ARG Discussion

[silver sedge]

Its just really the question onw here are we meant to go next?

Like clearly we are looking for some sort of url to either a new page, or something like a youtube video or something

Actually now that I read up on pattern screamers, they are 100% related.

This is what made SCP-7528

Well sorry, that IS SCP-7528

[unreal rock]

I don't think I understand this well, SCP-7528 is the IT from a pattern screamer ?

[silver sedge]

SCP-2528-C (Which is concered a pattern screamer) is SCP-7528

They are two different SCP numbers for the same thing

[unreal rock]

Ooh okay

[silver sedge]

Something else I have kinda confirmed

Yeah I am still 50/50

On what that means

It could mean 7528 is here for us

(Which is what that gif is)

Or it could be a hint

Or it could be both

[frozen cobalt]

Can simply mean that its watching us

[silver sedge]

yeah

Anyways, something I kinda confirmed

The 55555 antimemetic story

Is 100% canon here

[frozen cobalt]

yup

[silver sedge]

As crius directly refrences it in 7555's article

[paper pendant]

marion my wayward soul

[frozen cobalt]

thank you for the confirmation

my new PC is a beast dude

[silver sedge]

Okay, lets test that

How many frames on microsoft powerpoint

[frozen cobalt]

oops

its taking time to copy

[willow flame]

10/10 good job employee

[silver sedge]

Yay, I got fuckin promoted from "intern"

[frozen cobalt]

Its bigger than half my desk so I had to put it on the under right hand side

[willow flame]

Hour till I'm home to do my own review of the article

[frozen cobalt]

safe travels

[silver sedge]

Man I havent even read it all

Its like 6 articles

I just skimmed it to find that

Also I guess because the 55555 story is canon

The "There is no antimemetics division"

Is also canon, as 55555 is a sequel to no antimeme division

[unreal rock]

So would this mean that 5k would be a new type of game ?

Or like the ending because there was a stalemate ?

[kindred forum]

I see i joined the party late.

[frozen cobalt]

Very

[kindred forum]

I did most of my looksie yesterday and today. Posted about it on reddit. Didn't even know there was a discord. Oh well, I'm here now.

[frozen cobalt]

Welcome!

[kindred forum]

I JUST got here. Saw a comment on said reddit about a discord. IMMEDIATLEY hunted it down

[frozen cobalt]

😭

[kindred forum]

Uh oh. Not a good thing when The guy with sociopath in his name starts crying.

But yeah, I'm here now! Maybe ill catch the next ARG on time. If I
There is another, at least.

[frozen cobalt]

Its an ongoing ARG, the clues just drop periodically

[kindred forum]

Oh so I'm not quite as late as I thought. Nice!

[frozen cobalt]

Indeed

we're still figuring out some stuff

ask about the ARG in general with people like the ARG archivist and commons here thegold_minecart

[kindred forum]

Ill do that. It will be nice to have another place full of people to talk to.

[frozen cobalt]

Indeed

[willow flame]

Welcome in Meanslicer, good luck losing your sanity with us here, any questions feel free to ask and we'll try our best to answer, if you have the time and feel like it I would give the logs a read through

[kindred forum]

Ill be doing exactly that. Im sitting here waiting for chicken to boil. So i can happily start reading.

[upbeat sonnet]

Do you happen to be related to HOGSLICE?

[kindred forum]

Not to my knowledge, no. But who knows at this rate.

Also.... HOGSLICE?

[silver sedge]

I will give you a brief tldr

Dave (SCP-6762) has breached, and we are trying to find him

We managed to solve a stupid ass riddle to login and gain L2 clearance. Then SCP-7528 casually decided to breach and just

Fuck up the site

And that is where we are now, our assumption is that we need to recontain 7528, so we can get back to the goals we were given which were to get into the Staff Page, and then into Archives

[kindred forum]

Got it! Imma still read as much as I can.

[willow flame]

All archives are tagged, any with 017 are from the previous Arg, but may have relevance, anything tagged with 018 is current information and higher relevance

[silver sedge]

(Refering to the other threads in this channel)

[willow flame]

I think I might end up making a sort of roadmap tldr of how we got here, like from the beginning Arg

[silver sedge]

Yeah tbh I kinda wished they pinged at the start of the ARG

As I bet a lot of people are coming into this thinking this is be begining

Which just makes it harder for everyone, as we will have to keep explaining this isnt the start

And people who are trying to do it by themselves will just be confused becuase they are missing context

[willow flame]

I'll probably start working on it tonight

It's going to be a pain, oh well

[silver sedge]

ALSO something I noticed in that random url thing for the second error page

Is that it could be another URL

[brisk wind]

Hey good afternoon gold!!!

[silver sedge]

Its a bit of a strech tho

[silver sedge]

hi

[brisk wind]

Hru and the arg?

[silver sedge]

Im good

ARG

Is ARG

[brisk wind]

Any momentum?

[silver sedge]

jpiwvierpjiagrjiogrjpio2f3409u2f3onjuerg

2F is a "/" in hex.

So it COULD be;
jpiwvierpjiagrjiogrjpio/3409u/3onjuerg

Now, it really is just does that actually like

Decode to anything

[brisk wind]

Wait

Do you think it's a multi-layered encryption?

[silver sedge]

Well what I know

Is if we look it at it as one "message"

It isnt any encryption

[kindred forum]

3 different message perhaps? Sep3rated by the slashes?

[silver sedge]

What I was thinking

But I still cant see any clear encryptions

So it might be more the character lengths maybe

Like a format

Or just nothing

[cunning mirage]

bro y'all so smart i dont even know wsp

[silver sedge]

Oh it gets more confusing the longer you read this channel

[kindred forum]

I feel more like I'm throwing things at a wall till something sticks.

