I seemed to have breezed past the importance of exhibit24.net, so here goes nothing. It's clear what the 24.xx.yy numbers mean now. They are an index of the evidence against a unnamed inmate, or should I say, Trent Reznor. Let's break it down, just to be sure:
- Under the 24.11.2 entry:
The first Open Source Resistance meeting
Archival footage includes performance by dissident musician [CLASSIFIED]. Hi-rez and Uncut versions of this
footage can be found at www.OpenSourceResistance.net
Nine Inch Nails performed that concert.
- Under the 24.16.4 entry:
Surveillance footage detailing the capture of inmate [CLASSIFIED]
("Survivalism" video)
This, of course, is a NIN video, and someone is seen being dragged away.
- exhibitA.wav at exterminal.net lists the creator of that song (which is Capital G) as being held at Exterminal without bail. Trent Reznor created the song.
So, in the future, Trent and probably the rest if NIN is locked up at Exterminal, Neil Czerno is dead, the AIR movement was a failure, and the whole the dystopia thing happens. It looks as though the game is shifting focus. Everything up until now was just introducing us the the World of Year Zero. What happens now will probably directly impact the game. We'll get goals and directions and whatnot to try to save the future (and this is outside of the overall message of "wake up and give a shit" that we are to take into the real world), probably by following Neil around. Maybe they'll find a way to beam Carolina back to us, who knows. It looks like we the players are going to have plenty of opportunity to participate in things, I'm looking forward to it.
And putting a lot of us directly into the game was pretty cool. Anyone who plays an ARG is already a character in the game world, but it's a whole new experience when you are actually mentioned in the game (and given some archaic label like soft target).
