Mar 05

Please Read and Sign

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SOME KIND OF AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is entered into by and between Mysteria Film Group, LLC (“Company”) and the individual readers (“Myst Fans”) in consideration of the covenants and promises contained below, Company and Myst Fans agree as follows:

1.  TIMELY UPDATE.  Company and its associated members shall make, in good faith, any and all reasonable efforts to communicate and inform Myst Fans of any changes or advancements made in the development of “Myst:  The Book of Ti’ana” (“The Project”) provided said information is not deemed confidential or sensitive by Company or its members, without delay.

For the purposes of This Agreement, “without delay” shall be defined as any period not exceeding two (2) months from the date of the preceding blog post, video post, press release, facebook update, myspace post, personal phone call to any or all Myst Fans, rooftop shouting, email, or electronic facsimile of any kind.

2.  REGULAR VISITS AND PARTICIPATION ON BLOG SITE.  Myst Fans shall make any and all reasonable efforts to gain access to the internets for the purposes of visiting, logging on to, signing into or navigating to mystmovie.com (“The Website”) and reading, taking in, consuming, absorbing, studying or edifying all posts made by Company in a timely manner.  Myst fans further certify that all good faith efforts will be made to read, take in, consume, absorb, study and edify any and all comments made by both Company and other Myst Fans in a timely manner.

For the purposes of This Agreement, “timely manner” shall be defined as any period not exceeding four (4) days.

3.  WITHHOLDING OF INFORMATION.  Company reserves the right to withhold or omit any information its associated members may deem to be sensitive, proprietary or confidential for any reason.  Company further reserves the right to withhold, and consequently not update The Website, with said information.  As per the provisions of article 1 of this document, if such information is all that is available at the time, said information will not be disclosed and the first posting of non-sensitive, non-proprietary, non-confidential information shall be construed as the first available information suitable for public dissemination.  Company shall also reserve the right to withhold any information it or its associated members deem to be boring, dull, uninteresting, mind-numbing, drab, banal, prosaic, blah, meh or otherwise without fear of reprisal from Myst Fans.  Any information pertaining to the granular details of business dealings, contract review, etc, shall be considered both confidential and mind-numbing by Company.

4.  LITIGATION.  Neither party may file a lawsuit in any court to assert a claim arising out of this greement before the parties have engaged in the mediation required by This Agreement.   In the event of failed mediation, This Agreement shall be classified as null and void with the exception of signed copies of This Agreement entered into by Company and any Myst Fans residing on the planet Mars where litigious action is both common and frequent.  Any lawsuit rising out of this Agreement may be filed in the state or federal courts of Mars (County of War).

5.   SECTION HEADINGS.  The headings of all sections of this Agreement are for the convenience of reference only and shall not be construed to govern, limit, modify, or otherwise interpret the terms of This Agreement.

6.   ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement contains the complete and full understanding and agreement between the parties, and supersedes all other agreements, whether written or oral. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except by a written document executed by Myst Fans and Company.

7.  CONSTRUCTION.  This Agreement shall not be construed against either party but if you really think about it, it’s kinda slanted toward Company.

8. SEVERANCE.  In the event a court of competent jurisdiction on the planet Mars and only the planet Mars determines that a provision of This Agreement is unenforceable as a matter of law, the remaining terms of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect as if the unenforceable provision was never a part of this Agreement.

___________________________                                  date:__________________

Individual Myst Fan

___Adrian Vanderbosch __________                                  date:__3/13/10__

Mysteria Film Group, LLC by:_Adrian Vanderbosch__

its:_Co-Founder/Manger___

Posted at 7:15 pm by Adrian in collaborators, communications, website
103 others write,
  • Sounds good to me!! But it looks like we’ll be making a field trip to Mars…

  • Oh! Should I print this, sign it, and mail it to you?! Because I can… and will!! :d

  • Yellow Monkeyreply

    So have you been reading any contracts lately? :)

  • Wait that read like a contract? I thought that’s how everyone writes now…

  • Sounds good to me. :)

  • Leiai of the D'nireply

    . . .wait—you have a facebook page? I can’t find it. How’s this–I’ll only sign if you tell us how to find it or make one. :)

    and thanks for the laugh. :)

  • If by “everyone” you mean “everyone you guys have met over the past three months,” then you’d probably be right Isaac.

