🪹the-sepulchre-arg

[dreamy bloom]

could the 0s in the code be missing numbers? like theyre supposed to be substituted with another number?

[cedar venture]

we established that A in the affin cipher can't be 0, I think

[harsh vortex]

earlier someone mentioned chemicals

4l1chno and this thing

[cedar venture]

ahhh, alright

thank you

[snow perch]

PSA: ARG burnout is a real and dangerous thing. Make sure to prioritize fun over being miserable

Just was thinking about that 😭😭

[harsh vortex]

i love args

[snow perch]

Mayhaps; that’s something to keep not of

Note*

[cedar venture]

ok so, stupid question, but have there ever been hints in the levels themselves?

[harsh vortex]

thats sounds very likely

doesnt the police station change while you play?

[autumn geyser]

No ingame hints for now

Nothing to reference ingame either

[shrewd yarrow]

^

[harsh vortex]

aight

[cedar venture]

hm, alright

so I guess the question is, how do we even figure out what to change about the ciphers we do have

[harsh vortex]

going outside was the biggest unlock

[shrewd yarrow]

c.c

[harsh vortex]

d.d

[shrewd yarrow]

person came in "asked about what was going on." was about to explain the arg and then left

[dreamy bloom]

my kid walked in while i had all the number open and just looked at me and shut the door

[shrewd yarrow]

ffs

[cedar venture]

kid's pov lmao

[shrewd yarrow]

LOL

[rigid sphinx]

There's zero shame is setting it down and just coming back to it in a few days. We ain't going nowhere

You also don't want to get tired of this before we get to the real fun stuff

[wise robin]

Ah yes, real fun stuff, you mean the end of the tutorial and start of the suffering

Right?

[cedar venture]

wait, we're still just on the tutorial?

[shrewd yarrow]

yep

[cedar venture]

lmao, we'll get through it

[rigid sphinx]

Well the idea was to gauge what the community is capable of, how effective some of the tricks I've used in the past are now, and see what the community wants out of this.

That way when I'm running full steam I don't run anyone out of the game

This is also one of the hardest stages yet, just for a bit of perspective

[shrewd yarrow]

it has been quite the challenge i will say

[wise robin]

yeah, but we still are struggling super hard with it

[rigid sphinx]

If it does get outta hand I got some sub-stages ready

[cedar venture]

Fair enough, definitely sounds like a good idea of how to go about it

[wise robin]

it might not be outta hand, it's just I'd say a very big difficulty spike for us

[rigid sphinx]

That is fair, this is very much a step straight into cryptology. It is a light step but it's still a hurdle when you don't really have the background for it.

It is very good to know at least that all of you work well together, that'll make things easier on you

[cedar venture]

The thing that’s sticking out to me, is that we’re trying to find out what cipher to use differently, and which cipher(s), but at least, from what I can tell, there isn’t something to really point us in the right direction. So it kinda feels like a cliff face

[wise robin]

it definitely does, I knew nothing about cryptography before Kos explained it to me and later on linch also explained some other stuff, now at least I can be of use, I'm still very bad at it though, but I guess it will come with time

[cedar venture]

Tbf, I also just got involved with this yesterday, so I don’t want to say with full certainty there’s nothing there to point us in the right direction

[rigid sphinx]

There is, but it does require some more background knowledge to see it

[cedar venture]

I try to avoid saying stuff that I don’t know what im talking about lol

And hm, alright

Could be worth reviewing what we have established so far

[wise robin]

Kaminsky is trying to point us in the right direction, but since this is different to what we've done before it's hard for us to realise which is the right direction anyway

[cedar venture]

Understandable

I gotta head to bed, but maybe we should look at what we already have for this part of the arg

[wise robin]

sure, sleep well

[cedar venture]

Thanks!

[autumn geyser]

gn, have a good sleep

[cedar venture]

Thank you :)

[barren yoke]

can someone give a synopsis on what the ARG is? I'm new to this and curious -w-

[autumn geyser]

Doc V2 has an overview of the overall progress, v1 is the working document

This ARG is basically around the MLO paramilitary faction and their operations

[wise robin]

it's about getting schizephrenia from solving Kaminsky's riddles

[autumn geyser]

We've so far learned about how the dorms were used as a drug experimentation center

[barren yoke]

oh okay i see, i see the doc. i'll have to read it when i'm off work -w- i've never seen an ARG before but it seems really cool!!

[autumn geyser]

Yeah it's pretty damn nice

Also ultimately if you can't seem to find a place you could do, just wait a little, eventually something will turn up

[barren yoke]

ok!!!

[wise robin]

what time zone are you in?

because we are all different time zones

and someone can explain to you how it all works but you gotta match time zones

or wake up 2 hours ago to talk to guys from us

[autumn geyser]

Oh yea on the topic of timezones

[wise robin]

and linas

[wise robin]

yup

[autumn geyser]

Updates section should be un UTC/GMT0

[wise robin]

is it not?

[rugged scaffold]

what is the sepulchre arg?

[autumn geyser]

So that it isn't "oh in my case it was the next/previous day"

For now I don't think it's been clarified

[autumn geyser]

.

[wise robin]

yeah, I agree with that

[wise robin]

bro linas just explained this like a min ago

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[wise robin]

scroll up unless you don't have hands

but then wtf are you doing on dc

[rugged scaffold]

right luckily i have those

[wise robin]

great

[rugged scaffold]

oh wow this is terrible im never coming back to this channel, whether i have hands or not

[autumn geyser]

damn

[wise robin]

goddamn it patrick

come back rn

[rugged scaffold]

this stuff is terrible man i dont even want to begin to wrap my head around it but it seems so interesting at the same time

[rigid sphinx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7-BX4bWYvg

[wise robin]

just becuase you feel heat around the corner doesn't mean you should walk out on it, you're not Neil McCauley

be a good cop and discover the universe of other cops

[rigid sphinx]

Price that's such a deep fucking cut, jesus

[rugged scaffold]

is this one of those lostcon things?

[rigid sphinx]

Naw, you're only at lostcon 4

[autumn geyser]

Ye

[rugged scaffold]

right kaminsky online

[rigid sphinx]

but I'm going to bed now because it's 3am, so you're basically at 5

[autumn geyser]

We're good for now

Have a good rest

Btw what happened yesterday

[wise robin]

good night and sleep well

[autumn geyser]

Cause I swear you were online for like the entire night

[shrewd yarrow]

rest well Kam!

