Message Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter ARG Seems to contain interesting ARG like elements ============================================================== This is a kickstarter for the sequel to the brilliant-but insane browser game Frog Fractions, however, the kickstarter pitch page itself seems to contain lots of ARG-like elements. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions- 2 Look at the pitch video, which quickly gets interrupted by a message from the future, stressing the importance of "0451". On the blackboard just before the video ends, there is a URL which looks like http://twinbeard.com/eolo5387.html That page leads to http://twinbread.com/ which seems to have something odd in the source code. Very weird. Disclaimer: I am not related to the game kickstarter in any way, just interested in the weird links. m http://twinbeard.com/eolo5387.html leads to http:// twinbread.com/eolo5387.html Front of http://www.twinbread.com leads to http:// www.twinbread.com/kernal.png That's all I got right now. [Smile] m Look down the list of recipes -- this is MUCH easier to do by viewing the source code (the links are spelled recipie##) - - and project further: http://twinbread.com/recipie13.html = not listed, but it has content http://twinbread.com/recipie36.html = not listed, but it has content and there are a few specialty recipe pages, but nothing helpful (yet) m Probably nothing but the Netscape Navigator link on the bottom of each page leads to http://twinbread.com/butts.html m http://twinbread.com/recipie36.html is all the prime numbers between 1 and 20000 m Haven't been on uF in a while, and I'm still fairly new to ARGs, but this definitely warranted my attention, as I loved Frog Fractions. Sorry for the lengthy post, but there is a lot of information. Here is what I have found: ------------------------------------------------------ The source of the original URL (twinbeard.com/eolo5387.html) leads to http://twinbread.com/_images/bread.gif. Remove 'bread.gif' to see a list of images. There is a higher quality version of the background image of the site in bread2.jpg revealing "wiseGEEK" in the corner. Probably just a watermark as I also found the image on wisegeek.com, but it is suspicious that there are three versions of the same image. ------------------------------------------------------ The cryptic comment in the twinbread.com source code is code in a programming language called "brainfuck". Here is the output (the ASCII art at the top says "twinbread" but got jumbled in the copy-paste process): Quote: __ .__ ___. .___ _/ |___ _ _|__| ____\_ |_________ ____ _____ __| _/ \ __\ \/ \/ / |/ \| __ \_ __ \_/ __ \__ \ / __ | | | \ /| | | \ \_\ \ | \/\ ___/ / __ \_/ /_/ | |__| \/\_/ |__|___| /___ /__| \___ >____ /\____ | \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ >> ONYX BF 1.9.7 May 26 1997 10:46:16 $$ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ >> MOTD 2011-12-02 $$ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ >> IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT $$ >> SOME USERS ARE ATTEMPTING TO USE $$ >> ONYX BF WITH A WEB-BASED INTERPRE- $$ >> TER LOCATED AT BRAINFUCK.TK. LET $$ >> IT BE KNOWN THAT THIS PARTICULAR $$ >> INTERPRETER HAS SEVERAL KNOWN $$ >> ISSUES RUNNING THE ONYX BF CODE- $$ >> BASE AND IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED. $$ >> THANK YOU. -MGMT $$ ￾￫￬￬￭￾￫￬￬￭￾ Not sure what to make of this...may want to take note of date and time at top? ------------------------------------------------------ At http://twinbread.com/eolo5387.html if you view the source code, you can see the characters making up the image. I removed all non Brainfuck characters ( '@', '/', etc.) and was left with this: Quote: [-][-]+++++++++++[+++++++++++-]--.+++++[------]+++.++++[++++- ]+++.++++[-----]-.++[++-]+.++++++[-------]-----.+++++++ [+++++++-]++++++.++++++++[---------]+++++++.+++++[+++++- ]+++.++++++[++++++-]---.++++++[-------].++[---]--.++++++[----- --]+.++++++++[++++++++-]------.+++++[------]++++.++++[++++- ]++++.++++[-----]----.++.++[++-]+. however, running this through the interpreter produced nothing but an infinite run time. [Mad] I think there is something to be found here though, so I will continue to look into that. (The 'note' in the earlier code said the brainfuck.tk interpreter was not to be trusted/ has issues, but I also tried several others with the same result). ------------------------------------------------------ The video said something about the hit counter's last four digits reading 0451. Page source leads to this_page for their hit counter. Changing the last 4 digits seemingly does nothing but change the encrypted php a bit. ------------------------------------------------------ twinbread.com/twinbread/about.html leads to a phone number: 469-232-7374. Calling this number plays a voice. Here is a (rough) transcript: Quote: meh ma ma ma me me ma ma ma ma ma mer me meh mer me meh mer me meh meh meh REV date on vCard is 20130406T150000Z ( 4/6/2013 15:00 GMT/ UTC) twinbread.com/kernal.png shows a picture of a man, Wikipedia says: Quote: The KERNAL[1] is Commodore's name for the ROM-resident operating system core in its 8-bit home computers ------------------------------------------------------ http://twinbread.com/recipie13.html contains excerpt from this ------------------------------------------------------ http://twinbread.com/recipie36.html This is a list of prime numbers which is missing many of the correct primes. I ran a diff check in Eclipse on this list versus a list of real primes. Here is the partial list of primes not in the altered list(I got lazy typing them all out): Quote: 7 23 313 349 701 739 1117 1163 1571 1607 2053 2087 2539 2591 2593 3011 3061 3079 3529 3557 3581 4013 4049 4073 4337 4523 4567 4591 4831 4877 5051 5087 5101 5393 5413 5471 5477 5581 5641 5651 5867 5897 5903 5923 5927 5939 5953 5981 6121 6151 6173 6367 6373 6379 6389 6397 6421 6427 6449 6661 6691 6703 6907 6911 6917 6961 6983 7207 7537 7559 7639 7643 7649 7669 7673 7727 7927 8029 8087 8111 8191 8209 8219 No idea how to go about decoding these; no luck with ASCII, the values are above that of the ASCII table. ------------------------------------------------------ http://twinbread.com/makebread.html contains this: Quote: TYPE 101675 ON KEYPAD PUT FLOUR IN BREAD MACHINE PUT SALT IN BREAD MACHINE PUT MILK IN BREAD MACHINE PUT WATER IN BREAD MACHINE PUT BUTTER IN BREAD MACHINE PUT HONEY IN BREAD MACHINE PUT YEAST IN BREAD MACHINE PUT GLUTEN IN BREAD MACHINE PUT MALT IN BREAD MACHINE PUT SUGAR IN BREAD MACHINE PUT EGG IN BREAD MACHINE PUT CORN IN BREAD MACHINE PRESS START FORE FORE GO TO SLEEP Seemed in the style of the text adventure in Frog Fractions 1...so I tried these commands in Frog Fractions 1...and it worked! After playing the game in the original way then issuing these commands, the console displayed this: Quote: "You wake to the smell of freshly baked bread. A wispy human figure in a bathrobe and crown walks in, carrying a loaf of sliced bread. "It's ready!" she says. Then she gets a good look at you. "Oh dear. No time for bread; you have to do something about that beard before your meeting starts!" She pushes you into the bathroom I was then brought to this site: http:// abeardforevervoyaging.com/leadership.html A shaving simulator on Barack Obama...I haven't been able to beat it...maybe someone else can. Removing "/leadership.html" (http://abeardforevervoyaging.com) has a picture of Justin Beiber with a beard. The source code has the following comment: Quote: ------------------------------------------------------ Well, that's about it...hope someone can make something from all this. m moguls wrote: http://twinbread.com/recipie36.html is all the prime numbers between 1 and 20000 actually, no it is not. For starters, it is missing 7 and 23 and 313 and ... many more. I'm working on a list, but it seems seventy-five numbers are not listed. (whoops! posted without reading the lengthy post above, sorry!) but while i'm here, I'll mention that http:// abeardforevervoyaging.com and twinbread.com AND twinBEARD.com are all hosted on the same IP address. oh, and i'll attach a list of the missing primes, rather than pasting -- there are 263 numbers on it. ______________________________________________________ |___________________________missing-primes.txt_________| |Description|missing prime numbers in our| | |____________|hidden_page_________________| [txt] | |Filename __|missing-primes.txt ________| | |Filesize __|1.67KB ____________________|  Download| |Downloaded |112_Time(s) _______________|____________| m I got a nearly perfect shaved Barack Obama and I got this in the twitter comments as a result: Kenneth Salazar @Salza . @OBeardy. If you want to see PUBLIC_FIGURE alive again, bring the money to 37.871764,- 122.265303 at 2014-04-05, 3PM local time. Those coordinates are on the campus of Berkeley. Who's up for a trip on the 5th? = D m Feep wrote: I got a nearly perfect shaved Barack Obama and I got this in the twitter comments as a result: Kenneth Salazar @Salza . @OBeardy. If you want to see PUBLIC_FIGURE alive again, bring the money to 37.871764,- 122.265303 at 2014-04-05, 3PM local time. Those coordinates are on the campus of Berkeley. Who's up for a trip on the 5th? = D Wow! Hope someone can go to it. @Obeardy and @Salza are also proper twitter accounts, but they seem unrelated.... m Sorry for the double post, but there's a higher quality version of the pitch video in 720p on YouTube. The higher resolution might reveal some more clues. There's a lot of text on that blackboard in the last few seconds of the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48lSsS6h2M&feature=youtu.be m aklreaxmer wrote: [-][-]+++++++++++[+++++++++++-]--.+++++[------]+++.++++[++++- ]+++.++++[-----]-.++[++-]+.++++++[-------]-----.+++++++ [+++++++-]++++++.++++++++[---------]+++++++.+++++[+++++- ]+++.++++++[++++++-]---.++++++[-------].++[---]--.++++++[----- --]+.++++++++[++++++++-]------.+++++[------]++++.++++[++++- ]++++.++++[-----]----.++.++[++-]+. however, running this through the interpreter produced nothing but an infinite run time. [Mad] I think there is something to be found here though, so I will continue to look into that. (The 'note' in the earlier code said the brainfuck.tk interpreter was not to be trusted/ has issues, but I also tried several others with the same result). Well, that's about it...hope someone can make something from all this. Ah, you needed to replace < and > with , respectively. (Yes, I used to program in brainfuck) That gives you Quote: >[-]<>+++++++++++[<+++++++++++>-]<--.>+++++[<----->- ]<+++.>++++[<++++>-]<+++.>++++[<---->-]<-.>++[<++>-]<+.>++++++ [<------>-]<-----.>+++++++[<+++++++>-]<++++++.>++++++++[<----- --->-]<+++++++.>+++++[<+++++>-]<+++.>++++++[<++++++>-]<-- -.>++++++[<------>-]<.>++[<-->-]<--.>++++++[<------>- ]<+.>++++++++[<++++++++>-]<------.>+++++[<----->-]<++++.>++++ [<++++>-]<++++.>++++[<---->-]<----.++.>++[<++>-]<+. Which outputs "watch?v=YzVP-gRfRTY", linking to the youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzVP-gRfRTY (Sound warning) Perhaps the audio needs to be ran through wave form analysis? Either way, I hope someone can continue with this. Small note of pride: According to youtube analytics, I'm the first person to have watched this video since the frog fractions 2 kickstarter. I've never been part of an ARG before! [Very Happy] m The C64 had a tape deck as a storage device. I wonder if the audio stream could be dumped to tape and then loaded onto the system. My machine is in my parents' attic, which is nowhere near here. anyone have access to one? The alternative would be some pretty serious emulator hackery -- though maybe that's already been done in the emulator world? edit: I just made a post over on Lemon64. Maybe someone will be able to help out. m You are completely correct. You can read text data from a C64 "Datasette" as they are known. Here is a video showing the process: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zu_qgwik4Dk&feature=youtube_gdata_player I would make a non-significant bet that the sound in the Kernal of Truth youtube video is text data that is another clue. ______________________________________________________________ I also tried to search the "missing primes" sequence on https: //oeis.org/, but had no luck. My latest topic of interest has been the websites that twinbread.com links to. Of particular interest are http://www.thefreshloaf.com/ and http://www.farmgirlfare.com One weird thing about these websites are that they were created one day apart from eachother, Jan. 12th and 13th of 2005... I can't be the only one who thinks that is weird, right? m So I've been researching C64 emulators, (something I've previously had no clue about,) and it seems this program might be helpful. http://wav-prg.sourceforge.net/index.html It seems to be a way to convert the data sounds into a file C64 emulators can then run. Update: I tried but the program doesn't seem to work on the audio file. It might be something I'm missing, or I'm on the wrong track. Anyway, if anyone wants it, here's the extracted audio file. ___________________________________________________________ |____________________kernaloftruth-extractedaudio.wav_______| |Description|Extracted C64 audio from the YT | | |____________|video.___________________________| [wav] | |Filename __|kernaloftruth-extractedaudio.wav| | |Filesize __|15.03MB ________________________|  Download| |Downloaded |203_Time(s) ____________________|____________| m Ok I played with that audio a little. With some eq and speeding up I get the message "sure takin its sweet time" at about 0:49. It looks like there are more messages. 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Maybe we'll eventually uncover a direct recording from one of these pages. m RingmasterJ5 wrote: Wouldn't having little messages like that in the WAV make it unreadable as a C64 file? Maybe we'll eventually uncover a direct recording from one of these pages. That occurred to me. The voice is at a pretty low volume already so maybe it won't affect things too much. I might be able to remove the voice with a high pass filter. I'll try that next. For now, I sped up the original extracted audio exactly 2x (that made the voice sound the most natural) and then used Audiotap. There are a few settings that you can play with when converting the .wav to .tap. A couple of my attempts actaully load but then give me an out of memory error in a C64 emulator. That's all I got for now :/ _______________________________________________ |____________________DoubleSpeedMono2.wav_______| |Description|_____________________| [wav] | |Filename __|DoubleSpeedMono2.wav| | |Filesize __|4.24MB _____________|  Download| |Downloaded |136_Time(s) ________|____________| m Holy Sound Warning, Batman! Almost woke up the neighbor's dog with that one. [Smile] m BubbleBoy wrote: Holy Sound Warning, Batman! Almost woke up the neighbor's dog with that one. [Smile] Ah my bad [Smile] m I seem to have got it to work, by changing the machine in the advanced settings to Vic-20, and running it in Vice's V20-specific emulator. I have absolutely zero idea how to use these things, though, it just keeps giving me a syntax error. m I got the TAP file produced from the sped up WAV to run on a C64 emulator, but it just does nothing, then it halts. I'm not really sure what to make of it. If you look at it in a text editor, it is just a bunch of ascii symbols. Doesn't look like anything. We are missing something vital to this thing. m Don't know if it's related, but the html source code for frog fractions has a dating sim thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else : http://twinbeard.com/511-less-than-slash-three -- Oh, and I tried to extract the youtube audio convert to wav and then to .tap and load it using a c64 emulator but it loads and crashes to a flashing ready. prompt so I think I'm doing something wrong. m eightbit wrote: Don't know if it's related, but the html source code for frog fractions has a dating sim thing that doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else : http://twinbeard.com/511-less-than-slash-three The game itself is mentioned the Games tab, but as an offsite game jam thing that's not working anymore. You've apparently found a mirror of it. On that page's source code was a link to an on-site version of the Obama shaving game, marked with WIP: http://twinbeard.com/leadership On the main FF source page, I found another unlisted WIP game as well, but it doesn't seem to be of that much interest. http://twinbeard.com/baldies m So, its interesting that C64 Video is uploaded by Kernal Mandelbrot KERNAL is related to the C64's Operating System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL Mandelbrot is a famous fractal - known for its shape like a bug (tie in with both frogs and fractions), and brot is also the German word for Bread...... m MD1500 wrote: So, its interesting that C64 Video is uploaded by Kernal Mandelbrot KERNAL is related to the C64's Operating System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL Mandelbrot is a famous fractal - known for its shape like a bug (tie in with both frogs and fractions), and brot is also the German word for Bread...... Mandel is also German for almond. Was there a recipe for almond bread on there? m What about the 'hit counter' message in the original video? The bread pages have hit counters, but they all seem to be linked to an external hit counter site, which doesn't seem to be part of the game. m Here's something interesting. The Brainfuck code that's on all the Twinbread pages makes reference to a particular brainfuck interpreter. That interpreter accepts stdin... There are some seemingly random characters at the bottom of the message that is displayed, but changing stdin changes what those characters are. It seems that the program reads 13 characters of input, but I think the first two characters are ignored. Here's an example: in: QQaaaaaaaaaaa out: _LMMN_LMMN_ in: ZZbbbbbbbbbbb out: `MNNO`MNNO` It looks like we need a 13 character code to uncover what that 11 character message is. m bozu wrote: It looks like we need a 13 character code to uncover what that 11 character message is. frogfractions? Edit: Oh, wait, kernaloftruth also works, and is probably more fitting. m Okay guys, I figured out what our brainfuck code is doing. It ignores the first two char (as previously stated. It uses those to increment and array counter by 1 or something), then it takes the remaining 11 and output the ascii value of that char - 21, with slight variations. so TESTESTESTT gives us S = Q (S - 2) T = ? ( T - 21) T = @ ( T - 21 + 1) E = 1 (E - 21 + 1) S = @ (S - 21 + 2) T = R ( T - 2 ) T = ? (T - 21) E = 1 (E - 21 + 1) S = ? (S - 21 + 1) T = A ( T - 21 + 2) T = R (T - 2) == Q?@1@R?1?AR Maybe we can use this algorithm to reverse out a solution? Idk, this will at least help _____________________________________________________________ I have another thing that might be a clue. Mandelbrot is a famous Mathematician. (actually coined the phrase "fractals"). The poem from the "recipie13.html" is an excerpt from a poem by Omar Khayyám, who is a famous Persian philosopher and mathematician. There is a lot of math stuff going on here. I think that is a good place to hone in on when looking for clues. m Are you using the brainfuck.tk interpreter? 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Part of me is wondering if the code generated as part of the brainfuck output can be used as a passcode on either bread.gif or kernal.png Maybe I'm overthinking that side of it, though. m aklreaxmer wrote: Are you using the brainfuck.tk interpreter? When I input 'TESTESTESTT', the output is: Q?1?AC>@@�� Oh, sorry, I wrote the wrong input string in my post. The string was TESTTESTTESTT I tested my algorithm with other string (ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ YYYYYYYYYYYYY, etc) and it holds up. m Would it be possible to implement the effect of the brainfuck code in a more practical language, and then iteratively input all possible combinations of letters and then check if the output contains a word from a dictionary? (i.e. check output of "aaaaaaaaaaaaa" , "aaaaaaaaaaaaab" etc. for words from a defined 'dictionary'). No idea how to implement this or if it is even possible... m I used catherwood's missing prime list and compared it to the list of actual primes. Here are the missing indices (I compared them using this_script and prime list). It didn't trigger any hits on OEIS but maybe there's something encoded here anyway. Code: 3, 8, 64, 69, 125, 130, 186, 191, 247, 252, 309, 314, 370, 376, 377, 431, 437, 439, 492, 497, 500, 553, 557, 560, 591, 614, 618, 620, 649, 652, 675, 679, 681, 710, 713, 721, 722, 736, 740, 742, 771, 775, 776, 777, 778, 779, 780, 781, 797, 801, 803, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 858, 862, 864, 887, 888, 889, 893, 897, 919, 954, 958, 968, 969, 970, 971, 972, 980, 1000, 1010, 1015, 1019, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1041, 1048, 1049, 1050, 1051, 1052, 1061, 1071, 1076, 1080, 1088, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1114, 1115, 1116, 1117, 1123, 1132, 1137, 1141, 1149, 1150, 1163, 1178, 1179, 1184, 1193, 1198, 1202, 1211, 1212, 1213, 1214, 1215, 1216, 1217, 1218, 1224, 1240, 1241, 1245, 1254, 1259, 1263, 1278, 1279, 1285, 1302, 1306, 1314, 1315, 1320, 1324, 1339, 1346, 1363, 1367, 1368, 1375, 1381, 1386, 1399, 1407, 1424, 1425, 1429, 1435, 1436, 1442, 1447, 1458, 1459, 1468, 1486, 1490, 1491, 1495, 1496, 1508, 1517, 1518, 1519, 1529, 1545, 1546, 1547, 1552, 1553, 1554, 1555, 1556, 1569, 1576, 1577, 1590, 1603, 1604, 1605, 1630, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2078, 2079 The index is counted from zero upwards, here's_the list_incremented_by_one instead. Edit: According to my listening tests, the audio in the Kernal of Truth video is datassette signal for a 50Hz PAL computer. This would mean no speed changes are needed. I couldn't get it to produce a complete program with WAV-PRG though. Maybe it's just data? m So, something about that Obama Beard game. There's 2 layers of beard. Top layer, you attack with scissors. However, the important one is the second layer, where you have to shave. If you manage to shave some of the second layer before the time runs out, only part of it grows back the next day. So, first time round, it pays to only cut half the beard and shave half the second layer, instead trying to do the entire top layer. Playing it with this strategy ultimately means that the game gets progressively easier, because you have less beard to shave in the time limit. I'm assuming the game will reward you with something if you manage to complete it perfectly. TL:DR, its easier to get a clean shaven Obama when you only have to shave half a beard. m Note that if you shave the entirety of both layers, even if you don't rinse the shaving cream off, only small bits of the first layer that you likely missed anyway will grow back. Speedy clickers can get those little bits in 3 seconds easily, then you only have the second and pseudo-third (red bumps) layers to worry about. The second layer seems to regrow entirely each day no matter what, however, and I can't get rid of the red bumps fast enough due to the odd spray-like mechanics. m The PUBLIC_FIGURE time/place is the only thing the Obama shaving game has in it. Also, Frog Fractions's IF section has no more secrets to be found in it, and, due to the mostly linear nature of the game, it's unlikely that there's anything else to be found anywhere else in the game. This isn't speculation, but fact. Decompilation of .swf is a wonderful thing. Anyway, list of unresolved clues, as I think there are: * * (469) BEA-RDS4 * stdin for code in source * Kernal of Truth's audio * List of missing primes * Relevance of recipe 13's quote m KingBobson wrote: The PUBLIC_FIGURE time/place is the only thing the Obama shaving game has in it. Also, Frog Fractions's IF section has no more secrets to be found in it, and, due to the mostly linear nature of the game, it's unlikely that there's anything else to be found anywhere else in the game. This isn't speculation, but fact. Decompilation of .swf is a wonderful thing. Anyway, list of unresolved clues, as I think there are: * * (469) BEA-RDS4 * stdin for code in source * Kernal of Truth's audio * List of missing primes * Relevance of recipe 13's quote Thanks for this. It will stop people like me fruitlessly exploring pointless avenues. [Edit: Just remembered, there's also the unsolved 0451 page counter clue.] Could someone record and upload what happens when you phone (469) BEA-RDS4? It could be something that requires audio manipulation. m Here is the recorded call. ___________________________________________ |____________________469-BEA-RDS4.wav_______| |Description|_________________| [wav] | |Filename __|469-BEA-RDS4.wav| | |Filesize __|963.44KB _______|  Download| |Downloaded |270_Time(s) ____|____________| m uberhacker wrote: I used catherwood's missing prime list and compared it to the list of actual primes. Here are the missing indices (I compared them using this_script and prime list). It didn't trigger any hits on OEIS but maybe there's something encoded here anyway. Code: 3, 8, 64, 69, 125, 130, 186, 191, 247, 252, 309, 314, 370, 376, 377, 431, 437, 439, 492, 497, 500, 553, 557, 560, 591, 614, 618, 620, 649, 652, 675, 679, 681, 710, 713, 721, 722, 736, 740, 742, 771, 775, 776, 777, 778, 779, 780, 781, 797, 801, 803, 829, 830, 831, 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 858, 862, 864, 887, 888, 889, 893, 897, 919, 954, 958, 968, 969, 970, 971, 972, 980, 1000, 1010, 1015, 1019, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1041, 1048, 1049, 1050, 1051, 1052, 1061, 1071, 1076, 1080, 1088, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1114, 1115, 1116, 1117, 1123, 1132, 1137, 1141, 1149, 1150, 1163, 1178, 1179, 1184, 1193, 1198, 1202, 1211, 1212, 1213, 1214, 1215, 1216, 1217, 1218, 1224, 1240, 1241, 1245, 1254, 1259, 1263, 1278, 1279, 1285, 1302, 1306, 1314, 1315, 1320, 1324, 1339, 1346, 1363, 1367, 1368, 1375, 1381, 1386, 1399, 1407, 1424, 1425, 1429, 1435, 1436, 1442, 1447, 1458, 1459, 1468, 1486, 1490, 1491, 1495, 1496, 1508, 1517, 1518, 1519, 1529, 1545, 1546, 1547, 1552, 1553, 1554, 1555, 1556, 1569, 1576, 1577, 1590, 1603, 1604, 1605, 1630, 1634, 1635, 1636, 1651, 1652, 1653, 1654, 1655, 1656, 1657, 1658, 1659, 1660, 1661, 1662, 1663, 1753, 1754, 1755, 1756, 1757, 1758, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2078, 2079 The index is counted from zero upwards, here's_the list_incremented_by_one instead. Edit: According to my listening tests, the audio in the Kernal of Truth video is datassette signal for a 50Hz PAL computer. This would mean no speed changes are needed. I couldn't get it to produce a complete program with WAV-PRG though. Maybe it's just data? Thanks, uberhacker. I decided to just print out 0 and 1s corresponding to the indices of the missing primes in the list for no good reason and ended up with this: http://i.imgur.com/nRnKSVq.png I thought I was seeing things, so I used the same method to draw an image: http://i.imgur.com/3a7eu8I.png Pretty sure it says Butts. There appears to be a butt drawn on the B, as well. m Nice! That's the second reference to 'butts'... (http: //twinbread.com/butts.html) Wonder what the significance is? m Has anyone noticed that there appears to be a person humming near the end of the Kernal of Truth audio (after being sped up)? I've extracted the humming, sped it up, amplified it, and removed most of the high-pitched noise in the background. Does anyone recognise this tune from anywhere? I've tried doing a musical search on it, but to no avail. (I still probably didn't transcribe it properly.) ____________________________________________________ |____________________kernaloftruth_humming.wav_______| |Description|__________________________| [wav] | |Filename __|kernaloftruth_humming.wav| | |Filesize __|448.7KB _________________|  Download| |Downloaded |248_Time(s) _____________|____________| m aklreaxmer wrote: Nice! That's the second reference to 'butts'... (http: //twinbread.com/butts.html) Wonder what the significance is? My immediate thought... Twinbeard, Twinbread, Twinbutts. Sadly, there's no Twinbutts.com Probably irrelevant, but there is a butt related song on the Frog Fractions soundtrack, though. "Get Your Ass To Mars". http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Cfu0hpHbIu8 m Well. I think I found the secret of the BF (sort of). Type in "XXbuttsbuttsb" as the input. The output is "```````````". That doesn't get us anywhere, but it's clearly intentional. Butts reference number 3! m For the sake of posterity, attached is a static dump of twinbread.com that was generated when the last 4 digits of the counter were equal to 0451. 