A month before its release, special deliveries from the BioShock 2 viral website are still showing up at people's doors. This time, the packages contain a chess piece and a coded telegram from the "International Order of the Pawns."
Reader J.P. says way back in September he wrote to the address one finds on the site, rather cleverly playing along with the premise of the viral marketing narrative and offering to "keep an eye on the water and report any unusual findings to Mark G. Meltzer (the name on most of the notes from the site.)" J.P. lives in Jersey City, right on the Hudson River.
So today, he - and apparently some others, from looking at the BioShock 2 forums - got another special delivery. A black pawn piece, with a symbol marked on the outside and "H1" written on its base, and then this cryptic telegram, which appears to be a series of chess moves.
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Note that J.P.'s is preceded with "I." There seem to be five other codes marked with roman numerals, according to this thread on the 2K Forums, begun sometime Saturday. I don't see that they have the "I." code listed as of writing this, so maybe this will help. Alright, y'all, get crackin'!
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Okay, I think the entire message (including this one) has been decoded. I'm not sure... but here what people got on the forum.....
Trust The Red Pawn Not
Nor The Ink That Lies.
Patient Did I Dwell
In My Pillowed Cell
'Til The Pawn Arrived.
Red Pawn
Robed In White
Proffered False Degrees
Droned In Theorems
Juggling Serums
Making This Decree
Red Pawn Vowed The Vault
Of Secrets Id Reveal
Or He Would Capture
Gold Of Rapture
By Cutting Me With Steel
Scalpel Wielded High
Pawn Would Drain Me Red
Desperate
I Cried
Orderly Replied
Pawn Did Cut Him Dead
In A Pool Of Blood
Stood A Pawn Most Vexed
At The Deed Hed Done
Quickly Did I Run
Before He Struck Me Next
Now I Lurk And Hide
Seeking Other Pawns
Know My Guilts A Lie
Guard Me On The Sly
From The Knave I Spawned