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Pezdro (unabletologin) · Guest

She's betrayed by a man who she likens to Odysseus, the bastard who thought up the Trojan Horse? That just hit me. Wow.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:47 pm

leetch11 (unable to login · Guest

Putting it all together

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:08 pm

Shad0

Re: Putting it all together

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:27 pm

prokat · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 13

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:29 pm

Leetch11 (unabletologin) · Guest

Re: Putting it all together

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:33 pm

Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

Re: Putting it all together

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:39 pm

Crispy · Greenhorn Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

True, true. I was also hoping for more.
It seems that we have either:

a) Been quicker at solving the puzzles than the PMs thought we would be (unfortunately, their hands are tied by the whole countdown thing)
or
b) Missed something blindingly obvious
EDIT: or (of course! tnx Worker)
c) There will be more at ILB before the 14 days are up.

I'm not an ARG veteran, so I have no experience in these things, but did The Beast take this long to get going? It seems to me that that game had a whole network of sites from the get-go, whereas we only have ILB to play with...

Maybe when the holes are plugged in our work on the current hidden texts, something will reveal itself to us.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:43 pm

leetch11 (unabletologin) · Guest

The Beast

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 7:57 pm

jbd · Decorated Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 295

I should point out the castaway text alludes back to the use of The Tempest from Phase 1:

Those are pearls that were her eyes:
Nothing of her that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange

The Phoenician sailor in The Tempest does not refer to Odysseus directly, but T.S. Eliot makes the connection in his poem The Waste Land.

Commentary from
http://www.en.utexas.edu/classes/bremen/e314l/assignments/w_land/annot/barcas.html

The "sailor home from sea" on line 221 [of The Waste Land] could be Odysseus. Odysseus' travels took him to Phoenicia at one point; he blends in with the Phoenician sailor from Shakespeare's The Tempest. Tiresias' ability to prophesize is not affected by the fact that he is in Hades.

And from the poem itself:

(lines 46-48)
. . . . . . . Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned Phoenician Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes. Look!)

(The fortune telling section the poem is an allusion to Odysseus, who went to Hades to speak with Tiresias [who could see the future].)

(lines 312-318)
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:10 pm

Shad0

Re: Putting it all together

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:10 pm

jbd · Decorated Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 295

Addendum: This first Cortana letter quotes Eliot, but from his poem The Hollow Men, not The Waste Land.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:16 pm

Crispy · Greenhorn Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 6

3 months in a day Very Happy

Never underestimate the intelligence (or the stupidity) of the internet.
I can see how a drip-feed of information makes more sense, then. It certainly makes a linear narrative easier to tell.

It almost seems to me as though the only real ARG is the first one you know about. Once you know the structures and styles, it becomes less exciting.

I'm willing to be proved wrong. And besides, this is my first ARG Smile

OK, this is all getting a bit [META] now. Enough!
/me goes to see if there are any gaps in the wiki needing filling.

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:32 pm

number8

Well now that the Queen took control she can surely update ILB as much as she wants to. Besides, it's kinda stupid for the PM to actually announce when they will post new stuff. Also I've find today's puzzles to be not all that difficult. I mean, when you see broken up phrases you naturally would piece them together right?

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:48 pm

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problem quite interesting Drool

JK · Guest

not "the sea" --> "the sea melissa"

**Posted:** Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:11 pm

halofan

another dark box, like the original on main page, but this one on... whoa

on:
http://www.ilovebees.com/surg.!store.primary.sector.mem.dmg.0.4.html

wierd... I clicked a bee on the recipe3 page? I think...

I think i found something on that page, but first I have a question...
How do you view the html of a site when using Mozilla Firefox 9.2?

anyway here's the text I found mixed in within the page listed above, only easy way of viewing it is to highlight it....not sure if this has been posted efore, I'm new to this.

Mayday Mayday Mayday
Black beach, nothing but sand and darkness. Sometimes, in the distance, dry lightning. In the flash I see pieces of the wreck around me. The spars and rigging of my brain.
-hold on. hold on. Steady up. Get a grip girl. You have to fight through this
Survival Key #3: How badly are you hurt?

(I'm having problems with the next line....)

Mentally, subject is confused and disoriented

(i think that's what it says, not sure about mentally and disoriented, but they fit, i guess)

Physically, subject is paralyzedbut moving
Okay.
What the hell does THAT mean?
Held down: yes. As if strapped to a table. Could i be in traction in some sick bay? Some hospital ward?
Not necessarily one of ours....
But at the same time, parts of me are being moved around, emptied out. As if under general anesthetic, dimly concious, half-aware as the surgeon cuts off my feet and sews them onto my shoulders. she opens my head with a medical hammer and sand spills out.
I WANT TO DIE I WANT TO -
-no
-never that
survive, evade reveal escape. That is all you know, or need to know.

the cutting off feet thing, wasn't something about feet not wanting o be cut off mentioned before?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:29 am