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Potential ARG? [Vinesauce in Active Worlds]
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TheArmadaBledd
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Potential ARG? [Vinesauce in Active Worlds]

So, youtuber Vinesauce was exploring the MMO Active Worlds (apparently a very old an inactive game) when he claims, completely unscripted, to have found another player, acting very bizarrely.

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Now, this could be pure publicity stunt, but the article mentions that users who searched for the player's in-game name found a website attached to it. I'm thinking that a potential exists that this may be the launch of a sort of ARG or interactive piece of fiction. If people decide it doesn't belong here, feel free to remove. Just curious and I think it has potential.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:56 pm
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Coraline
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I use worlds a lot(and active worlds less frequently) and there are people like this all the time. Heck, even I get cryptic to scare new people. It's basically just typical hazing, so I doubt there's anything to follow here.

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_Burgundy
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The guy literally knew his name and everything. He was obviously either someone from the stream, or just somebody who had the game and saw that it was being streamed and decided to cause some havoc. The website could easily have been made after the fact.

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icarus496
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The website is arg- ish, though. There's Morse code, a cryptic message, and a code on it.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
the Morse code translates to justyouwait (gibberish) human

The website: http://goo.gl/9Z9bTe (may be the mobile site, I'm on mobile)

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catherwood
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i think this might be the non-mobile URL for the website?
http://hitomifujikoellomi.webs.com/

Click on the link (under the lone period) to find more "stuff".
http://hitomifujikoellomi.webs.com/page.htm

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Nyst
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So it's bad form, but hitomi made a Reddit account and has been posting encrypted clues and images, and chatting a bit with users.

https://m.reddit.com/r/Vinesauce/comments/4cycr3/myhomemp4/
https://m.reddit.com/r/Vinesauce/comments/4cu2ag/search/

There's also another user "anata no gaido" posting poorly encrypted stuff in Reddit and vinesauce forums. Not sure if it's related or they're just trying to steal attention, but they link to some images and videos.

http://m.imgur.com/QMbd2VY
https://vid.me/bq2B

If this is really going somewhere, how could someone create this on the fly? The only way for this not to be happening live is if Vinny was in on it and planned for all this to happen.

As for the site in the above post, if you click 1056 which is hitomi's user id on swcity, you'll get an image with another message and 4/4/16

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icarus496
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Yeah, I don't know. I can check up on the image when I get home. The way it's headed, I do think this is going somewhere.

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Nyst
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It appears that this has concluded

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