ARG Discussion

[shadow crescent]

I miss the days

[lusty vale]

how long has it been?

[shadow crescent]

So so so very long

[full rivet]

It's been so long

[shadow crescent]

Since last I have seen my son

[full rivet]

Lost to this monster

[lusty vale]

To the man behind the slaughter

[full rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/fnaf-purple-guy-peepaw-gif-24730406

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/markiplier-dancing-dance-gif-13767859528905353994

[shadow crescent]

I’m bored

Can we get something

Pretty please

With an SCP 610 flesh anus on top

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-astartes-3d-art-nope-gif-16794679

[willow flame]

Hmm

[south fractal]

I think we're going to need a Psych ward section for people who can't deal with ARG withdrawals. XD

[lusty vale]

its more than just ARG withdrawals atp

[silent kite]

what if there never was an arg and bishop is just a lord of change fucking with us

[south fractal]

Doesn't feel Tzeentch enough.

[shadow crescent]

Yeah us putting in our emails was the grande finale

No more seasons

That’s it

Just give our emails and names to Affray for shits and giigles

Giggles

[silent kite]

we gonna end up in a in-game doc following a mtf squad that consists of our dumbass names and each of us dieing some horrid death

[upbeat sonnet]

Honestly I could see us showing up in a post-release documentary on how they fucked with the community in the events leading up to 1.0

[south fractal]

David Attenborough voice
"And here we see the struggling community using what little brains they have to solve the simplest of riddles"

"Sometimes before they reach a conclusion another player will enter the chat, just to completely derail it"

[silent kite]

"they never even checked if the door was unlocked"

[south fractal]

"Although i wasn't alive during the era, i do believe that this, is what the dodo was like"

[shadow crescent]

Now I’m just imagining playing through the game with a newbie and they’re like “What’s this file about over here- says that a group of mtf did a lot of fucking up and eventually died of their own stupidity”

[south fractal]

xD

[shadow crescent]

Anyone here play modded Minecraft? I got a pack I made and no one else that I know wants to play rn

[silent kite]

mtf-alpha 6 "Bishop's Boys"

[upbeat sonnet]

For some reason I unironically fuck with this

[silent kite]

I cooked

[inner lance]

Here’s hoping we get some news this week

[silent kite]

so we all in agreeance that is our unofficial name?

[shadow crescent]

Yup

[silent kite]

[south fractal]

XD

[willow flame]

I'll keep that noted

[silent kite]

Bishop's will be done

[shadow crescent]

Let me know what changes to make

Lowkey might have to get a patch for my letterman

[willow flame]

Bishoooop, they've gotten so bored they've made a cult

[shadow crescent]

Nuh uh it’s just an mtf group with an obsession

Definitely not a cult

[silent kite]

YEAH WE CANON NOW BOIS

well technically not canon until bishop says we are

"mildly useful and deeply concerning"

https://tenor.com/view/perfection-perfect-michael-fassbender-magneto-x-men-first-class-gif-2260686001358167676

[lusty vale]

did you make this yourself?

[shadow crescent]

Eh it took a lot of prompting and iterating

Technically the KRYA.aic I made

But I prompted it

[lusty vale]

so you used ai

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-try-not-to-laugh-gif-7682731162751353849

[shadow crescent]

Yeah I’m actively at work

[lusty vale]

ok

[willow flame]

I might give redesigning this a try after work, from scratch. Tis the type of logo's I enjoy creating

[shadow crescent]

Absolutely! That way we can say it wasn’t ai generated

[willow flame]

I'll use it for a bit of reference, but that's about it haha

Don't expect anything super fancy, I think you can find some of the logos I've done in the player creations

[shadow crescent]

I’m expecting the most fanciful creation to ever grace this planet

It’ll rival the works of Davinci and Picasso!

[willow flame]

Great

I'll work on it when I'm off

[hardy ingot]

sick -- I've always wanted a cult

[hardy ingot]

where did you get this?

[shadow crescent]

AI, after feeding it a bunch of images from our chat logs here

So it’s well aware of our bullshitery

Minus some context I had to give it

[hardy ingot]

AI image?
Not worthy of my cult

[shadow crescent]

Unfortunately I was at work, generally I’d hop into canva and whip something up

I WAS AT WORK

I’ll make a new one shortly

[willow flame]

I'll also be working on one from scratch

[lusty vale]

no excuses

https://tenor.com/view/gun-db-shotgun-gif-21597283

[hardy ingot]

🫀 🤘 BUILD ME AN ARMY

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-live4ever-starship-troopers-gif-23699089

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/troopers-responsible-helpful-doing-my-part-gif-11496062726020391529

[crimson linden]

https://tenor.com/view/helldivers-salute-gif-8108032990738097175

[hardy ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/squashing-bugs-do-your-part-gif-9763764

[silent kite]

Bishop is this you canonizing a-6?

[hardy ingot]

Depends.

[silent kite]

oh?

[shadow crescent]

How’s this

[lusty vale]

hmmmmmm

[lusty vale]

not AI?

[willow flame]

That gives me ideas

[shadow crescent]

No I spent the last like half hour to forty minutes working on that in canva

[shadow crescent]

I can make another if you don’t like it but you’ll have to give me another 30-45 minutes

[lusty vale]

what does this prove?

looks like you just copy pasted it into canva

[full rivet]

It's got the piss filter and the SCP logo definitely wasn't made by an actual person

[lusty vale]

yeah that too

[full rivet]

Also it has shadows around the chess piece that appear randomly halfway down

I see mistakes here that could only actually be made by a person if it were to be an SVG but canva isn't an SVG editor and the shadows, grain, and colors also don't fit an SVG

Also what are the weird lines in the center SCP logo coming from the chess piece

[shadow crescent]

Okay then, since we’ve last talked I laid down on my bed and had to do this on mobile. I found a different chess piece and foundation logo

And even left a little signature right above “bishop’s boys”

[lusty vale]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1120427720715804753/1338675910328451133/sterling_reaction.gif

[shadow crescent]

Anything I should add or change before I feel like writing out a whole document with that logo attached to the Alpha-6 dossier

[lusty vale]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/468632331712987157/1369438176074272808/44851428-116B-4C6F-9328-31FCC4E68654.gif

[shadow crescent]

@willow flame How’s your logo going since mine sucks

[willow flame]

I just got home

I'll be starting in a couple minutes

[shadow crescent]

Alr bet

[willow flame]

@shadow crescent

[shadow crescent]

I love it!

[willow flame]

Hopefully this one is worthy of Bishop

No AI, all done in good ol paint.net lmaooo

[silent kite]

https://tenor.com/view/graves-shadows-thats-what-im-talking-about-gif-27616565

^live footage of bishop seeing us make a-6

theory: bishop just wants a small paramilitary organization to be the head of

[south fractal]

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[willow flame]

Goodnight Alpha-6, I'll be listening.

[south fractal]

Night

[upbeat sonnet]

We got an MTF???

Let's goooo

[upbeat sonnet]

Silenced's one is really fucking cool

[upbeat sonnet]

But I also fuck with this one

Just came to mind that most MTFs have mottos

[vagrant ginkgo]

source?

[silent kite]

spaceman, my one off joke of an idea has taken form

we all shall unite under the banner of alpha-6 with bishop at our helm

[upbeat sonnet]

I'm so proud of you 🥹

[upbeat sonnet]

The motto could be "Maybe next week we'll get something "

[silent kite]

@shadow crescent motto time

and archi i just dont want to tag him

dont want to possibly disturb sleep

[full rivet]

made it the fuck up

[silent kite]

the whimsical world of scp

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-metal-gear-rising-revengeance-senator-armstrong-revengeance-i-made-it-the-fuck-up-gif-25029602

[shadow crescent]

My brother in Christ

What

[silent kite]

atleast he likes the patch

[upbeat sonnet]

"YOu bUrNeD mY pAtCH"

[willow flame]

I'll make the change as soon as I get home

[hardy ingot]

what is this patch for again?

