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Project Ashcroft..... 2/3?
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Russell
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 		By three minutes you pipped me!! lol heres mine anyway, serves me right for fiddling with excel settings! :
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Russell
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 		Well ours are exactly the same, but as I said i think they got confused with the 12 and 24 hour clock which would allow the final solve of the puzzle.

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PokeKiller
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Russell_k wrote:
Well ours are exactly the same, but as I said i think they got confused with the 12 and 24 hour clock which would allow the final solve of the puzzle.

I'm not too sure about that... I think the PM lives in New York, and we don't generally use 24 time in the US...
* Poke shrugs again
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Russell
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 		oh well as you said at least we have the time of the APN sympathiser now, we just need to get the transcript of the other tape now.

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Incitatus
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 		Wait a second. Back the Bus up.

You actually physically met characters from this game?!

As in real people not phone calls or emails, but REAL people in person?

Has this even been done before?
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Crowfoot
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 		Yep, but not in this game. The last episode was totally AIM based, this game has seen real life encouters etc. It's very cool, adds an incredible amount of realism.
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PokeKiller
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 		* Poke finds it hilarious how many characters the PM "plays"
Let's see, password.wav sounded the same as the phone call hkdl got sounded the same as the "interview" with Peterson was probably recorded by the guy who played the kid at the airport was probably the PM.

... But it's been fun Wink
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Crowfoot
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PokeKiller wrote:
* Poke finds it hilarious how many characters the PM "plays"
Let's see, password.wav sounded the same as the phone call hkdl got sounded the same as the "interview" with Peterson was recorded by the guy who played the kid at the airport was the PM.

... But it's been fun Wink


/me makes Poke retract his foot from behind the curtain.
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PokeKiller
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Crowfoot wrote:
PokeKiller wrote:
* Poke finds it hilarious how many characters the PM "plays"
Let's see, password.wav sounded the same as the phone call hkdl got sounded the same as the "interview" with Peterson was recorded by the guy who played the kid at the airport was the PM.

... But it's been fun Wink


* Crowfoot makes Poke retract his foot from behind the curtain.

