🪹the-sepulchre-arg

[silver plank]

Half the people in this thread be like
"This is some spooky shit yo I didn't sign up for this"

[hollow vale]

waiting a sec

[chilly marten]

lmao thats me when I saw that kid

[midnight grail]

Is it me or something is written right here?

[chilly marten]

dude I think you started seeing things

[hollow vale]

looks like something but hard to see, can you upscale it?

[midnight grail]

Yeah, it's 3AM for me

[chilly marten]

well same timezone brother

[silver plank]

I just enhanced it

That was putting it through an enhancer, though- let me try a pure upscaler

This is pure upscale

[midnight grail]

Though I legit seeing letters or numbers right here

[hollow vale]

it looks like theres text layered behind the red stuff in the black holes

[silver plank]

you're on to something I believe, I'm going to shift exposure in photoshop and maybe I'll find something- trick I learned from Cicada 3301

[midnight grail]

Huh I thought you guys noticed it long ago

[silver plank]

I never got very far in Cicada lol

[hollow vale]

although, there is some stuff in the bottom right, if thats what ur referring to

[silver plank]

There is but look at the bottom right too, it looks like there's some weird shift

[midnight grail]

There is

[silver plank]

I'm going to try shifting exposure or tint in photoshop and see if it reveals anything

[midnight grail]

ngl this pic is really damn creepy

[hollow vale]

is it possible to darken everything else and solely increase exposure in the bottom right spot

[silver plank]

@fickle finch Did I find anything with this image?

[hollow vale]

gwynn wont say anything, just cryptic nonsense

[silver plank]

If I isolate it as separate layers I may be able to

[hardy cloak]

Maybe that child seen on the trailer and on that art thing is represented by the Trillium grandiflorum as that flower is protected by the law and this is a stretch but when the flower is picked it takes a while to recover which could be something do do with mental damage from trafficking idk literally just found out what all this stuff is

[chilly marten]

that wouldnt explain the fact that mlo guys have flowers on them with a king wearing a flower crown hat thing 🤔

[silver plank]

You may be onto something, Trillium taking time to recover could symbolize taking time to recover from mental trauma due to sexual abuse from being trafficked, I think it ties in with the cult having slaves they ritualistically abuse like the king in yellow and traffick them through the port

[hollow vale]

possibly the king being a mascot or something?

[hollow vale]

that actually does make sense

[silver plank]

What if the king was trafficked himself and wears that as some sort of symbol, like he was trafficked and then recruited and symbolizes redemption or something like that

[midnight grail]

So after this BUSTED video on official RoN YT channel I start to feel like this cult or idk not based but involved with death or something. Cuz in the end of this video you can see flower blooming and in evidence video you can see "king"(let's call him that) and his BOIS standing in front of probably dead bodies(like some funeral shit).

[hollow vale]

i think its already pretty well established we are looking at some cult

[chilly marten]

that whole "brother" speech/poem is his words Ig

[hardy cloak]

As I said I don’t know much but this image has the swat as the stem which could symbolise the damage

As that’s what takes damage when it’s picked

[chilly marten]

those guys are mlo

[hardy cloak]

Same thing to me idk anything

[hollow vale]

is anybody here in the nda server and if so, do they have any leads or anything we could use?

[midnight grail]

hah I have this one crazy theory about this pic

[chilly marten]

the thing im curious about tho theres clearly a word in that black bubbles

.. AS?

[silver plank]

I think what we're dealing with is that the MLO's "king" was trafficked himself and wears the flower helmet symbolically to show that through the cult they can heal and be better than they were or something like that, whole tactic with keeping slaves, if you've ever played Metro Exodus it's sort of reminiscent of the "great flame" thing they had the slaves worship in the caspian.

[midnight grail]

If you take some funny pills and smoke kg of weed you can think of a guy in the bottom as Judge who left the cult. And the other guys are connected with something or this is just another dude

[hollow vale]

@silver plank hows the exposure thing going

[hardy cloak]

Well if you look at the whole image you can see that stuff is missing from it like all that red must have stuff behind it. It looks like when people slowly reveal stuff bit by bit of an image

[midnight grail]

But shit this would be so dumb

[silver plank]

He was trafficked and then as an adult was recruited himself to the MLO and used as a mascot or symbol for the MLO/cult, not dissimilar to judge from far cry new dawn, who was the jr deputy in far cry 5 and eventually broke and begged joseph seed for a mask to hide his shame and all that- maybe Far cry's Judge has something to do with it?

[silver plank]

I haven't started yet, photoshop was loading and I got sidetracked with the theory of MLO's king being trafficked and then recruited

[hardy cloak]

@chilly marten I mean 4 of those letters are P O A S

[midnight grail]

Can someone send this evidence video again?

[hollow vale]

ah alr

[chilly marten]

@hardy cloak theres probably something in between too

[hollow vale]

although the mlo king may be using the flower to make fun of the pain and regrowth that the lower people that they traffick and such are going through

[silver plank]

Shifting exposure with offset and gamma correction reveals this, seems to just be basic "glitch" type editing

[hardy cloak]

Yeah but idk how we would reveal that

[eager atlas]

Maybe it's the kind of thing that gets revealed gradually over time? Chunks of the words at a time?

[silver plank]

Doubt it- We're clearly dealing with some sort of cult, and a highly professional force of combat personnel too. Not the type of people to make fun of their victims- they take this shit seriously

[midnight grail]

Cuz this one would be more possible I guess, if this Judge story is true...May Judge be ex-leader of this cult?

And like this flower guy is actually him?

[silver plank]

I doubt he's the ex-leader, after all he received a letter from them that is likely to be a recruitment letter-

[chilly marten]

yeah Ig so too, they dont look like some regular maniacs youd see in video games

[rotund cosmos]

[silver plank]

I still think it's more likely that the woman we see in the triptych is Judge's mother, he was born into slavery under the cult, him or his mother was trafficked through the port, and then he escaped or was saved by SWAT and ended up being SWAT himself.

[chilly marten]

this is probably some serious movement that has also some involvement with drugs and religious stuff too. Given the fact that they use OG US flag theyre highly patriotic I'd say

[silver plank]

That or using patriotism as a recruiting tool

[patent dagger]

its literally flowerboi on the photo

[chilly marten]

yea even if the leader is using it as a tool the members who joined must be patriotic to some extent

[midnight grail]

I feel like these two bodies may be those 2 gangsters/robbers in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdrQcV31sG8

So Idk cultists fighting crime or something?

[silver plank]

In the flowerhead pics, the first letter is either R, or it's in another language or something

[eager atlas]

I dunno, the flower imagery kind of screams "brainwashing imagery" to me. That kind of deep ingrained, trigger kind of stuff

[silver plank]

Most likely conditioning done to either the cult members or the slaves themselves

[hollow vale]

bringing up brainwashing this does remind me of something
ill get some stuff, hold on

[heavy sky]

new?

[midnight grail]

Cuz as I said earlier in this busted video in the end we can see flower blooming so it can be like start of the ARG itself

[silver plank]

A similar plot device is shown in far cry 5 whenever the deputy hears the song "only you" and ||goes on a killing rampage in the whitetail HQ||

[chilly marten]

I expect some racism too, given the fact that they open up their right palms to the union flag if not racism ultra nationalism

[midnight grail]

So I caught myself on a thought. I have school in 5 hours and I still got no sleep

[silver plank]

Hey wait...

[midnight grail]

I guess Imma head out though good luck to you boys

[chilly marten]

wth wheres that

[heavy sky]

That's in the house map with all the drugs

[midnight grail]

Crackhouse

[wanton prairie]

meth room iirc

[silver plank]

What if the text in the flower image that's partially hidden is hidden through steganography??

[chilly marten]

havent noticed em lmao

[silver plank]

I'm gonna try and decode it and see if that's what it is

[hardy cloak]

What is the flower at the top left? I’ve reversed image searched, looked for pink and green flowers and looked for flowers that also symbolise ascension

[chilly marten]

this is gonna be some lovecraftian shit mark my words

[heavy sky]

I saw it and instantly new is wasnt there before

[midnight grail]

Delta green x Ready or Not

[patent dagger]

I mean there's a lot of neo-nazi groups irl that operate that way, they plan on taking down the government and rebuilding the country with whatever fucked up vision they had

[chilly marten]

well im not ready for that tbh

[chilly marten]

yeah I thought the same

[eager atlas]

Has anyone gone through the steam store page? There are a few images there, specifically the one under realism first, a bit weird how he's placed. Could just be me stretching though

[patent dagger]

Accelerationist I think its called? Their style?