[barren yoke]

sorry i stepped away. i'm pst!!! idk if i'd be able to partipate in an ARG though i just was more wondering what it was if anything

[shrewd yarrow]

hop in anytime

[autumn geyser]

Yea no worries

[wise robin]

especialy on vc

we'd love to talk to someone new as well

[rigid sphinx]

Sometimes a comment from a new perspective is all it takes to trigger an epiphany

[barren yoke]

i would but cannot vc unfortunately since i'm at work 😔

[wise robin]

alright

[autumn geyser]

Damn

[wise robin]

alright, so I guess next time I'm gonna quote "why is the rum gone???"

[rugged scaffold]

who is this guy?

😂

[autumn geyser]

Who

[wise robin]

who?

[rugged scaffold]

🫵🏻

[wise robin]

I

am

me

?

what kinda question is that

who am I

[autumn geyser]

One of the newer but not completely new people

[wise robin]

I guess

[autumn geyser]

I don't even know which wave we are on

[shrewd yarrow]

Price, be nice

[wise robin]

mate

[shrewd yarrow]

❤️

[autumn geyser]

Be nice?

[rugged scaffold]

a rhetorical one, i'm just saying you're sharp man!

[autumn geyser]

That's not in my vocabulary

[wise robin]

what did I do wrong ?

[wise robin]

aaaaaaaaaaa

makes sense

well my senses in my brain ain't too sharp lmao

[rugged scaffold]

well you make up with it in movie references and quotes that slash to the bone

so

[wise robin]

I just woke up today right and I was like, I need to quote something goofy like the rum thing

[autumn geyser]

damn

[shrewd yarrow]

lol

[wise robin]

but I found a place to put a heat refrence so I did (heat will always stay inside my heart)

[wise robin]

thanks

[rugged scaffold]

absolutely credit where credit is due!

[wise robin]

you wanna hop in vc maybe?

[rugged scaffold]

i was just gonna go off to bed so no not this time

[wise robin]

alright

[rugged scaffold]

but maybe next time if I really do get into this whole ARG thing

[wise robin]

good night and sleep well

[rugged scaffold]

Yes thank you, and same to you!

[wise robin]

we can help you get into it

[autumn geyser]

Have a good sleep

[wise robin]

thanks, even though it's morning for me

[shrewd yarrow]

rest well!

[shrewd yarrow]

Mornin

[wise robin]

morning

[wise robin]

[cedar venture]

Good morning, chat. We still trying to solve the fune numbers?

[autumn geyser]

Yep

As per usual

[sacred dawn]

I'm just here for the show at this point

[cedar venture]

Thinking it might be worth looking through what we’ve figured out so far, see if there’s any pointers in there

[left bough]

fixed mistakes and added beaufort
still not noticing anything

[cedar venture]

Awesome!

[left bough]

another i was thinking of is Nihilist cypher
basically vigenere, but output is in numbers

decoding would be from numbers to letters

though we've not used that one before

[cedar venture]

Id say lets focus on what we might be using for now

[wise robin]

yes

[wise robin]

that's a lot of work you've done

[supple pulsar]

Right guys, I am home

I'll have a look at things in a minute

[snow perch]

Fantastic job man

Make sure though, you use “thelilieseyes” as a key

Because it might work again

[snow perch]

Why do I feel like that’s a soft hint

Or am I just Overthinking

Besides that I think it’s really cool that we have all these people

[rigid sphinx]

It's just a shame they all stepped in at one of the slog steps

[left bough]

yeeah

[snow perch]

I know right 😭😭

When I joined I was in the fun-figure-stuff out steps

[radiant sonnet]

whats new friends

[cedar venture]

LMAO

[radiant sonnet]

[rigid sphinx]

I believe in you all

[real sparrow]

[cedar venture]

sometimes you just gotta invoke THE INDOMITABLE WILL OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT and keep trucking on

[radiant sonnet]

[cedar venture]

PFFFT

[snow perch]

Yeah Fr though, we gotta lock in

[cedar venture]

but yeah, I gotta go to work in like, 20 minutes, though I'm planning to, at some point today, try and go through what we have so far in this part of the arg

see if there's any pointers there

I'd assume that as the arg goes on, it builds upon past concepts, right?

[snow perch]

Have fun

[cedar venture]

thanks lol

[snow perch]

Yes absolutely, Kaminsky always wants us to look back at what we’ve previously learned (much to our dismay 😭)

I’d also recommend familiarizing yourself with this ARG and even the previous one if you want to know more about context

[cedar venture]

I've looked through the stuff for the first part, with lost carcosa

[snow perch]

I’ll be back probably on the 6th or 7th so I can help with the ARG then

[snow perch]

Good

[cedar venture]

hell yeah

actually I just realized

we've been stuck on trying to figure out to use the gwyn cipher differently, right?

what if we're not even trying to use the right cipher lol

even if it doesn't go anywhere, might as well try each cipher we've already established in play

start with the stuff that's not a headache first, just in the off chance we're doing more work than we need to

[snow perch]

Unfortunately we’ve had a history of leaving things unchecked or half checked, and even worse there is no way to know for sure.

[snow perch]

Also I think it’s smart that we only have a few people in Gwyn, the others work on the other ciphers

[cedar venture]

that's fair

[snow perch]

If we spread out the work, then we can cover more ground, but then people have to make sure their work is correct, or incorrect, so to speak.

[cedar venture]

sounds reasonable to me lol

[sacred dawn]

I'm gonna look on Fiverr and see if we can hire a cryptologist yea?

[cedar venture]

that almost feels like cheating, in a way

or at least kinda takes the fun out of it being a community effort

that's just my take though, I don't want to speak for everyone else

[sacred dawn]

Who said I'd tell you the answer even if I got it

[snow perch]

Hilarious.

[sacred dawn]

That'd ruin it. I'm just genuinely curious if some random on there can solve it.

[snow perch]

Honestly, if we figure it out, maybe after you can send it to em

Would be funny to seen they could figure it out

[sacred dawn]

True. I wonder if some have like a money back guarantee.