* Poke hurts Crow, then reminds him that the curtain's pretty much nonexistent after the first PA, and that what he said broke (as far as he knows) no rules on UF, although he probably should have added a "probably" to "was recorded by" and "was the PM," which he does right now.
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Quote:
[16:02] JsphnFrncs: Smile
[16:02] PokeKiller2k: Erm... Herro
[16:02] JsphnFrncs: Hello.
[16:02] JsphnFrncs: how are you?
[16:02] PokeKiller2k: I'm fine... And yourself?
[16:03] JsphnFrncs: I'm doing just swell.
[16:03] JsphnFrncs: I had a query for you.
[16:03] JsphnFrncs: Who was it that received my package?
[16:04] PokeKiller2k: Someone called Alaranth, I believe
[16:04] JsphnFrncs: I see.
[16:04] PokeKiller2k: I also believe you sent an email to the HiredHandsGroup allowing her to pick it up for you
[16:04] PokeKiller2k: Hired Hands Group*
[16:05] PokeKiller2k: ... Or was that me?
[16:05] PokeKiller2k: Hmm
[16:05] JsphnFrncs: ahh yes Alex's former employers
[16:05] JsphnFrncs: I did not send such an Email
[16:06] JsphnFrncs: Interesting.
[16:06] JsphnFrncs: Do you have some representation of this event?
[16:06] PokeKiller2k: Hm?
[16:07] JsphnFrncs: Something showing that such an Email was sent?
[16:07] JsphnFrncs: a transcript or receipt?
[16:08] PokeKiller2k: That hacker guy was very helpful until you had him killed.
[16:08] JsphnFrncs: I see
[16:09] PokeKiller2k: The omnipotent one, not the arachnid
[16:09] PokeKiller2k: The eight-legged one's just annoying
[16:09] JsphnFrncs: Smile
[16:10] JsphnFrncs: Well, nevertheless, this has caused a bit of a problem.
[16:11] JsphnFrncs: You might remember, I told you and your associates that not all of the information would be given on such a generous basis.
[16:11] PokeKiller2k: Yuh-huh
[16:12] JsphnFrncs: You and your Associates have acted on biased data. You do not fully understand what is happening around you. Nor do you understand exactly what you are doing.
[16:12] JsphnFrncs: It is almost as if you are poking, and prodding in some sort of game.
[16:12] JsphnFrncs: You understand you are being mislead don't you?
[16:13] PokeKiller2k: Well, no, but I guess that's 'cause we've been given, like, no information
[16:13] PokeKiller2k: ... Which would really help
[16:14] JsphnFrncs: I'll bet it would. But first you must do something for me.
[16:15] PokeKiller2k: And that would be....?
[16:17] JsphnFrncs: John Peterson.
[16:17] PokeKiller2k: Do John Peterson? Lady, I don't swing that way.
[16:18] JsphnFrncs: Cute, I want you to tell me what it is he's been up too.
[16:18] JsphnFrncs: I want to know what he is doing for the APAS.
[16:19] JsphnFrncs: Tell me this, and I'll give you some more information.
[16:20] PokeKiller2k: I honestly haven't a clue... Sooo... Yeah, I'll get back to you on that later?
[16:21] JsphnFrncs: Smile of course.
[16:22] PokeKiller2k: Soo... How's things?
[16:22] JsphnFrncs: Smile
[16:22] JsphnFrncs: Complicated
[16:22] PokeKiller2k: You seem happy today
[16:22] JsphnFrncs: Indeed.
[16:23] JsphnFrncs: Because I have information, and the desire to use it.
[16:25] JsphnFrncs: ...
[16:25] PokeKiller2k: ...
[16:25] JsphnFrncs: I have a conflict.
[16:25] JsphnFrncs: To trust those who would have me locked up. Or to allow myself to lose control entirely.
[16:26] JsphnFrncs: The Sympathizer. Have you been able to make contact with him yet?
[16:27] PokeKiller2k: The wha...?
[16:27] JsphnFrncs: Smile
[16:27] JsphnFrncs: Information is true power.
[16:27] PokeKiller2k: Thought that was gold?
[16:27] JsphnFrncs: I was mistaken.
[16:28] JsphnFrncs: Time has allowed me to... change my perspectives.
[16:28] PokeKiller2k: *Sighs* I suppose I should learn the latin word for information now then?
[16:28] JsphnFrncs: Smile
[16:29] JsphnFrncs: Ok.
[16:29] JsphnFrncs: I will concede, for the sake of progress.
[16:30] JsphnFrncs: Poughkeepsie, NY.
[16:31] JsphnFrncs: This is as far as we've been capable of tracking them.
[16:31] JsphnFrncs: I have been informed they may also be operating out of a warehouse in Montgomery, NY.
[16:31] JsphnFrncs: However this information is outdated slightly.
[16:32] JsphnFrncs: Alex, has the exact locations. He is simply being... less than forward with the information.
[16:34] JsphnFrncs: It is also my understanding that certain... elements of PA, subjects specifically, are a bit more involved with Nike. Involved, as in Operating the Organization.
[16:34] JsphnFrncs: Alex also contains this information.
[16:34] JsphnFrncs: Now I have done you this favor.
[16:35] JsphnFrncs: Do Not Make Me Regret It.
[16:35] PokeKiller2k: Oookey-dokey
[16:35] JsphnFrncs: And I expect to know more about Mr. Peterson's activities the next we meet.
[16:35] JsphnFrncs: I will be in contact.
[16:35] PokeKiller2k: Oookey-dokey
[16:36] *** "JsphnFrncs" signed off at Fri May 13 16:36:06 2005.