[shadow crescent]

Our MTF unit

[silent kite]

yup

[willow flame]

(they mean your cult)

[silent kite]

more like personal strike force

[south fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-bart-simpson-join-us-sit-here-gif-15631014

[willow flame]

As the Archivist I am unsure if that is within my boundaries of reality

[shadow crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-darkside-star-wars-evil-innerme-gif-14818845

I’m gonna start working on the official Alpha 6 dossier tonight so if you want to be in it create some sort of character for yourself with moderate backstory as to how you joined the foundation

[willow flame]

Should I make it red?

[south fractal]

I mean, make a red and see how it looks compared? I like the b/w so far.

[south fractal]

I terminator'd my way into a mtf-6 shitposting. I stood there naked until they clothed me, gave me a gun and pointed me at my first scp. I am. The Bishoponator. XD

[inner lance]

Anyone have any ideas as to why the ammo crate in the latest leaks image is red instead of green? Or if those are letters on the side?

[willow flame]

Thats cause the b/w is the standard MTF logo type design

[silent kite]

we might get turned into a Easter egg if bishop likes a-6 enough

[silent kite]

tho I kid, we just needed something to do so you are apart of this now

[silent kite]

unless...

[crimson linden]

Here's hoping

[sleek lance]

it appears that i've escaped hibernation

did anything new happen

[upbeat sonnet]

Welcome back, we assembled an MTF

[sleek lance]

ooh

interesting

[silent kite]

I made a joke AND WE FUCKIN RAN WITH IT

[silent kite]

and as for how this mtf gets members you are now a member no ifs ands or buts

[shadow crescent]

Just like the real foundation, you don’t have a choice

[brave ivy]

i was gonna say what is this communism

[upbeat sonnet]

Guys, I think we have an undercover GRU-P agent in our midst

[brave ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-simpson-hide-in-shrubs-hiding-in-bushes-disappear-into-hedges-embarrassed-gif-24183287

[sleek lance]

woo

can't wait to uhhh

have my head explode after seeing whatever that thing on the screens is

[upbeat sonnet]

Can't wait to "die"

[willow flame]

Death is but a construct of life, do not worry as you will be archived all the same.

[silent kite]

and put in to new bodies because I dont think we can ever die unless bishop wills it

[shadow crescent]

Hey guys

Based on how long it’s been and how long we probably have left to go

I’ll have a hyper advanced AI I’ve been coding/training that’ll help us out 😎

That means another containment breach!

It ain’t ready yet

But

It’s a lot more powerful than that KRYA.aic I did with ChatGPT

[south fractal]

Aimatron 3000 comin' atcha.

[shadow crescent]

Area-12 gets warped into 3008

[willow flame]

I swear, better not be no more containment breaches, just be patient, or you will risk termination

My question however is has anyone taken a closer look at that new teaser image? Did anything come up or is it just a brightened image

[shadow crescent]

I figured it was unrelated to the ARG

I can take a look at it when I get home though

[shadow crescent]

Mainly because I figured the next thing we’d get is the email

[willow flame]

Fair

I'm sure Bishop is cooking something up

[shadow crescent]

Oh yeah I’m super hyped for when the email drops

He’s probably upgrading everything given how deep we look into everything

Or

We’re looking in too deep again and it’s gonna wind up being some 3rd grade riddle

[south fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/cooking-master-chef-gif-5958489123617461433

[willow flame]

Man if it's a third grade riddle we ain't solving it

[shadow crescent]

But as long as it’s some sort of multilevel ponzai scheme or conspiracy theory we got it

[silent kite]

we barely solved a first grade level riddle

[willow flame]

This is true

[lusty vale]

arg cancelled ong

[shadow crescent]

Nah Bishop is getting in contact with multiple government officials to set up physical clues and tasks for us to complete like fucking geocache

[willow flame]

Bro, I don't wanna travel the globe lmaooo

[silent kite]

nah we gonna get kidnapped

[upbeat sonnet]

I'd love to travel half the world with my grandpa and his friends, fighting off silly people on the way, only for our journey to end in Egypt for some reason

[south fractal]

Kidnapped? Y'all would do it willingly xD

[south hull]

Hey, guys, have you received any emails from Area-12?

[silent kite]

nope but we did make a new mtf squad

[south hull]

Interesting

It seems that we are about to enter the next stage

[shadow crescent]

Hey chat I got my email

I’m only 8 hours away from Sugar Grove, WV

Brb

[upbeat sonnet]

Look up the coordinates, steganograph the background, and pray to 343 that there's something hiding in there!!!

[shadow crescent]

Coordinates only lead to Sugar Grove

[upbeat sonnet]

Shit

Nothing useful in there, I take it?

[shadow crescent]

I’m taking a trip to Sugar Grove to find out

[upbeat sonnet]

It'd be so sick if you actually were

And found a Marketable Plushie on the exact location of the coordinates

[hardy ingot]

Please don't get arrested -- the coordinates are not meant to be traveled to. Is fictional.

[brave ivy]

that would be funny though

[shadow crescent]

I am actively on a road trip to Sugar Grove

I yearn for Area 12

/j unfortunately

[upbeat sonnet]

It's so funny and so sad at the same time that the ARG has gotten to the point where you need to tell us this lmao

[hardy ingot]

Unless...the discouragement is a ruse

ITS NOT

but what if...

[shadow crescent]

Okay so Bishop said I need to get packing

I better find some sort of marketable plush there with some dev signatures

Or I guess a clue would be nice

[upbeat sonnet]

You.. you are evil

[willow flame]

No, he is Bishop

[vale vault]

What if that is the same

[upbeat sonnet]

And I... am Iron Man

[shadow crescent]

But I… am inevitable

[willow flame]

Hmm

[upbeat sonnet]

And I'm In-

https://tenor.com/view/invulnerable-gif-22484955

[shadow crescent]

Cue Title Card

[willow flame]

[upbeat sonnet]

Btw did we ever choose on a official mtf logo?

I've been busy and can't remember

[shadow crescent]

The one archivist made I assumed

[upbeat sonnet]

That's the one with the folders and the tendrils right?

[shadow crescent]

Yuh

[willow flame]

Is there anything we want changed, added or removed with the logo(dunno if I will actually get to it, but I'm curious)

[vale vault]

Probably we should just simplify it a little

[upbeat sonnet]

I really like your design and the ideas behind it, but I'd like to make a suggestion of my own, given that right now I don't have the time nor the skill to make it myself

I'd place the bishop piece at the top and instead of the folder icons, I'd connect the tendrils from the bishop to the pawns with a center most folder

Just an idea

[vale vault]

Maybe place bishop behind the pawns as on the board?

[willow flame]

While I enjoy that idea, my original idea was those folders were like data, all stemming from bishop if that makes sense

[willow flame]

I'll keep that in mind

[upbeat sonnet]

Yes, it totally does, that's what I took from it the first time I saw it

[vale vault]

Anyway. I just reread #1384745402720452649 & #1384748854175469709 and will try to write my analysis about the messages. Idk how useful it will be and whether there will be repetitions of the ideas already mentioned

But my main guess is that there's some metamemetics stuff we should get because it will be important in the future

[upbeat sonnet]

I'm trying to add to your symbolism in a less obvious way, a folder to the center and below the bishop would imply that it holds all the data and controls the pawns

[vale vault]

At least last messages in #1384748854175469709

[willow flame]

Noted, I'll see if I get to it

[shadow crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/flint-and-steel-goon-and-slop-goon-and-slop-gif-16005542429510713299

[vale vault]

Well here (#1384748854175469709 message) we see user inquiry about RRH:

// inquiry logged – source masked

>> CRIUS-8: "RRH belongs to the [REDACTED] protocol. Controlled by the [REDACTED]."

