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[Nightmare Tony]

In terms of rules, the nice thing about ARGs is that there ARE no rules. Once you get into a nice predictable pattern, then something comes along to shatter it. Was kind of hilarious when Bees got into this alliance gig, and then people were predicting the end of ARGs wholesale.

Each one is hopefully different enough to set its own standards and break new ground.

With my job, I got mighty tired FAST of fighting games. Same old program, change the secret moves table, change the backgrounds, change the music tables anbd voila! new hot game! (yawn)

[wiredancer]

seems like i just missed the whole thing... i was waiting for the "launch" in early 2005.
so somehow for me it seems like that we've gotten somewhere (i mean discovered all (?) directories, etc) and now it all just stopped. nothing new. guess the next thing would be to work out the meaning of the .cache files? i don't know if there was any _real_ progress with that...
and anyway, who is the big brother in gatehouse 24? who's watching? and why are things that are not reviewed? ( " // not yet reviewed " )

telnetting perplexcity --> you can even ftp connect to it, no pass requiered. there's a /pub folder (that is empty ... ), and a "welcome.msg" file, that contains the following:

[Fi]

As stated in this thread, please don't try to telnet into sites, or hack them in any other way.

Here are The 10 Commandments Of ARGs - please follow them religiously!

Fi

[colin]

[neon snake]

To be honest, I don't think it's about whether it's 'against the rules' or 'wrong', or 'no the done thing'...
To me (with limited ARG experience) it just seems a shame to hack the sites.
The puzzles so far could all have been solved without hacking. We've used intuition, logic, cryptology and the odd bit of speculative guesswork.
I odn't know how other ARGs have worked, but it seems a little like cheating to me. Also, its a bit specialist, and a bit biased to tech savvy folk.
I recognise terms like Telnet, FTP and so on - but I couldn't tell you what they all mean, let alone do anything with them.
I'd like to credit the PMs with the ingenuity to create puzzles that can be solved without breaking them - it feels like taking the coloured stickers off of a Rubik's Cube and putting them back on again!
Like I said, I've not played ARGs before, so feel free to tell me that this is how they always work, and this is what is expected from them!

[Flidget Jerome]

[yanka]

[Mikeyj]

10 digit strings

[Flidget Jerome]

[Treshnell]

Take a look at indexB page, and notice the positioning of the letter in the picture where the focus seems to be on Sente's signature. If you read the words, it almost looks like he's trying to say "Find the Colleagues." Although, it could simply be coincidence.

[musical_shadow]

Just discovered this through Firebox catalogue, and I'm thinking back to Kit Williams' books Masquerade and [Unnamed] bee-book.

Aaaanyway... has anyone thought through to what the actual point of this game might be, in the end? It seems to me it could be an actual hunt for an actual artefact, as in Masquerade (piece of custom jewellery buried somewhere in England). But also, in the letter on www.perplexcity.com, the NAME of the cube is blanked out ("xxxx Cube")... so maybe working out what it's called will play a part (like the Untitled book).

Then again, from what I've read here, this thing is going to be a lot more complex than just finding a cube-thing buried somewhere. Ah well, I've got a gap year and some code-breaking experience

[john lennon]

hmmmm

[Marrec]

[Caterpillar]

AC is an abbreviation for "Ante Christum"
The Latin form of BC

[Nightmare Tony]

or gamerwise, it could be After Cube.....