ARG Discussion

[full rivet]

that's why i brought up b

[silver sedge]

I still personally believe there is meant to be a page

It just, feels wack

[sour wagon]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1356765177298817105/1478101200208400648/image0-33.gif

[full rivet]

?

[silver sedge]

We got a page

From the rest of the images

Nothing, Else, etc.

[full rivet]

We didn't get a page from the stolen images

They all needed to be combined

[silver sedge]

No, we didn't

I mean we have tried

All the combinations right?

For nonexistence

[full rivet]

maybe?

I've tried all of the ones that make logical sense

[willow flame]

I believe I've tried a few myself

[jagged mica]

the "if you cannot then who" is a new phrase maybe it needs to be added?

[kindred forum]

ive tried a couple

even if i no longer remember them

[edgy vessel]

My instincts tell me you're inches from the finish line with what you've covered so far

[silver sedge]

I think its meant to be interchangable with if she cannot then who

If neither us or crow can find the truth, then who can

[silver sedge]

We are gonna be inches for awhile most likely 😭

[full rivet]

it's from hail mary

[jagged mica]

yeah, its the same style as the other phrases from the images. they might fit together

[kindred forum]

the question is how. thought i think its getting close

[jagged mica]

at least it parallels "if she cannot then"

[silver sedge]

I mean when we got that I believe I mentioned how I believe it was a question to us

If crow couldnt, then who could

I just thought it meant us

[jagged mica]

whos between us and crow

[silver sedge]

White?

Or it could be another GoI

Like maybe the DoD, they seem to be very interested in her

[full rivet]

PENTAGRAM? 7528?

[silver sedge]

Are implied to hav ebeen inside of her office

And she had to leave because they were snooping

[full rivet]

Changed the clocks?

[silver sedge]

I mean, she did make a joke about them sending seal team six

Could be some truth to that

[full rivet]

Does PENTAGRAM have access to antimemes?

getting off-topic

[silver sedge]

They are an Occult group

[kindred forum]

wouldnt be suprised

[silver sedge]

So most likely yeah

[kindred forum]

between us and crow

[silver sedge]

That is also true

The DoD is between us and crow

I didnt even think of that

[kindred forum]

well, i wasnt meanign that, but try it

[silver sedge]

Just more 7528 jumpscares for pentagram, dod, and department-of-defense

So doubt that is it

[kindred forum]

WHO, any organisations that would use that in the paranormal world?

[full rivet]

remember when she said this

[silver sedge]

Yeah... She also said we were inches away

[kindred forum]

just recently

[edgy vessel]

I've investigated enough to know to trust my gut

[silver sedge]

Also now I think about it, we are also looking for a slug

And all of them have been one-word

[full rivet]

No we're not

[silver sedge]

Our ONLY instructions are "input URL slug"

[full rivet]

"input url slug" not "append"

[silver sedge]

Oh true

[full rivet]

we did that

[jagged mica]

mindmilk was two words

[silver sedge]

mindmilk was all one-word

Wasnt seperated

[paper pendant]

Which was a cheat but hey

Sue us

[silver sedge]

Okay now, if we are meant to trust our gut

Who's gut are we trusting

[kindred forum]

ill start the process

[silver sedge]

We all have different opinions 😭

[edgy vessel]

State your different opinions again

[kindred forum]

i want those three pennies

[edgy vessel]

I'll give it the sniff test

[silver sedge]

1. There are 5 images
2. We are meant to use three of said images
3. Most likely, after "else" we are meant to insert "can" (only word our images can produce)
4. We are most likely looking for a party, be it a person or a GOI

[silver sedge]

I will be suing for 1 Dave Plushie

[edgy vessel]

This feels like it's damn near the truth

[kindred forum]

id bring up Nobody again, but ive already tried a handful of possibilities

[edgy vessel]

It fits the logic I've seen so far

[kindred forum]

so ill quit beating a dead horse on my part

[full rivet]

It wouldn't feel right for Nobody to be involved in this

[silver sedge]

They just don't fit the bill

[full rivet]

This seems like the ending of this part, too

[silver sedge]

Coming soon, dave™

[full rivet]

I don't think Nobody is relevant enough to the rest of the story to be the answer

[kindred forum]

part of the reason im not talkin about it much

[silver sedge]

I mean we know this is close

So who are we looking for?

White?

[edgy vessel]

I don't know if you're looking for a person

I think you're looking for a message

[full rivet]

PENTAGRAM, Metamemetics, Dr. White, 7528

[sharp salmon]

I wonder why PENTAGRAM and the UIU just hate each other so much

[silver sedge]

Well its not a person

[full rivet]

hm

[edgy vessel]

We work for the same country but they're evil and also they have more money

[full rivet]

information or a message specifically

[edgy vessel]

Hey, I'm just going on instinct here

[silver sedge]

Okay can someone kindly pull out the riddle again

[full rivet]

five is theirs
three is ours
sequence the truth
and arrive in between
if you cannot then
who
else

nothing isn't nothing
this is something
but not yet the whole

if she cannot then
nonexistence

grey cells betray
unseen and lost
yet still...

