#šŸŖ¹the-sepulchre-arg

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maiden bobcat
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Binary came out with nothing.

gritty pilot
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binary is our hint ;_;

maiden bobcat
gritty pilot
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i made a script to enumerate every possible valid alphabetical split, both 0-indexed for gwynn subst and 1-indexed for a1z26 subst, and none of them made sense. so we're pretty sure that isn't it
https://replit.com/@notready/cipher-splits#main.py
you can check my work if you want

maiden bobcat
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@gritty pilot

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gritty pilot
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?

maiden bobcat
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@gritty pilot I'm not getting far here is all.

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@gritty pilot gonna try one more thing

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@ornate eagle @gritty pilot try hexdecimal

gritty pilot
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unless you're seeing anything interesting, i just tried it and don't see anything

maiden bobcat
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I'm running different combos to see if anything changes.

radiant sonnet
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image width 2755 and ppu 3779 produce 2 words

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but they arent regular a1z26 or gwynn subst

maiden bobcat
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I'm going to try ascii next.

maiden bobcat
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Nope. Fuck me.

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@gritty pilot any dice?

ornate eagle
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already tried variations like that and no dice

maiden bobcat
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FUCK! I feel dumb and useless now. :(

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I even passed the thing onto one of my engineer friends.

gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
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I've just been going between different decoding sights and I'm just lost. What if this is a code we have to input into a keypad in the update?

gritty pilot
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long-ass code

maiden bobcat
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I know, but it'd be more secure than a four digit.

frozen gulch
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with a seperator of 0 on input 16732266154100745600000000000000000000000000000000000000000

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do you also get ę”ą¼®? (google translate says "pick up") But I do NOT know Mandarin lol

maiden bobcat
frozen gulch
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Good point

ornate eagle
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updated the doc for anyone confused. We're currently on Lead 2

maiden bobcat
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So, I was onto something with binary.

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I tried to convert from binary to hexadecimal and got nothing.

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@ornate eagle @gritty pilot

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Tried binary to letter and I'm starting to think some of these numbers need to be spaces out. Tried this.

16732 26615 41007 45600 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 00000 0000

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Converted that to binary, then tried to turn into text.

gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
gritty pilot
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nice

maiden bobcat
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Fuck this one has me.

ornate eagle
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i dont think it's as hard as we're making it out to be, idk what we're doing wrong

maiden bobcat
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Yeah, I'm actually totally unsure.

hasty adder
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Oh hey the channel description changed

maiden bobcat
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@ornate eagle @gritty pilot watch as we find out that the update's waiting for us to solve this before they release it lmao.

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That would fucking suck lol.

ornate eagle
hasty adder
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Also, we know that the Lost account's current name is A1z26 code for Home, though I'm unsure of what that has to do with anything

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Maybe we missed something in the image

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A guess could be that Culling the tumor and cutting away the rot means that we need to remove something for us to continue? If so, what?

ornate eagle
orchid pond
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I think it's more what the Lost believe they have to do

ornate eagle
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P1 was recruited by P2. "Cull the tumor..." was what they repeated back to the recruiter, practically confirming "I know what my orders are"

orchid pond
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Can we assume that the stuff from that one Twitter post is part of the conversation?

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Also...how many maps is the spider graffiti on? I know both Port Hoken and the crackhouse have it.

eager atlas
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Do we know the numbers are supposed to mean somethin?

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Haven't been zoned in lately

maiden bobcat
eager atlas
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Hmmm, did you guys already talk about the possible connection between the warped and promotional image?

gritty pilot
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yeah. the warped image is a flipped version of the promo image, with the heads edited to be spooky (people think it's tree branches, or fungal growth)

eager atlas
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I mean, the symbolism behind it. Especially after the convo, I'm thinkin that the person dying was the "tumor"

hasty adder
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Is it time to spam Guin again

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Guin said that we should look beyond just letter ciphers, so it's probably not gonna be a substitution table. Wouldn't that mean we need a key phrase or word?

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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So we need to tear that image apart then.

gritty pilot
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things we've tried so far

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maiden bobcat
gritty pilot
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("stega" is short for "steganography", which is the common way to refer to hidden messages in files)

maiden bobcat
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Oh, okay then. My bad.

gritty pilot
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oh that wasn't a correction, that was just me clarifying my shorthand

maiden bobcat
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I know I tried binary and got nowhere.

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I tried hexadecimal to binary and got nowhere too.

patent dagger
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and a bunch of other effects that basically rip it apart lol

maiden bobcat
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I tried converting the numbers to binary to text.

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Dead end.

eager atlas
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Maybe flip the numbers and try putting them through a variety of cipher decoders?

gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
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I also attempted octal code to text.

eager atlas
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Dunno. I feel like the image being flipped has some signifigance

maiden bobcat
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Nada. Tried octal to binary to text. Nothing.

patent dagger
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I will run the effects on the image again and post them here

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Edge detect using Sobel method. Factor of 5

Sobel_5.png
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Kaleidoscope. Prolly nothing here but it looks cool...

Kaleidoscope.png
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Emboss

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hasty adder
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It looks like the logo has a bunch of itself stacked on top of each other. Could this be multiple stacked images?

maiden bobcat
patent dagger
celest lotus
# patent dagger

partially looks like a canid skull but itā€™s just a long stretch

maiden bobcat
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I flipped the numbers, then ran them through binary.

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patent dagger
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Ty

celest lotus
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also @patent dagger

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with the non horror version of the image, are both of them police?

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or could one dude be a MLO guy?

gritty pilot
celest lotus
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ya, I got it saved

eager atlas
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I take it as the recruited guy "culling" the tumor. I'd suspect probably them killing an officer getting too close to something

celest lotus
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do we have any screenshots of the MLO guys? I could compare the two

patent dagger
celest lotus
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the flashlight is either hidden or not shown on the model

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the other bits look like swat stuff

patent dagger
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He's definitely SWAT

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just with the old models

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eager atlas
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Do we have the original source of the non-warp image? Like, the SWAT version

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Maybe if that one has numbers as well we can combine them in some way?

celest lotus
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ya you rite @patent dagger

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eager atlas
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Actually, since I don't follow it much. Is the guy with the NVG supposed to be Judge?

patent dagger
eager atlas
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I think I'm looking a bit too deep into the symbolism here. I do wonder what it's supposed to mean though with Judge represented so warpy

celest lotus
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maybe he did something, I dunno

eager atlas
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I started getting too into the flipped thing and read their conversation backwards, substituting a bit. As in they're in this situation, P1 dying, Judge holding them being P2. Doesn't make much sense.

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Do we remember what website they used to send the audio files by the way? I feel like the numbers could be connected to another link or something

patent dagger
velvet cliff
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Haven't kept up with this for a few days. It's not Carcosa anymore?

ornate eagle
velvet cliff
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Ah a second one, thank you

maiden bobcat
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@ornate eagle honestly the only thing I can think of is asking for help

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I'm out of all ideas.

eager atlas
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Go for it

maiden bobcat
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@fickle finch Help. We don't know where to start and we're lost.

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We tried just about everything we could come up with and we have no leads at all outside of speculation. Also please don't ban me for asking for help.

eager atlas
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Actually there's one thing I wanna try Thonk

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Dang. Didn't work. I was hoping I was gonna be big brain and reverse image search it to see if there was a secret page or somethin

maiden bobcat
eager atlas
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They did say it'd be one of the harder ones. I imagine it's about doing specific steps in a specific order

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I was hoping I was onto somethin by using a number cipher and then copy pasting what we get into the file.io website, whatever looked like a link at least

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Even tried it forwards n backwards

maiden bobcat
fickle finch
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BANNED FOREVER

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There are multiple steps to this cipher. It's not as simple as X to number or X to letter

maiden bobcat
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oh šŸ˜¦

eager atlas
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Are you able to say how many steps we'd have to take to reach the end?

maiden bobcat
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sorry for the ping Guin.

