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Welcome to the player's wiki resource for the Intimation Alternate Reality Game!
You're here because you've been following @intimation on Twitter, or have come across some real-world scavenger hunts or online puzzles, and you want to know more, get involved, or help out with the story. Come on in, have a seat, grab a cookie. You have such a cute little pig nose, did anyone ever tell you that?
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News
Current tasks
We are currently on "STANDBY". While waiting, feel free to continue our art project:
8/13 - Creating pignose art
Other news
8/8 - Announcement: we are going to use a wiki page to compile Questions for the PM chat. A wiki page is ideal for this so we can edit our questions if any get answered or need tweaking as the game continues to play out. Feel free to contribute your questions! Dear PMs: you can read these questions, but you may NOT use that wiki page as a way to get out of a PM chat :)!
8/5 - [HUMOR] thread created here, GO BLOW OFF SOME STEAM
8/4 - We have been moved on UF from News and Rumors, To Chaotic Fiction! We now have our own Sub-forum
Timeline
For a summary chronology of events, check out the Timeline page.
Detailed report of each month's events:
- December 2008 and January 2009
- February 2009
- March 2009
- April 2009
- May 2009
- June 2009
- July 2009
- August 2009
Known URLs
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/ Main site aka "Primary Network Tentacle"
http://twitter.com/intimation The start of the game and our primary source of information. Intimation awakens from hibernation at 12am GMT every Thursday, returning to sleep 24 hours later. The subroutines are still able to be communicated with during hibernation periods.
http://www.youtube.com/user/anintimation "Visualizations" retrieved from inside the Stonewall
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/Q7J8R04J87FFJ983Q2/ Secret Maze/ interface with the Stonewall
http://twitter.com/eridanos01 An unknown player who seems to have been created by the PMs
http://eridanos01.wordpress.com/ The above's blog, with a passlocked page entitled 'Amber'
http://drop.io/twtwtwe Player made site for collection of S's story (Note, while this is player made, it is still considered IN-GAME. So no links to the unfiction forum or this wiki from there, please. Let's try and keep that fourth wall intact. Anaerin 19:08, 23 July 2009 (UTC))
http://gpsmission.com/user/pricklypear/missionsCreated The list of worldwide GPS missions created by Essy. This method has been abandoned due to lack of participation. Most of the unfound story pieces were rehidden and successfully found.
http://drop.io/star_with_sore_eyes PM created drop page (part of Finding Essy, part 1); no major contributes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLlGIMFoPaI The video(s) from the TWTWE drop (posted to YouTube by Anaerin)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cheer-up-essy/ Group pool for Creating pignose art
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eridanos01/ Eridanos's photos
Characters & Contact Information
On board The Lewis & Clark
Sacagawea, a fragmented A.I.
- Part of her, called S, Essy, or pignose :@), is childlike and playful.
- Another part of her, SYS, communicates via twitter, initiated Ship Wreck Protocol, and maintains the Stonewall.
- Another part of her is a hostile fragment, often represented by a scorpion.
Crew (the humans aboard)
- Captain Pandora Sheridan : Archaeologist. In charge of the mission.
- Isaac Higgins : Scientist
- Noah Dressler : Engineer
- Alexis Ward : Doctor
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/missionfeed/
In our world
The Society or SFTA
In Essy's story
Dreaming Eyes, a little girl who loves to play hide and seek
Bushy Tail, Dreaming Eyes' older sister
The Red Monster
The Flat Faced Man
The She Monster
Twitter Contact
@intimation http://twitter.com/intimation
@eridanos01 http://twitter.com/eridanos01
Puzzles & Events
This is a chronological list. You may also view a categorized list of puzzles.
12/11/2008 - The "hollow men" puzzle
3/4 - Finding Essy, part 1
3/11 - Finding Essy, part 2
3/18 - Finding Essy, part 3
3/25 - Hostile tentacle attack 1
4/1 - The infamous GPS missions (reconstructing part of Essy's story; Finding Essy, part 4)
4/8 - Hostile tentacle attack 2
4/15 - A virtual box puzzle and garbled datastreams (reconstructing part of Essy's story; Finding Essy, part 5; the scorpion logo)
4/29 - Hostile tentacle attack 3
5/6 - Finding Essy, part 6 – and Entering the Stonewall (including the scorpion logo)
5/13 - Finding Essy, part 7
5/13 - Snooping around the Stonewall for trivia (reconstructing part of Essy's story - and the birth of the SPDR!)
5/20 - Hostile tentacle attack 4
5/27 - Unlocking pathlocked data part 1 - involved recreating the biography for Dr. Pandora Sheridan
5/27 - Finding more cartoon picture pieces in the Stonewall (more of Essy's story)
6/3 - Hostile tentacle attack 5
6/3 - Unlocking pathlocked data part 2 - solving process identical to Unlocking pathlocked data part 1; involved recreating the biography for Noah Dressler.
6/10 - Sys plays along with Essy (more of Essy's story)
6/10 - Unlocking pathlocked data part 3 - solving process identical to Unlocking pathlocked data part 1; involved recreating the biography for Isaac Higgins.
6/17 - Hostile tentacle attack 6
6/17 - Deciphering Eridanos' blog entries
6/24 - Locating anomalous signals (reconstructing an audio log from Dressler)
7/1 - Hostile tentacle attack 7
7/1 - Locating anomalous signals, part 2 (reconstucting part of Essy's story)
7/8 - Encouraging Essy (more of Essy's story)
7/8 - Locating anomalous signals, part 3 (reconstructing an audio log from Dr. Ward, as well as her biography)
7/16 - Hostile tentacle attack 8 - and the abduction of Sys!!!
7/16 - The Portland drop (Dav Flamerock is going to write this up --dreamerblue 20:52, 11 August 2009 (UTC))
7/20 - Reconstructing Dr. Sheridan's corrupted mission log (formerly known as "S5:RPT")
7/31 - Retrieving Skulls and Navigating into the AI (formerly known as "S5:RPT_2")
8/13 - Creating pignose art
8/15 - Finding Essy's name
Resources
- http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27294 Original single discussion thread for this game.
- http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=252 New home for multiple discussion threads for this game.
- SPDR Results = Results of Anaerin's tool, the SPDR.
- MazeNodes = a list of the 107 known nodes within the maze and the shortest paths to them from the entry point.
- MazeVectors = a list of the 196 known vectors (bi-directional paths between nodes) and their letter pair equivalents in each direction.
- Glossary = explanation of terms/phrases that come up repeatedly and do not have obvious contextual explanations
Tools
Vigenere Cipher
- http://islab.oregonstate.edu/koc/ece575/02Project/Mun+Lee/VigenereCipher.html
- http://sharkysoft.com/misc/vigenere/
