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whoo hooo
Waiting for everyone to catch on to the new thread!
top 10!
i really thought we'd get a video this afternoon of last night's little nyc tryst. here's hopin!
I hope it's a video. Getting very tired of text. Especially when it's not telling us anything but what we already expected
I hope we get something before then.
It's much easier for me to "play along" at work, since I have dual monitors. I can put the comments and the ARG monitor on one screen, and work on the other...
Gavin said...
looks like a slow day then... I suppose we are waiting for sometime after 7:45pm new york time when rachel and malik meet? Maybe a new video?
I thought they were meeting last night at 7:45pm. where in the messages does it say they meet on Friday?
miniver_cheevy said...
I doubt something will happen today since they did meet up last night and you never know, they could still be together... of course I could be wrong. My theories are always wrong.
ooooh, think they're still together having a late breakfast?
well at least he was smart enough to hook up on a thursday. if he had set it up for friday night, he'd have had to worry about getting out of her apartment in time for college football gameday! good thinking malik!
morning dazz! late night last night?
uh..........who says they met at all? it only said that he would send a car to pick her up. Since a password was necessary I assumed Malik would not be there. Since he and Rachel have met a password would not be necessary if he was meeting her.
I figurd from that last message he was sending a car to pick her up at 7:45pm yesterday in NYC. Since he said he needs to meet her in Norway, I assumed that car would be taking her to the airport for a flight to Norway.
So assuming the plane left at aprox. 9pm last night, how long is the flight from NY to Norway?
noble.. I'd hadn't thought of it that way. maybe they haven't met up yet?
Approximate flight times
From London to Oslo is three hours 15 minutes, to Bergen is three hours 10 minutes and to Stavanger is three hours. From New York to Oslo is 10 hours 45 minutes (including stopover in London).
which means she did not arrive in Oslo until approx. 7am central US time.
it's only a 4 hour car ride to norway, new york. nice village of 711 people in the adirondacks. a little weekend in a cabin for our lovebirds?
so RB and Malik have only been together for approx. 6 hours.
I don't think we are going to get anything till late today, because they have to meet in secure location, exchange info, or do whatever it is they do together.
Then RB needs a secure connection to get info. out. That all takes time. Particularly when you have to do it all while hiding
dazz: agreed. malik is the fixer.........upper that is. he's a matchmaker to the evil geniuses.
plotting to save the world taking up all your time? no time to find the perfect mate. let malik fix you up. malik is discreet and has discerning tastes. when you're going to repopulate the world, why not start with some good looking genes? call malik today!
So is this all thats left to the game? Waiting to hear from these two. Oh and lets not forget that there is still whereisalvar.com. Anyone have any thoughts to whats going to happen there?
OXI!!!!
LSHSFOMN!!!!!!
(laughing so hard Sprite Flew Out My Nose)
how much longer can WIA last? how many more events are left?
this again.......
I thought about that car thing last night. First he says "Meet me in Norway". Then he says "I'm sending a car". He sends the message coded, on the internet, where everyone and their grandma can read it. And instead of Mittlewerk having to search ALL of NYC, he now knows exactly where she will be at a specific time. Spend a half hour with old phone books and you can figure out where Rachel lived.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for Rachel just to take a cab from her secret New York bunker to JFK?
I'm guessing once they got to 1,000 bars we'll get our information.
or 100%. last time i checked, we had 83%.
FYSB - oh, as for as realistic spy proceedures RB would be dead.
But then we wouldn't be able to follow and play along. and who says theses messages are being released in real time? It was Rachel, not Malik that put that last message from Malik on WIA. Perhaps she posted it AFTER she had already met Malik just to let us know what was going on.
in which case RB could have been in NOrway and gone again by the time we hear from her.
There's always lonelygirl15 if TLE gets to slow. Ha.
Excellent - Now I can listen again~! Thank you DJ Dan. I hope rash hashanah is over by then.
You're right, noblelawyer, I don't know why I forget about the special set of spunky girl detective rules the TLE universe is governed by. I usually just let those pass me by in the name of acceptance of the game, but I think I am a bit annoyed by the tediousness of these love notes and their very slow movement toward some sort of revelation. A primary rule of good storytelling is to "Show" not "Tell" and there's an awful lot of telling going on right now and not much action. I have a sneaking suspicion that someone accidentally erased the footage that Rachel was going to share with us this week, and this is the best alternative Rachel had to let us know what happened.
noblelawyer said...hope rash hashanah is over by then.
IANJ (I Am Not Jewish), but I belive Rosh Hashanah ends at sunrise on Sunday, the 24.
I guess that should make everyone happy...except for the Amish...
Dazzedelf....
LOL! LSHNEMB! ETC!
I am sorry to all of those that feel upset over these time changes. I am also sorry that a GAME can interupt a religious holiday. Get over yourselves the world does not revolve around you.
End Rant!
The Amish always get the shaft!!! ROFLMAOWNEMB!!
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Dennis said...
Since this is now the "DJ Dan" thread, how about we discuss/compile a list of good questions to ask, in case any of us get through to the show. I assume DJ Dan can/won't answer most of them seriously anyways, we should at least eliminate some of the duds.
Personally, I think question like like "Are you Javi?", is off-topic, considering he's not going to answer truthfully either way.