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okay trying new thing now

ran this thing as a hexadecimal to text

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correction hexadecimal to decimal

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got this:

VOKHV0IDOZKSSOBDCDHKIDZOVHSVSDDVWKHOVGKSKDRDODS0V0DOD0SWKSQSDZO

ornate eagle
burnt oasis
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Hi i was wondering is there a video explaining what the puzzle so far is? ty

ornate eagle
burnt oasis
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thank you ā¤ļø

ionic storm
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New to this chat what are we discussing here

hasty adder
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Check da pins

hasty adder
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Shit I wish I knew how to do cryptography better

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I barely know where to start

idle hinge
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@ionic storm they are solving an ARG which is essentially a puzzle made by the devs to discover lore that makes you utilize real world principles, history, and sometimes locations. ARG is Alternate Reality Game you can google more about them.

orchid valley
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does this channel means like the iceberg of the story?

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Something like "RON iceberg explained"

flat warren
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Ok guys, I presume you cant play with normal players if youre running the supporter beta right?

timber inlet
flat warren
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Oh right

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I thought I was in discussion

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Sorry

tepid jacinth
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riight i'll just delete my msgs

timber inlet
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@ornate eagle been looking at the string you sent to Guin. Will tell you if I make any progress with it. Seems that string might somewhat be of value.

final whale
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You guys probably already figured this out but this is totally the MLO (Mariposa Lily Organization)

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First image sounds like it relates to them being veterans, second image says ā€œblossomingā€ and theyā€™re named after a flower, and the bottom one sounds related to nationalism but maybe itā€™s the cult

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Iā€™m still new to this ARG so forgive me for any newbie mistakes

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We oughta just organize some task forces to secure the maps and then search them up and down for evidence

hasty adder
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Currently there is no in game clues for the ARG, according to guin

final whale
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Ah damn

maiden bobcat
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I feel like this is going to be a mix of Payday 2 and Hotline Miami shit where we have to figure out a code.

hoary gull
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Maybe there is a keyword we use as a solution?

hoary gull
maiden bobcat
hoary gull
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Ok hmmmmm

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Thinking caps on

maiden bobcat
hoary gull
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Could it be a qr code?

hasty adder
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Apparently binary was a good step, since it isn't gonna to just be a simple substitution cipher. We probably have to translate the filename into something first?

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And we still haven't found the goodies in the image just yet either

hoary gull
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Changing the colors of the pics? Maybe inverting them?

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Cause its strange how the letters are stacked

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Like your mentioned

hoary gull
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maybe when it comes to cutting out the rot, maybe cutting out numbers in the filename?

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cause all of those zeros are strange

hoary gull
# ornate eagle

I took that and converted hexidecimal to text and got this,

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32 20 41 41 36 35 20 30 32 37 46 20 31 44 45 46 20 39 42 46 46 20 34 37 46 46 20 39 37 32 37 20 35 39 44 34 20 41 35 37 32 20 45 33 34 42 20 43 30 30 30 20 30 30 30 30 20 30 30 30 30

hoary gull
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ive been trying this in different ways and nothing seems to be making sense

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it got me thinking about deciphering letters with a keyword though. Like using "rot" as the keyword

hasty adder
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You could try Home too. The Lost account has it's name set to that in the A1z26 style

gritty pilot
fading birch
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Don't tag mods

hoary gull
maiden bobcat
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Sadly this is all out of my expertise. Wait until the devs send us to Louisiana and we all "disappear" under mysterious circumstances.

hasty adder
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More like California, since that's where mariposa lilies are plentiful

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It's hard to tell if the channel header is a hint or just more MLO or Lost propaganda

maiden bobcat
final whale
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I think itā€™s a hint though, Guin wouldnā€™t give us bullshit clues

hasty adder
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Remember that guin is the puppet master. They can help AND hurt the investigation

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Plenty of red herrings and such

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If anything this has gotten me into decrypting stuff and ciphers, so thanks for the new hobby guin

final whale
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I think my specialty is gonna have to be lore theories because I suck at numbers and shit lol

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I think Port Hokan is gonna be used by the Lost as a way of getting victims for sacrifices or something

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I remember that map tying in to this somehow but I donā€™t remember the specifics

final whale
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Ok so I know there's no direct clues in game but do you guys think these are Lost/MLO guys? The mask seems pretty culty to me

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radiant sonnet
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I swear one dude with the mask spawns on port raid every time

patent dagger
frozen gulch
timber inlet
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Anyone do any String Extraction for the image HOME sent? Gonna try and see if any of the strings mean anything.

hasty adder
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Haven't heard if that

timber inlet
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It basically just changes the picture into a bunch of strings, trying out a few ways of decrypting to see if the strings mean anything, could be nothing tho. Anything on the filename of it?

hasty adder
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It's a long string of numbers. Guin says that it is a multi-step cipher, not just a simple substitution

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Or at least hinted at it.

timber inlet
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Yeah, from what I understand and from what Guin said, it seems that way

hasty adder
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They said that someone was on the right path by trying to translate it to binary. Maybe it's encrypted with Xor?

patent dagger
timber inlet
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Yeah, gonna move on to the filename, I did get something from Loaf Cat's string to Guin

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Almost a "Cut" in the translation

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with just some basic decryption and translation

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Might be a dead end though. Gonna try taking a look at it further tho

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eager atlas
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Me: Sees cut
The channel description: AG_Sweats

timber inlet
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Also, just taking a look at the image one more time

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Error Level Analysis revealed this:

unknown.png
eager atlas
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Looks like a .exe creepy pasta

timber inlet
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Unwarped:

unknown.png
eager atlas
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Pretty sure I see the Boogey man from Nightmare Before Christmas in the top left

gritty pilot
timber inlet
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It might mean something but for now, Image Forensics is a little bit of a dead end at the moment.

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Could try and check to see if a Hex Editor would be of much use for this

gritty pilot
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i've done xor, or, and, add, multiplication on the filename plus the message text. but it could very well be an xor with some other message

unknown.png
true portal
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@ancient vessel hi

hasty adder
ancient vessel
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unite us.

hasty adder
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Well that could work. I wonder what we can combine to make this work

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@ornate eagle @gritty pilot @maiden bobcat @patent dagger

patent dagger
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a hello

hasty adder
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Damn it you better not be in on this too

final whale
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Ok so the lost say things related to ā€œunite usā€

maiden bobcat
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P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dying. We sing for them, we bleed for them, we mourn them. Unwanted, buried, forgotten, searching for home, to return.
P1: Melting. I want to forget. Hold me. Wait with me, for a while. Just for a minute. I'm not ready to go yet.
P2: That's not how the game is played. The rules changed on you, and where did it bring you? To your knees.
P1: I want to forget, why canā€™t I forget?
P2: You come to me, impatient, insolent. Begging for deliverance. All in time. We will free you. All will be made clear. All will be well. Just relax. Let go. Breathe. Remember. Nothing is ever lost. Only mulched.
P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. Unite us.

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@ornate eagle

timber inlet
hasty adder
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That's from the Witcher I think

timber inlet
timber inlet
hasty adder
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This is neat though

timber inlet
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We get a better view of that flower as well tbf

timber inlet
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Eugh, getting really lost with the Filename

hasty adder
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And I've tried doing damn near everything to that image, and I can't seem to dig up anything to either the original or the unswirled versions

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I've tried finding the differences between the horror and normal versions which didn't drum up anything

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No hidden info in any source page either. If the image has something juicy in it, it's not gonna be found by changing shadows and stuff it seems

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As for the file name, I'm a bit stuck on where to begin. It's not just a simple substitution cipher, so we'll probably have to translate the numbers to something like binary or hex or so

glass zealot
timber inlet
glass zealot
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Oh then it's probably a trillium

timber inlet
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I think it's covered in the Carcosa coverage videos by DueRag95

celest lotus
sleek zephyr
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hes one of the mods here,martin i thought his name was

ornate eagle
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he does sfm art, I don't think it's anything related to the ARG

maiden bobcat
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As it relates to the dialogue at least.

ornate eagle
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unite us at the end?

maiden bobcat
maiden bobcat
ornate eagle
maiden bobcat
ornate eagle
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oh i dont have unite us in the solution bit yet

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im not certain, but to me, "unite us" sounds like it's P2 rather than P1

maiden bobcat
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Like this?

