(Q - Paula: You have just said what Max added from the beginning as smoke we are going to say, through the madits and through this information on the 2nd card before I did not understand that it included
this last part, in fact, is it all the curses that we must ignore, I have noted it well, will pose a problem or pose a problem, these elements that you have seen throughout the entire hunt or is it?
is really this moment when we had this order of the 9 enigmas, then the 2, the 12th enigma, the remainders, all this rubbish that has accumulated, is it really these elements that need to be cleaned up?
, in fact, because there are a lot of things that have fleshed out over time and which have made the hunt more complex from start to finish. Or is it mainly about the final resolution that for you?
madits and everything that added a lot of vagueness and made it impossible to end the game?)
MB: So that’s a very interesting question. And then I myself evolve gradually in my way of expressing myself on this point and even a little in my way of perceiving things, what I sincerely think, and I insist once again on everything the interest of looking into Max's personality and the fact that we must never forget that he was someone totally inexperienced in this area. It was his first hunt and he was a publicist who picked up an idea, that of Kit Williams in this case, which he used, et cetera.
So it was totally empirical for him and I think when you talked about smoking, I'm not quite..., there was a period of smoking on Max's part, but at the beginning, it wasn't was not smoke. When he began to let these famous concepts of remainders, supersolutions, 12th enigmas, whatever we want develop and I am convinced, deeply convinced and the more I read documents that I take from my archives and the more I As I move forward in my discussions with the players, I am convinced that he was absolutely baffled at the start, by the way in which the game was transposed in the minds of the players.
Because as he was chatting on Minitel, he could clearly see what was happening. He clearly saw the logic of the players, as I see it today, in the solutions that I received, and it's true that on Minitel, we didn't make long sentences either, we didn't put 1000 characters each time eh, it was still quite concentrated, and for good reason, it was expensive and therefore it was a bit of the same atmosphere these exchanges. And he was confused and he said to himself, as he knew full well what his level of inexperience was, he said to himself Oh dear, I need to expand a little, I need to strengthen one little, I have to…, yes indeed, they are somewhat right to ask me that. And little by little, he added things, but which in fact were only the complement in his mind was only the missing complement of the initial project.
And through that, through these notions, he tried to improve, in a way to refine his game, but that, I think that was his first reaction to what was happening in the minds of the players and what he could see and read about it. And in a second step, for much more complex reasons and which I am beginning to know well now and to be able to place chronologically, he started to embroider, to smoke a little and add more. , but not from the start.
And I think that it's all these notions, this whole kind of infernal mechanism that was set in motion in the light of the exchanges with the players, it was to validate things like that for him, it was say Well yeah, actually what I did, maybe he's missing a little of this, maybe he's missing a little of that, he compensated, he carried out a compensation process by adopting concepts induced by the players to complete a hunt which initially was a little light, we'll say.
MB: So that’s a very interesting question. And then I myself evolve gradually in my way of expressing myself on this point and even a little in my way of perceiving things, what I sincerely think, and I insist once again on everything the interest of looking into Max's personality and the fact that we must never forget that he was someone totally inexperienced in this area. It was his first hunt and he was a publicist who picked up an idea, that of Kit Williams in this case, which he used, et cetera.
So it was totally empirical for him and I think when you talked about smoking, I'm not quite..., there was a period of smoking on Max's part, but at the beginning, it wasn't was not smoke. When he began to let these famous concepts of remainders, supersolutions, 12th enigmas, whatever we want develop and I am convinced, deeply convinced and the more I read documents that I take from my archives and the more I As I move forward in my discussions with the players, I am convinced that he was absolutely baffled at the start, by the way in which the game was transposed in the minds of the players.
Because as he was chatting on Minitel, he could clearly see what was happening. He clearly saw the logic of the players, as I see it today, in the solutions that I received, and it's true that on Minitel, we didn't make long sentences either, we didn't put 1000 characters each time eh, it was still quite concentrated, and for good reason, it was expensive and therefore it was a bit of the same atmosphere these exchanges. And he was confused and he said to himself, as he knew full well what his level of inexperience was, he said to himself Oh dear, I need to expand a little, I need to strengthen one little, I have to…, yes indeed, they are somewhat right to ask me that. And little by little, he added things, but which in fact were only the complement in his mind was only the missing complement of the initial project.
And through that, through these notions, he tried to improve, in a way to refine his game, but that, I think that was his first reaction to what was happening in the minds of the players and what he could see and read about it. And in a second step, for much more complex reasons and which I am beginning to know well now and to be able to place chronologically, he started to embroider, to smoke a little and add more. , but not from the start.
And I think that it's all these notions, this whole kind of infernal mechanism that was set in motion in the light of the exchanges with the players, it was to validate things like that for him, it was say Well yeah, actually what I did, maybe he's missing a little of this, maybe he's missing a little of that, he compensated, he carried out a compensation process by adopting concepts induced by the players to complete a hunt which initially was a little light, we'll say.