  • I think I zoned out a few times reading that. I’m not sure if I agree with all of the withholding information section, but I’ll sign anyways. You drive a hard bargain.

  • Hence Mars, Phoenix!

  • I think I would seriously print, sign, and mail this if I had an address to do it with. I’ve already been keeping my side of the bargain anyways :)
    However, this kind of feels like Adrian is judging us…
    :adrianjudgingface:
    See! He is!

  • You guys are dorks. Looooove you!

  • ahaha, signed, gentlemen.

  • I see what you did there – preventing litigation barring residency on Mars. That’s certainly one way to light a fire under the space program ;)

  • Quit fooling around and get back to work!

  • Ok so mabye I missunderstood but if I get it right we will be getting new news in 4 days and also again in 3 months? Does this mean that the film will be shot on Mars? Please clarify me if I am wrong.

  • Did you pick Mars because of the whole “man” thing, or purely for it’s popularity?

  • Hm, there should be a student provision. What if finals or other school related issues come up that take someone away from a computer for a week plus. Or what if someone joins the peace corp or something similar and are sent to some remote part of the world with no internet access? Then what? Are they exiled to Mars? Narayan? Esher’s age? How are they sent there? By a jet? Shuttle craft? Bahro express? Do you accept bribes? If so, in monetary gifts? Linking books? Cookies? And how would the bribes be delivered? Under the table? Passed along through an old oak tree? By carrier Squee? Or would one have to solve some difficult puzzle?
    Please contact my lawyer at (xxx) xxx-xxxy to discuss these details ;-)

  • I WANT MY LAWYER!

  • So, I sign the screen?

    Done!

    Wait, may I should have held out for more.

  • scribble scribble scribble write write write scratch scratch sc– SNAP!

    Oh, man, and I just bought that pen today, too!

  • This was like reading one of the journals in the cavern…where’s the linking page?

    Ubi o ubi, est mea sub ubi?

  • If Dr. Manhattan is a Myst fan (and hey, why wouldn’t he be?) we’ve got nothing to worry about. The first thing we’ll do is nullify Section 3. Then we’ll get the blue buff guy to synthesize enough gold to fund this project and see it to completion, and if any pesky executives stick their interfering noses too much into you guys’ business, he’ll teleport them to Mars (with an air supply, of course :) ).

  • Signed,
    Cho
    P.O. Box 233 Riven
    Except it should be no longer than every one month even if there’s no news. (Just to keep the archives by month streak of active months going)

  • I agree! :-)

  • EyeDE 06-Mar-2010.

    Soooo, I have to stop lurking….

  • Correct. NO MORE LURKING! It’s hard to find the time to post with all that’s going on in our lives and this project. The continued support of AS MANY FANS AS POSSIBLE goes a long way! :)
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    Seriously, though, thanks for hanging in there with us. It means a lot to know you guys are out there.
    _
    Back to contracts and the like…

  • Well, at least we know that they’re alive. :)

  • Speaking of, when is the video blog coming back? You don’t have to talk about contracts, ummm you can talk about what kinds of ice cream you like maybe? I’d be interested. Oh and Adrian has already had his pass in front of the camera so it’s someone else’s turn now. :mrgreen:

  • Kave-roy was here
    –m(^0^)m–

  • Sounds good, but you forgot smoke signals in the communication section of the timely update paragraph. And by the way, does anyone have the number for Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe con-artists-I mean, Attorneys at Law?

  • Chrury Sansonreply

    Very well. Consider me a supportive non-lurker from now on. Keep living the dream. d(^_^)

    Can we assume the two month period starts with the posting of this contract?