[snow perch]

Imagine you hire one that doesn’t, and he just says “I don’t fucking know”

[cedar venture]

could probably also provide them with what we have so far lol

[snow perch]

I feel that we are straying off topic 😭

[cedar venture]

maybe a bit

[sacred dawn]

Very my bad.

[cedar venture]

anyways I gotta go to work lol, see y'all later

[snow perch]

Don’t worry, it’s funny 😄

[snow perch]

Cya

[wanton shale]

anyone got any speculations to why the mlo flower/headwear thing shows up for a split second in this old ron trailer before it came out for early access?

[cedar venture]

teaser probably

[wanton shale]

idk there's probably a few theories about this

this is after all like the few times the mlo is shown

or at least anything related to that

[snow perch]

It’s definitely an Easter egg/teaser

[sacred dawn]

Wait

[snow perch]

Get people speculating, building hype, etc

Yes it’s the same on in the broadcast

[sacred dawn]

The weather report? Bottom right?

[snow perch]

Yes

[sacred dawn]

Ohh nvm

[snow perch]

It looks really similar

[sacred dawn]

Like that still bothers me^

[snow perch]

Two great minds think alike hustler

[sacred dawn]

1.5 minds. I'm half dumb

[snow perch]

Uh oh

LOST CON 2

[sacred dawn]

FUCKKK

Nooo

[autumn geyser]

OH NO

NO

[sacred dawn]

I was about to make food

[boreal kite]

when all hope is lost, the hand lies in the repository

[snow perch]

wow, GitHub

[autumn geyser]

repository of messages?

@shrewd yarrow

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[sacred dawn]

I was about to say🤣

[autumn geyser]

quick find lilies eyes github account

[snow perch]

Imagine he’s telling us to just use a software 😭😭

[rigid sphinx]

don't try and fucking git pull lily

[snow perch]

😭

[autumn geyser]

lmao

what if we find kaminskys github

but yeah I THINK it refers to the repository of messages in v1 doc

cause that's the only repository I can think of

[sacred dawn]

Thelilieseyes doesn't have a github account :/

[autumn geyser]

Apart from github

[snow perch]

That damn ARG toolbox?

[autumn geyser]

Our v1 doc

With all the messages

[snow perch]

Oh

[autumn geyser]

So basically just "look at what I sent in the past"

or

[snow perch]

AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

[dry gale]

guys what dat

[autumn geyser]

Where'd you get that

[dry gale]

at the bottom of the doc

[snow perch]

Wow

So that’s what he meant

[autumn geyser]

Yo wtf

How did lily get access to the doc

THEY'RE ONTO US

[snow perch]

Lily has access to the internet???

[autumn geyser]

But yeah that'd explain what that means

Cool way of doing it kaminsky

[snow perch]

He’s supposed to be locked in th basement, why would Kaminsky let him out??

[snow perch]

Fr

[rigid sphinx]

[dry gale]

anyone got a reliable barcode scanning website?

[rigid sphinx]

The hint is another lesson.

alternate reality game

[snow perch]

Looks like some Latin

[snow perch]

Lmao

[autumn geyser]

Lmao

[snow perch]

I’m sure Mr. Moffia is going to be thrilled that right when he left it was sent

[rigid sphinx]

So Kap has the record for the quickest lily translation so far

3 minutes

[autumn geyser]

Damn

okay in my defense though

I was getting pizza

[sacred dawn]

He's got neurolink implant. Must be nice

[autumn geyser]

But yeah that was quick

[snow perch]

It’s gotta be Latin, Omnia means something like all

[dry gale]

[snow perch]

And corrupta means corrupt

[snow perch]

I’d assume

[real sparrow]

the whole nation was corrupted by the song of the damned

[snow perch]

This is what my scanner is telling me

[autumn geyser]

gwyn

[snow perch]

Or A1z

5 is a double which means it’s a vowel

Like E

Or maybe a vowel

[autumn geyser]

F C O Q X X C I

not gwyn

[snow perch]

E just kinda fits

IM

[snow perch]

It’s gotta be A1Z dawg

[autumn geyser]

IN THE END

[snow perch]

Yeah

IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER

[autumn geyser]

LMAO

I WAS GONNA SAY THAT

[rigid sphinx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4&pp=ygUKaW4gdGhlIGVuZA%3D%3D

[autumn geyser]

I tried so hard and got so far

[sacred dawn]

Linkin Park soundtrack when?

Fuck Kam beat me to it

[autumn geyser]

same braincell

[snow perch]

I fucking love that song, was listening to it earlier this morning

[autumn geyser]

We all share one braincell

[sacred dawn]

Hivemind type shit type shit

[autumn geyser]

lmao

oh theres actually more

to the latin

[dry gale]

yeah but it's very hardly readable

[autumn geyser]

time to see if i can de-cursify it

omnia corrupta cantu damnatorum

corpus ardet
mens clamat
anima fugit

spes tamen manet

all corrupted by the song of the damned

the body burns
the mind cries out
the soul flees

yet hope remains

[snow perch]

If we can’t google translate it I’ll just look at roots

Okay

[autumn geyser]

finally im useful holy shit

[snow perch]

Looks good

[autumn geyser]

fellas what if the song of the damned is in the end

and we have to listen to in the end

to get the answer

[snow perch]

We need to look into the comments of the music video now

It’s the test about willpower Kaminsky 💀💀

Good I hate typing on phone

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[snow perch]

Is*

[autumn geyser]

quick look for kaminsky's comment

[dry gale]

deadass looking thru the most recent comments

[snow perch]

What’s funny is that Mr. Moffia brought up that song earlier today

This you Kaminsky????

