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ND3rdEYE · Boot Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 24

SPEC: More on Ong's Hat/game Connection

**Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:29 pm

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Nick

After 25 years, we still don't have any alternate reality. What happened to the truth? What happened to the dream? What happened to all that lovely hippy shit?

SpaceBass

Good question. I'm on the fence about this site as well, but now leaning more towards "it's an existing site that's being drawn into the game either by the PMs or by a player." If you check out the blog page, you'll find a couple of different posts in there that also include links to the same antiques page. I think it's definitely worth keeping an eye on, and probably important to take another good look at that antiques page too.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:53 pm

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tatter2323 · Boot Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 34

They probably picked it up and added it to their site.

The Ong's Hat people like games. Ong's hat was originally almost an immersive game. It was a hoax and a social experiment.

From http://www.darkplanetonline.com/whatreally.html (be sure to read the rest of it also)

Description of Ong's Hat experiment:
Create a interactive medium that immerses the public in an addictive, tantalizing story but keep the content restricted to certain personality types. Reveal concepts and ideas that generally represent your beliefs.

Now doesn't that sound familiar?

Ong's Hat enthusiasts played characters, posted on the message board, got into lots of fights, and speculated on the plausibility of interdimensional travel.

It all went down here: http://pub36.ezboard.com/fdarkplanet76000frm10

**Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2003 1:55 pm

ThomasRStevenson

The http://www.incunabula.org/resources.html page includes a link to http://www.aglauranj.org/antiques.html with a picture of the trunk from the shop! If this is common knowlage, I'm sorry.

I think the next part is just a strange coincidence, but if you go to the eggroom, there are a large number of circles and spheres on the page.
From there go to the HumanKind Media Works site, http://members.shaw.ca/humankindmedia, which is in the lower right hand part of the page. More circles!!!! Click on Web Design link, http://members.shaw.ca/humankindmedia/web.html, and then the link to http://members.shaw.ca/humankindmedia/betasite.html. That page is full of more circles and spheres.

I'm sure the above is just a strange set of coincidence, but it had me going for a few minutes! I'm still very new to ARG, so forgive me if this is a waste of time.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2003 4:02 pm

ND3rdEYE · Boot Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 24

I don't think it is a coincidence. As I posted to start, I don't think that the site may be in game, but I do believe it is meant to give us a background into the town and the story. As with the interaction, we are to assume we are interacting with real people. Thus, we also need to know the reality of the area which we are dealing with.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 13, 2003 9:43 pm

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Nick

After 25 years, we still don't have any alternate reality. What happened to the truth? What happened to the dream? What happened to all that lovely hippy shit?

AbuAmaal

Moorish Orthodoxy and Ong's Hat

**Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:10 am

tatter2323 · Boot Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 34

Hakim Bey

**Posted:** Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:25 am

Stevoid

If you follow the link to STARE: incuBLOGula http://www.incunabula.org/blog/ the eye at the top looks very similar to the eyes in the floor plan at Sons of Don...http://www.sonsofdon.com/sodhome.html

May just be another coincidence though![/url]

**Posted:** Sat Mar 15, 2003 4:30 pm

uncbunc · Greenhorn Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 3

SPEC: More on Ong's Hat/game Connection

**Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:36 am