We Got Skywriting!!!one1!!
Let us recap everything that has happened since our last modblog post, shall we? Before we do, maybe you should prepare a cup of tea and get comfortable in your chair. There is a lot to go over.
Starting in our world…
- A number of people saw the theater trailer. It is now online. Part of the way through, there is a grid of individual images that flash on and off. Of particular interest is the lower-left corner, which sometimes contains a dash. It is worth noting that all of the images related to power of some kind. (discussion)
- The trailer led to The Receda Sign, which has the appearance of a movie website (”In 2006 two worlds will change forever.”) (discussion)
- The Receda Sign website was updated to include a pair of phone numbers (USA: 1 800 959 2138 | UK: 0207 526 4577). Calling this would give you one of two different voicemail “trees” for the Receda Institute for Somnotherapy, depending on the time of day. (discussion)
- Following the correct phone tree at the correct time yields GPS coordinates for Jones Beach. Unfiction member Rose visited the location, but was unable to come up with any clues or information. This particular avenue still appears to be unsolved. (discussion)
- Some DNS trickery (a questionable ARG practice, but what’s done is done) pointed us to The Receda School of Music.
- A note about online tutoring there led us to Receda’s Revenge. This ended up being an online event at a specific date and time and was quite fun. It was basically an improv version of an old school text adventure game, played out collaboratively. Each person got to take a turn controlling the main character and things got a little silly. If you have some time on your hands, I would highly suggest reading the transcript. Throughout the adventure, scrolls with letters upon them were collected.
- At the end of the adventure, a little minor puzzling brought us to this page, giving the date and time of a live event, but not a location. Fortunately, the lettered scrolls could be combined to give a couple possible locations, but only one highly likely one.
- WE GET SKYWRITING!!! It points us to Receda Resorts, a seemingly innocuous website devoted to vacation spots. One of the images on the site has some strange properties–it is an image map with a high number of clickable hotspots with some JavaScript logic behind it. Entering the correct password gets you past the vacation fascade of the site and into a mysterious access page.
- The access page mentions seven keywords (six of which should be available) and a live event on Saturday, October 22. What those keywords actually are is still up for debate since different people have different thoughts on the matter. (discussion)
- Unfiction member Guy P set up a website to help disperse information and coordinate the October 22 live event.
In the world of Perplex City
- Following Scarlett’s “secret” journal, we learn that she has met a mysterious young man on the train, Allain. He has some kind of connection with “the old man” that gave Scarlett the coordinates for Viendenbourg and is, in fact, going to the very same place. They got near their destination, but then something happened. Scarlett cannot quite recall, but it left everyone injured–Brede’s leg was crushed and Allain simply disappeared. All that now remains of Allain is a broken fragment of his key. Scarlett and friends are now recovering at an unknown hospital.
- According to Violet’s blog, she finally got her hands on the book The Third Power, the Archers and the Shadowy Masters Behind the Scenes, but it was badly water-damaged. How this happened is unknown, because the book has never left the archives and there have not been problems with water, leaks, or flooding. Additionally, the damage seems selective. Her and Kurt are slowly trying to reconstruct what they can from the damaged pages, using Kurt’s souped-up key as a fancy scanner.
With regard to the cards
- You can now enter solves.
- The leaderboard is also available.
- Is this not enough information or detail for you? Do you want to pull your friends into the action, but are not sure how to explain what has happened so far? There is an official guide that explains everything.