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[snow perch]

With the weird name

[autumn geyser]

wait

what if we dont listen to linkin park

but we apply for a job

linkedin park

[snow perch]

THIS WAS THE LESSON, NOT GOING OFF TOPIC

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[snow perch]

WE BROUGHT UP IN THE END

AND NOW WE ARE LOOKING AT LINKEDIN PARK

WHAT THE FREAK

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[rigid sphinx]

the braincell got a little lost in translation

[autumn geyser]

lmao

we do only have one after all

but to be fair that was kaminskys fault

you cant just put "in the end" and expect us to not think "linkin park"

[snow perch]

I guess it doesn’t even matter

[autumn geyser]

but we tried so hard

[sacred dawn]

Idk about yall I shedded a few tears that summer Chester died🥲

[snow perch]

I’m playing Wii sports resort

Can’t talk rn

[autumn geyser]

damn

[harsh vortex]

you need me

you need me

you need me

[dry gale]

yeah that accurately describes the state of everyone involved in solving this arg

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[rigid sphinx]

they need all the help they can get. If you can stomach E.Ψ.Ǝ then you'll be pretty useful

[snow perch]

English, something, probably Russian

[harsh vortex]

epilepsy warning
this is how it feels to learn the truth

[cedar venture]

OAUGH I MISSED A LOST CON 2

[snow perch]

Yeah I was just mentioning that 😄

[autumn geyser]

a lostcon 1 actually

[harsh vortex]

how may i be of service

hows the cipher + chemical stuff

[cedar venture]

Maybe being a NEET was the way to go, especially with the hours they’ve been giving me recently lmao (or rather, the lack of)

[autumn geyser]

help solve the numbers

[cedar venture]

I blame work for making me miss it lmao

[harsh vortex]

ok

intweresting

[autumn geyser]

yea solved

it was a message in the repo of messages

[harsh vortex]

new numbers or

[autumn geyser]

the previous numbers we had tried to solve for 4 days now

[harsh vortex]

ok on it

also, from other ciphers, did you find the website theyve used ? or just cracked using random websites

also possibility of it just being a dud? false route to distract

[cedar venture]

Man, actually crazy a bunch of things happened when I left lmao.

[harsh vortex]

Rimanah has awoken

i have recovered from the endless cycles of guilt

[cedar venture]

The lost con 2+1, In The End was mentioned after I joked about it, and the hint was like immediately solved

Holy shit, maybe I’m, like, a prophet… woah…

[harsh vortex]

to you

[snow perch]

But maybe in the end

It doesn’t even matter

[cedar venture]

Ffs lmfao

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[snow perch]

Doubt it

[cedar venture]

It would be extremely funny though if it was just really elaborate shitposting

[rigid sphinx]

Zero.

[autumn geyser]

Thank you Kaminsky for at least sparing us a little

[sacred dawn]

What if he's lying

Emojis = lies

[snow perch]

Everybody is lying to you, your name is NOT hustlers

[sacred dawn]

No shit there's a Z at the end and not an s

[harsh vortex]

the lilies eyes implies the existance of the lily

[cedar venture]

EVERYBODY IS PLOTTING AGAINST YOU TRUST NOBODY RIP THE WIRES OUT OF YOUR BODY

GRAAAAAAAHHHHHH

[snow perch]

Me telling the schizophrenic Disney mom that there is a hidden micky insider her skin

[harsh vortex]

let him out

[snow perch]

She must rip it out

[harsh vortex]

let him out

let him out

[autumn geyser]

damn

[harsh vortex]

i need to change my pfp and username so people think im part of the arg

[snow perch]

Banned and muted lore

[harsh vortex]

thats a good name idea

[snow perch]

Lmaoooo

[cedar venture]

Lmao, i told my friends about how I accidentally “predicted” the bit y’all just solved, immediately they responded by calling me an idiot savant lmfao

Idk, just found that particularly funny

So the question now is, what does the phrase “In the end” actually refer to in the context of the arg

[snow perch]

I just realized

I called the double e

Fucking knew it

[autumn geyser]

indeed you did

good job

[cedar venture]

I know im super late to this, but if I’m interpreting that right, I was NOT expecting an EYE divine cybermancy mention here lmao

Idk, obscure games immediately catch my attention lmfao

[wise robin]

perfect description of my life (also childhood memories)

[snow perch]

Guys, I have a crazy joke, but I don’t think it even matters

[wise robin]

go on

I wanna hear it

[wise robin]

same

[autumn geyser]

I joined before the true start so my first act was to try and decipher the hurricane broadcast message code

Which was not part of the arg

But it was fun to do that

[wise robin]

that's always nice, you got a taste of what's coming

[cedar venture]

Oh shit, I missed the whole latin bit earlier

That came from the barcode, right?

[autumn geyser]

From the stuff below

The cursed text

[cedar venture]

Alright

[sacred dawn]

I didn't even know the ARG existed until it got opened up again

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[cedar venture]

I knew about it before it did, but only a little bit before it got picked up again

[sacred dawn]

Idk how I missed it. I guess I thought it was some random BS. But I also wasn't really active in the discord until somewhat recently.

[cedar venture]

Fair

Not to be a pain, but can we have the latin translated and recorded in one of the documents

[sacred dawn]

Now I have to use LFG because my old squad doesn't play this shit no more🥲

[cedar venture]

Just so we don’t lose track of it

[autumn geyser]

Already ahead of ya

It's in the comment for the text and image

[cedar venture]

Awesome, thank you!

Not to be retreading ground, but as extremely funny as it would be, I don’t think it’s talking about the linkin park song as our next hint, but “song of the damned” does feel significant

[real sparrow]

I basically had the server muted, only subbed to the announcement for my own server
Then friend asked about this like a week ago and it suddenly all made more sense to me (since steam launch I knew something is odd, made my own in-game "study" of enviroment, then scrolling through the history here I understood most of the things)

[autumn geyser]

Yeah no it's not linkin park

That one was basically just messing around

[cedar venture]

Uhh just for shits and giggles, anyone want to run the new somgs for the missions through a spectrogram or something

[autumn geyser]

Nothing ingame for now

[sacred dawn]

The one for dorms I don't think has been checked has it?

[autumn geyser]

Plus I don't hear any funky audio

Fentanyl blues is pretty damn standard with nothing special

[sacred dawn]

Ahh okay making sure

[autumn geyser]

Yeah fair

[cedar venture]

Fentanyl blues?

[autumn geyser]

That's what it's called in the .bank file

The homeless dude music is fentanyl blues

I wish I was joking lmao

[snow perch]

Fentanyl blues is such a good name for a song

That’s so funny

[autumn geyser]

fr

[snow perch]

Yes it’s real btw

[autumn geyser]

Yep it is real

[cedar venture]

Amazing lmfao

[autumn geyser]

fr

[cedar venture]

So then, anything audio related yet in this part of the arg?

