by Sean Hollister for www.gamecyte.com
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A mysterious job. A beautiful girl. A redacted government document. An empty packet of powder. What do these things have in common? That’s for you to discover, in a brand-new alternate reality game (ARG) currently dubbed Holomove.

Yesterday morning, several members of the ARG community received a rather strange package via UPS, which included a redacted letter, apparently from the United States Government Department of Energy; a paper crane, and an empty, cut-open packet of Emergen-C with a sticker attached to it. The sticker depicts three colored balls, connected by white beams in a three-dimensional arrangement.

CNET News’ Daniel Terdiman, a journalist known for his coverage of virtual worlds and ARGs in particular, was luckier — his document was intact. Written by one ‘Michael,’ the doc proved to be an internal memo from the Los Alamos National Laboratory — dated January 30, 1985 — and asking for the immediate resignation of a scientist named Eugene Gough.

Moreover, Terdiman’s package contained another sticker, which revealed that the colored-ball-assembly is the logo of Holomove, a company purportedly dealing in “next-generation user interfaces,” and whose impressive Flash website nearly makes us believe it.

Eugene Gough is dead. A young man with a penchant for puzzles and YouTube videos has recently been hired as Holomove’s lead developer. And Holomove is still hiring… and recruiting individuals as well. The community is actively analyzing audio, digging through social networks and tracking down the parties responsible.

Are you smart enough for Holomove?

Then down the rabbit hole you go.