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Thunderwolf
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natas wrote:
OK, I might get a frown from the PM's for this, and I don't know where, when, or how this fits in the story, because I "stumbled" upon it. but here's a stereogram. It solves to:

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king alcohol


I tried some anagrams, and some URL addons, but nothing so far.


Care to share where this came from? It seems apropos of nothing.
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natas
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http://www.lunarlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/njnm.jpg

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Lisis_M
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I missed a lot this weekend, i do not think the stereogram means anything, just yet, maybe it will get useful later.

I am still puzzled by the text game, maybe i will try asking via email about it

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Thunderwolf
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natas wrote:
http://www.lunarlabs.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/njnm.jpg
That link's broken, which I guess meant that you weren't supposed to find it. If you used wordpress shenaningans as you did before, I think it probably breaks the 3rd commandment to some extent. Still, nice find.
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cherrytree98765
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natas wrote:
sent you a PM.

ETA:

I don't think this find makes a huge jump in the story, just for the fact of how and where I found it.

I'm not trying to be too cryptic on purpose. I just don't wanna piss off the PM's.


Yeah, let's stick away from any "Brute Force" methods or anything that's beyond "common" tech knowledge in terms of the ARG.

It's not a matter of "if" it pisses off the PM's. It's a matter of it will. The PM's will get antsy and in a worse case will shut down the game, due to them not knowing if they can continue showing their story in a logical manner without it getting diverted by other methods. I've seen one or two games shut down due to runarounds of games. It's never a good thing to happen because both sides work hard at the games.

I'm not trying to be rude. haha. Just mostly pointing it out.

Anyways I forget to post part of an email from Maria. It's a little backstory to Nick that I had asked her about:

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Yes it does sound like a traumatic amnesia. What I could find out was that his real parents didn't want him and left him at a church. Nuns found the baby on a cold winter morning and after a couple of weeks they gave him up for adoption.




Why his real parents did it will always be a secret, unless Nick wants to find out the reason behind it.




Well, the meeting was necessary and believe me, it was not easy going. There were some heated discussions, but George and Liam could make a good point why we had to change the initial direction of the LUNAR project.


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RingmasterJ5
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I'm beginning to think that George(and by extension Liam) do not have access to the abilities/knowledge/technology that Nick and Maria seem to possess, at least right now. He's purely the "money", or someone they thought they could trust to help get Lunar off the ground, and is now trying to find more profitable ways of using it.

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natas
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I didn't brute force anything. Do you guys even know what brute forcing is?

They put it on their site. I just found it.

And I'll continue digging to find stuff. If they didn't want it found, don't upload it to a website. Simple as that.

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RingmasterJ5
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natas wrote:
I didn't brute force anything. Do you guys even know what brute forcing is?

They put it on their site. I just found it.

And I'll continue digging to find stuff. If they didn't want it found, don't upload it to a website. Simple as that.


Dude, are you trying to scare away the PMs?

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cherrytree98765
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natas wrote:
I didn't brute force anything. Do you guys even know what brute forcing is?

They put it on their site. I just found it.

And I'll continue digging to find stuff. If they didn't want it found, don't upload it to a website. Simple as that.


Brute force can be taking literally as "forcing" your way to something. Quite literally you "forced" your way to an address that was not immediatly available to the rest of the world.

Just because you can "find" it does not make it right to break the game. And I understand that's just "there to find" because they uploaded it As much as you think it's just "simple as that" every game has it's rules which are to make it enjoyable. There's a trust between PM(s) and Player to play by certain rules that make the game, immersive and fun. If you break those rule(s) you invalidate the PM's hard work they put into this. In the end just enjoy the game as it's meant to be played. I don't see the harm in that.

That's just my opinion, in the end do what you want to, but there's a high risk this game will be shut down by the PM if he feels his story can't be told properly.

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natas
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cherrytree98765 wrote:


Brute force can be taking literally as "forcing" your way to something. Quite literally you "forced" your way to an address that was not immediatly available to the rest of the world.


I didn't "force" my way into anything. And that address I found WAS immediately available to the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, the clue to me finding it is in the source code of every page on lunarlabs.org.

So please know of what you speak of before you try to accuse me of anything.

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cherrytree98765
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natas wrote:
cherrytree98765 wrote:


Brute force can be taking literally as "forcing" your way to something. Quite literally you "forced" your way to an address that was not immediatly available to the rest of the world.


I didn't "force" my way into anything. And that address I found WAS immediately available to the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, the clue to me finding it is in the source code of every page on lunarlabs.org.

So please know of what you speak of before you try to accuse me of anything.


So what about
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I'm not trying to be too cryptic on purpose. I just don't wanna piss off the PM's.
which gives the inherent feeling that you've done something your not supposed to. If I misinterperted that then I am sorry, it just sounded that way, by how you put it.

Either way this isn't worth starting an argument on the thread which is for the game.

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natas
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cherrytree98765 wrote:


So what about "not wanting to piss of the PM's" which gives the inherent feeling that you've done something your not supposed to. If I misinterperted that then I am sorry, it just sounded that way, by how you put it.

Either way like I said it's your choice.


Of course I don't want to piss them off, but at the end of the day, they are the ones who uploaded the file to their website with no thought of people finding it.

I don't honestly believe the PM's have the temperance of a 6 year old whose brother took away their toy. I don't really believe they put together this story and means of telling it, just to throw a temper tantrum and "take their ball and go home" because NataS refused to play by a faux set of rules.

It seems that players are getting all wound up over nothing. The PM's obviously read the thread, noticed what I found, and have deleted it's online presence, and are probably figuring another way to re-introduce that piece of evidence or just re-do it altogether.

Is it poor planning to upload stuff for your game to a public website in a public folder? Of course it is. Should players dig for more info while playing a game? Of course we should.

You're not running the game, nor are you running how I play. Enough said. The topic has been derailed enough.

ETA: (note to whom it may concern)

Wordpress has shortlinks for everypage and every image you post to it. They start off at www.examplewordpresssite.com/?p=1 (usually the hello world post) and ?p=2 ?p=3 etc etc.

So we can literally see anything you post on WordPress. Just sayin. It also will stop confusion as to "Are we supposed to find this yet.)

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RingmasterJ5
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...So, you've basically just told the PMs that uploading multiple Wordpress pages at once, like with a "page A" with a download that hints towards "page B" that leads to "page C" etc, should not be done because you or someone else will use that trick to instantly post all three.

Now, what, will they have to slowly trickle in new pages one by one once the community catches up to them?

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amandel
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In reply to my assuring Liam that his 2nd email had arrived & that a self-deciding email was a warning that Skynet was becoming sentient Laughing Liam Top wrote:
Hi there!

Haha thanks for your article! I do feel like our email system is deciding more and more for itself. We found some strange activities on the mail server, but nothing to be worried about!

Kind regards,
Liam

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jessie1326
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New tweet from Lunar Labs:

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LUNAR Labs ‏@LUNAR_Info 1h

Lesson of the day: We make mistakes so we can learn from them! So, keep calm, relax and enjoy the ride! Smile


I think the PMs are telling us "no harm, no foul," so I suggest we forge ahead. Smile

Since I can't run the text game (I'm on a Mac), how about some rampant speculation? Foily!

Have we done much in the way of speculating about "what's going on" here? My read of it is that we are somehow seeing/receiving messages from the future? A future in which Lunar Labs's project has been developed and...what, exactly? Is used for...murder? Espionage? Other nefarious things?

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