[silver sedge]

The full one

We have been focusing on that

[edgy vessel]

This would be a whole lot simpler if your erroneous friend just came right out and said it

Everybody has to make things a puzzle

[full rivet]

erroneous friend come out and say it

[edgy vessel]

Must work for the Foundation

[sharp salmon]

I do find it funny that the GOC was willing to allow the SH to join in but NOT the CI, might as well invite the whole party

[silver sedge]

TSH are not inherantly evil by nature tbh

[edgy vessel]

The main difference is one has morals

[full rivet]

They didn't get to decide

[sharp salmon]

Tbf who KNOWS what the CI's goals are and if they are inherently evil in this universe

[silver sedge]

TSH fights for anomalous rights, CI fight for themselves

[full rivet]

As far as I know if you follow the rules you get in

CI don't follow the rules

[kindred forum]

Hmmmm

[silver sedge]

I mean, we only know

One person who works for the foundation

and thats white

[full rivet]

No that wasn't a hint

[edgy vessel]

Yeah a lot of them are

[silver sedge]

Oh of course

[full rivet]

lmao

[silver sedge]

GRU is rubbing off on her

[edgy vessel]

Sometimes you can tell just by talking to them on the phone

They've got a picket fence somewhere they're dying to get back to

[full rivet]

She was saying that Blank must be a Foundie

[edgy vessel]

And tell on the neighbours for the colour of their front door

But I digress

[full rivet]

Because he's making puzzles

[silver sedge]

Normal

[sharp salmon]

It's a god damn miracle the Accords hasn't started an 8th occult war the way they talk to each other

[edgy vessel]

I feel like I've heard of one named Blank

That's in a file somewhere

Probably not relevant

[full rivet]

intentionally left blank

[silver sedge]

Most likely did when you were reviewing Site-43

He worked there

[edgy vessel]

Yeah that's it

Foundation doctors always have such improbable names

[sharp salmon]

The Accords are very interesting as like it's essentially a NATO for the anomalous world

[silver sedge]

yeah we know that

That dont help us find this message tho 😭

[full rivet]

That's what CROW said in 1972-055

[edgy vessel]

It started out like NATO, then it became like the UN, and now it's like the League of Nations

This is not a good progression

[silver sedge]

Great progression! I see this causing zero problems in the future!

[edgy vessel]

right

[full rivet]

How has Faultline stood for this long, surely these groups can't have agreed any more in the past than they do now

[edgy vessel]

Haven't had to meet often

Just a failsafe

[sharp salmon]

If it was the League of Nations UIU or PENTAGRAM wouldn't be a part of it

[edgy vessel]

wait why do you know the name

[silver sedge]

Refering to how effective it is

The LoN was completely fucking useless

[full rivet]

We're your informants, we know stuff

[edgy vessel]

riiiiiiiiight

[silver sedge]

They had no ability to enforce the things they enacted

[sharp salmon]

If anything Faultline is just gonna end in a 8th occult war happening

The Foundation doesn't even have to do much to get them all squabbling

[silver sedge]

How do you think we got your personnel file?

[full rivet]

We would know that you have a robot arm but not what Faultline is?

[edgy vessel]

At this point I'm assuming you have the entire SCP database at your fingertips or something

[kindred forum]

Hmm. Faultine doc was updated today.

[full rivet]

Bingo

[silver sedge]

I mean, kinda sorta yeah

[edgy vessel]

what

[kindred forum]

Meaningless i imagine

[silver sedge]

Long story

[edgy vessel]

tell me later

[kindred forum]

Yeah, we do.

[edgy vessel]

Once we win this

[silver sedge]

Foundation stupidly inscure is the tldr

[kindred forum]

Gladly.

[full rivet]

very short story, actually. it's one you wouldn't understand, though

[edgy vessel]

Terrific

Lot of that lately

[silver sedge]

grey cells betray
unseen and lost
yet still...

nothing isn't nothing
this is something
but not yet the whole

for now
but maybes not always

those are the stakes
but who are the players?

Tbh that makes the most sense

In terms of order

[jagged mica]

(c)
nothing isn't nothing
this is something
but not yet the whole

(nc)
for now
but maybe not always
(n)
grey cells betray
unseen and lost
yet still...

(a)
If she cannot then, nonexistence
(cn)
those are the stakes
but who are the players?

[willow flame]

(not me multitasking trying to find answers but also having a second discord tab open to update logs as we go)

[kindred forum]

Your doing amazing!

[jagged mica]

this order reads best to me but dosent make sense with the order of the names really

[silver sedge]

Yeah the hardest part of this shit is just figuring out how to order the riddle

I do agree the If she cannot then going into those are the stakes makes the most sense

[full rivet]

c N and N c are backwards

[jagged mica]

whoops

[sharp salmon]

SH appearing into the discussion just to shit on the GOC

[silver sedge]

I mean we know

Grey cells is refering to inteligence

Lets stop trying to order them, and just try to figure out what each section means

Might make it easier to order them

[jagged mica]

wait else nothing is "for now but maybe not always" and thats image n and image c right

[full rivet]

Maybe it's really straight forward

[silver sedge]

Saying the last answer for the last riddle was "well"

We are most likely staring straight at it

[kindred forum]

Probably

[edgy vessel]

Always the way

[full rivet]

Aye

[silver sedge]

We clearly do not know de way

[jagged mica]

how im feelin

[kindred forum]

Feel like I'm staring at a pile of bricks rn

[jagged mica]

build a house

[silver sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/wall-gif-24534315

Live video of all of us

[kindred forum]

Yeah. Thats me

[kindred forum]

Yeup!

So. We are looking for a message?

From what eagle said earlier?

[jagged mica]

you know with the phrases from combining c+n were back at five but we got it from three so maybe thats the middle

[full rivet]

We're spelling out a message maybe

[edgy vessel]

Everything you've gotten from this person so far has gotten you something on the network when you punch it in

I'm hoping there's something more if you figure this out

[silver sedge]

-# big if saying we are talking to brick walls

[silver sedge]

The issue is there isnt really a word we can make with 1 a and a ton of n and c.

It would just be random jarble

[silver sedge]

Also wait, this isn't true

We didn't get something from image a

Or at least we havent found it yet

[jagged mica]

can we use a twice if we separate "nonexistence" from "if she cannot then" cause it was two different locations on the image

or is that reaching

[silver sedge]

Well what crow jsut said

Is that every image gave has given us something when putting it into the network

image a has not given us anything

[kindred forum]

Did we miss something?

