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Revision as of 08:17, 18 January 2008

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Characters:   Sam Thomas · Sonya · Tracey R · Sam's mother · Mr. Ockham · Oscar Talbot · Other...
Companies: Oceanic Airlines · The Maxwell Group · Austral Air
Locations: Sunda Trench · Black Rock


This article details Chapter 3 of ABC's alternate reality game, Find 815. In line with the website description, narrative is broken down into story activity, clue hunt, and video diary elements.


January 14, 2008

Introduction

The following text appears in the "Story So Far" tab:

Sam's desire to leave the Christiane I at the next port comes across an unexpected obstacle, leaving him curious about the identity of Talbot's employers.

This text can be found prematurely by setting your computer's clock to some point when chapter 3 should be available.

Recap video

This video briefly summarizes what has happened so far in the game.

Video 1 - Christmas

Sam asks Ockham to let him off the Christiane I at Christmas Island. Ockham tells him that he will be stuck on the ship for a while, as Talbot has him sticking to a narrow search grid to look for the Black Rock. Sam finds out from Ockham that Talbot is funded via a syndicate, but that is the extent of his knowledge of the expedition's financial backers. Sam then goes to another part of the ship, and watches Talbot leave his quarters. After he has left, Sam enters Talbot's room.

Activity 1 - search Talbot's room

The player is shown Talbot's quarters. By obtaining several clues, the player finds a briefcase protected by a six-digit combination lock (852 930). Upon solving the combination, the next video clip is shown.

Video 2 - if you lose

If players don't solve the combination in time, Talbot enters the room to discover Sam and asks, "What the hell are you doing in here?"

Video 3 - if you win

If players solve if the combination, Sam opens Talbot's briefcase and discovers a confidential research brief from The Maxwell Group entitled 'Proposed Salvage of "The Black Rock" Shipwreck'. The file shows that The Maxwell Group is a division of Widmore Industries. As Sam leaves the room, Talbot sees him and questions why he was in there. Sam says he was just closing the door for him. Talbot accuses Sam of looking for something, suggesting that it is something other than the Black Rock. As Ockham comes near, Talbot says that he doesn't believe Sam is an asset to the expedition.

January 15, 2008

Desktop information 1

Sam received another mysterious email from an unknown sender with no subject. This time, it contained only a long string of letters with some of them in a smaller font size: A A B B C F C. He also received an email from Sonya's parents Ian and Pam. They offered to have Sam stay with them, as a gesture of familial support during his and Sonya's upcoming anniversary. Sam sent an email to Tracey asking her to let his mother know that he is okay, but that he won't be able to be home for Christmas. He then replied to Ian and Pam's message, declining their invitation, explaining that he is out of the country and won't be back until the new year.

January 16, 2008

Video 4 - equipment disturbance

Sam is reminiscing on the deck when he hears strange noises emanating from the bridge below. He investigates, finding the various computerized navigational instruments flashing and making odd noises. The strange activity ceases after a few seconds when he decides to press a button on one of the instruments (a decision which the player makes by clicking one of these devices).

Note: The disturbance resembles that of magnetic origin, perhaps a reference to the unexplained anomalies mentioned in the Sunda Trench webpages on Sam's browser.

Clue hunt 1

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The bridge area of the Christiane I

Players participate in a clue hunt, in which various clues from the first three seasons of Lost are found by exploring the bridge area of the Christiane I: "Virgin Mary" for Season 1, "108" for Season 2, and "submarine" for Season 3. A Season 4 clue word can then be found on one of the network partner sites by playing a game called "Talbot's Search", in which players plot an unbroken course through Talbot's search grid without taking the same path twice. The clue word is either "36-15-28" (on ABC.com) or "Charlotte Lewis" (on Yahoo!7 in Australia). A bonus Season 4 clue is then revealed on Find815.com: "Tunisian newspaper".

January 17, 2008

Voice Message

Sean Dowling left a voice message for Sam:

Yeah Sam, it's Sean Dowling here, Oceanic Air Employee Relations. I've got a bit of bad news, um as a result of your dismissal, your loyalty flyer points with Oceanic have been revoked in line with company policy. I'll confirm this in a letter, but I wanted to let you know straight away just in case you thought you could still use them. Give us a call if you've got any questions.

Sam's desktop

Web Browser

A new site, Answermyquestions.org, appears in Sam's browser. He has searched the term 'Maxwell' and received five results.

Email

Inbox

Email from Tracey to Sam, subject: "Equipment Meltdown"

Sam

These sorts of things are not uncommon. It was probably just caused by lightning or a temporary failure inside the electrical system. Sometimes electromagnetic energy can also cause it but that's unusual - it has to be a very strong wave.

You sure you're ok? It sounds like you need a holiday. Make sure you take some time off as soon as you can. I used these guys when I went to Denpasar last year - they're tops!

www.baliholidayfun.com

Tracey

Sent

Sam sends an email to Tracey with the subject of Equipment Meltdown.

Tracey,

Wanted to get your opinion on something. I saw a strange thing tonight when I visited the Bridge - all the instrument panels were flickering and it looked like it was in meltdown. Every instrument seemed to be malfunctioning. Then all of a sudden it just stopped and everything went back to normal.

Freaky, huh?

What do you think could have caused it?

Sam

BaliHolidayFun.com

Visiting the URL that Tracey mentions in her email leads to a webpage appearing to be that of a travel agency, but is simply an image with no navigational functionality hosted on the Find815 servers. The webpage displays an email address for information, baliholidayfun@gmail.com. Sending an email to this address returns a scrambled series of characters.

The e-mail subject line is "re: Amuses Mr Ole" which (without "re:") is an anagram for "Samuel Morse." According to Wikipedia, "Morse had been the first to combine the battery, electromagnetism, the electromagnet and the correct battery configuration into a workable practical telegraph." There have been numerous references to Morse Code [1] in the Lost universe.