[ti]trophy[/ti]Game Theory....

There was one more that I have never forgotten, called "The Kingsmouth Code". It comes from a reverend in a church who is basically giving you a trailhead.

"Kingsmouth is a book of secrets. An illuminated manuscript for those willing to read between the lines"
"I've seen it spelled out, the truth behind this blighted Garden of Eden."
"For are we not seekers of knowledge, you and I?"
"Even a man of God can have his eyes open to further enlightenment and illumination"
"to be illuminated. under the eye"
he says he's with the illuminati, not that he has a badge or anything, but he's what he calls himself a "hobbyist member"
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hehe. then he's like,
"but I earned it. I did extensive research on the net."
"the code words I followed led me to forums. Secret forums that do not show up on Google."
"and I'm an avid poster. A valued poster."



So, what's up with this guy? He really wants to be a real illuminati member obviously, and sometimes he refers to himself that way, but then he second-guesses himself - probably on some level he realizes if he was the real deal, they'd have approached him or something. However...he's not wrong. That's kind of the funny part. It's like he's a pawn, but willingly. Obviously, since he gives you character information that leads to a real secret treasure, so who knows what kind of information he found on his "secret forums"?

I mean...I don't know of any damn forums that don't show up on Google at all, but...I'm sort of reading between the lines here and taking his meaning as "very obscure and unlikely to be found by those who aren't aware of what they're looking for or meant to find it". I'm not referring to GLP necessarily, but I absolutely think that if this game character was a real man, that would probably be one of the secret forums from which he did his research. But he doesn't exactly say that he found a secret website, or that he found the secret book of the illuminati or their homepage. Rather, he says he found secret forums. So, back then, I didn't know what GLP was. It was before I got there. But then I remembered this quest very especially. One of the other forums that's kind of secret is called Quo Fara Ferunt, and I found it when I was researching the PCCTs alternate reality game. Not that I post there or look at it a lot, but...it seemed obvious they had some kind of obscure information. Perhaps there are a few out there.

Is it possible that the developers designed the game based on the knowledge they learned from not only books but also obscure internet forums? It's not like everything that comes out of The Secret World is gold, or that they really give you that much mystery wisdom, or anything. Still...it makes you think. Maybe they designed a game because they wanted it all to be real, or something. There are people who consider this MMORPG to be an ARG of its own.



They tell you in the laundromat scene that "role playing is the only avenue in which you are free" and in the same scene tell you "it's all a game to them". It kind of seems like the developers made the game so they could be free to give the player a little push through "role-play". I don't think the developers were certain themselves whether the illuminati exists or not, but I think they were pretty certain that there is more to the question than meets the eye. Perhaps they were also trying to explore the question.

It's from the very first Persona game which spun off from the main SMT series. It's called Revelations: Persona. The concept of persona was, indeed, taken directly from Jung, and the series often uses Tarot cards to explore Archetypes. Part of the reason this particular video is so creepy might be uncanny valley as it was before the tech was really there to make a quality cutscene. Ironically though this seems to help it deliver.