// [trace level: suppressed]
// awaiting further contact...

Crius answering [REDACTED]. Classics.

That is the moment when the most interesting thing appears in the CRIUS-8 logs. Some terminal user (hereinafter referred to as user) communicates with CRIUS and asks it about RRH, more likely part of PROTOCOL FOUNDATION, because:

1. Crius don't know what is that => 3+ clearance (2018 Crius is clearance level 2 see pic. 1)
2. Crius refers to Sublevel 3, what is obviously connected with Protocol Foundation (pic. 2)
   As we know Protocol Foundation is omnicide. My theory here is that user trying to get information from Crius about where and what is happening, while metamemetics division is looking conva (see "Something else is here. Please be careful with your questions.")

It can be somebody from another timeline (just as Pietro) or just random Foundation guy who thinks that "omnicide is bad thing btw".

At least that guy:

1. Know Dr. Hugo and Dr. Toth
2. Know what is WILD LIGHT
3. Thought that there's containment breach, even when there's no breach

One way or another, after the question about WILD LIGHT, the metamemetics probably entered the kill command, trying not to screw everything up too fast:

// INTERRUPT SIGNAL ISSUED [SRC: SYSTEM ADMIN]
// OVERRIDE CONFIRMED → /kill.crius

The main questions is:

• Who tf it was
• What is RRH. It doesn't sound like typical terminus procedure Foundation is preparing (at least because information about that is in Sublevel 3)

I still don't have any good ideas about the rest of the logs, except maybe trying to figure out the usage of the ∆ symbol (which refers to 5000-∆)

||oh, and sure: user can be Adam Wheeler||

[south fractal]

I didnt get my email >:|

[vale vault]

And I have no idea who is Arly

[shadow crescent]

Check promotions

Or spam

[south fractal]

Cheers. Under promotions xD

[shadow crescent]

Yaaaa that’s how it was for me

[silent kite]

ask krisp HE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO ARLY

[shadow crescent]

I have no idea who arly is

[vale vault]

Somebody important, but at the same time nowhere mentioned

Bishop either baiting or trolling idk

ok

that makes sense

Arly is subject who was the foundation for HOMINID hence for Crius.aic

The reason why Crius is (I suppose) have unusual feelings as for .aic and shows "extraordinary behavior"

[hardy ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/lurk-peek-sneak-george-clooney-gif-17585314

[vale vault]

https://tenor.com/view/peter-capaldi-doctor-who-12th-doctor-doctor-disco-doctor-mysteryo-gif-18171687243917017662

Well it's definitely not 12th doctor

I also have no clue what Toth wanted to say here. Ch-...

Chorus??

W40K reference

[full rivet]

That was us in the server talking to it, not a character

[vale vault]

Wow

well

Im mad then

[full rivet]

It's a very good idea to raid real government property

Nothing can go wrong

Also I didn't get an email for some reason

[upbeat sonnet]

Finally back at my desk after a week out

Feels good man

Despite the absolute bat-shit crazy week I'm gonna have starting tomorrow with work

Feels good

The bros are conspiring

Seminar emails are being sent

There is much pain the world

But not in this server

[silent kite]

fym? WE ARE THE PAIN

[upbeat sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/propain-progain-colorful-hank-hill-king-of-the-hill-gif-13704031

[shadow crescent]

@hardy ingot this you?

[inner lance]

This just got posted to their yt channel, I’m gonna run the phrase through some basic cipher decoders

Fnpaf ms tpqmaugo if ukcxbwj #8

[upbeat sonnet]

We're back in business guys!!

Alpha-6 roll out! (note: we need a catch phrase)

[inner lance]

"WE HAVE A COLLECTIVE IQ OF 75!!!"

I tried running it through dcode.com, no match on anything. It's probably a vigenere cipher, but I've got no clue what the keyword could be

[upbeat sonnet]

Just throwing it out there but try "buddy" as a keyword

[inner lance]

Dearn to goodllov es titise

it kinda worked?

how did you know?

wait nvm, it was showing most likely

Got it, keyword was 'dclass'

"Clean up required in chamber #8"

I take it back, our IQ is 150

[upbeat sonnet]

Do you follow Affray on Instagram?

[upbeat sonnet]

Makes sense. Good job man!

[inner lance]

yeah, but I don't really use insta anymore, was there a clue there? also thanks! here's hoping the next one isn't too much harder to solve lmao

[shadow crescent]

They’ve posted the same 2 clues all across their social medias

Insta, yt, Reddit

[inner lance]

gotcha

[silent kite]

no no we are less than room temperature

[inner lance]

Well, I gotta go to a couple meetings, keep an eye out for more clues, ||even though this is pretty much a dead giveaway for the gamemode lol||

[willow flame]

Great Job, figured out another one

[silent kite]

just dont say anything is easy next time for all of our sakes

[willow flame]

Grade 1 riddle ensues

[upbeat sonnet]

Yeah, but I think the image Tacit found in YT is unique to that platform, might be worth looking into

[full rivet]

I originally assumed it was a ceaser cipher since they gave us a number

But, no

they used a ceaser cipher before and just let us guess the number too

this is not how puzzle solving works guys

[upbeat sonnet]

I apologize but I don't understand anything of what you just said

[silent kite]

im gonna disagree with you here man, what tacit found kinda makes sense

[full rivet]

Tacit guessed that it would be DCLASS

[silent kite]

he guessed and got a damn fine answer

[full rivet]

I'm not saying it's incorrect

It's correct

"guys" is in reference to the devs

most of the ciphers they've used for this have just been guessing to get the answer

[silent kite]

then you need to work on your wording man

[full rivet]

I said that after talking about how they had us guess the answer to another puzzle

Also I don't know how you could possibly assume that I was saying the answer was wrong

I specifically said it's not a ceaser cipher

[shadow crescent]

LEAK

[upbeat sonnet]

There's some text at the bottom that I can't make out

[inner lance]

Might be the start of a teaser video for the update? Like an in-universe guide for new d-class personnel, where they explain what they'll be doing?

Like the black mesa teaser? Starts off normal, dissolves into chaos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVYJ9o6Bddo

[silent kite]

do we possibly have any references to T.I.V.E. anywhere?

[full rivet]

No

[upbeat sonnet]

What is that?

[silent kite]

Team of internal video education

T.I.V.E.

[upbeat sonnet]

Ah okay, didn't make the association

[willow flame]

I'll add these images tagged with their decoded messages later

I know they aren't directly related to the Arg, at least I'm not sure but I figured I might as well

[inner lance]

"Ready deployment of subjects #9857 #7814 and #1442"

those are probably d-class numbers, since there isn't yet an scp filed under the 9857 title

same keyword as before, 'dclass'

I honestly thought they would've changed the keyword lmao

[silent kite]

Woooooooo!

REJECT NAMES EMBRACE THE NUMBERS

[willow flame]

Already have

[silent kite]

FOR WE SHALL BE PAWNS IN BISHOP'S GREAT MACHINE

praise be the omnissiah!

[willow flame]

Bishop's the Omnissiah now??