I'll start it off...
1. Do you think Gary Troup is really dead? And what happend to the last two GT interviews?
I think DJ Dan came up with a good solution. Now so many more people will be able to enjoy Johnny live.
"NOT PAYING ATTENTION"
Dennis, I think you're right about the questions. We have to stay in-game to get them considered.
We could ask him questions about the recent events in Sri Lanka.
Oh, and I bet DJ Dan will have a GREAT theory about these Apollo bars.
BarbaraJay said... (in a previous thread)
"You're out of the woods, You're out of the dark, You're out of the night.
Step into the sun, Step into the light."
Check this out for a hoot
http://users.newblog.com/thinbluemime/?post_id=5024
thinbluemime, that's very funny. Great minds think alike. ;)
barbarjay, LOL, yes, they do!
Questions for DJ Dan so far...
1. Do you think Gary Troup is really dead? And what happend to the last two interviews?
2. What do you make of the Sri Lanka video>
3. Did you get any Apollo Bars, and did you eat them?
Suggestions? Comments?
here's one for DJ Dan
do you know anything about the SPIDER Protocol?
Here is one for DAN
If the video we painstakingly put together was of utmost importanct why did it take so long to get out?
More DJ Dan questions:
1. Have you ever caught a virus from a macaque?
2. Can you ask Johnny to say "Namaste!" on the air for us?
3. Why did we not see a DJ Dan/Tonya/Johnny photo on whereisalvar?
4. Do you know what that sign language chick was actually trying to tell us?
5. Do you think Malik and Rachel will hook up? If so, will they have a family the normal way or do it parthenogenically?
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
That is what I have to say about that (DJ Dan time change).
It's funny, I was doing all that ranting and....are I say? It's almost as if TPTB *LISTENED*!
That is cool.
Okay it's at 4am UK time, so I will have to pull an all nighter again and then I will have to go to work. But I can live with that.
See, Dan knows he is nothing without me. ;)
Dazzedelf said... I think asking DJ Dan serious questions will get you shut down. I'd stick to questions about diseased bagged spinach and find out if it's a Hanso conspiracy or an attempt for aliens shaped like carrots to take over our planet.
Here was the first call from the last live broadcast:
Christopher: Hey DJ Dan, just wanted to ask a question, do you know anything about the Valenzetti Equation, or erm the DHARMA initiative?
Dan: The Valen, the Valen, wa…Of course I know about the Valenzetti Equation!!! Folks, of course I know about the Valenzetti Equation, the Valenzetti Equation as we all know, those of us who’ve been tracking the movements of Rachel Blake, is the equation that is supposed to predict the end of the world. It was designed by an Italian mathematician, Enzo Valenzetti, am I right?
Christopher: Yeah.
Dan: Well what d’ya wanna know about it? What is your theory about the Valenzetti Equation?
Christopher: Well its, of course everyone knows it predicts the exact years and months, but I was wondering, who like when, you know, WHEN?
Dan: Oh you mean WHEN, well you mean like DJ Dan here is running the Valenzetti Equation like I’ve got a bunch of trained monkeys and a room with a bunch of calculators running this equation telling me the end of the world. Do you think I’d be here, do you think I’d be ranting here about doughnuts, about Berlin, about god knows what if I knew when the world was ending. Of course I wouldn’t. I don’t think anybody knows Chris, and by the way, as for the DHARMA initiative, well you know what, I once mistook the DHARMA initiative for the Karma Imperative, but er, but Tonya set me right and it turns out the Karma Imperative is actually the band that Keith Strutter was in before he was in Geronimo Jackson. (Laughs). So folks, that’s all I got to say about that. Chris thank you very much for your question, we’re gonna take, we’re gonna take another caller. CAUSE I’M LIT! I’M READY! GIVE ME ANOTHER CALLER TONYA!
Oh man, are we seriously not getting anything today? It really looked like the momentum was picking up over the last few days.
It's a SNITCH
Linda Tripp, ratted out Monica Lewinsky, 5 sided space = Pentagon
golden ball is from Harry Potter
thanks for the distraction dfizz!
Hi Lhorse...good to see you! About your comment on the DJ Dan podcast, has it occurred to you that one of the characters like Rachel/Jamie Silberhartz may be Jewish and unable to work on a holy day?
ular98 said...
I think that Gold Rush Game is a rip off. I put in about 20 different names to register and it says it is already registered.
I haven't played the game, but AOL has like a billion people registered, so names are going to run out...even unusual names. That's why people's usernames are like Ular98abc12345x
Try signing up for a good .COM name sometime...
Here are the listener questions (summarized) from the previous DJ Dan show
• Do you know anything about the Valenzetti Equation, or the DHARMA initiative?
• Do you have any connections with Alvar Hanso or Rachel Blake?
• Are you actually Peter Thompson of the Hanso Foundation?
• Do you know where Rachel's mum is? Is she still alive?
• What do you really know about the Hanso Foundation?
• What do you think about the video fragment we got yesterday with the supposedly Alvar Hanso?
• Could you give me Rachel Blake's number?
• Why is Rachel Blake trying to expose the Hanso Foundation?
• What do you know about the Global Makeup Conversion by Maybelline?
• How can a television show about Flight 815 start the same night that Flight 815 actually crashed?