[silver sedge]

We haven't managed to get something from if she cannot then

[jagged mica]

true

[silver sedge]

Or nonexistence

[kindred forum]

Enter "who-can"

[silver sedge]

Nope

[kindred forum]

Dang

[full rivet]

I think we've all tried that

[kindred forum]

Fair

Because I thought I tried it as well.

[silver sedge]

I still feel like we are all gonna be stupidly fucking pissed when we figure this out

[kindred forum]

But i thought I had a blond moment.

[kindred forum]

Very likely.

[silver sedge]

Because it is going to be so simple

At least this isnt as bad as the last one 💀

Okay now if we are thinking message, what kind of message are we thinking about?

[full rivet]

who and else are on separate lines so they might be words to use

[silver sedge]

Like a "Hello World"

or like a "Black moon howls"

[full rivet]

The truth?

[silver sedge]

I mean something inbetween the truth

[full rivet]

Find the truth and then move back

[kindred forum]

A lie?

[full rivet]

That's the opposite

[kindred forum]

Half truth then.

[kindred forum]

Yeah. Ik dumb.

[jagged mica]

white lie?

[silver sedge]

Or the truth is inbtween both sides

But we dont have two sides

[silver sedge]

Yeah maybe

I'll try all the combos I guess

[full rivet]

What if we can't?

[silver sedge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[full rivet]

I think that's the real answer we're looking for

Maybe

It's something new

[silver sedge]

I mean then we would be looking for a party

Not a message

[edgy vessel]

I often find in situations like this that I've talked myself into seeing it as more complicated than it is

[silver sedge]

Well thats what we do best!

[edgy vessel]

It's a skill sometimes

[kindred forum]

So it IS a simple answer for us to beat ourselves up over.

Wonderful!

[silver sedge]

https://tenor.com/view/always-has-been-among-us-astronaut-space-betrayal-gif-23836476

[jagged mica]

i think if we order the phrases right we get a riddle that gives us a slug. I dont think gonna be some long chain of words

[full rivet]

Okay, I mean if I went down this route, we can't, crow can't, Gabriel? Blank?

Do we ask for them to tell us the answer

[kindred forum]

Already tried blank.

[full rivet]

Is that the intended solution

[silver sedge]

I can tell you gab won't

[jagged mica]

no

[kindred forum]

I would hate that if it was.

[jagged mica]

we will suffer

[full rivet]

Crow said something about how this would be easier if they came back and gave us the answer

[full rivet]

I'm joking

[silver sedge]

It would be easier

But easy isnt fun

[full rivet]

She could also mean message literally

[silver sedge]

I mean if we need a message

[full rivet]

A message in the exchanges or on the discord

[silver sedge]

What is a message shared

Between all three images?

if she cannot then,

grey cells betray
unseen and lost
yet still...

nothing isn't nothing
this is something
but not yet the whole

for now
but maybes not always

those are the stakes
but who are the players?

1. Intelligence betrays
2. Nothing cannot exist because everything is something
3. Referring to the something not being whole, we have the chance to make it whole.
4. Idk what the stakes are here, but maybe the message is all the players in this "game?"

[full rivet]

We're the players of the arg

[kindred forum]

So what are we called?

[jagged mica]

idiots

me at least

[kindred forum]

Accurate

[silver sedge]

Actually the stakes is most likely all of the above

If she cannot then,

Intelligence will betray

Nothing will become something, but not whole

But this may not last forever?

[silver sedge]

It isn't Alpha-6

Idk how it works but I think that is what we are called

[jagged mica]

intelligence will betray could be Cirus saving 7528 and betraying forde

[full rivet]

Tried every variation of alpha-6

[silver sedge]

Or crius betraying the foundation maybe

I have always had a huntch about him doing it

[jagged mica]

did you read the end of 7528 he lets it live and fakes its destruction

[silver sedge]

Mhm

But also in 7528, we figure out that crius has become self-aware about his past

And the fact that he was alive

This is also supported by the A12 dossier, with a sub-note saying that crius has been acting odd

After being placed in the deepwell

[jagged mica]

that could be nothing becoming something

[silver sedge]

@edgy vessel Okay random question for you

What is today's date?

[jagged mica]

i'll pick this up tomorrow its late. goodbye for now

[silver sedge]

@willow flame Sooooo, how is your "multitasking" going?

[edgy vessel]

Is this a rhetorical question

[kindred forum]

Doubtful

[silver sedge]

I asked dave if he was in a carboard box, and that was serious...

[edgy vessel]

August third, 2020

[silver sedge]

Damn okay cant be the thing I was expecting

[silver sedge]

Thanks!

[edgy vessel]

You're welcome, I suppose

Hope they get clocks where you are soon

Calendars and such

Time in general

[full rivet]

Time isn't our thing

[kindred forum]

Hopefully your clocks got fixed after what happened to them.

[silver sedge]

In case anyone was wondering, I was wondering if the breach in-game started yet

[kindred forum]

Figured it was along those lines.

[silver sedge]

Or if SCP-5243 happened yet (refering to 43 going dark)

[edgy vessel]

Still not sure what that's about

It keeps happening

[silver sedge]

Do you think it is someone like purposely going into your office and messing with them?

Or like some sort of anomaly

[kindred forum]

When did that happen anyway?

[silver sedge]

5243 occurs on September 8th, every year

We can assume 43 went dark today

[edgy vessel]

At this point I don't know

Everything's been screwy since this started

[silver sedge]

Have you tried firing your assistant? Best way to get rid of pranksters!

