Talk:Warehouse 23 crate

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2009

At least three W23 crates were received this morning with earthquake related messages attached. To Brinhe: 9. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. To Kissi1977: 21.0 The changes of surviving the earth-shaking calamity currently in action. (possibly chances, she may have misstyped to me). Forgot to note - I don't have the last message, received by BigPickle.

Speculation?--Brinhe 14:42, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Someone named bigmatty claimed he got a crate, told me this came along with it. "4. In the world I see -- you're stalking bar through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Seaside Town. You will wear basic meat armor that will last you the rest of your life. You will climb the wrist thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sorceress' Tower. You will see tigny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lagne of the ruins of a supertinkerâbrvbar;" --Brinhe 17:12, 28 August 2009 (UTC) --bigmatty (fixed copy/paste glitch on the word supertinkerâbrvbar) 31 August 2009

I received this one today: 6. Over times of scarce resources, medicine is worth a fortune.

  • Sender is the warehouse 23 bot (#146057)
  • Numbers indicate at least 21 messages? Are the messages unique? Did anyone get a duplicate message?
    • got a pm from BioHazzard (#1034697) - he received message #6 from a crate, so they aren't unique...
  • messages posted so far indicate the current Rock event is catacysmic - on the order of the Grey Plague. The kingdom in ruins, but there is a way out.
  • Jick said last night that the Rock event ends Tuesday, Sept 10th - we have that long to figure it out
  • Too scared to open my pressie - its epeen! But its contents maybe be clues as well. Anyone look in their pressie?
  • Is it worth adding this data to the Rock Event page (for that matter - is there one?)
  • Just occured to me - someone in warehouse23 could be doing this as a joke...

--Grimdel 18:07, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Another character who received one, can't recall his name, opened it and I believe he said he received an Evil Golden Arch and a Scratch 'n Sniff Apple Sticker. --Brinhe 20:11, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Ivey (#1169857) got one:

11. Bizarre rumblings. Bizarre crate. Coincidence? --Aseigler 20:56, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

I just received one. "3. As the impending disaster hits, food will be of incalculable value."--Narc 02:26, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Received "1. Kallisti has visited! The world tremors. A sure sign of the end of all things." I'm not sure I want to open the crate. --YuriGagarine 6:58, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Today I received "9. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes." along with a crate. Spiderboy 14:06, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

That's quoting Voltaire.--Muhandes 16:39, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

1. Kallisti has visited! The world tremors. A sure sign of the end of all things.
2. MANAGEABLE HERRING RIGS HEARTENED SIN STUNTS
3. As the impending disaster hits, food will be of incalculable value.
4. In the world I see -- you're stalking bar through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Seaside Town. You will wear basic meat armor that will last you the rest of your life. You will climb the wrist thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sorceress' Tower. You will see tigny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lagne of the ruins of a supertinkerâbrvbar;
5. Lack of common sense is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
6. Over times of scarce resources, medicine is worth a fortune.
7. Richter off the charts / Kingdom shaking to and fro / Try not to fall down.
8. Despair! The strange rumblings are a sign the end is near!
9. Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
10. All throughout the Kingdom there are strange rumblings! (You should at least excuse yourself.
11. Bizarre rumblings. Bizarre crate. Coincidence?
12. Crimbo will be ruined this year.
13. How can you have a good earthquake without good zombies?
14. A common problem in the kingdom is lack of direction.
15. Obtusely the carefree son of White intruded âI'm not hotâ
16. That's how they git you.
17. One possible reason for the tremors is a hostile force from subterranean cities.
18. 1 out of 4 disaster survivors become mentally unbalanced. Look at the 3 closest survivors; if they seem OK, then that just leaves you.
19. 4 nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places.
20. Six feet of earth makes us all equal.
21.0 The changes of surviving the earth-shaking calamity currently in action.
22. 5... 4.... 3..... 2......
23. 7 days after the disaster comes, people will turn against each other, fighting for resources.

Any others? Are these spelled exactly (poorly) as in game? The contents and inside message seem to correspond to the message too. Example ine #14 crate ("14. A common problem in the kingdom is lack of direction.") is a rusty compass and the text. "We can help point the way." Ooo-ooo-ooo. And someone got trollhouse cookies from the bot for being a good puzzle solver. --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 06:00, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Mine (#4) had a semicolon at the end (I corrected it on the list.) Certainly that seems to not be related, but here on the Wiki for archiving everything 100% correctly I figured may as well fix. I suspect that message #20 actually read: 20. 6 feet of earth makes us all equal. Its noteworthy that this aspect of the event (the sending of the crates with messages) was also a puzzle, and that attempts/successful solving is where things like the cookie come into play. I am not posting any specific info on the puzzle here.--Bigmatty

I got #22 a few days ago. Inside the package, it had a can of Ghuol-B-Gone, and said, "The anticipation of whatever's coming is killing you, isn't it?" - rachels, 5 September, 2009

2007

There's one in Gracious Cymbals's display case. My only guess is that WH23 got their own gift wrapping? --TechSmurf 15:45, 13 June 2007 (CDT)

See this thread. ColtsScore 04:07, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

TAG posted a screenshot of a crate being opened: pic --Quietust (t|c) 16:34, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

Another one from Khorne: pic --Hagnkknob 18:29, 15 June 2007 (CDT)

Here's another one, with ten-leaf clovers inside...: pic --Sinister the Pink 07:05, 19 June 2007 (CDT)

I received one of these in the leadup to NS13 too, probably one of the last batch sent out. I rushed straight to Joe and lo and behold, my guess at how to get one was ... not disproven. I'd put my meat on the things having been allocated manually (as I got mine well after rollover, about the time when most Americans would get up) by W23 members using names on the more obscure leaderboards as a pool to pick random players from (I was on the 100% HC Crane board that day). This theory would also explain why most were received on player's multis, as the consumption and 100% familiar run leaderboards are mostly dominated by trophy-scout multis. I don't know what other boards came up during the period, but given how many collection boards hes on, Boozer's double luck could be rather easily explained if they were included too.--Snave 12:11, 16 July 2007 (CDT)

Discordian connection

Many of the messages received when the crates are opened do form a pattern: they're related to or in the style of Principia Discordia or Illuminatus!. The Discordians have been around since at least 1982 (probably longer, but given the shameful shape search engines are in right now that's the best I could do). The first book of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! trilogy was called The Earth Will Shake: The History of the Early Illuminati. Steve Jackson Games, whose online store was called Warehouse 23 at the time, published the Illuminati card game in which the Discordian Society was one of the major power groups. Seems pretty definitive. --BaronessRatsworth (talk) 23:36, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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