[autumn geyser]

Yep

A2

And I believe another hint sometime down the line

[cedar venture]

So then either we’re being led on a path that’ll bring us back to what was stumping us earlier, or this just directly correlates to it

Idk, song of the damned is what my brain keeps getting caught on lol

[real sparrow]

Yea, my silly schizo brain goes as far as wanting to check stuff of Ends of the Earth where leviathan might stir the waters of nearby sea. But also I know I am getting really far from the arg setting

[autumn geyser]

Remember

no ingame stuff

At least for now

Everything we need has already been done

[real sparrow]

yea, I have to keep telling myself that too

[snow perch]

. Noting

[cedar venture]

Ok I got a really dumb idea

What if one of the images we do have is relevant, and like we have to convert it to a midi or something, and run that through a spectrogram

Probably nothing, but an idea is an idea

[snow perch]

Thing is, we’re trying to solve a cipher, maybe it’s worth taking a look at, we don’t want to leave any stone unturned

Do it.

Better to do it then not

If that’s right then we can disregard the hint, if it’s not then we gotta go deeper through the rabbit hole to find the answer

[cedar venture]

Also thinking maybe a particular phrase is a key to a cipher

[snow perch]

Well we got an entirely new paragraph to work with

And “InTheEnd”

Which may or not be a key

[cedar venture]

Looking through the document, this stood out to me. Even if it’s something we’re already past: “Truth is often hidden behind layers of obfuscation”

In reference to the images

[snow perch]

Interesting.

I can’t really help with all the cool shit unfortunately. But I can give my second opinion

[cedar venture]

Also, about the theories thing

[open needle]

Yeah I’m catching rn

Amazing work y’all

[cedar venture]

Just a guess, but maybe one of the suspects was the chosen? Iirc, in the briefing, one of the suspects is known to preach about stuff

[autumn geyser]

Yeah that's one of the theories I've got

That the vets are MLO guys felt behind to delay the inevitable

And perhaps to eliminate 619

[cedar venture]

Would make sense

You don’t think we’re maybe 619?

[autumn geyser]

Nah

[open needle]

Nah I’d wager he’s the guy on the stretcher

[autumn geyser]

619's the guy by the ambulance

Yeah

[snow perch]

^^

[cedar venture]

Ah, that’d make sense

But he’s not the traitor

[autumn geyser]

Nope

Definitely not

He's the interloper

[open needle]

Could poi be the traitor?

[cedar venture]

Makes sense, just wanting to make sure im on the same page lol

[snow perch]

The ‘unwanted guest’

[autumn geyser]

619 - Interloper
CHSN8675-A - Innocent
Someone - Traitor

[snow perch]

I’m pretty sure CHRYS is the traitor

[autumn geyser]

Other people are suggesting that Lily is the traitor

Which honestly I can get behind

[cedar venture]

Lily, as in LOSTCON lily?

[autumn geyser]

ye

[snow perch]

The guy from the thing

[autumn geyser]

The Lilies Eyes

I refer to them as Lily for convenience

or lilies

[cedar venture]

Honestly i could see that being the case

[open needle]

Yeah

[cedar venture]

They’re like an informant

[snow perch]

What a great informant 💀

[cedar venture]

Lmfao

[snow perch]

But we know the traitor is dead

[cedar venture]

Nvm then

[snow perch]

And lily is very much alive and ‘informing’

[open needle]

So what about the officer in the mlo safe house

[autumn geyser]

Do we know that for sure though

I don't recall anything about them being confirmed dead

[snow perch]

Sec****

[autumn geyser]

bugger off zepellin

[snow perch]

oopsie

C is right next to x

[autumn geyser]

damn

That's not the worst fat fingering you could do on a QWERTY keyboard

[autumn geyser]

Ah

[snow perch]

Disregard the big red line

That’s just Apple

[autumn geyser]

Yeah possible

Honestly idk then

[snow perch]

I thought we confirmed that it was Chrys

It’s not CAM act not lily

[autumn geyser]

Yea the theory was Chrys is lily

[snow perch]

It was??

[autumn geyser]

I think

[snow perch]

I don’t think so 💀

Doesn’t sound quite right

I could see why it’s thought though

[cedar venture]

Jusy trying to think, what images do we have that are still unsolved?

[autumn geyser]

Honestly not one fucking clue

This arg has me beyond confused

[autumn geyser]

T1

[cedar venture]

That’s where we got the chemical compound from, right?

Or is there more

[autumn geyser]

4L1 was derived from A2

[cedar venture]

Oop, my bad

[autumn geyser]

Yea no worries

[cedar venture]

Stupid question, but did we translate the small bits of latin in there

If it even is latin

[snow perch]

Yes

High tower watches

High tower punishes

[cedar venture]

Oh alright

Would it be fair to say that if something requires translation, be it language or ciphers, it’s probably significant?

[autumn geyser]

Ye

[cedar venture]

Alright, just trying to keep in mind what to keep in the back of my head lol

Anything in the image metadata?

[autumn geyser]

Fair

Which image

[cedar venture]

T1

[autumn geyser]

Oh this

Yeah

Some stuff

That's why it's such a pain in the ass to classify

It has parts of all three branches

(kaminsky i hate you for this why are you like this)

[cedar venture]

Lmao

Alright, so then it’s like a joint thing

[cedar venture]

Are there any branches we haven’t reached the end of yet? Or at least the end of the current trail (in case if there’ll be more to each branch after we solve where we currently are)?

Sorry for the delay in asking, had to do my job for a bit lol

[shrewd yarrow]

Soooooo i am guessing this barcode was suppose to be in the img and may have eaten. Like the zip

Also thanks guys i now have in the end in my head

[cedar venture]

IT STARTS WITH

[harsh vortex]

when the fuck did i download this WHAT IS THIS WHY IS IT ALL IN RUSSIAN

makinsky hacked my puter WHAT IS THIS

[shrewd yarrow]

One thing i dont know why, doesnt even matter hard you try.

[supple pulsar]

guys

wtf is going on

i leave to practice and come back and the world's upside down

[shrewd yarrow]

Susprise!

[supple pulsar]

just caught up with everything

[shrewd yarrow]

nod

[supple pulsar]

right

so

we're still trying to decode funny numbers

but

we got a funny qr code

with latin

[shrewd yarrow]

Aye

[supple pulsar]

KAMINSKY IS THIS A HINT

[rigid sphinx]

now we just wait for the lily fan art

[supple pulsar]

that

IN THE ENDDDDDDDDDDDD

IT DOESNT EVEN MATTERRRRRR

[rigid sphinx]

[supple pulsar]

I TRIED SO HARDDD

[shrewd yarrow]

LOL

[supple pulsar]

AND GOT SO FAAAAAAAAAAR

BUT IN THE END

[shrewd yarrow]

It doesnt even matter!!!