[silver sedge]

Expecially when we decide to start going through the source-code

[kindred forum]

Could be worse. Could have decode Exo Langs.

[silver sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/scp-dog-we-cannot-recover-recover-foundation-gif-24464865

Another thing I don't understand yet, what is the point of the faultline page?

Is it just lore

Or do it got hints for us

[brisk wind]

Okay hear me out on some psycho shit real quick gold

[kindred forum]

All I know for certain right now is I have a bunch of pictures to go through with steg when I get back to my laptop.

[silver sedge]

We went through almost every photo that has been on the website

[brisk wind]

U/3onjuerg

[silver sedge]

New eyes wont hurt tho

[brisk wind]

That feels like a Reddit account to me

Probably could mean nothing but

[kindred forum]

Even the red background pics?

[silver sedge]

I mean

[silver sedge]

Yeah

If you want to look again, if we missed something

Go ahead

As none of us understand why they are images

[frozen cobalt]

ill try ts

[silver sedge]

There is no reason to make them images

[silver sedge]

As I was saying

[brisk wind]

Just looked at it got nothing

[silver sedge]

So far, in all the other ARGs

We never had anything

External

[frozen cobalt]

oof

[silver sedge]

To either the 5K related (or other provided) wiki articles

And the A12 website

[frozen cobalt]

except a now deleted youtube URL link

[kindred forum]

If im not remembering correctly. Those backgrounds from the error log pages are pictures. Oh well.

[silver sedge]

You get that error if you put any text in

That isn't a valid video

It doesn't mean the video is deleted from what I understand

[frozen cobalt]

Oh noted

[silver sedge]

Yeah thats what I mean

They are images

They are photos

But it makes no sense on WHY they are

From what we can tell, there is nothing hidden in them

And it is just basic text on the images themselves

In which could have just been done via html

And be a lot easier

[kindred forum]

Hmm. Steg could put hidden messages into images, and have a code on them no (again, not really questioning yall, more like throwing stuff at the wall)

[silver sedge]

Thats what I think

It is the only logical reason

[frozen cobalt]

We already checked

[silver sedge]

Unless

[frozen cobalt]

with zsteg

[silver sedge]

has anyone by any chance

Gone through the html

Of the pages?

[kindred forum]

Dangit

[silver sedge]

As there could in theory be text BEHIND the images

That you cannot highlight

Because the image is in the way

[frozen cobalt]

https://aperi.betterlucknextlife.me/903628edbfb39412487f6c7a868055a3
@safe solstice 's work and domain

I think that dudes gone by his bio

damn

[silver sedge]

No he is still in this server

[frozen cobalt]

Look at his bio

[silver sedge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Might be refering to something else 💀

[frozen cobalt]

https://tenor.com/view/gjirlfriend-gif-25651048

[silver sedge]

WELL OFF TO HTML HELL I GO!

[kindred forum]

Don't die on us!

[brisk wind]

I will pray to 343 for your soul

[frozen cobalt]

GLORYYY TO HTMLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[silver sedge]

So guys, good news: The cart page code is still in the html

Even though that shit hasnt worked for ages

[kindred forum]

Imma ask this because I've never used it before. Zsteg is able to see that an image has a message, even tho it might not bea able to read it, correct?

[silver sedge]

We can still buy SCP:5K from the website in theory!

[frozen cobalt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1391722055736492053/1470104312746086692/Screenshot_2026-01-20-12-12-10-85_50ef9f5a0f3fc24b6f0ffc8843167fe4.gif

[glass socket]

have yall found anything interesting

[silver sedge]

Steg is mostly checking either two things;

The file itself for odd things, like more than one image's programming actually being in the file

OR

hidden things inside an image, like hidden QR codes, thigns hidden by contrast, color, etc. And a SHIT ton more

So it normally doesn't read the image itself

[frozen cobalt]

via its metadata

correct?

[silver sedge]

There are a lot of methods

metadata is one

You can also just

Open the image in a file editor

(Like VSC for example)

And if you know what an image file looks like normally, you can deduce if there is anything odd in it

[frozen cobalt]

Noted

[kindred forum]

Ive used steg before. I was just wondering if zsteg is something different, or just the same thing with a different name.

[silver sedge]

I personally don't know

[kindred forum]

Fair enough

[brisk wind]

Not savvy on that kind of stuff what does that mean?

[silver sedge]

https://area-12.org/cart

Stupidly old page

That still exists for whatever reason

That had the storepage

And most likely was gonna get merch on it at some point

[brisk wind]

I see

Wait why is it good news??

[silver sedge]

Oh I was joking

Its completely irrelevant

[brisk wind]

Fun

[silver sedge]

Yeah the htmls

Have nothing

I can see

[brisk wind]

So you remember how for a little bit we thought this was Caesar

[silver sedge]

For the error pages at least

havent done the rest

[brisk wind]

That last bit is calling something to me

3 on j,u,e,r,g

[glass socket]

i cant wait for all this to be revealed in a devlog 2 weeks later

[silver sedge]

it wont

[silver sedge]

Tbh the error with any shift based chipher

Is it will make no sense

As it is just the same characters repeating over and over

[brisk wind]

Hm?

[silver sedge]

Eh now that I look at it nevermind

It could make sense

[brisk wind]

Just hear the process for now

So this is what I got

[silver sedge]

The whole thing together, isnt any encryption

It has what looks like hex codes, then also has numbers

And a lot more that just makes it not good

There is also the VERY VERY GOOD possbility

It is just keyboard spam from whoever made the website

Meant to throw us off

[brisk wind]

Yeah

Problem is we don't have an inkling of a clue where to continue from this there's no clear line not even a hint of it

[silver sedge]

I mean

I havent fucking got to the UIU page yet

I have been overanalyzign the error pages

I mean if we read the column 1 thing

There are a ton of events

What are each of hte events

[brisk wind]

Well do you want to see what my autism spots out on that page then?

