[DarkLloyd]

Okay so playing around with the SR universe site you can find portions of short stories that give hints for the up coming 5th edition.

Here's where to start. Press the Diamond in the center of the "o" of Shadowrun.

I've found 5 so far but see that there is at least one more.

Each story has a password or riddle or something to manipulate in the paragraph. Look for the off colored words or numbers, they are either the answer or will point you to it.

Let everyone know what you find but if you are going to post the answer to one of the keys/riddles/puzzles put spoiler tags on it. And for those of you that might not know how, look right up above your "post window" when you are crafting your reply. It is in the middle row of options you can do, towards the end of that row and says "insert spoiler".

Ask for help on the keys, discuss the stories or theorize on whats next.

[DarkLloyd]

Just got thru the 6th one and there is at least 2 more now.

[Mirikon]

How do you get past 'Pulling the trigger 1'?

[DarkLloyd]

How do you get past 'Pulling the trigger 1'?

Answer below.
[spoiler]Click on all the posters names. (ie Netcat, Pistons ect, ect,)[/spoiler]

Also when you do that please tell me which one you get next. when i did it I skipped to "Princes-2" and havn't seen "Princes-1". I'd like to know if it glicthed or I need to go somewhere else to get that.
Has anyone else seen "Princes-1"? If so where? And how to get there.

And now I'm stuck on "Artful dodger-1", there doesn't seem to be any highlighted words or links.

[Marzhin]

Just so you don't get stuck later on: some answers were given through twitter (you'll know which ones when you get there).

The first one is

[spoiler]FREEBOGOTA[/spoiler].

The second one is

[spoiler]thenewblack[/spoiler].

There's  third one, but AFAIK the answer has not been revealed so far.

[Mirikon]

After that I went to 'Eye of the Hurricane 3' (answer 16), and went to 'Princes 2' from there.

EDIT: In Artful Dodger 1, it is hard to see because of the font, but the words 'Matrix' '20' and 'XX' are hilighted. They are plain text otherwise, so it looks like the code must be some combination of those things. Going by previous examples, it should be 'Matrix20XX', but that does not appear to work.

[Caradoc]

^Answer is 2029 (ie. Matrix D.O.B. after the 1st crash).

[DarkLloyd]

Are these stories just random?
I'm having to skip over 5 pages and not read then just solve them because they are out of order, or I've never gotten the first 4 parts.
It's really annoying and off putting. I would just like to read the fiction, sitting here for the whole night is not what I wanted to be doing.

[Wakshaani]

I'm terrible at these games. No way for me to get through any of 'em.

I'm terrible curious to know what all's on the other side, tho!

[Mirikon]

Are these stories just random?
I'm having to skip over 5 pages and not read then just solve them because they are out of order, or I've never gotten the first 4 parts.
It's really annoying and off putting. I would just like to read the fiction, sitting here for the whole night is not what I wanted to be doing.

I agree. Really annoying way to put out fiction.

[Black]

Are these stories just random?
I'm having to skip over 5 pages and not read then just solve them because they are out of order, or I've never gotten the first 4 parts.
It's really annoying and off putting. I would just like to read the fiction, sitting here for the whole night is not what I wanted to be doing.

I agree. Really annoying way to put out fiction.

Ahh.. but the challenge!  I think it was a way to make the fiction more interesting.  Its not that uncommon a marketing tool.  I do hope that they eventually post the fiction without the puzzles though...

[RHat]

Are these stories just random?
I'm having to skip over 5 pages and not read then just solve them because they are out of order, or I've never gotten the first 4 parts.
It's really annoying and off putting. I would just like to read the fiction, sitting here for the whole night is not what I wanted to be doing.

I agree. Really annoying way to put out fiction.

So, we get the details piece by piece, some of which aren't connected to each other.  Kind of like how the characters in setting get it.

I'm sure there will be a compilation at some point, but for the moment this is pretty awesome.

[Mirikon]

No, it cuts from one thing to another in the middle of a sentence. Getting information as it comes is one thing. Hell, it wouldn't even be so bad if they would just stick to one story until they got to the end, instead of going back and forth and starting in the middle of things. This narrative style is so bad that it actually (Ghost, I swore I would never say this) would rather watch Jersey Shore than read Shadowrun fiction.

Excuse me, I have to throw up now.

[DarkLloyd]

Well apparently everyone's favorite Tome makes an appearance in the stories. Grimmy is in one.

Also I'm pretty sure I know the name of the book that will be covering the transition to 5th. Storm Front.
And I'm pretty sure I know what the cover looks like.

[Justice]

I'm running into issues with the fonts and colouring making it very difficult to see some of the clues. The disjointed stories also cut down significantly on the enjoyment factor. At the moment I'm stuck on Eye of the Hurricane 4 trying to get the page to display more legibly.