Remember how I insisted a few months ago that Rachael Webster, the video game blogger behind PixelVixen707.com, was fake? The folks at GameSetWatch and I were convinced she was all part of an elaborate yet eloquent ruse to get people to buy JC Hutchins’ new book, Personal Effects: Dark Art.
Rachael Webster called us out. She’s real, and she’s willing to prove it.
Rachael Webster will be attending the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco next week shaking hands and passing out business cards. The first ten people to crack the puzzle on the back of the card and email a picture of themself holding the card to [email protected] will receive “something cool” from her friend Jessica.
During last week’s ARG Netcast, JC Hutchins talked about his work on the transmedia novel Personal Effects: Dark Art. Explaining the debate over Rachael Webster, Hutchins told us that “Rachael is Rachael. Rachael is real in a way that is really kind of brainbending and really cool…Rachael is as real as you want her to be.”
As for me, I’ll believe it when I see it. So if you receive the business card seen above from a snarky woman at the Game Developer’s Conference, convince her to take a picture with you, and send it to us at [email protected]. And if I’m wrong, I’ll commit myself to Brinkvale Psychiatric Hospital.
Click Here for our previous coverage on Rachael Webster and Personal Effects: Dark Art
infinite rabbit holes
postcurious
book of bill
meow wolf
escape rooms
generation loss
So, what happened? Did she show up?
She showed up, met video game developers and bloggers, and handed out her business cards.
You can read “Rachael’s” report on GDC here.
http://www.pixelvixen707.com/?cat=191
Sadly, no one managed to send ARGNet a picture of Rachael Webster, so I haven’t committed myself to the Brink yet, although I did read the novel.