We've got another single topic episode for you this week. We're talking about the Invisible Sun Kickstarter ARG, the puzzles, the solutions, and where things are at now. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Show Notes Segment One - Invisible Sun Kickstarter ARG (A Distant Light Pierces the Mist) Alternate Reality Game (ARG) -- linkPath of Suns website -- linkG+ Invisible Sun community -- linkKickstarter puzzlesClocksOur Kickstarter History -- linkThe Invisible Sun Kickstarter Is Different -- linkDeluxe Games -- linkGroup Purchases -- linkShipping -- linkChanging the Way RPGs Are Played -- linkThe Directed Campaign -- linkThe Active Sun -- linkDetails of the Contents -- linkA Solid DoorThe door was made known with the Green Sun update -- linkSolution #1The first solution was figured out based upon Paladin Revenant’s theory about the clocks -- linkPutting the clocks in hour order and taking the roman numeral the minute hand is pointing at will give you the key: 376298415Door leads to Are You a Spider or an Ant? -- linkSolution #2Clue about the clocks dropped in the Indigo Sun update -- link“There is more than one way for clocks to be keys”Ryan Chaddock and Robert Marino seemed to have figured this one out -- linkPutting the clocks in order of the minute hands and taking the roman numeral the hour hand is pointing at gives you the key: 841793265Door leads to Are You an Ant or a Spider? -- linkSolution #3Memory stick, The Blade, was found in a cache with an image of Wrong Cat and a text file. -- linkThe image had white text on the transparent background which read “If you are looking for lies, use Grey”What Also Opens the Door.txt had the following text: To see that the door is opened by a lie, you may need an extra eye.Another hint was dropped in a Tweet, which I cannot locate. It was an image of a clock, and I thought it was pointing at the fourth hour.Hour four on the clock is incorrect: IIII instead of IVEntering IIII in the door opens itDoor leads to Fartown -- linkSpiders and AntsThe solid door puzzle leads to two different pages about Spiders and Ants.There has been much discussion about what Spiders and Ants are, but no solid conclusions yet.Monte is a Spider -- linkGeocachesSeveral updates included GPS coordinates to geocachesSome of the caches had USB memory sticks that contained files that predicted keyfallsDigital contents of the caches -- linkTwo images were foundChangery image asks about the solid door -- linkWrong Cat pointing to the third Solid Door puzzle -- linkClues were hidden in the background of the imagesLooking through the bytes of the images revealed no further hidden informationCurrent stateShanna stated in the Kickstarter comments that there are two or three puzzles that have not been solved -- linkThis was before the third solution to the Solid Door puzzle was foundNot all of the caches have been recovered, or reported on the G+ groupNothing conclusive was determined about Spiders and Ants Follow us at: @drscottrobinson and @tex_red on Twitter. We can be contacted via email at [email protected]. You can also get in touch with us on the Invisible Sun G+ community. Music in the episode was drawn from the song "Beyond" by Wes Otis and Plate Mail Games. It is available at DriveThruRPG. Invisible Sun is the intellectual property of Monte Cook Games. Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play | RSS
