Austruck
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Post by Austruck on Aug 19, 2016 20:48:39 GMT -5
Torchwood! I suspect a lot of us in here enjoy the same sorts of entertainment on all levels.  |
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Post by Beckett on Aug 20, 2016 2:37:57 GMT -5
Well, I must admit that it is something I watch rather casually, but it struck me as a good example for a story where the veil is pulled back and the protagonist is thrown into a world of mystery and intrigue. And John Barrowman.
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Post by thegenii on Aug 20, 2016 12:33:56 GMT -5
Austruck: would it be possible for you to express curiosity and, while sitting with him in the living room, just open the second mailing? That might get him to continue.
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Post by Austruck on Aug 20, 2016 12:44:49 GMT -5
The second mailing is open, and I've looked through the things in front of him and talked about them. But he's just been so busy that it hasn't caught his interest even if he's watching me try to put the letters in order in that second mailing. (To be fair, he's not watching much TV or doing very many other hobbies/fun things while he's working this overnight shift, so that's part of it -- really bad timing.) I will see if I can find a way to nudge him into at least letting me show him what I've pieced together so far. I wish he didn't know other people have gotten the same mailings. I think it doesn't feel as special to him as it did that first day.  |
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Post by k80 on Aug 21, 2016 8:21:44 GMT -5
Well, I must admit that it is something I watch rather casually, but it struck me as a good example for a story where the veil is pulled back and the protagonist is thrown into a world of mystery and intrigue. And John Barrowman. I will do anything that involves John Barrowman. |
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Post by Beckett on Aug 21, 2016 8:27:41 GMT -5
Well, I must admit that it is something I watch rather casually, but it struck me as a good example for a story where the veil is pulled back and the protagonist is thrown into a world of mystery and intrigue. And John Barrowman. I will do anything that involves John Barrowman. Which is a great fit, because there is not a lot that John Barrowman would not do. |
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Post by scot on Jan 12, 2017 16:16:33 GMT -5
Regarding the crate contents, has anyone else reached any conclusions about their significance? (Major spoilers, obviously; don't look if you haven't received it and pondered it already!)
We were able to recognize all the constellations and find a quite accurate map of how they were laid out in relation to one another. We were left with a few stray dots that didn't make sense: the large disk representing (probably?) sun or moon, another one next to it, and a few stray ones along the bottom (including one near Cassiopeia, which can't represent a star or planet -- there's just nothing there, and it's too far from the ecliptic for a planet. Unless the scale goes really wonky in that area and it's meant to be Capella or something?).
Our best guess was that the large disk might represent a solar eclipse (thereby giving Angela a date to home in on). The sun does indeed pass through that position in late summer. We found a likely eclipse candidate or two using planetarium software and the NASA website, but that still doesn't explain the other stray dots (unless I'm overthinking them, but very few dots aren't connected in constellation lines, so it seems like they're significant somehow).
In any case, it seems like there's nothing to do with that information. There's no way to confirm it, nowhere to go from here. I'd love to know if we're right, but...? I've enjoyed the experience, and the artifact is really lovely, but the pacing and resolution (or lack thereof) have had me confused at times, wondering "Am I supposed to do something/know something at this point? Is more information coming?" I just received my crate a week or so ago, and have been trying to work out a solution and think I am on the right track. I think trying to use a hand carved star chart to determine a date and location and is a bit of a stretch, I think the information is encoded in a much simpler way and that the general layout of the star chart is just a basic clue of a) its during a solar eclipse b) its in the northern hemisphere and c) its near the ocean, location wise that matches up with where the artifact was discovered. The actual stars themselves I think are a simple numeric code to indicate Time-Year-Month-Day-Lat-Long, but maybe not in that exact order. There are enough individuals constellation/stars to allow for: Time-XXXX Year-XXXX Month-XX Day-XX Lat-XX-XX' XX" Long-XXX-XX' XX" I am working on trying out different ways of reading the numbers, left to right across panels, left to right panel by panel, counting all marked stars, counting only raised or indented stars, etc. Heading out of town soon so wont be able to finish this week but wanted to share. Below are two wiki articles I was using to help. List of all eclipses by century, pretty sure looking for somewhere between 370-470 based on radio carbon dating. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_5th_centuryArtifact discovery location, includes an approximate lat/long. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_Forest_Park |
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Post by craigrj on Mar 2, 2017 8:33:41 GMT -5
Received my crate today, from the Dread Holidays sale Surprise Me... ...and I have to say, the pictures of the artifact on the MPC website do not do it justice. No-one has mentioned the burned in letters or that it's so damn large and heavy, I'm seriously impressed by it. As to what it means, is it not as simple as Brian showing Amy where and when to find him (the Where might just be as simple as the location the artifact was found), but the When is when the stars appear in the positions indicated on the artifact in the location it was found. Or, we know the when (via carbon dating), the location is where on earth the stars would appear in the night sky on that date. Regardless of this, it's a Map - and the romantic in me wants us to assume that Amy decoded it and made her final leap to location/date to be reunited with Brian. |
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Post by thegenii on Mar 2, 2017 13:50:03 GMT -5
It was obvious to me, at any rate, that it's a map of sorts. But it's a map that doesn't seem to tell us anything other than the date he expects her to understand, and which we cannot interpret.
