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[bagsbee]

Not exactly sure where to put this, we may need another thread to document not-so-obvious information in the mailboxes (translations, written info in the flash, audio clues, etc). For now it can stay here, if there's lots if it we may need a separate thread. I'm open to suggestions.

Ian > recorded calls > Feb. 23, 2005 8:52am. A native Spanish-speaking friend translated it. Friend's comments in ( ), mine in [ ]

[ProfMoriarty]

Could any of the music in "DJH4X Crap" potentially be morse code? I'm not very good at picking up sounds, but something in there might work. Any audial-ARGers want to check it out?

[firefox]

keeping in form with the translations.

Looking at Ian's inbox - in this email the attached file is a newspaper clipping in French, regarding a recent theft at a private museum.

(translated by me )

A private museum is robbed

The Police are continuing their investigation into the robbery of Illuze Museum at Rouen. The theft took place on the night of the 1st of March, with the individuals (as yet un-identified) neutralizing the security system, and entering the museum through the rear loading bay. Naturally some details were not unveiled to us. Nevertheless an employee of the museum, who wishes to remain anonymous, has expressed the shock he felt: "They knew what they wanted. All pieces in the left wing disappeared." The director of the museum refused to provide us with a list of missing objects. They will disclose this information in the near future, once the preliminary (first) investigation has finished. The museum is closed until further notice.

Michel Girard

ok, nothing too special, i believe punkymonkey has already translated the german article, im sure he'll post soon

[punkymonkey]

ok here's a summary of the german news clipping. More or less (can't say I'm fluent in german so I couldn't translate some things). The article is about the pursuit and arrest of Gunter Branderwine. It talks about how he managed to slip away from the police and into an adjacent apartment building and onto the roof. He tried to steal a car to get away but the police found him and arrested him. As you can see in that one surveilence camera video on ian's site.

[Dr. Jinx]

Juicy Temples

[Ehsan]

One of the bands in Nisha's MP3s is the Digginlilies..

If you follow the link to their website, and checkout the second entry, there's a comment from Nisha, with a response from the band.

http://www.klausheesch.com/?p=9#comments

Again, blurring the lines between game and reality?

[drkyzar]

Where to start...

[rowan]

Right now we're still in the information gathering stage. So far, there isn't any clear cut "this is what we have to accomplish in this ARG" information for us. Basically, we've just stumbled into the lives of Nisha & Ian (and Virgil) and it's going to take us a while to sort things out. There might not even be a "plot" for us to find at this point - this could all just be background information.

The good news is: this is only a few days old. It's quite refreshing that we don't necessarily know what we're trying to do. Sightly more realistic that we've just stumbled across something rather than being actively recruited. So sit back and enjoy the ride. Start combing through the files in the Nisha/Ian/Client areas and see if the rabbithole goes any deeper. Try emailing people (or calling them!). Appreciate the amount of information we have and give it its due consideration. This took a huge amount of work, and it would make baby jesus cry if we just kinda glossed over it.

And in some better news: the game is still evolving. There was an additional IRC chatlog posted on Ian's site today, so it's not like this game is just going to sit around totally static. We'll figure out what we need to do soon enough, but when we do, we might not have the time to go back and study up, so this is a perfect time to gather information with no time pressures.

[rowan]

Well, this ARG certainly hasn't been lacking in the update department. Another couple of updates on Ian's site tonight. There's a new voicemail and a new video to be watched.

The video is a bit odd considering the rest of the stuff we've seen. It's more like a promotional movie rather than footage of an actual theft. It's almost jarring to watch because I kept thinking "well, who is recording this?"

Btw, there's some binary in the url for the movie: http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/ian/data/secure/0110100001101001/easteregg01.mov
It seems to translate to "hi"

[rowan]

Will is a snitch. According the the newest voicemail, he gave up Ian's name. Now we know why Audi called him.

[ijnad51]

[Ehsan]

[maxim]

Keyboard shift perhaps?

[Ehsan]

[yanka]

It's under "Personal Stuff", Ehsan.

Btw, the kramer directory exists: http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/kramer/ , although I don't quite understand why it shows up as empty.