P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dying. We sing for them, we bleed for them, we mourn them. Unwanted, buried, forgotten, searching for home, to return.
P1: Melting. I want to forget. Hold me. Wait with me, for a while. Just for a minute. I'm not ready to go yet.
P2: That's not how the game is played. The rules changed on you, and where did it bring you? To your knees.
P1: I want to forget, why canā€™t I forget?
P2: You come to me, impatient, insolent. Begging for deliverance. All in time. We will free you. All will be made clear. All will be well. Just relax. Let go. Breathe. Remember. Nothing is ever lost. Only mulched. Unite us.
P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn.

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@ornate eagle

ornate eagle
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maybe not there specifically. there's likely more dialogue to put together

maiden bobcat
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Yeah it was either there or the last part is how I figured it.

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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Nda?

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If it is Xor, then we will need both a key and we need to translate the filename into something that br deciphered with xor

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We have a bunch of options for keys at the very least

gritty pilot
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yeah i tried xoring each byte with integers 0 through 99 inclusive

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taking inspiration from the solution to another arg

maiden bobcat
hasty adder
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Considering that Home hasn't been used in anything else, it's a possibility

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we could try a1z26 on the numbers, then use a vigenere cipher?

maiden bobcat
hasty adder
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That 100 inside of it messes that up though

gritty pilot
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a1z26 requires splitting the numbers in order to translate. there are many possible ways to split the numbers into values 1-26 for valid a1z26 decryption. brute-forcing a vignere cipher on all of those possibilities is a large possibility space

maiden bobcat
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Also should we flip it?

gritty pilot
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also, if we're to assume this xor encryption is a one-time pad, the xor key must be at least as long as the ciphertext. "home" is not long enough, so we could try "homehomehomehome..." to fill up the extra space...

hasty adder
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The repeating zeros kind of fuck me up. If they are part of the solution, then they mess up any type of binary encoding we can do

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repeating home is a decent way for the vigenere cipher

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Guin table should only be used for hints given by guin, right?

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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xor also needs to be divided into 8ths, and there is no way to do that with all of the numbers given

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Not to mention it'd have to be in a binary format

gritty pilot
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ascii characters are stored as 1 byte (8 bits) per character, so if you use the ascii encoding for each of the digits, that is the binary representation

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as in ascii, 0 is represented by 48 in decimal, which is 00110000

maiden bobcat
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Or at least segments alone?

gritty pilot
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we can try that as well, although the lengths don't match up perfectly

maiden bobcat
# gritty pilot

"You can be so much more if you cut away the rot."

What about that?

gritty pilot
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48 characters long

maiden bobcat
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How many characters is the string of numbers?

gritty pilot
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59

maiden bobcat
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Fuck.

gritty pilot
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still worth a shot, considering a lot of those characters are 0's anyways, right?

maiden bobcat
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Yes.

gritty pilot
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sigh

hYBQSXSPB_ZAV^]_BUYVI_ESEDQGQIDXUB_D
FW^GE_BYYTQ[GQGXY\UZECDV_BQ]Y^EDUY]^_DBUQTI
fS{S[ZhZArXF[_VbECDgUrEBIi_E|_CDD_eC
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maiden bobcat
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Try rot 13.

gritty pilot
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that's the output of xor on four different strings

from itertools import cycle
ciphertext = bytes(filename, encoding="ascii")
messages = [
    "You can be so much more if you cut away the rot.",
    "wait with me, for a while. just for a minute. i'm not ready to go yet.",
    "We Hail You, Born of Rust. We Bury You, Lost to Us.",
    "homehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehomehome"
]

for msg in messages:
  decrypted = []
  for (x, y) in zip(ciphertext, bytes(msg, encoding="ascii")):
    decrypted.append(x ^ y)
  print(hex_to_text(bytes(decrypted)))
maiden bobcat
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Have you tried running it through rot 13 or flipping it then doing that?

hasty adder
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I mean the channel header is cutting away the rot. maybe that was the hint?

gritty pilot
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agree, i think "cut away the rot" refers to rot13 or a variation

timber inlet
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This is some crazy stuff, guys, I was trying stuff with ROT13 last night but never got this close hahaha

hasty adder
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But at the same time, guin themself said that this wont be a simple substitution

gritty pilot
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indeed. we just have to figure out how to get to the spot where we can apply rot13

balmy osprey
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I wasn't sure if it meant to scrap using rot altogether

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But that eliminates potential solutions so I guess that shouldn't be done

gritty pilot
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gritty pilot
chilly marten
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dude that sh*t is crazy

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well done to you guys

hasty adder
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We're still no where near solving it lmao

chilly marten
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yeah but look at that lmao

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thats some dedication

gritty pilot
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it looks pretty cool until you remember it's complete garbage :')

timber inlet
gritty pilot
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but persistence is the name of the game with cryptography. there are many ways to mangle bits and bytes, the vast majority of which are insecure and bad. breaking an insecure, known cipher is easy. the hard part is knowing which cipher you're breaking

hasty adder
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That's were this number is fucking us up. If we cut all of the excess 0's off, that leaves us with 18 numbers

gritty pilot
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is that what it means to cut away the rot?

hasty adder
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Not sure. Couldn't hurt to check

gritty pilot
# 
1. meaning of "cut away the rot"
  1.1. rot13
  1.2. remove trailing zeroes
2. how to treat the filename
  2.1. as a string of ascii characters
  2.2. as a single number, interpreted in binary (or some other base)
gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
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Holy fuck I was onto something.

maiden bobcat
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@gritty pilot

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This mean anything or is it me being dumb?

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And is it flipped?

maiden bobcat
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Shot in the dark, but it wouldn't hurt.

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This is what I got running it through a standard a1z26 cipher then putting it in rot13.

Screenshot_20220119-113909_Brave.png
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Will try on the Gwynn cipher now.

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Gwynn cipher code. Standby for further.

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Rot 13 from the Gwynn cipher. What now?

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Trying the other rot ciphers.

hoary gull
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Hack it! Use your fingerless gloves!!

hasty adder
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Going to work now, but I have a small suspicion that the conversation that we keep building here might end up leading to some sort of stenography

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Between p1 and p2 at least

hoary gull
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He did say unite us

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Combining something is the key

maiden bobcat
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I'm at a loss again.

gritty pilot
hoary gull
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Stenographer could actually work here

maiden bobcat
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No dice.

gritty pilot
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fiddlesticks

maiden bobcat
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This is the above, backwards.

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Holy shit.

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P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dying. We sing for them, we bleed for them, we mourn them. Unwanted, buried, forgotten, searching for home, to return.
P1: Melting. I want to forget. Hold me. Wait with me, for a while. Just for a minute. I'm not ready to go yet.
P2: That's not how the game is played. The rules changed on you, and where did it bring you? To your knees.
P1: I want to forget, why canā€™t I forget?
P2: You come to me, impatient, insolent. Begging for deliverance. All in time. We will free you. All will be made clear. All will be well. Just relax. Let go. Breathe. Remember. Nothing is ever lost. Only mulched. Unite us.
P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. You can be so much more if you cut away the rot.

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@ornate eagle

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@gritty pilot motherfucker

ornate eagle
maiden bobcat
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The last part is a phrase about cutting shit away.

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P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. You can be so much more if you cut away the rot.

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They're recruiting this person into cult, telling them they could be more.

gritty pilot
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yeah

maiden bobcat
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It's Jim Jones/Rajneeshpuram type shit.

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All of the hints we got were home from dialogue what if the channel description was the same?

timber inlet
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Holy shieeet, Bois

gritty pilot
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defo a death cult

maiden bobcat
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I just noticed/realized that.

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@near egret

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That's why I want to know where "unite us" goes.

near egret
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Looking at this, the situation just keeps getting more mysterious and intense

ornate eagle
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we knew this was recruitment tho wdym

maiden bobcat
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No, we did I'm just saying where the dialogue piece goes.

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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What NDA discord

kind narwhal
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For supporters only

gritty pilot
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NDA = supporters only discord

hasty adder
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I swear if this is a pay 2 win arg I'm gonna scream lol

maiden bobcat
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I see.

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I plan to buy the 80 dollar pack only for the FBI pack lmao.

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Sec. I'm gonna see how these dialogue parts come together. This changes things.