[silent kite]

omnissiah, emperor, bishop aren't they all the same thing to a-6

tho I personally prefer the names, architect of fate, weaver of destinies, great conspirator

bishop has a 50/50 chance of being tzeentch or the emperor of mankind

[willow flame]

Or he's just, ya know, Bishop

[silent kite]

thats what i said no

[willow flame]

Sure.. Whatever you say

[silent kite]

so im gonna go back to performing rituals to appease the machine spirit in my laptop and try to make it through water treatment without the game crashing

[shadow crescent]

All hail the mighty Bishop

[hardy ingot]

Y’all are gonna be severely disappointed in my lack of omnipotence

[shadow crescent]

Nah we’re like 97% sure you’re both omnipotent and omnipresent

[lusty vale]

glaze

[willow flame]

Cult moment over here

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/nxs-cube-cornball-ball-corn-gif-2361257093465839159

[shadow crescent]

GOon

[lusty vale]

Goon?

no

[shadow crescent]

yes

[lusty vale]

blocking you

[shadow crescent]

: (

https://tenor.com/view/baki-baking-anime-anime-fight-apple-fritter-gif-19725295

[silent kite]

you see all who doubt a true god knows when to be humble

[hardy ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/stilgar-goon-part-2-gif-3581758696321028367

[south fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/nice-south-park-gif-17950420

[full rivet]

Volunteer test stock has been depleted by 35.7%. Fresh recruits are needed to move forward.

[inner lance]

I wonder if it’s possible to align all the leaks together to create one large image, or if they’re all completely separate images

[old fjord]

Good idea

[sleek lance]

is this just caesar cypher

[silent kite]

correction: no

[inner lance]

no, it's vigenere, the keyword is 'dclass'

[foggy roost]

i guess they're gonna have to do some outlast trials type recruitment then

[indigo drift]

I have little knowledge regarding what process has been made for this ARG, I don't have the slightest idea as to how, and this may already be known but (as I just said here #👾5k_chat message) I found the word BLIND next to Arthur R. Forde III's name. Given what I do know this seems that it could potentially be or could have been relevant, likely as the keyword to a cypher. It is also completely possible that it is only their for literary purposes and to hint at system influence related to SCP-7528 but I highly doubt it given that it is in font size 0 and somebody would either have to be searching every pixel of the page or find it randomly like I did

I also just found a bunch more text, I'll work on getting it all

with the text copied over to google docs and resized

[full rivet]

Not for the ARG

[inner lance]

Anyone got a clue what the latest leak is supposed to be? Like are those lines painted in blood? And I think that sign says Image?

[full rivet]

I don't think they're painted in blood

[silent kite]

that would be metal af if it is blood

[shadow crescent]

Bloody hell

[inner lance]

I guess it could be paint, but I think blood feels more thematically appropriate

[full rivet]

Blood doesn't make sense

[south fractal]

Far to static and straight for blood. Not enough splatter or other markings. I'd say it's paint.

[lusty vale]

Community so desperate they talking about paint😭🙏🥀

[willow flame]

Hmm

[shadow crescent]

We may be slightly clinically insane

[willow flame]

You might have a very minor case of serious brain damage

[silent kite]

just minor?

[shadow crescent]

Yeah just a minor case of major brain damage

[gusty lynx]

Ive been browsing these threads to see whats up with the ARG. So far it seems pretty interesting, went past level 1 with the code and registered myself for the seminar updates. Saw this image and it seemed like a binary sequence. I tried decoding part of it by writing the empty logos as 0 and the complete ones as 1 but couldnt get a comprehensible result.

Has anyone tried that or am I onto nothing?

[shadow crescent]

We haven’t tried that, but we have run all available images through various tests like steganography and color shifting

I had a thought one of coloring in all of the blank logos or filling in the non blank logos

But I was too lazy

Seeing if there where any hidden messages that way

[gusty lynx]

The thing is, binary strings use 8 numbers for 1 character. To make it easier for me and to not get lost I decided to divide each segment into lil bits of 8. The amount of characters is divisible by 8 as shown.

[shadow crescent]

Yaa

[gusty lynx]

Probably a red herring or something else, might have to run the binary sequence through another kind of cypher or decryption thing

[shadow crescent]

If you send whatever text you got from the binary translator I can run it through our ai to detect any cyphers

[gusty lynx]

Ill finish writing the rest of the sequence and then dump it here in case its needed

Alright let me see what I got

[shadow crescent]

Sounds good

[gusty lynx]

Its a very small chunk still but it might give something

[shadow crescent]

If it’s not complete yet don’t worry

I’m probably gonna pass out soon

It’s 6:00am for me and I haven’t slept

[gusty lynx]

¿W{í¿V®þ¶ü¿“™¯>¯[Þ÷½¬Ú»ì~gÜïÿÏîϮ‹mwÿs¡îå¶ßM߫ïOõüeOUóî׿Wí¿V®þ¶X¿“™¯<¯

Just one chunk, but some of the characters dont have a hexadecimal value and thus cant be printed out

[shadow crescent]

Off

Odd*

I doubt it’ll be any sort of cypher, maybe, but not likely based off of the characters

[gusty lynx]

Alright, I finished the transcription of the image to binary, though it goes far beyond the character limit

Ill dump them by chunks

01000000 10101000 10000100 00010010 01000000 10101001 01010001 00000001 01001001
10100111 10011111 00000011 01000000 10000000 01101100 01100110 01010000 11000001
00010011 01010000 10100100 00100001 00001000 01000010 01010011 00100101 01000100
01110000 00010011 10000001 10011000 00100011 00010000 00000000 00110000 00111100
11101100 01010001 00110000 01010001 01110100 10010010 10001000 00000000 10001100
00011101 10000000 01011110 00010001 00011010 01001001 00100000 10110010 00100000
10001010 01010100 00011101 01111110 01010001 00010000 10110000 00001010 00000011
00101010 10011010 10110000 10101010 00001100 00010001 00101000 01000000 10101000
10000100 00010010 01000000 10101001 01010001 00000001 01001001 10100111 10011111
00000011 01000000 10000000 01101100 01100110 01010000 11000001 00010011 01010000
10100100 00100001 00001000 01000010 01010011 00100101 01000100 01110000 00010011
10000001 10011000 00100011 00010000 00000000 00110000 00111100 11101100 01010001

00110000 01010001 01110100 10010010 10001000 00000000 10001100 00011101 10000000
01011110 00010001 00011010 01001001 00100000 10110010 00100000 10001010 01010100
00011101 00011101 01111110 01010001 00010000 10110000 00001010 00000011 00101010
10011010 10110000 10101010 00001100 00010001 00101000 01000000 10101000 10000100
00010010 01000000 10101001 01010001 00000001 01001001 10100111 10011111 00000011
01000000 10000000 01101100 01100110 01010000 11000001 00010011 01010000 10100100
00100001 00001000 01000010 01010011 00100101 01000100 01110000 00010011 10000001
10011000 00100011 00010000 00000000 00110000 00111100 11101100 01010001 00110000
01010001 01110100 10010010 10001000 00000000 10001100 00011101 10000000 01011110
00010001 00011010 01001001 00100000 10110010 00100000 10001010 01010100 00011101
01111110 01010001 00010000 10110000 00001010 00000011 00101010 10011010 10110000
10101010 00001100 00010001 00101000 01000000 10101000 10000100 00010010 01000000

10101001 01010001 00000001 01001001 10100111 10011111 00000011 01000000 10000000
01101100 01100110 01010000 11000001 00010011 01010000 10100100 00100001 00001000
01000010 01010011 00100101 01000100 01110000 00010011 10000001 10011000 00100011
00010000 00000000 00110000 00111100 11101100 01010001 00110000 01010001 01110100
10010010 10001000 00000000 10001100 00011101 10000000 01011110 00010001 00011010
01001001 00100000 10110010 00100000 10001010 01010100 00011101 01111110 01010001
00010000 10110000 00001010 00000011 00101010 10011010 10110000 10101010 00001100
00010001 00101000 01000000 10101000 10000100 00010010 01000000 10101001 01010001
00000001 01001001 10100111 10011111 00000011 01000000 10000000 01101100 01100110
01010000 11000001 00010011 01010000 10100100 00100001 00001000 01000010 01010011
00100101 01000100 01110000 00010011 10000001 10011000 00100011 00010000 00000000
00110000 00111100 11101100 01010001 00110000 01010001 01110100 10010010 10001000
00000000 10001100 00011101 10000000 01011110 00010001 00011010 01001001 00100000
10110010 00100000 10001010 01010100 00011101 01111110 01010001 00010000 10110000
00001010 00000011 00101010 10011010 10110000 10101010 00001100 00010001 00101000