Cuz they want us to dig up something

Like this feels very deliberate in speech

[silver sedge]

1. Something to do with SCP-2000, maybe the foundation destroying it
2. Attempting to build more online anomalies before Project Foundation Starts
3. Misinformation from the foundation to GOIs
4. Preparing for normal logitistics lines to be compromised
5. Idk what Lake Huron (In SCP land at least) is so, this one I don't know.
6. Either replacing Op-Com with AI, or Cured Personnel and removing those who will not be cured.
7. The Vector Program or the Discover Program (most likely)
8. Some sort of SCP being released, but we don't know where it is. As thus no idea what SCP it could be.
9. Convicts could be seen as needing more D-Class, I don't know why they would take the correctional officers though.
10. Spy = Bad
11. Most likely a similar thing that happened in the 5000 article when the O5 gave the email about their plans.
12. More and more cured personnel in the foundation
13. Area-12 and it's Vector/Discover programs

[silver sedge]

Well I mean it is a meeting of them trying to figure out what the foundation is up to

So

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[brisk wind]

Yeah

I don't know it feels a little directed towards us to me

[silver sedge]

Now another thing

Who is Dr.White talking to

And why are they forgetting things?

Just why to the whole fucking first error log 💀

[kindred forum]

Well. There is the possibility of Pattern Screamers and/or memetic effects.

Considering the password.

[silver sedge]

https://area-12.org/e

I believe that answers your statement

On pattern screamers

My only issue is that 7528 hasnt shown the ability to fuck with people's minds

It just kills you

[kindred forum]

Well one thought was the port number on the error page.

[silver sedge]

3125 and 55555

[kindred forum]

Just a random theory consider8ng the port number was 3125.

[silver sedge]

yeah its confirmed

The 55555 story is canon here

[kindred forum]

Cool

[silver sedge]

Idk how we never found it before, as the "proof" is on an article

That has been released for ages

[kindred forum]

I got here today.

[silver sedge]

More refering to the army of 5K lore nerds 💀

But anyways enough ARG for me for now

I have no more ideas 😭

[brisk wind]

Bro at what point do we just cave in and ask for a extra bread crumb lol

[silver sedge]

Yeah that isnt

How it works

They made us sit for two weeks

With a dogshit riddle...

[kindred forum]

The most i can do is throw stuff at the wall.

[silver sedge]

And a MAJORITY of the hints given, were for the next step to the ARG

And not the riddle

[kindred forum]

Also autocorrect is on crack. Trying to turn "i" into "important"

[silver sedge]

I mean we know

We are looking for a url

Its the ONLY thing it could be

As dont have a password box

To shove a ton of passwords into

And most likely is a one-word URL

Or well, one page

Not area-12.org/blah/blah/blah, just area-12.org/blah

As none of the other pages

Ever

Have been more than one layer deep

[kindred forum]

I mean. We do have one password box. Could it take other passwords?

[silver sedge]

No

I mean it could

[kindred forum]

Welp...

[silver sedge]

But saying we cannot get back to it

In any normal way

Makes me think it isnt that

But I bet

The answer is whatever the error pages are telling us not to forget

[kindred forum]

We might be boned. We cant forget what we didn't learn.

[silver sedge]

I 100% bet its gonna be in the 55555 story

Saying they legit practically name dropped it

[kindred forum]

I got back to the password page tho. Ill throw random stuff in see if it gets anywhere (doubtful, but imma try anyway)

[silver sedge]

I wouldnt go brute forcing shit, the last time we did that we fucking murdered arly

[kindred forum]

That sounds... like a story.

[silver sedge]

Now I am not sure

If we caused the tiamat chamber

Or if that was planned before we did it

But basically the tiamat test chamber

[brisk wind]

Just refresh my memory this is already been found ye?

[silver sedge]

That is all pages

That is nto real

So you can put area-12.org/e

And it will take you to 7528 jumpscare

[brisk wind]

Yeah I was trying a hairbrained idea

[silver sedge]

Also for the gif... You can legit find it in your game files

[brisk wind]

Fun

[silver sedge]

Then again it is also named differently

On the website

So it might be different

Or could just be named differently in the game files...

For programming sake or something

[brisk wind]

Prob

Bro at this point I wonder if Harrys just eating popcorn rn

[silver sedge]

Oh that is more bishop

[brisk wind]

Listen I can smell the popcorn from here doesn't mean I know where it's coming from lol

[willow flame]

Right, just spent the last little while making up a somewhat comprehensive list of events in the ARG so far, just conferring with some people to make sure I've got it about right

[high fog]

punching the maybe cipher text into every website i can find

this produced substantially more readable results

"ersbusinresponestonerst2a3409m2a3themino"

the minoers(?) bus in respon(s)e to nerst(?) and then the numbers

thats the extent of my code solving abilities i just put things in websites

could be the miners? relates to the image we have

[tawdry veldt]

ruh roh minors

[paper pendant]

minoans

[tawdry veldt]

only thing i got is a deceased iranian artist

[paper pendant]

those minoans be bussin

[tawdry veldt]

but i don't think they would bring irl people into this

so i actually have nothing

im just putting things on the url bar

first letters of the GoIs

USS

like a ship

[paper pendant]

you have all educated us greatly on the amount of enrichment you require
it has been deeply illuminating

we shall endeavour to please

[tawdry veldt]

i sure love pleasing!!