Screenshot_20220119-121142_Docs.png
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That's dialogue, it fucking has to be.

gritty pilot
# hasty adder I swear if this is a pay 2 win arg I'm gonna scream lol

so there was a component of the ARG that was supposed to be part of the supporters-only/alpha build. we tried doing it last night. but in the spirit of being an alpha, the in-game trigger for the ARG is bugged. because we had basically figured out how to trigger the ARG (after many, many hints from gwynn) and spent an hour and change standing around various spots in the altar waiting for a minute at a time to trigger it, gwynn threw us a bone. this was in the form of giving us the contents of "Encrypted messages 2 (19/01/2022)" described by loaf's doc

maiden bobcat
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Standby while I piece this all together. I feel like I'm looking at a screenplay and someone's asking me to figure out where the fucked up script dialogue is supposed to go.

gritty pilot
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and by "part of the supporters-only build", i mean that it's part of the january update that will go public in ~10 days when devs are happy they've ironed out major bugs supporters are finding

maiden bobcat
hasty adder
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I have the terrible suspicion as well that we are making this infinitely harder on ourselves. It's hard to tell what we are missing from the image and filename, or if they are just red herrings

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The only thing I noticed about the image filename is that no number goes above 7

gritty pilot
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they aren't red-herrings. gwynn has confirmed the filename is ciphertext

maiden bobcat
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P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dying. We sing for them, we bleed for them, we mourn them. Unwanted, buried, forgotten, searching for home, to return.
P1: Melting. I want to forget. Hold me. Wait with me, for a while. Just for a minute. I'm not ready to go yet.
P2: That's not how the game is played. The rules changed on you, and where did it bring you? To your knees.
P1: I want to forget, why canā€™t I forget? You waited, you stood for me, for us!
P2: You come to me, impatient, insolent. Begging for deliverance. All in time. We will free you. All will be made clear. All will be well. Just relax. Let go. Breathe. Remember. Nothing is ever lost. Only mulched. Unite us. We will blossom together. Nourish us. Break free.
P2: Reunited, the dawn is near.
P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. You can be so much more if you cut away the rot.

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This is what I have so far.

hasty adder
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And I've done damn near everything to that image too. I'm not sure what else we can do to it that anyone else already has

maiden bobcat
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@hasty adder have you guys tried putting the images on top of each other and overlaying them one over the other?

gritty pilot
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the 6 spooky faces?

hasty adder
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I just tried it, but the online thing I was using wasn't very good

gritty pilot
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i tried putting them on top of one another in GIMP but i didn't find anything. although i didn't try that hard

maiden bobcat
gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
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And figure out which layers go on top of what.

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I'm at work so, yeah-

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I can't really mess with that.

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@gritty pilot layer the images on top of each other messing around with the opacity of each

timber inlet
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I did mess around with the pictures earlier on this morning

gritty pilot
# maiden bobcat P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dy...

suggest small change

-P2: Reunited, the dawn is near.
 P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. You can be so much more if you cut away the rot.
+P2: Reunited, the dawn is near.

result:

P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dying. We sing for them, we bleed for them, we mourn them. Unwanted, buried, forgotten, searching for home, to return.
P1: Melting. I want to forget. Hold me. Wait with me, for a while. Just for a minute. I'm not ready to go yet.
P2: That's not how the game is played. The rules changed on you, and where did it bring you? To your knees.
P1: I want to forget, why canā€™t I forget? You waited, you stood for me, for us!
P2: You come to me, impatient, insolent. Begging for deliverance. All in time. We will free you. All will be made clear. All will be well. Just relax. Let go. Breathe. Remember. Nothing is ever lost. Only mulched. Unite us. We will blossom together. Nourish us. Break free.
P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. You can be so much more if you cut away the rot.
P2: Reunited, the dawn is near.

timber inlet
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I did get something weird with Error Level Analysis

maiden bobcat
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Shit, yeah that sounds arguably better.

gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
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I'll glance at it on paint .net when I get home in an hour.

gritty pilot
timber inlet
gritty pilot
timber inlet
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Ah okay, tbf I never got to look at the original promo pics, but yeah deffo the rainbowish bits there was interesting

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Might need to convert those to hexcodes

gritty pilot
maiden bobcat
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@ornate eagle see @gritty pilot 's post.

hasty adder
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Brain tired. Going to work now

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Guin stop hurty head plzthanks

timber inlet
hasty adder
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I didn't see anything in em, but someone else can give it a try

timber inlet
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Anyone use the Sleuth Kit yet for any of the pics actually?

ornate eagle
gritty pilot
ornate eagle
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note the tone of the Lost here. They're not scared, they're not uncertain. It's confident, they've found their courage. Either a) the recruitment process somehow massively influences one's state of mind, perhaps turning them into a being without sympathy or fear, or b) this is from a much later date where the Lost has found that courage through some experience or self-discovery

timber inlet
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Haven't used it in a while now but I'll take a look later on

gritty pilot
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nice nice

maiden bobcat
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I don't want to @ guin because I don't want to get banned lmao.

ornate eagle
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tbh i think the dialogue can go on hold until we get more stuff tbh

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main thing rn is Lead 3 and 4

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although Lead 4 is sadly on hold

maiden bobcat
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Lead 3 has got me stumped sadly.

chilly marten
maiden bobcat
maiden bobcat
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Anything new?

gritty pilot
gritty pilot
hot horizon
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spider are you stalking mešŸ‘ļø

maiden bobcat
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@ornate eagle @gritty pilot honestly I think this just needs different opacity settings

gritty pilot
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doesn't really look like anything when they're all layered on top of each other

unknown.png
maiden bobcat
gritty pilot
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you can do that if you want. i'm going to continue playing numberwang

hasty adder
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Interesting. When you fuck with level sweep and set it to max, only a colored partial part of the image is shown

maiden bobcat
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I'm not really sure what else to do, or at least how useful I can be because all of this is beyond me now. šŸ˜¦

eager atlas
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Well, as they said, it's likely just us taking the numbers and putting them through decoders in a certain order

hasty adder
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Even if it isn't anything, it looks pretty sick

eager atlas
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This is your brain on 5gum

hasty adder
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Curious thought. Those orders that we decoded; could we try to order The Lost for something?

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Fuck it, I'll bite

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@ancient vessel Make Whole

eager atlas
hasty adder
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Inb4 I get stabbed in a dark alley somewhere

hasty adder
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@ancient vessel Order

patent dagger
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YOU THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T THINK OF THIS TOO NEGLECTED LIKE THE CHILD THROWN INTO THE DOGHOUSE

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whoops didnt mean to paste that

patent dagger
slow mulch
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has anyone looked closer at the discord server icon/banner yet?

willow warren
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that'd be a very fruitless endeavor

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they're like 3 or 4 years old

slow mulch
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oh ok lmao

hoary gull
hasty adder
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The result is already in one or both of the docs

hoary gull
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ah ok great thanks

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interesting, i can't wait to try this out

hasty adder
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152233216203_2210_16134157.png

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This one does sort of follow the other image's rule that no number is going above 7

hasty adder
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This might work with octal?

gritty pilot
# 
foo = int("16732266154100745600000000000000000000000000000000000000000", 8)
print(format(foo, 'x')) # => 77696c6c207970000000000000000000000000000000
bar = "77 69 6c 6c 20 79 70"
print(hex_to_text(bytes.fromhex(bar)))

will yp
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interpret filename as octal integer
format into hexadecimal
take hex representation, remove trailing zeroes, add spaces to group into single bytes
convert to ascii

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@hasty adder what do you think. am i off the deep end?

hasty adder
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It never hurts to check, but I dunno anymore. It could just be a coincidence, but then again there are not many ways I can find to cipher numbers

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We just have to try different combos until something sticks

wispy zealot
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The fucc happened here?

hasty adder
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Just remember to cut off those extra zeros for now. They don't seem to help with anything

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With the zeros cut off we get 18 units. If we also get rid of the 2 remaining zeroes inside the number line we could get 16 units

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But that probably isn't needed

gritty pilot
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this is my current strategy

Screenshot_20220120-020943.png
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i think for sure that part of this cipher is "take a bunch of bytes from individual characters and remove the spaces between them in order to get Big Number"

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simplest way to get big number, Occam's razor

hasty adder
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16, 73, 22, 66, 15, 41, 00, 74, 56
167, 322, 661, 541, 007, 456
167322, 661541, 007456
167322661, 541007456
167, 32, 26, 61 54, 100, 74, 56

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Trying different equal length combos

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1673, 2266 1541, 0074, 5600

gritty pilot
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i hope we shouldn't have to do that

hasty adder
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I hope not either, but we've tried a ton of equations just publically, much less on our own

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Have we tried turning the image into a different file type and try reading any hidden comments? Maybe jpeg?