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 		Umm... Fork?
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[17:15] nsrtpXELA: pokekiller?
[17:15] PokeKiller2k: What's up?
[17:15] nsrtpXELA: Unfortunate news I'm afraid
[17:17] PokeKiller2k: How unfortunate, Alex?
[17:17] nsrtpXELA: Very
[17:17] PokeKiller2k: Well, let's hear it
[17:17] nsrtpXELA: lol, to the point
[17:17] nsrtpXELA: Mrs. Francis is dead, as is Noami.
[17:18] PokeKiller2k: Woah
[17:18] PokeKiller2k: How'd that happen?
[17:18] PokeKiller2k: I was just talking to Josephine a minute ago
[17:19] nsrtpXELA: Caught in some kind of laboratory explosion. happened somewhere called Poughkipsi in lower new york.
[17:19] nsrtpXELA: Impossible.
[17:19] nsrtpXELA: She's been dead for nearly a week.
[17:19] nsrtpXELA: I've been trying to get in touch with you guys.
[17:21] nsrtpXELA: Apparently Mrs. Francis was being held captive by "Project Nike"
[17:21] nsrtpXELA: Which from what they can descern was being opperated By Noami all this time.
[17:21] nsrtpXELA: She double played us all.
[17:22] PokeKiller2k: So, why's your screen name backwards?
[17:22] nsrtpXELA: She kept at the heart of the investigation to keep her precious project out of the right dirrection
[17:22] nsrtpXELA: lol, because I'm not out of the hot water
[17:22] nsrtpXELA: they think John had something to do with the accident.
[17:23] nsrtpXELA: I'm afraid they'll try to get to him through me.
[17:23] nsrtpXELA: they can be quite harsh.
[17:23] PokeKiller2k: And who's "they" again?
[17:23] nsrtpXELA: APAS
[17:23] PokeKiller2k: All these acronyms, I get so confused
[17:23] nsrtpXELA: lol
[17:23] nsrtpXELA: yeah
[17:24] PokeKiller2k: Another one! "lol" Dammit, you're taunting me!
[17:24] nsrtpXELA: the pa, th pn the apas all being stomped by the fbi and fda for violations of epa contracts :p
[17:24] nsrtpXELA: Anti-Project-Ashcroft
[17:24] nsrtpXELA: They were and I stress were the good guys
[17:25] nsrtpXELA: It's hard to tell who's who and whats what right now.
[17:26] PokeKiller2k: And who are you with now?
[17:26] nsrtpXELA: My brother of course.
[17:26] PokeKiller2k: Err... And who's he with?
[17:26] nsrtpXELA: I'm not gonna leave his side until this whole thing blows over.
[17:26] nsrtpXELA: you mean association wise?
[17:27] PokeKiller2k: Yeah, more acronyms
[17:27] PokeKiller2k: Hehe
[17:27] nsrtpXELA: no one. the greater good.
[17:27] PokeKiller2k: Ah
[17:27] nsrtpXELA: He says he had nothing to do with the accident, and I believe him. this is not like him.
[17:28] nsrtpXELA: I just don't know where we're going to end up.
[17:29] nsrtpXELA: Would be a little more comforting if we knew what happened to the other people.
[17:29] nsrtpXELA: but anyways, didn't want to bother you
[17:29] nsrtpXELA: and I'm sorta on the run myself, lol.
[17:30] PokeKiller2k: I understand
[17:30] PokeKiller2k: Thanks for telling me
[17:30] nsrtpXELA: just wanted to deliver the news. And, ah... I dunno, good eating or good luck... you know the deal.
[17:30] PokeKiller2k: Haha, alright
[17:30] PokeKiller2k: You too
[17:30] nsrtpXELA: thanks
[17:30] nsrtpXELA: bye.
[17:30] PokeKiller2k: Bye

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 		Well, um... The End?
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[01:23] JsphnFrncs: Calling it
[01:23] *** Auto-response sent to JsphnFrncs: I am currently away from the computer.
[01:23] JsphnFrncs: Project Ashcroft is over
[01:23] JsphnFrncs: The game unfortunatly had to be put down due to Puppet Master dessertion
[01:24] JsphnFrncs: In the weeks since the airport meeting, only 1 puppetmaster has remained active.
[01:25] JsphnFrncs: Yesterday, the game was officially called
[01:27] JsphnFrncs: I, the last remaining PM, prefer to remain anonymous until such time that a formal credited listing can be made.
[01:28] JsphnFrncs: I personally appologize for the early closure of the game, and the lack of propper "puppetiering" on the part of the "active" PMs
[01:30] JsphnFrncs: I hope the other players enjoyed the game while it lasted and again apologize for this sloppy closure.
[01:32] *** "JsphnFrncs" signed off at Sun May 15 01:32:29 2005.

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MasterCheese
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 		Well let me be the first to break the silence. I know the PM that ended this all wishes to remain anonymous, however, i do not. For the most part of this I was Spyder, however, i got kicked off the team because the head PM (who you no doubt know) thought i wasn't playing the role well enough. Therefore he took over my role. I do know who ended this whole thing but i am not going to mention who so don't PM me or anything like that you will NOT get an answer. We had a heck of alot more planned that we couldn't do because all the other PMs dropped out and i can't believe they expected the one remaining PM to play it all through.

Thank you all for your time and I apologise on the behalf of the whole team for the sudden end

MasterCheese aka. Hax Spyder
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 		The End
Well, here's my $.02 on the situation. I would have gone through with it. I would have done my best. I would have made the effort to get it done, but things happened. I had trust in my PM team. I had trust in the game. However, I did not have trust in myself. After the end of PA1, I realized that PA1 was a huge amount of luck. I knew in the middle of PA2 that I was just clinging on to an idea I had already beaten to death. I started to try and do it the old way, and tried to take over the entire game, to do it all myself. I did not realize the work my PM's had had put into the game, and I realized without them I could not possibly handle the world I had created. I want to take this space to thank all my wonderful puppetmasters. You guys were really great, I just didn't see that. I think I'll take a break from the whole ARG business for a while. I just have one thing to ask of all of you. Remember me. I WILL be back. As of now I have a game in the works like none before it. This way, when that game ends, remember me, and know my mistakes, and hopefully, I will have improved from my current state of ignorance. Thank you all.

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 		Well it is very sad to see another meltdown, I wish you well man.

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