  • Yay! I knew my bribes to Martian judicial personnel would come in handy some day! Next, all those Nigerian princes will start sending me my money back!
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    “P.O. Box 233 Riven”
    So we have the same P.O. Box? http://www.mystcommunity.com/board/index.php?showuser=8593 I was wondering where all the precious linking book supplies I had mailed to me disappeared to!
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    “Speaking of, when is the video blog coming back? You don’t have to talk about contracts, ummm you can talk about what kinds of ice cream you like maybe? I’d be interested. Oh and Adrian has already had his pass in front of the camera so it’s someone else’s turn now. ”
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    Yes, this should come back. Maybe combined with the “rooftop shouting” part (and the “personal phone call to… all Myst Fans” to – Adrian will have to shout into a giant phone held over the roof for about two days as we each get a short message repeated over and over).
    :adrianface:

  • *comes out of hiding*
    Let’s see…. If I sign, no more lurking. If I don’t, I can lurk all I want, but can’t complain if they don’t give any updates in a timely manner. Hmmmm…. choices. The blue pages or the red pages…. You don’t happen to have a green page do you?
    *goes back into hiding*

  • Leiai of the D'nireply

    okay–so I just made my own fan facebook group–join why don’t you all–its name is

    Fans of the Myst Movie: The Book of Ti’ana

    hope to see some of you there :)

  • Hehe…..guess I should stop lurking, too XD I actually forgot this blog existed for a while *dodges angry glares*. But now I will bookmark it and come back as often as humanly possibly. :D

  • I check this site every day. Does that mean I should post ever day too?

  • Mister Cloakreply

    [insert witty and insightful comment about the contract here]

  • Wow, seriously? Haha, so this is what you guys have been working on so hard for the past couple weeks/months (I lost track). I’ll do my best to post regularly but its been hard to do much of anything lately thats not college related. :(
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    I would totally sign that……seriously……I will print it out this second and sign it………..I will. :D
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    Well guys (and gals) I was already in the stages of building a rocket ship to Mars to escape a lot of drama at the time but now that its all been sorted out i’ll be more than happy to give it to you guys to use. Seriously, its sitting right out back. :P

  • Oh, and I apologize…..its been awhile since I’ve posted. I would have posted earlier but I don’t play Uru so I didn’t really know what to say. :P lol

  • Put my name on the line! :D

  • The contract looks failr.

    Meanwhile, just as proof that the Mysterium team do keep up here, post a local weather report daily. Nothing detailed. Just a general observation.

  • Signed, and thanks for the update.

  • Mars is out of the question, seeing as I’m several billion light years from home (without a book). NOT signing this is likewise out of the question. Must maintain wifi as long as possible…
    *leaves to build a bigger receiver dish for his ship*
    p.s. Someone filch a stargate and send coffee please. I hear Best Buy is out, so dont bother there.

  • Legal jargon ZzzZzzzzzz*snort* More updates are in the deal? Sign me up!

  • Nathan Heiseyreply

    Yay, update!
    [electronic signature]

  • I agree except for that bit in section 3 about withholding information that is deemed boring of uninteresting. Come on.. you know we live for that kind of stuff.

  • My attorney, Zorg the 7th (as in Dimension), will be serving you with new terms within the week.

  • myst fanaticreply

    I’m seriously printing this thing out and sending it to you guys to sign!!!!!!! You think i’m joking? You just wait…. you’re going to get like 50 different contracts to sign from us myst fanatics! :) :patrickjudgingface: :adriandeadface: :ridiculous:
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    “Company shall also reserve the right to withhold any information it or its associated members deem to be boring, dull, uninteresting, mind-numbing, drab, banal, prosaic, blah, meh or otherwise.” You guys must really be having your mind melt with all that paperwork aren’t you? Made me laugh though… here, have a cookie and relax *throws a cookie*
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    Love you guys! You are a beautiful person Adrian! Patrick…. maybe if he posted more :P ;) :lol:

  • Signed.
    Keep us in the loop, guys, and well done!