[supple pulsar]

A NISMAN LO MATAROOOOOOOON IT DOESNT EVEN MATTERRRR

[shrewd yarrow]

Kaminsky was this bar code in the img the entire time or did it get sallowed into the void?

[rigid sphinx]

C. None of the above

[cedar venture]

It got put there sneakily

The barcode, I mean

[shrewd yarrow]

Ah

Ok fair enough

[harsh vortex]

as ive said

the lilies eyes implies the existance of the lily

[dreamy bloom]

is the lily in the room with us right now?

[shrewd yarrow]

Lily is not just in the room. Their in walls, the ceiling, the basement, the attic, they are many, they are all, they are.... one.

[dreamy bloom]

they're definitely in the drugs

[snow perch]

A created hint because we are miserable and can’t solve the puzzle?

[harsh vortex]

i uploaded this to some random image to audio website and got some crazy shit lol

[rigid sphinx]

Just because I take a non zero amount of enjoyment in y'all struggling, there's a point at which it becomes helpful to no one.

Also, much less can't

More, having a hard time

[harsh vortex]

args are fun because puzzles

[cedar venture]

Chat it’s ok, I have adhd and a touch of asperger’s, surely the hyperfixation will kick in and I’ll hard carry us, surely

[dreamy bloom]

im still enjoying it even though things are at a little bit of a standstill

[cedar venture]

But yeah, I can’t shake the feeling that the next bit is audio related or something

Just that “song of the damned” line keeps sticking out to me

[harsh vortex]

this is probably gibberish and meaningless this is what came out lol

fucked up website

[cedar venture]

Ok, now put it through a spectrogram

If there’s anything meaningful in that audio, it’d be through a spectrogram

[harsh vortex]

its probably gibberish some random website shat out

[cedar venture]

Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t check

Part of this is throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks

[snow perch]

Anything that sounds weird just be put into a spectrogram

[harsh vortex]

yeah i am checkin, whats a good spectogram you guys use

[snow perch]

Such as my voice, I’m actually an agent for Kaminsky and I am apart of the puzzle

[harsh vortex]

same

[snow perch]

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Spectrogram/

[snow perch]

Fentanyl Blues 💀💀

But actually that does remind me, maybe we do have to put stuff into spectrograms

[shrewd yarrow]

More dorms stuff?

[snow perch]

Maybe idk

[cedar venture]

Fentanyl blues could be worth checking

Either put it through a spectrogram, or maybe it’s saying to pay attention to the lyrics

[harsh vortex]

https://ouhouhsami.github.io/online-spectrogram/

is what i used

[cedar venture]

Well, I’m not seeing any letters i don’t think

[snow perch]

I love ur pfp Mr. Moffia

[cedar venture]

Thank you!

[harsh vortex]

yeah the website that turned img to audio was just fuckin with me i guess

[snow perch]

I was thinking we’d need to something like this

What you brought up

[harsh vortex]

whats this music thing you guys are talking about?

[cedar venture]

It’s the latin that was dropped earlier

all corrupted by the song of the damned
the body burns
the mind cries out
the soul flees
yet hope remains

[harsh vortex]

thats just poetry about suffering

[snow perch]

.

Oh wait I’m losing my marbles

Sorry

[harsh vortex]

happens

[cedar venture]

THE ARG CLAIMS ANOTHER

[snow perch]

Though you were talking abt something else

[snow perch]

This bad bih got me long ago

[cedar venture]

lmfao

[snow perch]

Just ask Linch or price or Linas

[cedar venture]

I feel like im inevitably gonna get linch and linas mixed up

[snow perch]

The marbles have been lost long out mb

[snow perch]

You will.

[cedar venture]

Lmao

🫡

[snow perch]

Linch is the cool Chicagoan that is so super cool just because he lives in Chicago

[cedar venture]

But yeah, even if jokingly brought up, i am starting to wonder if fentanyl blues is relevant. Can’t think of base game maps having music composed specifically for in mission audio

[snow perch]

Linas in Lithuanian.

[cedar venture]

Like outside of the music for the soundtrack

[snow perch]

Eh, prob either cut music or Easter egg

[cedar venture]

I feel like an arg is where ideally you go full schizo from time to time though lol

[harsh vortex]

where was this fentanyl blues seen?

[snow perch]

Taking a look may be worthwhile however “leave no stone unturned”

[snow perch]

Files

[cedar venture]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/508108435036962816/1270092597695611050/image.png?ex=66b27168&is=66b11fe8&hm=e4d009b82a12e288671827dcf7993b5f65ccd7cca52eac6c1c38a39fc8effad2&

Wait shit that’s right

No image perms

[snow perch]

Embed fail

Shit

Wrong reply

[cedar venture]

Was grabbing the screenshot from earlier because it’d have the directory

All good lmao, i knew what it was referring to

[snow perch]

You can send screenshots btw

[cedar venture]

Here

[shrewd yarrow]

is in corner babling in cohertently the lilies eyes is master.... all will serve.... all hail the great lilies eyes....

[cedar venture]

Lmao

[snow perch]

Maybe the lilies eyes were the friends we made along the way

[cedar venture]

What if, this is all actually a padded room, and freakinator is the rubber rat. I mean, he’s already got the rodent pfp

[harsh vortex]

knocks could be a morse code

[cedar venture]

Give it a go

[snow perch]

Maybe that was our lesson, friendship is everything! …or the lesson is that we keep getting sidetracked, or better yet, we have to do things we haven’t done before.

Like images—>spectrogram

[harsh vortex]

sidetracking is fun

[snow perch]

For us, not for the sake of the ARG , however.

[shrewd yarrow]

F is for friends that do stuff together
U is for you and me
N for anytime anywhere at all

[snow perch]

F is for freaking die

U is for right now

N is for please

[snow perch]

Alright gentlemen, this is supposed to be a lesson, we’re supposed to be getting taught something right?