[silver plank]

This is the output of the steganography decoder. There may be something hidden in it, not sure though. If anyone wants to comb through this they can.

If anyone wants to bitch at the mods for a pin that'd be appreciated as well lol

[chilly marten]

Im not 100% sure if we could call em that but theyre extremists thats fosho

[silver plank]

It doesn't show the whole file in discord

[midnight grail]

Well shit. I can't sleep cuz of this evidence video now

[hollow vale]

was gonna write something up but realised it made no sense and had to abandon 😔

[hardy cloak]

Ignore the watermarks but don’t this look like the flower at top left?

[patent dagger]

Or simply terrorist, to make it stupid simple

[silver plank]

The realism photo doesn't have anything exposure hidden but that image looks very likely to be steganography if anything's hidden there

[chilly marten]

But we checked the religion part from the "brotherhood", nationalism part from the "og flag" and the right hand/palm symbolism so when you combine this two you get some fked up results lmao

[hollow vale]

i believe the conclusion that we came to for the purple and blue circles was that they were the wings of a butterfly

[chilly marten]

yeah thats certain

[edgy cradle]

didnt we go through the flower stuff

?

oh well, have fun

[silver plank]

Nothing steganography wise in the realism pic. Steganography isn't even likely because I doubt the devs are expecting literal codebreakers to show up

[patent dagger]

that warped picture is literally the flowerhead guy, Im trying to figure out what the dark and the purple blobs are

[hollow vale]

sifting through it, it looks like there are some random symbol combinations that sorta look like names or such but i dont think they correlate to anything

[silver plank]

The phrase PU2 might be relevant

[chilly marten]

im more interested in the words thats in dark spots

[midnight grail]

Alright someone go get the Bible

[hollow vale]

the blobs are butterfly wings i believe

[tough cedar]

can someone explain to me the lore behind the game?

[silver plank]

Doubtful, like I said I doubt most if any of them know what steganography is

[chilly marten]

oh no

[patent dagger]

thats what we're trying to figure out

[silver plank]

We're working on it come back in a few months

[tough cedar]

ohh alright

[patent dagger]

come back next year we might be able to give you a short summary

[midnight grail]

Or years

[hollow vale]

yea like schmeg said, come back in a few months or some time and we'll be able to explain everything

[chilly marten]

that mlo cult is located at carcosa, in a civil war era union fort

[tough cedar]

Look at the community managers bio maybe thats something, idk😭

[chilly marten]

the fort the devs gave the coordinates to

[midnight grail]

We did

[hollow vale]

already have, translates to carcosa

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PEVmB78s9T0wmntGuN5MFjgVCLVB0PQahtPL1FBxtlI/edit#heading=h.yfndpwgeuwjp
heres the doc that documents everything we have so far @tough cedar

[silver plank]

I might be able to find the text in the blur image

[tough cedar]

alr thanks

[midnight grail]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/508108435036962816/655815251022839828/unknown.png

[silver plank]

No promises but if it uses any of the common methods then I might be able to uncover it

[midnight grail]

Uh dammit

Shit I forgot

Plz continue lol

[patent dagger]

Virtue Justice Liberty

[hollow vale]

this line that mentions 'born of rust' is interesting to me, potentially robots involved?

[edgy cradle]

nah no robots

[patent dagger]

the NDA Discord is trying to find links with the LSPD's seal/motto

[silver plank]

Thuck 002

[patent dagger]

truck

[midnight grail]

Whats in the circle

[rotund cosmos]

Bruv wtf

It’s NDA cx

[midnight grail]

Under truck 002

[patent dagger]

special weapons and tactics division

[midnight grail]

Oh ok

[hollow vale]

(swat for short)

[patent dagger]

the ARG isnt under NDA otherwise they wouldnt have put everything publicly 😛

[chilly marten]

and what was the other motto? the one with forgotten

[patent dagger]

Unwanted, Buried, Forgotten

[rotund cosmos]

Idk man just sayin this could be seen as high treason’

[chilly marten]

@patent dagger its basically that? 🤔

[hollow vale]

arg isnt nda

[rotund cosmos]

Yea u got a nice new nickname cx

[silver plank]

Here's this image upscaled

[patent dagger]

Idk man I have federal jurisdiction

[chilly marten]

pics of trafficked women?

[rotund cosmos]

Oh yea? Do you have a forklift license?

[patent dagger]

yea and I have a permit for me loicense officer innit blood

[silver plank]

Holy shit this image is upside down and you can see a swat member on the left, and see his head on the right- either HRT or MLO

[hollow vale]

WHYBoRWBYLtU
compiling just the first letters of the born of rust quote, this is what it equates to.
could this have anything to do with anything?

[rotund cosmos]

Duh, ‘tis expired

[patent dagger]

legs on right side

[hollow vale]

gonna go find more quotes to put the first letters together

[patent dagger]

can I send you some pictures to upscale?

[silver plank]

Huh, what if the flowerhead image's hidden text can be found through the metadata?

[hollow vale]

WB
WHG
TTS
ODR
tweet quote

JUaB
DYFLaH
join us and blossom

not sure if these are going anywhere but i mind find something of interest eventually

[chilly marten]

can u send the link

[rotund cosmos]

One of the tweet text said “do you feel like a hero now” afaik

[silver plank]

Has nobody scanned those bar codes

[hollow vale]

if you need the actual link its in #archived-social-media-feed

[patent dagger]

we have

[hollow vale]

yea they did

[patent dagger]

one says "Join us and blossom" the other says " do you feel like a hero now"

[chilly marten]

" do you feel like a hero now" I wonder why they say it

[wanton prairie]

hey just thought

[chilly marten]

why would they feel like a hero? wth happens?

[rotund cosmos]

Maybe because the player is the monster

[wanton prairie]

what if we make that crochead picture our profile pic

[chilly marten]

or they take some drugs to feel like that

[patent dagger]

Here's Gwynn's banner un-warped and scaled up

[rotund cosmos]

Ppl Shooting civies left n right wouldn’t surprise me.

[wanton prairie]

would guinevere respond? she did when we used other brother guy

[hollow vale]

i wonder whats with the skull on door 2

[silver plank]

hey hold the fuck up, that image has a pure white background...You can hide text in pure white backgrounds

[silver plank]

Link me the actual tweet Imma see if it's been fucked with

[hollow vale]

#archived-social-media-feed

[patent dagger]

not sure yet but I will find it hard to believe that the horse doesn't have anything to do with MLO's yankee doodle theme song

[jovial salmon]

I wonder what is behind these doors

[chilly marten]

mexican maids

[hollow vale]

you might know them

[patent dagger]

my mom

[wanton prairie]

(has a mexican maid)

[silver plank]

I'm going to see if there's hidden text in that crochead image because if you set text to RGB being 254 for all values it's so close to white the human eye can't see it

[rotund cosmos]

Self-burn, nice

[chilly marten]

imagine this whole plot leading up to a dozen mexican maids lmao

[rotund cosmos]

Could make sense tho

[chilly marten]

ikr

[wanton prairie]

perhaps illegal mexican maids trraficked through cult operation

[hardy cloak]

Has this number been seen yet?

[chilly marten]

well anything could happen at this point

[rotund cosmos]

The cult most likely was or is involved in trafficking

[wanton prairie]

I guess it is

[hollow vale]

actually i dont think so

[rotund cosmos]

That means my pp could grow +10cm ?

[chilly marten]

another question is, if there is a movement acting that professional, where the hell is US army?

[hardy cloak]

Well it’s 4/256

[rotund cosmos]

[hollow vale]

i think its 236

[rotund cosmos]

296?