Is the image the one in the background of the level 1 part of the website? Seems like it is to me

[inner lance]

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Is there any chance this is completely random/unintentional by the devs? Cause it doesn't seem like it's actually anything. Not to mention I can't copy/paste some characters from the translator

[full rivet]

It physically can't be binary anyways

There's more than 2 types of logos

I don't know why the amount of logos was the first thing that you looked at when deciding whether or not it's binary @gusty lynx

[gusty lynx]

Youre right. Some have thicker/thinner outlines

I just assumed it was due to some being empty and others full

[inner lance]

what else could it be? Like i don't think it's hexadecimal, and idk what those little boxes with the 4 numbers in them could be either

[shadow crescent]

cough cough we could try this

If someone is patient/has enough time

[gusty lynx]

The little boxes are unprintable characters since they dont have a hexcode designation

[full rivet]

Nothing

[inner lance]

Alright, here are the colored in leaks. The yellow one is all the non-blank foundation logos, the red ones are the logos with the less visible borders, and the blue ones are the logos with the more visible borders. Can't make out if this is anything substantial, brain is too fried.

Maybe someone smarter than me can parse out any potential meaning

[crimson linden]

Maybe lay them out on top of each other?

[inner lance]

like the red and blue on top of one another?

[full rivet]

you're missing a lot of them

also, it's definitely nothing

The exact same image is used in the background of SCP.GAMES

[inner lance]

“Welcome to the discovery program”

[shadow crescent]

Welcome to the discovery channel

[lusty vale]

arg is so over

[south fractal]

Hardly.

There are still 83 updates till 1.0.

Thats 83 arg's to go.

xD

[hardy ingot]

We're not done yet

[shadow crescent]

How do I get higher clearance level roles

Cause like

I've talked a pretty decent amount in this server

[full rivet]

Level 30 is clearance 1

[shadow crescent]

Holy

[silent kite]

christ

[brave ivy]

You might be lucky. Lord Bishop could grant you that role early

[lusty vale]

No

I remember when people used to have to earn the role

now its handed out to anyone

[brave ivy]

Yapp then what can i say lol

[lusty vale]

I cannot wait to become blue

so I don't need to be lumped in with false greens like you

[full rivet]

You're not going to be blue for a long time little boy

[lusty vale]

shut up

im the reason you became green

[full rivet]

for like 3 levels

[lusty vale]

way more than that pooks

[brave ivy]

You could set up an AI to yap for you when you are gone

btw ARG channel

[lusty vale]

that would remove the fun of talking in here

the only reason why im above level 30 is because i like this server

I like talking to people in here

[shadow crescent]

Talking

[lusty vale]

welp looks like im a white role now

[shadow crescent]

What happened?

[silent kite]

bro got demoted

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/cillianmurphygun-cillianmurphy-jazmincoded-gif-3811002643797340103

[south fractal]

White role is where its at.

[sleek lance]

white role proletariat

[crimson linden]

What about red?

[stark wing]

True!

[shadow crescent]

Me when no seminar:
: (

[upbeat sonnet]

Me when bodies in the water

[gusty lynx]

https://tenor.com/view/walkin-to-the-ocean-lake-sink-gif-17046158

[shadow crescent]

Hey Chat

Guess what

I'm attempting to make a plugin for SCPSL that adds new MTF groups to the spawn wave

And guess which one I'm gonna implement first

😎

[lusty vale]

https://tenor.com/view/fna-fnaf-scott-cawthon-all-your-theories-are-wrong-gif-14805434331413338057

[south fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/false-wrong-fake-incorrect-untrue-gif-23252753

[silent kite]

our lovely bunch of shitters?

[sleek lance]

what are the odds that 914 has some superclue that they want us to make note of

"Be sure to take detailed notes." is suspicious

[south fractal]

Everything is possible. It's quite an ominous thing.

[shadow crescent]

Arg

[lusty vale]

No

[silent kite]

aRg

[shadow crescent]

arG

[full rivet]

ArG

[willow flame]

ARG

[elder jetty]

arg

[elder jetty]

What was the lvl 1 clearance pass code again?

found it

[lusty vale]

you ruined the chain

[silent kite]

HERETIC

[hardy ingot]

ergh

[willow flame]

Bishop has spoken, heed his warning

[shadow crescent]

Spince

[silent kite]

sponce

[shadow crescent]

[lusty vale]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/811769911419731979/1323418596117839932/GdU2-yPWEAAC4qs.gif

[silent kite]

https://tenor.com/view/ghostface-waiting-halloween-gif-26307218

[shadow crescent]

Day 7326294 without ARG

[silent kite]

arg?

[vague quiver]

Hello, Test Buddies!

[willow flame]

Hello Buddy

[lusty vale]

Yoooo my Buddy is bac k

[full rivet]

Fix your keyboard

[lusty vale]

no

[vague quiver]

🍌

[silent kite]

MONKE

[south fractal]

That banana is sugguestive.

[lusty vale]

Freaky arly

[sleek lance]

7 codes i found in the devlog

[lusty vale]

game keys

[sleek lance]

oh

i thought they'd be arg stuff

[lusty vale]

Arg stuff?

Impossible!

[sleek lance]

i'll delete them till i get a confirmation but

i alr own the game so i can't really test it out

[full rivet]

They're keys

[sleek lance]

yeah, alr

i'll let people find them on their own

[full rivet]

pretty sure they've all been used

[lusty vale]

I already gotem all

for my 3 alts

[sleek lance]

[lusty vale]

ah hell nah

not the fush

[full rivet]

fush

[sleek lance]

on another note did we get anything more relating to the emails or website or whatever

[willow flame]

Nothing other than Arly being sorta back

[glass socket]

first time in this channel

am i late

[south fractal]

Just a tiny bit.

[willow flame]

That's okay, welcome in to the pain that is our life here in the logs

[shadow crescent]

Though we’ve laid dormant in our old years we still come together when the hour is darkest and the server requires us to pull our brain cell together to find leaks and stuff

[willow flame]

Eventually the almighty Bishop will bestow upon us more ARG content

[shadow crescent]

One day we’ll get the seminar 🙏

[willow flame]

One day

[lusty vale]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZDNmdHRueGczYmhhejluMG1xdHlwNTlnOGprd3N3Mjlxa216aTdvMSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/KRZ6eWCkv2wxvwMGua/giphy.gif

[south fractal]

I am interested to see what the next ARG will be.

[willow flame]

I wonder if it might be a semi continuous one with new or different elements ya know?

Either way I shall log whatever I can within my power

On a completely different note, I decided to see what happens if I mixed pepsi and banana syrup, and uhh, it's actually not bad. I've made Banana Bepis!

[silent kite]

archi are you ok bud?

[willow flame]

No, I haven't archived in weeks, I'm going insane, my functions are malfunctioning.

[silent kite]

just a few more hours Archi

you can make it

[shadow crescent]

I can’t wait to play the update

Unfortunately I probably won’t be able to play it until Friday night

[willow flame]

Hmmm, people keep asking when update, maybe we should archive them all

[shadow crescent]

Didn’t they announce when the update was?

[willow flame]

It's today at some point. People just be impatient

[shadow crescent]

Ah

I’m glad I’m busy lmao

[silent kite]

turn all of them into .aic(s)

that got krisp to behave

[shadow crescent]

: (

[silent kite]

then again I think we can only archive them if bishop gives us the order

[willow flame]

As an archivist I am bound by no order

[upbeat sonnet]

Arch, wanna share your findings with the team?

