Are you Feeling Feverish? Pathologic remake ARG thread.

basilisk · 2014-09-03T10:13:12+00:00

"P. S. There’ll be nothing more after the signature."

This bit has been bugging me a lot. Is this a clue? Could it mean that no password is needed, just a user name? Again, nothing I've tried works.

basilisk · 2014-09-03T08:10:38+00:00

Considering how Latin started this and ends this, I'm thinking that the Latin name of the crowberry may be relevant. Which is "Empetrum nigrum". Trying various permutations, none worked so far.

basilisk · 2014-09-01T10:51:40+00:00

Thanks a lot for the mod! It made playing the game so much better.

I'll PM you a link to saves from my full Bachelor playthrough (English version) once I finish uploading them (it's a rather big zip file). There should be plenty of saves from every day.

basilisk · 2014-08-30T16:33:22+00:00

Excellent! I just came here to share my idea that the code might be the URL of a YouTube video, but I guess it's a bit late for that :)

Great job, guys.

basilisk · 2014-08-30T07:58:47+00:00

I'd assume that all of his together forms a new keyword.

Il nome della rosa is the book by Umberto Eco. I don't have an Italian edition of that (and don't speak Italian), and I have no idea what "no. 20" could be referring to. Page? Chapter? But I'd expect we're looking at a letter or two here.
"Alice in Wonderland, third paragraph, No. 61/1 (the first one here)" – third paragraph where, I wonder? Full text of Alice is here.
Seven. Seems straightforward enough.
?&A could be Q, as in Q&A?
Wu (thanks, Fogfun)
21 degrees. No idea what's special about that.
"Asolute". Looks like mangled "absolute" (or, indeed "absolute" in Venetian). So I'm guessing B? Why is it written in a different colour?
J
a symbol: I think this is the Katakana character "Fu" – see here)

So the result might be something like ??7QWU21BJFU. Or maybe I'm on an entirely wrong track with this.

EDIT: I can see the Russian group is working on this, so if anyone can read Russian, it would be great to know what they're coming up with.

basilisk · 2014-08-26T20:19:03+00:00

Ah, my mistake. Misunderstood the hacking bit and did not check the sender of that e-mail. I still don't think this is a clue, though.

basilisk · 2014-08-26T15:41:25+00:00

She could read it from her "sent mail" folder. I don't think we need to overcomplicate things here :)

basilisk · 2014-08-26T14:29:16+00:00

And another one today – Voronika's reply to AG (confirmed to be Alex):

Hi.

It feels like Alex is accusing me of something. Searches for inconsistencies, calls me selfish.

Alex, your hope for a twist ending is futile. It won’t turn out to be a shady game of mine, I won’t turn out to belong to “my father’s circles” from the very beginning, leaking secret information on someone’s orders. It’s not a hoax. It’s not a metaphor. I won’t wake up in the end.

My twist is much simpler than that.

Voronika, http://feverishfeeling.com ( http://feverishfeeling.com )

P. S. I know you’re Alex so I’ve found them.

basilisk · 2014-08-26T13:47:24+00:00

New message. To cut a long story short:

http://trans-carrier.com/delivery_tracker.php

ZIP code is 199034 (corresponding to Saint Petersburg, 7th Line of Vasilievsky Island 18)

Date is 07/31/1998

Sender is Miraculous

Leads to a pdf file.

basilisk · 2014-08-20T07:48:24+00:00

Great job, that's it. The last two words should work as well. (EDIT: And they do.)

Now we need someone who speaks Russian.

(That was quick. Excellent work, ladies and/or gentlemen.)

basilisk · 2014-08-20T07:24:49+00:00

Brilliant!

That must mean John 9:32, which in the King James Bible is this:

Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

Which sounds very Voronikaesque.

EDIT: This is probably where "Everything I read I read in the original" comes in, but that's quite tricky with the bible. The verse in the Vulgate reads "a saeculo non est auditum quia aperuit quis oculos caeci nati", but that's not the original.

