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There've been stirrings again over at the uber-troüt headquarters. Is it an announcement or an ultimatum?

I've got bigger for you. Bigger? My my. The following announcement was dropped in our rumor box yesterday:

I haven't posted any content to the website yet, but I have boards setup at www.deaddrop.us/forums for players and puppet masters. As admin, I'm very open to ideas for the board and the site.

Note 1: Thanks to vpmusic.com for turning me onto phpBB.

Note 2: This is the FIRST place I've announced the forum, so no rants please on lack of activity. Constructive comments always welcome.

Note 3: I had the forum ready I opened it up. Watch the board for announcements about the rest of the website. Rants about the rest of the site should be directed to /dev/null until further notice.

Regards,
Bill Shaw

Thanks to Bill for making us number one on his notify list! Remember to send your tips, rumors, and announcements to us via the mail link at the top of this page.

"Solve" the puzzle at Qamu.com and you just may get your chance. A third-generation group is recruiting potential puppetmasters for an upcoming campaign. Good luck!

First off, QBKooky corrects yesterday's post about the new startup, Codename:Constellation. The story revolves around a journalism major at the University of Oregon. QBKooky also provides a nice blurb and points out that:

Due to some statistical (and email) reasons, you must join the group to play. You have until May 30 to sign up, and you could join later, but I would recommend joining early to start "getting into" the game.

'Muda let us know that the Majackass site is likely a parody left over from the Majestic community. He also left us with this tip:

HiddenAlliance is a work in progress. The flash splash is a placeholder for the domain at this time. The PM's are a group of Majestic community developers who were frustrated with the way Majestic was deployed.

I'd expect it to be some time before there's any noteworthy activity. HA is about at the point now where Lockjaw was when Wired mentioned it back in November.

So there you have it, it looks like HiddenAlliance may go live around September 2002. Of course, we'll keep you updated.

QBKooky posted the following announcement to the Cloudmakers list today:

Okay, I have been working a lot, and it's ready. For those of you who are interested in participating in my puzzle, go and sign up at Yahoo!

It officially starts May 30, and I am planning to do it over an 8 week period.

According to the signup group listed above, this is a web puzzle being run by a journalism major at the University of Oregon. It's an interesting approach for the game designer to control the players' group. I wonder if it's required that you join this particular group in order to play.