Sullivan’s Uncharted Treasure Stories

Yarr, right up yon pirate alley comes a new promotional ARG, apparently for the upcoming Playstation 3 game, “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.” According to our source, it involves “an effort to get people into the treasure-hunting spirit” and runs through the game’s release date.

The trailhead is Victor Sullivan’s blog about, well, treasure hunting. It’s pretty sweet. And it includes a handy link to a mysterious Treasure Map^TM! Spoooky! Seriously, we didn’t even know there was a Craigslist in Panama. But that’s where the map is, all right. A “mysterious map.” A map with which “[t]he hunt begins.”

Something tells me we need to work on our quoting skizllz. Also spelling. More bad quoting after the jump.

Who knows what deep, dark corners of the internet hold the answers being sought. These things could be anywhere. It’s not designed to be easy. It’s designed to be an immersive, enthralling game. It’s going to take creativity and cleverness to make progress in the game, not just bored-at-work stabs here and there. Hands will get dirty.

So, there you go! “Hands will get dirty[!]” Clearly it’s some sort of recruiting vehicle for hippies. Communist hippies. That love Islam and Playstation 3 and excel mainly in smelling funky at Phish concerts.

Either that or they’re recruiting hitmen for some black ops. No contest, we’re there baby! Hey, so is Unfiction! Hey, what happened to the pirate metaphor with which we began this post?! Hey, what does this button d–