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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It had hidden files, but were garbage?

gritty pilot
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so, for context: the way a file identifies itself as a certain type is usually by putting some special bits at the beginning of the file, because these values have to be well-known and hard-coded, sometimes they're referred to as "magic numbers"

this is how you can tell something is a png even if you change the name to have a different file extension. programs will often rely on the file extension as a quick easy way to tell the format, but you've probably experienced opening a "txt" file in notepad that was actually just full of binary that looks like hot garbage. good programs will usually just throw an error and tell you to come back with a file that's actually formatted correctly

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so knowing this, you could hide files of one format in the file of another format, but the magic numbers to identify the filetype will give it away. however, at the end of the day everything is 0's and 1's so it's very possible for magic numbers to show up all over your file even though there's nothing actually hidden there

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therefore if you find a "hidden file" that looks like garbage and smells like garbage, that's probably because it's actually garbage

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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Gross. And image manipulation is proving fruitless too

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If we just had an idea of what "rot" we needed to cut, I'm sure we'd find it pretty quickly

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The zeros seem to obvious though. Maybe it's something in the string of numbers that aren't zeroes

gritty pilot
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given how tight lipped gwynn has been and the nature of her other hints for this clue, it seems like giving away any additional information would make the cipher trivial

hasty adder
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So that must mean it's either simple and we are sailing over the answer constantly, or that the final piece of information is that important

gritty pilot
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i think we're really close

  1. the number is a bunch of little numbers in a trench coat
  2. we must cut away the rot
hasty adder
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We could cut on the guin cipher a and b?

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Wouldn't that be 7 and 0

gritty pilot
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i think the zeroes are the most obvious. but yeah maybe gwynn cipher is in there

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i think the one of the latest clues we've gotten has helped me recalibrate on the difficulty

hasty adder
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You mean for lead 6?

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I doubt that we'd jump off the cliff of difficulty after doing a1z26 and affine ciphers for so long. It's a step up for sure but nothing drastic like we've been doing

gritty pilot
hasty adder
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Is that something recent? I thought those were alpha files from long ago

gritty pilot
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the files were in there since the 12th maybe
but the in-game trigger was bugged until a bugfix released today

hasty adder
#

What about the memorial? Can we stand with the lost yet?

gritty pilot
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read the thing i linked pls

hasty adder
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I didn't know if it was fixed today or not, whoops

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I used your collab quite a bit tbh. It has a ton of good resources

gritty pilot
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hap that makes me rly happy, thank you

hasty adder
gritty pilot
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but yeah i just updated it a bit. its almost 3am here so im gonna sleep. if you don't crack it by the time i wake up, hopefully it will come to me in a dream

hasty adder
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It's 4am, I'm right with you brother

gritty pilot
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(will add pics to that section tmrw... loaf will also be updating his doc too)

hasty adder
#

It's almost becoming overwhelming how many leads we are going down. If one is a key to another, maybe we can revisit parts we are stuck on

dim scroll
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Lol what is this?

fading birch
fair onyx
gritty pilot
ornate eagle
maiden bobcat
#

@echo solstice phishing link

hoary gull
#

This is very cool! But were still on lead 3 correct?

hasty adder
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Lead 3 is stuck, and lead 4 is on since the bug seems to have been fixed in game

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Eli's collab research page shows more, but lead 4 has an in game easter egg where if you stand near the lone chair in the memorial room in silence for one minute, garbled music will play that leads to the next lead

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Strange, I can't see to recreate it

jovial iris
#

Maybe the number of zeros means something?

ornate eagle
hasty adder
#

Cringe

jovial iris
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How many zeros is it at the end?

hasty adder
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Looks for 40 dollars

jovial iris
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It's 41 zeros

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Maybe replacing the zeroes with 41 or something

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I don't feel like they would just put a bunch of zeroes there for no reason

ornate eagle
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@gritty pilot did we try this? not a terrible idea

jovial iris
#

Maybe you could use 41 as an operator on the rest of the string too? Like 167322661541007456Ɨ41 or what not. Idk I'm just spitballing at this point

gritty pilot
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oh i've tried 1673226615410074560000..... ^ 41 but not 167322661541007456 ^ 41

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result gives me garbo

fickle storm
#

Just found out this game had an ARG. After reading all this it got me intrigued

fickle finch
#

šŸ˜

eager atlas
#

I saw that sip

ornate eagle
eager atlas
#

Dang

celest lotus
hasty adder
#

Did loaf cat experience a gamer moment

hasty adder
#

Alright I bought the supporter edition and installed the beta stuff, yet still nothing

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@gritty pilot

gritty pilot
radiant sonnet
#

wow, just showed up.. late i see

placid crown
#

With the 16732266154100745600000000000000000000000000000000000000000 code, has anyone tried using the nihilist cipher using the code word "ready". Could also be "ready or not" too I suppose.
I tried using a lot of random ciphers for grins but polybius seemed kinda promising but I think it's more likely that it's the nihilist cipher.

maiden bobcat
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tfw feel dumb for not being sure how to do any of this

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I had to ask a few friends(one a military crypotographer for help and one a computer programmer) and we still both got confused.

fickle finch
hasty adder
#

Luckily we have a recording of it, so this isn't a huge issue atm. I mostly wanted it for archival reasons lmao

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Now this fucking filename though, has made me lose sleep. It's not that big of a jump in difficulty, but I cannot translate those damn numbers to save my life

placid crown
#

btw, Guinevere is it okay if I dm you with a question? It's not related to the ARG but RoN itself. Unless you have a better place to direct the question

fickle finch
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Sure thing

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May take me a bit to respond as I'm hopping between work and real life stuff rn

maiden bobcat
hasty adder
#

I just can't get how I'm this bad at this lol

maiden bobcat
#

We all suck lol.

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The fact I'm reaching out to old friends for help makes me weirded out.

hasty adder
#

A two step cipher involving a string of numbers
It spells out a sentence
The first step is more than likely translating it to some sort of binary type format

placid crown
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the nihilist cipher is two step

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but wouldn't give a sentence and would only end up giving us a word or two

ornate eagle
#

we also have no words to input

hasty adder
#

The issue is that it uses a polybius square, which uses digits 1-5

placid crown
#

That is also a thing and I totally forgot what i did to get around that

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but I'm relatively convinced it doesn't matter because I don't think it's the right cipher

gritty pilot
#

im thinking that maybe some information was destroyed in the process of outputting a single integer... spaces/delimiters that would give us the correct values for individual bytes

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which is probably why cryptanalysis on this thing is so damn hard

placid crown
#

hey one thing that came to mind

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it's a two step cipher
also the "You can be so much more if you cut away the rot"
makes me think that we should use a numeric cipher then translate those results using a rot cipher. Honestly probably rot13 would suffice unless we have a better idea

maiden bobcat
desert ether
hasty adder
maiden bobcat
#

I can only post the pink wojak in response because I don't know what I'm doing lmao.

bright onyx
#

This is interesting, but where do you start?

placid crown
#

I'd say read up on the google docs and read up on what's going on with the current unsolved leads. tbh I'm still catching up on what we have and haven't tried

hasty adder
#

If you want to learn more about ciphers and game ARGs, game detective arg has a neat academy you can use to get a start

gritty pilot
#

k what is it

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:) figured

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it was bait of exceptionally low quality

hasty adder
#

Get to decoding before I lose 4 more hours of sleep

patent dagger
maiden bobcat
#

@ornate eagle post findings

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@elfin jewel ree

elfin jewel
#

Everyone say it with me

maiden bobcat
#

BRING US TOGETHER.

elfin jewel
#

BRING US TOGETHER

smoky island
#

BRING US TOGETHER!

maiden bobcat
#

P2: Our vow, our life, and yours, fading away. Each flame, melting, dripping, dying. We sing for them, we bleed for them, we mourn them. Unwanted, buried, forgotten, searching for home, to return.
P1: Melting. I want to forget. Hold me. Wait with me, for a while. Just for a minute. I'm not ready to go yet.
P2: That's not how the game is played. The rules changed on you, and where did it bring you? To your knees.
P1: I want to forget, why canā€™t I forget?
P2: You come to me, impatient, insolent. Begging for deliverance. All in time. We will free you. All will be made clear. All will be well. Just relax. Let go. Breathe. Remember. Nothing is ever lost. Only mulched.Ā 
P1: There are no dead ends. Cull the tumor. Flourish. Burn. Bring us together.

