A grave announcement from Mister Administrator

"Pointless"!? These cats are so suspicious! But no, really. Even Cheshire is starting to point at them.

Ah thank you Drunk gf. The voice of reason. I can't help but egg some characters on. Flip them a little shit. :) They aren't real, no ones getting hurt, no emotions trampled or egos crushed. It is after all just a game, not RW life or death. And yes, for the bloody fun of it! Unless it's against the rules....

And another thing- check the WTF Forum regularly.

Yankee: But how well will you sleep at night knowing you hurt not-Sherlock Holme's feelings?

There's a word for that, and that word is Munchkin. Not entirely applicable, but still relevant. Not cool, dude.

edited 5th Oct '12 3:26:59 AM by dryunya

Actually not applicable at all, not even in the slightest. There's also no definition of "win" for this ARG, so that alone throws your comment right out the window.

If we discount the RPG stuff, munchkin is someone who twists the game until it breaks, just because it makes it easier to play. That's what you're doing - you are saying "It's ok, the plot will progress anyway, I might as well screw with them". That Makes Me Feel Angry.

edited 5th Oct '12 4:11:07 AM by dryunya

Except that Yankee isn't "twisting it until it breaks" because it can't break. At the worst, he'll get ignored by the puppetmasters, which is what's been happening so far. At the very worst, he'll just get banned from the comment sections of the blog and blocked on Twitter.

edited 5th Oct '12 4:49:58 AM by DrunkGirlfriend

Do we know whether the "Welcome to Hogwarts" letter sent to WTFAverageJoe by Cheshire had a return address?

edited 5th Oct '12 5:51:00 AM by StevieC

No letters had an address.

If you guys want to find me, I'll be either on the WTF Forum, Poirot's Blog or Holmes's Blog. Anyway, good luck on the ARG- and trying to find out who rEALITY really is.

...Wait, were we trying to do that? Find out about rEALITY, that is.

Why would we do that? He's not really important, in the grand scheme of things. We could focus more on...what are we trying to do?

Sorry, sort of zoned out from the game for a while.

Yeah, rEality has been confirmed to be a gamejacker, who is also hilariously still Twittering apparently.

Poirot hasn't responded to my previous comment, but I put a new one on his latest post just in case he missed it. He didn't reply to any other comments in that thread either, I believe.

He responded to the request for a TOD, but it hasn't helped much so far. The one about the number of guests he hasn't answered yet.

If Poirot's not answering some comments, he's busy sightseeing in France. As well as that, it could be possible that he's busy finding about Hefner/Holmes, finding a roommate, offering his services as a private detective for distressed wealthy people, drinking some cocoa, or he is doing what some of us have requested, but not replying. Or he could be just upset by some comments, like Holmes. Such as about their death.

Also, I wonder why on both blogs my comments are still awaiting moderation?

Mine are still not approved, after about 2 days. Yours may be too meta, or something. I tried to link Raikes' blog to Holmes.

Or, as I said earlier, their following the advice but are too busy to reply or moderate.

Hang on, mine are approved now.

I'm kind of new on the whole ARG thing, so may I ask - what are metaguards, and why are you all striving to get yours accepted?

Metaguards are an old part of the plot. Check the Timeline and give it a quick read through to get up to speed with the recent developments.

It's also a term we use to refer to the players, kind of like an organization of players with the goal of guarding reality and fiction.

Well, some of us use it for that purpose. It doesn't seem to have caught on with very many of us.

I had so much fun talking to the Witch. I think I really have a good shot at this.

Also, I kind of maybe called all of you guys liars and untrustworthy people. This is at least a tactic the Witch can get behind.

All's fair in manipulating evil witches. I totally just told her how to screw over the whole country with her magic, so not like I can complain.

EDIT: In case anyone wanted to see what I told her, here:

Her message: "Ah, so you are the fool who dared accuse me of insolence. Your message wound up in my spam filter, and you saw fit to fly off the handle. Evil is not rash, evil is calm and scheming. I question whether you are as well versed in manipulation as you say. Convince me not to curse you tenfold by outlining the campaign strategy you would employ."

My response: "Very well. In all honesty, you are beginning far too late in the game to be able to stand a chance through normal means. Mundane manipulations may prove useful, however, most every option along that path has been tried already. In other words, there have been safeguards placed to impede such a thing happening twice. Gambits such as creating fake people or utilizing the names of the deceased to vote for you therefore, come with a certain level of risk, enough that to use them on a scale necessary to win an election would surely result in detection and failure. Therefore, more... obscure means must be relied upon.

The first order of the day is to get your name on the ballot in as many areas as possible, and by name, I mean the false name you intend to use for the election. After all, there is a rather obnoxious practice of people using the write-in section to enter the name of fictional characters. Combine that with the fact that witches are regarded as fictional in this day and age, and you can see where I'm going. Besides, an alias will throw off the obvious resistance to your candidacy from all the do-gooders. Some areas may be convinced to add whatever alias via careful application of your own dark arts to those in charge, while other areas will rely on you getting your name out as a write-in candidate.

To that end, I suggest utilizing the internet. I'm sure others have suggested a strategy known as "viral marketing" already, but I shall give you specifics into how this should be carried out. You see, the internet finds amusing that which it regards as over-the-top or "awesome". For that reason, I once again suggest applying your dark arts. As you noted on your blog, flaming skulls have a tendency to increase popularity. This should be the first stage.

After that, a small scale application of voter fraud, which I mentioned before, should be initialized in order to tip the balance of the scales in our favor.

The second stage of the plan will vary depending on the success of stage one, so I will not contnue any further, or I would have to start outlining contingencies for every branch of fate the election could take. However, it seems to me unwise to merely plan to win when there exists a reasonable possibility that one may lose. Therefore, I propose a second fork to this plan: Ingratiate yourself with the other two main candidates, using different names and appearances for each one, thereby playing the part of three people in full. Again, usage of your dark arts to control and manipulate their minds is extremely useful. After all, who needs to rule personally when you can have someone else do it for you and take the fall if some pesky revolt comes along?

In this way, you ensure that no matter who wins, you do.

I trust that is an acceptable demonstration of my ability?"

edited 6th Oct '12 5:50:19 PM by Sicon112

We're starting to get run a bit thin. Between the witch, Don Quixote, the two detectives, and the Neptune statue, everything's starting to get really busy.