[edgy vessel]

I like to think I'm a better boss than that

[silver sedge]

How is this taking us so long...

We literally were inches away

[willow flame]

To be fair, we are really good at overcomplicating things and straying

[kindred forum]

Yeah. That wall mentioned earlier, dont think its made of brick anymore.

[silver sedge]

Yeah we got told that

[kindred forum]

And we are still overcomplicating it.

[silver sedge]

@edgy vessel I regret mentioning the fact that giving us a riddle is our weakness to you

[edgy vessel]

Ahem

Where did that come from

Okay now I'm speaking in tongues

[kindred forum]

👀

[full rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/i-didnt-see-what-you-deleted-marisa-kirisame-gif-16683901179942436103

[edgy vessel]

You might be right, this office is anomalous

[silver sedge]

Damn it, she got possesd by her clock

[willow flame]

I saw though

[kindred forum]

Its going in the archive!

[silver sedge]

DMs

[kindred forum]

(Just dont get possessed by eldritch eye gods while in the archive)

[edgy vessel]

Talking to you folks is having a dangerous effect on my sanity

[kindred forum]

Good!

[silver sedge]

Yeah we get that alot

[full rivet]

That makes sense

Baseball, huh?

[silver sedge]

We collectively share less than a single brain cell

[willow flame]

It's a little late for that unfortunately

[silver sedge]

Okay so how the dense fuckdy fuck are we gonna get a message out of nothing

Literally

[full rivet]

We might need to use https://area-12.org/credentials-crow

That would seem to be simpler

[sharp salmon]

Obviously we need to go the SL route, we need diorite

[full rivet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1418120723825819731/1439882251109273610/Diorite-Alert.gif

[silver sedge]

NO

FUCK NAH

[sharp salmon]

The Diorite will spread, the insanity shall spread

[full rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/minecraft-crafting-gif-10556573919312161719

[silver sedge]

I personally think that was just there so that we knew eagle wasn't just some random ass person

Pretending to be important

Literally nothing on there that we don't know

[full rivet]

I'm saying we might need to append something to it or replace something on there

[edgy vessel]

I'm not here to make your lives more difficult

I'm just not really making them easier either

[kindred forum]

Ain't that the truth

[edgy vessel]

Better than you'll get from most FBI agents

[silver sedge]

Oh also, grammar police incoming!

[willow flame]

You are trying your best, and so are we. I at least appreciate the assistance.

[silver sedge]

"I am an agent of and Communications Relay & Overwatch for the Unusual Incidents Unit."

[edgy vessel]

You're all terrific

[full rivet]

Not incorrect, read the rest

[edgy vessel]

agent of, and --- for, etc
I felt the comma could be implied

Trying to cop a cop huh

[full rivet]

oh wait didn't see there wasn't a comma

[silver sedge]

Nah, just that anonying as hell grammar teacher

[edgy vessel]

Well I went to Three Oxfords and they told me about the Hyper Oxford Comma so nyah

[willow flame]

Ehem..back to the topic at hand, yes?

[full rivet]

Khosravi, do you figure there is anything we can do with the page you sent to verify yourself with?

[silver sedge]

The issue is we don't have any other names

[edgy vessel]

I do not. It's verified secure. Nobody's touched it but me.

[full rivet]

K

[edgy vessel]

I think you must be looking for a new page on whatever network you're accessing

And the clues are in those ERROR things you got

[silver sedge]

Mhm, yes we do know that

[edgy vessel]

It can't be too complicated or it wouldn't fit

[full rivet]

no new info there

[edgy vessel]

Unless they have one of those weird paranormal servers I suppose

[full rivet]

they do though

[silver sedge]

They uh

[edgy vessel]

Well uh

Here's hoping then

[silver sedge]

They have a computer made up of all the bamboo and pandas in the world

[full rivet]

goddamnit

[kindred forum]

So. Area-12.org/????????

[silver sedge]

Yeah

[full rivet]

yup

nothing new there

[kindred forum]

Nope

Not really

[silver sedge]

So lets assume

[edgy vessel]

Well if this ERROR person signed off, they must think you have everything you need in the images you got

That's all I can figure

[full rivet]

so no 4th image

got it

wasn't really searching anyways

[silver sedge]

It can't be longer than "remote-agent-koza-bosch-unicorn-koln-biltmore-saker"

Saying that is what overflowed

[edgy vessel]

If they want you to actually find it, I'd hope they wouldn't be that obtuse

[silver sedge]

The remote agent page

[edgy vessel]

Then again, Foundation

But no let's hope not

[silver sedge]

So we are looking for a message that has at max eight words?

[kindred forum]

I doubt it would be that long.

[silver sedge]

Most likely wont

[full rivet]

We don't have eight words to use

even if we count 'who'

[silver sedge]

Wait a second

Oh wait nevermind

[full rivet]

nothing, means, nobody, else, nonexistence, who

[silver sedge]

If she cant then

[full rivet]

I mean we have 5 words not counting who

[silver sedge]

Wait what if that is

The start of the message

If she cant then

[kindred forum]

If she cant then who else can

[silver sedge]

Nope

[full rivet]

already tried who-else-can and who-can

and she-can and we-can and they-can

[silver sedge]

I mean "If she can't then" makes complete sense for being a start

Of a message

[willow flame]

(5K Tag return)

[silver sedge]

5K tag jumpscare

[edgy vessel]

I have the weirdest feeling that something awful would happen if I used that tag

[full rivet]

why

[lusty vale]

LETS GOOO

[edgy vessel]

Like parallel universes colliding I don't know

[silver sedge]

Come on, you know why

[full rivet]

probably what it is

[willow flame]

So that's how it is...

[full rivet]

Maybe not parallel though

[kindred forum]

Thats a lot of 5k tags I'm seeing

[silver sedge]

If she can't then no one can?