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If you look at the offsets of each letter (as outlined by Foreverodd's post) we see that the numbers 2, 21, 20, 20, and 19 (repeated) are subtracted from each letter to give a new letter. But if we reverse that, and ADD each number onto a FIXED value (say, 64, which is where the uppercase letters start in ASCII), we get a result: 64 + 2 = B 64 + 21 = U 64 + 20 = T 64 + 20 = T 64 + 19 = S And this is where the "BUTTSBUTTSB" comes from! m So, I've been messing with the telephone call. Nothing yet, but thanks for uploading it, aklreaxmer! I have a feeling it must be important in some way. m Great work, guys! aklreaxmer wrote: Probably of no significance, but here is the origin of the hot dog picture at www.twinbread.com/hotdog.html : http:// twinbeard.com/hot-dachshund Clicking_the_dogs_nose redirects to http://abeardforevervoyaging.com/, so that's what the page is about, I think. I also investigated bread.jpg and bread2.jpg. The first is much more compressed than the other, so it's hard to make any useful comparisons between them. Here are the EXIF dumps of the respective pictures: https:// gist.github.com/anonymous/9570039 Addition: I cheated a bit and asked some gurus for help with this one [Wink] The audio had to be inverted first and then converted into TAP with UberCassette Code: UberCassette.exe kof.wav kof.tap - machine C64 -normalise OFF -minsignal 8 -audio LEFT And then baked into a prg with TAPClean Code: TAPClean.exe -t kof.tap -doprx -prgunite Then run 011_(0801-6F40).prg in VICE. egb13.ugzy is ROT-13 encoded string rot13.html From the source of twinbread.com/ rot13.html we can find a link to castlevania_passacaglia_of_disrepair.rom which is actually a GameBoy Advance rom. When run in Visual Boy Advance it produces the following image and a familiar song [Sad] m Wow.... What an elaborate RickRoll! Thanks for all your hard work. m There's still the matter of the Berkley thing, though. Guess we'll have to wait a month for the "next part" m Also, we haven't turned the phone number recording into "butts" yet. Got that to look forward to. m And there's still the pagecount at 0451 mystery. m Wow, nice. High probability that this is a red herring / attempt at trolling in my opinion, but figured I would share it anyway. About 30 minutes ago this image http://i.imgur.com/l1Lpcah.png was posted in the sparsely populated subreddit for this thing http:// www.reddit.com/r/kernaloftruth/ with the title "bread". While I was checking it out, the user commented "too slow", and then deleted the post. I managed to lose track of the username & cache (browsing Incognito, yeah, I know) but it seems unlikely to me that anything relevant would be posted to reddit. m Just tried the Rick Roll on the GBA Emulator for myself. Pressing Z on the keyboard (Corresponds to the GBA "A" button) restarts the song. I found this while trying the Konami Code.... (Nothing else happened, but it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the Konami logo. I guess I was trying to convince myself that there had to be something more after all that effort... [Rolling Eyes] ) m plastercramp wrote: Wow, nice. High probability that this is a red herring / attempt at trolling in my opinion, but figured I would share it anyway. About 30 minutes ago this image http://i.imgur.com/l1Lpcah.png was posted in the sparsely populated subreddit for this thing http:// www.reddit.com/r/kernaloftruth/ with the title "bread". While I was checking it out, the user commented "too slow", and then deleted the post. I managed to lose track of the username & cache (browsing Incognito, yeah, I know) but it seems unlikely to me that anything relevant would be posted to reddit. Goddamnit, I mod that subreddit, but can't find any way of seeing the guy's username either. Tried messing around with the image, but there doesn't seem to be anything there. Almost seems like it's one piece of a larger image. m Regarding the obama shaving game. If you just press next without shaving the beard will grow larger. It ends up just filling the screen in a large square and nothing (that I can see) happens. The twitter accounts all seem to be either real, non existent, or already taken. The curious accounts are @Obeardy and @flotus44 @Obeardy has three tweets including links to http://www.smh.com.au/federal- politics/society-and-culture/cassius- clay-dad-and-me-20120728-232wj.html which is an article that is related to the boxer Tony Madigan. The other link is http://www.mobicity.com.au/htc-one-s- z560e.html#.UyUuEq1dWAs which is a profile of a phone. I HAVE NO IDEA if this is a clue or some random piece of internet. @flotus44 has the name Michelle Obama and is the only twitter account on the Obama shave game that has the name match the account. It has 0 tweets and 0 following... m I don't think there's anything else to be had from the shaving sim. It has a routine to elaborately examine your shaving results based on several metrics (points for Lushness, Symmetry, Blemishes, Neatness and Evenness), with rules for each aspect of your performance... but then nobody calls the grading routine [Sad] So, it doesn't actually matter how you do, not yet at least. It looks like all that code is either in there with the intention of having shaving performance matter, and then abandoning it for balance/playability/ crapitsnotfinishedyet reasons, or just to add an elaborate chunk of code to further confuddle us. Either way, I can't help but feel like calculateGrade () was a very well-hidden and elaborate joke just for me, including the time I spent scrutinizing the grading criteria. Yep, the unused Symmetry test really does seem to test whether there is a hair pixel precisely in the opposite spot on BHO's face! [Smile] If it wasn't obvious, the follower count is pretty random also. Curiously (but probably not intentionally) the Dalai Lama can send tweets but cannot be referenced in the body of another person's tweet. The full list of twitter addresses in the game is "@Obeardy", "@biden", "@JayKay", "@The_Woles", "@Panini", "@Salza", "@AgMan", "@cashmoney", "@xXx_kathy_xXx", "@bush_man", "@Rover", "@billy1992", "@BONGyang", "@FLOTUS44", "@orly", and of course, the inimitable "@DalaiLama666". Personally, I think they're for flavor, and will have no further significance (I could be wrong). So, that leaves us at the ransom message. This message, with GPS co- ordinates and time/date of meeting, is even hardcoded in a separate place from the procedurally-generated tweets, and seems to have a strictly less-than ten percent chance to replace a tweet (after the first twenty tweets have been fetched for the twitter screen). I think that's the meat of this game unless there are clues hidden in the asset files, the images and such... I'll give those a cursory look sometime later. m MD1500 wrote: -- The higher resolution might reveal some more clues. There's a lot of text on that blackboard in the last few seconds of the video. -- The blackboard seems to contain a regular HTTP/1.1 transaction along these lines Code: $ curl -v twinbeard.com/eolo5387.html > GET /eolo5387.html HTTP/1.1 > Host: twinbeard.com > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:37:01 GMT < Server: Apache < Last-Modified: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:16: 52 GMT < ETag: "124704b9-80-4f45c13ba7d00" < Accept-Ranges: bytes < Content-Length: 128 < Content-Type:text/html


sorry, try again Note that using echo5387.html instead of eolo5387.html shows the same message. This is probably just for convenience. As noted before, the real message is located at twinbread.com/eolo5387.html. I don't think there are any more clues in the ending of the pitch video. MD1500 wrote: And there's still the pagecount at 0451 mystery. I'm not sure if this is significant, but 0451 seems to have a_special_meaning in gaming as a reference to Fahrenheit_451. Is there any Twinbeard game that allows you to enter a four-digit code at some point? If I heard correctly, the whole spoken message is the following Code: The last four digits of the page of your account are zero, four, five, one. Zero, four, five, one. The enormity of this request cannot be conveyed over this data-channel. Godspeed. Also, whats's the deal with kernal.png? m If you press the >Make bread link on twinbread.com it leads to this TYPE 101675 ON KEYPAD PUT FLOUR IN BREAD MACHINE PUT SALT IN BREAD MACHINE PUT MILK IN BREAD MACHINE PUT WATER IN BREAD MACHINE PUT BUTTER IN BREAD MACHINE PUT HONEY IN BREAD MACHINE PUT YEAST IN BREAD MACHINE PUT GLUTEN IN BREAD MACHINE PUT MALT IN BREAD MACHINE PUT SUGAR IN BREAD MACHINE PUT EGG IN BREAD MACHINE PUT CORN IN BREAD MACHINE PRESS START FORE FORE GO TO SLEEP a code perhaps? Also the poem that pops up from http:// twinbread.com/recipie13.html is by Edward FitzGerald. 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TheCogGamer wrote: If you press the >Make bread link on twinbread.com it leads to this TYPE 101675 ON KEYPAD PUT FLOUR IN BREAD MACHINE PUT SALT IN BREAD MACHINE PUT MILK IN BREAD MACHINE PUT WATER IN BREAD MACHINE PUT BUTTER IN BREAD MACHINE PUT HONEY IN BREAD MACHINE PUT YEAST IN BREAD MACHINE PUT GLUTEN IN BREAD MACHINE PUT MALT IN BREAD MACHINE PUT SUGAR IN BREAD MACHINE PUT EGG IN BREAD MACHINE PUT CORN IN BREAD MACHINE PRESS START FORE FORE GO TO SLEEP eah, typing those commands into the text adventure section of the original Frog Fractions leads to the Obama Shaving Simulator. n regards to the reddit post, I think it is likely the PM was involved, as he recently tweeted (@mogwai_poet) about the subreddit /r/isthisfrogfractions2, likely ndicating he is following our progress and searching sites like reddit for players of the ARG. He has also tweeted about Flash decompiling and 'butts' DIT: Also, his location on twitter is Berkeley, so there's a good chance this UC Berkeley 'meet-up' is legit / not another rick roll. UT FLOUR IN BREAD MACHINE UT SALT IN BREAD MACHINE UT MILK IN BREAD MACHINE UT WATER IN BREAD MACHINE UT BUTTER IN BREAD MACHINE oes this sound awfully like a Chef program to anyone else? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(programming_language)#Chef) 'm too lazy to find out, but I thought I would chip in. You guys are a lot better than me at this ARG anyway [Smile] t seems that a Chef program requires 'ingredients' to be defined at the start of the program, e.g. Code: Ingredients.  33 g chocolate chips  100 g butter  54 ml double cream assume these definitions determine the output, so without putting definitions to these ingredients, I don't think we could create a valid program. o, is anyone here actually physically able to go to Berkeley Campus in April? That seems like its the next major clue, so it would be good to know that someone ere can attend and document what happened..... he gameboy ROM rick-roll might not be a dead end. unning the full brainfuck code in a different interpreter and with an empty stdin outputs the following: ttp://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=29965 he bottom looks a lot like a secret code for gameboy, where the white / black squares correspond to A and B buttons. __________________________________________ |_Screen_Shot_2014-03-16_at_8.59.43_PM.png_| | Description| __________________________| | Filesize _| 17.76KB___________________| | Viewed ___| 2429_Time(s)______________| | | |[Screen Shot 2014-03-16 at 8.59.43 PM.png]| |__________________________________________| live in Berkeley, so I will check out campus on the 5th and report back... but the more the merrier! can't find any assignment of those squares that makes anything special happen. I did discover that pressing START seems to stop the ROM from running, requiring a eset of VBA, though. Probably just me. s there any way to decompile ROMs? That'd be the easiest way to confirm it as a dead end, if it's doable. f it helps, here's a direct link to the GBA ROM file. ttp://twinbread.com/castlevania_passacaglia_of_disrepair.rom You'll probably have to change the three letter extension from .rom to .gba to get the emulator to run it. I had no luck getting anything new from it.) kodemizer wrote: The gameboy ROM rick-roll might not be a dead end. Running the full brainfuck code in a different interpreter and with an empty stdin outputs the following: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=29965 The bottom looks a lot like a secret code for gameboy, where the white / black squares correspond to A and B buttons. hich interpreter was this run in? I've tried a number of different interpreters and they all either work properly or do nothing on input. It seems most likely that his is just a bug in the interpreter, but if it is a bug then it's a very strange one. (BTW, if you translate the white squares to 'B's, the left arrows to 'U's, he down arrows to 'T's, and the black squares to 'S's, the result is "BUTTSBUTTSB" again. Just saying.) DIT: Yes, it's definitely a bug in the interpreter. By the looks of things, this particular interpreter treats empty stdin as if it were full of NULLs (U+0000). his means that when the BF code tries to subtract numbers from that zero, it overflows. Assuming the BF interpreter is using 16-bit integers, then the result of ubtracting 2, then 21, then 20, 20, 19, 2, 21, 20, 20, 19, and finally 2 from 65536 (2^16) would be �￫￬￬￭�￫￬￬￭�, which is the result you saw. s there a way of decompiling ROMs in a similar fashion to .swf? If there is, it would be useful to make sure it is a dead end. DIT: sorry for the duplicate question, I didn't see kingbobson's post above. ingBobson wrote: can't find any assignment of those squares that makes anything special happen. I did discover that pressing START seems to stop the ROM from running, requiring a eset of VBA, though. Probably just me. s there any way to decompile ROMs? That'd be the easiest way to confirm it as a dead end, if it's doable. think VBA has a built in decomp under Tools > Disassemble, however I wouldn't know where to start in looking through that mess. [Shocked] ttp://coolrom.com/emulators/gba/14/Visual_Boy_Advance.php robably clutching at straws here, but as we're talking about ROM files... is that C64 PRG file just an image, or could there be something more? kodemizer wrote: Running the full brainfuck code in a different interpreter and with an empty stdin outputs the following: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=29965 here appears to be Morse Code at the end of that output as well. __ (M) .__ (W), assuming those underscores count as two characters. If they count as one, it will e _ (T) ._ (A). Uncertain if there's any relevance to this. Quote: Is there any way to decompile ROMs? That'd be the easiest way to confirm it as a dead end, if it's doable BA ROMs are compiled binaries. They aren't as easy to reverse engineer as Flash SWFs. There are tile viewers though, so you can look through graphical data. Most mulators actually have VRAM viewers built in (they have to load the VRAM to display it as a game anyway), so perhaps look at those? They would only show data oaded into memory though, and that might not be everything in the ROM. I would look, but I am on mobile and don't have the tools available. re we also assuming that any occurrence of BUTTSBUTTSB is a dead end? Or are we counting occurrences for a password or so something we can use later? Are these ubstrings that should be added together? 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The original version of the game didn't have it, but when it was updated to add the "Game of the Year" logo at the front (about a year ago), it had a number of minor tweaks, including a new room in the text adventure with the bread machine in it. I never figured out how you were supposed to divine the correct recipe, so I decompiled the SWF to find it. There were no Google results for it at the time, so I just guessed it was just some Easter egg. [edit] This secret keypad you have to type on to get access to the kitchen is new, though, that wasn't there before, you could just go aft from the engine room to the kitchen. And as far as I can tell, that keypad is the only difference between the Frog Fractions SWF of right now compared to the one from March 2013. [/edit] So yeah, if that is part of the ARG, it's at the very least been in the planning for over a year. Or, alternatively, Twinbeard is just a really weird guy and many of the things people are seeing that look ARG-style weird are just false positives picking up on his general- purpose weirdness. Honestly, I don't know which, either sounds plausible to me. m I had been thinking a little bit about the number 0451. As others have mentioned previously, it has connections to other video games as well as to (possibly) Fahrenheit 451. But I think I may have found another connection... * * The first videogame where it's reportedly used is Deus Ex. That means "A God from" in Latin. * In the message given during the video, the mysterious face says something along the lines of: Quote: The last four digits of the page-view counter are zero, four, five, one. Zero, four, five, one. The enormity of this request cannot be conveyed over this data-channel. Godspeed. * Recipe 13 reads as follows: Quote: “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” * And at the bottom of the twinbread.com page, there's this image: Deus Ex? "Godspeed"? "A Book of Verses"? A Jesus gif? What if 0451 is also making a reference to the Bible? So I went ahead and checked out what Book 4 of the bible is and it turns out to be none other than the Book of Numbers! And if you look up Numbers 5:1, you get this: Quote: The LORD said to Moses, Or, perhaps more interestingly (in another translation): Quote: The LORD gave these instructions to Moses: The rest of the translations are here if you want to look at them, but that's as far as I've gotten. I know it may just be an enormous supposition, but I'm wondering if all of those links are just coincidences or if there's something else hidden here that we weren't initially aware of. m Quote: The last four digits of the page of your account are zero, four, five, one. To me, it sounds a lot more like "the last four digits of the page-view counter are 0451". That makes a lot more sense. m Whoops! Yep, sorry. Duly noted and corrected. I copied it from the person that originally posted it a few pages ahead. The page view counter had those digits in it at one point, but nothing happened according to others here. However, the page-view counter can be one thing, but the Numbers 5:1 thing is still valid. They don't necessarily need to be mutually exclusive. m So the page counter was close to ending in 0451 when I visited a few minutes ago, so I spam- refreshed, and nothing special happened, as previously recorded. I did, however, look at the 'hitwebcounter' link to learn more about the counter. You can specify an initial value when creating a counter, which adds something like "initCount=0" to the end of the URL it seems to use to track page views. The initCount for twinbread.com's counter is 112834. The page count now is 180567. The current count minus the initial count gives us the actual number of page views: 67733. It may be this 'true' value that needs to end in 0451...anyone want to spam f5? m aklreaxmer wrote: So the page counter was close to ending in 0451 when I visited a few minutes ago, so I spam- refreshed, and nothing special happened, as previously recorded. I did, however, look at the 'hitwebcounter' link to learn more about the counter. You can specify an initial value when creating a counter, which adds something like "initCount=0" to the end of the URL it seems to use to track page views. The initCount for twinbread.com's counter is 112834. The page count now is 180567. The current count minus the initial count gives us the actual number of page views: 67733. It may be this 'true' value that needs to end in 0451...anyone want to spam f5? Stating the obvious here, but that makes it ending in 3285. However, I see nothing in the page source that "reads" the current value from hitwebcounter.com. Moreover, nothing on hitwebcounter.com looks like they have a way to get the current value from them. Worse, the whole site looks completely bogus: - It is hosted by domainsbyyproxy.com, a shadowy GoDaddy subdivision that tries to hide the real registrant ID by supplying their own in whois requests. - Its "HTML Tutorial" section is a collection of links to their self-hosted "blog", that all look like random spam for very different things, except there's no link. It made me think it was part of the ARG, except there are many hints that date this site back to 2009. Too old to be part of this ARG, yet too young to be credible (Who was still using ugly page-view counters in 2009 ?). Weird.... so I think this is not the place where 0451 may be useful. Maybe the "google- analytics" part of the source could help (it does states "trackPageView"), but I don't know enough in javascript to try to use that info. I noticed something else by digging through the page sources of twinbread.com : they are all malformed in the HTML sense. Double closure of tags (), nesting errors ()... Could that be on purpose ? Sorry if I'm just wasting your time, this is my first contact with the ARG world.... Edit: I also tried to find Netscape Navigator 3.1 to view the page "as recommended", as maybe exploiting the issues of old browsers was the point of these malformations in HTML. Guess what: it never existed. The 3.x line stopped at 3.04, followed by "Netscape 4.0" (dropping navigator). m phlip wrote: So yeah, if that is part of the ARG, it's at the very least been in the planning for over a year. Or, alternatively, Twinbeard is just a really weird guy and many of the things people are seeing that look ARG-style weird are just false positives picking up on his general- purpose weirdness. Honestly, I don't know which, either sounds plausible to me. Yeah, going by this tweet https://twitter.com/ vogon/status/444186833816023040 and the upload date of the Kernal of Truth video (about a year ago), it looks like Twinbeard has been sitting on some of this stuff for a while. aklreaxmer wrote: So the page counter was close to ending in 0451 when I visited a few minutes ago, so I spam- refreshed, and nothing special happened, as previously recorded. I did, however, look at the 'hitwebcounter' link to learn more about the counter. You can specify an initial value when creating a counter, which adds something like "initCount=0" to the end of the URL it seems to use to track page views. The initCount for twinbread.com's counter is 112834. The page count now is 180567. The current count minus the initial count gives us the actual number of page views: 67733. It may be this 'true' value that needs to end in 0451...anyone want to spam f5? I actually did try this as well. My method for getting a desired view count has just been a script to perform the desired number of requests until refreshing a few times gets me the correct view count. I can post another archive of the page at 3285 if people are interested, but it seemed like a dead end to me. Zukero wrote: Stating the obvious here, but that makes it ending in 3285. However, I see nothing in the page source that "reads" the current value from hitwebcounter.com. Moreover, nothing on hitwebcounter.com looks like they have a way to get the current value from them. Worse, the whole site looks completely bogus: - It is hosted by domainsbyyproxy.com, a shadowy GoDaddy subdivision that tries to hide the real registrant ID by supplying their own in whois requests. - Its "HTML Tutorial" section is a collection of links to their self-hosted "blog", that all look like random spam for very different things, except there's no link. It made me think it was part of the ARG, except there are many hints that date this site back to 2009. Too old to be part of this ARG, yet too young to be credible (Who was still using ugly page-view counters in 2009 ?). Weird.... so I think this is not the place where 0451 may be useful. Maybe the "google- analytics" part of the source could help (it does states "trackPageView"), but I don't know enough in javascript to try to use that info. I noticed something else by digging through the page sources of twinbread.com : they are all malformed in the HTML sense. Double closure of tags (), nesting errors ()... Could that be on purpose ? Sorry if I'm just wasting your time, this is my first contact with the ARG world.... Edit: I also tried to find Netscape Navigator 3.1 to view the page "as recommended", as maybe exploiting the issues of old browsers was the point of these malformations in HTML. Guess what: it never existed. The 3.x line stopped at 3.04, followed by "Netscape 4.0" (dropping navigator). Hey, welcome. I agree that trying to compare the correct view count using hitwebcounter is probably a nightmare. Twinbread appears to be serving up static html pages, however it is possible to configure Apache to execute php in .html files. So something could be happening server-side, but yeah, I don't see any reason to make it appear otherwise. So I agree that this is probably not the place where 0451 is useful. m Just wanted to point out this neat_video that was posted in /r/isthisfrogfractions2. m Just wondering: Anyone in town for GDC this week here in San Francisco? It would be interesting if any of us comes across Jim there. And last year: He was actually at this free outdoor event called "Lost Levels" where he gave a brief talk about Frog Fractions 1. http: //twitter.yfrog.com/es8w8gqj?sa=0 Totally missed my opportunity to get his business card, though. The event is held again this year (today, actually, from 1-5pm at Yerba Buena Gardens), and who knows if he'll be coming back to it again http://lostlevels.net/ m I went to his GDC talk "Preserving a Sense of Discovery in the Age of Spoilers". I tried to keep an eye out for secrets/hints in the talk, but I didn't see any, and I got the feeling if I asked about this he'd play coy. He talked a lot about creating secrets it would take an Internet community to solve like some things in Fez, Dark Souls, Demon's Souls, and The Secret World. He talked about using weird symbols so that you couldn't Google them if you didn't know their names. He also talked about how Nethack is open source so people can just look at the code to find all of the secrets, whereas ADOM was closed source and often players weren't sure if they hadn't figured out how to accomplish certain things or if those things just hadn't been implemented yet. ARGs were not mentioned at all. m I was reading this thread a few days ago and tweeted_about_it, and Jim Crawford favourited the tweet (he doesn't follow me or anything). So, uh, keep up the good work guys [Smile] m On the about page on twinbread, it says his email is nospamSPLATnospam.com . I have no idea what should be emailed to it, but I am convinced it might lead somewhere. Maybe we'll learn from the Berkeley trip? edit: replace splat with an @ symbol, idk why this forum does that. m It's just a fake/placeholder email address: www.verify-email.org P.S. The SPLAT is to prevent spam-bot email harvesting m There's going to be a Reddit iAMA with the Frog Fractions creators today at 4pm EST. Might be interesting. EDIT: Live now. