ARG Deaddrop

Game: Tron (Flynn Lives)
Type: IMAX Event
Location: New York City, NY / Los Angeles, CA / London, UK / Toronto, ON / Sydney, Australia
Date: February 27/28, 2010 (Ticket release February 25)
Status: Concluded

One of the rewards for successfully completing the Zero Hour Challenge of February 24th was the unlocking of a new website: Pit Cell.

Pit Cell has information on what is being called an “Exclusive Limited Event” being held at 5 different IMAX Theaters this weekend.

New York
AMC Loews Lincoln Square IMAX – Sat., Feb. 27, 10:00AM EST

Los Angeles
IMAX Theatre at The Bridge – Sat., Feb. 27, 2:30PM PST

London
bfi London IMAX Cinema – Sat., Feb. 27, 1:30PM GMT

Toronto
Scotiabank IMAX Theater – Sat., Feb. 27, 11:00AM EST

Sydney
LG IMAX Theatre – Sun., Feb. 28, 10:00AM EDT

In order to attend one of these events, you must be a registered member of Flynn Lives and sign up for tickets when they become available online today, February 25, 2010 at 4pm EST.

Local times of online ticket release:

New York – 4PM EST
Los Angeles – 1PM PST
London – 9PM GMT
Toronto – 4PM EST
Sydney – 8AM EDT (*2/26)

Current speculation is that this is going to be either a new trailer for Tron Legacy or perhaps an extended scene from the movie. Either way it should be fun if you live in one of the lucky cities and manage to snag a ticket. Make sure you pre-register on Flynn Lives well before the ticket release so that you don’t waste valuable time trying to secure tickets that are sure to go fast.

Further Information: Flynn Lives — Unfiction thread — Tron Wiki — ARGN — Movie Viral

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Game: Tron (Flynn Lives)
Type: Possible Live Event
Location: Sydney, Australia / Denver, CO / Madrid, Spain / Paris, France / Boston, MA / Washington, DC / Orlando, FL / Atlanta, GA / Raleigh, NC / San Diego, CA / New York City, NY / Philadelphia, PA / Toronto, Ontario / Austin, TX / Minneapolis, MN / Nashville, TN / Chicago, IL / Salt Lake City, UT / Los Angeles, CA / San Francisco, CA / Portland, OR / Seattle, WA / Las Vegas, NV / Phoenix, AZ / London, England
Date: Possibly February 24, 2010 at 11am EST
Status: Concluded

Over on the Flynn Lives website, there is a countdown that will hit zero on February 24th at 11am EST. Below the countdown there is a slowly revealing list of city names. Current speculation is that things will be happening in those cities when the countdown hits zero, but it’s far too early to tell at this point in time. If you live in or near one of those cities, keep the countdown page or back here for updates within the next 5 days.

 

Update: So the image has completely resolved and all of the cities have been revealed. The original list posted was pretty close to what it finished up to be (the two switches were Detroit -> Denver and Indianapolis -> Minneapolis). We still don’t know what is going to be going on in those cities or exactly where things will be happening, but hopefully an update is on its way so those people who are contemplating taking off work will know if they should or not.

Further Information: Flynn Lives — Unfiction thread — Tron Wiki — ARGN — Movie Viral

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Game: Institute for Human Continuity
Type: Info Drop
Location: Greater Metro Areas of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Washington DC
Date: October 26 (8am-noon) / Oct. 27 (3-6pm) and October 28 (8am – noon) / Oct. 29 (3-6pm)
Status: Concluded

Okay, here’s the deal. We have two more dead drops based upon the new book tour dates posted at the Farewell Atlantis Facebook page. We know the cities and the dates, but not the actual location. In order to get that, we need at least one person to check out one of the 800+ gas stations during the info drop periods, get the address, and then share it with the group.

It should be noted that Soren Ulfert has totally slacked off on alerting us to when the info drops are occurring. By my calculations, there should be an info drop today, but there has been no mention of it. Soren has also changed the time of the drops the last few times so that there is only a morning session (8a – 12p) instead of an afternoon session as well. Of course, since he hasn’t told us anything lately, this could have changed again. But I have to imagine someone somewhere is in a position where they could just swing by one of the locations without it being too far out of their way.

Update: Soren actually gave a blog update with the dates and times. He’s gone back to the original schedule of 8a-noon two days before the drop and 3-6pm one day before the drop. So to recap:

Information on Dallas dead drop:
October 26: 8a – 12p
October 27: 3p – 6p

Information on Philadelphia dead drop:
October 28: 8a – 12p
October 29: 3p – 6p

Anyone with access to one of the 800+ gas stations can retrieve this information.

So, if you live in one of the 15 metro areas listed above, find a gas station near you from the list, swing by today or tomorrow AND Wednesday or Thursday, grab the info and let me know about it. Easiest thing in the world, right?

Further Information: Soren’s blog — Corruption Theory blog — Charlie Frost’s Recap of Events — Unfiction thread

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Game: Levi’s Go Forth
Type: Dead drop
Location: Castle Clinton (Battery Park), NYC
Date: October 10, 2009 12-3pm EDT
Status: Concluded

After the successful retrieval of a postcard from the first Go Forth dead drop, the clue for the second dead drop has been unlocked.