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oh.

hasty adder
#

Meanwhile, back at the filename

edgy lintel
#

Someone explain to me what this is about

eager atlas
#

View the pinned Google doc

elfin jewel
#

16732266154100745600000000000000000000000000000000000000000 needs to be solved

smoky island
#

Solved by Devildoc, myself and Loaf

hasty adder
#

Well here is what we have in terms of clues for the filename cipher.
-It is 2 step process
-It will spell out a sentence, most likely a key to something later
-It NEEDS to be solved, to make later clues possible/easier
-The number of zeros does not matter, but they may still be important.

  • The file name is NOT a date. That was an coincidence
    -Someone tried Binary and was onto something. Unconfirmed if binary is an actual step needed.
    -We must think beyond just letter ciphers. It isn't just an x to number or x to letter cipher.
    -The cipher is simple, but not exactly easy.
smoky island
#

I'd also like to add that the resolution of the warped image is 2755 x 2628

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I have a strong feeling this was done on purpose, especially when compared to the original image it's based on which is 3840x2160

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I tried decoding it in a bunch of different ways including the backwards method but it didn't bring up anything meaningful. Still, keep an eye on it

crimson pelican
#

cringe not based + no bitches

rotund tinsel
#

RIP to Meatloaf, don't know if it's been said in here yet.

hasty adder
#

who is meatloaf

covert citrus
#

a loaf, of meat!

strong idol
#

hey have you check crack house yet

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i found some shit

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Weve seen these things before from hints and images

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i wonder if the crack heads have somethung to do with carcosa

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or sepulchre

eager atlas
#

Old news

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pretty sure at least it's been talked about before this new image stuff

strong idol
#

shit i dint see that sory

smoky island
# strong idol i found some shit

Those images can be found on Ropolio's artstation, from there we found some of his other artwork that looked similar to the faces and entities VOID posted on their Twitter regarding the ARG

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But nothing really significant came of it

strong idol
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got it i didnt see the images before and i thought i found something

chilly marten
#

<@&925148041126760529> all channels @midnight gulch

hasty adder
magic latch
maiden bobcat
#

the 167 cipher still has us confused šŸ˜¦

hasty adder
#

I made a small list of clues given to us if you need it. Just search my username for it

hasty adder
#

We should ask the question, "What ciphers are beyond just letter substitutions"

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It's difficult to know what to make of the numbers. Are they letters like in a1z26, or are they in hex/octal? The only notable similarity is that no number goes above 7

hasty adder
#

If I knew that it mattered then Octal would be key somehow

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But I have a strong hunch on that considering it's 0-7

hasty adder
#

So converting Octal to Hexidecimal to ASCII got me "will yp"

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will y if you remove the zeros at the end of the hex

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Since double zeros in hex make a space, perhaps the remaining translation needs to be found elsewhere?

mild vine
#

it spells out BF2042 is shit

royal ocean
#

Now just imagine if it spells

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something relating to the game's name

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Hopefully the main screen dots and dashes are not morse code as they are unequal and if translated, does not mean anything.

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And all those numbers could be converted into alphabets although would also not make sense even maybe if scrambled.

ivory wren
#

Can somebody explain the difference between the Carcosa ARG and the Sepulchre ARG? Last I remember we never finished Carcosa.

ornate eagle
ivory wren
#

Oh, thanks.

hasty adder
#

Ladies and gentlemen, we gotteem

unknown.png
#

Or at the very least, we have a part of it. The zeros also need to be translated somehow

blazing forge
#

So let me get this straight - A swat game, currently in developement, also has an extremely weird and mysterious ARG around it as well?

celest lotus
#

ya :)

blazing forge
#

I took a little time to read through the google doc that was made to document everything so far, and I'm... perplexed, to say the least

#

Gives me some weird government experimentation vibes or something šŸ¤£

#

Or at the very least, there's DEFINITELY something cult-ish going on

#

The more I look into this game, the more I find to it lol

icy oar
#

itā€™s based

blazing forge
#

What if it turns out that the agency we work at are actually the bad guys or something void

#

It would be so out of nowhere as well. Just imagine - the place we work at is just a cover for some government agency to do some under-the-table stuff, meanwhile we are tasked to stop the people who are actually the good guys in the long run or something. Obviously not the case, as there are very clear signs of human trafficking and abuse in a mission or two.

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But imagine the potential.

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As far as I'm aware, there will be a campaign for RON. What it will be about, or what out main objective or goal will be? Who knows but Void themselves?! But the possibility is always there. Since there isn't really a REASON why we do the stuff that we do (our general objectives in the game, for instance) except "Stop the bad guy", it really leaves room for interpretation and proper story elements to be at play in the coming months! I genuinely can't wait to see where Void is taking everything, because there really isn't ANY other game company that's doing the whole "Swat game" thing. On top of the fact that the "Swat" game genre is barely touched upon, Void could genuinely do something new for games as a whole.

hasty adder
#

There are a lot of signs pointing to the Vietnam War. Guin confirmed that it is significant to the groups involved, which makes sense with how militarized they are in the trailers

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Current theory is that a bunch of disgruntled vets formed an anti-government group called MLO, which stands for Mariposa Lily Organization

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The Lost could be a part of them, they could be some weird ass death cult

blazing forge
#

Maybe that's what the campaign is about?

#

Us stopping a whole ass government trained organization from taking over the world or something

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Government trained, because like you said, possibly disgruntled vets

chilly marten
#

The name ā€œvoidā€ isnt coincidence too imo. Even on port Hoken, the shipping company has Void in its name.

pallid tree
#

The Lost does give off very SCP-esque, or even OG Max Payne, vibes.

hasty adder
#

More like "anti-government terror group" thing i think

naive matrix
azure lodge
#

hi

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i have a little question

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how can i add ai teammates into a multiplayer game?

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for ready or not

ornate eagle
azure lodge
#

do you plan to integrate it?

ornate eagle
#

i dont work for void so unlikely

topaz sandal
#

Yes Loaf Cat will implement it

#

Get to work Loaf cAHAHAHAt

crimson pelican
#

god loaf c'mon dude
we're waiting

mossy lake
#

Starting a petition to cut the pay on Loaf cat. Mother fucker is sitting here in the early access and still has not developed one thing

eager atlas
#

Wasn't this channel under modding chat, or am I tripping.. sus

opal ingot
hot horizon
#

: )

desert ether
hollow vale
olive granite
#

What is this channel for

eager atlas
#

Discussing the games ARG, but it seems the latest one has driven us all mad

pallid tree
#

Which one, Lead 5?

gritty pilot
#

lead 3 is the one driving us apeshit at the moment

pallid tree
#

Oh that's right. The file name

pallid tree
#

I must be a masochist, because here I am looking at this, knowing I'm too stupid to figure anything out for it

olive granite
pallid tree
#

Check the pins. There's a Google Doc that breaks down both the ARGs that have happened

eager atlas
#

^

elfin jewel
#

I've broken my head on this one.

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I got WILL YP last Friday (the 20th)

Then I spent Saturday decoding the other one with @ornate eagle and @gritty pilot .

But this 167 code... I just can't fucking get it.

eager atlas
#

What if it's all a ruse to delay the update

elfin jewel
#

Eh I doubt that. But imagine If we had to solve this shit to get an update. I'd be a bit sad

pallid tree
#

lol

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I tried converting the text of the filename to an image and got... a fish.

eager atlas
#

Show us this fish

pallid tree
#

Lemme find it again

#

It's a cypriniformes

gritty pilot
pallid tree
#

Easier to see if I upload it I guess

pallid tree
eager atlas
#

This fish is the key to it all

#

We can finally explain why MLO is acting so fishy

pallid tree
#

HA!

eager atlas
elfin jewel
pallid tree
#

Why not

brave basin
#

new updata??

tall cliff
summer sky
ivory wren
#

I think I mightve possibly maybe figured out what 1138 is supposed to reference if anybody still cares about that number

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Thx 1138 is george lucases first feature film

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It features a 20 minute segment of prisoners exploring an endless white void in search of salvation

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Which to me at least sounds similar to what MLO is offering in their recruitment dialogue.