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Post by mollee on Aug 8, 2017 17:59:05 GMT -5
Hi Austruck - I am in the same position - the first mailing was exceptional - and for the same reasons - we were just getting immersed in genealogy and he had a book from the town where his family lived that had pictures going back several generations on his mom's side. This first mailing hooked him because I used an old family name on his dad's side.
The disappointment was the result of the second mailing. Fortunately he did not go online when I encouraged him to do some research - but I did and was very disappointed to find the law firm facebook page not very professional and I also found the threads.
I forwarded to him information on the meteorite and archeology to read, and I opened the package a second time in front of him - but he wasn't interested and didn't care to talk about it further.
The artifact is due later this week and I am hopeful, but I think the story line is too vague..there are certain incongruities. I haven't tried any other experiences - so I am glad to hear about those that have more of a kick!
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Austruck
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Post by Austruck on Aug 8, 2017 20:50:14 GMT -5
Well, I feel badly for you, mollee, but also feel a bit vindicated that I'm not the only one who's more fascinated by this than her recipient.  Would you believe I posted all that stuff LAST August... and that crate package is STILL sitting unopened? It's been moved around a bit as we moved some furniture and now it's BACK on the dining room table. (We have an 11-foot dining room table so it's not right in our food or anything.) At a family gathering on Memorial Day, hubby's cousin (the one who's in on all this) asked him whatever happened to that package stuff he got about another Morlock (since she's still researching the name change in the family). He scowled about it and didn't say much so I said that we hadn't opened everything yet and that we now had this box to open that's been sitting around since last summer. She feigned surprise at that, and I said I would probably just give up and open it myself, if only to confirm it wasn't a bomb. She laughed. I laughed. Hubby just stared at us. I think it's just a big dud in this case. I'll have to wait till we're casually sitting at the table and pull all the stuff over and ask if I can open the box. At least it'll get opened and maybe he'll show some interest. But I doubt it at this point. He's an engineer and I think he really doesn't like that he got duped at first. And of course, THAT'S precisely what I'd been counting on. Ha! Oh well. I'm still enjoying the quarterlies, though I am SERIOUSLY behind, and the membership kits. To heck with hubby and his sour grapes attitude!  |
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Post by Beckett on Aug 25, 2017 4:54:53 GMT -5
Would you believe I posted all that stuff LAST August... and that crate package is STILL sitting unopened? It's been moved around a bit as we moved some furniture and now it's BACK on the dining room table. (We have an 11-foot dining room table so it's not right in our food or anything.) Who leaves a package unopened for a year? I can imagine returning it unopened if I really could not be bothered at all, but this?
Anyway, your patience in this matter is to be commended. Personally I would probably have come out with it at this point. I suppose you pocketed The Reveal when it arrived?
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Post by thegenii on Aug 25, 2017 11:02:23 GMT -5
An unopened box? Never!
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Austruck
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Post by Austruck on Aug 25, 2017 11:26:22 GMT -5
Yeah, the reveal is hidden in my office for now. He's on vacation this whole next week so I may just MAKE him open it. I'll decide when/how to reveal myself based on what he does at that point. I've already given up on this being anything like a fun surprise. It was only fun that first day or two. Lesson learned. (BTW, I think Tempus Fugit could be handled better---starting with a few more trinkets with that family name on them.) Curse you, Reddit! |
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Post by Beckett on Aug 25, 2017 14:28:51 GMT -5
If it is any consolation - of all the people I sent Experiences to, not a single one got as excited about it as I imagined I would. I suppose people who are interested in this sort of thing would be the exact ones who come across the Company and start sending out packages.
As to the contents of the first mailing, I think that most of the older Experiences could probably benefit from a tad more meat on that phase of the Experience. As I understand it, the first mailing of The Lost Treasure of John Augur does contain quite a bit more tactile content, and recipients seem to be quite taken with that. The more vague first mailing seems to be a relic from the three-mailing pledge/turn/prestige-formula the Company used to adhere to. Which was not necessarily a bad thing, but it put the first mailings in an awful amount of danger of being thrown out as spam...
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