[midnight grail]

Ded

[wanton prairie]

iirc US Army can't involved in domestic terrorism, crime or something
and that's why FBI made HRT, since they can't call Delta Force or something

[hardy cloak]

Maybe. If it’s 256 and it’s some division thing then that would be 0.015625

[patent dagger]

Here I made it vaporwave for ~A E S T H E T I C S~

[chilly marten]

makes sense

[chilly marten]

that looks like a 90s album cover

[wanton prairie]

Aesthetics for SCP

[hollow vale]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_4.236
this diesel engine is basically the only result you get when searching 4/236

[rotund cosmos]

Self-advertising oof

[silver plank]

There's nothing hidden in the crochead image, at least not by color

If anything is hidden they used a much more sophisticated method

[hollow vale]

have you tested the red room for anything (one with the 2 doors)

[patent dagger]

respect the grind homie people have grown real tired of that lo-fi girl everybody uses

[silver plank]

no, but I can

I'll run an exposure, level, and steganography test on it

[hollow vale]

go ahead then, we need to search for anything and everything

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale if it’s something to do with division and the number is 236 then the answer is 0.01694915254 which could be something to decode?

[midnight grail]

So u saying that instead of fighting a terrorist group with Delta force or other tier 1 units, FBI using hostage rescue team?

[rotund cosmos]

respected but what’s vaporwave at this point

[hollow vale]

69 is in there, arg solved

[hardy cloak]

Yeah it’s just one big party turns out

[chilly marten]

wasnt it somethin response team?

[silver plank]

OH an interesting thing about the crochead image they tweeted is that it's a .jiff file, if anyone wants to look into that

[wanton prairie]

Hostage Rescue Team

[silver plank]

.jiffs are just fancy .jpegs iirc but

[hollow vale]

ill see if i can find anything about that number but idk

[jovial salmon]

anyone looked for hidden text in the image files yet, I know you can append some text in em?

[chilly marten]

is Guinevere behind all this or is it team effort?

[patent dagger]

nostalgia from last year i guess

[rotund cosmos]

.jif is just an older format with lossy compression afaik

[chilly marten]

I wonder who their writers are

[silver plank]

Red room steganography check

[hollow vale]

this ones a lot fatter

[rotund cosmos]

Probs just the community manager

[midnight grail]

Gwin IS a writer

[chilly marten]

ye apart from her lol

[rotund cosmos]

Probs not

[wanton prairie]

just checked wikipedia and seems FBI made HRT because Delta Force is Army and just shoots suspects rather than arrest

[silver plank]

nothing levels-wise in the red room

[wanton prairie]

at least much as wikipedia says

[silver plank]

Checking exposure and color correction

[hollow vale]

i dont see anything of particular interest in there but i havent properly sifted it

[silver plank]

Color corrected- Seems face is crying or bleeding from the eyes, possible symbol or bloodstain to the left

Here's it with a bit more clarity

[hollow vale]

bloodstain and crying for sure, thats interesting

[silver plank]

Not color corrected, exposure tweaked* I haven't done color correcting

[hollow vale]

it also looks like theres another bloodstain on the bottom on the skull door

[patent dagger]

is nobody going to question why it looks like hell and there's a big ass face with an expression of anger/torment?

[willow warren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lETxosRzT94 i've figured it all out

[patent dagger]

that mfin head cant even get through a doorway

[silver plank]

neg

[patent dagger]

🗿 headass

[rotund cosmos]

Yo u fat shaming bruv?

[chilly marten]

I feel like the drawings on the doors got to do something with the kid

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale if you put the numbers to the alphabet it would be this

[patent dagger]

its not fat, it's just Megamind

[hollow vale]

looks like a pos with exposure

[rotund cosmos]

Sike my bad

[patent dagger]

behind that door is Johnny Sins

[hollow vale]

my favourite astronaut

[silver plank]

It could be but I think it's just the way the colors are compiled- Doesn't look intentional enough

[rotund cosmos]

uwu

[hollow vale]

try 256 and 296, its hard to see the number so it could also be either of those

[midnight grail]

my favourite doctor

[rotund cosmos]

Also the best marine out there

[hardy cloak]

256 is on that image as well but I will do 296 now

[silver plank]

Someone send me guinevere's banner that hasn't been un-swirled

[hollow vale]

oh yeah i thought bottom was a continuation of top, mb

[chilly marten]

just noticed how tf u deleted the alpha info at the top right

[hollow vale]

nevermind, misread

[silver plank]

that HASN'T been un-swirled

[hollow vale]

yea i realised

[silver plank]

Guinevere's original banner looks like it has something missing in the swirled version, so if someone can send that my way it'd be much appreciated

[hollow vale]

if u go to website discord u should be able to pull the raw image straight from dragging it

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale it says ACE for infinity

[hollow vale]

send the pic

[chilly marten]

ye it looks defo kids room or the hallway

[silver plank]

Don't have discord on website logged in

[hollow vale]

will do it real quick then

[hardy cloak]

135 is ACE

[hollow vale]

interesting, will look into that in a sec

[silver plank]

Thanks mate

[hollow vale]

oh weird, you cant drag banners. cia just got it @silver plank

[silver plank]

I'm gonna upscale it then see what that spooky shit is up top

[patent dagger]

just doing my job sir

[hollow vale]

salute

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale I mean 5 is ACE ain’t it and you play on a team of 5

[rotund cosmos]

Idk, wasn’t 3 or 7 the number of perfection though?

[heavy sky]

Not sure if this is new but there is a skull at the end of the hallway

[hollow vale]

ace typically refers to solo though, so could it have something to do with the king?

[hardy cloak]

Idk anything about the king but if you know something that links explain it

[hollow vale]

i dont have anything on me unfortunately

[rotund cosmos]

Think he meant the yellow king

[hardy cloak]

Yeah I heard of the yellow king but don’t know about it

[chilly marten]

we shouldve pinned some comments

[silver plank]

I can't see the thing on the top of guinevere's banner, I can't enhance it without messing up the quality it's just too small

[rotund cosmos]

Yes

[rotund cosmos]

Wait a sec

[chilly marten]

I dont remember what I said about the yellow king and connections lmao

[silver plank]

Looks like it could possibly be baphomet or some other demon

[hollow vale]

thats full size

[hardy cloak]

Look horse, face and ACE lmao

[rotund cosmos]

Was just about to send it luls

[silver plank]

Just pipes I think although it really does resemble a demon

[chilly marten]

I fail to see the ace

[rotund cosmos]

Same here

[hollow vale]

this is about pixel perfect as i can get it but i did go a bit over so there are the white lines

if every pixel matters

[silver plank]

This reminds me of 11B-X-1371

[hardy cloak]

This number in a cinematic might be 4/296 and that equals 135 for infinity which is ACE

If compared to the alphabet

[rotund cosmos]

Yes but where in the pic u see ace?

[hollow vale]

ace isnt in the pic

[hardy cloak]

Nowhere it just rhymed which was funny

[rotund cosmos]

Lols

[hardy cloak]

The horse and face rhyming though might be for a reason like nursery rhymes?

[patent dagger]

1 = A, 3 = C, 5=E

[hardy cloak]

Anyone know a song with both of those in

[patent dagger]

Yankee doodle mentions a pony

[rotund cosmos]

Bruv I said pic not the text thing cx

[patent dagger]

which is also the theme song they used for the MLO trailer

[rotund cosmos]

Thought he seen it in the pic

[hardy cloak]

Original photo

[eager atlas]

Y'know what detail kinda feels off to me about the MLO vid

[patent dagger]

oh

[rotund cosmos]

Ik

[hardy cloak]

Oooooo

[hollow vale]

can you try and upscale it? we might be able to get something out of the red text on the left

[patent dagger]

check out that glowing dollar bill

[hardy cloak]

Ok

[rotund cosmos]

Zack’s face on it

[patent dagger]

Zack Efron? High School Musical collab confirmed

[rotund cosmos]

Not that Zack. Yikeys

[patent dagger]

♫ We're all in this together ♫

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale it’s very blurry and unreadable but I also found this

[rotund cosmos]

Excuse me, should I call you mister?

[hollow vale]

wonder whos face that is

[hardy cloak]

Yeah

[rotund cosmos]

Looks a bit like Macron ngl

[hollow vale]

actually, they do look pretty similar minus a few changes to hair

[eager atlas]

This may be stretching a bit. But do we know what the word is on flower guys shirt when he's getting his head put on?

