Elsewhere Public Works: The Search for Eva Lucien

ALTERNATE REALITY ALERT! Alternate Reality Gaming, that is. The Silver Screen Kid is tumbling down the rabbit hole, into the complex and sinister world of ARGs. Apparently I've stumbled onto a particularly roxxers ARG here in my native San Francisco. I started playing without any prior knowledge of the inner workings of the game - I decided to take a leap of faith. SO glad I did. This shit is more fun than a pack of blunts, an ounce, and 30 Wii games. Well, nothing's really more fun than that... :P

But the experience really is indescribable. It makes you feel like you're about to start frying. Excited, a vague sense of dread, and the inescapable sense that you're involved in something you have NO control over. When I previously wrote an article about this ARG for AM, I thought the game might have run its course. Then, lo and behold, I was emailed with a fresh set of instructions. I'm starting to feel like I'm on-call for a psychotic underground society of pop culture insurgents.

Now I've completed the steps laid out in the second set of instructions. I've picked up more working knowledge of what-the-hell I'm involved in. Before, I didn't even know the goal of the game. Now I know I'm on the hunt for one Ms. Eva Lucien, a girl who disappeared without a trace in the late 1980s. One other thing I know for sure this time: it is definitely not over. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.

- The Jejune Institute
- Elsewhere Public Works
- Elsewhere Public Works on Analog Medium - oh, how naive I was when I wrote this, lol
- SPOILER ALERT: Jejune Institute Flickr photo set