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ comments/21987f/ we_are_twinbeard_we_made_frog_fractions_and_we/ m twinbread seems to be down. [Sad] It was behaving funny when I set my user agent string to Netscape Navigator 3.1 (look at the footer), but I don't think it's related... Edit: Tried again. Pretending to be NN3.1 seems to reproducibly give lots of 500 status codes before blocking me from accessing that host (even when not using the same user agent string). I think this is just an issue with whoever is hosting. Edit 2: Yeahh, something is just broken. Seems to be related to user agent strings without anything after the OS. 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I had no luck getting anything new from it.) The ROM is just some code to display the Konami bootup screens, with the GBFS and 8ad stuff from pineight. Nothing obviously interesting in it. m The following link was posted in the /r/kernaloftruth subreddit earlier today: http://twinbread.com/ ?stdin=U2tOU1RsZHRXbWxXUlRWRVdFZG9aMVJuUFQwTkNnPT0= If you take the string following stdin= and run it through a Base64 decoder three times in a row, you end up with "$$MZfbTNC\h`N", which when provided as an input to the Brainfuck program on the twinbread.com homepage results in the output "KERNAL.HTML". http://twinbread.com/kernal.html This page contains a_link_to_an_MP3_copy of the Kernal of Truth audio -- can someone confirm whether this is identical to what we already have? Also of note: the MP3 is tagged with the title "butts" and has "NTSC" in the comments. Maybe we need to try converting the tape differently... m RidgeX wrote: The following link was posted in the /r/kernaloftruth subreddit earlier today: http://twinbread.com/ ?stdin=U2tOU1RsZHRXbWxXUlRWRVdFZG9aMVJuUFQwTkNnPT0= If you take the string following stdin= and run it through a Base64 decoder three times in a row, you end up with "$$MZfbTNC\h`N", which when provided as an input to the Brainfuck program on the twinbread.com homepage results in the output "KERNAL.HTML". http://twinbread.com/kernal.html This page contains a_link_to_an_MP3_copy of the Kernal of Truth audio -- can someone confirm whether this is identical to what we already have? Also of note: the MP3 is tagged with the title "butts" and has "NTSC" in the comments. Maybe we need to try converting the tape differently... Wow! That's interesting. Great discovery there. m Anyone tried the ole MP3 <-> RAW trick? UPDATE: I ran Kernal.png trough fotoforensics, yaknow, for shits and giggles. Software used to create it originally was released around 2005, being Adobe ImageReady, the XMP data shows it may have been edited with Photoshop CS5.1, its release date being some time around 2010. Heres the FotoForensics permalink: http://fotoforensics.com/ analysis.php?id=edac8abd872a35e100663fe08104fe23b8b6b849.21812 They really have been sitting on this stuff for a while. Update 2:I went to Netcraft with the twinbread URL, and got some interesting data. take a gander http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=twinbread.com m So, there's a new Twinbeard game - Kickstarter Simulator 2015. Might possibly contain more clues? http://twinbeard.com/kickstarter-simulator-2015 Also, the Berkeley Campus event is soon (5th April, 3pm). Hope someone can report back! m I didn't find anything of use from legitimate playing, I might have missed something. just bad ideas and a reference to the KS video, which we already picked clean. m RidgeX wrote: -- This page contains a_link_to_an_MP3_copy of the Kernal of Truth audio -- can someone confirm whether this is identical to what we already have? Also of note: the MP3 is tagged with the title "butts" and has "NTSC" in the comments. Maybe we need to try converting the tape differently... The file is an NTSC version of the same tape that was played in the YouTube-video. I used audiotap to convert it to a TAP and then used the_same command_as_earlier to convert it to a PRG. When ran in VICE, it produces the_same_pirate_picture with "egb13.ugzy" written on it. This was probably added in case someone actually wanted to try it on an NTSC C64 [Smile] So no additional leads there. The extracted prg's: prg.zip_(9KB) m MD1500 wrote: Also, the Berkeley Campus event is soon (5th April, 3pm). Hope someone can report back! So I'll be on campus on Saturday. I was planning to get there a bit early, just in case... does anyone have any suggestions about what to bring/say/look for? m Some unspecified amount of money, as referenced in the original tweet? (Don't expect it to be that much, of course.) m Friedlemar wrote: MD1500 wrote: Also, the Berkeley Campus event is soon (5th April, 3pm). Hope someone can report back! So I'll be on campus on Saturday. I was planning to get there a bit early, just in case... does anyone have any suggestions about what to bring/say/look for? I have a feeling that this might be the point where the number 0451 comes into play so keep it in mind. You might need that to do something... If a sum of money's involved, maybe bring $4.51 ? [Laughing] (The reason why I think 0451 might be important is that the Berkeley event is on 4/5 which seems to be a pretty big coincidence. Could be nothing. Could be important.) Also, take a camera and snap any strange signs / posters.... Something might need future decoding to solve. m   ============================================================== MD1500 wrote: Friedlemar wrote: MD1500 wrote: Also, the Berkeley Campus event is soon (5th April, 3pm). Hope someone can report back! So I'll be on campus on Saturday. I was planning to get there a bit early, just in case... does anyone have any suggestions about what to bring/say/look for? I have a feeling that this might be the point where the number 0451 comes into play so keep it in mind. You might need that to do something... If a sum of money's involved, maybe bring $4.51 ? [Laughing] (The reason why I think 0451 might be important is that the Berkeley event is on 4/5 which seems to be a pretty big coincidence. Could be nothing. Could be important.) Also, take a camera and snap any strange signs / posters.... Something might need future decoding to solve. How about a constant recording go-pro, allows u-THE COLLECTIVE CONSIOUSNESS to analyze the seemingly innocuous sites. We can't mess this up. m So did anybody make it out to the Berkeley thing? What happened? m Briefly: We met Jim Crawford and went for a walk. Then he was abducted by time-travelling vigilantes. But he dropped a bag full of floppy disks and other things before they carted him off. We have videos/photos of much of it; more details soon! Edit: Grammar. m Friedlemar wrote: Briefly: We met Jim Crawford and went for a walk. Then he was abducted by time-travelling vigilantes. But he dropped a bag fully of floppy disks and other things before they carted him off. We have videos/photos of much of it; more details soon! Wow! That sounds awesome! m My girlfriend and I were the ones that got the photos and videos. 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I uploaded the pictures here: http://imgur.com/gallery/rd61q orry some of them are blurry/repeats! ore video to come, as soon as it finishes uploading... ust jumping onto this! Seems hilarious so far [Smile] oes anyone even have floppy disk readers anymore? We could be in trouble here... Also they were all wrapped in tin foil. Does this mean they're from ~the futureee~? medras wrote: Just jumping onto this! Seems hilarious so far [Smile] Does anyone even have floppy disk readers anymore? We could be in trouble here... Also they were all wrapped in tin foil. Does this mean they're from ~the futureee~? probably should have waited to post the pics until *after* the video, but ...maybe? I have no idea! One of our fellow adventurers had the physical evidence, and said he would procure the necessary floppy eader. Hopefully we will get to see what's on those disks soon! ideo! Video! Finally finished uploading! Here you go, adventure with us! More video to come soon! (Though this probably has the better sound quality) rog_Fractions_ARG_video! orry, there are a few skips where I paused recording. Should have all the important bits here though! A more complete, but less audible video to follow. hope you guys have a floppy disk reader. best to try the frog one first, but theres none with a fraction. econd video is now up! ttp://youtu.be/iJrPxRW-kts K, here is a rough narrative of events from the fifth. arrived at the entrance to campus around 2:30 (half an hour before the prescribed time). There were several people hanging out, talking, lying down, playing guitar, etc: the usual Berkeley scene, nothing ppeared amiss. I didn't really know what to expect, so I took some video starting around 2:45, but I don't think I captured anything interesting. t around 2:50, a guy showed up wearing a gaming T-shirt and a tall top-hat with an orange ribbon -- kind of weird, but not necessarily indicative of anything in Berkeley. Here is a bit of video of the scene at hat point: ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/vxmaszsa47c5th0/Frog.Fractions.2.At.The.Scene.mp4 ventually, we identified each other as both there for Frog Fractions 2. He gave his name as Dan (I think) and said he had been lurking on these forums. He didn't really say much more about himself. I asked him bout the top hat, and he said he just "felt like wearing it." t about five past three, another guy and his girlfriend showed up (they are the ones that posted the photos/video previously in this thread). At about 3:10, Jim Crawford appeared. No tricks or anything; he just alked up to us and said "Butts", presumably to identify himself, but we pretty much knew who he was. Jim was wearing a lanyard with a GDC badge, but it didn't have his own name on it. I need to look in the ideos to see if anyone got this fully, but the name was "Riccardo" something, and it had the URL king.com on it. Hopefully someone can confirm whether this is the same badge he wore at GDC proper. He also had usiness cards behind the name tag, which he happily provided when asked. Again, not sure if someone already had these from GDC, but here is the text: Quote: Front side: Jim Crawford jimSPLATgoombas.org [[Phone Number]] http://twinbread.com @mogwai_poet Back side: Twinbeard logo The text "JCRNWmZiVE5DXGhfTg==" If you hold the card to a light, you can make out the URL fragment "ad.com/eol" im asked us not to post a picture of the card, as the phone number is his real one, and he said it doesn't have anything that we don't already know. He was also carrying a brown takeout bag, the kind you'd get a urrito in. e exchanged small talk for about 20 minutes. Jim was not "in character" or anything, we were just talking as people. Some interesting tidbits: We congratulated him on his Kickstarter getting funded. He was happy about it, but said he was very tired from having worked on it hard for the past few weeks. He said that his GDC talk (on mystery in video games) was not recorded, so he's going to record it again on his own and post it online. have audio of part of the conversation. Jim shows up around 5:45: ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/n0jjvvd4vfqph4d/Frog.Fractions.2.A.Conversation.m4a e waited until a bit after 3:30; Jim seemed to be expecting more people, but only one more guy (and his infant son) showed up, making seven of us total. At this point, Jim asked us if we wanted to go for a walk, o which we of course agreed. e walked about four blocks from where we started (specifically, north on Oxford, a block right on Hearst, and then left on Spruce), so we were in a more residential area away from campus. (Jim was setting the oute.) Midway up the block, I believe we were discussing the somewhat exotic architectures of the Berkeley hills when Dan (the one wearing the top hat) suddenly pulled out a brightly colored plastic pistol out f his hat, pointed it at Jim, and yelled, "Enough!" This is about where the videos pick up, so you can see for yourself what happens next. We were standing in front of 1829 Spruce Street, in case the address is mportant for some reason. here are at least three factions involved in the scene: The top-hat guy, and the three in the car who are with them. They seem to be intent on protecting the timeline. The two people wearing odd hats chasing the first group. The man on the motorbike, from the "dark timeline". fter retreating a safe distance, we sat down to examine the contents of the paper bag. Despite the grease stains, it turned out not to have a burrito. Instead, it had a bunch of floppy disks and some other hings. More detail on the exact contents of the bag in a follow-up post. o all in all, a successful outing. I am 95% having a great time, and 5% terrified that time bandits are going to take me hostage at any moment. I should be able to get a floppy disk reader from my work tomorrow, o I'll post the contents of the disks as soon as I can. dits: Repeated passes adding details and grammar. amn this is getting crazy! Can't wait to see contents of the disks. ere’s an exhaustive list of everything (aside from the business cards) that we recovered from the excursion on Saturday. The contents of the floppy disks are unknown for now. rown_Paper_Bag: Looks like a normal takeout bag. It has some grease stains. While probably not important, there is a barcode on the bottom with the annotation “1 79594 13603 4”. There is a heart-shaped ladybug ticker on the inside of the bag. 2 napkins, 4 plastic forks, 4 plastic spoons: Typical takeout fare. One of the napkins has a flower sticker with a ladybug on it. Wooden Frog Statue: It has a bug sticker on one side of it. lower and Cactus_Leaf: They are real plants, not plastic or anything. loppy Disks: 10 Floppy disks wrapped in tinfoil. Most of them have some bug or frog stickers on the foil. Here is a summary (the numbering is arbitrary, I don't know how they were originally stacked in the bag): :_Stamp :_Flower_and_Ladybug_Flower :_Ladybug_and_Bubbles :_Ladybug_on_Leaf,_Flower,_Bubbles :_Ladybug_on_Flower :_Inflated_Frog_with_Bubbles :_Dragonfly,_Ladybug_on_Leaf,_Lilypad :_Frog_with_Tongue :_Frog_on_Lilypad,_Ladybug_on_Leaf (Also has a jumping frog on the back, not shown in the picture.) 0:_Ladybug_on_Lilypad,_Dragonfly,_and_Bubbles he disks are all unlabeled. They each have the text "259E013" stamped into the plastic, but I think that's just from the manufacturer. oil-Wrapped_Rosencrantz_Character_Sheet: It was wrapped similarly to the 10 floppy disks, but contained only this piece of paper. High-resolution scan is here. It appears to be a character sheet for Rosencranz n a role-playing game set in Shakespeare's Hamlet world, the sort of thing a creative high school English teacher might employ. The foil for this one has a ladybug sticker and a lilypad sticker. The lilypad ticker partly obscures the text "Jack HS" written in marker on the foil. e also found this plastic_sword, dropped by the second group running up the street. It looks pirate-y but has no identifying marks; it's unclear if they dropped it intentionally or not. n summary, the most important things seem to be the contents of the floppy disks (unknown until I can find a floppy drive) and the Rosencrantz character sheet. Friedlemar wrote: We also found this plastic_sword, dropped by the second group running up the street. It looks pirate-y but has no identifying marks; it's unclear if they dropped it intentionally or not. he sword looks like it's a tantō. I'm not sure if this is an actual clue, though. 'm no botanist, so I don't think I can identify the species of the flower or the cactus, but that could maybe be relevant? The cactus leaf looks like it could be from an aloe plant. lastic swords sometimes have easily removable hilts; if it was dropped intentionally, there could be something hidden there. aklreaxmer wrote: Plastic swords sometimes have easily removable hilts; if it was dropped intentionally, there could be something hidden there. he handle was attached by a single screw, which I removed; nothing inside. did notice a product number on the underside of the hilt: "Greenbrier International, Inc. / 186458-13590-094-1311". But I think it's just a plastic sword, guys. just Googled and the Rosencrantz page comes from this: ttp://www.shiftingforest.com/gamefiles/Hamlet.pdf eems to be a Live Action Role Playing site. (See pages 43-44 for the Rosencrantz section.) DIT 1: After a quick glance, the text seems to be the same. DIT 2: There's another Rosencrantz section on pages 67-68. That seems to be what was dropped at Berkeley. No differences to the p43-44 version except for page numbers. DIT 3: I'm using the PDF page numbers here, not the page numbers as they are in the guide. [Pages 67-68 in the PDF shows pages 61-62 of the guide]. Confused yet? You will be. [Laughing] MD1500 wrote: I just Googled and the Rosencrantz page comes from this: http://www.shiftingforest.com/gamefiles/Hamlet.pdf Seems to be a Live Action Role Playing site. (See pages 43-44 for the Rosencrantz section.) here doesn't seem to be any difference between the 4/5 event version of this and the version in the linked pdf, except that they have different page numbers (4/5 version has 6[1?]/62 and linked version has 37/ 8). nless this has something to do with the 38 in eolo5387 (?), this might have just been thrown in to further weird us out. DIT: I've gone through both the twinbeard and twinbread sites switching out 38 with 61/62 and have gotten nothing. This looks like a dead end. 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James Crawford! im: Not again! op Hat Guy: In the name of his majesty, for your time-crimes against the chrono-imperium, for your distribution and production of bug porn, for your association with agents of Bug Mars, for your fraternizing with frogs, nd for your other crimes, you must be held accountable! im: Wait, what’s going on? op Hat Guy: Come on. ime Traveller 1: There’s no time! ime Traveller 2: Stay back! Do not interfere with the timeline! im: Save yourselves… op Hat Guy: Do not interfere with the timeline! ime Traveller 2: They’re coming! Go, go! Stay back! pposing Time Traveller: Wait, the disks, the disks! oterbike Time Traveller: You guys aren’t chasing Jim Crawford, are you? Well don’t look for him now. That’s not the real Jim Crawford, or at least not yet. I come from a dreadfully dark timeline, and we’re trying to revent that. I’m just here to tell you that now, and I have to go myself. You guys have a wonderful day. ome thoughts and questions: The gun that the top hat guy is holding had a cable attached to it, as if it was pulled off of an arcade shooter. Several of the other guns appear to be like this as well. What is the music that's played in the car as it speeds off? Are any of the time travellers (7 in all, not counting Jim) the same as the ones in the video? The motorbike guy identifies himself as being from a different timeline. Are the two warring factions from the same timeline, or different ones? The costumes that the time travellers are wearing are pretty distinctive... can we glean any clues from that? (E.g., what time period each faction is from) 'll take a look at the floppy disks tomorrow morning! aklreaxmer wrote: There is another occurrence of the Rosencrantz page on page 61 and 62 later in the document, so I think he pulled it directly from this site/guide. ood spot! Each character sheet is featured in the guide twice. (The first one is for the Director / Dungeon Master and the second one is for the player.) So, the Berkeley Rosencrantz character sheet is from the "Player aterials" section which starts from Page 49 in the PDF. nyone find anything in the KS game? or is it just a carp. urns out BEAR-DS4 is the Twinbreard Hotline. ttp://twinbeard.com/573_twinbeard-hotline he GDC talk on Preserving Mystery in an Age of Spoilers has been uploaded. ttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2/posts/802609?ref=email K, so I had a heck of a time tracking down a floppy drive and getting the data off of the disks (floppy disks are super slow!). But here is most of it. The numberings correspond with my post from yesterday, so you can ee which stickers go with which disk if you want: ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/0n11js9e1vx6cja/Frog.Fractions.2.Floppies.zip ome bad news: I was unable to get the file "stinky.a01" off of Disk 6, as well as "stinky.arj" off of Disk 1. I can see the files in the filesystem, but if I try to view its contents or copy it, I get an error about how he disk is improperly formatted. I have included the fragments of these files that I was able to copy in the zipfile above. owever, it may not matter. I diff'd all of the duplicate filenames that we do have, and it looks like files with the same name are identical (and the fragments are identical to the start of their corresponding non- roken versions). So we have enough redundancy that the lost data doesn't seem to matter. have imaged all of the disks except the bad ones: ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/rb3i74tsgvxkt1f/Frog.Fractions.2.Images.zip here are no hidden files that I can see. (Note that my OS created a few, so check the timestamps if you go looking.) ere are things organized in a sane way (instead of by disk): ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/hygdhim9npxyita/Frog.Fractions.2.Bug.Porn.zip 'm unable to expand the archive; hopefully someone can figure that out. hanks! o, looking at the images, it seems we have 5 months from a "Bug Porn" calendar: Miss February, Miss April, Miss June, Miss October, Miss December. 'm guessing we need to find the missing months to make a full calendar or something? [Laughing] he stinky.arj, stinky.a01, stinky.a02, stinky.a03, stinky.a04 files all form an archive of stinky.mp4. However, it appears to be encrypted / compressed in some weird way. I've tried to extract it with WinRAR, WinZip and nZiplite, all with no luck. (It might be password protected?) seem to have found a way to specify a password to try to open these files using the following command in the ARJ32 compression program: Code: ARJ32 x -g? stinky.arj have tried 'butts' and 'hamlet' and 'rosencrantz' as password, anyone have any other ideas? aklreaxmer wrote: I seem to have found a way to specify a password to try to open these files using the following command in the ARJ32 compression program: Code: ARJ32 x -g? stinky.arj I have tried 'butts' and 'hamlet' and 'rosencrantz' as password, anyone have any other ideas? 