[patent dagger]

Gman

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale That face and the number are the only parts in that cinematic that are easy to see clearly as a background object which makes me think they want us to see them

[rotund cosmos]

Freeman didn’t take the suitcase I see

[patent dagger]

👀👀👀

[rotund cosmos]

[heavy sky]

Found this jsut now

the bottom line reads Carcosa

[rotund cosmos]

Yes it’s an address and from carcosa or to carcosa

[heavy sky]

ah oka

[rotund cosmos]

Something Ave street but we didn’t find the place

[hardy cloak]

I wonder what that stamp says

[eager atlas]

Any idea if we know what this says? Doesn't look like police or anything, but maybe it's just the model they used

[hollow vale]

can u get another shot that isnt blurry

[rotund cosmos]

Yo that stuff fckn nightmare fuel

[eager atlas]

That's the best shot I could get, it's really hard to get a good shot of him

[hollow vale]

i think i can make out an "ST" with the first 2 letters but the rest is too blurry to distinguish

[rotund cosmos]

Think we found the stamp in the NDA

[patent dagger]

same envelope from the old arg, prolly placed there because we dont have the desk main menu anymore

Duerag’s video has details on it

[rotund cosmos]

Yayom mister c:

[hardy cloak]

Stu?

[hollow vale]

could be but too blurry and grainy to definitively answer

[rotund cosmos]

Stims?

[eager atlas]

Looks a bit like stims

[hardy cloak]

I think it is ST and they hand drawn ump

[patent dagger]

Stims

I can give you a photo of an MLO guy with that in a bit

[eager atlas]

Doesn't seem like it goes anywhere . All this stuff leads so many places

[hollow vale]

issue is we dont really have much to go off right now

[chilly marten]

Yeah its basically cobweb at this point

[eager atlas]

Yeahh, there's one thing I noticed right now though

It seems, well, at least going off model. There's two different flower head guys. The shot with them "mourning" is a completely different model than the one at the end

[rotund cosmos]

Character development?

[hollow vale]

a king and a queen possibly?

[chilly marten]

You mean the one at the funeral?

[eager atlas]

I'll try to grab a decent screenshot of both, one sec

[hollow vale]

i got schmeg to upscale this and its really blocky but it looks like it reads "STims"

[eager atlas]

Second one is in tactical y'know, the first one is in like a, winter coat or something.

[chilly marten]

Maybe symbolizing the war theyre about to wage? Since the shot before that shows bunch of AKs

[eager atlas]

Yeah, they could be the same person, just thought it was worth looking at

[rotund cosmos]

My exact point

[hollow vale]

i was correct, it is stims

[chilly marten]

They legit look cool tho wouldnt mind joining them lol

[eager atlas]

Oh I just realized-

[hardy cloak]

Btw the flower he had on his head is protected by the law as when the flower is removed from the stem it cause a lot of damage to the plant. Maybe they get demasked?

[hollow vale]

anyways thats a dead end because its probably just some first aid stims or something

[eager atlas]

I thought it was like a radio or something that said stims on it, but their radio is on their shoulder. That's like a drug pouch or something

[patent dagger]

that's exactly what it is

[silver plank]

first aid most likely

[chilly marten]

Soldiers used to carry radios like that

[rotund cosmos]

Could mean the king is guarded by law

[rotund cosmos]

Stimulants most likely

[hardy cloak]

Well from the video he has a lot of what looks like former law with him

[chilly marten]

I kinda feel like mlo is ex law enforcement for some reason

[eager atlas]

One thing I notice, not really a "lore thing", but aren't those giant flashlights on their vest? We don't really have a mechanic like that in-game, to my knowledge

[hollow vale]

feels more like a cult or something to me

[hardy cloak]

Are the Mlo the people in the cult?

[rotund cosmos]

Old maglites yes

[silver plank]

why not both? My theory is they're either ex law enforcement who've been conditioned/brainwashed, or they were once trafficked humans who were recruited by the cult, and I think they're the paramilitary arm of the cult that enforces their rules and shit

[chilly marten]

Both can be true lol ex law enforcement disappointed by the inability of the police force so they went rogue?

[rotund cosmos]

Nah most likely did dirty stuff

[silver plank]

I don't think anyone willingly went rogue, trigger.

[eager atlas]

They strike me more like a nationalist terrorist group. We see in the MLO video that the flag they all "salute?" to is the 13 colonies flag. But we later see in what I suspect probably has to do with the Fort in-game that there's the standard US flag

in the 2017 reveal trailer we see the standard US flag*

[hardy cloak]

@chilly marten if the mlo are those people with the flower mask guy then they would be former law because of the fact that flower is protected by the law

[silver plank]

Anyone who willingly went definitely didn't do it with good intentions.

[chilly marten]

Expelled maybe, in one trailer narrator says its a rogue movement trying to take control of the city so idk maybe theyre the extremists/nationalists

[silver plank]

That's a pretty big leap, and you keep clinging onto that protected by law thing as if it has to be the answer

[rotund cosmos]

Most likely yes

[patent dagger]

could also be military veterans or one of those milita groups they have in the states

[silver plank]

Could also be veterans or ex-law enforcement that were captured and brainwashed by the cult into becoming soldiers for them

[chilly marten]

Yeah could be

[rotund cosmos]

Wait. They could be the unwanted burried and forgotten.

[silver plank]

No matter what, this is some dark shit

[hardy cloak]

Not an answer as I don’t even know where this thing could end but that flower would be chosen for a reason and that is what it’s most famous for. What I’m saying is it looks like the mlo are former law that joined some cult for a unknown reason

[chilly marten]

They need a strong motivation tho, it wouldnt be easy to brainwash those who fought for the country

[rotund cosmos]

As the game advertised I suppose

[silver plank]

Brainwashing and conditioning is done AGAINST your will

[chilly marten]

So they are either kids raised by the cult, or ex military/police not happy with current regime

[rotund cosmos]

We’ll find out

[chilly marten]

Yeah but as I said its not easy to break someone to take up arms against fellow ex police/armyman

[silver plank]

give or take several months

[rotund cosmos]

Gn u sexi beasts

[silver plank]

Eventually no one will have found the answer and guinevere will just give us the answer and it turns out it's so simple and in your face

[hardy cloak]

There might be some beneficial reason that would make them want to get far away from the law. Something like some extreme corruption thing idk

[chilly marten]

Yeah like “oh mlo? Theyre just cartel”

[patent dagger]

veterans with a grudge against the government because they feel unwanted, burried and forgotten? yeah possibly

[hollow vale]

i really hope they dont just give us the answer

[silver plank]

This is possible, but I think that it's very possible they're also trafficked children raised to fight for the cult, as human trafficking is very very clearly a HUGE part of the entire ARG

[hardy cloak]

@hollow vale btw did you find anything about ACE?

[hollow vale]

havent been looking but i dont think there would be much behind it in relation to sepulchre

[patent dagger]

what about orphaned kids taken as child soldiers?

[hardy cloak]

Yeah. Just seems odd that the only clear writing in that video makes an actual word

[silver plank]

Which is still trafficking, no way to sugar coat it

[patent dagger]

you're right

[chilly marten]

Judging from the trailer they didnt look “that” evil. They kinda look like the evil that believe theyre the good guys

[silver plank]

I guess if you really wanna stretch it you can say they're taking orphans off the street and giving them jobs and a place to live but that doesn't make it not fucked up or not trafficking

[silver plank]

do you feel like a hero?

[chilly marten]

Exactly

And the book on the officers desk saying dont be a hero creates a good binary there

[patent dagger]

they're brainwashed into the MLO army, they drank the kool-aid

[hollow vale]

does columbia correlate with anything?>

[chilly marten]

Mlo red pillers confirmed

[hollow vale]

cucktaku has deemed you redpilled

[patent dagger]

Columbia as in the goddess they made as an embodiment of the American spirit of liberty

again, MLO might feel they've been abandoned by the American society

[chilly marten]

Most likely, since they carry the og flag and maybe want to go back to roots? And the yankee song too

[patent dagger]

goes back to the terrorist plan of taking down the government and rebuilding the country in the way they want it to be

[chilly marten]

Possible

Aight thats it from me today i literally spent 5-6 hrs speculating lmao see ya guys later

[hardy cloak]

Is this an actual language? It would be weird if it is as the rest of the arcade is English

[patent dagger]

Still think the channel description has a major connection and should be analyzed more

[hollow vale]

i have also been here for 4 hours so i may take a break

[patent dagger]

yeah Korean

[hollow vale]

im convinced the "born of rust" line is very important but we'll see what surfaces

[chilly marten]

Well imo, born of rust can mean ex police/military

[hardy cloak]

So why is there a korean sign in a arcade with American writing everywhere else lmao

[chilly marten]

Those who decided to fight again?

