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[bethy]

Okay, I'm still working out the reason for the drops. I know that Tachyon is leaving information via drops - information she stole from the OpA center. I'm just not getting the reasoning here. I know the drops shed light on the story and allow for interaction...that's not my question. I'm trying to figure out where WE fit in all this.

Is this information meant for Brother? For OpA? Both?

If so, why are we snagging them instead of Brother or OpA? Are we supposed to be intercepting them for OpA so Brother doesn't get the info? Or are we getting them on Brother's behalf? Tachyon has referred to Brother's "friends" (us?) helping him out...but how is it helping any of them if we reveal the contents of the drop for everyone to see?

I know there are some people who have chosen "sides" here...and I know the history of that (with the phone calls) but I'm wondering how any of that fits together.

If there are two opposing sides at work here...and yet they're all working together to snag to the drops, how is that benefitting one side or the other? With the last rounf od puzzles, we learned that Gemma and Borther have a bit of a history and that there was an attempt on Brother's life. Why would the OpA folks want that information out? I imagine they wouldn't...and yet, people who may be on their "side" are helping to solve the puzzles. If I were an OpA person, I'd want to take the drop and hide it without it being solved for the public. That make any sense?

Are there some secret OpA or Tachy forums somewhere that us "regular" folks don't know about because we're not on any "side" per se? What's to say that one of the drop retrievers is an OpA person and plants or removes information from a drop to confuse us? Yes, I know that's against the "rules" -- but would OpA peeps care about rules?


I'm sure this is sufficiently confusing...it pretty much reflects where I'm at, though.

[tigerlilylynn]

There was one drop with warnings early on that Op was meant to see, other than that all info has been meant for Brother, Daniel via Brother or Brother or Daniel via Brother's friends (us).

We pretty much nab them on behalf of brother because we need Tachyon to confirm solves as Op cannot tell us what Tachyon meant.

As for everyone sees, this is a matter of suspension of disbelief. Moreover, most of Tachyon's drops are things that Op had so she's not gaining.

Sides do not have in game effects thus far and probably will not due to loyalty to the character met first, OpA. For the good of the game we cannot hold info from other players so sides are non-issues in the gameplay, only in the tone of our letters.

There are no other boards or chats for sides becuase sides aren't truely in game and would hurt the players and the game if they existed.

Also, I'd ask you to think about this line:

[Ruberic]

In most games of this sort, each side helps each other figure out the clues (that way they are done faster). Having said that, there are very few of these games that have TWO oposing sides as such. But right now, we are working together, and then supposedly utilizing that information as needed.

In the future there may be a pull apart of the two groups as is dicated by the game; however, right now there is no conflict of interest in the two groups working together.

As for why are we involved? The last set of messages indicate that brother is being watched, and they don't want him to blow his cover. As such, we are to gather the information, analyze it, and post our findings. Brother will recieive them that way.

If I menitoned anything incorrect, someone will be along soon to correct me.

-Ruberic

EDIT: As usual, Tigerlily beat me to it, and explained things much better.
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[bethy]

Thanks, guys...that does help a bit.

If we are snagging these on behalf of Brother (which was what I'd pretty much figured we were doing) then why would Brother have shown up at the drop in Petaluma? It may have been an accident that they saw him, but ultimately...from what I read, Brother was the one who addressed luv and her brother first.

I'm actually NOT familiar with RPGs...so maybe that's why I'm all out of it.

[tigerlilylynn]

[kayokosaeki]

[tiltingwindward]

Just to beat a dead horse...

In terms of sides and retrieval of the drops, I think it works like this:

If you're on OpA's side, then you want to retrieve the drop and solve the clues so that you can tell OpA more about what Tachyon has stolen.

If you're on Tach/Brother's side, then you want to retrieve the drop and solve the clues so that you can transmit Tach's messages to the proper person.

If you have a pulse and are reading these forums, you want to retrieve the drop and solve the clues so that you know what happens next.

No matter how you look at it, it makes sense for everyone to work together to get the drop and make the solves...our reasons are different, but our short-term goal is the same.
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[bethy]

[deagol]

Re: OpA's motivation to retrieve and decode Tachy's clues,

[bethy]

Ahhhh, I see...so it's really a metter of figuring out "in game" vs "not in game" then?

Let's take the BB puzzle...

Is it then assumed that OP doesn't "read the boards" here...but that the Oppites pass on that information having intercepted it?

[tiltingwindward]

[deagol]

[MrsCop]

I want the DARK Force to be with me. Just stick me in Yoda's left ear. I'll tell him nothing, won't hear a thing. And keep the codeine coming! Man, let me tell you, I swear I'm having labor IN MY HEAD!!!! Migraines=Living Hell
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