• Are you on the "sly" with Rachel Blake?
• Will you ever show yourself to the public?
• What kind of music do you like and will you ever make a CD?
• What do you know about the Spider Protocol?
• What are your thoughts on nanotechnology?
• Do you think that Enzo Valenzetti himself may still be alive and well?
• Do you listen to any other pod casts or shows about the Hanso Foundation?
• Where is Glyph #29?
• What do we know about this island and the quarantined ship?
• What got you first on to the Hanso Foundation?
• Have you heard about Sissy Frenchfry
• Who can I trust?
• What if Alvar Hanso isn't a real person?
Here is the list of new questions for DJ Dan so far...
• What happend to the last two Gary Troup interviews?
• What do you make of the Sri Lanka video?
• If the video we painstakingly put together was of utmost importanct why did it take so long to get out?
• If that video is supposed to bust the Hanso Foundation wide open why are they still sealed shut?
• Did you get any Apollo Bars, and did you eat them?
• Why did we not see a DJ Dan/Tonya/Johnny photo on whereisalvar?
• Have you ever caught a virus from a macaque?
• Can you ask Johnny to say "Namaste!" on the air for us?
• Do you know what that sign language chick was actually trying to tell us?
• Do you think Malik and Rachel will hook up? If so, will they have a family the normal way or do it parthenogenically?
Please add your Suggestions or Comments....
I love the DJ Dan questions! How cool is it that he switched his time!
Re: "Gold Rush" comments...
As always, you guys are free to chat about whatever you want in here. I do however like to chime in every once in awhile and toss in my two cents. We love the fact that TLEC has been set apart from other blogs because it is both focused on the Experience and friendly. If we're going to have extended conversations about stuff that departs from the ARG, maybe we should mark it with a...
*****Off Topic GoldRush Info/Unrelated to TLE*****
That way people who are lurking won't get confused. Goldrush stuff seems especially confusing b/c some of the puzzles/riddles might be mistaken for "in-game" information related to TLE. Make sense? Thanks for all you guys do to take this Experience to the next level! Hope everyone has a great weekend.
GOOD AFTERNOON TLEC!!!
Excited about the New DJDan Time Change. TPTB do listen...
Well, sux that we have nothing else going...
D J Dan's podcast, for all the apparent goofines, is highly structured, in the sense, there is info TPTB want revealed, and the calls are used to reveal that info. Think about it, why would you need a rehearsal for a call in talk show?
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I agree with thinbluemime. TPTB have certain things they want to cover in the DJ Dan podcasts. They want certain questions asked. Just like a press conference, DJ Dan has been prepped for the answers. It doesn't hurt to try to come up with interesting questions, though.
did we ever hear about malik and rach-dogs rendevous??
Hey everyone! Well there might not be too many of you around anymore...oh well.
Dear TPTB and DJDan,
If you are reading this I would just like to say thank you for the latest change in the podcast time. It is the best time for me yet.
Sorry for those for whom the time change is no good. Wish there was something more exciting today. Maybe something will happen this weekend, like it did last weekend. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
it's a snitch lady lost
not pushing, lady lost, but i don't play the game. someone earlier posted the same riddle and i guessed it. if you post the whole thing, someone will likely help though.
hmmm...that's tough. i got the earlier one because of my intense hatred of linda tripp and my love for harry potter. i'm a little ambivalent on dominos. was it a capital d on Dominos? Like the pizza?
***off topic goldrush game******
Oh yeah!!!... you guys are figuring out the AOL Goldrush clues. I tried some wacky chat rooms to find clues but being so used to all you nice folks here, I didn't like the way they operate!! I'll read back and see if you have already answered the one I am stuck on.
I was so excited about him changing the time until I reread it and realized that the 24th is a Sunday, which means my boyfriend will be over. And I don't think he'll get the whole me ignoring him for DJ Dan thing. He's never watched Lost so...
Why can't it be Saturday again? I like Saturday.
Sorry. I just needed to get that out.
***off topic goldrush game******
Thanks Lady Lost... I am stuck on the poker chips/ace/reversed king picture it clue. Did you get that one yet?
man hey people !! Long time no see anyway I've missed a few things. WOW.... I'm too used to having Glyphs but it's time to convert.
anyway I'm bored. I can't listen to DJ Dan because I have school.
THAT STINKS
congested said...
Dennis-
Just for the record when I called in during DJ Dan's live broadcast the operator did not like my original questions. I was very nice to here and convinced her to narrate a question to me. I literally wrote it down and read it on air to Dan. They cut me off before I was done, but if you listen close you can still hear me while Dan is talking.
The full question they told me to ask (after putting me on hold several times) was: "Tell me your thoughts on nanotechnology and can it be used to spread diseases?" - Which I think makes his answer about not seeing anything on TV in 'September' more interesting. Also the operator was conversing with a man in the background, perhaps TPTB?
Very Cool! Interesting info....thanks
***off topic goldrush game******
Thank you timothy!! That was the one that I needed. I still have no idea why that question mark has the answer of mel gibson but it worked.
joann:
***offtopic goldrush game****
What's this game all about?