451, of course! dit: Well, that didn't work. [Sad] hosted an album of all the bug porn images on Imgur in case somebody's unable/too lazy to access them via the .zips: ttp://imgur.com/a/ufbrQ wonder if it's a coincidence that the numbers of these months (2,4,6,10,12) are all even, and/or if they are somehow related to the stinky.mp4 password? XIF Data =========================================================================================================================================================================================================================== nterestingly, all the images have EXIF Descriptions that seem relevant: 2.jpg: x"83968686858540A689A3884081409781A340968640 4.jpg: 82A4A3A385996B409694859385A340A689A388408388 6.jpg: 8585A285408195844082818396956B408881A2884082 0.jpg: 9996A695A26B40A39681A2A340A689A3884082A4A3A3 2.jpg: 85994081958440A2A381A682859999A840918194" onverting it to psuedo-base-8, you get: Quote: COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CHEESE AND BACON; HASH BROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTTER AND STAWBERRY JAM he translation is done by taking two characters at a time, XY, using 'A" as 10 and 'B' as 11. You then take 8*X+Y and convert that to an ASCII character. However, if X is above 8, you instead use 8*X+Y+1. ice! Now how does this relate to the password...? ounds like a list of breakfast items, tried "breakfast", nada. ell, I quickly coded up a bash script that would run a brute-force dictionary attack (testing every word in the dictionary as a password) on one of the archives (stinky.a01). Didn't find anything, but there's a high hance that my script was broken in some way (although I did test it on an archive which I created & knew the password of). ere's the (terribly-coded) script for anyone who's interested: Code: for j in `cat /usr/share/dict/words|grep -v \'s$`; do (i=${j};echo $i; mkdir $i; cd $i; unar -p $i ../stinky.a01; if [ ! -n "$(cat stinky.mp4)" ]; then rm stinky.mp4; cd ..; rmdir $i; else cd ..; fi) & done also tried a variant of the script that would test for CAPITALISED WORDS; it was just as unsuccessful as the original. as the rozencratz sheet blank? K, I haven't figured things out yet, but here is something odd. When I try to guess the password, I normally get the following: Code: unar -f -p RandomPasswordGuess stinky.arj stinky.arj: ARJ   stinky.mp4  (1239830 B)... Failed! (Unknown error) Extraction to current directory failed! (1 file failed.) ut when I try with the password "bugmars", I get: Code: unar -f -p bugmars stinky.arj stinky.arj: ARJ   stinky.mp4  (1239830 B)... Segmentation fault: 11 s this something? 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I suggest trying "bugporn", and then other "bu________" words. nice work so far, though [Smile] 4 pm That means that the unarchiving tool you're using has a bug. I don't get that, though: Code: $ ./unar.exe -f -p bugmars stinky.arj stinky.arj: ARJ   stinky.mp4  (1239830 B)... Failed! (Unknown error) Archive parsing failed! (Data is corrupted.) Extraction to current directory failed! (1 file failed.) Where did you get your build of unar? I'm using the Windows copy over here: http://unarchiver.c3.cx/ commandline 4 pm Jasper_ wrote: Where did you get your build of unar? I'm using the Windows copy over here: http://unarchiver.c3.cx/ commandline I'm using a Unix version (1.8, installed on Mac via Homebrew). I also checked it with the ARJ32 executable on Windows, and I get the same normal failure that you do. What a tantalizing bug with the unar software! I guess we're back to square one. 8 pm Hmm. My build doesn't segfault with "bugmars", but when I was brute-forcing it I found a few other strings: Code: unar -f -p oyjyz stinky.arj outputs Code: stinky.arj: ARJ   stinky.mp4  (1235637 B)... Segmentation fault I've also found that some other strings have yet another output: using "bb" (no quotes) as the password I get the following error message: Code: stinky.arj: ARJ   stinky.mp4  (1235637 B)... unar: Uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException, reason: Prefix found I'm using unar version 1.2-2build1 on Linux (Ubuntu 13.04), installed through apt-get. This must be a very buggy piece of software! 8 pm Of course, it COULD be that files are corrupted and thats why we can't extract it, but I somehow doubt it. 4 pm It's entirely possible. I don't have access to my Linux machine right now, but I'll see if I can figure out where unar is segfaulting. Maybe that would be a clue. It would be disappointing if we couldn't make progress because the disks were unreadable. 1 pm MD1500 wrote: Of course, it COULD be that files are corrupted and thats why we can't extract it, but I somehow doubt it. Remember that we got identical copies of these files off of distinct disks (except the two I couldn't read). So it seems pretty likely that the data provided is the data that we were intended to get. 7 pm I'm not getting these errors using ARJ32 for Windows, but I did do some research on the ARJ format; this is a multi-volume archive, so you need to specify that in the command. For ARJ32: Code: arj32 x -v -y -g? stinky.arj This starts with stinky.arj and finds all subsequent ".a##" files 1 pm Re: EXIF Data ========================================================================================================= dvorak42 wrote: Interestingly, all the images have EXIF Descriptions that seem relevant: 02.jpg: x"83968686858540A689A3884081409781A340968640 04.jpg: 82A4A3A385996B409694859385A340A689A388408388 06.jpg: 8585A285408195844082818396956B408881A2884082 10.jpg: 9996A695A26B40A39681A2A340A689A3884082A4A3A3 12.jpg: 85994081958440A2A381A682859999A840918194" Converting it to psuedo-base-8, you get: Quote: COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CHEESE AND BACON; HASH BROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTTER AND STAWBERRY JAM The translation is done by taking two characters at a time, XY, using 'A" as 10 and 'B' as 11. You then take 8*X+Y and convert that to an ASCII character. However, if X is above 8, you instead use 8*X+Y+1. I know next to nothing about encryption/cryptology, but I found the above text super intriguing. If you isolate each breakfast-oriented sentence fragment and strip the articles (a, an, the, etc) you end up with a series of short strings of letters. Abbreviations maybe? CPB; OCB; HB; TBSJ CPB could refer to cycles per byte, commonly used as an indicator of performance in cryptographic functions (according to Wikipedia). OCB could refer to OCB mode, a mode of operation for cryptographic block ciphers (again, according to Wikipedia). No idea on the other two. Maybe HASHBROWNS is pointing towards cryptographic hash functions? Might be totally off base, but I find it interesting considering the ARJ format uses current clock count in some way to initially encrypt the file (as far as I understand it). Hopefully this helps... somehow. 9 pm Re: EXIF Data ========================================================================================================= dvorak42 wrote: Interestingly, all the images have EXIF Descriptions that seem relevant: 02.jpg: x"83968686858540A689A3884081409781A340968640 04.jpg: 82A4A3A385996B409694859385A340A689A388408388 06.jpg: 8585A285408195844082818396956B408881A2884082 10.jpg: 9996A695A26B40A39681A2A340A689A3884082A4A3A3 12.jpg: 85994081958440A2A381A682859999A840918194" Converting it to psuedo-base-8, you get: Quote: COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CHEESE AND BACON; HASH BROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTTER AND STAWBERRY JAM The translation is done by taking two characters at a time, XY, using 'A" as 10 and 'B' as 11. You then take 8*X+Y and convert that to an ASCII character. However, if X is above 8, you instead use 8*X+Y+1. Small thing, but is the conversion a copy and paste or was it retyped? Because I just noticed it gives STAWBERRY instead of STRAWBERRY. 5 pm This project has been funded as of today. He raised over $72,000 well over what the $60,000 he was seeking. 3 pm Re: EXIF Data ========================================================================================================= fishnchips wrote: Small thing, but is the conversion a copy and paste or was it retyped? Because I just noticed it gives STAWBERRY instead of STRAWBERRY. Good call! I just used the method that dvorak provided to double check the numbers provided by the bugporn jpegs and the 'R' in 'STAWBERRY' is indeed missing. So, its NOT a typo. I pulled the numbers directly from the image descriptions. Could be something! 'R' as in 'Rosencrantz,' maybe? The number that represents 'R' in the image descriptions is 99. And the decimal value for the ascii value 'R' is 82. Might come in handy! 5 pm Reversed Humming ========================================================================================================= I'm not entirely sure if the humming audio clip has been "used" yet, but I simply took it and reversed it, and it sounds like it has a little more musicality than it had before. ___________________________________________________________________ |_________________________kernaloftruth_humming_reverse.wav_________| |Description|kernaloftruth_humming_audio_clip_reversed| [wav] | |Filename __|kernaloftruth_humming_reverse.wav ______| | |Filesize __|448.77KB _______________________________|  Download| |Downloaded |67_Time(s) _____________________________|____________| 3 pm Bruteforcing stinky.arj ========================================================================================================= So I couldn't make any sense of the information we have at our disposal right now, so I figured that the best I could do was to try to bruteforce the stinky.arj file. I have started a bruteforce script running from 1-20 length passwords (Won't realistically reach the end anytime soon) trying all passwords from the charset a-zA-Z0-9 (all lowercase letters, all uppercase letters, and all numbers) So don't bother trying any passwords with less than 6 chars if it doesn't contain a special char (or a space) I'll post updates as the bruteforce progresses Current progress: all 7 char passwords So apparently the program I used crashes around the beginning of the 7 char passwords, I'll return when I have a new method figured out... 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I don't think it is part of the ARG, but maybe you would like to know about it. http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/ the-surprising-history-of-frog- fractions/1600-802/ m According to the Urban Dictionary, "Stawberry" is slang for a Crackhead. Probably not relevant, but thought it worth mentioning. That typo must mean something. Also, I note that the word BUTTER is featured twice in the EXIF base- 8 breakfast recipies. Given the whole bugs thing, could there be a BUTTERfly connection? m Bruteforce Stinky.arj =================================== I just finished all 7 char passwords (took a break for the weekend) m 1863 =================================== twinbread.com is copyright 1863, which is the year of the Southern Bread Riots. The costumes of the kidnappers could be from that period. m Re: Bruteforce Stinky.arj =================================== bnm12 wrote: I just finished all 7 char passwords (took a break for the weekend) Can you share the current iteration of your password cracking script? Maybe we can make this faster by distributing the workload. m What about a script that tries all the words on the Rosencrantz character sheet as passwords? m I think we did a total dictionary attack already m The rosencrantz character sheet might have words not included in a standard dictionary like Guildenstern and Wittenberg m Regarding the EXIF data, I've noticed a few peculiarities - first, that to extract the message, you need to first strip some characters from the raw cyphertext. x" from the beginning of 02.jpg's text, and " from the end of 12.jpg. There might be something there if we had the full calender's worth of data, which brings me to my next point. No one's yet posted the decrypted EXIF data, formatted per file: Code: COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM Note the BUTT in October (line 4). Furthermore, we don't have an image file for August! We've got 02-04- 06-10-12, but no 08. So, we may be missing the proper fourth line. If that's the case, the full calendar might be out there with a hidden message along the lines of this_old witticism. Then again, the missing 08 might just be a hint to the encryption. Also, there is in fact a space encoded after the word "OF" on the first line, but on none of the others. m Wow, that BUTT in line 4 surely can't be a coincidence. m It certainly could be, but a) BUTTS has been a recurring theme here already, and b) ARGs play on a 'conspiracy theory' level of suspicion anyways. m I've just been catching up with this thread, though I'm suspicious now that it just stops over a week ago with no one having gotten into that archive. Did people just give up or have you all been kidnapped by time bandits? The bf program from twinbread.com seems to have been pretty thoroughly dissected, but I didn't see any mention of this tweet: https://twitter.com/still/status/ 316326387394949120 So there's the code Pj5WaWdWaA==, which is base64 for ">>VigVh", which when fed to the bf program gives what else but "BUTTS"? m Yeah man. I just got into this ARG like yesterday and it was actually very eerie seeing activity just drop like that. I'm sad I didn't know about this ARG sooner to go to the location, but then again, I kinda live too far away I wouldn't have made it anyway haha. I tried organizing everything, just putting everything we got into two categories: solved & unsolved. It's not that good. I probably missed something. I just made that thing trying to catch up on everything that happened so far. I'm still a bit confused what some people are saying, to be honest. ========== solved blackboard->twinbread.com HotDog->HotDashChund->JustinBeard- >MakeBreak(FrFr1Commands)- >ObamaShave->meetup bread/eolo5387- >BrainFuckCodeBreadASCII- >KernalOfTruthVideo ========== unsolved Last 4 Digits of AccountPage:0451 DeusEx? Fahrenheit451? gamecodes? - (469)BEA-RDS4(mehmeh) - recipie13(poem) JesusBreadWine? - NetscapeNavigator3.1->butts recipie36(primes)->butts pixel art twinbread pagesource BrainFuck code->buttsbuttsb - 2 kernal of truth audios (Humming&TookYouLong Enough) - Mandelbrot (almondbread?) / C64 (KERNAL) - KernalOfTruthAudio->rot13- >CastlevaniaPassacagliaOfDisrepair (RickRollRom) - calender bug porn EXIF->pseudo base 8 COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM - stinky.mp4->stinky password ========== And here's a video that kinda goes through most stuff that happened with the ARG before April. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=R_XWBottUkY What's so important about butts that it would appear a fourth time? (fifth, if that frog statue with a sticker on its butt counts.) ========== Here's all the links I found in the thread relating to the meetup. http://imgur.com/gallery/rd61q (floppy disks wrapped in future foil and stickers) http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=ajh5zVBbDNM(MsMatching's perspective) http://youtu.be/iJrPxRW-kts (ratteler50's perspective) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ vxmaszsa47c5th0/ Frog.Fractions.2.At.The.Scene.mp4 (friedlemar staring at nothing for 4 minutes. also there's Dan in a tophat. Nice guitar) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ n0jjvvd4vfqph4d/ Frog.Fractions.2.A.Conversation.m4a (20 minutes of audio starting at 3pm. before the abduction) http://i.imgur.com/ec3EIHa.jpg (brown paper bag) The Frog Statue http://i.imgur.com/PvznHUK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/w3ASxfE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GagBjCr.jpg http://i.imgur.com/i8pij0I.jpg(a flower) http://i.imgur.com/RFqJics.jpg(a cactus) disks (stickers&files) Each disk had one bug porn with a month, and one stinky.(arj,ao1,etc) file. I should make a table. This is kinda confusing. Except I'm too lazy to make a table. The arbitrary numbering isn't included. ----- http://i.imgur.com/tsQYP0C.jpg (ladybug on leaf, flower, 5 bubbles) (Feb a04) http://i.imgur.com/lsGszdS.jpg (ladybug on leaf, dragonfly, lilypad) (Feb a04) ----- http://i.imgur.com/JCkWZjg.jpg (ladybug on lilypad, dragonfly, 4 bubbles) (Apr a03) http://i.imgur.com/Jh8EANA.jpg (ladybug on flower) (Apr a03) ----- http://i.imgur.com/dGnFYlx.jpg (ladybug, 8 bubbles) (Jun a02) http://i.imgur.com/aaeQnmt.jpg (yellow ladybug in leaf, frog on lilypad, jumping frog on the back side) (Jun a02) ----- http://i.imgur.com/uPWlC3k.jpg (inflated frog, 3 bubbles) (Oct a01Corrupted) http://i.imgur.com/t2KN6uR.jpg (flower, ladybug on flower) (Oct a01) ----- http://i.imgur.com/NFbYM44.jpg (statue of liberty stamp) (Dec arjCorrupted) http://i.imgur.com/0LO0yc2.jpg (tongue frog) (Dec arj) http://i.imgur.com/1lE2Jhd.jpg (rosencrantz LARP page) http://www.shiftingforest.com/ gamefiles/Hamlet.pdf(source. pdf pages 43-44,67-68. actual pages 37- 38,61-62) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ 0n11js9e1vx6cja/ Frog.Fractions.2.Floppies.zip(stuff in the floppies. numbers are arbitrary) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ rb3i74tsgvxkt1f/ Frog.Fractions.2.Images.zip(.iso files. numbers are arbitrary) https://www.dropbox.com/s/ hygdhim9npxyita/ Frog.Fractions.2.Bug.Porn.zip (neatly organized. If you want the files, get this. Ignore the .DS_Store file.) http://imgur.com/a/ufbrQ(If you want the bug porn, just go here.) ========== Funny how Jim has taken in by the time cops for distributing illegal bug porn, and that's what he was holding in a brown paper bag. Like a drug dealer. I think part of the puzzle should be figuring out more details on what is going on in the story. Dark timeline? The Kickstarter video mentions something about... something being doomed in 202X. I don't know. Someone make a transcript of those hard-to-hear voices? And why are time travelers wearing past cloths? The technology is from the future, but the cloths are from the past? Okay. If it's an alternate timeline where time travel was made in the past, that would explain this. Who was contacting us in the kickstarter video? Also, look which particular floppy disks had bubble stickers on them. There's a pattern, but I don't think it's that important. Also where did you find that tweet? I think this would be a better link, since it gives the "other thing he has". https://twitter.com/vogon/status/ 316325154781270016 m Nice summary! Points out quite how much has been left hanging. I had a play with Emerald, the game that Jim linked to and streamed a playthrough of yesterday: https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/ status/461277819998203905 https://twitter.com/EMER7LD (he mentions this account in the stream) It's a game where you walk around on an invisible landscape which is only highlighted by some particles flowing around over it. You've got a 4x4 grid that floats around following you, which you can play some notes on but which doesn't otherwise seem to effect the world. If you travel away from the start (using shift to travel a lot faster), you'll find a forest and a mountain, then you'll fall off the world because it's using Unity's default terrain. I didn't notice anything relating it to Frogs and/or Fractions myself, it just seems to be versions of the game for different platforms, with the contents of the zip and rar versions in the dropbox being the same (but I haven't md5summed them, will get on that), virus scanner said they were clean. jongyon7192p wrote: Also where did you find that tweet? I think this would be a better link, since it gives the "other thing he has". https://twitter.com/vogon/status/ 316325154781270016 I just found that tweet by searching for "twinbread" on Twitter, there's a few from @vogon and @still from when they got business cards off Jim at last year's GDC. m Bruteforce Stinky.arj =================================== I hit a wall with the brute force of stinky.arj where it simply wasn't practical to continue due to diminishing returns. 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Cmon, this is kinda scaring me. A lot of us downloaded the files from the floppies. stinky.arj. Encrypted. It's right there. It's possible to solve. The password has to be somewhere among the loose ends I've listed out here. "Encryption is not supported for this archives"... gah! The .arj files don't even work for me. Anyone know what might be the problem? It doesn't even ask for a password. I just go to the Bug.Porn.zip, access stinky.arj, then click on stinky.mp4, and it goes and asks me where stinky.a01 is. I mean wtf, it's RIGHT THERE! There next to the arj file. I can't link the damn thing, so I extract the files and go like, THERE, .arj! THERE IT IS. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?! And that's when it happens. It goes "Encrytion is not supported blahblabhalbha". I tried with the stinky.arj I extracted, but there's no arrow shape next to the mp4 anymore. yknow. The --> thing. After the * thing. The arrow's not that. It's supposed to be there!. How does extracting it make that disappear?! anyway, I click the mp4 and YEAH. ENCRYPTION NOT SUPPORTED. OKAY. Also, how the hell did you guys read what's on the blackboard? In the end of the kickstarter video with the talk about 3 seconds and all that. Even with the 720p video on youtube, there is no way anyone could read that. Is there a particular image with a better quality view of the blackboard? This is the first time I think I've got into an ARG while it's still ongoing, and I gotta admit. It's pretty fun! Anyway, thanks to bnm, we know the password either has special (non-number, non-letter) characters, or has 8 or more characters. I have ideas like "mandelbrot" or whatever. If only I knew where I even type the password. And what was that all about the Kernal of Truth audio? It's a bit complicated. 4 8:55 am Quote: "Encryption is not supported for this archives" Read through the rest of the thread. You need to use a command-line archiving tool like ARJ32 for the ARJ files. 10:14 am Encryption: Answered Blackboard: Pausing and zooming BNM: See: Encryption KoT: See pirate image in earlier pages, Solved 12:15 pm Kickstarter Page info search ================================================================================================================================= I kinda dropped off of doing this because I was going to wait for the brute forcing to be done, but then I kinda got sidetracked with school and stuff too. But I just thought to look at the kickstarter page again, there are some interesting things to note about it: There is a ton of stuff we could possibly research about the opening of the page, checking that it might be accurate, or if they tie together in any ways stuff like that. In the FAQ, in reply to "What if I buy a bunch of crappy indie games looking for Frog Fractions 2 and regret it afterwards?" he says "Unfortunately I will only refund the purchase in which you guessed correctly." Which means that there might be some stuff we actually have to buy to find this. And the last answer in the FAQ is "As of this writing, no games are Frog Fractions 2 yet. Your sense of wonder gets to kick in exactly when the project is funded, and no earlier." Meaning that our sense of wonder should be kicked in. Of course, our wonder has been going wild, but I thought this might worth bringing up. Also, I went and tried my best to write a transcript of the video to help us in any way with something we may have missed. I've put some notes at the end for things I thought of while going through my many times. Hunter: Hi, my name's Hunter. Amy: And I'm Amy. Together, we run the... Amy and Hunter: Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio! Hunter: Two years ago, we changed the face of edutainment, with the critically acclaimed, Frog Fractions. Amy: Annabelle Santorum of Didactics UK called it, and I quote, “Absolutely the best way to teach your child about fractions!” Hunter: And premiere educational resource, Giant Bomb, called us URL of the year. Amy: But despite our success, fractions remain one of the least understood representations of numerical value amongst children age 8 to 12. Hunter: We've got a plan to fix this, but it won't work without your help. -your help. -your help. -your help. [Frozen video, buzzing sound] Amy: [middle of speaking, but clip is too short and quick to understand] Voice 1: I've hijacked[?] the input screen, ready?[?] Voice 2: We're sending this message from the year 2023. We've studied the phenomena for [input games?] And though we've made some sense of it, we're [unintelligible] math to the decay used faster than we can burn it. Amy: Partisinal draggy ceiling-eiling-eiling Voice 2: We're sending back this message to [unintelligible] that may make the difference [unintelligible] We think that- Hunter: There will be three difficulty levels: Easy, Easy, Easy, and Extreme. Voice 1: [unintelligible] I have lost the connection briefly. We've got about 30 seconds, if we're lucky. Voice 2: It's too late for our timeline, but it may not be for yours. [unintelligible] Voice 1: No, I guarantee you, I will not be held account- Voice 2: Of course not, at this point all we can do is hope that the math holds up. Hunter: -bought Frog Fractions 1 for your child, but were unsatisfied with his or her standardized test scores, you will of course receive a copy of Frog Fractions 2, absolutely free of charge. [Enter people from the future] Dude with Hat(DwH): Aloha. Hunter: Who are you guys? DwH: We come from the future. Amy and Hunter: The future?? DwH: Backers, we have an important message for you at this most critical point in the development of your young child's minds. You see, the human brain before the age of 12 is highly plastid, meaning that it can learn much more ra-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a- a Face: [unintelligible] broadcast window is short, so listen carefully. The last 4 digits of the[or this?] page viewcount must use 451. Amy: Wait so you guys are from the future. DwH: Yes. Amy: Does iTunes just keep getting worse? DwH: Yes. Face: 0451. The enormity of this request cannot be conveyed over this data channel. Godspeed. Hunter: Well, you heard it here first, if your child doesn't understand fractions, then he or she is doomed to a life of innumeracy. Just ask these guys. DwH: Trust us, we are from the future. For example, I know grandpa here is about to start playing the guitar. Hunter: So pledge today. The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Is: Hunter S. Gunderson Amy Rengstorff Time Travelers: Nix Barnett Brian Murphy Amelia Grace Frog Fractions 2 Your child's holy hope for a future! Thanks for watching! Past Dude with Hat: Ladies and Gentlemen of the future I bring you a message of the utmost importance Guy writing on chalkboard: Three seconds! PDwH: Three sec- --- Misc. Notes: Calculus book on the piano, can't see any specifics of it In the “UNDERSTANDING (8-12yrs)” chart, fractions rank less understood than “IEEE 754 floating point” One timeline from the future is from 2023, twinbread.com is copyright 1863, exactly 160 years apart. Maybe someone should contact the Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio and claim that we are unsatisfied with some SAT scores to possibly get a free copy of Frog Fractions 2? It seems like there are 5 different time... eras going on in this video: Current, the one we are living in, where the Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio are doing stuff A future timeline in 2023, where they effected the video, overwriting the video and audio at certain points. I'm going to try and capture the various images they showed during their broadcast, there's some interesting stuff in there. I think I saw them playing a classic version of Prince of Persia? Possibly a different future timeline, year unknown, where they physically went to our timeline and interacted with us. Amy and Hunter being 'us', this era's representation to them. Presumably another different future timeline, though not confirmed, who also hijacked the video. But instead of entirely replacing the footage, it was some weird thing of like, using the colors and images from the original video and using the motion and some details from where/whenever he is from for his message. There was no actual mention of this guy being from the future though, I thought that might be important to mention. And finally, the past timeline which we may be able to assume is from 1863. 