[eager atlas]

The game must take place in the US rust belt!

[patent dagger]

Import/Export

[chilly marten]

We hail those patriots who take arms again, and we bury those who lost the cause?

[hardy cloak]

This anything?

[chilly marten]

Rust is a huge metaphor there

[eager atlas]

Looks like now available

Well, now a vi?, cuts off

[chilly marten]

Thought that was roman numeral for a sec

[patent dagger]

yeah could be something old or they praise the old America?

[hardy cloak]

Maybe but that A is a bit far from the rest of the word

Same distance between now

[silver plank]

Maybe the rust is symbolic for something relating to the flowerhead

[eager atlas]

Yeah, the second letter after V doesn't look like an A much either

[hardy cloak]

All we can see is NOW A VII

[eager atlas]

Well, if the game is meant to be a broken down US. Then rust probably means how society broke down. If we imagine this is a cult/group trying to reimpose a new government, they're likely going for the Articles of Confederation approach

Basically. State power > Federal gov

That's the main connection I think of when I see 13 colonies but I've never been strong about US government

[hardy cloak]

This also says feel the heat idk what that means

Right next to arcade machine

[eager atlas]

Does the one to the right say whole foods? Or... not nice wore food

[chilly marten]

I feel like rust metaphor used here as to describe someone whos been sitting on his ass doing nothing going rusty. So they hail those who finally stand up again

So that could point to ex military or police

[hardy cloak]

Yeah I think

[eager atlas]

That somehow brings me peace knowing that

[chilly marten]

Are we on the right track? Lmao

[patent dagger]

"born of rust" also seems like it can connect to the whole orphaned/unwanted kids or people thing

born into poverty or something

[chilly marten]

Im gonna be upgrading to supporters next month wait till then

[eager atlas]

I personally think that we're missing some stuff in the videos on the YT, Facebook, or Insta. I can't find any connections besides Carcosa being alien planet going down the Fort route

Back to the drawing boards

[chilly marten]

Maybe youre off 🤷‍♂️

[hollow vale]

whats the nda server up to

[hardy cloak]

What currency is that bottom one

[eager atlas]

I dunno, personally, a lot of this is confusing. I'm not sure the game is drawing connections to an older tv show

[hollow vale]

arg isnt covered by nda but right

[eager atlas]

$120 to continue? That's outrageous

That's the cent symbol, by the way

[hollow vale]

bottom is cents

[chilly marten]

Yeah you seen the gas prices??

[hardy cloak]

Ah I’m not American

[hollow vale]

neither

[hardy cloak]

He pays it as well lmao

All in cents

[eager atlas]

Now, the real theory: If the machine wants $120 and it only accepts quarters. That means you need to give it 480 quarters. That's a lot of quarters

[hollow vale]

i mean, if we know what you guys are up to if nda is so far ahead that will help us a lot

[hardy cloak]

He had all of it on him lmao

[hollow vale]

yea we do, put ur stuff on there if possible

[hardy cloak]

Idk why some swat guy is carrying that many coins around but he doing his thing I guess

[hollow vale]

not like we're competing for anything, makes it more fun if we just actually try and solve it

[patent dagger]

I literally shared everything we had in here like an hour ago lol

[chilly marten]

Well we just saw pictures of literal devil on walls, i wouldnt question that

[hardy cloak]

My guy love that arcade game too much ngl

[eager atlas]

I'm not an expert on posin or anythin, but these guys I've noticed have an addiction to holding their rifle and pistol at the same time

[chilly marten]

Its a power show, showing they are ready all hands

[ornate eagle]

reminder to everyone this exists idk who made it but he's pretty cool https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PEVmB78s9T0wmntGuN5MFjgVCLVB0PQahtPL1FBxtlI/edit#

[chilly marten]

Maybe “ready or not” is their motto too

[eager atlas]

I wonder who made it, hmmm

[hardy cloak]

Lmao

[chilly marten]

Lmaooo

[neon lagoon]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[chilly marten]

People are really into this

[rotund cosmos]

U made it. Ez profit

[patent dagger]

this is an inter-agency operation

[eager atlas]

Does it actually lead to a video? The older vids in this channel got removed, so

[neon lagoon]

why you so damn competitive about it bro smh

nobody else in the NDA is coming in here being snotty smhsmhsmhsmhsmh

[hardy cloak]

Someone send those barcodes

[rotund cosmos]

I kinda am but my face mask keeps the snot in my face.

[chilly marten]

I need that link

[hardy cloak]

Quick barcodes someone

[eager atlas]

I really put the time in manually typing it... just to... you traitor

[rotund cosmos]

When I warned the others in NDA @echo solstice bullied me oof

[chilly marten]

I sense a rickroll

[eager atlas]

It is

[chilly marten]

Lmao really?

[eager atlas]

I spent a good minute translating the link into chrome, fixing any errors I made, just to get Rick'd

[rotund cosmos]

Yep lols

[chilly marten]

Lmaoo

[rotund cosmos]

Mod aboos soon to be like cop aboos in the US

[patent dagger]

that's what we're trying to fix

join us, brother

[rotund cosmos]

Aight fuck it yolo

[patent dagger]

lol gab joined MLO lets shoot him/her/them

[rotund cosmos]

Giv ak and funny helmet

Him? That’s sexist...

[patent dagger]

fixed

[rotund cosmos]

You kinda shot your own foot bruv

[patent dagger]

thats impossible Im disarmed

[rotund cosmos]

Nah my dude, all along it was you who killed them all. You was just raggedy, sleep walking or smth.

[patent dagger]

oh must've been my sleep paralysis demon

[rotund cosmos]

Oh yeah? How do you explain your expired forklift license then?

[patent dagger]

I have written consent from my mom its ok

she says I can play with the forklift

[rotund cosmos]

Ye but she don’t own the wharehouse- only the store.

Smh, the judge was very clear on that

[patent dagger]

idk I asked nicely and said please

[hardy cloak]

What is this thing?

Like what code type thing is it

[rotund cosmos]

Oh boy

[eager atlas]

It spells out two phrases under em, but they're cryptic. Just replace the numbers with the responding alphabet

[hardy cloak]

Ain’t a barcode as it don’t follow the right format

[rotund cosmos]

Here we go again

[ornate eagle]

its a bardcode

[hardy cloak]

It’s a form of them but you rarely see them. Usually some lines come down further separating numbers

[ornate eagle]

it's been decoded

[hardy cloak]

Yeah ik

[frank inlet]

What I did in the barcode decoder is just lazily pick all options that the image could detect

[hardy cloak]

Is this in Korean?

[patent dagger]

nope

not the text on the yellow sign at least

[hardy cloak]

Ah ok was just wondering because of the arcade Earlier

[patent dagger]

the text on the white sign to the left of it is korean

[hardy cloak]

Bro why all these countries putting up signs in a different language lmao

Btw can anyone translate this?

[patent dagger]

probably because they have a diaspora there

[hardy cloak]

I want to know what a Korean sign in a American arcade would say

[jovial salmon]

this user has a strange role

[hardy cloak]

It’s nothing related to the whole thing but I just wanted to know what it said in an American arcade

[patent dagger]

probably something like "Samsung Electronics"

[hardy cloak]

It was interesting earlier when I was analysing all the cinematics that an American arcade had Korean signs in so it belonged earlier

[tough cedar]

Account was created an hour ago

[eager atlas]

Y'all wanna hear my latest stretch

[hardy cloak]

I’m convinced ACE has something to do with this now as so many things are beings turned from numbers to the alphabet just like the ACE thing

[eager atlas]

Wait, I just realized, Guineveres banner changed again

[hardy cloak]

Yeah I was about to say that just changed

[tough cedar]

Yeah

[hardy cloak]

Bio now is “just got back from a nice day off” as if it is there to show that it wasn’t her that changed it in the first place?

[tough cedar]

Making it seem like the account was "hacked" considering everything changed even the bio thing

[eager atlas]

I dunno how to get banner images, I know you can get people pfp's, but not banners

[hardy cloak]

Yeah

[hollow vale]

is that in nda?

whats @ port

[jovial salmon]

am I going crazy or does it flicker red?