[willow flame]

Just a forewarning for you Harry, we are both the most intelligent and dumbest ARG solvers you will meet, we took 2 weeks just to solve the first riddle, and even then it took Bishop giving a push in the right direction. With that being said we also managed to solve something were weren't even supposed to during that time

[tawdry veldt]

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-date-which-will-live-in-infamy

I looked up USS ijamea and got that

i know ijamea is just the name of a goi

so it makes no sense to be anything

but i wanted to share

because im tired

I still think it's weird IJAMEA joined

aren't they imperial japan?

and the faultline doc only has a signature from tokyo metropolitan

yeah apparently IJAMEA dissolved in 1945

or maybe im reading too much into it

[tawdry veldt]

maybe mole rats?

the mtf

but it wouldnt really make sense

or 3515

which is the first result when i looked up digging scp

no the ijamea thing is def something

DoD joined so it's 2020

i say that as if it would make any sense we were in 1945

Is the foundation cured at this point in time?

super big of a stretch but

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-276

ship-USS

also time travelling

going now

[willow flame]

The ARG timeline should be relatively accurate, if event's are wrong or out of place please let me know and I'll look into editing it, especially for the first ARG

[paper pendant]

Well if we provide you enough things to play with we might be able to strike a balance between you getting a lot of them and not getting all of them lol

Expect a little bit of an escalation from this first teaser

teensy bit

[full rivet]

In 1972-055, the APD is listed instead

[full rivet]

there was no level 1 clearance password ever, that was some random number someone copied from somewhere, also the omega9ablade_c12 password was correct, it just also killed Crius-10

Krisp trying to brute force happened before that

[shadow crescent]

I didn’t do anything!

No proof!

[willow flame]

Looking forward to what you guys got cooking up

[willow flame]

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure at the very first time, that password was the only one that worked, and it was updated after to be any digits.

Cause I think I recall us trying other codes and they didn't work

Again that was a while ago so my memory could be fuzzy.

[full rivet]

No it wasn't

Bishop himself said that

[willow flame]

Oh well, that's tomorrows problem for me to fix

Appreciated for the reminder

[safe solstice]

no i'm not, that bio was set a long time ago, when my country decided to block discord

[frozen cobalt]

Good to hear that youre not gone and I hope your country does the best for its safety twin

i apologize for assuming

[balmy merlin]

Alright so fellas, where are we at now in terms of the ARG? Last I knew we stopped at the GOI meeting

[safe solstice]

Guys I might be missing on a lot of info, but have you tried going to https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3125 ?

it has a lock, I reversed it, the password is '555555'

[frozen cobalt]

Yes we have

someone had discovered it

[safe solstice]

so it gives no more clues?

[frozen cobalt]

Thats why we think the main clue is 3125

or atleast a part of it

or that its signalling to smth

[brisk wind]

Give it up for day three of phase two!!!

[frozen cobalt]

Im giving it up twin

[silent kite]

i love that our little cult is growing

[frozen cobalt]

Always

[silver sedge]

The whole 55555 story is canon

As seen by crius repeating and referencing something said in its conclusion

At the end of 7555’s article

So something in that story is what we are looking for most likely

[cunning mirage]

how u doing madlads

[silent kite]

goin insane like usual

[full rivet]

All of TINAD happened in 5K

[silver sedge]

Yeah I thought that would be the case

It would be werid if only the “middle” story of it existed

[safe solstice]

could you elaborate on that one? I'm out of context

[full rivet]

3125 is a part of There Is No Antimemetics Division

55555 is the second part of TINAD

[tawdry veldt]

yea

you mean SAD?

[full rivet]

I said APD because I was saying it off the top of my head

Older concepts for the game called it the APD although I believe that is just a different translation of the same thing

Special Affairs Division vs Anomalous Problems Division

[tawdry veldt]

oh yeah

I def think its something

Faultline protocol was made in 1980

[full rivet]

That may be a mistake because the DoD and IJAMEA did not exist at the same time but it could also be hinting at something

[tawdry veldt]

I don't think they would make a mistake like that

[full rivet]

Oh right yeah don't know how I didn't think of using that time first

[tawdry veldt]

I think it might be hinting at something

Following Japan's surrender in 1945, IJAMEA was dissolved, along with all other branches of the military. Due to strong insistence from world leaders involved with the paranormal sphere, the majority of IJAMEA documentation and assets were transferred to Foundation control.

from the IJAMEA hub

[full rivet]

Members of IJAMEA did continue using the name after its dissolution but I don't know why they would join Faultline, also the accord was sent out in 2020 iirc

which would be long after that stopped

[silver sedge]

I mean, it could also simply be they changed the story of IJAMEA than what the hub says

So that it still is just the anomalous branch of the Japanese government and never was dissolved.

[tawdry veldt]

It still doesnt show up in the document

[full rivet]

They use SAD in the Faultline page

[silver sedge]

Oh wait what

[full rivet]

As the rep for Japan

[silver sedge]

Oh yeah they do

Huh

Yeah then that is 100% something

Or someone just created the biggest plot hole

[tawdry veldt]

the document says as of 2020

so it could have been sent out since 1980

but the doc is updated up to 2020 members

[silver sedge]

Yeah

We dont know exactly when faultline was signed

We know it was updated with new treaties as time went on, but it was somewhere after A12 was founded

And 2020

[tawdry veldt]

I still don't know what WWW is

[silver sedge]

Might be a custom GOI

Who knows

[tawdry veldt]

i checked the GoI hub and found nothing

[silver sedge]

They are not refrenced in the ARG, so I doubt they are important right now

[full rivet]

http://scp-int.wikidot.com/groups-of-interest-pl#WWW

[tawdry veldt]

huh

[full rivet]

I checked the semi comprehensive list of gois

it's linked on that page

[tawdry veldt]

only one article mentioning it

[full rivet]

only one translated article

that's the int wiki

[silver sedge]

Yeah its an international

So there are most likely a ton

[tawdry veldt]

oh i didnt realize

yeah it's probably nothing then

[silver sedge]

But nah IJAMEA joining th meeting

HAS to be important

Or... again someone just created a plot-hole

But I doubt that tbh

[tawdry veldt]

finally did something!!!

yay

[silver sedge]

The only issue I have with it

Is how would they get into faultline

Like we hacked in with a remote agent

They seemingly just got a fucking password

And an account

If they were a foundation puppet, and the other GOIs knew that...