[willow flame]

We've been waiting for it to come back for like a while now

[full rivet]

tried that

[silver sedge]

ahiudhwaiuhdiawuhdaiwudhaihdadap;iwdjaigdaoegadubia

[kindred forum]

Well, I'm rather happy with my current tag.

[kindred forum]

Speaking the truth.

[edgy vessel]

We're on the cusp here

I know it

[silver sedge]

OKay I think I am right

[edgy vessel]

passing this along

[silver sedge]

With the "If she can't then"

[silver sedge]

OH NOT AGAIN

[full rivet]

not a hint

[edgy vessel]

Hey you never know

[silver sedge]

She gonna tell me I am going insane

[edgy vessel]

She gets it

Yeah they came back and said it means you're right-handed

Dunno if that's useful

[silver sedge]

Hah, I am ambidextrous!

[edgy vessel]

Welp

Guess someone is getting fired today

[full rivet]

Your whole thing is investigations, come on

[edgy vessel]

I think you'll find it's Incidents

[silver sedge]

Anyways, we are close

It 100% starts with "If she can't then"

We just need to figure out, whats gonna happen

[full rivet]

no it doesn't

it's cannot

[silver sedge]

Oh

[full rivet]

also that's not full confirmation

[silver sedge]

I know it isnt

[full rivet]

It's probably some part

[silver sedge]

Its just more than we got in ahwile

Sure seeing a lot of 7528 tonight

[kindred forum]

I aint.

But that's a me issue...

[silver sedge]

Oh yeah

I can just turn on my adblocker

[kindred forum]

I dont even have an ad blocker.

[silver sedge]

I have bad news

My ad blocker no longer thinks he is an ad

[kindred forum]

Uh oh

[willow flame]

Good

[kindred forum]

He is growing stronger.

[paper pendant]

Or your ad blocker is
Ads are standins for a real thing
7528 is the real thing

[silver sedge]

Hey good news

Well I tried something I doubt would have worked anyways

It isnt the top search result on the wiki 😭

[full rivet]

Also it's "if she cannot then"

oh

[silver sedge]

I'm aware

[full rivet]

you added the then

[silver sedge]

Yeah

I just filled it out

[full rivet]

you omitted it at one point

[kindred forum]

Im getting so many white screens

[willow flame]

7528 is everywhere

[kindred forum]

I haven't seen him in a while

Just a bunch of white.

[willow flame]

Maybe we can force him to regurgitate some information for us

[paper pendant]

Dr. Carlisle, trying to find a URL he can use on the intranet: what the f

[silver sedge]

So thats what he was doing during 7528

[paper pendant]

This is like the Education Centre only you're chasing it around the website

[silver sedge]

You need to add an epilepsy warning to the next ARG at this point.

[full rivet]

We have to be using something that we only have after getting hail-mary

for the next url

[paper pendant]

But think how nice it will be when something else loads

[silver sedge]

if you cannot then who else?

[willow flame]

We are at the edge, we just need to make the jump

[full rivet]

something

[full rivet]

bad analogy

[silver sedge]

We know the five and three were there to tell us that the thief images

Were wrong

We know the hidden text is most likely parts of the phrase

[silent kite]

hold me now im six feet from the edge

[silver sedge]

We just need to figure out what the middle means

It could be something like

"If she cannot then X. If you cannot then who else can?"

[full rivet]

Y is can

[silent kite]

nooo y=mx+b

[silver sedge]

Alright guys, get the stones ready.

[full rivet]

kill them

[silent kite]

https://tenor.com/view/ahoklollmao-noooo-nooo-noo-no-gif-17139315586294057944

[stark wing]

Damn they're deploying LTG on us now?

[silver sedge]

@edgy vessel Does your amazing gut feeling like this idea?

[edgy vessel]

Seems pretty long

[full rivet]

I think the idea would be to pull out the answers

[silver sedge]

Why cant it just be password

[full rivet]

have you tried?

[edgy vessel]

Have you tried "swordfish"

[willow flame]

7528 is very much still saying hello

[silver sedge]

Uh-huh...

[paper pendant]

I should have made a page for that

[kindred forum]

Im disappointed in you

[silent kite]

have we tried giving 7528 a snickers?

[silver sedge]

https://nonagon-swordfish-kgt8.squarespace.com/hail-mary

oops

[edgy vessel]

My heart skipped a beat

[silent kite]

maybe hes just hangry

[edgy vessel]

Thought you had something there

[silver sedge]

I swear if the answer

Is the website's squarespace

Id

I will go insane

[silent kite]

:3

[paper pendant]

Damn

I should have thought of that

[willow flame]

No Harry, don't think of that

[silent kite]

no you shouldn't have

[silver sedge]

Yeah I know https://nonagon-swordfish-kgt8.squarespace.com/nonagon-swordfish-kgt8

Would go wild

[paper pendant]

I mean we already used the Affray website why not

[willow flame]

I'll archive you next

[silver sedge]

Ugh fine

[silent kite]

@willow flame maybe Harry doesnt go in the a-6 holy texts

[silver sedge]

I'll try the affray websites

Squarespace code

[willow flame]

Oh he'll go in the texts alright, just not those ones

[silver sedge]

Also are we sure that pentagram doesn't own the affray website?

[silver sedge]

Well we know its shorter than this

[cunning mirage]

wasup arg gang y'all getting anywhere with this?

[full rivet]

autogenerated squarespace urls

[edgy vessel]

Is it bigger than a breadbox

[silver sedge]

Yeah I know

[willow flame]

nobody means nothing else who

[paper pendant]

What's a breadbox anyway

[edgy vessel]

A box for bread

[paper pendant]

That does make sense

[silver sedge]

Bad news guys, it is not "if-she-cannot-then-waffles"

[willow flame]

nothing else if she cannot then nonexistence why else - Just the words in order we found them I'm pretty sure no?

