If tom has access to the internet, why Is Mike H doing Dantom Del Byondo?

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Jul 21 2006, 11:10 am
If you look tom is enrolled in multiple guilds, if you look at the first DantomdelByondo page, the trip started on June 10’Th. But guilds weren't added till June 30’Th! So either someone enrolled him in the guilds, or Tom is actively on BYOND ;O
Jul 21 2006, 11:16 am
Because it is a contest.
Jul 21 2006, 11:34 am
The staff is able to add who ever they want I think.
Jul 21 2006, 11:44 am
http://members.byond.com/?command=view_post&post=15352
Clearly Tom is back. Otherwise Mike H wouldn't of known were he went on those days. (Seeing as he didn't have the postcard)
Jul 21 2006, 11:45 am
That or they have a secret communication between themselves.
Jul 21 2006, 11:47 am
Also, if I recall correctly, it wasn't planned to be a contest initially. Mike mentioned it, then said it could be a contest as curiosity was increased.

Then again, if you were doing a contest where you are supposed to be missing, why would you run that contest yourself? "I've gone away and am missing; I'm not communicating with Byond staff, but I'm here to do a contest about it!" That wouldn't make much sense.
Jul 21 2006, 11:47 am
Actually, I reckon Mike H can tell from Tom's postcards. So it's like

Postcard n: He's in blah. Contest begins.

Postcard n+1: He's in bleh. Mike tells us where bleh is because the postcard says "Hey, I'm in bleh". New round beings for day n+2.

I haven't followed it at all so I could be wrong.
Jul 21 2006, 11:48 am
Because Tom needs to be getting us 4.0, pronto
Jul 21 2006, 1:32 pm
You guys love a good conspiracy theory, don't you? Occam's razor always wins over conspiracy.

The staff is able to add who ever they want I think.

Yes. I control the database. I manually added Tom + the rest of the staff as appropriate to the various staff guilds (BYOND Labs, BYOND, etc).

That or they have a secret communication between themselves.

Tom finally checked in online shortly before Postcard #15 was posted, and well before the missing #14 arrived. Day 24 was the only question mark because postcard #15 showed Spearfish as day 26's starting point, and therefore also day 25's destination. Tom answered my question about day 24 before quickly disappearing off the net again (something about a crappy public library in some small podunk town).

The timeline of events:

- Postcard #13 is posted: we know destinations up to day 23.

- Postcard #15 arrives: from that I deduce days 25 and 26, but not 24.

- Tom checks in and provides day 24 information.

- Postcard #15 is posted.

- Postcard #16 arrives.

- Postcard #16 is posted.

- Postcard #14 finally arrives.

- Postcard #14 is posted (but we already knew the destinations).
Jul 21 2006, 2:06 pm
They got ownt by Mike H. :P

Hurry up and post the next postcard so I can see if I was right at all on anything. The suspense is killing me! I keep checking back every hour or so rofl..