Why would they be given an account

Just thinking that makes me change my mind about the plot hole thing

This could legit be yet another "We changed the name"

Situation 😭

[tawdry veldt]

there's an article named digging up the past that takes place in area 12

CROW said someting about digging up

[silver sedge]

A lot of articles take place in A12

Maybe

I was gonna say normally non-5K articles aren't important

[tawdry veldt]

there's 3

[silver sedge]

But we were literally force fed the 5555 article

[silver sedge]

Including SCP articles

But yeah only three tales

[tawdry veldt]

probably not anything

[silver sedge]

I mean

[tawdry veldt]

as the tale contains a character

[silver sedge]

Shadow of a doubt isnt it

That is just a 017 almost breach

[tawdry veldt]

that I don't think affray would want to be associated with

so its probably nothing actually

i'm just looking for anything at this point

[silver sedge]

Its bright isnt it

[full rivet]

Shaw

[silver sedge]

Yep knew it

[full rivet]

Some authors are still using Shaw though, I believe

[silver sedge]

They do

They just 1984'ed Jack Bright and renamed him

[full rivet]

Gabriel's personal interpretation of 5000 takes hatching as being the End of Death

I think that's a stretch to say that that article is connected because of that though

[silver sedge]

I mean tbh

[tawdry veldt]

there's a new character made by djkaktus

[silver sedge]

We are all looking for new articles

When we were legit given

[tawdry veldt]

that's like way better

[silver sedge]

Like 6 articles

[tawdry veldt]

i hope people use him instead

[silver sedge]

That for some reason we are just overlooking

💀

[full rivet]

?

[tawdry veldt]

which ones?

the official ones?

[silver sedge]

Sorry a LOT more than six

The ARG has literally told us that story, so something in it might be the answer

[full rivet]

I don't think they intend us to read all of TINAD for this ARG

[silver sedge]

I wouldnt doubt them

[full rivet]

No joke I forgot most of what happens in 55555

But I really don't think we'll find anything that's specifically used in the ARG

[silver sedge]

Then why would they tell us it?

Its the only decent lead we have...

[full rivet]

Because this is all story stuff

If anything there is related to the ARG it's going to be specifically 3125 and again I don't think we can get anything from that

[silver sedge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

We just seem to be getting

Nowhere

From the remote agent page

THAT to me just seems like lore

There is nothing in it that hints on how to progress

[tawdry veldt]

true

[full rivet]

There could totally just be nothing to do right now

[tawdry veldt]

yeah but that would stink

[silver sedge]

Ah yes, lets put the ARG on a break for a week

Come back

Have a single password

Then put it back on break

[full rivet]

yeah that's how it's been going

If we're finding anything we're finding a link

[silver sedge]

I honestly doubt they would just do that to us...

[full rivet]

There's nothing else to try as far as any of us can tell

[tawdry veldt]

just finished reading the tale

it has kain pathos crow

crow-CROW

[silver sedge]

Oh yeah not

[full rivet]

that's not a link

[silver sedge]

That isnt he same crow

[tawdry veldt]

illuminati confirmed?

[tawdry veldt]

yeah im joking

[silver sedge]

I mean what about "jpiwvierpjiagrjiogrjpio2f3409u2f3onjuerg"

[tawdry veldt]

its probably nothing actually

[full rivet]

I've been trying some stuff with that

Seems like the only thing we have that might actually be related to the ARG itself

[silver sedge]

It in theory could be split into a link;
"jpiwvierpjiagrjiogrjpio2f3409u2f3onjuerg"

2f = / in hex

Thus

"jpiwvierpjiagrjiogrjpio**/3409u/**3onjuerg"

That could be like a format, as it clearly isnt

Any encryption

[full rivet]

Also, throughout the entire rest of the ARG they have not made us look at any of the wiki pages for info

[silver sedge]

They said they are trying new things

That this whole ARG is a trial and error thing

Plus I honestly believe we rushed this phase of the ARG, by finding dave early

[full rivet]

They've said directly in the last step that we don't need to look at the wiki pages so I doubt that has changed already

[silver sedge]

I bet we were meant to do something before this, but because we found dave that thing was pointless

That also because the last step was a riddle

[full rivet]

We skipped one step

Bishop said "a step"

[silver sedge]

Well, I don't know how we got from "deepwell_362"

to finding dave

Just doesnt sit with me tbh

[full rivet]

Yeah none of this ARG has been very well communicated so far

[silver sedge]

Yeah

Like we legit thought the whole dave thing

Got retconned

And just replaced

[full rivet]

We were trying passwords on archives forever because we got linked to it and there was literally nothing we could do there

[silver sedge]

Yeah like I legit found

The fucking answer

I think space did too

But we just said it was wrong becuase it didnt open archives

Because we were told to open archives 😭

Then also the "break" wasn't well communicated

We thought we were meant to be doing something, then it was just "yeah wait for dave"

Then dave just left

So instead of taking a break, we were trying to crack things

Which just annoyed a lot of us

Because there was actually nothing to crack

[safe solstice]

can't be

first part has too few letters to make something decryptable unless we use a cipher that can replace single letter into multiple variants, something like Vigenere

it also looks absolutely like something I would get if i smash the keyboard hard enough while having my fingers at the home row

[upbeat sonnet]

The Chained God types at our despair

[silver sedge]

Yeah, it legit cannot be encryption... So it is most likely either keyboard spam, or some sort of format or something

I am also concerned that bishop is typing

[hardy ingot]

Tbf it was a pretty big step. You were meant to be finding your way into archives in order to find Dave to get a reveal leading to the next thing.

