[Main Message]
"Thank you for calling the Traelek Institute, celebrating its
25th year of operations. Please listen to a word association quiz
that we issue to new students upon matriculation: DECOY. ASCENT.
BLAMELESS. MISGUIDED. What do these terms illicit in your mind's
eye? There are no correct answers, only questions. At the Trealek
Institute, we believe that the pursuit of sensory data is its own
reward, so check back at our website if you have any fresh impulses
as a result of the quiz you just sampled. Goodbye." [beep]
"1" - "Thank you for calling. Please leave a message, and
your call will be returned as soon as possible." [beep]
"2" - "Thank you for calling. Please leave a message, and
your call will be returned as soon as possible." [beep]
"3" - "Thank you for calling. Please leave a message, and
your call will be returned as soon as possible." [beep]
"4" - "Thank you for calling. Please leave a message, and
your call will be returned as soon as possible." [beep]
"5" - "Invalid extension." [beep]
"6" - Made a weird noise... just a short little hiccup of a sound clip
that sounds kind of like someone inhaling sharply. Then it seems
like it's waiting for some kind of PIN number or command. I've
tried a bunch of combinations, always resulting in: "The number
you have entered is invalid." You get three tries, then:
"Goodbye." [disconnect]
"7" - "Invalid extension." [beep]
"8" - "Invalid extension." [beep]
"9" - "Thank you for calling. To speak to a representative,
please press "0"." [repeats]
"9" >> "0" - "Thank you for calling. Please leave a message,
and your call will be returned as soon as possible." [beep]
"0" - "Thank you for calling. Please leave a message, and
your call will be returned as soon as possible." [beep]
"*" - "Please enter the extension you are logging into, followed
by pound. If you are logging into your main extension, press
pound now."
"*" >> "#" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "1" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "2" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "3" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "4" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "5" - "Invalid extension."
"*" >> "6" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "7" - "Invalid extension."
"*" >> "8" - "Invalid extension."
"*" >> "9" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"*" >> "0" - "For your protection, phone access to this extension
has been locked, due to invalid PIN attempts. Please contact your
account administrator to unlock the extension. Goodbye." [disconnect]
"#" - Starts the main message over.
Notables:
"There are no correct answers, only questions"... Maybe we are supposed to be asking them
a question, rather than trying to offer them an answer?
Pressing "6" during the main message offers the option to input a passcode of some kind.
Pressing "9" offers the opportunity to speak to a representative... but it still leads to a voicemail.
Voicemails can be marked "URGENT," "CONFIDENTIAL," or both "URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL."
Attempting to access the "main extension" results in the "extension locked" message.
The numbers "5", "7", and "8" are always "invalid."
==
I didn't list all of the combinations I tried for "6" because, quite frankly, I tried just about anything
and everything that I could think, and I didn't want to flood the boards - I'll leave it to you guys to
try things out yourself unless someone really wants to start an exhaustive list. I know that some of
this has already been posted, and I apologize for the re-post, but I wanted to create a complete
comprehensive list to go by.
If anyone finds something that I've missed, or if any changes are made, please quote and edit!
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:39 pm
Aesculapius
Goofing off I left them the message "What is the Matrix?"
Cuz, you know, what is the right question, and that led to freeking the mind.
I'm mothafoeing Neo. XP
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:27 pm
Ogawa
Aesculapius wrote:
I answered "scarecrow" since it's a decoy, misdirection (misguided), usually it's ascended, and really blameless, unless you are thinking Batman. =p
It says there are no correct answers, only questions.
What if that statement is to be read as "There are no correct answers, only correct questions." and not "There are no correct answers, there are only questions.
Whatever it means, I hope there's no limit to the number of times you can call! You'd think more calls would mean a more active/heightened mind, right?
I like your answer Aesculapius. I wouldn't have thought of one response for all four words.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:06 pm
Aesculapius
I answered "scarecrow" since it's a decoy, misdirection (misguided), usually it's ascended, and really blameless, unless you are thinking Batman. =p
It says there are no correct answers, only questions.
What if that statement is to be interpreted as "There are no correct answers, only correct questions." and not "There are no correct answers, there are only questions."
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 2:01 pm
iRobotZombie
Where did you see that Moshpet?
Also, I did ask in the Huge TSN post, but on topic;
Did anyone from UK call and leave a number? Is it worth it?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:45 pm
Moshpet01
I used
Chess
Dragon
Butterfly
From the gum bit with a test chamber.
... and I randomly added a word... I forgot it though lol.
I'm not blonde I had insomnia last night.
M.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:31 pm
modoms
That is interesting.... but nothing like that shows up for the other two images.
For what it's worth, the quotation at the bottom of the home page is a twist on Socrates' "The unexamined life is not worth living". Not sure if there is any significance there.
Closest I could get it to make sense. It did ask to correct its sentence, after all.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:55 pm
freyathedark
Something that occured to me: Perhaps someone should call and have 'token' and 'paper' as their answers. It might lead to something?
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:54 pm
little_vicious
I just left my username and phone number, and asked them to call me back because I wanted to enroll. I actually didn't occur to me to leave word association answers, although now that I read this it seems like it would be an obvious response.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:53 pm
freyathedark
Yep, us girls just wanna have fun!
Maybe we should make a thread just for girls XD
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:49 pm
Ogawa
Thanks for the Latin translation. It's funny, you sing in Latin your whole life and never really understand it. Probably because all of the songs you sing in choir are hymns...
I've called the Institute four times now. First two, I didn't wait for the beep. Second time I left my answers, and third time new answers with my username and a WRONG preservation ID! >_<
I can't wait to explore all of this in detail this weekend. Screw fireworks!
Jane Smith wrote:
I must be the one woman out here but I did not take the sample quiz as one that required a response.
The statement "please check back on our website if you have any fresh impulses as a result of the quiz you just sampled."
I think this was simply a start to show the processes of discovery and what to expect from the game.
Now will there be future phone responses? Most likely.
All options are on the table, just my 2 dollars and 91c
You're not alone Jane. Us girls gotta stick together! (Especially if $2.91 is involved. ) As for the phone message, if you wait you can leave an e-mail. And apparently you can provide extension codes if you press the asterisk key (*) during the message. I don't think anyone has discovered any working extensions yet.
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:46 pm
Jane Smith
I must be the one woman out here but I did not take the sample quiz as one that required a response.
The statement "please check back on our website if you have any fresh impulses as a result of the quiz you just sampled."
I think this was simply a start to show the processes of discovery and what to expect from the game.
Now will there be future phone responses? Most likely.
All options are on the table, just my 2 dollars and 91c