bomb threat September 12, 2001.

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