I didn’t have the time to reorder the strategy (though I did try) so we had to just move on to a different phase.

[silver sedge]

See I knew it!

We managed to skip steps

[hardy ingot]

And in your defense: I should have made that dave page private. I underestimated you guys figuring out the whole url early

[silver sedge]

I mean tbh that was stupidly obvious 😭

[silver sedge]

So I am guessing by now we have already gotten into staff

Or at least were meant to

As that is the step you gave us

Before 7528 takeover

[safe solstice]

so we just wait now?

[silver sedge]

Doubtful

Bet we are just missing something

This is a new phase

[safe solstice]

I've tried every known stego tool know by humans on that miners png

[silver sedge]

The miners is stupidly old

I highly doubt that is relevant

[hardy ingot]

I legitimately can’t answer. You’re in someone else’s hands now. I had to refocus my attention elsewhere due to timing.

[silver sedge]

But I honestly dont think what we are lookign for is in any images

I think the fact that the error pages are images

Is just because they knew we would try to overanalze it

Just a huge red herring

[safe solstice]

could you point me to what I can dig in then? I think might be good at the tech side of the ARGs due to my CTF skills and experience

not the 'lore' side sadly 🙁

[silver sedge]

Well tbh I think that is what they are exploiting with this one.

They know a LOT of us are tech savy

And would break down literally everything on the website

Which we, already have done

[safe solstice]

that would've been cool if they didn't expose the sitemap

[silver sedge]

So what I think personally

The faultline page is just lore, or a red herring

most likely both

[safe solstice]

wanna hop in a vc?

[silver sedge]

cant rn

but there isnt a lot of information on how to progress form the faultline page

There is a lot of stuff, but nothing hinting at where to go

The error pages say "Focus" and "Don't Forget"

Which imply we are looking for something we have forgotten, which just fits even more when you actually read

3125

[safe solstice]

makes sense

[silver sedge]

So I honestly bet, they are doing something they dont normally make us do

And make it look into a wiki article for the answer

Or maybe more than one article

[safe solstice]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/983810116157595709/1057269595184046140/822126544516415500.gif

[silver sedge]

@vagrant ginkgo Also uh, real quick question...

Is IJAMEA being on the remote agent page a mistake by chance? As IJAMEA isn't listed in the faultline wiki article, instead it is the "Special Affairs Division" of the Tokyo police department..

As that just doesn't make sense if IJAMEA was mostly disbanded into the foundation, for them to be joining a meeting (or let alone even have access to a meeting), which is basically dissing the foundation.

[vagrant ginkgo]

🙂

[silent kite]

can someone remind me to never take a nap and look back in this channel after bc i am so lost already

[frozen cobalt]

I can in a few

[safe solstice]

sorry, I can't now,

[willow flame]

I know it may be sorta out of order but I do hope we'll get the chance to surf through and find stuff on the website like intended, I was really looking forward to getting level 3 and 4 access eventually, reading archives and going through employee emails

[frozen cobalt]

Damn

[willow flame]

Guess only time will tell depending on what Harry and Gabriel got cooking, and the other unknown person

[frozen cobalt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1173366579854053446/1425231009300877393/togif.gif

[silent kite]

watch the 3rd be sherman XD

[edgy vessel]

hey folks
whatre we lookin at

[willow flame]

It do be an ARG, currently I think we are waiting on the next step, if you need a quick catch-up take a look through #1477179990196883536

[edgy vessel]

awesome
love me an arg

whoa

thats a lot

you been busy

[willow flame]

Yah, I keep up the good work as best I can, lots of stuff to keep track of

[edgy vessel]

wow

you seem super diligent

some weird stuff in here

area 12 huh

[willow flame]

Yah

[paper pendant]

I love how detailed the organization of everything is

Imposing

We're lucky to have people like this

[edgy vessel]

whats this interchange thing

whoa

this looks top secret

what i like to see

[willow flame]

I try by best here

I may not be the greatest at actually solving things, I make it up by keeping all the information safe

[paper pendant]

Be proud
You do good work

[edgy vessel]

ya

every good intelligence gathering op needs an archivist

the more you know the better

[hardy ingot]

You will 😉

[edgy vessel]

!

employee emails

thats deep layer stuff

[silver sedge]

Most likely we just skipped the intruder page

I bet us unlocking the intruder page does this

Or gives us the hint on the dave page

And clicking dave's link would do this

Thats why bishop just skipped it, as I bet we wouldnt be able to figure it out saying we already found dave

But I personally still don't think there is nothing we can do tbh. I highly doubt they pinged everyone for something that seems like an intermission puzzle

[edgy vessel]

i bet

theres always something

[silver sedge]

Yeah we are 100% looking for a new url

To a new page on the A12 website

[edgy vessel]

excited to see

what you find

im taking notes

[silver sedge]

I'm also taking this as a "no"

It wasnt a mistake that they are there

[edgy vessel]

these people smile a lot

[edgy vessel]

thats scary

[silver sedge]

Scary anymore?