4 4:41 am I recognized the wooden frog carving that was in the paper bag from one of the images in the broadcast 4 3:32 pm https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/464448872652103682 4 1:41 pm Those are the pants and gauntlets from Havel's armor set in Dark Souls 2. He's using a "boxing" build. Now someone just needs to make a Sleepless Bill Bishop and challenge him in PVP... 4 4:39 pm Yeah, I was busy with real life stuff, but I'm back now. There must be something we're missing. 10:05 am The password couldn't be anything as obvious as Kernal Of Truth or kernaloftruth, could it? 4 7:51 pm fishnchips wrote: Maybe someone should contact the Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio and claim that we are unsatisfied with some SAT scores to possibly get a free copy of Frog Fractions 2? This is not a real thing, unfortunately. There is an AshbyBrewery Twitter account, but it is inactive. KernelOfTruth and variants are a no-go for the password as best I can tell. I too am frustrated by our collective lack of progress. There has to be something that we are missing. 4 6:26 pm Might I suggest that the password might be BUTTSBUTTSBUTTS... repeated an amount of times? Seems likely, given the name of the arj and all the BUTTS references. 4 6:35 pm Welp, I've tried BUTTSBUTTSBUTTS onward and buttsbuttsbutts onward until arj broke because the password was too long, and both are not the password. 4 7:35 pm Okay, recap time. ======== Unsolved ======== * ARJ * 0451 * BUTTS * The Jig * Frog Statue * Kick-starter images * Time Travelers * A.B.I.G.S. * A Big S * Exif Data * (469)BEA-RDS4 * recipie13 A Big S comes from a realization of the acronym of Ashby Brewery. Relevant? probably not. ======== Solved ======== * KoT Audio * Obamashave * Eolo5387 4 8:28 am Hello? Anybody there? We're halfway off the main page, we sure don't want to fall onto page 2. 4 6:46 pm We should probably avoid using unar to try and crack the stinky.arj file as the website claims it doesn't support multi-part arj files. http://unarchiver.c3.cx/formats 4 8:05 am thor] [One of: Ascending/Descending] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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[Question] m  stinky.arj Password ======================== First off, I was wondering what you guys are using to attempt to decompress the multipart arj file, and how you know that it is password-protected. Secondly, I have an idea for what the password might be about. The bug porn calendar months go 2 4 6 10 12, with 8 missing, which has already been established. However, I figure that given that the name of the arj file is stinky.arj, maybe the password has something to do with a stink bug? Or a bug that smells bad? Perhaps a stink bug is the bug in the missing bug porn calendar month 8, or August, which suggests that the password could relate to stink bug reproduction and mating. Just throwing ideas out there. I just recently found the time to get into and catch up with this arg. m  Brick Wall ======================== Uh oh, we've really hit a brick wall here, huh? [Sad] m I thought perhaps the phone audio with all the "meh meh mi ma"s might be morse code. I can't determine anything sensible out of it though... Also, just for completeness: Jim's business card had JCRNWmZiVE5DXGhfTg== on it, which base 64 decoded gives: $$MZfbTNC\h_N It's the same input to the brainfuck program that appeared in /r/ kernaloftruth (the link with ?stdin=). Other than that, I tried a few passwords on the stinky archive but no luck :/ m Welp, unless we get some more details, in short. we're up shit creek without a paddle. m It's probably a red herring, but a google search turns up a second stinky.arj file located at http:// cd.textfiles.com/ microhaus/mhblackbox7/ WINDOWS/SOUNDS/ STINKY.ARJ This is a much smaller, non-password-protected file containing STINKY.WAV, which is a brief audio clip from an episode of Ren and Stimpy (the clip is of the phrase "I smell something stinky!"). If it's not a coincidence, maybe the contents of this .arj are related to the password for the other? I tried a couple of variations on it with no luck. It seems unlikely that there's anything hidden in the metadata for this, since it was apparently uploaded in 1993. If nothing else, it provides a fresh brick wall to bang our heads against. m OK, we may be looking at this wrong. What if page count refers to actual pages? Our top candidates are the bible, new testament, and that excerpt from the Persian book. Maybe the Rosencrantz roleplay. Additionally, Rosencrantz could be a reference to the flower and bug stickers. Do we need to find the rose and ant? Finally, maybe it's 45: 1 instead? That could help us find more things. Also try looking up the new testament. It was the messiah offering bread, after all. m https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=vNAFuXxkuFY A guy made a summary of the ARG. Also made this imgur album. http://imgur.com/a/CwGaw I say maybe we should stop trying to brute force the password and figure it out how we're supposed to. Solve the puzzle and all that. Cmon, there's gotta be something... I'm stuck, too, tbh. m YOOOO! found this http://goombas.org/ m The page numbers on goombas.org are 5-8-7-2- 10-11-6-3-9-4 http://twinbeard.com/ 230_huggy-bear is mentioned on page 7 Also, the one page. [04:45:52] Tim: they are cysts [04:46:26] Tim: careful when they are under your ear [04:46:41] Tim: like, under the lobe on your neck [04:46:58] Tim: in the place where you jaw meets the rest of your skull [04:47:10] Tim: apparently you can kill yourself by popping them if things go just wrong enough [04:47:29] Tim: a tragic way to go Maybe the differences in times matter? IDK, just guesses. m Translocator, I'm sorry, but what do you mean by "page numbers?" Maybe I'm blind, but I can't seem to find anything like what you describe. Also, might be another Red Herring, but if you search "stinky" in the search box on Goombas.org, it only comes up with one result, like this: http://goombas.org/ search.php?search=stinky Which leads to this page: http:// goombas.org/1370_july- 2013-microblog- digest.html Which only has one instance of "stinky" on it, from a twitter post by Jim, seen here: https://twitter.com/ rachel_sala/status/ 353346606055170050 The "stinky" in question appears in the link: www.stinkymeat.net That's as far as I've gotten... Although, the twitter post is from July of 2013... Perhaps he made it part of the ARG later on, using an old tweet to make it seem like it wasn't part of it?[/url] m We're very clearly stumped. anyone. anyone at all? how long ago did this thing start? I'm about to declare this the D word. Spoiler (Rollover to View): DEAD m By page numbers I meant the numbers of the pages on the sidebar: Topics: coding= page 5 games= page 8 goombas.org= page 7 horror= page 2 judgement= page 10 life= page 11 minutiae= page 6 music= page 3 rants= page 9 software= page 4 They're not in order from 1 to 10 like you would assume. When you put them in numerical order... horror= page 2 music= page 3 software= page 4 coding= page 5 minutiae= page 6 goombas.org= page 7 games= page 8 rants= page 9 judgement= page 10 life= page 11 It skips the number one. When you change the link to number 1 it doesn't display anything. 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I didn't notice anything weird, other than it ends mid sentence. Unrelated, but frogfractions2.com is slightly bizarre (literally fractioned frogs). The description tag is "Learning about fractions 2 is fun!"... the YouTube account of the video has been around for years, and has quite a few really weird seemingly educational style videos featuring a bad CG frog. It might be nothing to do with any of this though! m The WHOIS data of twinbread.com and frogfractions2.com are very different (different hosts, location, owners, etc.), but frogfractions2.com was created recently (3/12/14), so it's possible it is related... m So other than the embedded video, frogfractions2.com just has the text "3/4" in the page... I tried going to http://frogfractions2.com/3/ 4, but that (or any other sub-page) redirects to http:/ / www.christopherjameshart.com/ with an interesting visualisation on. I can't find any other info, or anything else about Christopher James Hart other than another page on his site which comes up: http:// www.christopherjameshart.com/ squares/. This seems to be an interpretation of the game Mao, where you've got to experiment to place squares correctly. Feels a bit off the path though. Edit: Found his almost suspiciously quiet YouTube stream: https:// www.youtube.com/channel/ UCLc89GBgMScIU35-R0mKk0Q/feed m Had a chat about the compression format with a colleague of mine today and we reckon there's potentially a feasible attack on the archive based on compressing another MP4 file with hopefully similar enough headers and using it as a known plaintext attack on the ARJ encryption, which would be vulnerable to that due to being based on simply XORing the contents with the file. I haven't found much written up as to how ARJ actually compresses files though, the specific algorithm may make the attack infeasible. m I'm not too familiar with compression theory etc, but I did find a few sources that detail the ARJ algorithm that you may be able to make sense of... http://cpsr.org/prevsite/ cpsr/privacy/crypto/tools/ docs/arj-encryption.txt/ http://www.fileformat.info/ format/arj/corion.htm https:// farmanager.googlecode.com/ svn/trunk/plugins/multiarc/ arc.doc/arj.txt m Got it. So, I went and wrote a parser for arj files to get a feel for how they work and investigate any possible weaknesses they might have. After figuring out how the encryption actually works (not actually as described in http://cpsr.org/prevsite/ cpsr/privacy/crypto/tools/ docs/arj-encryption.txt/ but the page was very useful), I took a look at the byte distributions in some unencrypted but still compressed test videos I'd grabbed. Turns out that there's a lot of similarity between the byte frequency distributions of ARJ compressed MP4 files, AND you can get closer to that distribution by guessing only a letter of the password at a time, but which isn't 100% accurate (something like 95%). Since the archive is in 5 parts though, that gave me several files to verify against each other. So, I eventually got a script together ( http:// pastebin.com/QBPVN97b ) that guesses a letter at a time for various assumed password lengths (the algorithm needs to know the total password length up front, but partially works for multiples/divisors of that length) and... we've been staring at the answer this whole damn time! "zero four five one". And...: https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zx23nWRrjno Nothing but further mysteries. Brain too fried by going deep crypto to make much sense of it. Edit: Thanks to https:// twitter.com/kitbarnes for suggesting a bunch of stuff. m Can anyone make out the map at 0:56? It looks to me like there's a location there, then the next shot is of what could be a fake manhole cover being revealed beneath the red cloth. I'd take a guess at there being something under there, maybe the tablet itself? m I've extracted all the frames with the map displayed: http: //imgur.com/a/jDs7q Edit: The frog hand here looks to be writing [I?]"OU" on an envelope earlier in the video. m I'm guessing that the map shows somewhere in California, probably the park that some of the video takes place in. The park looks fairly unique, so it's possible that someone could recognize it. As for the arcade, it looks very similar to other arcades, so maybe no luck there. Most of the things inside the video seem to be references to the first game - there's a frog riding on a lily pad, it being surrounded by flies, a frog plush eating a butterfly, a frog riding on a turtle etc. The parts that interest me is the part with Jim Crawford making a speech, and then getting punched. The crowd cheers, then the rightmost woman in the crowd gets punched. Also the scene with the person in the chair watching the dogs on TV. And of course the original prince of Persia. It appeared in the kickstarter video, and it appears in this video too. EDIT: Can you (or someone else) create a download file for the unencrypted stinky.mp3? I'm dumb and can't figure out how to unencrypt it (or use arj32 at all), but will still like to play around with it. m Sure, the original is here: http://norgg.org/files/ stinky.mp4 (I'd put the link in the YouTube description, but it got hidden under the "show more..." bit. m Holy shit Norgg nice work! m So I looked at the metadata for the video using both GSpot and MediaInfo. There's some normal stuff, but it's interesting that the video was encoded on the 5th of April, 2014 at 6:55 pm. Also, using GSpot there seems to be some user "human authored" data. It says (c) ART. 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Can't believe we missed out on such an obvious password... Glad to see this (hopefully) pick up pace again. m So the road that's the most visible on the map starts with W, and is a Road, not a street. It seems to be a long name, which is good. Around 10 characters is my guess. so W _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ RD. My guess for the second letter is I. after that, not so sure. Also, the part in the past where Jim gets punched seems to be the story between "Sleepless" Bill Bishop and Andre Filipe Filipe, who invented the punching strategy. The story (which is present in the first game) goes that Bill Bishop was quite surprised when, describing what he had for breakfast that morning, Andre F. Filipe punched him and put him out for the count. This may also explain the breakfast items present in the calendar - it could be what Bill Bishop was describing before Andre punched him. Also, the special thing about April 5th was that it was the day when Frog Fractions 2 passed its kickstarter goal. m Here's a recap of each bit of the stinky video, just because I'm as stuck as the rest of you guys: Frog on a lily pad, gets surrounded by bugs. In a park. Frog eats a butterfly in a supermarket. Frog riding a turtle. Frog (in a video game) jumping towards an apple (in real life). Frog in the air over apples? Frog on a dragons head. Frog riding a dragon through space. Frog and Draggy on one of the NASA pages, above a picture of the surface of mars. Frog and dragon by a spinny arm thing, similar to the machine from the very start of Bug Mars in the original. A judge hammer hits a childrens table. A frog signs something- looks like it is signing "OU". A bug Mars Working holiday VISA cake? Mario 3 Frog Suit! Jim talking. My theory for this is above. Bored audience. Someone curls up a fist. Someone is watching a dog on tv while waving their tail about. A fish swims by. The fist punches Jim. The crowd looks more excited. Jim starts to fall. Frog and dragon in front of a game stage. crowd is excited and parties. Jim falls to the ground, his hand dropping. A man in the audience punches a woman. More dog show on tv for the mermaid. A jug in a full sink. A jug getting filled from a pond/river. The google map. A person wearing a frog hand moves the map upward. A rug is pulled, revealing a water meter. A red pole against a wall. Frog taking some sticky tape? pink goo coming out of a tap. pink goo in a canister. A frog killing sharks in an arcade. Playing skeeball. Deal or no deal. Motorbike simulator. A tiger and a lion plush together. The tiger drinks some tea. The zimbabwe flag. A snail wearing a tie. A fish wearing a crown. Frog and Dragon conversing. Playing prince of persia. Frog dives into a pool. And with typing this out, I realise I'm an idiot, and this video is the whole plot to Frog Fractions: You start off on a lilipad, eating bugs. You upgrade to a lillipad, gain apples, find the apples at the bottom of a lake, and then get the dragon upgrade. You then get the warp upgrade to go to space, towards mars, and fight the guardian there.You go to court, and sign a working holiday visa. You then go back to eating bugs, swim down and start to learn the history of wrestling (see above). You see a normal mermaid and a robotic one watching tv during the course of this swim. (the jug doesn't fit) The google map is reference to the glowing display in the text adventure. In the text adventure, one thing you do is pull a rug to reveal a hatch. you then enter the hatch, see pink goo everywhere, look at the machine, take the paper, the tape, fill a coffeee can up with pink goo from a spigot, then you go to sleep. When you wake up you run for president, which involves a DDR style minigame (Explains the arcade). You then get some fake credits, betsy bluebonnet (which is shown as a lion and a tiger having tea), sir clarence gastropod (who is a snail wearing a bow tie), draggy ceilingeater himself, and at the end, a frog gets a crown. All the meantime the zimbabwe flag is flying in the background. After this, you become the president, play a fully fledged economics simulator, get your presidential pool, and dive into it. So, all that's left is to find out what the jug of water and the red pole is for. I think I accounted for everything else. m Killrrhubarb wrote: I realise I'm an idiot, and this video is the whole plot to Frog Fractions Ohh, goddammit, of course. I recognised various bits as being scenes from Frog Fractions, but didn't quite put it together. Killrrhubarb wrote: So, all that's left is to find out what the jug of water and the red pole is for. I think I accounted for everything else. The jug (cafetiere) in the sink is the rocket ship you find underwater, then the next scene is it taking off (you can tell it's a rocket from the way it's shaking around because that's how rockets work). I'm not sure about the red pole (or plank or something?), but I'd guess at it representing the goop machine seen up close? Or maybe the gap in the wall with the wire that needs fixed? Have renamed the video on YouTube to "Frog Fractions Walkthrough". m Another thing that seems odd is that the arcade shows up a disproportionate amount of times compared to the ddr section. Unless the Deal or no Deal machine is also meant to show the economics simulator? (As well as Prince of Persia, which may itself be a clue). For the red pole, i think it might be referencing the goop around the room, the pole or the wire, but it could also be a clue. Is it possible (because this is an arg, after all) that there's still something hidden in the original Frog Fractions game, which was added after the kickstarter ended? Maybe something to do with the keypad in the engine room? m I don't /think/ so, unless he's quietly updated the game. I may have decompiled and checked the original Frog Fractions for clues/urls a while back... I did find a reference to http://twinbeard.com/ visas/ (screenshot here in case it vanishes: http:// i.imgur.com/E6RNbez.png), but it was disabled, which I thought at the time was because he was originally going to gather all the work visas, but decided not to (I uploaded http:// twinbeard.com/visas/ 1398857854_66281721.png as a test). It looks like there's been several more entries since then though which look like they're from Frog Fractions Visas from the frequency of crudely drawn penii alone. m So we're basically finished with this video then? Unless there's previous clues we can work on with knowledge from the video. m I wonder if any of the games featured are hints about the guise of Frog Fractions 2? Prince of Persia, Gradius, Deal or No Deal clones? It seems a little obvious, but in hindsight so does 0451! m likeabillion wrote: I wonder if any of the games featured are hints about the guise of Frog Fractions 2? Prince of Persia, Gradius, Deal or No Deal clones? It seems a little obvious, but in hindsight so does 0451! I feel the most likely one would be Prince of Persia, considering it showed up in both the KS video and this video... m Prince of persia ========================== Can anybody identify the computer/system that the frog is playing Prince of Persia on at the end of the video? Or what version of Prince of Persia that is. Because, as many of you may know, basically every system that the original Prince of Persia was ported to looks slightly different and some of the bad ports even play differently. m Looks like an Apple IIGS https://imgur.com/4po3pPp The game itself is a cracked version, cracked by "The Crasher" as seen on the following site, and confirmed as being the cracked version on the video here: https:// imgur.com/ysXwidE http:// hackers.applearchives.com/ cracked.html Could be another dead end, but could also be a lead. m So, are there any unsolved mysteries left? Besides the purpose of the video, that is. m   ========================== http:// store.steampowered.com/ app/327890/ Twinbread.... Is this related at all? m Mister wrote: So, are there any unsolved mysteries left? Besides the purpose of the video, that is. Quite a few. There's the "meh" sound clip, the kernaloftruth hidden secrets, (the instrument playing at the end and the voice during the middle), and some more i'm probably forgetting. As for "I am bread", it's a game made by Surgeon Simulator creators Bossa Studios, so not at all related to Frog Fractions, unfortunately [Sad] m Killrrhubarb wrote: As for "I am bread", it's a game made by Surgeon Simulator creators Bossa Studios, so not at all related to Frog Fractions, unfortunately [Sad] Wouldn't that be what they would want you to think? Quote from the store page: "As you delve deeper and deeper into the story of 'I am Bread', you'll notice that things aren't quite what they seem..." Of course, it would be kind of strange to hide a surprise game in a game that's already strange. But maybe that's what they want you to think as well. Wait. What if he hid Frog Fractions 2... 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Prince of Persia, Gradius, Deal or No Deal clones? It seems a little obvious, but in hindsight so does 0451! For what it's worth... Jim has been appearing on the Video_Games_Hot_Dog podcast for the last ~several episodes... he does confirm a familiarity with Gradius on the latest one. VGHD is from the Asymmetric Publications gang... and they also shipped the Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter physical rewards. They deny any other connection to FF2 in this_thread, BUT WOULDN'T THAT BE WHAT YOU WANT US TO THINK?? They have been doing mysterious contract work for the past several months, and they keep hinting at being something which will not quite be "released", not quite be "sold" but somehow will be "delivered" (when jig is up??) 1:55 pm frogfractions2.com ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================== likeabillion wrote: I just watched all of the video - after about 10 minutes, it becomes a (quite interesting) Q&A with Jim and Rachel. I didn't notice anything weird, other than it ends mid sentence. Unrelated, but frogfractions2.com is slightly bizarre (literally fractioned frogs). The description tag is "Learning about fractions 2 is fun!"... the YouTube account of the video has been around for years, and has quite a few really weird seemingly educational style videos featuring a bad CG frog. It might be nothing to do with any of this though! When I go to frogfractions2.com, I instead get linked to this_game, which is reminiscent of the original frog fractions. Does frogfractions2.com just link to different websites at different times? The person who made the linked frog in prauge made it in 2008 and has a host of other really weird games. I'm not really sure if it's directly related. It would be useful if we could know all the other websites frog fractions 2 linked to. 2:38 am Whoa, holy crap! frogfractions2.com DEFINITELY didn't used to link to a kongregate game. Unless I just missed the specific times, I remember because I checked that site many times, trying to look and the source code and find out who made the video and stuff. forgfractions2.com used to just link to plain old "frogfractions2.com" not somewhere else. It used to have a single youtube video embedded in it, which was some crappy "educational video" by some weird Dr. so and so guy. Can't quite remember his name. Looked like he might've been a real person or something though, I think I googled his name and some university stuff popped up. So maybe the site wasn't made by him? If i remember correctly, the WhoIs data for frogfractions2.com just had bull like "123 abc lane" or something for the addresses and the like. Below the embedded youtube video was the text "3/4" The background on the site was a picture of a bunch of frog legs chopped up, like sliced in half so that you could see the veins and stuff. Uncooked by the look of them. The picture itself seems to have been taken from some Wikipedia thing. About the game you sent, at the "end" of the game there is a reference to "$exxy and Zyzzle" clothing or something. And another game by that user is "Sexxy and Zyzzle Attack" which, on the opening screen thing, says to email "sexxyandzyzzle@yahoo.com" to buy their products. Sent off an email to them in the hopes that it leads somewhere. 