All right -- after our blog-overlord Kerleone was badly trapped in the beginning -- you folks already went quite some way on the path, and it seems that you have quite some fun with it. Just a li'l warning: Don't forget that you are 'cybercultural anthropologists' and that your primary task is to have a cultural anthropological look onto the ARG-community which has developed around Metacortex. It is up to you how deep you want to go into the actual game -- to what degree you want to 'go native'. But keep in mind the second part of the 'homework': Read the two short articles on "community" (meanwhile in the 'Handapparat') and use the information contained therein to reflect about the Metacortex-ARG community. Your task is to create a meta-level of observation, description, interpretation, analysis, and reflection. There's already something like that on the Metacortex-game out there, but you haven't dug up the links, yet. Sometimes the sought-after is so near ...