(Q - Noble Action: so when we tell you after 30 years, we still went to school, we're not that smart but we can't do it, when you have
discovered the solutions, if now you try to ignore what obviously the months have passed, would you say today, there is a term that we can use it is capillotracted, is
-what you would have said today is capillotracted the fact that we can't do it, that we have to slowly tell ourselves this is a clue that will save us, would you have said...
was really capillotracted they will never be able to find?)
MB: no, no, I wouldn't say that and I wouldn't have said it, it's much more complicated than that, and the revelation for
me at the real revelation I will tell you when Max Valentin died, we had barely come out of the trial at the end of which I was able to recover the Golden Owl, a trial in which I had nothing to do, I was not not at all involved in the reasons for this trial, I intervened as we well know. Which means that at that time, I already had a certain amount of information on the actions of Max Valentin, on what he had said or done as a character but I did not have the solutions, so what I appreciated about it at the time was to tell myself that by these actions he ruined the game for us, he did stupid things, the owl was seized etc, that's it.
The revelation for me, when I had the solutions in hand, was that I took a little time, it didn't happen in an hour or two, that's also why I It took a while to successfully write Max's story
Valentin as she appears in the last edition, in addition by not saying everything but saying all the same etc., it was quite a delicate exercise and at the same time this revelation is that I understood, I took a little time and I understood the importance of the character of Max Valentin in the story of the Golden Owl and why on the one hand it had not been found, and why on the other hand, this story of the Golden Owl had taken on so much importance for the players.
I'm talking about people who came to see me at my home, who explained to me that they were betting a whole part of their future, a good part of their future, on the discovery of the owl. The significant level of involvement of certain people, some almost addicted to this game, the excesses for others, I think it was really a revelation for me, I said to myself but that's the impact that had the character of Max Valentin on the players on the one hand the owls, on the media, on the public and on the image of hunting in general, and really today I consider that without the intervention I I said and I confirm it, without the intervention of a Max
Valentin without a Max Valentin with such a presence, it is likely that the hunt would have been resolved, it is probably not possible, probable.
(Q - Noble Action: when we see specifications where there are developments in the puzzles, especially the last two, we say to ourselves the review that we see in the 650, it does not did not exist therefore in the reasoning, I will always say to myself ok we try to draw inspiration from these specifications, to say to ourselves there is perhaps a parallel hunt to say to ourselves we do not arrive at the same place , it can give us other triggers, I say to myself
I would never have finally had the expression of review, how could I have told myself that if I take the word review as I can understand it I must see something, analyze something, that would have made it even more complex , today I have a review so we say to ourselves well we have to do this investigation as I believe I am more on the ground this time, since we are in this change of gear, it's all triggers where today we have analyzed, over analyzed, we are still not there, so that is why my capillotracted effect, the revelations come today saying well there are several brains who work there now every day several hours and we're still not there.)
MB: We should have a mentalist with us, because I'm talking to you at length, I started in the secret notebooks, I continued in Under the Seal of Secrecy, I'm talking to you about Max Valentin , Max Valentin designed a hunt, he had done one or two surprise rallies at the time, he had organized one or two as he liked cars and everything, he participated in surprise rallies but as a participant, and as a marketer he organized one or two it was not at all a type of experience in this field.
One day he came across Masquerade, he said to himself that it's a great marketing idea, I'm going to get it for myself, I'm going to go on a treasure hunt, Father Méhus made the first version, thing, which moreover as it was communicated to me was perhaps already a second or third version, I don't know what it had in these drawers. Over 15 years he also had time to retouch Father Méhus, but in any case I didn't have anything else and that means that Max Valentin, a marketing consultant, is designing a treasure hunt because he says to himself that is a good marketing tool, not because he's into treasure hunting, not because he's an expert at puzzles or anything, because he thinks it's a good idea, he collects it, he adapts it, then he approaches people saying hey I have my basic product depending on whether the sponsor will be a detergent manufacturer, a luxury goods manufacturer or a car manufacturer, I will adapt my thing.
What he did when I finally presented it to him or at least the sponsor contacted him, where the sponsor introduced me to Régis Hauser and at that moment, he talked about his project and he he said, he told us in the meeting, I am going to retouch certain things, adapt certain things taking into account the program that we presented to him.
In other words, the initial project was a basic project, an idea written on paper with a text written because he had an easy pen, because he liked it, because he made his little scenario of Father Méhus , which in parentheses if you peel it, you will find that there are a lot of keywords if I may say so, as we would say today, there are a lot of hashtags to find, what we called era rather of triggers, of these key words which allow to excite the reader, to make him want etc., which was the work of Régis Hauser at the time, he was once again a marketing specialist and the product as it arrived in my hands, as it arrived in our hands with the sponsor, was a product that could be improved and above all adaptable to the sponsor's wishes.
The sponsor's wishes were established, a first adaptation was made then the sponsor withdrew and so at that time, he adapted a little bit more in relation to Michel Becker, since we found ourselves more than both of them and that’s how things happened. There are no, if you like, no fundamental differences in these changes that you mention, in these different versions, there are no, how shall I say, fundamental differences, there is just a seasoning to the fashion of the day and the needs of the sponsor who wanted, in particular concerning the famous sponsor who withdrew, who still wanted it to last a certain time since it was a treasure of great value and which he wanted to have the time to launch your brand, that we talk about it enough in the media, so in my memory it was a duration which was between 18 months and 3 years, finally these are the durations that Régis Hauser had mentioned with us in the first meetings.