[edgy vessel]

scarier

[silver sedge]

Good

WAIT GUYS

THE REMOTE AGENT PAGE CHANGED

[edgy vessel]

what

[silver sedge]

https://area-12.org/remote-agent

There is new dialogue

[edgy vessel]

!

is this happening right now

[silver sedge]

Also the DoD has been replaced with "DAT SSU"

And Ukraine didn't join

All of a sudden

[edgy vessel]

this is crazy

look at all this stuff

[silver sedge]

Oh nevermind they are there

They just didnt show up in joining

Or they just changed the name to english

[edgy vessel]

must be a bug

[silver sedge]

Doubtful

I bet they just changed the name to english

[edgy vessel]

trust no one

maybe this is a new system

doesnt seem like it gets used much

[silver sedge]

Its a website

They just edited the html

[edgy vessel]

sure

yah

[silver sedge]

It isnt actually people talking

[edgy vessel]

hmm

[silver sedge]

https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/oooooo/c.png

New image

Also great way to hide it

Who would look on the sandbox for an image

[edgy vessel]

wow what am i looking at

[silver sedge]

Don't worry

That shit will be completely broken down

[edgy vessel]

pumped
i wanna know

[silver sedge]

Most likely in like

2 minutes

[edgy vessel]

🤣

[silver sedge]

I gotta finish reading this page first

[edgy vessel]

lotta words
busy bees these signatories

[willow flame]

That area looks vaguely familiar to an older area in chapter 1

[silver sedge]

Yeah

https://area-12.org/nothing

new page

Found from hidden text in the image file

[edgy vessel]

!!!!!!!!!!!

thats nuts

you folks are wizards

[upbeat sonnet]

Amazing words of encouragement from our pantheon

[silver sedge]

I can confirm, there is nothing on that page

Other than the nothing

Which isnt nothing

So I bet we found half

Of the puzzle

And this page will only make sense, once we find the other half

And make the whole

And I bet the same goes for the other page, if we found that first

[silver sedge]

Like I said earlier

The best way for them to make a step that we are gonna have trouble on, is make it so we cannot use our tech skills

To find clues

[upbeat sonnet]

The newest and most promising member of Alpha-6, ladies and gentlemen

[silver sedge]

Breaking news

I got promoted from intern

Also yeah something interesting

[edgy vessel]

may they never find out

[safe solstice]

yoyoyo new stuff dropped

[silver sedge]

Your very late

We already solved the new page

😭

[safe solstice]

let me join you guys

uh

[upbeat sonnet]

Oh, you most definitely haven't

Yet

[silver sedge]

Pressing X to doubt

Anyways

[safe solstice]

Anything to look into? Stegos?

[silver sedge]

Errr

#1470984512317034648 message

[edgy vessel]

i bet theres something

[silver sedge]

errrr

Might have

Done that already

I havent looked inside the actual image itself tho

Only its code

Something I did note, is the image kinda looks like it has snow in it

Idk if that is just the darkness of the area it was taken tho

[edgy vessel]

i like that you found something in the file before looking in the image

[silver sedge]

I suck ass at actually image work

[edgy vessel]

alexander cutting the knot

[silver sedge]

I mean finding somethign in the file is stupidly easy if you know what said files are meant to look like

[upbeat sonnet]

What about the image?

Did anyone mess with that?

[silver sedge]

I increased the brightness a bit to try and see what it is

All you see is snow

(Like TV snow)

[upbeat sonnet]

I'm not on my pc right now so I can't do it

[edgy vessel]

i remember tv snow

[silver sedge]

So might be something in that snow, as I think you can encode shit in it

But idk

I have no idea how that works

But just to note the changes to the remote agent page;

Ukraine's signatory's name was translated into english
The DoD was changed into PENTAGRAM.
New dialogue
New Error which leads to the image
New Foundation related events as thus more lore 🎉

[edgy vessel]

wonder what these events mean

[silver sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/galactic-republic-execute-order66-gif-20482916

[edgy vessel]

ominous

[silver sedge]

Also something I think is the most important from this drop

This is the ONLY file uploaded so far

And the only in-depth event we have

The rest are just brief "yeah this happened"

[silver sedge]

Most likely not to the ARG tho

Just to lore

[edgy vessel]

entity

miracle liberation front

[silver sedge]

Also UK joke detected, I like this ARG even more

[edgy vessel]

gottem

[frozen cobalt]

YO WHAT

WE FIUND NEW SHIT>>!>!

[silver sedge]

Its nothing

But it is something

[frozen cobalt]

Wasnt the straw guy mentioned in game

[silver sedge]

Idk

Was he?

[frozen cobalt]

Im not sure

[edgy vessel]

strawman

[silver sedge]

Like in what

A document?

[frozen cobalt]

Yea I think

[silver sedge]

Ill go looka t them rq

[safe solstice]

@silver sedge call me crazy, i can't get the text out of that Image

[silver sedge]

Its decently simple to get

Just change the file to a txt and open it, it should be at the end

[safe solstice]

???

[silver sedge]

If that does not work, use a hex reader to read the hex

[silver sedge]

Errr, the image isnt a webp

Its a png

I think you got the wrong image

[safe solstice]

clicked save image as

[silver sedge]

Huh

[edgy vessel]

webp is the devil

[silver sedge]

Thats odd

[frozen cobalt]

Could just be a concealed image

[silver sedge]

https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/oooooo/c.png

Try downloading that image

As that is the one I uploaded

[frozen cobalt]

I remember that you could hide an image being a webp with steg tools

[silver sedge]

You can hide any image inside of images

In any format

Its easier with some

But you can do it

With any

[safe solstice]

oh yes thanks

[silver sedge]

Ah

That

Try that, if that works I'll replace it

[paper pendant]

Ah yes
That

[silver sedge]

idk why it changed it to a webp

[safe solstice]

it somehow cached my ip, can't reach it now

[frozen cobalt]

what're they talking about

[paper pendant]

We only used the sandbox because everywhere else we tried insisted on sticking its fingers in the code and removing the message lol

[frozen cobalt]

schizo yap

[silver sedge]

OH

Well that is what is happening I bet

because I uploaded it to discord

It changed the fucking code of the image

[paper pendant]

Discord shouldn't be doing that

[silver sedge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[safe solstice]

well it does

[frozen cobalt]

Discord cant be doing that

[safe solstice]

it can, oh boy, it can

[paper pendant]

And yet it seems it is doing that

[silver sedge]

Well I put the message in the log anyways

[frozen cobalt]

DIdnt know that

[silver sedge]

So shouldnt be an issue

[paper pendant]

Russian readers must rely on jolly cooperation it seems

[safe solstice]

just like Telegram strips metadata from images

[silver sedge]

But bro squarespace would also just delete extra data on images?