[eager atlas]

I dunno the maps in the game. So don't look at me

I don't see any flickering

[hollow vale]

oh damn, do we know what we're looking for or we just searching for everything and anything?

[tough cedar]

Has Zacks banner always been that?

[hardy cloak]

The banner is Normal. The bio shows that in this story thing she was hacked

[hollow vale]

that looks like the entrance to one of the warehouses

[jovial salmon]

yeah sorry nvm just the static loading color

[hardy cloak]

All her stuff is normal now as if she never knew about it as she had a day off

So now we have hackers in the story or something

[eager atlas]

I got no clue what's goin on

[tough cedar]

Possibly unless its like a glitch type thing

[hardy cloak]

Has to mean something

Guinevere part of Mlo confirmed lmao

[eager atlas]

Anyway, I noticed that in the background of Zacks banner one of the operators has an S or an 8 on the side of their head. I dunno if that's how it is or yknow

[echo solstice]

jesse we need to cook

[tough cedar]

@ancient vessel went offline

[echo solstice]

literally just promotional art though

[eager atlas]

We have to look everywhere, in every pixel, every single atom

[tough cedar]

I found something in the pic

[hardy cloak]

I think it’s just for swat

[eager atlas]

https://tenor.com/view/well-waiting-were-waiting-gif-5848728

[tough cedar]

might be me

it kind of looks like something with eyes

[hollow vale]

do we know what the 8, 15, 13, 5 means yet?

[ornate eagle]

nein

[hardy cloak]

We now think 2 specs of dust are eyes we are too far gone

[hardy cloak]

Home

[echo solstice]

put it in the cipher or smth

[hardy cloak]

It’s home

[eager atlas]

I may have tried to put it into a cipher but put it backwards

[ornate eagle]

you need letters for the cipher

[hollow vale]

used the same basic number > letter thing tomal mustve used and i got home

[rotund cosmos]

Ye had the same thought

[echo solstice]

idc do the puzzle stuff

or smth

[ornate eagle]

8 = H
15 = O
13 = M
5 = E

[hardy cloak]

Yeah it comes out to home. Also that Ace thing I’m convinced is something as there are a lot of alphabet conversions we have done

[hollow vale]

update the doc w/ that

[hollow vale]

ace may have some correlation somewhere but the question is what

[eager atlas]

Did they always have the "The Lost" role? Home person

[hardy cloak]

That’s the hard part

[eager atlas]

I'm honestly not paying enough attention to memorize

[hardy cloak]

I’m still wondering what this is

NOW A VII

[ornate eagle]

The username string spells out HOME when you use an A1Z26 substitution table. These numbers do not match either of the previous theories tested with Gwynn’s status to give us CARCOSA.

[hollow vale]

that works

[hardy cloak]

Also this must be something. Why is he paying $120 in 25 cents

[hollow vale]

i think they use different substitutions for each one they give us so thats something to note

[tough cedar]

That doesnt really like like an A though, comparing it to the font used for NOW it wouldnt make sense for the font to change

[echo solstice]

because its an arcade joke

[hardy cloak]

Ah ok

[echo solstice]

where they only accept quarters

[eager atlas]

The scariest part of the game, hyper inflation economics

[hardy cloak]

Yeah the A kinda looks like a symbol

The top is separated from the bottom

[tough cedar]

Kind of looks like the Eiffel tower but I could be very wrong about that, I dont think it would make sense anyways

[hardy cloak]

Funny thing is if you flip the sentence upside down it says Ila V mon and in google translate that’s french

[eager atlas]

Hmm, I wonder if home has to do with the barcode message. "Welcome home brother, etc"

[neon lagoon]

What say?

[hollow vale]

not much different here evidently

[hardy cloak]

Nothing somehow but if you search up what ila means it says earth

[patent dagger]

Solved it. You're welcome guys

[eager atlas]

Wait, so... Okay, @ancient vessel has "The Lost" role. Are these MLO guys also known as the Lost?

It surprisingly fits if you consider the "plot" the game has told so far, government shut chaos and such

[hardy cloak]

Actually @neon lagoon it says he has my

[eager atlas]

[patent dagger]

the mariposa lily matches the other shit

[eager atlas]

Oh I get what you mean, I was confused

[hardy cloak]

The was another flower that links to law enforcement forgot the name

[patent dagger]

this is about a serial killer florist

ez yw

(yes its a joke)

[hardy cloak]

Trillium grandiflorum is the other one it looks like

[eager atlas]

Wait, wasn't there a line or something about Columbia? This species is apparently known to be in British Columbia. I'm really reachin for straws here

I fear I'm too new to ever catch up without an explanation

[hardy cloak]

This is another weird thing btw. Says feel the heat

[tough cedar]

How do you know its not there just as a random name though?

[eager atlas]

Well, there are images of the hotel with fire, cars on fire

[hardy cloak]

Could be but we have to look at everything at this point

[eager atlas]

Because knowledge is power, Padawan

[hardy cloak]

Also feel the heat is just some classic cult stuff like I would say that if I was in one

[eager atlas]

I'm gonna stretch as farrr as I can, and offer up. You know the guys name says home in cipher, you know what else has a home associated with RoN? The YouTube page

[hardy cloak]

Mystery solved they want subscribers on the channel

[eager atlas]

Yes

[ocean gate]

hi

anywho, im grabbing Ready Or Not now... looks sweet.

am i in the wrong channel?

[hollow vale]

doc is making progress, talking to loaf cat and have a concept on how we could decode red door, its going well

[hollow vale]

yea #👮ron-discussion is for general, this is for an arg

[ocean gate]

ahhhh!!

my bad, thanks

[hardy cloak]

Another stretch but Brandon Herrera runs the cult

Think we solved it again

Actually on a serious note could those guys be Russian?

I mean they have a giant American flag but still

[eager atlas]

Who knows

[tough cedar]

Why would they choose this for the story anyways?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIwKViOXEAoWNeL.jpg:large

[patent dagger]

metaphor

[tough cedar]

seems like an alien but how would that ever relate to a SWAT game unless im just missing something or if its related to the "cult"

[eager atlas]

There's cult imagery yes, it's planned to have a campaign, I think

[hardy cloak]

Kinda looks like a tooth

That has flowers for teeth

[tough cedar]

The one on the left yeah but @ https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kllaWl Ropolios website it looks similar to Methhead drawings maybe the on all the way on the left, also seems like the spider has symbols on it like heads and then the last one "needleman" seems like its killing a "methhead"

[eager atlas]

I'd say they're near identical

[tough cedar]

Probably a cultist type thing like they believe needleman is an actual creature same with the others

Possibly a face 2 eyes on top and mouth on the bottom

The entire thing actually looks like a very deformed head

[hollow vale]

noted earlier that head/face is identical to the sepulcher from silent hill

[tough cedar]

Maybe they believe the SWAT are the "monsters" that they believe are real?

[hardy cloak]

Just realized VII is 7 in Roman numerals so that arcade thing says NOW A 7

Yeah mind blown right there

Also upside down says ila y mon which means there is my in French. The stretches here are being stretched to the max

[teal pilot]

il y a is correct french

[hardy cloak]

Ooooo

[eager atlas]

Savin that for later

[tough cedar]

morse code or whatever it is?😭

[eager atlas]

Probably one of those sound = image things

[hardy cloak]

Banger song ngl

[gleaming fractal]

this in a spectrogram gives a link or message, got it pretty blurry rn but will get it actually readable

[jovial salmon]

it gave me that

[tough cedar]

yep

[gleaming fractal]

yea that would be it

[tough cedar]

https://www.file.io/download/Hj1iVK2qMsaH

it says its been deleted 😐

[jovial salmon]

Yep

[eager atlas]

Same

[tough cedar]

dont know if thats an error or on purpose

[jovial salmon]

hehe maybe they messed up

tho whats the file name meaning?

