The Lost Experience Begins!

With a few months to go until the end of LOST, fans are beginning to wonder if ABC will be making another attempt at a LOST arg. After last summer's LOST Experience left a rather bored Rachel Blake with the knowledge that her nemesis Mittlewerk was alive and well and intent on destroying a huge percentage of the population, one would assume more LOST experience goodies await us, no?

Click here to find out one and for all....

I don't know about you guys, but I've been waiting for something, anything, TLE related to pop up and there's been nothing. It didn't even have to be a full blown ARGish thing and I know most of us would have been happy.

I remember the powers that be saying there would be mobisodes (clips available to cellphone users with video streaming... I think it was Verizon customers, not sure) that would give us some stuff we wouldn't otherwise be able to get. Anyone seen these? I haven't even heard about them.

The Lost Experience ended with a cliffhanger. They've GOT to be planning something, right? Maybe in the summer? I have to know what happens with Rachel Blake and the Hanso Foundation. What happened to Alvar? What has Mittlewerk been up to?

It's been a while, sure... but I need some closure.

File this under, hey I should have known that...

With Season Three barely started,  ABCMarketing is already thinking ahead for next summer.  Not only will there be a sequel (duh) to finish telling the story (hopefully they keep 'Rachel' away from the ludes this time around) but there are also plans to include a faux documentary of what happened with this LOST experience on the LOST Season Three DVD box set.

Now your saying what I said,  that'll be like September... so it won't help to indoctrinate new gamers for the summer,  right? 

Well, there is a slim possibility that the Documentary will first premiere on the LOST Season One HD-DVD set which is expected to be announced any day.  Apparently everything was shot on HD cameras, so the set will include an upgraded print of Rachel's shinaneghans.  (Hey VHS would be better than the cruddy flash video they used for the "final" scene.)

Is adding an extended recap of the Lost Experience in HD going to value or devalue such a set?  You tell me.

Did you ever know that your my hero.......

Here are the people, that remain in the log anyways, who contribute throughout the game to keeping this site updated and relevant, (even though we were in a coma for a couple of weeks).

As the lost experience drew to a close on sunday, one of the summers most exciting and innovative Experiences ended.... And i can truly say, we had a lot of fun theorising with you. We will still probably have updates here.. but not for periods of time.

I enjoyed it.


Namaste from me atleast
Mattyrewls22

Check out the Hanso Foundation website.

There's a letter from Alvar Hanso.

Click on the word "humanity" in the third paragraph.  Mittlewerk has a message for us too.

I guess the saga continues.  But it smells like this is the end for now...

Here is Rachel's final video in Divx.

Well, it's all over.  Was it worth it?  Was it a waste of time?  Did you get the answers you wanted?

To commemorate the CLOSE of TheLostExperience we will be assembling a one time podcast comprised of your thoughts on the ARG.  We've set up a skype voice mail, just dial up thetailsection an share your feelings!

Alternatively,  you can record your comments in Wav or Mp3 and email them to tips@thelostexperience.com.

If your too shy, well you can always use the content form!

Well, folks, it seems that Sunday's DjDan podcast will be the end of The Lost Experience.

Here are the details.  It's on September 24th at 8pm PST.  (It mistakenly says that it's 5pm Eastern but it's actually 11 pm Eastern)

Supposedly there will be a special guest on the show (I wonder who that will be?) and DjDan is going to give us a video that will bring down the Hanso Foundation once and for all.

Do you think that will happen?  Or do you think Hanso Foundation will somehow stay in business?

It's been a fun ride, though.  Sometimes frustrating, sometimes annoying, sometimes just plain wacky.  But the community made the best of it and we've met some great people along the way, yes?

If anything happens before Sunday, of course we'll keep you updated here.

As always, feel free to share your thoughts here or on the forums.

UPDATE:  Click "Continue Reading"!!!

Well, the ROT people posted another thread on the 19th.  But it's dated 9/13.

Anyway, Iobiseeingyou tells the tale of a wierd experience she had.  Check it out. (Password is: Steinbeck)

Is Hanso going on the offensive?  What's going on?

Something else happened.  As some of you remember, there was this guy named WTK who apparently helped Rachel at some point.  This morning someone got a wierd message from WTKFleet35 on AIM.  When that someone replied to it, this autoresponse was given:

"I'm on my way out the door. Tell Rachel's friends that soon they will know why I did what I did.  I have to go.  Gonna take care of of some unfinished business."

What do you think that means?

Rachel sent us another new email this afternoon, it reads as follows:

OKAY, EVERYBODY. THIS IS IT. YOU'VE FOUND OVER 1000 APOLLO BARS. I KNOW NOW THAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING...

