Error 11: Arms Too Short

Posted by SpaceBass on July 29th, 2008 filed in tips, trailheads

Shadow Box Inn

In keeping with recent tradition, yet another package has arrived at Unfiction HQ with contradictory information on its outer shell. This one, mailed from Henderson, North Carolina, purports to hail from the following address in Ohio:

164 Easton Town Center
Columbus, OH 43219

Also, it was mailed via the US Postal Service but in a FedEx box. Misappropriation of materials! We smell a lawsuit.

11 Ball
This one goes to eleven.

Inside the package was the above toy-sized billiard ball (about half regulation size or so) and a 5″ x 8″ index card with an inked design on one side and a link on the other, leading us to a site for the Shadow Box Inn.

Apparently, this site is not news to the denizens of the Unforum as they’ve already got a sizable thread going about it. The countdown on the front page of the site appears to end on August 8 (ZOMG 08/08/08!).

The uF Irregulars also found a page on the site with some sort of guidelines for participation. And hey, it even links to us! Pre-Despoilt!

Check out scans of the card after the jump, for all the good it will do ya.

Card
Stamped Card

That sure is a lot of eights and zeroes.

Card Reverse
Card Reverse

Hey, it beats FreeWebs or Angelfire (is that still around?).


2 Responses to “Error 11: Arms Too Short”

  1. L. Cranston Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    Hmm. Ball #11. I wonder if that is significant. (Read: the most salient feature of this package. I encourage you to follow it, or all is for naught.)

  2. SpaceBass Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Yes, many times balls are the most salient feature of a package.

    But we’ll bite (on the #11 bit, not the balls). We’re sure this has been noted elsewhere but the racked up graphic on the front page of the blog is an image map and the #11 ball in the lower left is linked to a “security” page which links further to this announcement:

    Transmission 008 is due on August 8th at 8:08 pm, EST.

    Look for it in the Security Office.

    You will only have one chance to view it, so do not be late.

    Look, more eights! And zeroes. Did we win?