[silver sedge]

Nobody and means are irrelevant

The hail mary page says so

We only are meant to use 3 images

[willow flame]

Hmm

[silver sedge]

We also 100% do not have all the words

As we have 100% attempted every logical combination of all of the words we have

[full rivet]

what if they were lying and it's just not solvable right now

or it's actually super complicated

[silent kite]

what about illogical combinations

[silver sedge]

PTSD to well

[full rivet]

affray would be burnt to the ground

[silver sedge]

We have 100% tried those also

[full rivet]

what have we done with the idea of "hail-mary"

[silver sedge]

This is a hail-mary

For us trying to solve this

We most likely were meant to have already solved it by the time that was dropped

@paper pendant Next time can we please NOT make the website give you a stroke everytime you put an incorrect answer in. This is starting to hurt 😭

[full rivet]

No I think it unlocked because we solved the mystery of who was messing with the roundtable

[silver sedge]

We still never figured that out really tbh

We just know its someone in the foundation

[full rivet]

It was 7528

[silver sedge]

How did we come to that conclusion?

[full rivet]

Dr. White put 7528 into the roundtable to eat the info and disrupt it

[silver sedge]

But it didn't eat any of the info...

The only time we have gotten a report of information being scrambled

Is once hail mary appeared

[full rivet]

"Everything is gibberish" and things are getting redacted

[silver sedge]

Also, how would white see 7528's eyes?

[silver sedge]

We are the only ones who see the redaction

crow sees it as gibberish

[full rivet]

?

[silver sedge]

We are most likely just inmune to whatever it is

[full rivet]

The redaction happened after

[silver sedge]

.

[full rivet]

Not the same thing

[paper pendant]

Fixed

[silver sedge]

LOL

[full rivet]

YEAAAAAAAAAAH

[silver sedge]

Ladies and gentlemen

We have done it

We have recontained 7528

[willow flame]

I'm gonna breach him again

[silver sedge]

Don't you fucking dare

Look how cute they are

[silent kite]

you cant stop us

me must breach7568

[willow flame]

Standby for reauthorization of [DELETIONS] protocols

[full rivet]

there aren't any hints in that image

[paper pendant]

There most certainly are not

[full rivet]

damn

[willow flame]

Damn

[silver sedge]

Yeah that was just pulled off the interwebs

[paper pendant]

If I gave you another hint you'd be very angry
I mean you're gonna be angry anyway

[silver sedge]

Please

I would rather be angry than talking to a brick wall

[willow flame]

If we are gonna be angry either way, which would you prefer, the before or after

[silver sedge]

Plus, we cannot be any more angry than we were at fucking "well"

[paper pendant]

lol

[willow flame]

So true

[paper pendant]

I could give a single hint if you really wanted one

[willow flame]

I'm game

[full rivet]

do give please

[silver sedge]

I'd say we really want one

[paper pendant]

What do you think the little "poem" things are

This is a multi-stage hint

[full rivet]

jesus

[silver sedge]

Yeah 100% not

[paper pendant]

They are not Jesus

[silver sedge]

Hakius or whatever they are called?

[full rivet]

are they mary mother of god

[paper pendant]

They're not really haikus but sure

What is their purpose

What relation do they bear to the URLs you found them at

[silver sedge]

Uh

[full rivet]

lead us on a wild goose chase

[paper pendant]

Yes

Correct

That's your hint

[silver sedge]

Oh my fucking god

Are none of them important

[full rivet]

fucking hell

[paper pendant]

They're responses to the text of the URL

Now don't say I never gave you nothing

[full rivet]

okay well we kinda already knew that for some of them

[silver sedge]

Ima give it to you

That is evil

[paper pendant]

Well I had to do something when you brute forced the sandbox lol

You can't NOT get something for it

[willow flame]

I feel relatively at ease with this compared to the 'well' riddle

the hint that is

[paper pendant]

Trey is more devious than I

[silver sedge]

I should have kept my mouth shut about that 😭

[paper pendant]

It was a good instinct

[silver sedge]

@tawdry veldt I blame you!

[paper pendant]

You deserved a reward

I didn't expect the reward to poison everyone

That was just a happy accident

[silver sedge]

So, if we take the three images

We actually got

We have

If she cannot then nothing else nonexistence

[full rivet]

Maybe it is 3125 and IT

[edgy vessel]

Starting to sound like something

[silver sedge]

I mean tbh this soudns right other than nonexistence

[south fractal]

When did the area-12.org/namehere get changed to cats with pegs on their ears?

[paper pendant]

When the people spoke

[silver sedge]

After I asked harry to stop flashbanging me everytime I got something wrong

[willow flame]

I miss 7528, he really spoke to me

[kindred forum]

i can actually see it this time

[paper pendant]

He'll be back real soon

[kindred forum]

darn

[silent kite]

he was just a silly guy who did nothing wrong

[silver sedge]

I mean are we like looking for a synonym for nonexistence?

As I cannot think of a way to fit nonexistence into that sentence

[edgy vessel]

Nor I

[full rivet]

found some stuff in the source of
https://area-12.org/remote-agent-koza-bosch-unicorn-koln
https://area-12.org/remote-agent-koza-bosch-unicorn-koln-biltmore-saker

Not wikidot files

[silver sedge]

Uh

What

[paper pendant]

Well well well

[kindred forum]

huh

[willow flame]

Interesting

[silver sedge]

sun.png

[kindred forum]

images are named night and sun

[silent kite]

that second image looks like corvo attano

[full rivet]

Those are some hooves and a person in a hood wearing a mask

[south fractal]

Whats the cow got to do with it.