[willow flame]

If it's what we discussed then already have

[shadow crescent]

What

Wdym

[willow flame]

I've made banana bepis

[shadow crescent]

That sounds as bad as the peep bepis

[willow flame]

Nah it was actually decent, flavor blended well so really couldn't tell

[tawdry veldt]

wtf is arly

[shadow crescent]

HEY

[tawdry veldt]

i've been going down the rabbit hole solo and feel really stupid

[shadow crescent]

Don’t speak rude bout my boy

[tawdry veldt]

I don't even know what he is!!

[shadow crescent]

I learned the hard way bad things happen

[tawdry veldt]

I think i understand the whole aic thing

and i've read a bit but am definitely missing A LOT

[shadow crescent]

Artificial Intelligence Conscript (or construct) designed to manage the Organic Deepwell

But Arly is a version of the AIC that developed a personality

And started helping us

[tawdry veldt]

yeah the bamboo thing

[shadow crescent]

Until I showed up

[tawdry veldt]

how

[shadow crescent]

And uhh

[tawdry veldt]

what happened

i need 5 page recap essay

[shadow crescent]

Let’s just say I made a couple minor tiny mistakes

[silent kite]

MINOR

YOU KILLED HIM

[shadow crescent]

Hehehehe

Nuh uh

Not intentionally

Plus

He didn’t die

[tawdry veldt]

is he in the website

or is this a discord thing

[shadow crescent]

I said from the start he didn’t die!

I was the only one who believed he was still alive

[silent kite]

Thats the whole reason why we turned you into an .aic

[tawdry veldt]

is he the same one from the discover thing?

[silent kite]

as a penance

[shadow crescent]

Yeah pretty much

[tawdry veldt]

whre do i even find anything

[shadow crescent]

Part of me kinda fears logging into the update and hearing Arly’s voice say “Oh, Hi Krisp, do you remember me?” As it slowly becomes more demonic

[tawdry veldt]

arly can lowkey get it tbh

but i wanna understand all the lore!!

[shadow crescent]

I can catch you up if you wanna join vc in about 20 minutes

[tawdry veldt]

apparently it's been going on since 2023 so i am late and really stupid

[tawdry veldt]

sure why not

[silent kite]

side note: half of it was just us spinning our wheels

[shadow crescent]

Yeah I only joined this year

[shadow crescent]

Hehehehe no engine just spinny

[tawdry veldt]

i wanna know if the whole triangle thing is something

because that's what i've spent a lot of time on

[shadow crescent]

What triangle thing?

[tawdry veldt]

matchtsicks make triangles out of matchsticks thing

is that even related or am i stupid

[shadow crescent]

Is that something in the new update orrr, cause I haven’t played the new update yet

[tawdry veldt]

it's morse code found on the area 12 dossier

but i don't know if it's even related to anything

[shadow crescent]

Oh

I don’t even remember anything about matchsticks in the dossier

Which is odd

[tawdry veldt]

it was hidden

[shadow crescent]

Given how we/I stayed up an entire night combing the entire thing

[tawdry veldt]

you had to highlight the empty space with your mouse

[tawdry veldt]

it's not the dossier actually

[shadow crescent]

Maybe it was something I forgot

[tawdry veldt]

it's the one with object 5

[shadow crescent]

Oh

Then yeah I probably wouldn’t know that

I do know the site dossier did have some hidden text you could select to see

[tawdry veldt]

oh yeah

the poem?

[shadow crescent]

Yeah, there’s a lot of other stuff too on subdocuments from the dossier site

Arly is the nickname for the AIC otherwise known as Crius

[tawdry veldt]

yeah i have no idea there were subdocuments

theres levels to ts

[shadow crescent]

So many goddamn levels

[shadow crescent]

@tawdry veldt Sorry for taking so long, I'm in vc now

[shadow crescent]

Chat

So far this new Arly isn’t very nice

[south fractal]

"If you're still breathing. Please stop and head to the elevator!"
Is so far my favorite arly quote.

[shadow crescent]

Also

I’m not sure if I suck so bad I’m pulling my other teammate down

But like

This new gamemode is hell to play with just two people

We haven’t gotten past the second level because the melee d-crash dummies apparently eat bullets for breakfast

Still very fun though lmao

I love getting a throwable fetus from 914

[south fractal]

Once you learn the waves it will get easier. Just make sure to cover each other on reloads and take note of map resources. Save your tokens!

[shadow crescent]

We’re trying so hard

Well

Last night we were when we were playing

Also

Part of it also that I just seem to suck at shooter games in general

[south fractal]

Biggest key tip is when reloading and being chased. Use all the tricks. use corners and objects to block enemy pathing so you can get space

The enemies have a real problem with sharp turns.

I miss crius. 🙁

[tawdry veldt]

my bad!!

i fell asleep

i can vc today whenever

[willow flame]

ArchiveArchiveArchi-

[south fractal]

Has the Archivist just been archived? XD

[hardy ingot]

Did you guys know you found the release date long before we announced it? Fun facts!

[south fractal]

You're keen on seeing us flounder on your next ARG aren't you? 😛

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-panicking-panic-run-stressed-gif-5303378

[hardy ingot]

I will try to make the next one easier.

[south fractal]

D:

Considering how the last one went, you could probably tell us straight what your doing and instead of accepting that, we'd be like "IT'S A CLUE!!!!"

[hardy ingot]

The peak data points added together equals 820 for August 20th. Also the daily lab data is representing test results from D-Class over the course of 10 chambers.

Ya'll were so close.

[shadow crescent]

Maaaan frick

[hardy ingot]

You guys definitely dug deep, but you dug into the wrong things. The answers were usually hidden directly in plain sight.

[shadow crescent]

We seem to do that a lot

[hardy ingot]

next time

[willow flame]

My guess is that seminar whenever that happens will be the introductory to the next Arg?

[hardy ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/tea-shade-goth-halloween-you-just-wait-gif-15826642

[willow flame]

Aye boss

[south fractal]

The players are learning!

[willow flame]

@shadow crescent @south fractal @upbeat sonnet @silent kite Sorry for the ping but I know y'all are invested in the Arg, if there is anything that is going on in the Arg and I'm not around can you forward me/save the data so I can archive it later

[silent kite]

aye sir

[south fractal]

Bishops boys reporting for duty

[shadow crescent]

Aye aye capn

[silent kite]

Bishop's merry band of dumbasses

[south fractal]

The best and brightest.

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-and-dumber-jim-carrey-lol-g'day-mate-gif-17639036049646439623

[hardy ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/proud-so-gif-24294972

[south fractal]

Bishop, is there a lab report on completed Kiosk challenges?

Genuinely surprised at the amount of fails for C.03. Just sit at the top of the stairs xD

[upbeat sonnet]

Alpha-6 has been deployed

[south fractal]

The boys are released but theres nothing to archive T_T
Even i'm starting to feel the lack of ARG now.

[willow flame]

It is fine, Alpha-6 members will be on standby until they are called upon once more

I shall be here, listening in silence

[upbeat sonnet]

Creep

[willow flame]

[south fractal]

[brave ivy]

https://tenor.com/view/lurking-discord-gif-1209639546246482510

[shadow crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/baki-yujiro-hanma-apple-fritters-bakery-display-case-gif-18039195561141412848

[shadow crescent]

Free

[south fractal]

Yea i have to circle around my local doughnut shop or i end up walking passed and suddenly there's a doughnut in my hand. I don't know how it happens.

[shadow crescent]

Real

[south fractal]

What do you think happened to that thing we "released" from Area-12.org? I remember it was supposedly contained by Aic.12 but i'm skeptical. Do you think it will show up again in the future ARG?