  • I’ve been following this since Adrian long ago pretended to “find” this site and lurked ever since. Does this mean that my lurking days are legally at their end?

  • In regards to the active participation, here we go…
    To any and all who care to respond, what is your favorite personal hygiene product (i.e. shampoos, hair gells, lipstick, etc.)?
    Mine is deodorant :-)
    P.s. still not signing until I get a lawyer ;-)

  • Made my day!!

    “Any lawsuit rising out of this Agreement may be filed in the state or federal courts of Mars (County of War).”

    Have I told you how amazing you are lately?

  • *signs with federal pin*

  • Signed, consider this post me not lurking

  • Myst Fanaticreply

    “Mysteria Film Group is presently unable to accept any unsolicited submissions via hard copy, direct mail, electronic mail or any other media. It is the policy of Mysteria Film Group to destroy any such submissions without review or consideration.” :(
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    So I guess you won’t be getting a contract with my signature on it…. *tear* Ah, well, You’ve got my signature anyway; in big, messy, chickenscratch letters all over the paper! Stay awesome guys….!

  • solid. signed. soon you guys will be texting using legal language. ” …and therefore by reading herein text message you agree to…. “

  • Robert The Rebuilderreply

    I’ll sign it as soon as you redefine “without delay” in section 1 to “one (1) month”. Otherwise you’ll have a gap in the Archives calendar (found at the top left). You currently have an unbroken streak of (at least) monthly posts since November ’07.

    Don’t break the streak!!!

  • Robert The Rebuilderreply

    P.S. Note that I replied in a “timely manner” ;-)

  • As I mentioned above, Robert. Keep the streak!!!

  • Signed!

  • Sign:slider( Justin Sherman ) date: 03/092010
    ———————————– —————-
    Individual Myst Fan

    Sign: Myst Movie People date: When I have a free moment
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    Mysteria Film Group, LLC by: Not Mars related
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    its: Earth Bound
    ——————-

  • Sounds fair. Signed! And no more lurking, mmmmkay.

  • I have a condition to add to the contract: those most faithful Myst fans who have been checking this site every day with high hopes and so often have walked away disappointed should at least receive complimentary coffee and doughnuts for our trouble. 2 months is entirely too long – we’re going to forget why we even come here. Funny, I can’t remember that fellow’s name . . . Andrew, Adam, Andre . . . oh yes, Adrian. And who’s Patrick? Hm, maybe you’d better put your names on here more often. . . .

    signed, an impatient but totally dedicated lurker

  • Signed! We like knowing if you’re alive, even if you don’t give us a substantial update :)

  • WHAT why can’t I lurk anymore

    oh well. Keep up the good work, y’all.

  • Signed. That’s all I can think of at the moment.
    Ummmm…
    Keep up the good work!

  • Waitwaitwait… so according to the contract I have to visit every four days, but only expect updates every two months? So what am I doing on the website if I should only expect new content 7 percent of the time?

    And seeing as this post is probably considered an update, we have another two months to go before the next one! And according to the contract, “electronic facsimile ” could certainly include merely comments to a post, so two months after the most recent comment… “kinda slanted toward Company” indeed.

    :P

  • Personally, I’d like to contest the “without delay” definition and suggest it be “one month” instead of “two months”. Even if it’s just another video of Adrian just randomly chatting into the camera. Just saying.

  • In order to “edify any and all comments made by both Company and other Myst Fans in a timely manner,” I shall now give my obligatory fourth-day edification post-thing. Ahem. Keep up the “good” “work” everyone! :P

  • That’s why you don’t sign… that way you can lurk and post to your heart’s content! :-)
    Now it’s Random-crap- de- jeur time (my French is bad so if this is misspelled/ bad grammar/ or whatever, my apologies to the French):
    http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/24/all-black-penguin-discovered.html
    Who knew that even penguins can go emo ;-)

  • Hmmm, well maybe not so much emo as goth…
    but emo sounds cooler

  • I will lurk unless I have something worth saying. Flowerpower: “jour,” not “jeur.”