Hi Maven... it is a rather easy (so far except for a couple things) game that AOL is doing. If you go to AOL.com there is a link to the game. They have videos that explain the game. The game is being released in chunks... so there are about 4 task to complete per day. After you solve clue/riddle/puzzle/etc. you are link to a AOL site to find the "gold bar". Really it is a ploy to get you to look at sites. One last night was different... the answer was revieled by listening for an answer during the new Survivor show. Fun but the Lost Experience Game is much more intellectual. Most of the AOL game is TV, movie, and music trivia based.
***offtopic goldrush game****
I see the answer to my previous post... the dominos are morris code... missed that when I read back thru the earlier comments.
Thanks, joann. (btw: Love your avatar, and we're about the same age!)
so no word from our lovers today huh?
Yeah, noble...they've been awfully quiet! There's a "do not disturb" sign on the door!
Thanks, Maven... I think your cat was the reason I chose my cat for my avatar.... and I was setting it up on my daughter's computer and she had the picture handy of our cat. Anyway... took me a while to figure out how to get posted but I did it!
And yes... we are amoung the few here over 50!!
Joann, Maven,
you can count me in among the close enough to taste it crowd (almost 50)
I think we bring a measure of wisdom to the forum, imho
well im 15 so screw you all muhahaha xD , any updates?
Actually yes. But I don't know what that means except that they will be fasting in the evenings.
There is a huge difference between the celebrations of Ramadan and that of Rosh Hashanah. Muslims fast while the sun shines, but there is no ban on working during this month-long period, while not working is an important aspect of the High Holy Days.
Oh yeah, sorry. They eat in the evenings. I don't know if they have any special celebration because it's the first day though.
From what I read, it's on the last day of Ramadan that they have a special celebration.
Morning all: Glad to see some more 50-somethings are coming out of the woodwork! Well, TPTB must have researched this new podcast date and time to make sure they didn't screw up again! And it seems to make more people happy. Can't wait!
Going to the Santa Monica/Acura-Apollo thing tonight. Finally, I get a bar! See all you LA area TLECrs there!
Good Morning Losties!!
My best guess is that absolutley nothing is going to happen until Monday...major bummer!!
So enjoy the weekend!!!
Good morning...almost afternoon!
I see things are moving at the same rapid pace. :p
For those who will only be able to listen to DJ Dan in the wee hours, you might want to try taking a nap. That's how I managed the last one at 2 am.
I'm 52. I've learned to appreciate naps.
Oh, this is the best time for DJ Dan! 11 p.m. on a Sunday, but I have Monday off! Hooray!
I hope some of you will be online during the podcast - last time, because it was the middle of the night, there were a lot of people on that I didn't really know.
I sure don't get the pace of this game. You would think we would have building momentum and excitement as we move toward the finish, but not so much.
I swear, if we get a note on Monday that merely describes an exciting event in Norway, somebody's gonna get whacked with an Apollo bar. I can see it now...
"Dear Malik, can't believe we survived that shootout and then the shark attack and then had to parachute off the highest building in Norway while that army of Mittlewerk clones chased us with laser guns. Then GidgetGirl and Hugh swooped in with their helicopter and saved us, thank goodness. That was amazing. You almost had to see it to believe it! Kisses - RB"
Oh my goodness! I just realized that 8 pm PST is midnight here! Yes!!! I can listen to the podcast! Thank you DJ Dan!
I've been slow lately.
Rachel contracts the clap from malik and has to have full blood transfusion to get rid of it...
veralint hanso strain
FYSB: I can always count on you for a great synopsis! LOL
Yeah, this pace is excrutiating! We've second-guessed TPTB all along the way, so I hope the "finale" is not one big let-down. We're speculating that this meet in Narvik is with Alvar himself and he reveals he's related to her (probably her father). TPTB probably thought this was going to be a spectacular ending. NOT!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41775561@N00/239347297/ here is the answer
hey how do i put a pic up for avitar
hey maven! here's what's weird...rachel put up the whole whereisalvar site, made all the candy bars, sent them out into the world and promised a big reveal at the end. meanwhile malik offers to set up a meeting with alvar. then she waits a month to respond to malik about meeting "him". if the big reveal at the end of whereisalvar is the meeting malik arranges, then that makes no sense.
FYSB: Right! This whole ending scenario makes no sense in the real world! We wouldn't be doing this at this pace if we were so anxious to save the world and find Alvar Hanso! Drawing this out to coincide with the premiere of S3 has been poorly planned!
FYSB. Yep, that is the most likely occurance. The whole thing makes no sense whatsoever, unless we assume Rachel is doing what she did before in that she is slowly dribbling us information long after the fact. For some reason she insists on us being so far behind her in current events that any involvement we actually have is rendered almost completely redundant.
What I want to know is where is the part where *WE* are involved in this story? So far it's hard even to be under the illusion that anything we have done has had any impact on the Hanso Foundation at all. Our entire envolvement has led to a handful of shout outs and them having to revise that whole island map fiasco. Probably the closest we got to real involvement was when we had that korean translation thing and that IIRC was "properly" translated after everyone had put in a load of effort, by "Kwon-Yong Su", a blatant plant. Other then that....uh, all this would have happened exactly like this with or without our involvement. Rachel didn't *need* us to do the glyph hunt nor did she *need* us to get chocolate bars. She's mearly *required* it of us.
Don't get me wrong there has been some fun along the way, but most of it has been more like a slightly interactive TV show (like one with occasional phone ins and some message boards) rather then a game.