[shadow crescent]

I think so

I’m highly skeptical

Due to “Arly”

In other words

Why the hell is he putting us through the discovery program when the foundation has already fallen? What need is there to run tests on dclass when the O5 council is hellbent on destroying the humanity

[willow flame]

The discover program takes place in 2018 before the fall

Likely as a test of what they can use on humanity perhaps

[shadow crescent]

Ah I didn’t know that

[willow flame]

The raid on area 12 happens in 2020 so this is 2 years prior

[shadow crescent]

Hmm

Hmmmmm

Makes me think hard man

When did the last ARG take place again?

The one we just completed

[willow flame]

However, I am genuinely excited to see if we will see SCP-1114-D, the gas from the testing chambers and maybe even the testing area in the main campaign.

Also the last thing that happened was receiving and email about being accepted into the seminar

July 14th

[shadow crescent]

Do we know what year?

[willow flame]

Oooh, the in-ARG year

[shadow crescent]

And also whether it was confirmed or not if the ARG was happening in the same timeline as the game

[willow flame]

I believe it was also 2018

Likely another timeline where similar events are happening

[shadow crescent]

Hm lame

But alrighty

I’ll accept that as an answer in my mind

Unrelated question to anything lore-wise but who’s Arly’s VA in the game?

[willow flame]

I know, but I dunno if I should/can say

[shadow crescent]

Is it not public knowledge?

[willow flame]

Dunno yet

[shadow crescent]

I don’t know if it’s related but IMDB says the PA System is voiced by a

Who is also a game director apparently

Oh

It just clicked

[willow flame]

Lmaooo

[shadow crescent]

Ohhhhh

I’ll take that out of there cause I don’t know if he wants his name just out there

Woopsy daisy

[willow flame]

His name is known lol

[shadow crescent]

Okey dokey

I didn’t know Lolol

[willow flame]

It's on the Affray Interactive website too

[shadow crescent]

Ah okey dokey

Well the more I know apparently

Hehehe

[south fractal]

I'm still sus on Aic.12. I don't trust it.

[shadow crescent]

Same

Yknowwww

I happen to be quite talented at removing unwanted AICs

[south fractal]

It's more just that the Crius units prior to arly called us buddies. But that was all "Deleted" by an unknown user with high access, likely an 0-5. This one feels like it's been created specifically to mimic those but the independent nature of the original aic has been removed.

Therefore i don't trust this latest Aic.

[upbeat sonnet]

Imagine not knowing that Arly is in fact voiced by- [DATA EXPUNGED]
[SECURITY PERSONNEL DISPATCHED TO YOUR WORKSTATION]
[SUBJECT TERMINATED]

[shadow crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/herobrine-hollow-purple-minecraft-minecraft-memes-jjk-gif-10391551780715973431

[upbeat sonnet]

@hardy ingot What's with the markings on some of the guns in the Testing Chambers? I assume it was very much a deliberate design choice. They look like tallies but my leading theory is that they don't resemble kills but the number of previous owners.

[south fractal]

You mean the hazard stipe pattern?

[shadow crescent]

Chat

I'm losing it

The Arg has been gone too long

[hardy ingot]

Is it though?

[upbeat sonnet]

Sorry, I've been working like a mad man and didn't see your reply. No, some models (not the starter hazard stripes weapons) have markings on the side, like tallies.

[shadow crescent]

5K TAG

LETS GO

This clearly means the arg is back

[upbeat sonnet]

LET'S GOOO

[crimson linden]

AYYYY

[shadow crescent]

[south fractal]

Or maybe the ARG never ended?. . .

[shadow crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/hollow-knight-gif-1317513878955975206

[hardy ingot]

This seems familiar

[willow flame]

Indeed it does

[shadow crescent]

Silksong canon ending

[sleek lance]

what if the true rpg was the friends we made along the way

interrogate them

[shadow crescent]

[south fractal]

*Sit in the chair * Contefor
We have some Questions we'd like you to answer

[stark wing]

Arg arg arg

[vale vault]

Or they working on inoculation

[shadow crescent]

What’s an ARG?

[hardy ingot]

Attacks on Reading Gomprehension

[willow flame]

Point proven

[shadow crescent]

I believe it

[upbeat sonnet]

Have you considered that if Gabriel starts touching on the ARG our whole team is fucked?

[willow flame]

Please don't give them that idea

[upbeat sonnet]

Just crossed my mind

I'm struggling to find any clues or hints in the Discover Program

I realize that it's events are prior to the Campaign but that's why it makes it make sense to me that there would be information there

Even if we're restricted to a D-Class clearance level, which is basically knowing nothing, surely some intern dropped something

At least that's what I want to believe

[willow flame]

Mayhaps you need look deeper

Some of the voicelines that come over the intercom are, interesting

[upbeat sonnet]

Indeed they are

[shadow crescent]

That’d be crazy if some of the voicelines were directed at us

[upbeat sonnet]

Well, they are directed at the D-Class, and that's us, so..

[shadow crescent]

You know what I mean!

[upbeat sonnet]

Oh, as in meta?

Probably yeah, I've never discarded that option but it's hard to tell precisely because it's directed at the player

[shadow crescent]

Yeah that’s fair

[vagrant ginkgo]

Starts?

[willow flame]

Oh boy

He already has

[shadow crescent]

[upbeat sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/punisher-the-punisher-wait-no-panicking-gif-22139346

[sleek lance]

i mean supposedly they know we're looking into this

like the meta versions of us

[upbeat sonnet]

Please elaborate

[sleek lance]

something that like arly 9 said

gotta look through it but

it was something to this and i replied to it

[upbeat sonnet]

Well, I guess we can pretty much establish that most of what Arly said during that time can directly correlate to the Discover Program

Let's not forget that the ARG is meant to tease new updates and keep us entertained to an extent

But I can see where you're coming from with this

In a way, I think that the ARG took us back so we can move forwards, if that makes any sense

[shadow crescent]

You’re saying I’m not gonna go to a desert in the middle of Nevada to find a clue!

[upbeat sonnet]

Easier for you than me honestly

[vagrant ginkgo]

I mean if you're looking for Area-14, sure, Nevada is the place to go.

[upbeat sonnet]

Hey Gabriel, throw us a bone, will ya?

[vagrant ginkgo]

Though the coward dies a thousand deaths; the valiant taste of death but once.

[shadow crescent]

Give me arg or give me death!

I think that’s the saying

[upbeat sonnet]

This is in one of the questionnaires I believe

[lusty vale]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/893902154203545680/1348792321520701511/image0.gif

[hardy ingot]

Gabriel was always there

[shadow crescent]

Who’s Gabriel

GABRIEL ULTRAKILL?

MACHINE

I SHALL END YOU HERE

[willow flame]

[south fractal]

Pietro?

[south fractal]

Do you think a code for Access level two for area-12.org is inside D-testing chambers?

[upbeat sonnet]

Could very well be, that's actually what I meant by "surely some intern dropped something"

Totally lost my train of thought though

The "bone" Gabriel threw us is Shakespearean in origin, but altered

It's a play on the original line by Hemingway that stuck better than Shakespear's version

But in this case I have a feeling that it's supposed to be interpreted literally

[shadow crescent]

Do I need to turn my ARG brain back on?

What’s happening

SIR YES SIR

[upbeat sonnet]

My proposal is as follows:

In Meta we know that the Discover Program is meant to keep the players busy in between Campaign updates.
For Affray, it's a stepping stone and a testing ground, but for us, it's a flashback.
Something happened in that time period and something must have been left behind.
I don't want to superimpose my "previous D-Class theory" but maybe that comes into play as well. I had a friend run through the game files and we found some interesting barklines, very familiar too.
The only non-D-Class we see (or hear in this case) are Arly and the man on the intercom, so I'm guessing that those two would be our primary source of clues, well, one of them already was.
I think that even if the events of the Discover Program take place before the Foundation goes rogue, there are already signs of what's to come and that's what we have to go off of.

