We're In

Well we got in tonight, I've been going over the forums with a finetooth comb. Here's the data I got, it's up to you to make use of it.

Here's a zip file with all of the avatars from the forum in it, Shane noticed that when some of them are put together they form things. For example the Japanese avatars form the Kanji symbol for "Truth".

Avatars.zip

Second is a vampire directory containing data gathered from the site as well as a couple other places: (Note: It's in Excel format if you don't have excel and want to see it leave a comment and I'll try to export it to another format. Also list formats that are convenient for you, if nothing else I can try to do a PDF, the layout will be troublesome though)

Vampire Directory

I'll go through the site again tomorrow afternoon probably, and update the directory as necessary.

And I might post some Audio Clips although what info there is to be gained from the audio is circumspect at this point because the Gatekeeper isn't coming back.
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Sunday Night's Audio

Well tonight was disappointing to say the least, few clues, bad connections, and very little progress on our part.

Audio clips after the jump.

I'm just going with MP3's for now, if you want a wav for some reason, just ask.

Clip 1: The gatekeeper mentions the "House of Euxine"
Clip 2: A cow mooing in the background...?
Clip 3: She calls it the "Red Gate" for the first time, does it again several times throughout the night.
Clip 4: Talks about rest, sleep, and asks "What's your type?"
Clip 5: Probably the strangest clip of the night, "Rick Astley has always been one of us" Update: This is probably because ShaneBaxter from the UnForums had the balls to "Rick Roll" her on Friday. Nice one Shane.
Clip 6: Samson from BloodCopy calls in, riles up the gatekeeper. This clip is a testament to how choppy it was tonight, hopefully someone else has a better clip.
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Vampire Houses

Judging by Samson's responses on BloodCopy these may not all be houses, maybe another race?

"Virapalien" (Spelling confirmed by Samson on BloodCopy, but said he didn't know who they were, may not be a house?)
"Lindwurm" (Spelling confirmed by Samson, Old Norse linnormr 'constrictor snake', Norwegian lindorm 'serpent', German Lindwurm 'dragon')
"Tenebrae" (Also associated with Persia, and spelling confirmed by Samson, Latin for Shadows)
"House of Euxine" (Spelling confirmed by Samson, called them dangerous, Greek means 'Inhospitable')

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Questions that need answering

The gatekeeper has asked some specific questions, to allow access to the site, so far no one has been able to answer any of them

"This site has a specific purpose what is it?" (We probably have an answer: "To discuss whether or not vampires should reveal themselves to the world")
"Can you prove you're real?" (Guess I'll be buying a set of fangs tomorrow, see if that works)
"Do you have the right qualities?" (Fangs?)
"What makes you worthy?" (Fangs??)
"What house are you from?" Saying one of the houses in the Vampire Houses section works but then she asks:
"Who is your master?"
"When were you made?" (also "made aware") Saying 200 got this response: "Impossible I'd know who you are" Saying something less than a few years and she just hangs up on you. 103 and she said "Sounds like you're guessing." She is "at least 30x28 (840) years old" Read more...

Newspaper Ads

Not sure if this is important or not but I thought I'd post my thoughts. They have been seriously pushing the "newspaper ads" over on BloodCopy. We (think we) know they're all fakes, but why push it so hard? Anyways here's a rundown maybe someone will see a pattern.

In order of appearance:

Ad 1: The ads showing through the back of the ad point to the CalgaryHerald based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The article on the left can be read in it's entirety here it's from the University of Nottingham in England. The article on the right is here it's also from the UK.

Ad 2: No longer on the blog and there's nothing else I can find out about it.

Ad 3: BloodCopy says it was emailed to them from Paris but it's in dutch, I tried to translate the article on the top right with BabelFish and this is what came out: "The last days was feel it already but the ball is by the church. Reno and Linda are no longer the golden kopel. The new contract that signed Reno and the not kunoen travel for Linda were large busy on the relation, after 9 years, are it concerning. In a response Reno say with a broken voice: " I hou of its, and future will say what will happen, text: RvdV" I could find no Dutch or English articles similar to the above, it's not quite gibberish but it's probably made up.

Ad 4: Oklahoma City

Ad 5: Der Telegraf is a popular name for newspapers, it was a Jewish newspaper around 1900. German here.

Ad 6: Italian, I guess. BabelFish doesn't translate the word "cronac".

I have a feeling I'm wasting my time with this one, but oh well. Read more...

Casting Information for Internet Project

These might provide clues into the character's in the game, 2 have shown up on BloodCopy Roger, and Samson.