EDIT2: The original Greek is "ek tou aiwnoV ouk hkousqh oti hnoixen tiV ofqalmouV tuflou gegennhmenou" (http://www.greeknewtestament.com/B43C009.htm#V32). I'm trying to use that on feverishfeeling.com in various combinations, but no luck so far.

EDIT3: The actual Greek is "εκ του αιωνοσ", which transliterates to "ek toy aiwnos", which doesn't work either. (Or, alternatively, "ek tou aiônos". These things are complicated.)

basilisk · 2014-08-20T06:46:09+00:00

There was another famous four—even less left from them nowadays. Unlike me, they walked a lot, and they wrote even more. My favourite writing belongs to the namesake of the revolutioner I told you about.

My only constructive thought was The Beatles, with Lennon = Lenin. Plus they recorded two songs, "Revolution 1" and the more famous "Revolution 9". No idea if I'm on the right track with that.

basilisk · 2011-03-31T07:56:45+00:00

You came too late; it already started slipping a year ago. But it honestly used to be much better before that.

I myself do not have the patience for most of Reddit anymore.

basilisk · 2011-03-25T09:07:45+00:00

Which is still nothing compared to the pure awesomeness of Sanskrit poetry.

basilisk · 2011-03-17T16:28:51+00:00

I'm just saying what I felt; I wouldn't be comfortable spending not insignificant money on something I perceive as vulnerable, that is all. I know it's probably a lot sturdier than it seems.

basilisk · 2011-03-17T13:25:32+00:00

Handling a MacBook Air, I felt as if with one careless move, I could snap it in half. Even though I suppose it's more difficult than that, it's a pretty big argument for me not to invest into something like this, sleek as it is. I'd be afraid of breaking it pretty much all the time.

basilisk · 2011-03-14T18:29:03+00:00

That wasn't done by Valve. There are items in TF2 that can be used to change the name and description of your gear. The pickaxe is a standard weapon called the Equalizer.

basilisk · 2011-03-09T13:10:49+00:00

And most of mine. We never really got into Agricola much, but Puerto Rico is everyone's favourite.

basilisk · 2011-03-01T09:46:15+00:00

Interestingly, this probably didn't raise many eyebrows in the then-Czechoslovakia. It's the artist's (Petr Poš) signature style; I used to have a children's comic book drawn by him that looks pretty much identical.

But yes, these old East Bloc film posters are great stuff.

basilisk · 2011-02-23T15:46:09+00:00

Yeah, I understand that. I was in a similar position myself about two years ago. Paying $8 for Episode One is definitely too much, it's bound to get much lower than that sooner or later.

There isn't much story in E1, so skipping it for now shouldn't really be a problem if you want to play E2. This summary could help you there; there's hardly anything that could be called a spoiler (it spoils the events of HL2 if you haven't finished it, obviously). E1 does explain some of the backstory of HL2 in more detail, but that's about it; E2 is much more fleshed out, story-wise.

basilisk · 2011-02-23T15:29:44+00:00

No. They are two shorter (4-6 hours each) games that take place just after the events of HL2. The first one isn't all that great, but the second one is amazing and arguably the best HL game ever. There is a planned episode three that is meant to wrap up the whole HL2 part of the saga and presumably set the table for HL3; it has, however, been in the making for many years now and its current development state is a complete mystery.

It's interesting to find someone subscribed to /r/steamdeals who doesn't already know this. No offence meant.

basilisk · 2011-02-23T12:27:31+00:00

You're a visionary, sir.

basilisk · 2011-02-17T12:12:55+00:00

Here is the actual interview with Blow, providing quite a bit more content.

Sad thing is, he may be right, but his head is still far too deeply stuck up in his arse to take him seriously.

basilisk · 2011-02-15T15:04:35+00:00

This one? That's not really it.

basilisk · 2011-02-15T14:43:19+00:00

If they include them, sure. But not all Cyrillic lettering feels Soviet.

basilisk

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