So, there better be some hardcore user involvement in act 5.
Anyway, It doesn't make sense that Rachel is doing a "Where is Alvar" site and THEN has Malek get hold of her. Also what happened to DJ Dans supposed new quest to track down Alvar? If the answer is they simply scrapped it to do the live show, then that's cool with me. But still, it's odd.
Hey, Fenris! Don't hold your breath for more involvment in Act 5! I expect a lot more exposition than action...TPTB probably busted their production budget already. LOL I'm hoping for at least a video of the big meet in Narvik.
Great, slappy! Any Golden Oracles! I'm going tonight to the Santa Monica/Acura event...hope I can sweettalk someone to do the same thing! LOL
fenris, all...the only way this could possibly make sense is if there are TWO reveals coming up.
Apollo website went up August 8.
DJ Dan broadcast was Aug 11. Malik offers to set up a meeting.
Rachel puts up whereisalvar Aug 22 with the promise of a big reveal after a certain number of bars had been discovered.
Rachel responds to Malik Sept. 9
Questions:
1. Did RB merely take advantage of an opportunity when she hijacked the Apollo giveaway with her whereisalvar bars in the 14 days between the two sites going live?
2. Did RB time her communications with Malik so he would set up the meeting to coincide with the discovery/posting of the final bar?
3. How could she promise a big reveal at the end of whereisalvar if she hadn't communicated with Malik before she told us there would be a big reveal?
I'm willing to suspend a great deal of disbelief for this game, but if we don't get two reveals out of these two different tracks, that would mean that RB is either psychic or invented time travel.
Fenris and Fasten, you got to the heart of the matter. We are totally not involved in this now, and we're just waiting for someone else tell us what is happening their life, in an occasional paragraph. :-( This is boring, and I feel bad that TPTB let it get like this right at the point where the game should be getting to a building up momentum before the big ending. TPTB know what they are going to give us, and it may be excting when it finally happens (hopefully!) but without any action on our end at this point, they are going to lose players. They could have at least kept the Hanso page going, or have RB put updates on her travel log (how much could that cost?) so we could at least have new things to read straight from her. I'm tired of reading what TOG, Ninja and Speaker are thinking. What is (at least WAS) important in the game is what RB is thinking and doing, and we sould be hearing from her directly (but not in a cheesy hi/greatwork/seeya email either). Bah humbug. As Stan on South Park would say, "This is really ef'd up right here." :-( So sad.
I hear ya capcom. I would like to hear more from Rachel...talking TO us rather than eavesdropping on her and Malik's conversation.
I can't believe that Rachel ditched us the second she got a boyfriend.
Wait til he dumps her, then she'll be all "hey guys, whatcha doin? wanna come over? wanna watch my video? here try on my disguises. let's hang out"
I hated girls like that when I was in high school.
Those "love notes" have been entirely too much exposition. I long for "old days" of stophanso....updates with real videos and information. This big reveal buildup makes no sense whatsoever. Why, oh why, is it being dragged out so long? There's no sense of urgency in stopping the evil TWM and his gang anymore, is there? Now we most likely have to wait until the 24th podcast for anything to happen. (Wait: I hear a lot of "flies" dropping!)
Fasten, that is SO funny! Sure, as soon as she doesn't have Malik to hang out with she'll come crawlin'. :-)
Sorry about the Oracles :(
Thanks for sharing, slappy!
WV: cccoku = cuckoo for Apollo Bars!
GOOD AFTERNOON TLEC!!!
Going tonight to get my Apollo Bar in Santa Monica as well. Maven, go early cause I have a feeling that it's going to be packed. Can't wait to see ya. I will probably be there around 5:30 PM. E-Mail me at this address since I'm not at work if you need anything. ryandrumz@hotmail.com
RIGHT ON SLAPPY!!! At least your'e not selling those things...
DJ Dan, please move the podcast date back to the 23!!! It's the only way I can call in!!! LISTEN TO ME, DJ DAN!!!!
man I wish I could listen to DJ Dan
DJ Dan, please move the podcast to the morning of the 24th it's the only way I could listen to it.
PLEASE!
Just imagine if he changed it AGAIN
Hi Dr. Spongey! Nice to hear from you. Hope that school is going OK. Nothing happening around here accept for the few notes between RB and Malik, so you didn't miss much excitement unfortunately. :-)
Hi everyone. I've been lurking in TLE for months now, and, watching it all from a certain distance, I see we're all a little bit frustrated. You started it all excited, the Hanso site gave you a lot of homework, and it looked like it would be a hell of an ARG. Then came the RB videos, which seemed like a promise for a bright future in game. How romantic.
I guess TLE started to decline at the glyph hunt, althought the Sri Lanka thing gave us a thrill and made all the pain worth it.
I'm not saying it wasn't fun - it was! But, IMHO, there are only two different endings for this "epic": the disappointing one and the finale that will make this one of the best games ever, the one that retrieves the "magic" we felt in the beggining.
Oh yeah, excuse my lame english - i'm not american, british, or australian.
Off topic...
Does anyone have a finished image of the Lost Puzzle # 2 - The Others? Thanks.
The Alternative One
Welcome Mrs. unscrew! Your english is fine....keep posting!