	GO TO WWW.WHEREISALVAR.COM


Is there more to this then meets the eye? "This is it"? Sounds like something big is going to happen. Stay tuned.

We're still trying to figure out what exactly is going on but it seems that Rachel and The Fixer (aka Malik) are having a conversation by sending these wierd codes to Speaker and The Lost Ninja.

It started Saturday on Speaker's "Inside the Experience" blog.



After flipping this horizontally, you decode it as hex, and then decode it as ascii then it gives you a message that's written backwards.  The message is  (Thanks to the ITE Yahoo chat team):

"M - conscience is keeping you in the fight is it? heard you call into dj dan. if you're talking about who i think you are, then you already know my answer"

It looks like Rachel is trying to get some help from The Fixer, Malik (aka Ironman).

Today, Malik responded.  He chose Lost Ninja to send his message.



So this one needed to be flipped vertically.  Then you need to type the letters but instead of typing them normally, you actually type the key that's one key to the left.

The solution is (thanks to Dante on TLEC):

"R -- I think it's fair to say, whatever conscience I have was built on faulty equipment. This is a matter of duty. Loyalty... Speaking of which, I've been troubled by the very recent disappearance of an old friend, de Zylva. We all saw your Sri Lanka video. You were captured at the end, and yet, there you were, blasting those Lost producers in San Diego not a week later. And, I have to wonder... did de Zylva have something to do with that(shift?) Do you know what's become of him?"

So there we are.

Stay tuned for more developments and as always feel free to comment and theorize on this new stuff going on.

And by the way, who's De Zylva?  We haven't met this person, right?

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DjDan has updated the date and time for the next live podcast.  Keep on the lookout for possible changes...  But here's the latest.

Next podcast...

CONSPIRASPIES!! Due to recent and reliable reports stating the 74-storey golden robot Zanthazor will return to orbit once again, disrupting the Earth's ionosphere at precisely 7am Pacific Standard Time on September 22 (thank you, Garthazoid!!)...

...Tonya and I have NO CHOICE but to reschedule my worldwide broadcast to 8pm PST on Sunday, September 24!! For those of you who have already put in for a vacation day, my sincerest apologies, but look at the bright side! Now's the perfect time to do yourself a solid and and spend the day in your official DJ Dan Certified 60 Megaton Bomb Shelter!

Until the 24th, ConspiraSpies, stay suspicious, stay vigilant, shield those eyes from Zanthazor's golden rays, and KEEP SHUTTING DOWN THE MAN!!

This just in, ConspiraSpies! You knew it was gonna be a doozy, but my special guest on the 24th is gonna blow your minds. Who is it, you ask? Who could it be? Just head on over to www.whereisalvar.com for the straight dope.

Thanks to Ixalon you can be there, even if you can't BE there... Ixalon will be blogging live from the Manchester glyph hunt!  Be sure to keep an eye on Ixalon's progress at:

Here's an urgent notice for UK Players... Spread the word!

Lost Experience -Track down the codes to the last two fragments in Manchester and London Next Week meet up with other lost experience players and compete to be the first to track down the final two uk codes. This is your last chance to get regognised as a key member of the lost Experience

To take part players need to meet at the following start points (along with a map of the city and mobile phone) at midday. Full instructions of how to track down the codes will then be revealed

MANCHESTER:

WEDNESDAY SEPT 6TH

START 12 NOON

MEET AT THE CHINESE ARCH

FAULKNER STREET

CHINATOWN

MANCHESTER M1

LONDON

THURSDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

START 12 NOON

MEET THAMES FOOTPATH BETWEEN ISLE OF DOGS AND GREENWICH -ISLE OF DOGS SIDE

As many of you are already aware, Stever Irwin died while filming a documentary in Austrailia.

I know this has nothing to do with The Lost Experience, but The Crocodile Hunter was one of those people who come around once in a lifetime and by the sheer depth of his love of nature, touched us.

He was an inspiration to many.

Rest in Peace, Steve Irwin.

Our hearts go out to his family.

If you, like me, are unlucky enough to live too far from a Dharma food drop to get your hands on a yummy Apollo bar,  listen up.  The good folks at http://rbrefugees.blogspot.com/ have a few extras, but they're not just giving them away... your going to have to earn them.  Give them a visit, and good luck.

Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to talk to Entertainment Weekly senior writer, and LOST theorizer extraordinaire, Jeff Jensen!  Jeff not only has some of the most interesting and entertaining theories out there on LOST,  he also has had the privilege of being able to rub elbows with the creative forces behind LOST so I knew he would have some interesting insights to share, and I wasn’t disappointed.  If you don't read Jeff, you need to start.  Some of the best theorizing in the entertainment press with regards to LOST, and a hell of a lot of fun!

Without further adieu….