Does this answer your question?
MB: no, no, I wouldn't say that and I wouldn't have said it, it's much more complicated than that, and the revelation for
me at the real revelation I will tell you when Max Valentin died, we had barely come out of the trial at the end of which I was able to recover the Golden Owl, a trial in which I had nothing to do, I was not not at all involved in the reasons for this trial, I intervened as we well know. Which means that at that time, I already had a certain amount of information on the actions of Max Valentin, on what he had said or done as a character but I did not have the solutions, so what I appreciated about it at the time was to tell myself that by these actions he ruined the game for us, he did stupid things, the owl was seized etc, that's it.
The revelation for me, when I had the solutions in hand, was that I took a little time, it didn't happen in an hour or two, that's also why I It took a while to successfully write Max's story
Valentin as she appears in the last edition, in addition by not saying everything but saying all the same etc., it was quite a delicate exercise and at the same time this revelation is that I understood, I took a little time and I understood the importance of the character of Max Valentin in the story of the Golden Owl and why on the one hand it had not been found, and why on the other hand, this story of the Golden Owl had taken on so much importance for the players.
I'm talking about people who came to see me at my home, who explained to me that they were betting a whole part of their future, a good part of their future, on the discovery of the owl. The significant level of involvement of certain people, some almost addicted to this game, the excesses for others, I think it was really a revelation for me, I said to myself but that's the impact that had the character of Max Valentin on the players on the one hand the owls, on the media, on the public and on the image of hunting in general, and really today I consider that without the intervention I I said and I confirm it, without the intervention of a Max
Valentin without a Max Valentin with such a presence, it is likely that the hunt would have been resolved, it is probably not possible, probable.
(Q - Noble Action: when we see specifications where there are developments in the puzzles, especially the last two, we say to ourselves the review that we see in the 650, it does not did not exist therefore in the reasoning, I will always say to myself ok we try to draw inspiration from these specifications, to say to ourselves there is perhaps a parallel hunt to say to ourselves we do not arrive at the same place , it can give us other triggers, I say to myself
I would never have finally had the expression of review, how could I have told myself that if I take the word review as I can understand it I must see something, analyze something, that would have made it even more complex , today I have a review so we say to ourselves well we have to do this investigation as I believe I am more on the ground this time, since we are in this change of gear, it's all triggers where today we have analyzed, over analyzed, we are still not there, so that is why my capillotracted effect, the revelations come today saying well there are several brains who work there now every day several hours and we're still not there.)
MB: We should have a mentalist with us, because I'm talking to you at length, I started in the secret notebooks, I continued in Under the Seal of Secrecy, I'm talking to you about Max Valentin , Max Valentin designed a hunt, he had done one or two surprise rallies at the time, he had organized one or two as he liked cars and everything, he participated in surprise rallies but as a participant, and as a marketer he organized one or two it was not at all a type of experience in this field.
One day he came across Masquerade, he said to himself that it's a great marketing idea, I'm going to get it for myself, I'm going to go on a treasure hunt, Father Méhus made the first version, thing, which moreover as it was communicated to me was perhaps already a second or third version, I don't know what it had in these drawers. Over 15 years he also had time to retouch Father Méhus, but in any case I didn't have anything else and that means that Max Valentin, a marketing consultant, is designing a treasure hunt because he says to himself that is a good marketing tool, not because he's into treasure hunting, not because he's an expert at puzzles or anything, because he thinks it's a good idea, he collects it, he adapts it, then he approaches people saying hey I have my basic product depending on whether the sponsor will be a detergent manufacturer, a luxury goods manufacturer or a car manufacturer, I will adapt my thing.
What he did when I finally presented it to him or at least the sponsor contacted him, where the sponsor introduced me to Régis Hauser and at that moment, he talked about his project and he he said, he told us in the meeting, I am going to retouch certain things, adapt certain things taking into account the program that we presented to him.
In other words, the initial project was a basic project, an idea written on paper with a text written because he had an easy pen, because he liked it, because he made his little scenario of Father Méhus , which in parentheses if you peel it, you will find that there are a lot of keywords if I may say so, as we would say today, there are a lot of hashtags to find, what we called era rather of triggers, of these key words which allow to excite the reader, to make him want etc., which was the work of Régis Hauser at the time, he was once again a marketing specialist and the product as it arrived in my hands, as it arrived in our hands with the sponsor, was a product that could be improved and above all adaptable to the sponsor's wishes.
The sponsor's wishes were established, a first adaptation was made then the sponsor withdrew and so at that time, he adapted a little bit more in relation to Michel Becker, since we found ourselves more than both of them and that’s how things happened. There are no, if you like, no fundamental differences in these changes that you mention, in these different versions, there are no, how shall I say, fundamental differences, there is just a seasoning to the fashion of the day and the needs of the sponsor who wanted, in particular concerning the famous sponsor who withdrew, who still wanted it to last a certain time since it was a treasure of great value and which he wanted to have the time to launch your brand, that we talk about it enough in the media, so in my memory it was a duration which was between 18 months and 3 years, finally these are the durations that Régis Hauser had mentioned with us in the first meetings.
Does this answer your question?