Wel said Mrs. Unscrew...I also think HE.com was the killer. Only that it took so long. The vid rocks and the info from was also awesome. I do think the rest of the game and the ending will be worth while...Leaving for Santa Monica to get my apollo bar...See ya.
Good luck Ryandrumz! Let us know how it goes.
hereandthere, you should email admin re: the ad. who knows about the tonight thing, an intern probably posted the wrong banner.
I will take picture and show to all...
Also, there was a commercial for this Acura RDX Tour on ABC last night. Free drinks and food drinks, here I come!!!
Hopefullt I can win a car too.
LOL. FYSB. That's pretty much it. Rachel got herself a fella and now she doesn't want to hang with her friends anymore. Sheesh.
Maven, FYSB, Capcom - your all right. This is basically just exposition and it is frankly, BORING. Sure the DJ Dan show will be good, but that is because Javi and his crew are entertaining not because their involvement in the story is particularly thrilling or that they are is particularly good at this point.
I think the key thing with the glyph hunt is that the plot behind it made no sense. Probably the actual concealing of the clues (well some of them anyway, like the UK live hunts for example (I'm still sad about missing out)) wasn't actually *that* badly done, but the fact that it was basically Rachel making us jump through hoops for her own amusement took a lot of the glamour from it.
HE was a massive mistake. Yes, the video was a big reveal, but squeezing it out in so many parts killed off the thrill factor of what it was revealing. It was the case that before a frame was released prooving one thing, there had already been many frames hinting at that, so the proof just got a "meh..." response, while the hints where just hints and although speculation built up it was in such small chunks. I mean a LOT of regularly drifted away during HE. It wasn't that fragments was a bad idea, or that the reveals were bad, it was that it should have been something that took no more then a week.
But I've said it before this ARG falls down because of it's flow. They seem to have tried to figure a flow for each segment but totally missed the flow of the overall arg (who was their "big picture" guy?). Each act builds up to semi-conclusion, but each sucsessive act has been slower paced and less exciting then the last. Really it's quite impressive that they have managed to do that. I remember at the time, half jokingly I claimed TPTB sat around in a room debating how they could possibly make Act 4 worse then Act 3, just as Act 4 was kicking off. I'm starting to wonder if that was a joke or the terrifying truth.
It's not hard to see though, looking around that so many have lost faith in this ARG and it's ability to provide anything great in Act 5. Seems we are all fully focused on the start of season 3 instead. Not that people couldn't have expected the building excitement for the show to be greater then the excitment for the arg, but perhaps no one expected it to blot it out and help drive people away so much.
As for WIA, I think the ARG has had massive issues with synchronisation since the very start. I reckon that there is only one reveal from WIA and it will be the conclusion of Malick setting up this meeting with Alvar and it's just a mistake that WIA was live before Malick had even phoned in to DJ Dan.
Of course there is one possibility. There is another character that is yet to be introduced to the story who is the one Malick can set up a meeting with. They have made a point of not mentioning the name and we've all assumed it is Alvar (while strangely, people refused to accept Mr.Beardy was Alvar). Then, yes, there could be two reveals.
Odds on that are currently 25-1, Odds of it being a case of bad plot timing 1-3
as for DJ Dan, the timing is pretty bad for me, but I *CAN* be there for it (with the sacrifice of my sleep) so I am happy. It's very hard for them to find a time to do the podcast where it won't effect people, but I think this is better then the previous choice when a lot of people in the US and most in the UK would be at work. Sorry Stracker - greater good for the greater number and all that. Btw, House rocks. :) I just watched 3x02, fantastic episode!
Right again Fenris.
BTW what is exposition? I'm totally new to ARGs, so does this mean that players are looky-loos only, since that's mostly what we've been doing lately? HE was was too long, but even 1 month would have been better than 2+ months duration. Oh well, let's keep our hopes up for something juicy soon! Always the eternal Pollyanna. :-|
All in all though, if this is the first time that TPTB ever tried such a thing, they gave it the ol' college try. Phase 1 was awesome! I'll look back fondly on that part, it was full of creepy science and espionage, just the way I like it.
capcom, exposition is basically talking about what happened/is happening rather than showing it...the way rachel described how she escaped from sri lanka in her note to malik, rather than letting us see it and experience it through a video.
Ah ha, thank you FYSB. :-)
FYSB, Fenris et al:
I agree, two big reveals, one related to WIA.com and one re: her meeting with Alvar.
And the reason it took her so long to respond to Malek was that she was hiding out in a broken down factory, unwrapping Mittlework's candy bars by hand and carefully rewrapping them with WIA bars.
simps: It's been categorically denied. Most likely Javi just did both voices.
Off-Topic:
Has anyone played that damm ABC Lost Survival Mission game yet? (this is what I've been doing while waiting for TPTB to do something!) If so, how do you use the dynamite and matches together to blow up the hatch?! Also, where do you find the gun to kill the boar, I'm not such a good shot with the stupid knives. THX.
STILL nothing from our lovers?????
Simps - General speaking that idea is dead, but I've been going around telling everyone DJ Dan is Pete Thompson just so I can deny it again if I get through. So spread the word, Fenris said DJ Dan is Pete Thompson.
SSSHHHH noble...do you really want a morning after note from rachel???
