So, the blue fellow is Kane Rosebud, according to documents "liberated" from the Project Thanatos website by Thanatos' Sin. That means one of the youngsters in the image below must be Sam Rosebud, and my guess is that young Sam is none other than Thanatos' Sin himself. Perhaps overcompensating for his flowery last name?
Kane Rosebud is an clear reference to Citizen Kane, which pleases me greatly. I love that film. But I don't see the connection yet. Looking forward to more missions and more information...
EDIT: Information like this. a blog by "John" looking for information about Kane Rosebud, who disappeared in 1990.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Codes?
Well, I HAVE come up with an explanation for the code wheel, with liberal hints from Thanatos' Sin and insight from other players. Are they all map coordinates?
78.630006, 40.957031 Middle of the Barents Sea, north of Russia and Norway
50.957031, 40.957031 Southern Russia, between the towns of Serikovo and Vasilevka
30.957031, 40.957031 the crossroads of highways 85 and 80 in Saudi Arabia, near the Iraq border
50.957031, 30.957031 The Ukrainian site identified by fellow villainXels No Name and identified in the document released on www.conspiracy12.com
50.957031, 50.957031 Between Balagan and Bolshoy Chagan in Kazakhstan, on the Russian border.
This may explain Thanatos' Sin's blog post in which he used Google markers to indicate his distance from the solution. Jeez, it seems quite obvious now!
I'm no closer, however, to understanding how these coordinates, if that is what they are, could be a password. "Connect the dots and visualize..." Connect the places on the map?
Edit: Yes, it looks like they could be. A fellow villain mapped it out for us. http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=24708&sid=a886b9b90895ebe22743416fd6ef8d86
78.630006, 40.957031 Middle of the Barents Sea, north of Russia and Norway
50.957031, 40.957031 Southern Russia, between the towns of Serikovo and Vasilevka
30.957031, 40.957031 the crossroads of highways 85 and 80 in Saudi Arabia, near the Iraq border
50.957031, 30.957031 The Ukrainian site identified by fellow villain
50.957031, 50.957031 Between Balagan and Bolshoy Chagan in Kazakhstan, on the Russian border.
This may explain Thanatos' Sin's blog post in which he used Google markers to indicate his distance from the solution. Jeez, it seems quite obvious now!
I'm no closer, however, to understanding how these coordinates, if that is what they are, could be a password. "Connect the dots and visualize..." Connect the places on the map?
Edit: Yes, it looks like they could be. A fellow villain mapped it out for us. http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=24708&sid=a886b9b90895ebe22743416fd6ef8d86
The Many Facets of Villainy
Well, cracking codes is clearly NOT my villain superpower. But I am pretty good at literary analysis, so go with your evil strengths, I say. Villains, like heroes, have their paths to tread and while they may not garner the same attention by mythologists as the vaunted hero figure, they are the dark reflection of that hero's journey. So how comes Thanatos' Sin to be that which he is?
Revealed at a wikileaks-type website,http://www.conspiracy12.com/, a secretive [government?] project, seemingly conducted by 12 shadowy people, launched in 1990 to manipulate nine unknowing soldiers, probably to enhance their skills or give them superpowers. A "reward" from Thanatos' Sin to his successful villain trainees confirms this.
But just before the project was to move to a second stage in March of 1990, the subjects are warned by "Truth Soldier Zero" and escape. By December of that year, the first of the escapees is found in the Ukraine wearing a superhero-style red suit and "is trying to be a hero to the locals." Project Thanatos records indicate that whatever powers this subject possessed, they failed him and by the end of 1990, he was killed by operatives of the project.
In 1991 (twenty years ago), another masked figure stood before his two young sons and rejected their pleas not to leave them.
What happened to the man in blue? We don't know yet, but the catalyst for this adventure, Thanatos' Sin, identifies this image as a "unlocked memory," suggesting that he was present, perhaps a participant in this scene. Is he the father? Or one of the boys? My guess is that he is one of the sons because of other evidence revealed at http://www.conspiracy12.com/. In 1997, two NEW supers appear on the scene, one in South America and one in New York City. The operatives of Project Thanatos are initially willing to dismiss these reports, since the supers are reportedly in their late teens, not of the age of the soldiers manipulated by the project. But Thanatos' Sin reports on his own blog that he didn't know that he was Thanatos' Sin for "seventeen years." Is TS following in his father's footsteps, perhaps as a "dark reflection," rejecting his father's naive desire to do good and instead visiting the wrath of a supervillain on the 12 perpetrators of Project Thanatos?