  • Am I the only one who had to look in the Urban Dictionary to figure out what ”lurking” means? I wanted to make sure if you meant for us to post more often or less often. I guess I was a lurker!

  • I’ve never been very good at lurking. The best I can usually do is try to stay away from computers, but seeing as how I work with them all day, that’s kind of hard.

  • “Waitwaitwait… so according to the contract I have to visit every four days, but only expect updates every two months? So what am I doing on the website if I should only expect new content 7 percent of the time?”
    _
    The contract’s provisions do not preclude us from posting more frequently than every two months. They simply require us to post AT LEAST every two months…BUT, that’s only if we have something fit for posting as defined by the provisions of the contract. Get it?

  • Worldsurfer: Thanks! Good thing i had the disclaimer to save my butt :-)

  • This lurking habbit is harder to break than I thought. Laziness, my old foe….we meet again!

  • But you need to post at least once every month so that each number on the month counter is full! :(

  • I Submit the motion to change the 2 month period to 1 month. Who will second me?

  • I now call a vote to pass the motion.

  • magic88889, you have my vote. :)

  • You have my vote too!

  • Count me in! :D
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    *looks around*
    Has anybody seen my Tron DVD? I just saw the new trailer for the sequel and I wanna rewatch the old one. I think I left it somewhere around here…
    *wanders off*

  • Yeah sure, my vote……whatever. JK!!! :D You got it 100%!

  • I can’t help but find this laughable. Everyone is contentedly signing away their souls while I see no signature in return. Yes indeed, that Mysteria Film Group line remains conspicuously blank even now. Hahaha!

  • Nice touch with the contract, I’ll keep coming back every day do see how the movie is coming along *^_^*

  • So this means we’re all going to Mars, right?

    And Dr. Worm? The new Tron trailer looks absolutely sick… in a good way =D

  • “Correct. NO MORE LURKING! It’s hard to find the time to post with all that’s going on in our lives and this project. The continued support of AS MANY FANS AS POSSIBLE goes a long way! :)

    I’m here, and will be here.. thanks & good luck.

  • Point taken on the signature issue. I’ve resolved that problem. Sorry to all who felt the provision regarding the time frame of posts should have been lowered. This is the contract. Take it or leave it :)
    _
    Just watched the Tron trailer myself. It really seems to have captured the same tone I remember feeling when I watched the original so many years ago. This may just be me projecting my own experience onto the trailer, but it felt so familiar to me. In my mind, that is one of the most important aspects for a sequel to a successful film to achieve. It must feel like it belongs with the original. I’m officially excited. Wasn’t so much when I saw the vfx test footage, but now…

  • Nicely done! We now have a return signature, Alright then, I’ll sign over my own soul in that case. Let me get out my graphics tablet. :) There, done! You now own my soul! I love this place!

  • Haha you Americans write dates so funny. Incidentally if I sign now it would nullify the contract because in the US it won’t be a real date. I’m aiming for April first… :mrgreen:

  • I already have so many NDAs they can come and shoot me without even asking permission of the Sheriff, so what’s one more. Signed and sealed this 18th day of March, 2010

  • Junee: How do you write dates?

  • fair enough…lurkage over.

    signed!

  • Signed, although shorten “two months” in your end to “one month”, again for the purposes of an unbroken archive record.

  • The contract sounds fine. I have the page bookmarked to auto load when my browser starts so I do not miss any news. I have been following this project since the beginning of 2004. I’m anxious to see the project come to fruition. Signed.

  • -signed Aistis

    Alright, you’ll be seeing posts from me.

  • Ok I’ve been lurking long enough, too. Big fan of myst. Really, really, really hope to be seeing the movie soon.

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