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terminalskeptik
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Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 351 Location: Onboard the Groovy Purple Derigible
I think it is cool that you guys are planning a meet up. I wish us Great Lakes players would do something like that. However, I don't think that we will have to fly blind into a real world event. Those events take more time and money to plan and execute than probably any other aspect of an ARG.
If we need to be somewhere, we will know where to be. I expect a mass email that leads to a website, or a massive explosion of websites. Imagine if the entire world of Perplex City opened up all at once! Dozens of sites going live at the same time. Where would we start first? It would certainly have never been done before in ARG history, and would keep us busy for a while.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:05 am
POTUS
Decorated
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 277 Location: The shores of the great lake Erie
Maybe we are supposed to segregate by geography. Maybe they want us to formulate groups because it will help us to be ready for physical ARG stuff.
I'm in NW Ohio, do we have a map of 'who is where' so we can track and plan expeditions across the globe?
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:58 am
lain02
Boot
Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 37 Location: Wisconsin
POTUS wrote:
Maybe we are supposed to segregate by geography. Maybe they want us to formulate groups because it will help us to be ready for physical ARG stuff.
I'm in NW Ohio, do we have a map of 'who is where' so we can track and plan expeditions across the globe?
Also in NW Ohio. Although I dont think we're supposed to segregate by geography.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 12:00 pm
Kastanok
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Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 65
terminalskeptik wrote:
a massive explosion of websites. Imagine if the entire world of Perplex City opened up all at once! Dozens of sites going live at the same time. Where would we start first? It would certainly have never been done before in ARG history, and would keep us busy for a while.
While that idea would be really fun and slightly over-awing, I don't think anyone would do that, surely. ARGs work by drip feed, right?
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:02 pm
terminalskeptik
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Joined: 05 Jun 2003 Posts: 351 Location: Onboard the Groovy Purple Derigible
Typically they release only what info they want us to know at the time. But what if this one was different. By exploding that much infomation all at once, they could in a sense sit back and watch us devour it all until we reached a point where more updates were needed. Also sort of a way to make it up to us that there has been so little activity in the past few weeks
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:06 pm
Scott
Entrenched
Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 1140 Location: 390 Chestnut Ridge Rd, Rochester NY, 14624, USA
i would love a big burst of an update. They could sit back fFor a month while we crawl all over the thing, eh. or, at least an afternoon . . . .
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:19 pm
dopefiend
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Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 182 Location: London, UK
i'm starting to have second thoughts sbout anything going down in greenwich, but it'd be worth us londoners going, and jeb if he's in lndon that day, just in case....
as for a map of where we are, that's a bloody good idea. am going to start a thread where we can all say where we are and give an email address (not our main ones in case of spam). then someone with some design skills can whip us a map when we've got enough.
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:46 pm
menace1
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 54 Location: london
Probably time i 'fessed up that i live in Greenwich, though I can't get away from work on Fri! I tried to make time to check the library for copies of "Charlotte's Web" today, but got waylaid. I'll try again tomorrow.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:50 pm
thrush
Boot
Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 41 Location: Oslo, Norway
I'll absolutely be up for doing some legwork in Norway - although I doubt they will set up anything over here.
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:05 pm
erekose
Veteran
Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 111 Location: A maze of winding passages, all alike
I'm in Sydney, and i've got a group that could act if a real life event happens here.Also I think Song of the phoenix lives here so we're pretty much covered. I'm of the opinion that it will be a web based start initially, but we may have to act fast and in concert to what the message is. We need to have people ready for both on the ground and internet events. On the other hand, the previous ARG's I've followed have had slow starts, but given the long pre-game, and the level of coordination and rapid response
recently developed by the Beekeepers in ILB, they may just decide to push us to our limits.
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 4:09 am
lhall
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Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Posts: 411 Location: Portland, Oregon
Whoa...there are too many similarities for this to be a mere coincidence. I'm convinced -- there's no way this isn't related. Great find!
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 5:09 am
DrPiranha
Boot
Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 21 Location: London
Ok my thoughts, for what they're worth
1. I have a feeling that Greenwich is a place, the wiki link posted by made me more sure of that
2. There has been a lot of talk about parks and inner city green areas in the sentinel (the sculpture in Polygon Park, Tokei's art in Azad park) this makes me think Greenwich park
3. I can't help feel that there is something in a copy of Charlotte's web somewhere.
and finally just because Sente is due to communicate "to a large audience of Earth inhabitants" Doesn't have to mean they all know about the game does it? I seems to me that there will be a large number of earth inhabitants in Greenwich park on Friday at 3pm.
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:14 am
DogsHead
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Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney
lhall wrote:
Whoa...there are too many similarities for this to be a mere coincidence. I'm convinced -- there's no way this isn't related. Great find!
Yep, thats a syzygy alright. Called a transit here[URL]
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/A/As/Astronomical_transit.htm[/URL] and says:
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A transit requires three bodies to be lined up in a single line.
Nice One Bruvva
...and the date? could be another key one game-wise.
Quote:
28 May 1737 - Venus occults Mercury
I too reside in the land of Oz in Sydney. I is in de Glebe massive.
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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:34 am
JebJoya
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Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 679 Location: UK
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and finally just because Sente is due to communicate "to a large audience of Earth inhabitants" Doesn't have to mean they all know about the game does it? I seems to me that there will be a large number of earth inhabitants in Greenwich park on Friday at 3pm
That is one hell of a point... Especially given that they know we are a team here (can't remember the quote exactly) surely they'd say Sente was going to contact his team or something?
I need to convince some of my friends to go - I'm not going on my own, that'd just be sad coming from here
Jeb
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:35 am
Xargon
Boot
Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Elgin, Scotland
wikipedia wrote:
585 BC - May 28 - A solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by Thales, while Alyattes was battling Cyaxares. This event led to a truce.
Interesting to note that that's two syzygies on May 28th.
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:18 am
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