Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Tue Nov 12, 2024 1:08 am
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » ARG: Slumberil
[TRAILHEAD] Slumberil
View previous topicView next topic
Page 2 of 6 [80 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
TJ229ER
Decorated


Joined: 09 Sep 2004
Posts: 292
Location: Los Angeles

 		Anyone else notice that it was dated 1999??

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:16 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Nik_Doof
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Oct 2004
Posts: 494
Location: Liverpool, UK
TJ229ER wrote:
Anyone else notice that it was dated 1999??


I caught the end of a chat on IRC with someone mentioning its around about the date of the original matrix film?
_________________
Nik_Doof
No you cant have my 333 Letimark Very Happy

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:22 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
KevDude
Veteran

Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 78

 		Commented out on the 404 page:

<!-- The little blue pill that where you want to be... asleep -->

Doesn't really tell us anything though...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:26 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
C_Brennan
Guest


 		Yeah, those coordinates that are listed are areas of the Matrix MegaCity. I'll check around inside of the Matrix next chance I get... I'll report back if I find something.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:27 pm
 Back to top 
AnthraX101
Entrenched

Joined: 18 Mar 2003
Posts: 797

 		Just a note, the corrupted version appears to be from pandora, this image is named "pandora.gif":



AnthraX101
_________________
VGhlcmUgaXMgbm8gc3Bvb24u
ll----ll--ll--ll----l---ll---llll---ll--l--ll---llll-ll-l-ll-llll--l-.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:33 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
KevDude
Veteran

Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Posts: 78

 		If were looking for a name, how about "Elysium"? It has a nice mysterious feel to it.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:37 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Nik_Doof
Unfettered


Joined: 09 Oct 2004
Posts: 494
Location: Liverpool, UK
AnthraX101 wrote:
Just a note, the corrupted version appears to be from pandora, this image is named "pandora.gif":



AnthraX101


As u said anth, its another message from Pandora Smile
_________________
Nik_Doof
No you cant have my 333 Letimark Very Happy

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 8:37 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 1214
Location: undesirable
Varin wrote:
Last I heard it was early 2006? I think?


Ah, thanks. I was asking because don't commercially backed ARGs usually lead directly to the release of the thing they are "promoting"?

bagsbee wrote:
Heh, I was waiting for Yanka to freak out over find this

Where's Omnie?


Whuh? Freak out? Me?! NEVAR!!!
*ahem*
/me is a very cool-headed girl Mr. Green

Oh, and - I already e-mailed Omnie about it Very Happy

I think this has been updated.
_________________
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:14 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 1214
Location: undesirable
Nik_Doof wrote:
TJ229ER wrote:
Anyone else notice that it was dated 1999??


I caught the end of a chat on IRC with someone mentioning its around about the date of the original matrix film?


I wonder what this means, actually. Whois says the site was created on Dec. 20, 2004 - so maybe in the matrix, due to... ugh... lack of rebooting, they are stuck in 1999? Or maybe this "thing" is taking place prior to the Reloaded, or even, The Matrix, events?

Also, I haven't seen it posted (I might have missed it in all of my non-excitement, though):

Quote:
Greg. Make sure you take a look at the .htaccess on this folder. Someone
keeps messing with the settings whatever you do don't tell Quinn about
it. If he finds out this has happened more than once this week we are
seriously fubar. I think it might be one of the airhead researchers but
they shouldn't even have access to this part of the network.

Neil


this^ is from here: http://secure.slumberil.com/note%20to%20greg%20c.txt
_________________
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:27 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Munchkin
Veteran

Joined: 02 Jan 2005
Posts: 71
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (that small place to the north of England!)

 		Don't know whether it's of interest:
Sent an e-mail to the webmaster at slumberil dot com and was sent back an automated response of:

Valued Customer,

We regret to inform you that our webmaster is unavailable to respond to your
email. Please try again at a later date.

We apologize for the inconvenience,
Slumberil Support

Not very exciting really.

Also - the name they give to their pills "consopiro inexperrectum" seems to be "I go to sleep unawakened" - though my latin is pretty poor! (and I don't think consopiRo is actually a latin conjugation. The closest I come is consopio)

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:34 pm
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 1214
Location: undesirable

 		ok, this made me laugh and laugh (from their "Testimonials" page):
Quote:
Dear Slumberil,

I'm a mother and housewife, and I felt compelled to come forward and praise Slumberil for saving not only my life but that of my only child Tom. Tom had a happy and troublefree youth, sure he dealt and felt with the normal playground rough housing, sure he was shunned by most of the other kids at school, and nick named affectionally "Freak", yet inspite of these obstacles, Tom was on the fast track, excelling in math and computer science, although suffering in creativity and self belief.

