a late night

WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE LOST ARG [alternate reality game]. Seriously. I'm not kidding. It's just blah-blah if you haven't been following it. Imagine the Charlie Brown adult talking...it will be like that.

Wah waaah wah waah waah waaaaaaaah...

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Stayed up through both hours of DJDan's podcast last night. It started out pretty lame, but I was hanging out on the ITE and TLEC boards, so it was more of a party. Vague hints about a glyph showing up Monday in a touristy area of a major American city [most popular guess is the ABC billboard in Times Square], lots of lame shutdowns by DJDan without giving us any good information, Speaker and Ninja both got through [along with other folks on the boards...it was fun putting voices to names].

Then things got really interesting when a mysterious voice called in with a message for Rachel. He started spouting off a string of numbers. Luckily, I had pen and paper nearby [yup, I was ready for DJDan when I started]. And they got even *more* interesting when Marvin the Earthling called in, saying he was being chased, but that had seen an odd symbol and was faxing it through to DJDan. Dan got the fax, and let those of us listening know that the glyph would be available on the front doors of Radio Harvest [where the broadcast was coming from]. Then the 'cast was "shut down by the man"...Hanso agents swarmed the place and DJDan had to go running.

So the boards were going nuts. Some of us posted our strings of numbers so we could compare them; once we did, we wracked our brains to decode them. Fenris and team figured out that the numbers referred to pages in "Bad Twin"; take the first letter of the page, and you get "I know where he is, I can set it up!"

I checked the WHOIS info for radioharvest.com, but it was just generic Network Solutions stuff. A quick web search and a closer look at the site showed a "Harvest Films" connection...WHOIS on harvestfilms.com gave a Santa Monica address. I posted it to ITE, and jendog [YAY JENDOG!] went running out at 1am Pacific to do us proud, along with tapdawg and Eric [who I think may be UnseenPresence...looks like he was first on site, go Unseen!].

We all waited, chatting, theorizing, yawning, until she returned about half an hour later...with the glyph! It wasn't live yet [harrumph], but we are all crossing our fingers that jendog gets the credit for the find.

Then I crawled into bed around 2:30am [finally letting my poor F5 key cool down], only to dream about frickin' glyphs and running from guys in lime green coats. Sheesh.

Now to figure out the whole "chocolates/Sublymonal" thing from this week's Entertainment Weekly...