Warning: There might be spoilers here, continue reading at your own risk. You've been warned.
[ SAMSON ] His voice is coarse and cut through with a Scottish accent.
[ ROGER ] 20's must have southern Accent
[ NEIKO TANAKA ] She is a Japanese vampire who looks to be in her early 20s and speaks English with a heavy Japanese accent.
[ VIKTOR IVANKOV ] Short and appearing to be in his mid 50s, his temper is barely held in check which betrays his usual measured responses and faux congeniality.
[ ANNI LANG ] She is as cool as a politician, which has served her well in her capacity as the head of a multi-national corporation front for her vampire family.
[ LAMAR WINSTON LAMAR ] The 300 year old King of California (who looks to be in his early 30's) joins in and wants to know exactly what's in it for him. He's dressed in a suit with a tie loosened around his neck. The background hints at quiet wealth.
[ MIHO ] Audience member who speaks Japanese.
[ JAPANESE SECURITY GUARD ]
[ RICK CALLEN ] Rick Callen, a 20 something feral vampire without real allegiance and without any real brains either. He is dirty and slightly crazed, wearing only a worn out black leather jacket and filthy blue jeans.
[ PRAGUE MAN (CZECH) ]
[ BLEEDING MAN ]
[ MICHAEL ] An audience member
[ SHUNG YU ] He looks to be mid thirties although he carries himself in a manner which suggests he is much older. He speaks in perfect English with only the accent of his native Chinese marring his brief, terse speech.
[ MELINDA ] A Blood Copy audience member videotapes the scene of Michael's death.
[ VAMPIRE SECURIY GUARD #1, #2 ]
[ NATHAN ] A camera man.
[ REPORTER ON LOCATION ] A bubble-headed beach blonde named GLORIA reads the telepromptor with a smile.
[ MOLLY ] A vampire in her mid 30's
[ TODD PHILIPS ] White House spokesperson.
[ OFF SCREEN REPORTER #1, #2 ]
[ SENATOR BRADFORD ]
[ BRETT ] A Blood Copy audience member.
[ LEROY KURTZMAN ] A good ole boy who is a bit soft in the head and starved for attention.
[ NEWS REPORTER (VO) ]
[ GREG ] A emo-ish looking young 20 something.
[ FRAT GUY #2 ] Front seat passenger
[ FRAT MAN #3 ] driver
[ THIN VAMPIRE ]
[ CHRISTOPHER SARADAN ] An older vampire.
[ PETE SAWYER ] A vampire.
[ CHARLES THOMAS ] A heavily gothed up 30 something fangbanger
[ ANCHOR ] Male 30's-40's. A usually handsome news anchor, frazzled and tired looking from
covering the past few days of this once in a lifetime story
[ DRAINER #1 ] Thirty-ish looking aggressive bully type. Dressed in dark para-military outfit and ski mask
[ DRAINER #2 ] Thirty-ish looking aggressive bully type. Dressed in dark para-military outfit and ski mask
[ DRAINER #3 ] Thirty-ish looking aggressive bully type. Dressed in dark para-military outfit and ski mask
[ CONCERNED WOMAN ] 30's 40's
[ CONCERNED MAN ] 30's 40's
[ SOUTHERN MINISTER ] Male 40's 50's
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The Letters: What We Know

Ok, this post is regarding the letters on Chishio.jp which we are currently trying to translate, the NPC's on BloodCopy said "Thats the only thing left that no one has deciphered."

Update: I no longer believe the letters are relevant now that we've made it into the forums. However I will keep this information here on the off-chance that they might be.


Letter 1 - Akkadian
90% sure this is Akkadian Cuneiform, unfortunately this is all we know about it right now. 99.9% Sure this is Akkadian, see below for my translation progress.














Letter 2 - Hieratic?
50% sure this is Hieratic.

Letter 3 - Punic?
40% sure this is Punic, it sure looks like it...(See this link)

Letter 4 - Ugaritic
100% sure this is Ugaritic, it has been confirmed by NPC's on BloodCopy, as well as by a professional linguist who had this to say:

Updated:

nms*z (possibly a name, probably pronounced "Nimitsz")
zrh_ => scatter (if zrh and like Hebrew)
h*dt_ => new
mcn => like an eye
h*dt_ => new
lcbdt => to a slave
cln
cd [until]
clm [eternity]

That's all we've got so far, post a comment here or leave a message over on the UnForums if you have more info! Read more...

Saturday Night Audio Clips

Saturday night audio clips.


Update:
Sleuth on the UnForums had this to add:

Heres another person getting into the site that i recorded tonight if you want to add it:
MP3: http://www.box.net/shared/cxi3ss2884
WAV: http://www.box.net/shared/3rcaudikgc

Also heres a better copy of the one on your site that has messed up audio if you like:
MP3: http://www.box.net/shared/uxk570a4o4
WAV: http://www.box.net/shared/yuztop008g

Thanks Sleuth!

Unfortunately I was having trouble with my setup here and lost the first ~ hour of audio. The mp3's are for people who just want to listen or have slow connections, the wav's are for people who want to edit/enhance/analyze the clips.

First clip is the 3rd (staged?) occurence of someone gaining access (Note: There is something really wrong with the audio on this one some sort of feedback, but it's understandable so I'm posting it anyway):
mp3 (See above)
wav (See above)

Second clip is the gatekeeper mumbling something I can't quite make it out:
mp3
wav
Update: Sleuth says it's "Clever" which was my first thought as well, but then I second guessed myself. It's odd though because there is no context it's surrounded by at least 5 seconds of silence in either direction.


Third clip is very interesting it's her letting the "Persian" in she also mentions something like tenumbra?
mp3
wav

Fourth clip is the 16-32 clip:
mp3
wav

Fifth clip is just some guy talking in the background, can't understand him without some sort of audio enhancement. I think this is definitely not game related, but well I'll post it anyway:
mp3
wav

My intention tomorrow is to set up the recording on a separate computer that way I won't have to worry about it and I'll have the whole thing. Read more...

TrueBlood

I'm starting a new blog to post some audio clips from the new ARG around HBO's TV show "TrueBlood". I've been meaning to start a blog for a while and I figured this is as good a reason as any!

If you're new here this is the best place to start: UnForums

List of known game related sites in order discovered:
Chishio.jp
RevenantOnes.com
BloodCopy.com Read more...