I guess the warning signs that first alerted me to Tom's, "condition", was when the household cutlery started disappearing. When I confronted Tom about the "borrowing" he passively and repeatitively retorted "there is no spoon". I decided to adopt a wait and see attitude replacing the missing warez, in hopes that this "phase" would come and go like the night terrors and bed wetting.

Yet the kleptomania persisted for several weeks, and after numerous trips to the Big One, for additonal stocks of spoons, I can only imagine the Lord heard my nightly prayers for guidance. The Manager of Big One approached me regarding the obsessive nature of my spoon collecting, and I guess in a moment of weakness I confessed the dire straits situation I found myself to be in.

Upon hearing my desperate rant, he exclamined that his child, Carrie Ann, had also suffered from a similar maladiction, and that relief for Tom and I was just a little blue pill away. Saints perserve me a small world in deed, to find salavation in a green box, just a few isles down from silverware.

Sure enough after slipping the Slumberil into Tom's mashed potatoes I saw an imediate improvement in the quantity of spoons in the kitchen. Tom went from "Freak" to captain of the football team, and now is overseas leading our boys to victory in some far away, yet strategically important land, preserving and instilling our way of life, as the good Lord intended.

Praise be Slumberil, for making Tom be all that he could be!
- E. Anderton


I (and a few other people in #slumberil) wonder if "Anderton" is a misspelling for "Anderson", which would make E. Anderton Neo's mother Very Happy

[edit]
Oh, also, they reference the Kalt Corporation, which, I guess, also exists in the Matrix Online.
[/edit]
_________________
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:43 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Jestas
Greenhorn

Joined: 07 Oct 2003
Posts: 3
Location: Roma

 		The Matrix Online will be out in spring, probably april, so they have just the time to develop this ARG fully Smile

1999 is the year where the Matrix is "stuck", as we learn in the first movie, there's no real history (though there is , ironically, an "historic district") nor future of the megacity, well at least there wasn't until now (that the cycle of the One should be over).

Anyway, about the game... the locator page seems to point to hardlines in the game, at the moment (can't add details since I'd be probably breaking a bit of NDA rules), I still have to try the default results..

Anyway, the Wright industry has a real location in the city, of course, it is even talked about in the city guide on matrixonline.com: http://thematrixonline.warnerbros.com/web/neighborhood.jsp?param=landmark_taborpark . I still have to go and have a look, some fellow testers say there's nothing interesting there at the moment, but maybe in the future...

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:47 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
bagsbee
Unfettered


Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Posts: 417
Location: NYC
yanka wrote:
I (and a few other people in #slumberil) wonder if "Anderton" is a misspelling for "Anderson", which would make E. Anderton Neo's mother Very Happy


John Anderton is the name of Tom Cruise' character in Minority Report

PostPosted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:57 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
colin
Entrenched

Joined: 13 Oct 2003
Posts: 810
Location: Australia

 		I've found a forum about it @ http://xmyth.proboards44.com/

Is that your site Jestas?

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:06 am
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
yanka
Fickle


Joined: 06 Oct 2003
Posts: 1214
Location: undesirable

 		It seems people on that board found more stuff than we did; for the sake of keeping record, they found that if:
-you order 13 20-packs and 37 10-packs here, you will get to a page with this binary:
Code:
001001100010001100111000001100100011101
100100110001000110011011100111001001110
110010011000100011001101110011100100111
011001001100010001100111000001101000011
101100100110001000110011001100110010001
110110010011000100011001110010011000000
111011001001100010001100110100001110010
011101100100110001000110011011100111001
001110110010011000100011001101110011100
000111011001001100010001100110100001110
000011101100100110001000110011010000111
001001110110010011000100011001101000011
100000111011001001100010001100110100001
1100100111011

Somehow all of that translates to:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
- ROOT/Z1ON0101
you can use that^ to login to either /trash or /tmp


-and you'll get this:
Code:
Script Kiddie. There is no SSH1 CRC32 exploit here. 01010000 01100001 01101110 01100100 01101111 01110010 01100001 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 00100000 01010011 01100011 01101000 01100101 01100100 01110101 01101100 01100101 00100000 01001101 01010111 01000110.


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
-which translates to "Pandora Transmission Schedule MWF" - which one of the guys on that site thinks means "updates on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays"


He also thinks Pandora is Rebecca Night (their VP of R&D) - since that message from Pandora is in the /night folder and all.... I think it makes more sense that it was her folder that got hacked, though Confused

edited to add spoiler tags
_________________
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.

PostPosted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:37 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 2 of 6 [80 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » ARG: Slumberil
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group