2:43 am Just found this tweet by Jim. Quote: Here I am trying to decide what amusing .moe domain to register and I discover that somebody's already registered http://frogfractions2.com . This was back in November. So, we know that Jim was looking to register that domain, and we know that since November the domain has changed to something frog fractions related. Coincidence? We'll see... 1:21 pm I think we might be on to something with this frogfractions2.com to kongregate thing. On the profile of the guy who made the game (37 male acccording to his profile) he has a fan and a friend named "EmilyG" , i mean the same person, just that they are a fan and a friend of blahdada. On EmilyG's profile, her description says "I founded this site with my brother Jim. Playing games and calling it ‘research’ is the best job I’ve ever had. Oh, wait, I don’t get a paycheck. Maybe it’s not a job. Anyway, it’s fun. Hope you like the site." Hmm, could be a coincidence, but... Also note that at the end of "fog in prague," the only name that shows up as a high score and a 'comment' is "S&Z" with a high score of 690. 8:47 pm Damn, nevermind, I think that "EmilyG" is "Emily Geer," who, according to wikipedia, founded Kongregate with her brother, "Jim Geer." Just a coincidence after all... :'( 8:49 pm Whois Lookup ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================== The Whois_look_up returns a bunch of bs information, like the zip code being 12345, but it does have a huge clue. The email address the website is registered under is jimSPLATgoombas.org and goombas.org is jim crawford's blog. So it's definitely not a coincidence. I'm not sure if he's just messing with us by redirecting the website to random frog-based things, though. 0:24 pm Quote: The Whois look up returns a bunch of bs information, like the zip code being 12345, but it does have a huge clue. The email address the website is registered under is jimSPLATgoombas.org and goombas.org is jim crawford's blog. So it's definitely not a coincidence. I'm not sure if he's just messing with us by redirecting the website to random frog-based things, though. Ooo! Nice. Hmm, I don't think that jimSPLATgoombas.org was the admin name before the website changed from that education video thing, so maybe Jim purchased the domain name from the original owner? Darn it. This ARG seems to have more red herrings than I don't know what. Could also be a clue though I suppose... 1:55 am Damn, the old version of the site isn't up on archive.org any more. I might have a cached version on another computer, but all I can see from my history now is that the title was "Fractions of Frogs". Anyone still got the link to the YouTube video that was embedded? 8:45 am Prodly the puffin ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================== During the video, jim had a nametag with the word Riccardo on it. This is a reference to a game he made: twinbeard.com/118_prodly-the-puffin Prodly the puffin is itself a reference to this web comic:https://web.archive.org/web/20070505104459/http://lightning.prohosting.com/~prodly/ which is unfortunately down, but still available on archive. Prodly the puffin is, in turn, a reference to pokey the penguin, which is available here: http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/. Also, in pokey the penguin, riccardo is instead called gustavo. I'm not sure if any of this is related, but can one of the genies here check if the prodly the puffin game is hiding anything? Secondly, I took a closer look at stinky.mp4. During the video, we can see the frogs working visa, and there are a couple things of note. First off, it says that the frogs name is Bartholomew Salience. I'm assuming this is referring to an important person named bartholomew, but I'm not sure who that would be. Secondly, it says the he lives on 129(4?)5 Bug Street, Insectopolis. I doubt this means anything, 1295 may be a clue though. Lastly, and most importantly, his signature says "Prout". I looked up the name prout, and I came up with Louis Beethoven Prout, a biologist. He was the foremost authority on geometer moths, which I'm guessing are the moths depicted in frog fractions. His father, ebenezer proust was also a musician, maybe one of the songs in the arg is attributed to him? Can anyone recognize the song in stinky.mp4, I was unable to, and knowing the song title may be an important clue. 4:20 pm Interesting connection. I decompiled the game and didn't find much of interest, but I really only ctr+f'ed for things like "bread" and "frog". Feel free to search through the code. _____________________________________________________ |__________________________________out.txt____________| |Description|Output_of_Z_Code_decompiler| [txt] | |Filename __|out.txt __________________| | |Filesize __|526KB ____________________|  Download| |Downloaded |52_Time(s) _______________|____________| 8:14 pm Frog Fractions 2 ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================== So uhh... I got an email from humble bundle with a download page to Frog Fractions 2. The game download isn't available yet, but the Remix/Tribute album was. I just downloaded it, and as far as I can tell, I don't see anything with information, but I'll upload the album cover. I'm not going to upload the soundtrack though, out of respect to Jim though, and I hope you guys understand. http://i.imgur.com/tiEpz9Y.jpg 4:07 pm It definitely looks like Jim purchased frogfractions2.com from the previous owner. The whois entry didn't have Jim's goombas.org addy before. It looks like he also purchased frogfractions.com, as that used to be a very grey site with no frogs. The internet is a strange place. Killrrhubarb wrote: I feel the most likely one would be Prince of Persia, considering it showed up in both the KS video and this video... Gradius features in both videos. In the original Frog Fractions, the boss just after the asteroid section is a Gradius homage. This is probably stretching it... but Gradius has a sister series called Salamander - and Salamanders prey on insects. A rival amphibian to our lovable hero? 1:32 pm  Origin of Recipie13 ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Please dont die on me! ;( Anyway, I found out the origin of the text in recipie13. Have no idea why its there though. 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I've ran the whole album through the one in foobar. Nothing interesting pops up I'm afraid. pm Guys, frogfractions2.com now redirects to a game on Kongregate called "frog in prauge". And what seems to be a bad copy of frog fractions. The only thing I noticed was some interesting comments at the end... Thoughts? am Quote: Voice 1: I've hijacked[?] the input screen, ready?[?] Voice 2: We're sending this message from the year 2023. We've studied the phenomena for [input games?] And though we've made some sense of it, we're [unintelligible] math to the decay used faster than we can burn it. Voice 2: We're sending back this message to [unintelligible] that may make the difference [unintelligible] We think that- Voice 1: [unintelligible] I have lost the connection briefly. We've got about 30 seconds, if we're lucky. Voice 2: It's too late for our timeline, but it may not be for yours. [unintelligible] Voice 1: No, I guarantee you, I will not be held account- Voice 2: Of course not, at this point all we can do is hope that the math holds up. Any interpretations on the video? Or the audio, for that matter? Quote: (469)BEA-RDS4(mehmeh), JesusBreadWine? Looked up Numbers 6:9 (469) because I was thinking about Numbers 5:1, and while the verse itself didn't contain much (something about dying men and shaving), 6:3 & 6:4 are interesting: Quote: "He shall seperate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neithar shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." "All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk." Basically, no wine, no bread. This sounds like a coincidence, however I found this in the New Testament: John (4th NT book) 6:9 reads: Quote: "There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?" This sounds much more suspect. Quote: A.B.I.G.S. Ashley Brewery Indie Game Studio? Also, there is a reoccuring theme of the 19th century, specifically the 1860s (chalkboard at the end of the video, time travellers during meetup, twinbread copyright at 1863, etc). There are a couple of possibilities for what is going on with this: * These TTs are from an alternate timeline where time travel is discovered before or during the 1860s. These TTs are in OTL, and they are the only ones that know about this time travel by the 1860s. (I think this is the likeliest. It explains the ability to contact us, while the former has trouble with that.) These TTs are actually from the future, and have dressed up as people from the 1860s to blend in. (This has a lot of inconsistencies, however. Why aren't the time travellers in the Kickstarter video dressed up like us? Why don't the time travellers sound like they're from the future? Why aren't the time travellers' costumes consistent? etc.) And this may be a bit of a stretch, but could it be that Twinbeard and Twinbread are seperate, possibly rivals or in a conflict? All of the TTs seem to be aligned to Teambread some way or another, except for the TTs in the Kickstarter video. EDIT: Also, it may be important that after John 6:9, John goes on to talk about how Jesus then splits up the bread for the thousands of followers. I'm not entirely sure. pm Is anyone able to help breathe some life back into this? Current state feels like a mish mash of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Could we have missed anything simple, like the password we missed? am Before I start I just want to state that my computing capabalities pale in comparison to those before me, so if anything all I will have are theories. The puzzle has not been solved yet. Although I'm sure most of you are aware of the fact, but I wanted to make sure so I emailed TwinBeard Studios and got this reply Quote: On Mar 1, 2015, at 19:19, Jim Crawford wrote: The jig is not up. I repeat, the jig is not up. You will not be able to contact me at this number again. I'm fairly positive this has nothing to do with the clue, although his word choice of number instead of address threw me off for a bit, but it was probably nothing. === Another thing, and it may have been mentioned and I just glossed over it, but I didn't see anyone mention the twitter post from @Obeardy on April fifth: https://twitter.com/obeardy/status/ 452609380878258176 The image in question was taken at Taronga Zoo, which is in Australia. I wouldn't be surprised if there was something to do with everything being upside down in Australia, maybe we were looking at something with the wrong perspective? Maybe someone could convert the image sound file? I honestly don't know how to go about doing so. No more butts, pls. [Crying or Very sad] am After realising most of my friends never played frog fractions and recently enjoying bringing them into the fold I have come here to try and find some kind of solace. I realise this thread has never been too active but I find myself tumbling down a dark Fez- style rabbit hole, jumping at every tweet Jim Crawford has made recently and it's making me crazy. D: A few days ago http://steamcommunity.com/ sharedfiles/filedetails/ ?id=404111723&searchtext=shower+with+your+dad a trailer for this game was posted on GiantBomb and though I've long grown past biting at suspicious games like that this one... seems to directly reference Frog Fractions. :/ The bottom left character in said trailer is a frog shooting his tongue, I am not familiar with a game that could be as significant as Frog Fractions in this spot, especially given most of the other characters seem to reference extremely well known or (game) culturally significant things. D: the time stamps are ~1:10 and ~1:15. The Giant Bomb post describes the video as "really something else", the video is highly polished but then all of a sudden seems to have jarring elements that I don't understand D:, the greenlight account is almost brand new and the cool trailer doesn't seem to reference any of the gameplay shots given, I am reminded that they describe in the kickstarter "it could be xxxxx 2015 simulator or something" but it seems way too obvious and on the nose D: and stuff like that just keeps stabbing my poor, stupid hobo brain so I'm posting this in an effort to make it stop D: I don't even expect anyone to read this at that point but I had to throw it to something cause *no one* seems to be takling about it. D: pm Something is up with that shower with your dad simulator. There are butts everywhere too. Gather your pitchforks men, get that fking frog. pm I found this, I don't remember where or why. D: FF2 at GDC a couple of weeks ago https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/ 573252806863273984 from http://www.neogaf.com/forum/ showthread.php?t=1004191 pm For those who aren't aware, there is a twitter account called @IsTheJigUpYet WE JUST NEED TO FIND THE GAME pm On the note of Shower With Your Dad, it also points out one of the eventual races will be titled "DAD DIVISIONS" pm  No frogs in the shower! ============================================= Darn, sorry you guys, but it looks like Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015 isn't actually Frog Fractions 2. At least, according to Jim Crawford. I sent him an email with a link to the Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015, see the image below for details. https://imgur.com/6ZKDSA7 I moused over the 'this' hyperlink so that you could see in the bottom left that it leads to this link: https:// steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/ ?id=404111723 EDIT: Whoops, I just realized that it didn't actually show his email, jim(AT)goombas.org, so I moused over his name and took another screenshot. Here: http://imgur.com/5MqZJlu pm I want to explore the theme of C64 some more. (The Tape, "Kernal" of Truth reference) It's entirely likely that FF2 could be a C64 release, or that there could be something out there in the C64 world to look for. am Domestic Dog Simulator ============================================= Could it be this: http:// store.steampowered.com/app/340340/ It's C64 themed. By an obscure developer with little to no background information, it'd be an easy front company. Even if it's not actually in DDS yet, they keep talking about a new DLC being worked on. maybe in september like the KS said they'll put a "DLC" that's actually FF2. I already contacted the developer to find out more. pm Notthe dogs ============================================= Emailed Jim, he said "Nope, sorry!" so it's not. It's got to be out there somewhere, maybe. Maybe try looking at this from another perspective than the breadcrumbs we've been given. pm I doubt it, but does anyone have news on Frog Fractions 2? 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I'd really like to know. The only thing I've seen was a mention from the composer on March 17th 2015: http://www.ryanike.com/ blog/frog-fractions-2/ No real info, but maybe they've been busy working on FF2 since the Kickstarter and are only wrapping things up now? Something of significance must have occurred to warrant a blog post wayyy after the Kickstarter. Maybe Ryan has only just started working on FF2, and it's a way off yet? 1:17 pm As far as I can see at a quick glance (and checking whois) it's entirely unrelated, but: http:// www.froggyfractions.com/ as tweeted in https:// twitter.com/brandonnn/ status/ 596748060698353664 5:50 pm And there's a hitcounter. Worth waiting to see what happens at 0451. 5:15 am Huh, and that Froggy Fractions site is even more suspicious because everything seems to be out of stock... Is it? Or is the toy not even real to begin with? And when I "pre-order" it, all it really seems to do is give it a thumbs up! Another weird thing that I noticed was that on this page, [url]http:// www.froggyfractions.com/ #!product-page/c1qs1[/ url] , it says that the SKU number is "12345678" Odd to choose that as your product ID number, eh? The only thing that really doesn't add up is the location they say they are at, in that Google maps thing at the bottom. By the way, has anybody tried using the "Contact Us" thing at the bottom, to the left of the Google maps thing? Did they respond? 0:57 pm total Attempted to communicate - awaiting response. Anyone from Boston able to check out the location in the map? 4:20 am The site does look exceedingly suspicious... But, according to this twitter account and this tweet, it seems like it may in fact be unrelated 6:52 pm Wrote a message, got a nice reply from Chris LaFleur saying that it's not related at all, and will apparently be doing a Kickstarter themselves in the future. 2:10 pm KGWP wrote: [*]The first videogame where it's reportedly used is Deus Ex. That means "A God from" in Latin. So definitely unrelated (unless Jim has been working on Frog Fractions 2 for over 30 years), but the use of 0451 in Deus Ex I believe was a reference to Fahrenheit 451, which there was actually a game made based on in 1984: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fahrenheit_451_ (video_game). Downloadable from http:/ /www.myabandonware.com/ game/fahrenheit-451-3x 2:34 pm Message in Frog Fractions reimagined ======================== A track from FF reimagined at 2:40 you can hear https://soundcloud.com/ franciscofoco/frog- fractions-fracciones- rana Were sending this message from the year 2023 resetting the timeline for a decade. Are there any other messages in the album? 7:54 pm Madden Crusader ======================== Also found this from the kickstarter simulator page http://twinbeard.com/ madden-crusader 8:11 am Madden Crusader ======================== ajbau wrote: http://twinbeard.com/ madden-crusader Ohh, fun game. Won it, decompiled it, don't seem to be any urls or anything else suspicious in there. :-/ 6:43 am   Message in Frog Fractions reimagined ======================== ajbau wrote: A track from FF reimagined at 2:40 you can hear https://soundcloud.com/ franciscofoco/frog- fractions-fracciones- rana Were sending this message from the year 2023 resetting the timeline for a decade. Are there any other messages in the album? I'd like to take a listen to see if I can hear any other messages, but I don't have the album, because sadly, I missed the FF2 Kickstarter. Does anybody know where I can listen to this or something? I mean, if I have to download it, I'll just buy the OST later when it's released too, since if it's part of the ARG, well, ya gotta do what ya gotta do. [Wink] Either that, or can anyone who DOES have the album from the kickstarter, like fishnchips (I think it was him who has it?), take a real close listen? maybe the next clue for the next step or whatever is in there. 5:34 pm Norgg wrote: Wrote a message, got a nice reply from Chris LaFleur saying that it's not related at all, and will apparently be doing a Kickstarter themselves in the future. And you believe him? I'm calling it's all a huge con - that site has to be where we will buy frog fractions 2. 8:05 pm Did anyone get the "Making Frog Fractions" pack? Any clues there? What do you all make of trainhotdog.cool? 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I don't know exactly what it says but he is doing a wiki http://trainhotdog.wikia.com/wiki/ Trainhotdog_Wikia 7 am From Podcast: to talk to her about the works and for some reason my mind earliest is just kinda blinks forward to towards the door for some reason even though I dont think they are in any way related. I liked her nest was it kind of been Peace felt like it was. I dont know if not to make fun of people but maybe i dont know its been a while since Ive actually lik ed watching earnest know i just remembered if you like stopped the shop then like puitting using your in it and then also tools not enjoying milk are you I could craft yeah also if youve got electricity towers From Wiki: through. year. her. for. final way. car. a. Co. Co. suspicion. hey I'm the guy who ever. in. in. them. car. court. I. even though I don't think there and. like her ass thank you. peace a. in. I don't know if not crying. make fun. people. actually way. watching her know through. 30 using your in it. and. also tonight is joining know how are you I could crash yeah. in also if you get electricity towers when I don't I. I don't know who accessing good thing you're not either way. keep up the good work 3 am XOOX Podcast Podcast: why do people focus on black ops flying when at your location at that echo is so much cooler then flying your job looking forward to the next one Wiki: Right now. Way. Way. Co. Co. Way. When at your location that's go. So much cooler and then flying your job. Looking forward to the next one. 7 am A History of Username Decoration PodCast: hello it is murphy from the space coast i have never workeds with a bow but I have worked with some man drag n it was a childhood nickname that he got pretending to play kung fu with his friends and it just kinda stuck it was a little weired and I thoought it was some weired code name for a whilebut then it just turned ouit to be middle aged manager which is surprising and so much much much less cool but i was expecting he was ok also there are still rockets that go up at the spcace coast they are fun to watch but it was more exciting when they set them off at night keep up the good work 8 am wiki transcripts ========================================= it looks to me like the transcripts are just output from a speech to text program 8 pm Are people still around? Things are Happening with this last episode: Train Hot_Dog_Episode_9_-_Hot_Dog_Time_Machine. A clue about the time travelers, maybe? The background noise audio is also reversed; I haven't listened to most of it yet but ??? Rider mail, pretty close to verbatim [edit: at 20:22]: "You know what I forgot to do? Rider mail. Okay. Um. Um let me do that right now. How do I, I-I haven't done this in, like, a week, so I need to search. Okay. Here's a rider mail uh from the 321 area code, that's the Space Coast, that's exciting. Uh this writer writes: 'Hey, it's Summer from the Space Coast. Hey, my wife lost her phone on the is on the train, can you check for me? Thanks, enjoying the pod care, good job.' Yeah, I'll go check. I'll go, I'll just wander the train and ch- and look for, look for this phone while I finish this podcast. Um. And here's another rider mail from the 510 area code. That's um the Bay Area. I, I don't know who this person is though, I don't recognize the number. This rider writes: 'I DON'T UNDERSTAND.' Well, I don't understand either, rider, so we're in the same boat. It's exciting." The second rider mail was me! :') I tried texting the BEARDS number last week, didn't think anything would happen. Proof: http://imgur.com/gallery/M1iwr2J/ Anyway I guess we're supposed to go find a hidden phone on BART now? 9 am Physical objects from April 5th event ========================================= I was thinking about the unsolved puzzles, and I was reminded of an MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle from a number of years ago that had a floppy disk involved. We actually had to physically pry open the disk to get at a paper note stuffed inside, in a corner that did not prevent the disk from functioning. I don't know who has the physical objects from the April 5th, 2014 event, but it might be worth copying the disks and then prying each one open carefully, by hand, with NO TOOLS. Here is a guideline video, but make absolutely sure not to touch the magnetic part, or lose the spring. They *can* be put back together again. https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7XzQd1sCFE Similarly, the statue of the frog has so far yielded nothing-- I am convinced that the sticker over the BUTT (remember the BUTTS?) might hide a drilled hole (is this a wooden sculpture, by the way?), or the glued bits on the bottom feet might be hiding things as well. ------ I also want to point out, because I don't see this discussed in the forums yet, that the "abduction event" occurred in front of a neighborhood called Normandy Village at 1863 Spruce Street in Berkeley. (aprox GIS 37.875108, - 122.265278). Intentional, certainly, but I don't know if this information is relevant anymore. Side note: the plants included in the bag were Oxalis pes-caprae (https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_pes-caprae) -- locally known as sourgrass, but invasive from South Africa to California; and either an aloe or a succulent ornamental lily from South Africa (hard to tell). Although Jim seems to be a careful biologist, it seems unlikely to me that he would have this level of knowledge, and instead, they probably just chose two plants that were nearby to include. I think there may be a clue in the "two plants, one animal, 4 forks, 4 spoons, 12 napkins" set of numbers. 9 am tal Physical objects from April 5th event- follow up question ========================================= Reading over the forums, it's not clear to me how many disks have been solved and how many are still in progress. Can someone give an updated list of disk ID- files on disk - solved/unsolved status? Thanks! 