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[BuzzKill]

Quick thought, maybe irrelevent

[(a)Lurker]

I just wanted to mention a couple of things that have been bugging me...


If she can move around the Internet with impunity, and we are every bit of a threat to her as Dana (even in this thread we are talking about trying to possibly impede her by solving the GPS puzzle), wouldn't she attack the Wiki and danablog?

Pertaining to a game event at GPS locales, the queen already was frustrated about being trapped in a primitive network box (what's next...tin cans and string?). Doesn't that make it really unlikely that she can manifest physically in a major way? Furthermore, axions are the beginning of a neural network, right? That's not even a full brain, and is certainly a far cry from arms and limbs.

As an event planner, I know that you would want to give solid details for your event if you want people to attend. So would the PM's. The last thing you would do is change locations and times. Plans would be concrete waaaay in advance, and advertising would not change close to the date. RL event strike one.

Corporate entities should get permission for on-campus or public location events (mainly to avoid bad press if they were to interrupt on-goings at the locations, traffic flow, etc.). This would have to be done well in advance of the event. I dunno if we could look into that angle (see if MS has contacted the locations about an event). Possible RL event strike two.

Someone earlier said that the coords must be changing to correct mistakes. It works just as well with the "oh noes! teh ARG'ers are coming to the GPS's!" theory because (just as extrasonic said) dana is giving us life lessons about trespassing, and the GPS's are being changed to non-private locations (to protect those who would happily trespass anyway).

Even if M. is able to break free of the box in a drastic way, the story is not to the point of endgame yet. Too many loose ends...SP and PF are fledgling characters, Dana's still in Asia, we don't know how futuristic entities end up in 2004, who is the stowaway, who/what caused the future crash, what is the story surrounding the future crash, etc.?

It would be a h00ge waste of money for the above to be developed and unanswered, so they surely will address these before endgame. And to that end, the story is surely finished already...the PM's aren't flying by the seat of their pants. With that, do we really believe that the widow was killed to appease us over one GPS error (especially considering that M. keeps changing them too)? Again, the game has to be already 85% finished. That leaves some room for minor changes to tie it into our efforts and RL circumstances. That does not leave room to kill one of only 6 main characters in the book (five if you don't include Auntie).


Sooo...the chances of an endgame or RL event seem slim. If there is a physical manifestation of any sort, it would HAVE to mesh with IG logic (no signs being unfurrled, no green vans handing out jars of honey).

Perhaps we need to consider why Queeney wants roads? Is she in finding a voice mode, build a body mode, or kill the assassin/killer/dana mode? To that end, what does she have to work with...a primitive network and the contents of ILB (including the changing .wav files). How would those manifest physically?

Forget the PM's being limited by their location in WA...what about M's being limited from being trapped in an ADSL box?[/i]

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[WhatTheDilly-O]

Okay, I apologize, but I havn't been paying attention to the ILB saga for almost a week and I can't possibly read all 20 pages of this thread.

My first almost certain trout is this: It's pretty safe to say that the times on the new coordinates only apply to August 24, because the very first time listed is 6:07, which is precicely the time of day when the ILB countdown hits zero. That that time would be significant on any other day seems pretty unlikely given the utter lack of anything to suggest it is, so I doubt any of the other times are either. It's pretty obvious to me that that location (D.C., I believe?) is where the shiz will go down first on the 24th, and then it will spread to the other locations at the times listed.

Now I have a couple questions:

Like I said, I can't read all 20 pages of this thread, so if someone would be so kind as to direct me to the map with the lines connecting the locations chronologically, I'd appreciate it.

There is a lot of mention about something the Sleeping Princess said about roads and stuff (the first post on this page, for example, if I'm still on page 20 by the time I finish this post). I don't know what that's from. When did she say that?

[IvanLeopold]

Alright, I'm done with this.

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[WhatTheDilly-O]

[GunsmithCat]

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[GaUDeNTiUs]

Call me a crackpot or whatever, but it's TOO much of a coincidence.

The first hit in WASHINGTON, DC is at 6:07am. That's 367 minutes into the 24th. Take into account the whole Bungie # thing and divide 367 by 3 and you get 122.33333 . . . and so on. I had mentioned once before the unusual number of 122 in the coordinates in the old set. The only 122.3's I found were all for Seattle, WA. The 'screw ups' that were in the ocean were for Seattle, WA.

To get a little off the Seattle thing, the original screw up on the old set of coords landed in Berkeley. There are now six hits in Berkeley.

Whatever this means in the whole of the ARG, I haven't a clue. I just hope this means something to someone.

I'll keep busting my head, and try to come up with something.

GD