Castle Clinton

October 10, 12pm – 3pm EDT

One player must find the man in the hat near the entrance of Castle Clinton and say the words “I am searching for Leaves of Grass.” He has something for you.

Further information: Levi’s: Go Forth website — @GraysonOziasIV — Grayson Ozias IV on Facebook — Unfiction thread

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Game: Levi’s Go Forth
Type: Dead drop
Location: The Ear Inn, 326 Spring St, NYC
Date: October 7, 2009 6-9pm EST*
Status: Concluded

Grayson Ozias IV has hidden $100,000 somewhere in the United States. It’s up to us to decode his clues on the Go Forth website which will then lead to a location where an item is hidden. The first person to find that item will receive a prize. A picture of the item will then be shown on the Go Forth site where the online community will be able to view it. The chance at the $100,000 prize will be based on how much you learn about Grayson Ozias IV through the campaign, not about how close you are to one of the 11 dead drops, so don’t worry about being in an area that “never gets anything cool.”

The first dead drop is at The Ear Inn, 326 Spring Street, New York City. It must be retrieved between 6 and 9pm EST* and will be located in the SW corner beneath the round table. All indications are that this is a first come-first serve deal, so if you really want the prize for finding the item, don’t be late.

Update: Kristen B is the lucky person that found a postcard underneath the table at The Ear Inn. Reports are that for her efforts she received a $100 gift certificate to a NYC Trapeze School. Pretty cool!

Further information: Levi’s: Go Forth website — @GraysonOziasIV — Grayson Ozias IV on Facebook — Unfiction thread

* I’m guessing this should actually read EDT instead of EST since Daylight Saving Time is still in effect (for most of the US) until November 1st. Seriously, if your going to give a time frame and don’t understand the difference between EDT and EST, just drop the middle letter and save the rest of us the confusion.

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Game: Institute for Human Continuity
Type: Dead drop
Location: 840 Broadway, NYC (Forbidden Planet)
Date: October 7, 2009, 1-3pm
Status: Concluded

The second set of gas station info drops has given us another comic book store to pick up information regarding Project Naaczaal.

Forbidden Planet NYC
840 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
1-3pm

Codeword: 2012

I’m actually very curious as to whether anyone will show up for this or not. It’s been my experience that NYC drops are notoriously hard to complete. Add in the fact that this is during the work day and my confidence in it being completely successfully drops considerably. Maybe if the LA drop turns out to be pretty cool the NYC people will want to show up for this one. We’ll see on Wednesday.

Further Information: Soren’s blog — Corruption Theory blog — Charlie Frost’s Recap of Events — Unfiction thread

Thanks to strifey the wonder boy for actually going out and taking part in a live event. I can’t think of the last time he’s done that. Maybe it was because he a: needed gas in his car and b: no one else would be around. You can show your undying gratitude to him by buying him a dishwasher. He would love you forever if you did that.

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Game: The Society for Linian Studies
Type: Dead drop
Location: Riverside Branch of the NYPL, 127 Amsterdam Ave 9 [at W. 65th St.], NYC
Date: Dropped sometime before August 21, 2009
Status: Concluded

Players believe there is a dead drop connected to The Society for Linian Studies at the Riverside Branch of the New York Public Library (127 Amsterdam Ave 9 [at W. 65th St.]) that needs to be picked up – hopefully sometime soon.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that they know exactly where to look in the library. The current theory is that it’s a book starting with the call number 998 or 999 – but online searches show that there are no books in those sections at the Riverside branch. Communications with an ingame character seem to confirm that the Riverside branch is correct, and that looking in the General History of Arctic islands & Antarctica (998) or Extraterrestrial worlds (999) is on the right track, but nothing specific has been established… yet.

Is there anyone in NYC near the Riverside branch who is willing to go and at least check the sections out to verify that nothing is there? Or maybe see if something got snuck into the library unofficially? Or, if not, willing to keep an eye on the Unfiction thread and this blog in case players figure out exactly what it is you should be looking for?

Update: New comment from Fritz, the character the players have been communicating with, suggests that a deceased character may have left a book or something in the 998 or 999 section of the Riverside branch – something that is not supposed to be there and thus won’t show up in the online catalog. So hopefully it would be pretty easy to find once you were at the library and looking in the 998/999 sections (or where those sections would be).

Update #2: ARG player extraordinaire Rose was kind enough to go to the library, not once but twice, and found a hidden book on the shelves.

Further information: Unfiction thread — The Bloodline Notebook blog

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Game: Intimation
Type: GPS Mission
Location: Vancouver, BC / St. Louis, MO / New York City, NY
Date: Posted July 31, 2009
Status: Incomplete

According to an email from drizjr, Intimation is nearing its endgame and has four new GPS missions for people to play. The new missions are marked with a pignose smiley :@]

The LA mission has been completed, but the Vancouver, St. Louis and NYC missions still need someone to run through them and get the information. As you run through the missions, you will be looking for waypoints tagged with the pignose smiley. These are where you may find a skull ID number (e.g. M-R0IJ1260853U0A74429N). You must copy down this number as this is what will unlock the new skull. Once you have the skull ID number (current speculation is one new skull for each mission) you can post it to the Unfiction thread where the players can access it.

