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[AtionSong]

The Reveal

[konamouse]

Suggestions for Wide Audience Reveal

[jamesi]

Recently, Yahoo Answers has been used as a Rabbithole Delivery Model™ (RDM).

Ha ha, I just trademarked a new term, and I have no legal authority to do so! Nyah nyah!

[rowan]

Posters placed in high traffic areas in the towns where you live.

If you have the money, a cheap, but memorable ad. (How many people joined WIBS just because of Virgil the coconut man? Not that most people have the money for that particular ad buy-in, but you could still come up with something catchy. Didn't metacortechs start with just a random google ad?)

Cryptic tshirts with urls on them that you can walk around town in.

Appropriate packages sent to random addresses collected from the net. Like, if your ARG was about ferrets, you could send me something ferrety because my website mentions ferrets. Or, if it was about brunettes, you could send something to strifey because of the SPC. Or if it's about aliens, find a good alien website and the the webmaster pieces of alien junk to analyze.

Stick hidden messages inside books at a library/bookstore.

Hide homemade cds in used record shops. Fill them full of cryptic goodness.

Find out if there is going to be a national media presense in your town. Make a big sign. Get on tv.

Attend a dog show with a cat. Or vice versa. Make sure you shave your website into the fur of your animal so that people will know where to go to complain. But don't use ferrets. They are too small to put a long url on.

[catherwood]

Re: The Reveal

[thebruce]

I've been wondering this myself: for mailing a rabbithole, how anonymous can the source be? Isn't there a way to track the package itself, based on the stamps and markings?
You don't need to put a return address on, no, but how would one be able to send a fully anonymous package? (or at least sufficiently anonymous that a layperson wouldn't know easily)

[Phaedra]

[konamouse]

No wonder our postal service charges have gone up!

"Return to Sender" is dicey if it's something expensive. Was there any handling charge?

[Phaedra]

[Lovek]

Have lots of friends? Advertise via some sort of Improv Everywhere type event that is in some way related to the plot of your ARG. Anonymously let a local news channel know.

If you don't have lots of friends, do what the Improv Everywhere guys do, put out an ad (classifieds, Craigslist, etc.) that says "Show up here at this time. Bring a blue shirt, some rope, and magic markers".


Just a thought.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

[Phaedra]

[krystyn]

Often, if one encloses an envelope inside of an envelope, and sends it care of the Postmaster for a particular city, they will postmark it for their city and send it along, provided you have attached the appropriate postage.

lots of cutesy engaged couples like to do this when they send out wedding invites - they'll find a town named Love, or Forever, or Shnookums Poopsie Woopsie, and send correspondence there, asking for a handstamp, so it's nice and clear.

[Lovek]

[Zazaban]

What's Craig's list?