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And what was it again? 1138 was offered to judge in a letter of some sort? And so far we know that MLO is mostly only comprised of former police and military, anyway, my theory is that's MLO attempting to recruit judge?

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Probably just me speculating or just really late to the party, but never hurts to have another take, right?

drowsy coyote
#

šŸ˜³

sleek zephyr
#

its a pretty shit house film as well

sleek zephyr
#

totalitarian system putting people on meds to keep them in line, THX 1138 and plenty of others goes off the meds and after his stint in the void he escapes the city and reaches surface level finally being free

radiant sonnet
#

How do I remove this shit

unknown.png
soft mortar
#

In your display settings

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Right click on your homescreen>display settings>disable that shit

dark goblet
pallid tree
#

Check the ARG doc in the pins, and scroll all the way down to Lead 2

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Should also check out the rest of the doc, of course, but specifically that it is in Lead 2

radiant sonnet
#

Hrnnnng

unknown.png
ivory wren
#

nobody find anything yet?

zinc finch
obtuse tangle
#

has anyone figure out anything about the talking statue?

real remnant
#

bible quote?

unknown.png
#

1-555-GEN-ESIS

obtuse tangle
#

you believe its about the bible?

real remnant
#

idk that's just what genesis spurred in my mind

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unless the MLO are sega fans

obtuse tangle
#

we believe its relating with this song

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jesus he knows me by genesis

real remnant
#

fair

obtuse tangle
#

we are also trying to find if there is anything related with statue maybe we are being full of ourselves but maybe the venus del milo is related something with genesis?we believe thats the keyword

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the word genesis is like everywhere

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when you stand here the phone stops ringing

Ready_Or_Not_Screenshot_2022.01.30_-_02.48.15.58.png
radiant sonnet
obtuse tangle
#

new hotel map

radiant sonnet
#

ohh thanks

ivory wren
#

Is it just me or.. The payphone had weird symbols on the buttons?

obtuse tangle
#

yep you are right

ivory wren
#

šŸ‘

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We got any leads for this map?

obtuse tangle
#

we havent found anything for the symbols but for the nukmber we believe its relate to somg called jesus he knows me by genesis

ivory wren
obtuse tangle
#

there is music video with the number

ivory wren
#

I'll do my analysis. šŸ‘

obtuse tangle
#

so you've seen about genesis 3:25?

ivory wren
#

No, educate me.

obtuse tangle
#

so in the video there is a group of people holding a sign saying well genesis 3:25 which apparently is not about the bible but as reference on the band which it started with 3 people

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for 25 years it was always 3 people

ivory wren
#

And where does that get us?

obtuse tangle
#

we aint sure

eager atlas
#

Can't be an American extremist group without the bible

ivory wren
#

Also, this song is pretty good.

obtuse tangle
#

yeah suprisingly

ivory wren
#

The lore behind this song is surprisingly complex.

obtuse tangle
#

as for the bible we only found this

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Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

ivory wren
#

I know we had a painting of a naked women on the new twisted nerve? But I think that's more greek mythology.

#

I can't really figure out the meaning of this song, going to go search it up.

obtuse tangle
#

i was about to say that birth of venus by botecelli

ivory wren
#

Looks like you know art.

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Not sure if the paintings even relevant though.

obtuse tangle
#

well we are 3 people trying to figure it out

#

well there is the word genesis as well and we thought that maybe the position where tha phone stops ringing is the clue

ivory wren
#

Maybe, so it stops when you're around the statue?

obtuse tangle
#

yes right at the receptionist door

ivory wren
#

And it is the Genesis phone ringing right? And not one of the other random ones?

obtuse tangle
#

yes

deep relic
#

all the phones say genesis no?

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atleast the ones ive looked at

ivory wren
#

I don't recall.

obtuse tangle
#

only the two ones on the red room

ivory wren
#

Anyway, the meaning of the song is apparently the band making fun of televangilism.

deep relic
#

question has anyone investigated 15-55 genesis?

obtuse tangle
#

just 15-55 genesis?

deep relic
#

yeah like if that has any connection in anyway

ivory wren
#

I'm going to run lobby, will update you on my finds, also to get the phone to stop ringing, do all players have to be in that spot?

tidal stirrup
#

no

ivory wren
#

Just one? Or the host?

obtuse tangle
#

i think is the host?aint sure

#

also we found that

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outside the hotel

deep relic
#

is that the inside of a portapotty?

ivory wren
#

Yeah, elaborate on where you found that.

obtuse tangle
#

yes

deep relic
#

nice

ivory wren
#

Eyes are all crossed?

obtuse tangle
#

when you spawn go left

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yea i think

deep relic
#

See no evil or they saw smth they shouldnt have is what i think immediately

obtuse tangle
deep relic
#

All the telephones say genesis btw

ivory wren
deep relic
#

when does the phone start* ringing?

obtuse tangle
#

everytime you enter the statue room

deep relic
#

aight ty

obtuse tangle
# deep relic aight ty

as for genesis 15 we could only find 3:15. And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[a] and hers;
he will crush[b] your head,
and you will strike his heel.

ivory wren
#

Man, I'm stuck.

deep relic
#

interesting

pallid tree
#

You guys said the buttons on the payphone were weird?

ivory wren
#

Yeah.

pallid tree
#

The actual number dial buttons, or the buttons to the side? (game is still updating)

deep relic
#

buttons to the side

pallid tree
#

Damn. Okay

deep relic
#

epsilon wanted to ask if this is a real photo

#

also lmk if you need a better photo

lyric phoenix
#

quite a lovely hat they've added

unknown.png
pallid tree
#

I tried seeing if the phone number was a code - probably over obvious but gave it a shot anyway. Comes to gibberish:

1-555-GEN-ESIS
1-555-436-3747

A1Z26: (A E or O) E E D C F C G D G

GWYNN: (P X or R) X X I T M T B I B

ivory wren
#

Well, good try.

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Also.

#

We found two more statues by a bar if anybody's interested.

ivory wren
#

Also, that phone number kinda maybe seems worth a shot?

pallid tree
#

Feels like it's gotta be something

#

Okay, it's not a working number. For reference šŸ˜„

ivory wren
#

Ah, at least thats off my mind.

sterile lantern
#

Regarding genesis, There is this shop next door to the hotel, maybe just a coincidence though.

unknown.png
ivory wren
#

Interesting find.

radiant sonnet
#

definitely not a coincidence

ivory wren
#

My thoughts exactly.

ivory wren
#

Anyway, Genesis 3:25 looks like a dead end, I'm not sure we're supposed to be looking at the bible.

tough veldt
#

Genesis 1:5 speaks of God calling light "day" and darkness "night" and there was evening and morning, the first day. I'll attribute this to the number "1".

Genesis 5:5 states that Adam lived 930 years and then died. We can make this into "930".

So we have 1930 in some form. In A1Z26 we have AIC(undefined). Maybe we can take the zero to make 30 which could loop around to "D" to make "ACID". Was acid present in the arg plot at any time? I can't remember if it was acid, fire, or both.

All a big stretch but we should look at "1930"

ivory wren
#

That's a pretty giant stretch, but worth a shot.

#

(Maybe)

chilly marten
median quarry
magic latch
obtuse tangle
magic latch
midnight grail
#

That's Alexander Suvorov

glossy obsidian
#

What is this chat for?

eager atlas
#

Games alternate reality game (ARG), view pins

glossy obsidian
#

oh ok

mild osprey
#

The

gritty pilot
ivory wren
#

Oh shit.

night plaza
#

@ivory wren @gritty pilot This happened in Squid Game

gritty pilot
#

it's nbd but i figure it means calling phone numbers won't ever be required for the arg

night plaza
#

The filmmakers used the actual number and one dude who used the number for over 10 years for business suffered

gritty pilot
ivory wren
#

Oh phew.