Maybe, there are multiple ways to solve those numbers? “In the end” in A1z and something else in a different cipher

Or maybe IMAGE TO SPECTROGRAM??

[cedar venture]

Maybe lmao

I genuinely am curious about fentanyl blues now, if there’s something in the lyrics, or running it through a spectrogram

[snow perch]

Well Kaminsky did say it’s not in-game, but he DIDNT say not in files, go ahead. Take a little look if you want

[harsh vortex]

fent blues is a banger

[shrewd yarrow]

"In the end" could also meaning the last string of numbers

[cedar venture]

OOH, MAYBE

Maybe that’d be a key? Affin cipher (and thus gwyn) is numerically involved, right?

Though that’d fall through if it’s a string of numbers, rather than a couple

[harsh vortex]

hell hath no fury

like gah damn guys you should listen to fentanyl blues

[snow perch]

Freaktanyl Blues

[cedar venture]

I would but im about to shower (immediately making me much more hygenic than y’all)

:)

[errant dock]

question was this part ever solved? since the lower part is 4l1, (reaserched in this chat)

[shrewd yarrow]

We havent gotten a chance too if its anything

[harsh vortex]

heres fentanyl blues lol

[errant dock]

so far from what i have researched its nothing but the lower part has some weird chemicals

[harsh vortex]

it might be one of the many compounds related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzimidazole

[errant dock]

one of those compounds was imidazole on the lower part at least

the top ones is a complete mystery

[shrewd yarrow]

Interesting!

[snow perch]

When this is all over we need to interview Kaminsky

About why he’s so diabolical

[harsh vortex]

what else do you guys want to spectogram

[errant dock]

most of those lowers ones are aromatic compounds i can only assume

[harsh vortex]

anyway ill try to transcribe the lyrics for fentanyl blues now

ill run an AI and also try to manually do it

i dont understand why were focusing on Dorms but ill do my duty

[snow perch]

Dorms is where almost everything took place coming up to this

[harsh vortex]

thanks ok i see now

uhh did you check the spectogram i dropped earlier?

i did not look at it

[errant dock]

found out this might be pyridine, this might be wrong tho

[harsh vortex]

i dont remember my chemistry so ill let you guys tackle that

i remember you can count the tips to know how many carbons there are

[errant dock]

could be wrong but looks very similar

[harsh vortex]

im guessing its essentially pyridine connected to another compound?

[errant dock]

oops

[errant dock]

but yes connected to imidazole

[harsh vortex]

theres one thing about fentanyl blues

i dont understand the beginning at all

[cedar venture]

Just for shits and giggles, you want to fuck around with the brightness?

[harsh vortex]

everything else is just so well spoken

[cedar venture]

Also i lied about showering, my dad had me do something right as I was getting ready to take it 💔

[harsh vortex]

it

kinda sounds like latin

im just saying

[cedar venture]

Wish we could get, like, a transcript

[harsh vortex]

who of you wants to listen to it

[cedar venture]

Me, but again later

[harsh vortex]

ill be playing it on repeat while i do some things

[open needle]

Don't sleep on MaryMoonshine from Narcos either

[shrewd yarrow]

@snow perch idk about you might get storms here

[errant dock]

This is very interesting

[open needle]

Just on the topic of audio

[harsh vortex]

like you hear that will? the first part is just

weird

[errant dock]

yea it’s hella weird

[harsh vortex]

and then its normal very eloquent english

[radiant sonnet]

i reconstructed it but its not a known chemical compound

[errant dock]

I connected some of the stuff to actual chemicals

[harsh vortex]

on it boss

[errant dock]

But you’re right prolly

[harsh vortex]

any other levels should be looked into?

[radiant sonnet]

the bottom part is 4L1 I found that out a while ago

[errant dock]

This song is just generally weird

[radiant sonnet]

not sure what the top part is

[errant dock]

I can’t figure it out either it’s like some of the stuff doesn’t exist

[cedar venture]

You guys think mary moonshine could also be relevant? You could argue there’s a theme there

[harsh vortex]

just try to breakdown the compound into an equation

[open needle]

In hell's (h) (s) ide you go on... Going on by my highway?

[harsh vortex]

and get all the carbons etc

it might help

[cedar venture]

Moonshine was alcohol produced illegaly during prohibition (initially), and fentanyl blues is, well, fentanyl

[errant dock]

We got 2 compounds in the 4l1 discovered but the rest I’m hella unsure

[harsh vortex]

and blues

not just fentanyl

[cedar venture]

Ok here’s a wacky idea

What if we take spectrograms of both songs

And overlay them

[harsh vortex]

sure

[errant dock]

play the begining again

okay yea its weird

[snow perch]

We had a huge one this morning

[cedar venture]

I do want to see if we can ask for the lyrics

[harsh vortex]

like

thats so weird

[errant dock]

yea thats

super weird

the ending was a bit weird too if u ask me but might be wrong

[harsh vortex]

im thinking its either reverse? or iunno fuckin latin

[real sparrow]

put it in mono maybe

[errant dock]

cuz all u hear is the word fent

[snow perch]

Interesting… try overlay, reverse, then both

[real sparrow]

as that is what I wanted to do but stuck at third shift

[errant dock]

the whole song is js

[radiant sonnet]

didn't even know this game had a arg lol

[harsh vortex]

welcome

same singer pog

wait

a fucking second

yeah these are related

immediately

[errant dock]

i wonder if this is the first part

or the second

[harsh vortex]

i have a plan

[open needle]

I'll see if adobe can caption it

[harsh vortex]

microsoft clipchamp

[errant dock]

try it

im trying to figure out the chemical stuff

[harsh vortex]

uh the AI transcriptors dont get the messy stuff right

[snow perch]

Can someone send the song file

[radiant sonnet]

its hard to replicate cause a lot of it is just the shapes not the elements

[harsh vortex]

i dont have nitro

i can email you lmao

[snow perch]

You can send wav files?

Or DM them to me

[harsh vortex]

file too big

[snow perch]

Rip

[errant dock]

true, but one of those compounds is imidazole, it looks too similarly to be not true

[errant dock]

how big are the files?

[harsh vortex]

49 mb

[errant dock]

I can send it

js 1 mb under my limit lmao

[harsh vortex]

WHY DID IT SAY I COULDNT EARLIER

WTF

[snow perch]

Lmaooo thanks

[cedar venture]

Did you try to send multiple things at once

[harsh vortex]

prolly

heres mary moonshines spectogram

[snow perch]

You guys can’t hear some of the lyrics?

