Last weekend we brought to your attention to the International Order of the Pawns, a group who has been getting in touch with some fans of BioShock 2 and sending them cryptic messages. Last week it was simply business cards, but this week Dtoid reader Milestailsprowe has received far more.
In the mail he not only received a pawn with the number 1 on it, but also a card with a code on it -- a code he cannot decipher. You can see it above and below in larger form. If you would like to help decipher it then please go ahead as we have tried as well and failed. Maybe something at the BioShock 2 Wiki can help or possibly something over at the official site. I may have come down harshly on this whole thing last week, but I just can't resist a good code that needs breaking.
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5:00 AM on 01.11.2010
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Perhaps it makes out a word or digits when several pawns are placed on the positions that are given in the letter.
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=54177
Trust The Red Pawn Not
Nor The Ink That Lies.
Patient Did I Dwell
In My Pillowed Cell
'Til The Pawn Arrived.
Red Pawn
Robed In White
Proffered False Degrees
Droned In Theorems
Juggling Serums
Making This Decree
Red Pawn Vowed The Vault
Of Secrets Id Reveal
Or He Would Capture
Gold Of Rapture
By Cutting Me With Steel
Scalpel Wielded High
Pawn Would Drain Me Red
Desperate
I Cried
Orderly Replied
Pawn Did Cut Him Dead
In A Pool Of Blood
Stood A Pawn Most Vexed
At The Deed Hed Done
Quickly Did I Run
Before He Struck Me Next
Now I Lurk And Hide
Seeking Other Pawns
Know My Guilts A Lie
Guard Me On The Sly
From The Knave I Spawned
It's all fairly vague I suppose, but thanks for posting this.
I was away for like half an hour? XD
Thanks for trying out my crazy theory, if I had looked at it a little better I would have noticed that some spaces were repeated several times.
Anyways, a bit of a vague text came out of it, what do you suppose it means?
Perhaps you have to gather pawns in Bioshock 2?
My take on it is that it's written by the Big Sister, but that's just my favourite of a number of theories. I've missed out on a lot of the Cult of Rapture goings on so I'm probably missing pertinent information.
Going with the Big Sister theory it could mean she never got over being released from Rapture in the first place and ended up in a mental institution. The 'ink' could be Rorschach tests and the Red pawn dressed in white is obviously some kind of Doctor. It would seem that he became interested in Rapture and tried to get more information on it from the sister so that he could visit it for his own gain.
This led to him threatening the sister with violence (perhaps a lobotomy?) and her fighting back causing his death and leading to her escape.
Due to this she probably decided to return to Rapture to protect it from other people seeking it out:
'Now I Lurk And Hide
Seeking Other Pawns
Know My Guilts A Lie
Guard Me On The Sly
From The Knave I Spawned'
The 'Knave I Spawned' is likely referring to her causing a Gold rush of sorts in regard to Rapture as word likely spread from the Doctor.
But then again this is all just a vague theory.
She's protecting it against the possible arrival of this Doctor.
Sure it was cool the first time. It has been done to death the past year.
I'd agree with you, only this time it was sent to a small number of random fans of the game rather than big name journalists. That's the sign of properly well done viral - the big name journalists don't pick up on it until after the fact, as evidenced here.
Overall I don't mind viral marketing if it's done well, a half-assed attempt at it, however, is annoying. Unfortunately this has been on the increase as PR companies realise it's the new 'hip thing'.
It's also interesting that the front cover of the Limited Edition looks like a Rorschach ink blot test...
I hadn't actually looked before but no you mention it it does indeed. Maybe I'm not talking out of my arse for once...!
Who ever said an english major wasn't worth doing?
Btw. Is there any doubt that what was posted earlier by LsTr Of SmG is correct? Since there's still some people speculating on how to solve the puzzle.
Or so it seems. >>"
I'm still interested in other people's theories regarding the prose however.
Check the wiki before guessing things like elysse did.
I guess this is Lutwidge's way of telling everyone he is back.
Where's the fun in that? Also you mean pawns not prawns - fact check before ripping on people for not checking the wiki.
@ NateT
Ah so I was sort of right in a completely wrong way - I substituted the sister for Lutwidge. Sounds interesting, wish I'd been following the Something Under the Sea developments more closely.
I will be doing so now.
It's one of the best viral campaigns I have seen, plus the story and thought they put benhind it is top notch (in my opinion). The [url=http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/There's_Something_in_the_Sea/]wiki[/url] can help.