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[GuyPsons]

[Sable & Shuck] A game in the vein of :K:?

[GuyPsons]

A little more info.

[Fi]

Well I think this looks kinda interesting. I registered with Sable and Shuck (such cool names!) and got this in response:

[sequoya]

This is interesting, thanks. You can sign up for most of the websites and receive autoresponses, as mentioned above, plus I registered for hewalksamongus:

[Wishi-san]

Hmm, very interesting. Lots of sites out there.

On http://www.sableshuck.com/privacy_policy.php there is what looks to be Greek and under the Greek title "Lepidopteran clause". Lepidopteran means an insect with 4 wings covered with scales.

The "Greek" below it says "Butterflies are souls of the dead waiting to pass through Purgatorps". Purgatorps? ... I think this is supposed to be purgatory.

According to http://www.hewalksamongus.com/thesigns.htm under Lepidoptera the butterflies in the man in black's collection are human souls. Watch out for someone shunned by butterflies!

The directory http://www.sableshuck.com/images/ is viewable so you can see all the images there. Haven't noticed where aleph.gif is used yet. Edit: aleph.gif is used in the news on the main page - it is their "aleph" anniversary

http://www.goldenfuturesandoptions.com/ - Not been mentioned above. This can be seen on HWAU on about2big.htm

Interesting places that Pathway Travel flies to, their most popular destinations:

• Devil's Island
  
• Babel
  
• Nazca
  
• Valhalla
  
• Giza
  
• Tunguska
  
• Atlantis
  
• Elysian Fields
  
• Armageddon
  
• Gomorrah

As tempting as they sound, how about Spain?

[sequoya]

[Wishi-san]

Well I just made my booking to sunny UK! Woo It was a tough choice between that and Valhalla.

[Fi]

Wishi, that's funny what you said about butterflies because when I emailed Hornchurch Star to see why the links on the adverts didn't work, the one that I said I was particularly interested in was the Butterflies one :O !!!

Apart from all the "Are you over 18" tick boxes, I have seen no hard evidence that this is tied into Stella Artois. Perhaps someone could point me in the right direction until I have more time to explore (i.e. the weekend!).

Cheers,

Fi

[sequoya]

[GuyPsons]

I emailed the Hornchurch Star asking for free beer in return for our investigative skills...

Vice is a free painfully-hip music/fashion/sex/drugs magazine. I saw the advert in the UK edition, which was just thisisnotatypo.com repeating endlessly in a spiral upon the page. Very minimalist actually, and I can't help thinking that a Pathway Travel advert might have garnered a bit more attention.

Golden Futures & Options is linked to from the Hornchurch Star too, although it links to an error page on that domain which you have to get rid of to see the site. Alas it only links you to Sable & Shuck... I think it's an old S&S marketing campaign:

"Belgian agency Marlowe has been appointed to acquire at least 45.000 souls by the end of the year - Sable & Shuck's highest target since the closure of last year's Golden Futures campaign."

It still seems more ARThing than ARGame to me though. Siiigh...

[GuyPsons]

Clues I don't know what to do with: the lottery numbers are a Fibonacci sequence (you get the next number by adding the previous two together), I tried looking for files named fibonacci and 55 but no luck. The horoscope for Leo says: As the sandglass reminds us, time is always running out. It's time you turned the sandglass around and lived for today. " RIGHT NEXT TO AN IMAGE OF A SANDGLASS!

The Cancer horoscope "The stars show you getting lost in some woods in Burkittsville. Beware the hoaxers" is a sly reference to the Blair Witch Project.

The review of the film Pilot here refers to the latest Stella Artois commercial, viewable [ur=http://www.stellascreen.co.uk/l]here[/url]. I'm not sure how far the "clues in ads" will take us though as they aren't all set in the same universe - although a recent one was set at Hornchurch's spooky crossroads.

[NudelZ]

as for the "aleph" -- stating the obvious perhaps, but Aleph is the Hebrew equivalent of A.

And if you're adding souls, and travel destinations like Gemorra and Armageddon (both in what is today Israel--Armageddon, according to the Old Testament at least, will take place around Megido), Hebrew Numerology makes a lot of sense.

Aleph = 1.

first anniversary?

[Wishi-san]

Fi: A quick whois on a domain will give you the address of Lowe Live (now Draft London) who are an advertising agency and taking a peek at their UK clients, you'll see InterBrew - the company which makes Stella.

Not proof that it is Stella but I'm pretty sure it is

[Fi]

Yep, after some further investigation I think you're right

I found this from an advertising web board.

D*mn bl**dy work is getting in the way of any more serious snooping!

Fi

[EDIT]
There's some more discussion here.
Seems they've had some replies to emails sent.

Now it's time to go home - woo!
But to a home with no internet - boo!

Fi

[grumpyboy]

Re: A little more info.