[cedar venture]

Also holy shit, freakinator, even if you were joking earlier about fentanyl blues, you genuinely may have set us on the right path lol

[snow perch]

Funny

[radiant sonnet]

what is this arg about

[harsh vortex]

the beginning

[harsh vortex]

heres fentanyl blues again

[rigid sphinx]

[harsh vortex]

hello kaminsky

[cedar venture]

Even if not the right path, progress is still progress

[rigid sphinx]

What the hell did y'all try and dive into?

[snow perch]

I don’t think this is right…some itching feeling

[harsh vortex]

music

[snow perch]

Yeah….

[rigid sphinx]

There's genuinely nothing hidden in those songs

[cedar venture]

OAUGH

[harsh vortex]

fucked up

[open needle]

Lol

[harsh vortex]

still fun

welp there goes that

[snow perch]

I was boutta say, but I was fearing being dreadfully wrong

[harsh vortex]

anything in the Dorms audio files?

[rigid sphinx]

Nope.

[cedar venture]

Freakinator, i can’t believe you would freak us like that lmao

[harsh vortex]

thats one less loose end

[radiant sonnet]

thats kinda freaky of you

[dreamy bloom]

mary moonshines a banger tho

[cedar venture]

Honestly fucked up lmao

[rigid sphinx]

For this stage of the ARG, there's nothing hidden-hidden ingame

[harsh vortex]

both are bangers

[open needle]

Let the record reflect that there's nothing hidden in the dorms audio files

[harsh vortex]

aight boss

[rigid sphinx]

the ARG may refer to discoverable content in the map, but it will also be signposted

[cedar venture]

Kaminsky, is audio at all related, or is that too direct of a question to be answered

[harsh vortex]

anyway mary moonshine and fentanyl blues are bangers, yall should listen regardless

what else may i do for you guys

[cedar venture]

And hey, it was worth a shot

[snow perch]

Let’s stay on topic, too many new minds (which is good) making us spread apart into a bunch of different shots in the dark. Let’s keep on what we know and the messages the lily sends

[harsh vortex]

will is on the chemical

[cedar venture]

I guess back to seeing if there’s anything in image to spectograph

[snow perch]

Because we need to figure out a cipher, and we are over here looking st fent blues

[cedar venture]

It may be worth checking out the idea that “in the end” is literal, and referring to a string of words or letters

[errant dock]

its like boom said this part makes 0 sense

[snow perch]

Mayhaps, good catch

[cedar venture]

We already solved the repository bit

They snuck a bar code in there

“In the end” and the translated latin are what we got from it

[harsh vortex]

aight im up to speed now

then linas translated some cursed text

and we got the poem

[cedar venture]

Yeah the latin

Maybe take the last letter of each line

[harsh vortex]

all corrupted by the song of the damned
the body burns
the mind cries out
the soul flees
yet hope remains

[dreamy bloom]

“It's two step decryption, one encryption method per step. It's not nested encryption.”
“It IS Cyphers you've worked with before”
“but it's a new way to do the cyphers”

this is probably the best hint weve gotten so far

[errant dock]

was there anything logical u could make out of the top part? js curious

[harsh vortex]

so its probably a caesar cypher ?

[real sparrow]

is there any way to keep stuff a little separate in a thread or something? like the long cipher with many much numbers I cannot even find anymore

[open needle]

2 98 43 3 8 3 06 8 58 09 3 05 6 43 3 8 60 98 54 6 8 77
2 1 59 7 29 07 7 1 11 29 0 98 1 27 9 6 95 06 5 6 5 7 06
8 58 5 13 6 82 5 27 23 90 4 1 23 5 7 06 8 7 27 2 77 5 12
9 01 3 01 17 0 98 5 08 7 58 5 9 76 99 7 27 2 77 7 7 5 27
9 72 81 4 28 4 72 93 7 26 24 04 18 26 29 90 18 2 93 9 06
5 43 3 8 9 02 17 26 17 08 17 11 23 0 98 7 9 6 2 61 97 5 5 0 24
7 82 8 8 98 4 6 5 13 28 23 02 7 40 08 73 82 8 16 17 06 06 4 01 76 98
51 98 61 2 7 48 05 3 07 1 7 27 18 3 5 18 26 18 90 4 1 9 6 0 7 95 06 5 6 20 6 8 3 55
93 0 90 4 1 6 05 76 89 43 3 18 3 5 0 51 08 76 99 7 27 6

these?

[real sparrow]

I guess

thank you

will save that somewhere

[dreamy bloom]

its all in the pinned carcosa arg revival datasheet

[real sparrow]

ah my bad

[dreamy bloom]

all good, i missed it too when i first started

[radiant sonnet]

it shares parts that are similar to steroid compounds

[errant dock]

maybe its altered then? to give more effect

[cedar venture]

What I’ve been trying to rack my brain for, is what could “in the end” apply to

[harsh vortex]

about camellia

[radiant sonnet]

it has parts that are similar but parts that are also very different so possibly

[radiant sonnet]

camellia is a unit of the MLO

[errant dock]

what was the other parts related to

[harsh vortex]

makes sense

[errant dock]

assuming another drug

[radiant sonnet]

random shit i have no idea

[errant dock]

if u got a list of possible things it could be, that would be great, although the steroids is a weird one

[radiant sonnet]

i tried ive already dedicated days to figuring out what it is a while ago, but without an actual compound structure its really hard to tell

[snow perch]

Can be a hallucinogenic, but it’s also lethal.

[radiant sonnet]

im not even sure its related to the solution for this image i just want to know what it is

[snow perch]

Hence when CAM ‘self administered’ he basically killed himseldb

[harsh vortex]

did you try to set it up as an equation? writing down all the carbons etc?

[snow perch]

I think a while ago someone took a look at that

[radiant sonnet]

yes but its not easy without the actual structure. its missing a lot

[errant dock]

this was an interesting photo

[harsh vortex]

fair

[radiant sonnet]

.

[shrewd yarrow]

Easy! We tried so hard, and got so far... in the end. It doesnt even matter! >:)

[radiant sonnet]

also compare this to the original chemical structure image, you can see how much is missing