Villains arrived in the mail today and I was looking through the rulebook and he's listed 20 times as a playtester. I know GTG does little hints all the time, but I can't solve this one
edit: Summaries.
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Stop lurking, it makes you look like a villain target
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Quick! Everybody find the other playtester name that's an anagram! That'll be the next clue for sure!
Also, Tim Cosing has an account on here that leads to a Twitter account active since December last year and containing a QR code. http://www.twitter.com/TimCosing
The space/time continuum was broken when I got here. Honest.
That QR code goes to http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.greaterthangames.com/replaceme
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
... which is the same place you get to if you play three Mega Computers in the Video game.
https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/intervene-8225
As my comment in the 'Intervene' thread suggests, ARG? Or at least, treasure hunt?
The space/time continuum was broken when I got here. Honest.
Tim Cosing's twitter comment "You. Find me." certainly suggests something along those lines. Note that the tweet "Too quick, K." went up shortly after Kratos13 posted about the Mega Computers.
EDIT: Also notice this comment from Tim Cosing: https://greaterthangames.com/comment/124577#comment-124577
hmm... replacements? Any mileage in what that might be suggesting? Replacements for who, and how, and why?
This is getting weird for sure. I'm intrigued for sure but it seems odd all of them came up in the same day.
Edit: The first Twitter post would coincide with the day they announced they had villains on 12/22 and the second post on 12/31 would be the first day I recall anyone saying they got their copy.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Do you suppose there's any significance with where Tim Cosing appears on the list? The other names appear to be in alphabetical order. Let's see: Cosing appears between
That's only 9 times; where did the "20 times" that started this thread come from?
I tried this in the iPad version and did not get the same results so this must be Steam specific.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Lastly the join date of TimCosing account is 12/15/2015
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Tim Cosing also posted in that thread on the Mega Computers: https://greaterthangames.com/comment/124579#comment-124579
How did I not notice all this?
Where is Guise when you need him to help clear things up?
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
So, I know it might be a little silly now, as I got distracted by other things more exciting things that happened with this, but the "8" times Cosing pops up would correspond to the number of boxes that comprise the game I.E.:
1.)Base Box
2.)Rook City
3.) Infernal Relics
4.)Shattered Timelines
5.)Vengeance
6.) Wrath of the Cosmos
7.) Villains of the Multiverse
8.) (last expansion?)/ Its coming
of course I think this only works if the next expansion is the last one... or maybe its not even that
"Quintessential Tactics Experience: Arguing Over Range" - Worlds Tournament 2015
Also of note the original poster of this thread is a new forum member......who I don't think has posted anywhere else before.
Edit: Corncakes is from Anchorage which is where the Scholar is from who is thought to be a nemesis of big bad in the last expansion.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Curiouser and curiouser. Down the rabit hole we go...
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
This is neither the first, nor likely the last, time that I follow a giant anthropomorphic animal down a trans-dimensional conduit. That's why I always pack a lunch and several SotM decks.
Yak Guardian
(aka Michael)
R.I.P. Blake Washington
It's not the same website. It's sentinelsofthemultiverse.greaterthangames.com.
Also, you can't log into it with your account.
"Deja-fu? You've heard of that?"
- Lu Tze, Sweeper, Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Right there in the 'Intervene' screenshot, on the mega computer screen where he never was before. Conspiracies everywhere I tells ye!
I just noticed this as well. Reloaded the GtG page because I suddenly was not signed in...
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
I saw him there but I meant thread wise. He has posted on some rare occasions.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
I guess this is saying they're going to replace their website?
Edit: It is linked to the login database for this site, as I couldn't create my account there. It said it already existed.
"Deja-fu? You've heard of that?"
- Lu Tze, Sweeper, Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
The OP is named CornCakes from Anchorage. There's a restaurant in Anxhorage that serves Corn Cakes called MyThai. I'm sure this is relevant.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g60880-d7020535-i115282209-MyThai-Anchorage_Alaska.html
The title also has a typo.......or does it?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Possibly but there haven't been any other posts by them. And like I said earlier their account is a new one likely made today.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
QR code in rule book also redirects to /replaceme...
BuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBuddaBudda
“Heh, pow. Sound effects are the best.” –The Idealist
I thought to replace "replaceme" with something else:
http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.greaterthangames.com/itscoming
By the way, the standard "replacement card" URL is different in a few ways:
http://greaterthangames.com/store/category/sentinel-comics-games/replacements
So, there are 9 lines in that new page, and 9 instances of Tim Cosing in the Playtesters list. Can we find a pattern in there?
"Deja-fu? You've heard of that?"
- Lu Tze, Sweeper, Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Search for TimCosings and select users (instead on content).
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
What if the last expansion represents an alternate timeline and comes with the characters from Quando Ahora? Or maybe it includes rules for moving cards amongst decks?
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Tim Cosing....Time Closing?
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
If you look at the source for this page, it has the following comment embedded:
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
The title of the tab I opened it in is also "beginning" no caps or anything
"A delayed game is eventually good. A rushed game is bad forever"
-Shigeru Miyamoto
124185 shows up in the middle of the fifth line, after the fifth word.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Also, note that 124185 is in the current range of comment numbers. Let's see if we can figure out what comment is 124185 on the forums ...
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Hmmm ... doesn't seem related, though it _is_ suspiciously by MigrantP:
https://greaterthangames.com/comment/124185#comment-124185
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
OP post was at 3:13pm today. TimCosing's Twitter account posted at 3:03pm.
https://twitter.com/TimCosing/status/691712949698826240
"You.
Find me"
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
TimCosing (timcosing@secrets.shh)
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
TimCosing also said to look for him in the rulebook.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Two new tweets, just a few minutes ago:
Replace Me.
Flavor Text.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
FYI, I was playing the iPad version, latest Digital Sentinels version 1.6.2 when I got the Intervene screen after 3 Mega Computers in Megalopolis.
Any flavor text that says "its coming"?
Seems like the flavor text comment would mean we are looking for
" the worst part between what you see and what actually is, the only truth now. You shall not feel my bones The protection of the most awful future Indeed...You are not real."
as flavor text.
I wonder if this has something to do with the Time-Crazed Prisoner.
Flavor text from Time-Crazed Prisoner:
"No way out ... The lines point to it! It's all the same! It all counts! None of it counts! It will be here soon!" The mad ramblings echoed through the halls."
The text from http://sentinelsofthemultiverse.greaterthangames.com/itscoming:
"the worst part between what you see and what actually is, the only truth now. You shall not feel my bones The protection of the most awful future Indeed...You are not real."
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
I have to stop this for tonight. Someone please solve this by morning so I'll be able to concentrate on work tomorrow.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
This makes me think of the Time-Crazed prisoner from The Block:
(emphasis mine, but that's how i would read it, if I was the character)
So, my current alpha bet is the time crazed prisoner somehow got out and is trying to contact us to warn us of the impending doom. The crazed scrawlings fit, but they seem more prophetic, as if the prisoner got caught up in a ritual that turned him into an unwilling herald of the convergence of the multiverse.
EDIT: clearly Arenson9 beat me to it =] https://greaterthangames.com/comment/124740#comment-124740
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What if one of the potential flavor texts is from one of the La Capitan's deck? After all, the comment from MigrantP that the "124185" points to mentions Spain. Or is that a Red Herring?
"A delayed game is eventually good. A rushed game is bad forever"
-Shigeru Miyamoto
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