Question - When did "reveal" become a noun?
that's a very good question winged_eel. i think it used to be a delightfully active verb, but sadly rachel took it and expositioned the he11 out of it until it was reduced to a love note from malik and hence it became a mere subject/object word-toy. i just hope she leaves the adjectives alone.
wv: phtim....exactly how i feel
I think it was from TV show. One of those reality things where someone gets made over, and then they have to go to a deserted island and fight fear to the death for the chance to win a week in a hotel resort where they have to whore their way to the top so they can compete to marry some guy they just met in the green room.
Hi, gang: Just got back from the Santa Monica/Acura event. Got 2 Apollo Bars, no Golden Oracle :( Went with Allyson and met up with Ryandrumz and Tapdawg. Ran into other TLErs from other forums. Everyone was nice. Great to talk with people who understand your obsession!
Questions for you, Maven... did you get a VIP pass for the Acura event? And were the Apollo bars in goodie bags handed out at the event? I am considering going to the Acura event in SF but it is a 2 hr trip. Just wondering how it all works. thanks.
Hi, joann! Yes. I had a VIP pass. It's pretty important to have it. It lets you have the food and drinks. And when you leave, they cut off the ID bracelet that they give you when sign in so you can get your goodie bag. The Apollo bar is in the goodie bag. We happen to find a guy you had a bunch of bars near the entrance and we all talked him into giving us each one. So we got 2! Other than that, they were pretty strict about giving out the bars.
i enjoyed the night as well... but no golden oracle for me!
Here are some pictures from the Santa Monica/Acura Apollo giveaway.
Right on Maven, cool pics. It was nice to finally meet you. You guys are going to kill me, but I said above I would take pics....Well, I didn't. The drinks were flowing and the food was great. I totally forgot to take some pics...SORRY
Tapdawg, it was nice to see ya again. Allison and Egyptian Girl, nice to meet you guys as well.
Well, going to try to upload pics for WIA.com....
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Almost forgot...
SHADE was there and one of the founders "realy real" was passing out all this SHADE gear. SHADE mugs, SHADE stickers, SHADE shirts for cats/dogs, SHADE carrying bags, SHADE buttons, SHADE hats, and the best for last.....SHADE PANTIES!!!! Egyptian Girl who follows this blog got the panties...Sorry to call you out, but you said you'd wear them for the WIA.com pic...We'll see if Rachael Blake will except the pic.
Well, the SHADE guy was awesome, and a cool guy. Maven, allison, really real, egyptian girl, my girlfriend and I were theorizing about this game like crazy... It was very fun.
Thanks for listening to me and Ggod night all.
I had an awesome time. SHADE rules! I got a mug just because I came up from Bakersfield(about 2 hours from LA) so I like to think that I'm very dedicated to the game. Meeting fellow TLECers (and fellow player in general)was awesome. It made getting an Apollo Bar THAT much better! And I loved that I could talk to people who actually knew about the game and didn't look at me like a blooming idiot. (Allyson just delurked herself. Watch out!)
CONGRATSSSSSSSSSSSSS!! WOOT!
Pics are wonderful too!
Good morning TLEC
Nothing yet... don't give up LOST begins in 17 days
besides budget constraints on TLE, doesn't anyone think it's odd we havent seen Rachel since comicon. She posted so many videos before and for such a skilled hacker(ya right) she could hide a video somewhere without being chased. If rachel had not been at comiccon there would be a lot more momentum to the idea that she never made it out of Sri-lanka. At the very least it seems more likely to me that she is working for mittlewerk and this is all a ruse to trick malik into devulging alvars location and expose hanso critics(apollo bars),
Lol. Good old SHADE. Those guys seem to put twice as much effort in as TPTB. They annoyed some people to begin with (spamming and such) but I think most people have come to accept them as doing a lot of good for the ARG and the way they try and stay behind the 4th wall most of the time helps too.
thanks for the support, Fenris.
TLE-ERS, COME AND BE NOT SHUTDOWN!
So I told people about the radio show that I do earlier this summer and the TLE-ers who showed up seemed to enjoy it! There's a chat room, web cam, and lots of time to get to know each other.
I'd greatly appreciate it to whomever would like to show up! Or to those who would like to show up and mock me... that's okay as well.
http://www.FreeRadioSAIC.org
Grand National Championship @ 8pm CENTRAL TIME.
Fenris-
Yeah, after the British sub-level PTB decided to be all breaking the fourth wall-y during the glyph hunt, SHADE should get tripple the props for staying in character.
Oh man! Maven, your pics are supercool! I was supposed to go last night and had the VIP and everything - then moving took longer than expected. Glad everyone had fun, sorry I didn't get to see you all again.
And Luke Walton! DARNIT ALL TO HECK!
Who the hell is DJ dan.
The SHADE people seem to be able to stay in character even better than the Apollo distributers. I bet some starving actors would have loved to be hired by ABC to act out the part of the Apollo Candy virus spreaders at the handout venues, and would have probably hammed it up nicely for us ARGers. Heck, I bet even some Rennaisance Fair actors would have done a great job keeping behind the 4th wall as well. :-)
BTW, that Survival Mission game on the ABC site has some things in common with TLE. It starts off great, is very entertaining, and then just quits in the middle with no rhyme or reason, and you're left up in the air with nothing to do and nowhere to go with it. Deja vu. :-(
Who the hell is DJ Dan?
