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[eOgas]

Well geez, there's so many aspects to this game. I was here in the beginning, but I didn't really follow it too much for a while. It seems like so much has happened since then. Did it ever get tied to anything?

EDIT: and what about trout?!

[slang]

[eOgas]

Alriiight! Thank you Mr. Slang for being the first non-douche to teach me something new about ARGs. Not to imply that everyone on here is a douche, but really, the treatment of newcomers has not been kind. And it appears that this ARG has a lot of newcomers judging by the number of anon's and people with under 10 posts.

....and I promise to put in an appreciable effort to check if what I think I discovered has already been discovered and discussed in another thread.

[thebruce]

still OT: I think you'll find that the longer someone's been here, the nicer and more accepting they are of newcomers (and smoother they are with dishing the trout) we like friends and community here! snarkiness doesn't make friends. =)

[taylor]

All trout aside, I just wanted to add my 2¢ concerning the "long tail" idea some people are discussing. Considering that the term "long tail" was used in an email from an OOG source, I think it's safe to say it was a typo and not intentional. I just think we should stick to things we know for sure (which is about nothing right now) and not speculate on an OOG communication's possible typo. Might just lead us into wasting another 3 weeks

[rose]

FYI: here is the post that explains the definition of "trout."

[GenoWhirl9999]

I don't recall this being attempted yet, so hopefully it isn't trout, but I was able to use a printer at the college today and got a (tiny...) copy of the page 2/3 layout of ARH. I tried looking at p2/3 at different angles (as was brought up by BlessedBlogger in the other thread) and didn't see anything special.

Then, on a whim, I tried tracing the dotted lines generated by Chuck's eyes and extending the line across the page, then covered up the rest of the page (so that all I could see was stuff between the lines). I wanted to see if maybe they would form letters within the boundaries of the two lines. I didn't get any symbols I recognized, unfortunately. Though the head of the guy to the left of the volcano on P3 just happens to lie right in that path and seems to be looking down the same line.

I don't have a scanner, but it's simple enough to do if you think I may be missing something.

[unklruss]

^ I tried the same thing, with the same results. But it's interesting that Chucks eyes are looking Southeast, the leftmost figure on page 3 is looking Southeast, and the compass on page 8 has the needle pointing Southeast. Also, the "long walk" chart trends Southeast. A coincidence perhaps...?

I wish we had more pages from the Handbook!

[lcde]

[FeloniousDrunk]

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[SilentObjector]

Where does that stuff about blackstar and scrotal detachment come from?