Krystyn has posted about her experience with the new mission, so if you are thinking about going on one, please read about what to expect. Her post about the first mission she ran also has some excellent tips about completing the GPS Missions. Krystyn also invites anyone going on a mission to join the #intimation chat room so that players can give live help if needed.

Further Information: Unfiction thread — Wiki — #intimation chat on irc.chat-solutions.org

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Game: Frenzied Waters
Type: Dead Drop
Location: Miami, FL – Washington, DC – Detroit, MI – Chicago, IL – Dallas, TX – Philadelphia, PA – Los Angeles, CA – Atlanta, GA – New York City, NY – Boston, MA – San Francisco, CA
Date: Dropped July 7th and July 13th
Status: Complete (first 2 drops)

Frenzied Waters, the new promotional game for Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, has released 11 news capsules into the wild, according to their website at FrenziedWaters.com and their Twitter account @FrenziedWaters. The capsules are believed to hold artifacts from different tragic events regarding sharks.

Update: It seems as if there will be a total of three different drops in these cities. One last week, one today and one next week (July 20th). So the earlier tweets from @FrenziedWaters saying that the capsules in certain cities have been found do not apply to the second group. Wish that had been made clearer. Also wish there was a mute button on the main page. And I still want to know what it wanted me to sign into Facebook for. I authorized it, but all I get is the loading twirl and nothing more.

Note: The Confirmed status on each of these drops is my best guess based upon the tweets from @FrenziedWaters and may or may not be accurate – especially when they start to overlap.

July 7th Drops – Asbury Park, NJ

41° 58’ 1.63”, -87° 41’ 15.79 — Chicago, IL — Confirmed found

42° 21’ 15.01”, -71° 3’ 15.63 — Boston, MA — Confirmed found

39° 55’ 56.83”, -75° 8’ 38.87 — Philadelphia, PA — Confirmed found

38° 55’ 12.15”, -77° 2’ 29.24 — Washington, DC — Confirmed found

25° 47’ 57.00”, -80° 7’ 38.33 — Miami, FL — Confirmed found

32° 49’ 5.76”, -96° 46’ 55.93 — Dallas, TX — Confirmed found

40° 45’ 35.64”, -73° 59’ 39.53 — NYC, NY — Confirmed found

33° 47’ 9.46”, -84° 24’ 16.35 — Atlanta, GA — Confirmed found

42° 29’ 4.25”, -83° 8’ 35.80 — Detroit, MI — Confirmed found

33° 59’ 47.76, -118° 26’ 6.83 — Los Angeles, CA — Confirmed found

37° 46’ 22.32”, -122° 30’ 38.81 – San Francisco, CA — Confirmed found

July 13th Drops – Battle of the Coral Sea

25° 43′ 47.32″, -80° 14′ 23.89″ — Miami, FL — Confirmed found

38° 54′ 18.72″, -77° 03′ 55.15″ — Washington, DC — Confirmed found

42° 29′ 23.96″, -83° 08′ 30.05″ — Detroit, MI — Confirmed found

41° 56′ 09.67″, -87° 38′ 51.43″ — Chicago, IL — Confirmed found

32° 48′ 06.91″, -96° 47′ 09.64″ — Dallas, TX — Confirmed found

39° 56′ 19.36″, -75° 09′ 11.38″ — Philadelphia, PA — Confirmed found

34° 08′ 02.04″, -118° 21′ 29.52″ — Los Angeles, CA — Confirmed found

33° 46′ 57.54″, -84° 16′ 24.82″ — Atlanta, GA — Confirmed found

40° 42′ 18.65″, -74° 00 10.66″ — New York City, NY — Confirmed found

42° 22′ 20.82″, -71° 04 44.62″ — Boston, MA — Confirmed found

37° 45′ 34.42″, -122° 25′ 17.40″ — San Francisco, CA — Confirmed found

The hidden capsules should be similar to the one already pictured on Frenzied Water’s Flickr page. Other than that, there has been no specific information on what to expect at these coordinates. The capsules have been located inside businesses. At least two have been inside dive shops, but a third was found within a boutique shop, so they really could be at any business in the area, so make sure you ask around.

Further Information: FrenziedWaters.com — @FrenziedWaters

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Event: Book Reading with Sebastian Fitzek and Karen Dionne
Location: Bookstore Café, NYC
Date: July 9, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Sebastian Fitzek, author of Therapy the novel the ARG Charlotte Is Becoming Real was based on, will be appearing at the Bookstore Café in NYC along with Karen Dionne as part of the Housing Works events. They will be reading from their recent works and will be discussing thrillers and thriller writing.

The Bookstore Café is located at 126 Crosby Street, New York City.

Further Information: Housing Works website or call 212-334-332

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