3 am Next episode of the podcast is out. No "Rider Mail" this time. Not sure yet if this podcast is related to the ARG or not... 1 am Since I promised not to get into a froghole again I won't be, just thought I'd show you this gameplay video of "Dad Divisions" from "Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" PLEASE NOTE: some guy already said this isn't Frog Fractions 2, but you'll want to see it anyway, I think. :p https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rcdAcxapfPE 7 pm Latest podcast mentioned Steam a lot also this audio https://soundcloud.com/adrian-bauer-7/ thd10audio 8 am I ran that audio through a spectrogram, nothing i can see. 7 pm has anyone tried ringing the beards number recently and checked whether this: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/ 469_bea_rds4.wav still plays? Also, here's a complete list of what i feel is still unsolved. If you can think of any more, add to the list! This code: http://forums.unfiction.com/ forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=29965 at the bottom of the picture. Perhaps it could be something used in either Prince of Persia, or in Desert Golf? recipie13(poem): “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” calendar bug porn EXIF->pseudo base 8 COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM Mandelbrot (almond bread?) / C64 (KERNAL) The music, either in forward: http:// forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/ kernaloftruth_humming.wav or in reverse: http:// forums.unfiction.com/forums/files/ kernaloftruth_humming_reverse.wav 0451 7 am I believe that Mandelbrot is a fractal and a number of other fractals turn up in different areas of this but I don't know how they all fit together. 0 am well, it is more of a set of complex numbers for which the sequence does not approach infinity. 8 pm 10/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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This seems to line up with approximate dates given previously. The Steam Hot Dog episode is I probably a clue that the game is on steam now or will be out soon the reference to Steam Powered which is also the steam website but here is the problem where is it released? Steam store or greenlight Maybe it is a Mod for Skyrim if you search 2023 you get Spy Bugs but I don't think that is it Search for fractal and you find Crashed Lander. The guy who made crashed lander posted on on of Jim's videos here http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/214969/ Video_Frog_Fractions_creator_finds_value_in_keeping_secrets.php am So far I'm thinking the podcast is unrelated and just another of Jim's projects pm There are a couple of reasons I don't agree. 1. In THD 9 The background train audio is reversed and the podcast is recorded after. I can't think of a logical reason to do this. I can't reduce Jims voice enough to hear the people speaking A LOT in the background. 2.THD 8 can not be downloaded at all but has a transcript. http://shows.kingdomofloathing.com/ahd/thd8.mp3 THD 9 transcript is just this: "[This episode transcript is flawed]" There is almost always strange rider mail from the 321 area code the space coast. am Physical objects from April 5th event =============================================================== Does anyone know how to contact the people who have the physical objects from the April 5th event? am Train Hot Dog 12 =============================================================== SUPER INTERESTING BIT AT END of THD 12 this week, with someone spelling something out, and then some sort of crazy audio glitch. Listen from 22:50 or so: https://youtu.be/ 3QeXpbLrVzc?t=22m50s Addition: @uberhacker this is a puzzle for you [Smile] am Isolated burst at end of Train Hot Dog 12 =============================================================== Hi everyone- it's a little dead in here, but there is a mystery afoot! There was a strange noise at the end of Train Hot Dog 12 ("Stay on Your Toast") that merits some attention. If you can't get the mp3 from the kol site, you can get it from youtube in the link I posted previously. I brought in a friend with audio decoding experience and we were able to pull together these 4 clips (3 unique clips, 1 is amplified). https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m4tr3rtc4m8gce5/ AACUaHU_0fwIL57XBz21Qlyca?dl=0 Here's a description of what's in the files from my friend: "The spectrogram doesn't show any text or anything. To my ear it sounds like the tempo and pitch have been increased but fiddling with those settings doesn't give me anything that sounds like speech, forward or backward. "I'd expect very distinct bands of energy on the spectrogram if this was some kind of encoding scheme like SSTV or PSK31, which I don't see here. I don't think it's output from some kind of analog modem (i.e. old 56K PSTN units) - normally the output from those sound like Gaussian noise (after the initial handshake at least). "Admittedly looking for a digital encoding scheme is a bit far fetched as this came from a YouTube video and was encoded with the MPEG AAC audio codec. It's a lossy encoder meaning data is lost during compression and that usually wrecks havoc with clever ways of transmitting data through sound. "I also tried importing the clip as u-law and a-law (logarithmic encoding schemes to get more dynamic range out of a given bit depth) but no luck, looks a lot more like random noise than the original sample. "One interesting thing is that burst of noise is mirrored perfectly between the two channels. If it was a mono sound clip converted to stereo, the standard way to do that is to just copy the data to both channels; the waveform would be identical. If it was stereo the waveform in each channel would be very similar but not mirrored. Here the data in the left channel appears to be the exact inverse of the data in the right channel. Strange. Whoa, I take that back, I merged the two tracks and instead of silence I got a little bit of audio. Still not the solution to the puzzle though.This clip is much more interesting on the spectrogram - instead of a wall of noise (like it was before) there seems to be distinct bands of energy. Doesn't look like speech either though. Maybe it needs some more processing?" pm Now this is interesting! It seems the podcast really may be part of the ARG. I too fiddled a bit with the clip at the end of THD 12, but with little success. The part in the middle sounds like speech, and when I slowed it down it definitely is speech, but I still can't make it out. Also, the beginning of that clip of audio before the muffled voice sounds to me like a robotic voice saying "Brought to you by" pm Hot Dog Train =============================================================== Hot Dog Train has to be part of the ARG. There are too many overlaps with the FF2 ARG so far to ignore it. The recent episode is titled "Stay on Your Toast"-- more bread references- - the Time Travel one ("Hot Dog Time Machine") is also special in some way. There was a recent episode of Video Games Hot Dog (incidentally, a really good podcast http:// videogameshotdog.com/) that came out right after the Train Hot Dog time travel episode was posted, in which Jim talks about how he was reluctant or worried about posting it, and almost didn't. I don't think anyone's listening to Video Games Hot Dog for clues to FF2, and I also don't think Jim is putting any clues in there. But he was saying, pretty informally, that he had some reason not to post "Hot Dog Time Machine". I think that episode and maybe the others need more attention. By the way, the text that accompanies the transcripts for episodes on the Train Hot Dog Wiki may be important. [This episode transcript is a work in progress] [This episode transcript is not yet finished] [This episode transcript is under construction] [This episode transcript is incomplete] [This episode transcript has some issues.] [This episode transcript isn't perfect.] [This episode transcript needs your help!] [This episode transcript needs work.] [This episode transcript is flawed] [This episode transcript is.] [This episode transcript will be a real boy some day.] [This episode transcript is missing important information] am Different URLs =============================================================== Been reading progress so far, and I got to say, I'm impressed with everything you guys have figured out so far. Looking forward to some Fractions 2! [Very Happy] Not sure if it would help much, but I did notice that when I'm on http://trainhotdog.cool/ and click on the link pointing me to Hot Dog Network, the url stays the same, even if I choose any of the 4 options. pm More podcast stuff =============================================================== I'm too lazy to decode it but Jim was on another podcast called the Red Pages podcast. They had an extrasode that had some obviously encoded stuff. May or may not be the same stuff that was in the train hot dog. Also I think one of the guys said he's now working with jim so there's a high likelyhood that there's something useful in here. http://redpagespodcast.com/ episodes/ Edit: Hm I had it downloaded to my podcast app on my phone but autodeleted after I listened as per my settings but I can't get the version on the website to load right now. I swear I'm not just lying about this. pm Which number of the Red Pages podcast? Edit: Found it, the "Extrasode" Direct link is here, and you're right, some obviously encoded stuff [Smile] https://ia601501.us.archive.org/18/items/RPP150625e/RPP15-06- 25e.mp3 pm Can someone post timestamps of the suspicious bits in the "extrasode"? pm aklreaxmer wrote: Can someone post timestamps of the suspicious bits in the "extrasode"? I haven't listened to all of it, but the main suspicious bit is from about 37:30 until about 40:00. Spectrogram of that bit here: http://i.imgur.com/QAffgAI.png There's some noise which could well be encoded data as well as what sounds like morse code. pm The morse code translates to: Quote: RPS SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM which backwards is: Quote: MIRE EXUBERANT MUSHINESS MIRE EXUBERANT MUSHINESS SPR Strange. pm Also, the speech in the background is an excerpt from"I,_Robot" by Isaac Asimov. The full quote: Quote: "You can't tell them," droned the psychologist slowly, "because that would hurt and you mustn't hurt. But if you don't tell them, you hurt, so you must tell them. And if you do, you will hurt and you mustn't, so you can't tell them; but if you don't, you hurt, so you must; but if you do, you hurt, so you mustn't; but if you don't, you hurt, so you must; but if you do, you-" pm tes/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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The bit at the end of THD ep 12 is clearer if you just mix the two channels together directly and amplify it: http://norgg.org/files/time- travel.wav I'm pretty sure it says "Brought to you by time dash travel dot blog" now. Except the .blog TLD isn't available. Yet... m ejbau: I think it is .club! http://time-travel.club/ m First up, looks like time-travel.club was registered around 11th July 2015. From the homepage there's a couple , there's a link to http://time- travel.club/typesoftimetravel.htm.htm Some of the text on the page can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Time_travel#Time_travel_in_fiction but it's not an exact match. It's possibly based on an older version of that page? Searching for "In Type 3, any event that appears to have caused a paradox has instead created a new time line." from further down the page picks up a bunch of matches too but I think they're all probably based on Wikipedia. Maybe something about the version of the Wikipedia article which matches that page, or the date of it? m Just in case there was any doubt, time-travel.club is hosted from the same IP as twinbread.com: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/ site_report?url=time-travel.club vs http://toolbar.netcraft.com/ site_report?url=twinbread.com m This edt: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=Time_travel&direction=next&oldid=670649082 was made on the same day time-travel.club was registered and is the only edit by an account created the same day... There's some very specific and suspicious edits in there. The text prior/after it still doesn't match the page. m following that thread, there's an odd reply to the wiki edit: Hi Yogesh, how is your tree? made from a UK IP address I've attached a screenshot of the reply ___________________________________________ |_Screen_Shot_2015-08-04_at_10.31.01_AM.png_| | Description| wiki_reply_________________| | Filesize _| 14.12KB____________________| | Viewed ___| 9_Time(s)__________________| | | |[Screen_Shot_2015-08-04_at_10.31.01_AM.png]| |___________________________________________| m clickbecause wrote: following that thread, there's an odd reply to the wiki edit: Hi Yogesh, how is your tree? made from a UK IP address I've attached a screenshot of the reply Haha, that may have been me giving a prod to see what happened... I've been trying to track down a version of the Time Travel wikipedia page which matches the site using http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/ wikiblame.php?user_lang=en&lang=en&project=wikipedia&article=Time_travel and various snippets from it, but I'm starting to think it's actually pieced together from versions throughout the version history. eg: "A version of the ontological paradox" was only added to the page in 2010, but "a novel by Dr. Robert Forward" was deleted in 2008... I could be interpreting that wrong though. m To be filed under things which are probably only tangentially related, a short film called "The Love is Dead Time Travel Club": https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhMu-GdELU m http://time-travel.club/typesoftimetravel_files/ there is a powerpoint theme file why would that be there? m the file can be renamed .zip and then unzipped to get the xml information. m Ohh, good spot. Interesting that "parent directory" there points to "http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/" too, there's also image_002.png which isn't used anywhere else in the site. m There are also a number of under construction files not used http://time-travel.club/404_files/ m In filelist.xml there's this: MainFile HRef="../timetravel.club.htm" I'd expect that to be at http://time-travel.club/timetravel.club.htm or http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/timetravel.club.htm but it doesn't seem to be in either place. 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That or there's another page hiding somewhere. image002.png doesn't seem to have metadata in it, but it does contain strings of "Microsoft Office" and "tEXtSoftware". m Some of the gifs have comments in, but I think just from the original sources, output of the extract command here: http://pastebin.com/DAPgzYTc m Searching for tEXtsoftware brings back speech to text software http://www.vocapia.com/ being the first result. is it a coincidence that the train hotdog wiki is done using TTS software? Probably but who knows I think the main clue will be in the wiki article My guess it that it is the same as was used in THD 9 we may need to listen to this and compare it to the text. m http://www.bubblews.com/posts/the-time-travel-club I think this could be related. "The Time Travel Club" is a novelette by Charlie Jane Anders that appeared in "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine's October-November 2013 issue. m Definitely interesting considering that the speech behind the morse code in the "Extrasode" podcast is from Asimov's I, Robot. m the login page on time-travel.club now points to a 404 page full of the under construction gifs ajbau mentioned a number of posts back: http://time-travel.club/404.htm the layout of the gifs seems deliberate. i'm wondering if there's an integer sequence or some other message to be interpreted here. notice the way the line breaks are placed after each sequence of pairs: Code:  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  m New train hotdog needs to be analysed BUTTS m Also there is a new rider mail phone number may be a clue Don't forget to leave a Rider Mail by calling 469-BEARDS-4 or 469-CEASE-PI! Or help edit the episode transcript at http://t.co/rdn4SRCSBL m Spectrograph has two arrows pointing at gadsby/password123 m username an password perhaps????? m Login area says coming VERY soon, so it could be a user:pass. Here_is_a_screenshot_of_the_spectrogram m Probably not useful, but for the sake of completeness I'll point out that there are 6 gifs in the '404_files' directory that do not appear on the 404 page. http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/404_files/consbar1_e0.gif http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/404_files/construct3_e0.gif http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/404_files/ctbarry_e0.gif http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/404_files/mrundruons_e0.gif http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/404_files/webpaint_e0.gif http://time-travel.club/arg/ttc/404_files/shhammer05_ss3_e0.gif m Considering time-travel.club and twinbread.com share an IP I figured I'd have a look at what else was hosted there. Looks like one of those large shared-hosting sites since it came up with 918 results from http:// www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/: Results here: http://pastebin.com/tfPLa4Zn time-travel.club doesn't seem to be on that list, not sure if that's because it's quite new or because the list doesn't do .club domains yet. m From one of the domains on that list, I wish it was related: http://www.chickenforthewin.com/winners.html m As far as I can see, this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_travel&diff=prev&oldid=390001554#Ideas_from_fiction Is the most like the text on the website. The only big difference is that they use "Robert Forward's novel Timemaster", whereas the text uses "found in Timemaster, a novel by Dr. Robert Forward," which was the primary way of typing it in previous updates. Maybe someone else will find a more accurate wikipedia version? I feel like it's got nothing to do with it, except maybe the date - though the time travel text does contain weird symbols, they're in the place of hyphens or unusual characters, so it's probably just the website having trouble reading them. m s/1 Year]  Sort by: [One of: Post Time/Post Subject/Author] [One of: Ascending/Descending] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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The ey length may vary, but is enerally 128 bits. don't know how that would elp or even if it was elated. id someone here create a ser called Gadsby on the rain Hotdog Wiki because here is a profile with the ser name Gadsby / assword123 enneth Salazar @Salza . OBeardy. If you want to ee PUBLIC_FIGURE alive gain, bring the money to 7.871764,-122.265303 at 014-04-05, 3PM local time. as running through old ost to see if there was nything relevant n THD13 after the rider ail this is said never found the phone, t's still out there in the ether somewhere. We may ever know where this guy's hone is, where is wife's hone is. But, uh, thankyou ric, tell you what if you an help me by leaving me nother ridermail if you ind it and tell me where o leave the money and I'll ass it on. ere is an idea! he Jim Crawford from the eetup at Berkeley was from he future (Not really but tory wise.) e need to tell him where o leave the money from witter if someone could ubmit a rider mail with he twitter message that ould be helpful as I am in ustralia. o...wasthisany of you uys?? did not transcribe butt olk but have tried to poke bit here is an email readedgadsbySPLATgmail.com associated with the ccount I emailed it but ave not received a esponse. k, so this gadsby account n the wiki added a ranscript to the "Butt olk" and "Hot dog time achine" episodes. f interest in the butt olk episode is: uote: his uh rider is calling rom the 510 area code hich is the bay area. This ider says "Hey Jim, this s Eric. A couple of weeks go you got a call from the pace coast thanking you nd looking for his cell hone that his wife left. I anted to know if you found t or if you need help inding it how I could help ou. Okay, thanks, bye." never found the phone, t's still out there in the ether somewhere. We may ever know where this guy's hone is, where is wife's hone is. But, uh, thankyou ric, tell you what if you an help me by leaving me nother ridermail if you ind it and tell me where o leave the money and I'll ass it on. I could just all that guy's number that uy on the Space Coast, I ould say hey call him hey hat's up I'm live on the ir. Oh I guess it's like am right now over there aybe I shouldn't do that. f the messages in my revious post were not from ne of us, then I believe his "lost phone" may be ur next clue. nooping around account references, I found the ssociated email of the adsby account: readedgadsbySPLATgmail.com emailed inquiring about a ost phone. added the hotdog time achine ones he initial phone post was ot me s Gadsby relevant to nything? A quick wikipedia f it reveals it's a book ith no "e"'s in it, but I on't know if that means nything. url]https:// n.wikipedia.org/wiki/ adsby_(novel)[/url] have never used a forum n my life ignore the ailed attempt at using the tml tags just paste the ink idk. f we had the password to he google account we could heck device manager and ee where the phone may be? t was me ========================== aklreaxmer wrote: So...wasthisany of you guys?? made the topic after igning in. Thought I'd see hat kind of response I'd et, possibly from Jim. t seems pretty weird that e'd give us access to an ccount. What information ould we get from the wiki nly by being logged in? s he maybe expecting we lter something? uote: s Gadsby relevant to nything? A quick wikipedia f it reveals it's a book ith no "e"'s in it, but I on't know if that means nything. uote: ll of the gif files have 0 in the name n e0 cipher is used in luetooth 0 is a stream cipher used n the Bluetooth protocol. ertainly seems related. Frog Fractions 2" also has o E's. ou are assuming that Jim ade the account. he Gadsby account was made n the 7th of August the ame day as the episode ent up which suggests it ay not have been Jim. ot sure if the e0 is mportant ========================== hen I search online for he unused .gifs, I did ind a site that had the e0 n all the filenames, which eans it's probably not elated. ttp://animatedgif.net/ nderconstruction/ onstruction.shtml ope this helps. 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TheSpectrogram for the rider mail has quote marks around it "" Which suggests that the rider mail may be a quote from somewhere but Searched for a part of it and did not find it. pm About that phone ========================================= Hey all- the message from "eric" is actually from me, and it should have been read as "Yerrik." I tweeted at Jim about this, and I think what happened was that he reads a voice to text message from his phone. My original message was much more coherent. Twitter exchange here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ boqhqx419jlt6dc/Twitter_with_Jim.png?dl=0 The image he links to is here: http://imgur.com/Yy8wXAX I do think the phone is important, or at least some sort of clue? But who knows. Might be a red herring. pm What if the empty quotes is Jim's way of telling us to call and leave the right answer? That, or maybe the message about sending an insect back in time may have something to do with it? Perhaps we could mention something about the site under construction, or maybe Gadsby? If we send multiple messages, would he still just read the one or two, or any if not appropriate? I'm pretty new to this, but I thought I'd toss some ideas out there. pm Things are happening! So the login section of time-travel.club now works. Using the username 'gadsby' and password 'password123' we get to a cool page detailing our 'mission': Quote: USER:GADSBY RANK:RECRUIT COMMANDING OFFICER:DWAYNE Welcome new recruit! Congratulations on your wise decision to join the human resistance movement and help rescue all life from the enemy. About the Resistance Our nemesis is one you know all too well; the decay has changed the landscape of the earth and irreparably altered the path of mankind. As we are unable to combat our foe head-on, the resistance exists to win humanity's liberation through covert operations and advanced technology of types unavailable even to our most powerful enemies. United, we stand between the decay and the sparkly annihilation of our species. This website will serve as your home base for intelligence updates and new information vital to the survival of this organization. As you prove yourself and are promoted through the ranks, you will gain access to additional resources and information to aid you in completing the operations we assign you. Congratulations, and good luck recruit! You will recieve orders from your commanding officer shortly. Resources Requisitions (LOCKED) Operative List (LOCKED) Current Operations (LOCKED) Terminal (LOCKED) %corrupt_entry%segf (LOCKED) Party Lounge (VERY LOCKED) Sweet! Additionally, the BEARDS phone number on trainhotdog.cool links to this_image. Seems like one of those magic eye things... pm Before you get a headache and go cross- eyed [Smile] _________________________ |_________sparkles.png____| | Description| _________| | Filesize _| 756.08KB_| | Viewed ___| 54_Time(s| | | | [sparkles.png] | |_________________________| pm also, new train hot dog out. a couple weird clicks scattered in the first few minutes pm If you favorite the page, this is the title: "FUTURE RESISTANCE OPERATION GARRISON 1.50" am Any idea what the password could be for the "Dwayne" user account (listed as commanding officer)? am i was thinking the same thing but i'v tried some of the more obvious things such as the same as gadsby or 0451 in numbers, spelled out (with and without spaces) and have not had any luck yet. i think that we should try to put together a list of codes that we've come across so far and see if any of those work. pm New THD is out. Encoded in the spectrogram is more morse code once again spelling out the backwards "mire exuberant mushiness" message pm interesting seeing as we've already found this clue before. just to be complete mire means a stretch of swampy or boggy ground, exuberant most likely in this use of the word means growing profusely or maybe even abundant, and mushiness of course is the description of something being mushy. pm mire can also mean to become stuck in, or to get someone/something involved in http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ mire http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ exuberant?s=t http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ mushiness?s=t love? getting happily stuck in something mushy? I know very little about these things, but I'd guess it's a cipher key or password, since we've gotten that specific sequence twice. pm This is the second time we've encountered this phrase, so it clearly is of some sort of importance. I've been lurking around this thread for the past couple of weeks and thought I'd let my presence be known. This whole ARG seems to have a very small number of people looking at it and I'd love to be another brain in the mob trying to get to the bottom of this crazy rabbit hole! Anyone have any clue at all what the DANGER! SPARKLES! Magic Eye could mean, if that's even what it says? am We are really stuck at the moment unfortunately the initial ARG had many people due to the Kickstarter campaign. That momentum was lost after the initial campaign. We really need that critical mass back to solve everything different people bring alternate views which is what is needed. pm Things so far ========================================= Made a list for things so far that I think may still be useful: SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM DANGER! SPARKLES! http://trainhotdog.asymmetric.net/ beards.jpg time-travel.club gadsby/password123 speech to text used on thd space coast lost phone from area code 321 rider mail spectrogram quotes rider mail asking where to leave the money unused gifs on time-travel.club/404_files unused image_002.png and .thmx http://time-travel.club/ typesoftimetravel_files/ different rider mail number 469-CEASE-PI I Robot psychologist loop quote Physical bag contents from the event COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM recipie13(poem): “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” missing bug porn month Riccardo name tag Frog Fractions Walkthrough odd topic of discussion http://goombas.org/1092_you-ever-get- those-balls-in-your-earlobes-.html#c902 Rosencrantz roleplay page ============ Hope this helps out. pm /images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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I don't think it is Frog Fractions 2 for a few reasons. 