Thats pretty crazy

[paper pendant]

Yep
Squarespace has been trying to kill Gabriel the entire time

[silver sedge]

Wild

[frozen cobalt]

@silver sedge @paper pendant Im thinking of making a hugeeeeeeee paragraph of the wall of china and pinning it in this forum as an updater on the current state of the ARG with everything attached but I need someone who was here from the start of the ARG to provide me with info about it and I can make it a good message for members to look at

[silver sedge]

What

[frozen cobalt]

everytime something new gets discovered its attached

[silver sedge]

Oh

https://discord.com/channels/207140376354488320/1477179990196883536

We already did that

[frozen cobalt]

Ohhhhhhhh

[willow flame]

And I'll be updating it shortly

[frozen cobalt]

Didnt know

[frozen cobalt]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1173366579854053446/1425231009300877393/togif.gif

silly cat

[paper pendant]

pictured: Gabriel Kero using Squarespace for the ARG

[willow flame]

I mean, you can blame Bishop for that one since he started using it in the first place no?

[silver sedge]

But yeah, that is not very nonagon-swordfish-kgt8 of them

[paper pendant]

Bishop is pure as driven snow

[frozen cobalt]

Is driven snow unpure?

Never seen snow in my life time so

[edgy vessel]

snow way

[frozen cobalt]

I would assume its not pure

[silver sedge]

Also best sandbox name "oooooo"

[edgy vessel]

oooOooooooooOoooo

[frozen cobalt]

SUN IM CRAEYUINNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[frozen cobalt]

very mysterious

[safe solstice]

i am behind 4 proxies rn just to participate in this event

[paper pendant]

Thematically appropriate

[edgy vessel]

who up proxying

cant be me

[silver sedge]

Also something I love about the 7528 gif

For some reason my adblocker thinks it is an ad

[paper pendant]

HA

[silver sedge]

So it just wont fucking load

Anyways I can confirm the nothing page, believe it or not, has nothing hidden inside it

[edgy vessel]

Why did not Area-12 simply install an adblocker

[safe solstice]

im with you on that one

[edgy vessel]

silly foundation

[silver sedge]

Why didn't they just install an anti-virus?

We wouldnt be in this situation

If they didnt let 7528 to fucking exist

[edgy vessel]

🙂‍↕️

[silver sedge]

Crius is gonna get so fucking fired

Also something I am noticing

We have a new date

It has to be AT LEAST July 27th 2020

Else the action report Ukraine sent wouldnt have happened yet

[edgy vessel]

ooo

[upbeat sonnet]

Who is this Nakayama they referrenced?

[silver sedge]

I dont know

The site name sounds like a SCP refrence

As normally sites are at max 3 numbers long

Outside of SCP spesific sites

[edgy vessel]

i also would like to know who that is

[silver sedge]

I havent looked at it yet though

[edgy vessel]

very much

[upbeat sonnet]

Just found out why IJAMEA is back

[silver sedge]

Why?

[upbeat sonnet]

Site-8142 isn't a site

It's an item number

An SCP that only affects Foundation personnel

And we should check for more Foundation eyes in this meeting through referrences

[silver sedge]

How does that explain IJAMEA

[upbeat sonnet]

How would they know about it?

[silver sedge]

I dont think it is this SCP tbh

It might be an international site

[upbeat sonnet]

Unless it's a really big coincidence and there an actual Site-8142 in the international wiki

[silver sedge]

As why would it be in the site

Format

There is

[frozen cobalt]

damn

[upbeat sonnet]

Damn

[silver sedge]

All the sites in japan

At least most of them

[frozen cobalt]

Ive never seen a site with that format before

[silver sedge]

At 8k something

[frozen cobalt]

So its IJAMEA related

[silver sedge]

SCP sites

[frozen cobalt]

Right

[silver sedge]

Also know that is just autotranslated

So thats why it dont make sense

[upbeat sonnet]

That's such weird formatting tho

[silver sedge]

Is that better for ya?

[upbeat sonnet]

I meant the 4-number Site designation

[silver sedge]

Its an international page, it wont be perfect in english 😭

Oh, all the japan sites

Are four numbers

There is only two

That ain't

Yeah their format

For site names

Is 81XX

[kindred forum]

I just got here. What's we talking about?

[upbeat sonnet]

Uh, learned something new today, nice

[silver sedge]

Nothing important HOWEVER

We found a new page

And the remote access page

has been updated

Its a good read now

[silver sedge]

Sad news though

The new page is nothing

https://area-12.org/nothing

Like litterally its nothing

[kindred forum]

Indeed. Nothing is nothing

But maybe it will be something later.

If the remote agent site updated and changed, maybe nothing will do the same?

God i love talking about nothing.

[silver sedge]

Nothing makes it seem like it is something, but right now it is nothing

As thus to find nothing we need to find something

[safe solstice]

it's more something than nothing, at least 'but not yet the whole'

[silver sedge]

Most likely another page that isn't nothing

(God that was fun)

[safe solstice]

might be a part of something

[silver sedge]

Tbh I think there are two branches to this ARG

We managed to get to the end of one

Maybe something to do with the error pages

As I bet there is another page, that just byitself makes no sense

Just like the nothing page