[full rivet]

maybe an oni mask?

hard to tell

[silver sedge]

Are they on

Any other pages?

[full rivet]

not sure

[silent kite]

the 'mouth' seems kinda similar to this

maybe skull or skull adjacent?

[full rivet]

I thought skull at first but oni seems more appropriate

they have said they already have models for other GOIs

night could also be a player character too

[kindred forum]

Ive got the images in Aperi rn. Just in case. Give me something to do as well

Ok. Never mind. Aperi is having a heart attack.

[silver sedge]

Yeah none of the other pages seem to have them

[kindred forum]

Ill check the as soon as aperi stops dying.

Im about to scream

[silver sedge]

Something I am noticing though, they are seperated for some reason

[willow flame]

Neither seem to have anything hidden in hex

[kindred forum]

At least you can tell.

[silver sedge]

One is on saker

The other is on koln

[kindred forum]

I was just about to ask if there is something else I could use.

[silver sedge]

Notepad

Just rename it to a txt

And then scroll to the bottom

💀

[kindred forum]

How have I mever heard of that....

Im done with life.

[paper pendant]

I was amused how quickly you all found those notes

[silver sedge]

Yeah so I reverse image searched it...

I don't think that was very helpful

[full rivet]

I said they weren't wikidot files

[silver sedge]

I know

He just asked how

[full rivet]

Wait a second is night a full ass deer

[silver sedge]

Might be

[full rivet]

still can't tell if that's a skull mask or an oni mask

It would be a very strange skull mask though

[edgy vessel]

Oni have skulls

Trust me

[silver sedge]

Tbh it looks like an oni mask to me

[full rivet]

I don't mean an actual oni, crow

[edgy vessel]

Oh fair

[silver sedge]

But that is 100% a character model

YOu can see the stock of a gun

And what looks to be a machete or some melee weapon

[paper pendant]

Telltale sign of SCP: 5K

[full rivet]

Holy shit is that a katana

[paper pendant]

Director's Motif: gun

[full rivet]

that looks like a katana

[silver sedge]

Actually

Yeah

It does

[full rivet]

now we know why they added that

[silver sedge]

Now the real question

Does this help us

Or is this just cool teaser

[full rivet]

maybe idk

[paper pendant]

I mean you seem happier now

So that's helpful

[full rivet]

it does motivate me though

[silver sedge]

I mean, it is called sun and night

[willow flame]

Speaking of, Cal, how goes moving to france?

Are you the most valuable member yet?

[silent kite]

I dont think it looks like a katana, it flares out width wise

[full rivet]

I don't remember the joke I made

[willow flame]

That's okay.

[silent kite]

reminds me more of a radio antenna

[full rivet]

That was my first thought too but that could also be the hilt

[silver sedge]

Something to note

"sun" is hidden beind this

[full rivet]

so yeah it's an oni mask and probably a katana then

[silver sedge]

Night is under this security notice

[full rivet]

hm

[silver sedge]

I still have no idea how those would help us tbh

[kindred forum]

nor do i

[silver sedge]

welp

[kindred forum]

back to where we began

[silver sedge]

Back to staring at this and hoping it solves itself

[full rivet]

is that a full ass cow

[silver sedge]

Idk

It has four hooves

I do know that

[willow flame]

"If she cannot then nothing else nonexistence" this is where we were

[silent kite]

WAIT THE FUCKING SHADOW COW

is coming to 5k?

[silver sedge]

Crow has also said that she doesn't see a way that nonexistence fits into the sentence

[silver sedge]

I mean it lives in A12

[willow flame]

Aye

[silver sedge]

So we 100% dont have all the words we need

[willow flame]

It's gotta be within what error has given us though, there is not further information to receive

Not for this step

[silver sedge]

I mean error has literally only given us three things

Nothing
Else
If she cannot then
nonexistence

(I lied, we got four things)

[full rivet]

It is significantly darker than the background, it looks kinda like bad lighting or it's intentional and it's the shadow cow

[willow flame]

Remind me which images we are looking at potentially

[full rivet]

Actually, looking at it again, it is pure black with no texture

[silver sedge]

c, a (new one), n

Oh well we also have can

[willow flame]

can lol

[silver sedge]

GUYS

I GOT IT

https://area-12.org/if-she-cannot-then-nothing-else-can

GUYS

WE ARE BACK

The password is nonexistence

[willow flame]

FAHHHH

[kindred forum]

YOU ARE KIODDING ME

[silver sedge]

WE GOT THE EMAILS

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[willow flame]

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK

[edgy vessel]

You found something?!

[willow flame]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[kindred forum]

I WOULD O)F SWORE SOMEONE TRIED THAQT!!

AAHAHAHHA

[full rivet]

back to area-12

[silver sedge]

We found SCiPMail

[willow flame]

7528 still seems to have hold

[kindred forum]

got the pass

[paper pendant]

CONGRATS

[silver sedge]

https://area-12.org/protocol-pentacle

At the bottom of the email chain

[silver sedge]

Also see told you it was gonna be found after we solve that riddle 💀

[willow flame]

Lmao

Alright, time to go update shit again

[silver sedge]

Me and silenced totally did NOT accidently stumble on this like two hours ago

[paper pendant]

Squarespace!

\o/

[silver sedge]

"planted.png"

"puresource.png"

[willow flame]

pure source eh

[silent kite]

this that small statick bit on the main page?

[willow flame]

Oh also the tab is named 'hatred'

[kindred forum]

and the page has music

[south fractal]

Its good to here that lofi tune again

[kindred forum]

HATERED

[silver sedge]

Thats always there

[willow flame]

hatered sorry yeah

[silver sedge]

Okay guys

Who the fuck is J.T.P.,H.R.