Who the hell is Alex?
Where have you been? Kidnapped and then trapped on an island with no shoes for your entire life?
Oh....
That's right....
hmmmmm i'm tired of waiting for something to happen.....
SHEESH. I found the Season two bloopers they are really funny
LOL, I am not waiting...I am getting ready!!
I have been archiving old files, moving to optical media, to free HD space. Bout to defrag the monster drives. I am preparing for LOST season 3 and all the "file sharing" fun that entails.
wow well i've been looking around but nothing yet. I found a few Lost trailers. They look cool.I'm just tired
i know it wasn't that exciting. It was just really stupid.
This is just ridiculous. The TLE/RB has totally lost all reasonable credibility of her story's supposed urgency, in my book. I've changed my mind, at this point I actually would take a pointless email or blog update from TPTB/her that said, "Hey guys, great work on the video. I know it's taking me a long time to get back to you in helping save the world, and that I did say that this was an urgent mission and all. I'm in the process of gleaning some very important info, so hang tight and don't bother checking any HF websites or allied blogs for a few more days. Enjoy the end of summer like I am -- I mean, while I'm working hard -- and we'll soon return to saving the world!" Puh.
Night all.
The chat function on the site occurs when the show is on, under the listen function. It opens up when the player opens up (quicktime I believe). And I couldn't possibly say "open up" more today.
open up open up open up.
http://www.FreeRadioSAIC.org
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I'm on the air RIGHT NOW (show doesn't officially start for another few minutes but I'm broadcasting).
www.freeradiosaic.org
Totally agree with everyone's thought about how senseless the game has become. You've said it very well, peaceandnamaste and capcom! Just put yourself in place of Rachel...all along you wanted to expose THF and find Alvar Hanso...you finally uncover Mittelwerk's sinister agenda...people died to get it to you (Gidgetgirl and Hugh and, probably, de Zylva)! What do you do? You don't sit on your butt and slowly dribble out the video. You try your hardest to get the word out, and fast! Maybe take it to news organizations, throw it out there all over the net, etc. And you also don't take over a month to set up a meet with the mysterious HIM, do you? You get yourself to Norway!
The pace of this game has really become an enigma. If TPTB are building to a big reveal, this is not the way to do it. They better have a really big twist to this...we've second-guessed them every step of the way pretty much. I think we're all expecting the big meet to be with Alvar Hanso in Narvik and that he reveals his relationship with Rachel.
Hi Guys,
I'm sure it's pretty quiet here but I thought that I'd say Hi and sorry I missed you all over the weekend but my laptop died :(
Mind you, seems like nothing much happened.
Hey dark angel. I kinda checked things over the weekend and it's been so quiet. You didn't miss anything.
Sara,
My guess is that their is at least a month left in the game. The appollo bars say best if used by OCT 26th. That's my guess for the end of the game!!!
passafist-I think the bars say Oct-23-06, but HOW can they drag this out until then? Wait, let me rephrase that...I will just die if they carry the game on until then, unless it picks up quickly!
gooooooooooooooooood morning tlec!
Really, think about all the work involved in extending the game...adding additional days and days of no clues, no word from rachel....that's a lot of time and effort to pull that off.
;>)
oh for the love of pete! wait til sunday is her reply? 30% of those villagers are goners by now i'm sure.
I got an e-mail from Rachel saying to go there.
Initial reaction - Is that all?
Anyone else think the whereisalvar.com update is lame?
Looks like it's all going to end with more narrative/exposition instead of puzzles.
aren't there still giveaways this week?
Even if it's all we've got, time for a new post about it?
your Mother, Yes I do we chased all over god's creation for an Text Message ! I wanted drugged induce chocolate for what reason?
ox: You can still upload pictures to WIA.com. Clicking continue gets you past unite.
DazzedElf: Like your photo
Seriously... we already knew about the podcast. What's the new information? What was the point?? What are the golden oracles all about??
So what was the point of the Golden Oracles???
I want the story to continue. I want the game to progress. I am tired of pointless chasing your tails crud. IT seems that this alone to make little interns crazy trying to collate all that marketing information. Give me something fun to do. Answer at least one question. I have about 8 of them. I didn't mind the marketing when I was advancing the story. But when all you are doing is marketing. I am bored with it.
New thread forthecoming!
Good morning, etc., Tee-Lekkers!
Good thought about the Bad Twin reaction, Peace, they could/should do something like that. I sometimes check that TWM vid on the shutdown Hanso site in case they've changed it to some other TWM propaganda, but no joy there. Also, ditto, Maven, Ryan and Sara. And I also figured that since the mysterious Liddy was more in-game and not of the show, that they'd reveal that secret too in the game.
I'm telling ya, TLE is looking more like the stupid ABC Lost game on the ABC Lost page, as every day with nothing to do passes. That game starts out so fun, and then just pfffffffffft! Nuttin'.
Perhaps now that the head-TPTB are filming S3, and they left the TLE to the assistant PTBs, they are not aware of how the game is unraveling. And by unraveling, I mean falling to pieces. Anyone know the information phone number on the Hawaiian islands so we could track TPTB down? We need to rat on those ARG assistants!
Oh well, at least it's fun hearing from, and talking with, you all!
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