[gleaming fractal]

its binary

this is what it translates to^^^^^

[jovial salmon]

ah thanks

[eager atlas]

A clue Blue

Kinda weird that it also shows up at a download thing, hmm

[gleaming fractal]

@ancient vessel's name is decimal A1Z26 for "home"

[eager atlas]

Yeye we got that one, so far home a clue

[gleaming fractal]

ah

[eager atlas]

I'm guessing we don't have the full picture yet

[gleaming fractal]

no clue, I just found out the ARG started up again lmao

[jovial salmon]

I love this so much

[radiant sonnet]

guys i dont think they messed up the file

[jovial salmon]

intentional?

[radiant sonnet]

you can set max downloads on site

so someone downloaded it and isnt sharing

[eager atlas]

Soo... someone grabbed it

[jovial salmon]

bruh

[eager atlas]

Game dies there, they never do share what they downloaded, gg

[gleaming fractal]

it could be set to something like 5 downloads to make sure this doesnt happen, who knows

[tough cedar]

unless they sent it into NDA aswell

[eager atlas]

Seems they sent it to NDA first, probably

[radiant sonnet]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PEVmB78s9T0wmntGuN5MFjgVCLVB0PQahtPL1FBxtlI

[tough cedar]

seems unfair though now we cant see it

[radiant sonnet]

make sure to read docs guys

[gleaming fractal]

yea will do

[ripe flume]

have you guys noticed? a user named "8,15,13,5" with the tag "the lost"?

[eager atlas]

Yes, view the doc

[ripe flume]

ill jump into it

[jovial salmon]

nice work

[ripe flume]

they just disappeared

[tough cedar]

@ancient vessel just went offline

[eager atlas]

So it seems that whoever the Lost is wants to forget something, probably something to do with fire and burning

Plus they look kinda crispy ngl

[tough cedar]

Check to see if they eventually get discord nitro to change their # numbers

[eager atlas]

That's what I was thinking yeah, but they haven't so far

[tough cedar]

possibly a past trauma including fire

[eager atlas]

I'm trying to think how that fits into the game though, has to be relevant to this character and how they interact with the world

I'm starting to think we're getting the back story of characters rather than the big picture right now, possibly

Also, doc is still going

In that order it doesn't mean much... it does kinda look like a link though

I mean putting it into an alphabet cypher thing

[ripe flume]

I think it's deeper than we know, I think if Gwynn has been triggered to say something there's someone else or something else for us to trigger

[eager atlas]

Dude, I put it into youtube and a video popped up then disappeared and I got so excited

[tough cedar]

The numbers switched to letters, rearranged, gave me "melting I want to forget"
^from the doc but they deleted it

[eager atlas]

Ahhh alright

Maybe we're supposed to ask how their day off was?

[ripe flume]

haha no, I don't think so, something more to do with lost maybe

[eager atlas]

"Why can't you forget?; What can't you forget?"

I dunno if they're actually waiting for a trigger as in they're invis watching, or they're just popping out stuff at random

[ripe flume]

I'll try to convert the sound into an image just to rule out a loose end

[eager atlas]

The sound they sent is the download link (when you run it through a sound analyzer)

[ripe flume]

if I was a mod in on it I would be so giddy right now

[eager atlas]

Doc still goin by the way

[tough cedar]

does anyone know if this will affect the main game, like you would kind of need to know this stuff to understand the story of the game/background

[ripe flume]

okay gwynnstitution table, that's the best we have so far

[eager atlas]

It's probably apart of the campaign story, but probably not multiplayer so much

[ripe flume]

why don't we add 26 rows, number from 1-26 with what we know so far

clearly the numbers correspond only to letters, we can figure out the gwynnstitution numbers as we go

[eager atlas]

We don't have the full picture though, that's the issue. We need more numbers and see what it spells

Maybe the next phrase we'll get is "home"? 4 numbers?

[hardy cloak]

If you did binary and all that it comes out to this 97 33 99 108 117 101

[teal pilot]

someone dead drop all the nda content in like nyc or something

[ripe flume]

yeah we can cross examine two different words with common vowels and see if any of the numbers are the same

[jovial salmon]

melting I want to forget

[ripe flume]

see, another thing, I would have thought typically 1=A, but in this, 0=A, 0-25, not 1-26?

[eager atlas]

So we know the Lost is someone who has a history with fireee.. their pfp also leads me to think they're possibly unalive

Yeah no it's not so simple since C=14

[tough cedar]

unless this "world" we live in things like monsters and or "dark magic" exist

[eager atlas]

I dunno, the game strides itself on realism. Most of this is probably metaphorical

[hexed wigeon]

like cult shenanigans

[ripe flume]

No it's it's own ARG

I think the image we got, has two seperate cyphers, each cypher is solved by the A1Z27 and one is solved by the gwynnstitution table

[eager atlas]

I thought some hints were dropped about them possibly being the same/similar?

I got no clue honestly, I'm just here with the flow

[jovial salmon]

[ripe flume]

Well I know it's in a darker world where crime is more rampant, I don't know about dark magic, maybe cultists sure

[balmy osprey]

It's true, I was the holder

[eager atlas]

You're fast

[tough cedar]

exactly so who knows, since there are cults why not dark magic considering there are these "monsters"

[eager atlas]

I'm not sure we're triggering the Lost to spoken. Probably as they're ready to release info. Well of course yeah replying to them when they give hints, but I don't think we can actually force them out early

[hardy cloak]

Just gonna put this here again as fire and stuff is part of this now

[eager atlas]

Maybe with enough stingers and flashbags we c a n

[hardy cloak]

FEEL THE HEAT

[eager atlas]

Every time Tomal sends that book, we take a drink, first one to die is a loser

[hardy cloak]

Yeah imma keep doing it

Also I think it’s a game

[echo solstice]

hey guys

[tough cedar]

thats a new one

[tacit sequoia]

have the audio been translated?

[echo solstice]

wait

[ripe flume]

hey guys do we think maybe the cyphers on each image aren't one whole cypher, the first 4 letters translated with the A1Z27 cypher come up with "JOIN" but I can't make sense of the rest of it

[echo solstice]

wrong file

[rough citrus]

Hmmm

[echo solstice]

fuck it i'll send both

have fun

[tough cedar]

join the cult or join the lost maybe it could spell?

[eager atlas]

Nabbed em both

[echo solstice]

the 1st file is more recent btw

[tough cedar]

they already went over this in the google docs I believe

[tacit sequoia]

has it been solved?

[sage helm]

Listen to the words

Follow it closely

[eager atlas]

Alright I'll write it as they count out, wish me luck

20 5 7 18 15 6 0 15 20 0 20 14 1 23 0 9 0 7 14 9 20 12 5 13, I'll double check

Wait I might've mixed up the downloads, ugh

[sage helm]

One leads to another

[ripe flume]

he says the first file is the newer one, thats the same code as the one earlier

[eager atlas]

I think so yeah

[ripe flume]

Melting I want to forget

[echo solstice]

the 14 MB is more recent

the shorter one is the first file

[tough cedar]

E N 6AN E5 REWI ALITH is from a translation could be nothing not sure

[echo solstice]

ok

basically

[echo solstice]

these numbers

use em

[eager atlas]

Trying yes

[echo solstice]

or smth

idk

do puzzle stuff

[balmy osprey]

👀

[jovial salmon]

Lmao

[tacit sequoia]

ohhhh

[tough cedar]

they already put it in google docs btw

[ripe flume]

They were already used in AN A1Z26 decoder, anagram decoded and then the phrase "MELTING I WANT TO FORGET" was done, what are we missing...

[eager atlas]

[tough cedar]

The Lost responded, “hold me”.

[jovial salmon]

^

[ripe flume]

okay this will sound weird, how do we hold a voice

[balmy osprey]

Nah we hold him

[tough cedar]

Hold me, something someone who would need comfort would say

[balmy osprey]

He's sad

[ripe flume]

can we write a respond, recode it, send it back?

[eager atlas]

Worth a shot

[tacit sequoia]

yeah sounds good

[ripe flume]

okay what should we write?

[eager atlas]

Ask about the burning

[strange marsh]

I'm not good a puzzles but this is very interesting

[ripe flume]

wait no, we're looking for a trigger, how about we ask where they are?

or who are you

[tacit sequoia]

Maybe it has something to do with the purgatory channel?

[tough cedar]

or what happened with the fire/burning

[ripe flume]

when did the purgatory channel get added?

nah purgatory is an AFK channel

[hardy cloak]

I think what’s going on here is this guy is maybe someone that escaped this human trafficking thing. Now they are lost and want to get home and are using morse code which may suggest law enforcement experience???