[kindred forum]

also, id like to point out we probably SAID the damn URL multiple times

[silver sedge]

We 100% did

[kindred forum]

we just never typed it in

[silver sedge]

Now real question

[kindred forum]

seemingly

[full rivet]

did she ai generate this

[silent kite]

where did you find that?

[silver sedge]

Is anyone smart enough to descramble this shit?

[kindred forum]

id swear i tired something in that order tho

[silver sedge]

Bottom email

Look who sent it

[edgy vessel]

pumps fist
I nailed it

I knew they were AI

HR has always been AI

All HR is AI

[silent kite]

ahhhh prolly just HR

[silver sedge]

Most likely fucking crius

[silver sedge]

Doubt it

Why would HR be sending you a DoD protocol?

[full rivet]

no that's pure chatgpt right there

[silver sedge]

Oh also, do you know what Protocol Pentacle is?

[edgy vessel]

No?

I've never heard of that

[silent kite]

hey grab the scrambled words

in the emails

[edgy vessel]

A pentacle is a five-pointed star in a circle though

Like in the GOC emblem

And also PENTAGRAM obviously

[willow flame]

We have a file for you then

[edgy vessel]

Okay...

[south fractal]

Reading those emails is just re-reading this arg chat and the friends we made along the way. xD

[silver sedge]

Seems to be an agreement between the DoD, Foundation, and GOC to make the foundation, and I qoute, " paramount authority on matters paranormal"

[willow flame]

ACT

[edgy vessel]

what

[kindred forum]

so thats why the DOD has been hounding you

[edgy vessel]

wh

I'll brb

[south fractal]

Btw guys

i think you missed a spot

[full rivet]

You can probably read pure source as some other type of file

[full rivet]

Seen that

[kindred forum]

those dang red backgrounds again

its even got a name

[full rivet]

Old ARG

[silent kite]

i feel like there is somethin off about marcello's email

[kindred forum]

call me stupid then

[south fractal]

This is an old image we decoded already

[kindred forum]

i wasnt here for that one remember

[silver sedge]

Its "pure source"

[south fractal]

QR code?

[full rivet]

can you try to read the original file as a different type

[full rivet]

no

[silver sedge]

Doesnt look like it tbh

[silver sedge]

No it is 100% a png

[full rivet]

It's probably encoded in color

[silver sedge]

No funky formatting to make it switch

Most likely

[edgy vessel]

You beautiful lunatics

You wonderful beautiful lunatics

It's real

It's fucking real

This is the smoking fucking gun

[silver sedge]

We broke crow again

[south fractal]

Love the compliment.

[edgy vessel]

I INTEND TO

[full rivet]

We found the hard evidence

[edgy vessel]

Oh my god this is the worst best thing you could have found

What the fuck

I'm out

Got an assembly to call

You done incredibly good kids

[south fractal]

Kids?!

[edgy vessel]

Uh adults

[kindred forum]

KIDS!?

[edgy vessel]

I'm old okay

[silver sedge]

Welp, time to blow up the world again

[full rivet]

See ya later auntie

[south fractal]

Yea so am i. >.>

[edgy vessel]

Well you probably have both your original arms

[south fractal]

Sure but i don't have my real knees anymore 🙁

[willow flame]

We'll be seeing you around, please contact us if you require more.

[edgy vessel]

Sympathies, it comes for us all eventually

[kindred forum]

👋

[edgy vessel]

You can absolutely count on it

Expect updates in a few hours; the Interchange has a delay

I wouldn't dream of revoking your access now

You probably just saved not just my bacon but everyone's

Thank you

[south fractal]

We'll find out.

[silver sedge]

Hey good news, you can stop complaining about time zone issues!

[south fractal]

Howso?

[silver sedge]

You are gonna get an update in upsidedown time!

[south fractal]

Depends.

[kindred forum]

cause a ruckus and ill be happy, no thanks needed!

[silver sedge]

Yeah depends on how long a few hours is

[edgy vessel]

I am going to bring the god damn roof down

[south fractal]

Depends on whether or not eagle has slept yet. xD

[edgy vessel]

OUT

[kindred forum]

hopefully its at a decent time

its 1am for me, and if this all updates at like, 5am imma be dead to the world

so hopefully our time zones are not Too out of whack

[silver sedge]

Po-Bishop here is upsidedown

Timezones are majorly out of wack here

[south fractal]

GMT+8

[silver sedge]

Also there is 100% something hidden in the puresource image

I am just not smart enough

To get it out

[south fractal]

You should see the wall of text it decodes into

[silver sedge]

What

[south fractal]

gimme a min.

Never said it was coherent. Just a wall of text.

[silver sedge]

Yep that is 100% a wall of text

Now I aint even gonna try

To unfuck the first image

I am 100% not smart enough for that

Also something to note the daily lab data has 100% changed

[south fractal]

Certainly. But i believe that image data is suposed to pertain to the testing chambers itself iirc.

[silver sedge]

Well something I am noticing

Chamber 11

"555555"

[willow flame]

Oh hellllll no

enough with the 5's

[kindred forum]

looks cool

[silver sedge]

The hell

[kindred forum]

looks meaningless

[south fractal]

Neat

[silver sedge]

Its 100% something

Saying it is hidden on the page

[south fractal]

looks like a flesh tendril from 610

[silver sedge]

It kinda does

[silver sedge]

Wait is this the pure source image

Or the streched one

[south fractal]

A 610 chrysalis?

[kindred forum]

the image in the Archived images room

[silver sedge]

They are both in there

[kindred forum]

DANGIT

[silver sedge]

Is it this one

Or the static

[kindred forum]

static

[silver sedge]

Huh