#

So.. Late night investigation?

rugged fossil
#

Hey can someone explains what this channel is about ?

forest tangle
#

idk where to put this

#

pls ROA would be so sick with this, this would bring things to life!

pallid tree
sterile oriole
#

Yo new here but

#

i just noticed some of the drawing and shit my pants; alt + F4 all the way

#

but does anybody have footage of this?

eager atlas
#

Nope, but gonna go check

#

No idea what light they mean

sterile oriole
#

imma dm this sucker about it

#

very intriguing

sterile oriole
vague blaze
#

i spend 1 round tried to confirming this jenniekek

formal flicker
granite pike
#

Can you guys please tell me more about the talking statue? im trying to show it to a friend

ivory wren
#

Any progress on uh, "1-555-GEN-ESIS?"

chilly marten
pallid tree
#

0 as an O has been used in previous codes. Gwynn Table still doesn't give anything useful even if you substitute 1930 for the 1-555

chilly marten
#

Im curious about that talking statue thing whats that exactly?

pallid tree
#

I'm assuming the statue on hotel starts singing if you stand next to it

drowsy coyote
#

yo guys
i've found this QR code laying on a desk in Port, but can't quite decode it. Did anyone notice that before?

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chilly marten
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most of us tried scanning it but failed

drowsy coyote
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wait a sec i'll try to repaint this in pixel

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it looks like 25x25 code

pallid tree
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Probably not a real code

drowsy coyote
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i doubt that

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looks scanable, it has to code something

eager atlas
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Doubtful, it's realistically a random asset, especially if it's still not possible to scan it

drowsy coyote
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yeah you are right

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even if pixelised and distorted, it wont scan.

eager atlas
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Considering it all, if it did work, it'd likely lead back to the store page they bought the asset from

drowsy coyote
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I think it might be just binary gibberish if anything.

eager atlas
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Possibly, who knows, the wrinkle at the end doesn't feel like the original asset or so

drowsy coyote
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yeah

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did anyone cracked game files?

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PNG without UV map would confirm it.

fast shard
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I just read that the MLO is trying to recruit judge- Is that like, Actually fr?

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Story wise of course

eager atlas
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Judge is too much of a giga chad for that bs

fast shard
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Well yeah of course but damn, I just can't believe the virgin MLO would try to covert Judge into their cult of larpers or something

strong idol
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i think this has been said but on the desk against the wall where you spawn in the lobby theres a picture of a skull with a certain area highlited in the brain

fast shard
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Im no doctor or what ever, But im pretty sure each area of the brain deals with its own specific thing so perhaps what ever that area is sort of relates to this whole thing? idk

pale chasm
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what does MLO mean again?

strong idol
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yeah i thought mabey its ike a dream state

fast shard
strong idol
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massile licking orhinization lol

pale chasm
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ok

fast shard
strong idol
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i rember in this channel there was something about tramatic memories

fast shard
pallid tree
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According to the Hotel intro audio, don't most of the team admire the Rebel's Rejects, which the audio also implies their veterans and former police? Doesn't seem too much of a stretch for Judge to at least think about MLO, which is the same situation... but likely radical

fast shard
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I thought the MLO consisted of ex cops and veterans and the Rebels Rejects was like some knock off biker club lol

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Tbh this whole ass thing could be turned into a movie or sum

eager atlas
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Don't know for sure, I think we're still putting it together. But they're realistically ex law enforcement yeah

fast shard
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I mean with the way the MLO is geared im sure it'd be safe to assume that they aren't just some cult running around armed to the teeth

eager atlas
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Yupp, I think someone mentioned farm is supposed to be about them

fast shard
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Yeahhhh thats what i suspected when i played the map and stuff

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You think the MLO are the type of people to get into brainwashing? Certainly would seem like the sort of thing a military cult of sorts would get into, Especially if they desire taking in Judge

obtuse tangle
fast shard
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Someone said the phone stops ringing when you get near it

obtuse tangle
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I dont know if it was someone else but i also did

pallid tree
pallid tree
obtuse tangle
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You can see the rebel rejects for a brief time in the gameplay reveal trailer

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Pretty sure its a biker gang

pallid tree
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It is. It expressly states that in the audio

fast shard
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I wonder what they do that attracts even officers in Los Seunos to admire them

eager atlas
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Well, the lore says that the US has essentially gone to shit. So I can't imagine it being all that much

fast shard
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Interesting

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Is there a specific place i can find and actually read the lore?

eager atlas
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I think I remember it from the trailers. Don't remember which

fast shard
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Ah

weak kelp
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The whole setting of the game is that way

radiant sonnet
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@pallid tree Rebels are very neo-nazi. Donā€™t think our team would admire them (especially King)

pallid tree
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I'm just telling you what's in the audio file /shrug

radiant sonnet
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MLO is more open as long as potential members share their beliefs about saving America from corruption

pallid tree
radiant sonnet
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Hold on. Iā€™ll get a screenshot soon

radiant sonnet
# pallid tree https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BV3Hp4VxgY

Also, Luke Webley (TOC's VA) was (and probably still is) planned to voice Ramone. He once showed off a preview some time ago where Ramone rants about the nonwhites and feebly tries to make the swat team switch side to "hunt these fuckers down."

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The MLO is more tolerant in a way as long as the recruit conforms to their values of a better America.
Somewhat like many real militia groups

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eager atlas
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Merica

radiant sonnet
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(Taken from a VICE story on a Three Percenters cell)

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Anyway, given the gameplay trailer's narrator referring to the MLO as "a rogue movement" rather than "a terrorist organization" likely means that they are out to enact vigilante justice due to the failure of the court systems

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So, they're probably fighting the US government, the Neo-Nazis, the Russian mobsters, and the Club terrorists

placid crown
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has anyone else just stood still at the beginning of the hotel (barricaded suspects mode)
there's like this super deep and distorted voice that says things I can't make out. It's heckin creepy though

eager atlas
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They're trying to get you to save 15% or more on car insurance

placid crown
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I'm super curious as to what it says fr

radiant sonnet
placid crown
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it stopped after a few minutes, trying to get it to happen again

placid crown
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I literally can't get it to do it again, maybe I was just hearing things or something idek

radiant sonnet
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if you heard that

placid crown
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I have actually, that one spooked me good

hollow plume
placid crown
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I'm sorry servers for what?

eager atlas
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The game is peer 2 peer

weak kelp
hollow plume
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it says unable to connect to backend servers

eager atlas
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Try restarting Steam, your device, and if anything disable your anti-virus to see if that's the issue

weak kelp
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I was playing fine lile 5 minutes ago

placid crown
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no definitely not him, this was a totally different voice. It honestly kinda reminded me of the creepy voice thing from the end of PT

gaunt tartan
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does someone have a summary of what all is in this chat? i get the premise but I wanna get caught up

weak kelp
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Can you record it?

radiant sonnet
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@gaunt tartan Check the pins

placid crown
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I was trying to record it, but it stopped after about 3 minutes where it said like two to nine words every like 20-30 seconds

weak kelp
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Ill investigate that tomorrow

placid crown
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once I figured out it really was coming from the game that's when I tried to record it but then it just stopped and I couldn't get it to happen again. Just the normal ambient thumping

weak kelp
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It could be a product of the situation if to was thumping

placid crown
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thats very true too, thats why I said maybe I was hearing things?
could be big if it actually was something or I could've just heard stuff wrong I'm really not sure at this point šŸ˜…

weak kelp
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So it wad just afk in varricaed suspects?

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Or you can try it again

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100% could be some chat of the one of the two gangs held up in there

placid crown
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Yeah I just afked for like 5ish? minutes and alt tabbed while messaging a friend of mine on discord then suddenly started hearing the voice

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yeah definitely could've been, I know it sounded heckin spooky but that could've just been how the sound travelled or something

weak kelp
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I wonder where you start, maybe the big room you break into on the 2nd floor or roaming guys on the 2nd floor

placid crown
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at the very very beginning, like I started the game then alt-tabbed. That's where I heard whatever it was

weak kelp
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Wierd it would just be helpful to get a audio clip of it

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We could possibly distort it back to somthing normal and get something