[tough cedar]

same as us or farther?

[tacit sequoia]

ah nothing important then

[maiden bobcat]

Most likely a kid if I had to guess.

[ripe flume]

what happened with the fire, I'll ask that, ill do it now and reverse what they did

[tacit sequoia]

what do the title of both files translate to?

[maiden bobcat]

Did anyone notice the militiamen in the mansion have the same uniforms as the evidence video?

[tough cedar]

ex-military kidnapped? possibly apart of the same team. A very very far stretch probably not right but anyways

[hardy cloak]

Actually what if all you those mlo guys are brainwashed swat and one got out? Would make sense as they know Morse code?

[maiden bobcat]

They have the same helmets is all, and have the same IR strobe on them.

[balmy osprey]

I believe the first one was "a clue"

[tough cedar]

or possibly corrupt

[hexed wigeon]

both are

[maiden bobcat]

Also.

[eager atlas]

We don't know yet for sure, just bits and pieces

[maiden bobcat]

Who is running the Google doc? We should name 8,13, 15, "home".

[ripe flume]

okay guys, I have "tell me about the fire", 20 5 12 12 13 5 1 2 15 21 20 20 8 5 6 9 18 5, i'll scramble this now

[eager atlas]

The Lost Home?

[maiden bobcat]

I'm guessing, yeah.

"Home" is feeding us info.

But doing it through a type of encryption. Probably ciphers.

[eager atlas]

I mean, they have a role named "The Lost", their name is Home. Kind of adds up to me. Maybe they died in a house fire?

[ripe flume]

has anybody considered that maybe these are operating on a timer? we received a clue from nom at 11:37 and the last clue before that 11:07am my time, exactly

[maiden bobcat]

What if the Lost were the armed wing of the MLO?

[maiden bobcat]

What if we get a new update around the same time every day?

[tacit sequoia]

it did told us "Hold me"

[eager atlas]

It's possible, I don't think we're triggering phrases. More like they're coming out on a set schedule

[ripe flume]

there were the ones with gwynn, i think we'll see with this, but maybe not

[eager atlas]

I'm not sure we've been shown any fire in the port yet, have we?

[hardy cloak]

I got a theory. This guy is playing a game called FEEL THE HEAT and earlier the lost person was talking about the burning. This guy is all alone in an arcade and like I said before whoever the lost is they though morse code. I think this guy may of somehow got out of the cult and is trying to get home. This arcade is also a previous place we can presume he raided as we can see bullet holes in the walls. He might of gone there looking for home. Idk

[tacit sequoia]

I think the audio file has more to it than just the numbers

[eager atlas]

It says "a clue" in binary

[tacit sequoia]

i mean inside it

[eager atlas]

Not sure what you mean

I'm wondering if the voice sounding female was intentional or just a oversight. Honestly don't know

[tacit sequoia]

the first 12 seconds before it starts saying the numbers

[maiden bobcat]

You know that there's an obvious body melting operation on the docks right?

"Melting" has a lot of fucking bad shit implied with it. This person could've witnessed that and doesn't know how to process it.

[ripe flume]

I meant mate, why did we get the same cypher twice

[tacit sequoia]

Oh it has a music I wonder where it is from

[maiden bobcat]

There's tubs with acid in them.

[ripe flume]

It has to mean something we got the same one twice, right?

[eager atlas]

Probably so we all have a copy to confirm it. Only one person had it before

[maiden bobcat]

Oh. My bad.

[eager atlas]

Wait, okay, so I can't remember where I saw/heard it. But somewhere in one of the teasers it did mention possibly hazardous material to the SWAT team, it looked kind of like a warehouse you'd see at a port. So I could imagine a body hiding scheme

[maiden bobcat]

It's in the dock level. Bottles of acid, hoses, and bath tubs.

[eager atlas]

Ah, my bad, I don't think I've played that level yet. People insist on either the hotel or car dealer

[maiden bobcat]

It's gnarly shit and I cracked a joke when my friends and I passed it.

"Yo, they're melting bodies down here."

"What the fuck."

[hardy cloak]

This game has taken a dark turn very quick lmao

[tough cedar]

so in every map is it the lost as the enemies?

[eager atlas]

You haven't seen the trailer for it (the game) then

[hardy cloak]

Trailer was dark but not this dark like god damn

[eager atlas]

I dunno man, dead bodies everywhere, human trafficking, school stuff, not much more to check off

[tacit sequoia]

ok yeah checked the spectrum of the audio and there is nothing in it

[eager atlas]

But so far Home/The Lost could be someone they "disposed of"? Possibly, alive?

[tough cedar]

so in every map is it the lost as the enemies?

[tacit sequoia]

Maybe we can get some more clues in the home map?

[maiden bobcat]

Could be a kid who grew up with radios, an adult who is trying to communicate on a broken radio, or someone who is developmentally disabled who liked playing with ciphers.

[eager atlas]

So far it's drug dealers and some organized crime, dunno. I'm not sure if the ARG & Game are the same

[maiden bobcat]

It's up in the air.

I'm getting some scary Payday 2 lore deep vibes.

[ripe flume]

okay team, nobody get your knickers in a bunch I'm about to post an .mp3 file with a binary title, the title is "a message back", I've written in it "tell me about the fire", i'll post it now

probably won't do anything but jusssst maybe

[eager atlas]

Oh no, it seems the substitution table failed, it doesn't hold up against Home's name

[maiden bobcat]

Does that imply they're communicating in binary?

[ripe flume]

Well I figured they're sending us a message, could we send one back, now to be fair they are asking to be held, I'm not sure if that's any significance, but also, it sounds like they're already dead, I don't know what we're experiencing

[final tundra]

payday 2 lore had no reason to go that deep and it was great but this looks like something else entirely and it’s legitimately spooky

[maiden bobcat]

Unironically and no shit, thank you for your service.

[hardy cloak]

I don’t have think the game is actually going to have people coming back from the dead so my guess is they are alive

[maiden bobcat]

These could easily be past messages.

[hardy cloak]

True

[ripe flume]

Hmm, well hypothetically what if it's some spooky shit, like it really is voodoo or cultist? and maybe they really are dead? would that help us at all

OH OH OH

[maiden bobcat]

If they were dead, that means these messages are from the past.

[hardy cloak]

Not really we already know some cult shit is going on

[eager atlas]

They could also be alive, but so damaged and disfigured, they can't communicate outside of using machines. I'm not sure how they'd survive the acid and then also the MLO

[ripe flume]

the image on the left with gwynn's table, JOIN UAS AND BLOSSOM

[tacit sequoia]

it's obvious like "flower" themed

[hardy cloak]

The flower has a meaning

[maiden bobcat]

As in, past recordings that got out somehow. The implication that should be someone is using their way of messaging to communicate.

[ripe flume]

oh wait that's with A1Z26 cypher, but still, what is the UAS?

[maiden bobcat]

Even if they were dead, that doesn't discount someone getting their message out.

[hollow vale]

which bit failed, send ss

[tacit sequoia]

yeah but the flower doesn't explain the disfigured images

[eager atlas]

Check the doc

Now that i think about it. "lore" speaking. Gwynn and Home would be different people. So there's a chance they wouldn't be using the same substitution tables? Both could be correct, but also unique to each other

[final tundra]

wait a minute

[eager atlas]

As in we're looking at this trying to solve one with the other, when they could be their own answers

[final tundra]

does anyone know what kind of flower it is

and is it important

[eager atlas]

Yes

[hollow vale]

i did. came to the conclusion with cat loaf. basically, i ran the a1z26 version of gwynns bio through affine decoder as was done before and basically, the previous affine coefficients that were used (a7b0) had came to no conclusion but 1 random string, this string came back to carcosa with a1b11 so its a bit of a loop but cat loafs off so that will continue later.

[final tundra]

cause what if we did something with the flower name, either species or common

[maiden bobcat]

Hey whoever is writing the Google doc.

Add a glossary for commonly used terms.

"MLO"

And "The Lost"

along with "Home/8,13".

[tacit sequoia]

has someone tried DMing the new account?

[maiden bobcat]

So everyone is close to the same page.

[hollow vale]

just for clarity, a7b25 were the initial coefficients used with the a1z26