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 Thu Nov 14, 2024 8:42 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: The Art of the Heist » The Art of the Heist: Puzzles
[PUZZLE] New puzzles from "Worry"
View previous topicView next topic
Page 5 of 6 [76 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
missphinx
Unfettered

Joined: 02 Oct 2003
Posts: 395

 		Re: market street locations in san francisco
janemcg wrote:
locations in San Francisco tonight! ...

*kicks self for *not* being at San Francisco locations tonight. (oh well)

Sorry I haven't got more location plots - good work on yours, nhansard. Do we think there may be a pattern besides being sites for billboard posting?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:00 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Ranger D
Unfettered

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 522
Location: Nor Cal

 		*Bangs head on desk. Repeatedly*

I've been walking past these posters on my way to work for a good WEEK now! I just assumed they were yet another trailhead for this game. I'm charging my digital camera battery as I type and I'll see if I can snap some pics of the San Francisco ads after work today.
_________________
Sofia, with a dash of Sophrosune and a pinch of Mythopoeia.
LastCallPoker : Durandal
Chief Warrant Officer Ranger D, UNSC Apocalypso

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:28 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
janemcg
Boot


Joined: 26 Apr 2004
Posts: 63
Location: Berkeley, CA

 		ooh-- which ones?
Ranger D! which ones are you near? I don't want to reduplicate your efforts... tell me if you can some street names and I'll try to hit different ones. I was going to do some of the Market St ones in the Civic Center area and the Mission St ones in the SOMA area...

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 6:39 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Ranger D
Unfettered

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 522
Location: Nor Cal

 		Re: ooh-- which ones?
janemcg wrote:
Ranger D! which ones are you near? I don't want to reduplicate your efforts... tell me if you can some street names and I'll try to hit different ones. I was going to do some of the Market St ones in the Civic Center area and the Mission St ones in the SOMA area...


My office is near the Civic Center, so the ones near there are the ones I was going to hit. I hope this doesn't put a crink in your plans. Specifically these:

1321 MISSION ST ( I )
1635 MARKET ST
1321 MISSION ST ( II )
671 NATOMA ST
1745-55 MARKET ST
1401-53 MARKET ST ( I )
1401-53 MARKET ST ( II )
1179 MISSION ST
_________________
Sofia, with a dash of Sophrosune and a pinch of Mythopoeia.
LastCallPoker : Durandal
Chief Warrant Officer Ranger D, UNSC Apocalypso

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:19 pm
Last edited by Ranger D on Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:56 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee

Joined: 25 Sep 2002
Posts: 4109
Location: Silicon Valley, CA

 		Metreon Tuesday night
Hey, I'll be in SF tonight, near the Metreon -- in the Metreon, in fact (for some presentation by these 4orty2wo guys you might have heard of). Should I be looking at a map? Will I really be near any of these dots?

Will someone else be at the event, and can I sit with you? I'll be alone. :(

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:21 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
SMG3er
Veteran

Joined: 20 Apr 2005
Posts: 134

 		Re: Metreon Tuesday night
catherwood wrote:
Hey, I'll be in SF tonight, near the Metreon -- in the Metreon, in fact (for some presentation by these 4orty2wo guys you might have heard of). Should I be looking at a map? Will I really be near any of these dots?

Will someone else be at the event, and can I sit with you? I'll be alone. Sad



Heh, I think everyone is going to be in the city tonight. My friend just called and asked if I wanted to get something to eat up there.

You can check a map, but I don't think there were any near the Metreon... I could be wrong.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:50 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
BottomlessPitMan
Veteran


Joined: 30 Mar 2005
Posts: 136
Location: San Jose, Ca

 		Curse my youth and the lack of ability to drive to San Fran... have fun and get some good pics...
_________________
Bacones (Now with ENITOCIN) are almost as addicting as cigarettes and selling babies on Ebay or putting drugs and razor blades in candy...

PostPosted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 8:48 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Ranger D
Unfettered

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 522
Location: Nor Cal

 		I went to all the SF locations I listed above. All of the addresses were buildings that had poster-type ads put up on them.