Admittedly, there are still pieces of the puzzle that do not fit. If TS blames Project Thanatos for his father's death or disappearance, why does he identify another masked figure who vows to destroy the project as "our enemy?"
Why would someone track down and contact the followers of Thanatos' Sin, mocking them for their choices, revealing the www.conspiracy12.com website with the information about Project Thanatos, and urging them to becomes soldiers of truth? Is this Truth Soldier Zero? Why would someone who tried to save the soldiers be at odds with someone who wishes to punish those who threatened and killed those soldiers? Unless Truth Soldier Zero is one of the twelve, a traitor?
UPDATE: Thanatos' Sin has updated his blog, rejecting the overtures of "the camp that prefers a more diplomatic approach against The Twelve/Project T" So, TS prefers a more visceral and direct approach to revenge and rejects the efforts of X-II and Truth Soldier Zero, as well as whomever is behind www.conspiracy12.com. My folklorist super-senses are suggesting to me that X-II is TS' brother...
Revealed at a wikileaks-type website,http://www.conspiracy12.com/, a secretive [government?] project, seemingly conducted by 12 shadowy people, launched in 1990 to manipulate nine unknowing soldiers, probably to enhance their skills or give them superpowers. A "reward" from Thanatos' Sin to his successful villain trainees confirms this.
But just before the project was to move to a second stage in March of 1990, the subjects are warned by "Truth Soldier Zero" and escape. By December of that year, the first of the escapees is found in the Ukraine wearing a superhero-style red suit and "is trying to be a hero to the locals." Project Thanatos records indicate that whatever powers this subject possessed, they failed him and by the end of 1990, he was killed by operatives of the project.
In 1991 (twenty years ago), another masked figure stood before his two young sons and rejected their pleas not to leave them.
What happened to the man in blue? We don't know yet, but the catalyst for this adventure, Thanatos' Sin, identifies this image as a "unlocked memory," suggesting that he was present, perhaps a participant in this scene. Is he the father? Or one of the boys? My guess is that he is one of the sons because of other evidence revealed at http://www.conspiracy12.com/. In 1997, two NEW supers appear on the scene, one in South America and one in New York City. The operatives of Project Thanatos are initially willing to dismiss these reports, since the supers are reportedly in their late teens, not of the age of the soldiers manipulated by the project. But Thanatos' Sin reports on his own blog that he didn't know that he was Thanatos' Sin for "seventeen years." Is TS following in his father's footsteps, perhaps as a "dark reflection," rejecting his father's naive desire to do good and instead visiting the wrath of a supervillain on the 12 perpetrators of Project Thanatos?
Admittedly, there are still pieces of the puzzle that do not fit. If TS blames Project Thanatos for his father's death or disappearance, why does he identify another masked figure who vows to destroy the project as "our enemy?"
Why would someone track down and contact the followers of Thanatos' Sin, mocking them for their choices, revealing the www.conspiracy12.com website with the information about Project Thanatos, and urging them to becomes soldiers of truth? Is this Truth Soldier Zero? Why would someone who tried to save the soldiers be at odds with someone who wishes to punish those who threatened and killed those soldiers? Unless Truth Soldier Zero is one of the twelve, a traitor?
UPDATE: Thanatos' Sin has updated his blog, rejecting the overtures of "the camp that prefers a more diplomatic approach against The Twelve/Project T" So, TS prefers a more visceral and direct approach to revenge and rejects the efforts of X-II and Truth Soldier Zero, as well as whomever is behind www.conspiracy12.com. My folklorist super-senses are suggesting to me that X-II is TS' brother...
Saturday, March 19, 2011
The Story So Far
It looks as if the backstory on Thanatos' Sin is being revealed in comic book format. Four pages have been revealed, hinting at a shadowy men-in-black plot called "Thanatos," which has, 20 years later, spawned Thanatos' Sin.
Page 4
Page 5
Page 7
and Page 11
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Villain Training So Far...
...is hard! It's a good thing that us villain wannabes can and do work together, otherwise I'm afraid I'd never acheive my dreams of masked evil-doing! It looks as if creating a blog and chronicling the steps in the process are a part of the game itself, or at least will unlock images/clues that we'll need to solve the puzzle. So I will humbly submit this blog to Thanatos' Sin for consideration, in hopes of being found worthy.
What to do with this, I wonder? Our first task, and it's full of numbers, not my strong point. I'm more of a verbal villain, I think.
Monday, March 14, 2011
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