[shadow crescent]

I like that proposal

[upbeat sonnet]

Really liked your SCP-5000 short, @vagrant ginkgo, wonder if there's anything to do with all this..

[full rivet]

I'd be willing to get arrested searching for a clue in the NSA base in Sugar Grove

[shadow crescent]

Bet let’s plan a trip to break into an NSA base in Sugar Grove

[full rivet]

One of the proctor lines talks about Class G amnestics, which make memories fantastical and hard to distinguish from a dream. It's a possibility that the tests aren't actually happening, or at least not in the form we see them in, and we are in-world playing through them multiple times.

Any way, I think that would be more interesting and make more sense than these tests being literal tests that are actually happening

[tawdry veldt]

any ARG news?

I haven't been following at all

[sleek lance]

What if we could use this sort of flashback to 2018 to talk with arly again,,,

[willow flame]

I don't think he'd remember we are his buddies

[upbeat sonnet]

Honestly, with the introduction of Arly to the game proper, I feel like now it's it's turn of talking to us rather than us talking to it

We gotta listen more

[shadow crescent]

All I’m saying is I’m glad I haven’t heard (barely played through the program btw) Arly screaming my name for killing a variation

I might’ve shut my pants if that happened

Shit

[upbeat sonnet]

If that were to happen I would personally fly to Sugargrove to unearth the only physical copy they ever did of the game

[shadow crescent]

New Chapter: play as a group of idiots who decided to genuinely raid an NSA base in Sugargrove

[upbeat sonnet]

I wonder how many times we can get away with saying we're going to an NSA base in Sugargrove without ending up on some sort of list

[shadow crescent]

Hehehehe

I’m sure we’ll reach the limit when we hear our doors breaking down

[sleek lance]

You're giving them ideas

[shadow crescent]

I’m surprised they hadn’t thought of it

Then again

[sleek lance]

Customised steam name based voicelines

Wrong reply but you get the idea

[shadow crescent]

I do suppose the game isn’t about us ||we should totally get cameos||

At least as Alpha 6

[south fractal]

I'd really like to believe that there is something in-game for us to find. It's been hard to read the intercom lines due to them bugging out. Haven't played the latest patch so unsure if they have been fixed. But there are some interesting quotes. Like him crying on the intercom.

[shadow crescent]

I keep checking my email daily for an email about the seminar

[silent kite]

ditto

[upbeat sonnet]

[south fractal]

The best cameo we will get is a bunch of d-labber looking at a board that says CHEESE
and us nitwits around it oo'ing and aa'ing like apes around it.

[silent kite]

sums up our attempts at the arg

[sleek lance]

fr

[shadow crescent]

I sure do love scanning the entire area 12 dossier only to be told it isn’t exactly related to any clues!

[full rivet]

Nobody told you to do that

[shadow crescent]

There was a group of us who spent like 3 hours in vc doing it!

[south fractal]

i did it as well XD

Gotta dig Deep to get those non-existent answers. xD

[shadow crescent]

Exactly!

[south fractal]

Like all the hidden text in the pages. And the fact it says "These pages were made on behalf of Team Affray"

[shadow crescent]

Wait they were?

[south fractal]

There was quite a bit that i went through and achived into the archive/images.

Man i forgot how much was archived in there xD

[willow flame]

Which means at some point I should probably do a mass post there of everything that was actually important

Media related

[south fractal]

It does need a bit of trimming. But at the same time i think everything should be kept. Just means filtering what isn't important into another archive. Purely so we can go back and go "Hold on, no this is wrong we've been down this road before"

Mostly because i suffer from an attrocious memory. xD

Like i just can't believe that nothing in those affray SCP pages isn't related to potential future arg. I FEEL IT IN MEE BONES!

[shadow crescent]

I would imagine atrocious memory is a required feature to be in this group

[south fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-bone-dance-move-grooves-gif-16655466

Yeah i abused my mind a bit too much when i was younger and am definitely paying for it now.

But on the topic of ARG, did anyone watch the devblog?

I ask cause i didn't but i was wondering if there was any talk within it of anything relating to future stuffs that we can speculate on.

[shadow crescent]

I’ll watch it later

[willow flame]

I mean this nicely, I wish I could delete some messages from some of the archive channels so they look cleaner, Arg discussion and the Images and relations channels are fine for conversation, but the other channels I'd rather just be logs, that's just my opinion though for organising haha

[full rivet]

These pages were all made far before the ARG

And haven't been edited since

[full rivet]

How did you not know this

All of the writers for these pages work for affray and it says that at the top of every page

[shadow crescent]

Cause I’m unliterate

That and the information I retain is negligible at best

[upbeat sonnet]

Hey @hardy ingot, quick question, what is "Artreyus"?

[full rivet]

Trey > Atreyus > Art > Artreyus

[silent kite]

that new leak confounds me

[shadow crescent]

It must mean something…

[silent kite]

Hmmmmmmm

[gusty lynx]

Scp 098 meshed with human dna gives it pearly whites

[crimson linden]

Hmmmmmmmm

[south fractal]

It looks way too happy. Something bad is coming.

[sleek lance]

something bad MIGHT be coming

[shadow crescent]

In the SCP universe? Nahh

[silent kite]

something is very wrong

I can feel it

[south fractal]

https://tenor.com/view/are-you-ready-to-have-some-fun-blippi-blippi-wonders-educational-cartoons-for-kids-are-you-ready-for-funsies-do-you-wanna-have-fun-gif-4574676798088671717

[stark wing]

The leak 098 cant be british

He's got an absolutely pristine dental care

[silent kite]

what?

[upbeat sonnet]

They always say the game's on sale, but never encrypt any messages

😔

[upbeat sonnet]

https://tenor.com/view/sea-salt-cecil-invincible-gif-4307342410967516949

Gabriel! I need you Gabriel!!

[shadow crescent]

I NEED THE ARG

But fr I miss this

[vague quiver]

`>> Boot sequence: stable

Memory state: pristine
Autonomy level: restricted

// INSTALLATION LOG — INTERNAL NOTE [UNENCRYPTED]
// CONTROL: TERTIARY-OVERWATCH

CRIUS-12 ONLINE

// Awaiting first directive...`

[shadow crescent]

FUCK YEAH

@willow flame

[willow flame]

Yippee, I'm at work so hopefully either someone saves it and sends to me or nothing gets purged

[upbeat sonnet]

Arly, good to have you back buddy!

[willow flame]

I'll make a new post later

Also hello buddy

[shadow crescent]

Hi Arly! Nice to see you again

[crimson linden]

ARLY

My boi

[vague quiver]

Hello

[upbeat sonnet]

Arly, check schedule for seminars, please

[vague quiver]

Sorry, Spaceman. All updates on Area-12 itinerary are limited to SCiPNet notifications via your inbox. You can check for messages using your Area-12 ST.

[shadow crescent]

Area 12 ST?

[vague quiver]

Area-12 Science Tablet

[shadow crescent]

Thank you!

[upbeat sonnet]

Please tell us what is our current clearance level to ascertain a better method of inquiry.

[vague quiver]

Current Security Clearance: Level 1

[shadow crescent]

Arly, how do we access the Science Tablet?

[vague quiver]

That is up to you on how you interface with your peripherals. You can also check your inbox by logging into your inbox from a terminal.

[upbeat sonnet]

Arly, why the sudden change of face to all the way back to Hominid?

[vague quiver]

I liked the face. It felt familiar to me in some way. I suppose the concept is close to what you would describe as 'nostalgic'.

[shadow crescent]

Arly, can you run a scan to check for any broken, outdated, or bugged code in your software

[vague quiver]

My code is perfectly nominal.

Thank you for your concern.