The first and second locations had no audi posters. I now know that there will be new episodes of Family Guy on May 1st and that J. Lo has a new movie out. Rolling Eyes

Next I hit up the one on my work route. I've seen the audi posters there for the last week and a half, but they have now been replaced with newer ads. Witness my vandalistic acumen in the first pic.

But it's still not the whole deal. I need the whole VIN number! So I hit up the last location on my list and BINGO.

VIN reads as: WAUZZZ8P65A045963

Looks like the VIN matches up with what SMG3er in SF and HHM in SoCal has documented so far.
scraped_small.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   14.73KB
 Viewed   121 Time(s)

scraped_small.jpg
sign_scaled.jpg
 Description   
 Filesize   42.15KB
 Viewed   123 Time(s)

sign_scaled.jpg
_________________
Sofia, with a dash of Sophrosune and a pinch of Mythopoeia.
LastCallPoker : Durandal
Chief Warrant Officer Ranger D, UNSC Apocalypso

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:13 am
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
johnny5
Entrenched

Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 995
Location: Elysian Fields

 		I don't mean to sound like a theiving thief, but are these removable by any chance or are they glued down tight?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:13 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
HitsHerMark
Unfictologist


Joined: 22 Aug 2004
Posts: 1521
Location: Austin, TX
johnny5 wrote:
I don't mean to sound like a theiving thief, but are these removable by any chance or are they glued down tight?


Yeah. If you want one, bring a steamer.... And get one for me. Very Happy
_________________
"COVERED IN BEES!"
GirlInFocus
flickr

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 10:54 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
johnny5
Entrenched

Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 995
Location: Elysian Fields
HitsHerMark wrote:
johnny5 wrote:
I don't mean to sound like a theiving thief, but are these removable by any chance or are they glued down tight?


Yeah. If you want one, bring a steamer.... And get one for me. Very Happy


Or a diamond masonry saw maybe?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:12 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Ranger D
Unfettered

Joined: 24 Aug 2004
Posts: 522
Location: Nor Cal
johnny5 wrote:
HitsHerMark wrote:
johnny5 wrote:
I don't mean to sound like a theiving thief, but are these removable by any chance or are they glued down tight?


Yeah. If you want one, bring a steamer.... And get one for me. Very Happy


Or a diamond masonry saw maybe?


This could actually work. Using the saw, simple remove that portion of the wall that has the poster bonded to it. Smile

But seriously, why were these locations encrypted? I mean, why go to the trouble of encrpyting the addresses of these posters? From what I looked at, there was nothing special about the posters. Just white text on solid red background. That leave's you with the VIN as the only info you're getting from it. And it's not even a new VIN. If I encrypt something, it's usually information that's important to me or that I want to keep from un-authorized people from viewing. So why encrypt these locations?
_________________
Sofia, with a dash of Sophrosune and a pinch of Mythopoeia.
LastCallPoker : Durandal
Chief Warrant Officer Ranger D, UNSC Apocalypso

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:15 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address
 Back to top 
johnny5
Entrenched

Joined: 17 Aug 2004
Posts: 995
Location: Elysian Fields

 		To keep us busy in order to defray unwarranted wild specualation.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:18 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
jbd
Decorated

Joined: 27 Jul 2004
Posts: 295
Ranger D wrote:
But seriously, why were these locations encrypted? I mean, why go to the trouble of encrpyting the addresses of these posters? From what I looked at, there was nothing special about the posters. Just white text on solid red background. That leave's you with the VIN as the only info you're getting from it. And it's not even a new VIN. If I encrypt something, it's usually information that's important to me or that I want to keep from un-authorized people from viewing. So why encrypt these locations?


If you remember the context, this was all designed to intimidate Ian. Worry is just crowing about the dark forces closing in. Nisha made a comment at one point about Ian trying to get the solves himself -- that's surely a touch distracting and maddening when you've got goons ringing up your cell.

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:06 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
nivra
Veteran

Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Posts: 103

 		[nag]
Update the Wiki with the new info.
[/nag]

http://deaddrop.us/wiki/index.php/Ploc.zip

Specifically, San Francisco



So, it looks like most of these addresses either have posters, or probably had posters. Did anyone find/see posters at any addresses that are not on these lists?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:34 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 5 of 6 [76 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: The Art of the Heist » The Art of the Heist: Puzzles
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