The Biggest Surprises?

[H22]

My surprises:

1. Tara's death. One subversion to rule them all. Absolutely didn't see that coming. Wrong Genre Savvy, woe me.
2. The reveal that the echoes require an AR tool to be found... and that it doesn't work in my country.
3. Sicon's showdown. You know, the players actually playing roles. After that, I wasn't even surprised by Adell's fighting real Cthulhu... that much.
4. Real Cthulhu. Because you can't NOT be surprised by that.

4. Was a complete stinger for me, too. Not that I didn't expect us to see SOMETHING but the fact that we got this CGI cthulhu tearing a hole in the sky... knowing now that this was NOT planned from the very start just makes it all themore jawdropping.

Also, something I completely forgot until now: the witch sending me Adam's resume. Now THAT was a surprise and I still consider it my most valuable contribution (although I guess it actually required very little effort on my part )

Cthulhu being real was AWESOME. It looked so cool! But Cthu himself was surprising. If all the Genre Savvy people (i.e. not me) had been saying 'oh, Cthu's coming' it wouldn't have been cool. But everyone was saying 'oh, it's not like Cthu's coming' made it brilliant. I particularly remember someone saying 'oh, he can't come, there are no more POIs' which, in retrospect makes me think 'What did you think he would do as a POI? Keep a blog?'. Which, I now realise, is a hilarious idea. I'm going to go work on a spoof.

[narrativedilettante]

Oh! You know what? Possibly the biggest surprise for me this whole game was my level of involvement in it. I really expected that I would just watch the proceedings, commenting rarely. If I could contribute to solving a puzzle or two that would be great.

And now here I am, one of the most active players, who wrote loads of refics and got two Echoes and a wall piece. Being named Meta-Robin was a complete shock, because I hadn't really processed yet that I'd played any kind of significant role in the game. I've always been a lurker on TVTropes. This level of activity and attention is unprecedented. But I'm glad I surprised myself.

[Pixelmage]

Dilly's point stands for me as well... I always lurked everywhere I went. I only joined the ARG because I wanted to learn about them so I could actually play one day...

Turns out I got a Refic chosen... Needless to say, I looked like this:

[Endless Sea]

Being detached from the ARG as I was, I managed to take what I heard of everything in stride, mostly. Still, when Le Fay popped into the chatroom, it threw me for a bit of a loop, and the reveal that Admin-Prime broke the wall on purpose actually had me cursing into my microphone when I first heard about it on the voicechat.

[Dryunya]

Oh, I remembered why I actually got surprised by Cthulhu's appearence, even knowing that the Metaguards could encounter the characters face to face: the livestream. Since no one could add the CGI in real time, livestream implied that everything was real (and so it was).

[Sophira]

Oh, I remembered why I actually got surprised by Cthulhu's appearence, even knowing that the Metaguards could encounter the characters face to face: the livestream. Since no one could add the CGI in real time, livestream implied that everything was real (and so it was).

Well, the plan, before Cthulhu actually became real, was to livestream a part of my desktop, carefully cropped to only show the inside of a video player window.

In a way, though, I'm kind of glad I didn't need to do that. Means I didn't have to worry about any system sounds accidentally coming through in the stream.

I'm sorry guys please forgive me I hate myself for that

[Scarab]

Oh, I remembered why I actually got surprised by Cthulhu's appearence, even knowing that the Metaguards could encounter the characters face to face: the livestream. Since no one could add the CGI in real time, livestream implied that everything was real (and so it was).

Well, the plan, before Cthulhu actually became real, was to livestream a part of my desktop, carefully cropped to only show the inside of a video player window.

In a way, though, I'm kind of glad I didn't need to do that. Means I didn't have to worry about any system sounds accidentally coming through in the stream.

I'm sorry guys please forgive me I hate myself for that

*Glomps you and forgives all*

[Adell]

Oh, I remembered why I actually got surprised by Cthulhu's appearence, even knowing that the Metaguards could encounter the characters face to face: the livestream. Since no one could add the CGI in real time, livestream implied that everything was real (and so it was).

Well, the plan, before Cthulhu actually became real, was to livestream a part of my desktop, carefully cropped to only show the inside of a video player window.

In a way, though, I'm kind of glad I didn't need to do that. Means I didn't have to worry about any system sounds accidentally coming through in the stream.

I'm sorry guys please forgive me I hate myself for that

I don't know what you're apologizing for, that ding was me opening the app up alongside the livestream.

[Dryunya]

Ding? What ding?
I'll need to rewatch it now.

[Scarab]

Ding? What ding?
I'll need to rewatch it now.

...Darn it, I've already seen this thing six times or so, I am not watching somebody walking towards his Cthulhu fuelled death AGAIN

[The Finch]

Biggest Surprises?

The Death Of Tara, which completely broke Quixote and darkened the entire game; The Warning/Call of Cthulhu; The Witch reading the RPG, the wall piece having an image from the echoes on it, The Phantom's second Echo recognizing Batman and the forum, the reveal of the Adell/Cthulhu video, and learning that two PM's posting in my MLP thread.

Oh, and the Coffee Room. Definitely the Coffee Room.

[Rick Healey]

... The Phantom's second Echo recognizing Batman and the forum...

Just to remind folks, this wasn't something we planned. The Phantom's echoes were completed before the game started. Highly amusing synchronicity (which the puppet masters laughed about well before you found the echo), but not something planned.