1) It seems to be quite blatant in having the Frog and Dad Divisions nothing about FF2 has been blatant and obvious. 2) It does not fit with anything we have seen in the ARG m I think someone also got a negative response from Jim if it was FF2 m in the thd14 rider mail from tunisia 216 area code and the rider message talks about making a chrono temporal flux fusion engine, along with a Dwayne. this is the one where we have just the quotes in the spectrogram the space coast area code is 321, and the pw we got earlier was password123 which has the area code reversed I tried Dwayne with password612 with no luck. Also tried the gadsby login with the same password612 I do wonder if 612 is useful though. EDIT: engine was made in 1982 and they received a rice cake from the future, and then watched blade runner with five drinks. They had planned to send back an insect m Xyzzy is in the water reckoning wiki From Wikipedia this is a reference to Colossal Cave Adventure Interestingly entering xyzzy in the text adventure of Frog Fractions gives the following response I am not familiar with that particular cliché m XYZZY ideas ===================================================================================================== The phrase "xyzzy" has become a classic in the history of text based adventures. It is often used to unlock cheats or other bonus content in a game as well. XYZZY is also a music alias, who made a album named Obelus in 2013, the following is at the bottom of that band-camp page. 　▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 　　　▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀ 　　　　▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀ 　　▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄. I can't make anything of that, but it may be something. m Sent a message to the beards number warning about sparkles and mire exuberant mushiness maybe being about love or something. Not sure if he'll include it next week, but I figured it was worth a shot. m Re: XYZZY ideas ===================================================================================================== MagicSignals wrote: The phrase "xyzzy" has become a classic in the history of text based adventures. It is often used to unlock cheats or other bonus content in a game as well. XYZZY is also a music alias, who made a album named Obelus in 2013, the following is at the bottom of that band-camp page. 　▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ 　　　▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀ 　　　　▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀ 　　▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄. I can't make anything of that, but it may be something. I doubt it, unless the arg has gone on since 2013, waybackmachine confirms that this text has been on the site since the start. m Train_Hot_Dog_#17_-_Kitten_Gains went up today. Listened to it over lunch and didn't hear anything immediately suspicious. Jim starts by googling "buff cats" and ends the episode by looking for stuff on the internet about cats and synthol. At the end he tries to click a link to some Grumpy Cat meme on Meme Generator, but says it won't load and starts reading the "preview text" from the Google results page. He says something along the lines of this: "mobile friendly new password type (began? begin?), close, Grumpy Cat synthol can be deadly good (zero?) Grumpy Cat recaption this image! Still not loading...aaaaand here we are at the end, you'll never know what that link says. I'll see you next week." I have no idea if that bit at the end is of any significance at all. I believe this is the link in question:http://memegenerator.net/instance/47065192 Is the number 47065192 anything? Nothing too crazy in the spectograph: No rider mail this week. m Killrrhubarb wrote: If you favorite the page, this is the title: "FUTURE RESISTANCE OPERATION GARRISON 1.50" If you make this into an acronym it becomes FROG 1.50. This ARG is Frog Fractions 1.5 m dun dun duuuuuun!!! Were actually playing frog fractions. get to work learning your fractions2. but seriously this could possibly be a major hint that we've missed until now so we should look into things that would relate to the fact that we are currently playing frog fractions. m ajbau wrote: Shower with your dad simulator has been released it looks like it takes inspiration from frog fractions which is cool. I don't think it is Frog Fractions 2 for a few reasons. 1) It seems to be quite blatant in having the Frog and Dad Divisions nothing about FF2 has been blatant and obvious. 2) It does not fit with anything we have seen in the ARG I just played it yesterday and I can see that people could get the impression that it could be something but I find it unlikely for several reasons. It was made by a couple of members of the something awful community, if they had any connection to twinbeard they've kept it very secret. Dad division is clearly a frog fraction homage/parody just like all the other mini games are. The frog is most likely referencing the "get out frog" a running SA joke that's been going on for years and is most likely not a frog fraction reference at all. m Hmm. I guess there's no train this week. m On the beards number message for rider mail, is it possible the frog is murmuring in morse code? m Looks like THD #18 should be going up soon. Jim added this page to the wiki 3 minutes ago with the preceding text of "[Maybe this episode transcript will be better tomorrow.]" http://trainhotdog.wikia.com/wiki/Nightcore_Night_Court Looks like he included your Rider Mail jimmc3rd. Edit: Okay, glancing through this Google Voice transcription makes it look like this episode might have some meat to it. Quite different from past episodes, almost like Jim is straight-up reading code. m Okay, after making that post, the wiki has changed to say "[This episode transcript will feel better next week.]". What is going on???? Still no sign of thd18.mp3 on the website or in the RSS feed. Also, regarding the DANGER SPARKLES, the accesslevelalpha.php page on time travel club mentions the following: "United, we stand between the decay and the sparkly annihilation of our species." 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The beta page wasn't there the other week. Perhaps thd will shed some light on the login/pw jimmc3rd wrote: Oh wow. The beta page wasn't there the other week. Perhaps thd will shed some light on the login/pw I'm sorry, but where? Irregular Programming wrote: jimmc3rd wrote: Oh wow. The beta page wasn't there the other week. Perhaps thd will shed some light on the login/pw I'm sorry, but where? http://time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php New THD episode finally popped up in my feed. It's 39 minutes long. O_O Definitely sounds like there's an encoded message in this one. Will throw it into Audacity soon. His speech to text totally mangled my post lol. He asked me to write back and explain myself. Ideas on what we should say next? Seems like quite a job typing out everything he says in the other rider mail. Is anyone familiar with the application(s) he's reading code from? From what I heard, I'd assume it's what he uses for the podcast. Around 23 minutes into the podcast you can hear the train conductor voice say, VERY CLEARLY, "Attention Passengers: Don't believe his lies. Find the truth about the decay. Thank you." In the middle of all that error output stuff Jim read out he says something about "lambda method". Lambda I know can be related to radioactive decay. At the beginning Jim says some stuff about splicing the beginning of one sentence with the end of a different sentence. I tried pitching up the audio and speeding it up (a-la nightcore) but am not seeing anything hidden. I'm not so good with that sort of thing though so someone might want to take a second look. jimmc3rd wrote: Seems like quite a job typing out everything he says in the other rider mail. Is anyone familiar with the application(s) he's reading code from? From what I heard, I'd assume it's what he uses for the podcast. Jim posted this to Twitter. Seems he's already done that grunt work for us. http://trainhotdog.cool/thd18notes.png At the end of each line of code is a number preceded by a + sign. 392 815 4515 138 6738869 6741487 586 107 288 180 486 389 458 171 274 39 120 452 15 33 240 28 15 53 15 42 15 606 288 EDIT: If I did my math right, they should add to 13491116. "That offset seems crazy. Is this like a split method that exists across megabytes like, it's like a German sentence where the the verb is split 2, split in half and like one half goes to the beginning of the sentence, the one half goes to the end of the sentence and like in this method half of it goes to the beginning of the program and half of it goes to the end of the program? That must be what is happening. This program is written in German." This episode does seem to be cut up a bit strangely. There are times where the train beeps like the conductor is going to say something but nothing is heard. Other times the conductor speaks without a preceding beep. Maybe we have to stitch the audio back together? jimmc3rd, I noticed those numbers too, but have no idea what they could mean, if anything. There is a missing number from the sequence found in the image. What Jim says in the audio differs from the "show notes" at one part. The 6th line in the image (and the 7th line [with line 1 being the Win32Exception block] in the audio) reads as: Code: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +138 While the 6th line that is read aloud is this: Code: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.TryConsumeMetaData() +61 And it is immediately after this "goof" that Jim points out the "ridiculous offset" in the lines with +6738869 and +6741487. dangerskew wrote: In the middle of all that error output stuff Jim read out he says something about "lambda method". Lambda I know can be related to radioactive decay. A lambda expressions is a way to create anonymous methods or functions in many programming languages. I've not listened to the pod cast yet but I feel like that's what he is going for here. dangerskew wrote: "That offset seems crazy. Is this like a split method that exists across megabytes like, it's like a German sentence where the the verb is split 2, split in half and like one half goes to the beginning of the sentence, the one half goes to the end of the sentence and like in this method half of it goes to the beginning of the program and half of it goes to the end of the program? That must be what is happening. This program is written in German." This episode does seem to be cut up a bit strangely. There are times where the train beeps like the conductor is going to say something but nothing is heard. Other times the conductor speaks without a preceding beep. Maybe we have to stitch the audio back together? jimmc3rd, I noticed those numbers too, but have no idea what they could mean, if anything. The numbers are line numbers, this looks like a normal ASP.net error. Just after the 10:30 mark when he's reading Code:  System.Web.Mvc.<>c__DisplayClass1d.b__18(IAsyncResult asyncResult) +28 the audio seems to speed up or cut out as he reads the number 28. 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The email is ikely unrelated, but I went head and sent one saying hat I was part of the esistance and asking if he as any information for me, ust in case. o zjohnson actually replied o my email. Quote: The current operation is proceeding according to plan. Saturday's callsign is Sparrow-6-6. Do not trust Tony. Yours in Truth, Chalice 'm going to hazard a guess hat this is a red herring. on't take anything Zack ays too seriously [Smile] rain Hotdog 8 was not vailable previously and is vailable now. johnson email was in the rror message obtained when reviously trying to access ouch Interference. nteresting, I'll have to heck that out then. istening to the latest ideo Games Hot Dog revealed bit of information. The tacktrace error from THD 18 was created when they ere trying to pull some ata on how many times THD as been downloaded. Podtrac as having some server ssues at the time, and Jim oked about reading it on he next Train Hot Dog. hey were eventually able to iew download numbers for he episodes and Episode 8 as somehow the most ownloaded episode by far? im said that Episode 8 had 22 downloads. Has that pisode really not been vailable until now? dit: That large number was ikely just due to how odtrac records download ttempts or something like hat. NOTHER new THD. Episode 19 Dog Holding a Bucket. ttp:// hows.kingdomofloathing.com/ hd/thd19.mp3 e: About that phone =========================== yansar wrote: ey all- the message from eric" is actually from me, nd it should have been read s "Yerrik." I tweeted at im about this, and I think hat happened was that he eads a voice to text essage from his phone. My riginal message was much ore coherent. witter exchange here: ttps://www.dropbox.com/s/ oqhqx419jlt6dc/ witter_with_Jim.png?dl=0 he image he links to is ere: ttp://imgur.com/Yy8wXAX do think the phone is mportant, or at least some ort of clue? But who knows. ight be a red herring. he latest THD has a rider ail from you, this time as Yerrik" and not "eric". The nly thing you say is first, and possibly last". uh, that's interesting. I idn't call that in. I *did* eave it as a comment on a outube video, episode 16: ttps://www.youtube.com/ atch?v=EXkIwMO7jic left it this week, so aybe youtube comments are egistering as rider mail ow? yansar wrote: uh, that's interesting. I idn't call that in. I *did* eave it as a comment on a outube video, episode 16: ttps://www.youtube.com/ atch?v=EXkIwMO7jic left it this week, so aybe youtube comments are egistering as rider mail ow? didn't even know that THD as uploaded to Youtube. hat's up with the video review thumbnails? Some of hem have little vertical trips of some kind of oise. Almost looks like STV noise, only vertical nstead of horizontal. itten gains also has an pside-down reflection of he title. Could be red errings though, as we aven't had any clues that ave pointed us to that ouTube channel. ut hey, at least we have a ay of sending Rider Mail ithout Jim's Google Voice I'm guessing that's what e's using) totally garbling hatever we say. The second ider Mail about the episode ranscript was me. o if he's reading rider ail from youtube comments, erhaps that's how we can et the speech to text to ead our messages much more learly to him. Episode 17: Kitten Gains" s also not in the youtube laylist of Train Hotdogs. ou have to look around for t separately. I think that ven though we haven't had xplicit clues pointing us o the youtube channel, it's oing to be part of the ARG. as anyone analyzed the humbnails yet? hings I noticed during my isten to thd 19 :44 odd voice :09 Intercom cuts in and ut :26 sounds like additional udio overlapping 5:15 male voice talking 5:28 voice again, may be esponding to a female voice etween prior note 5:32 odd low rumbling noise 5:50 audio seems to skip 5:59 more low rumble turbulence?) just did some quick nalysis of each episode hat has an irregular humbnail and have noticed hat every one has something dd going on in the audio. 5: At around 2:24 a very lear voice comes in riefly. 3: Where we found "gadsby/ assword123" 2: Has freaky bit at the nd that is super loud. A uper loud clip of something andwiched between a text to peech voice saying omething that sounds like Brought to you by blob(?)". o idea what the loud thing s though. 1: Has a weird effect that ounds similar to the eginning of 13, but not eeing any message in the pectograph. : Various oddities. lipping, a voice saying help", random things eversed. 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I tried to look back in the thread to see but guess I looked past it. Posted a Youtube comment on thd19 asking what he knows of the Decay. dangerskew wrote: I just did some quick analysis of each episode that has an irregular thumbnail and have noticed that every one has something odd going on in the audio. 15: At around 2:24 a very clear voice comes in briefly. 13: Where we found "gadsby/password123" 12: Has freaky bit at the end that is super loud. A super loud clip of something sandwiched between a text to speech voice saying something that sounds like "Brought to you by blob(?)". No idea what the loud thing is though. 11: Has a weird effect that sounds similar to the beginning of 13, but not seeing any message in the spectograph. 9: Various oddities. Clipping, a voice saying "help", random things reversed. Rider mail at the end is Summer from the space coast asking about the phone. I removed the loud noise in 12 and raised the volume, it definitely says "Brought to you by Bob". Do we know any Bob? edit. Actually, I listened to it again and now I hear "Blob".. I dunno. Edit 2, I went through the loud noise in the end as well, I reversed it, cleaned it up and slowed it down and what came out was this. Basically it sounds to me as if someone is speaking. "Attention all ????, shinsta hovu?? The Kitten gains thumbnail on youtube also says Decay Truth @Irregular the message says something like "brought to you by time-travel.club" I tried slowing down the louder portion and it definitely sounds like someone saying something. "I won't resist such something something." I'm having trouble understanding what he's saying, but here's the audio: EDIT: "I have a message for Jim Crawford." I should have read back again. ________________________________________________________________ |_________________________________thd12_slowedEnd.mp3____________| |Description|Audio_at_the_end_of_thd12_Slowed_down.| [mp3] | |Filename __|thd12_slowedEnd.mp3 _________________| | |Filesize __|64.08KB _____________________________|  Download| |Downloaded |21_Time(s) __________________________|____________| ajbau wrote: There appear to be 2 voices one normal speed and one 1/2 speed one says I have a Message for Jim Crawford. the other fits in with the brought to you by part Brought to you by time does travel dot clob May not be clob may be blob or club but I am unsure Oh yeah. Well that was already solved then. [Smile] I don't know if this is relevant but I cut out the lines in the thumbnails and tried to paste them together. So far it hasn't really led to anything but the coloured lines seem to belong to the same picture. I dunno about the white lines, they don't seem to be connected. Here it is, each line is 2 pixels wide and the pattern stretches past the "border" more times than it would had it been bý pure chance. http://imgur.com/CglUmEz Ok, I am seeing lettering here. http://imgur.com/PTmrGBE Irregular Programming wrote: Ok, I am seeing lettering here. http://imgur.com/PTmrGBE I'm not seeing it. [Confused] I definitely think those video thumbnails could be clues, but perhaps we don't have enough pieces to the puzzle yet. I still think the colored lines kind of look like SSTV noise, just vertical instead of horizontal. Example: I've tried playing several of the THD episodes into a SSTV decoder but haven't had much luck. I have like zero idea what I'm doing though, so I could just be doing it wrong? EDIT: Just threw together a quick pastebin containing direct URLs to all of the currently suspected video thumbnails for anyone withing to poke around at them. http://pastebin.com/zHv7xZHm This is what I'm talking about. http://imgur.com/HhuvXWs Each stripe is two pixels wide, both colored stripes without a doubt belong together, they share so much with each other in coloration and lines it would be hard for me to say they'd not. That it forms the letter A and maybe H could be completely by accident, and it's of course possible that this has nothing to do with the puzzle at all. But I do agree with you that we probably missed something or haven't received all the parts of the puzzle for us to be able to solve this now. Ah, when you take the color out it becomes a lot clearer. I noticed that our friend Gadsby on the THD Wikia changed the name of Kitten Gains to Decay Truth. Did we ever figure out who this is? I saw earlier in the thread someone asked if they were from this forum and nobody owned up to it. They edited the page title and had the note of "The truth must be known he can not be trusted)". Edit: In episode 213 of Video Games Hot Dog, Jim said that the speeding up of podcast recordings without altering the pitch is "an ongoing area of research" of his. It just dawned on me that it seems we still haven't figured out the meaning of the "0451" from the Kickstarter video. Well, I tried to log in with dwayne/0451 which would have been fitting but no dice. I do think we missed something, there has been a lot of content recently that have seemed to lead nowhere in particular. Also what was the deal with the cat picture, that had to be important somehow. Norgg found what the number was for on page 14. 0451 = 'zero four five one', which was the password for the encrypted files on the disks. It does seem to make sense that Dwayne would be the username since he's mentioned in both a rider mail and on the accesslevelalpha page. 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Our_Esteemed_Contributors View_posts_in_this_forum_since_last_visit 12, 2016 10:24 am View_unanswered_posts_in_this_forum ST in action) Calendar Forum_index » Updates » News_&_Rumors /48/49/50/51/52/53/54/55] Next Message This is new https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2/posts/1362203 Unsure of how relevant it is hmm [Post]Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:34 pm This is also avaliable in the page source unsure if this is normal or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: hsxyksdphdscqcwiaharmekflzwjkxytpmkttibrdrnmbeiftwbeznreamiwuqtcusvmoaxuygcamasifjdpoesczizdwkhhqkcbdjyyjrjmresjlhfcqciljlmuyuhfltjjjochzqyhqolshqvufsczrguscjilvlzqfgqbcbsmdczgdfrmzjnipyjeacsfttjuqpawkpcanxxbxtqaksudzyvbmlvxpgoffwtrilhnhgshbanfbjbleqsnyxukyvjpibveyjpsmygdemhpwkdqqhoaoatpxyxrswsyokkqdwanoggbenpkqqhrffsnxafxlegdtmqqthepirmaxpgflrdxaolmisjltxjxzsjafafdwrhzuuamgrwfeddlyjeyivwjnyquuqbfscvs --> [Post]Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:39 pm ajbau wrote: This is also avaliable in the page source unsure if this is normal or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: snip --> Happens at the bottom of every Kickstarter page, and it seems to be random. [Post]Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:50 pm Last edited by Jasper_ on Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:51 pm; edited 1 time in total ajbau wrote: This is new https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2/posts/1362203 Unsure of how relevant it is hmm There are audio glitches around the words "to", "but the" ("butt"?), "get some". I wonder if it's highlighting those words. [Post]Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:50 pm There is also location data but am concerned that may be unrelated and personal? [Post]Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 11:55 pm Given the street that seem hard to be a coincidence Euclid Ave https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/37%C2%B048'53.2%22N+122%C2%B015'09.7%22W/@37.8144697,-122.2527896,19z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:00 am It's an update to the FF2 Kickstarter, if anything is related it's this! [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 12:30 am @ajbau I think the lat/long data may be part of the Kickstarter page. I went to other kickstarter projects, and they seem to have the same info on the source for update pages. Streetview In front of an apt seems like an odd place to meet up. edit: url trouble [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 2:39 am It would not be for a meet up. I would assume that the street name could be the thing we are looking at Euclid is a famous Mathematician [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:03 am Jasper_ wrote: ajbau wrote: This is new https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2/posts/1362203 Unsure of how relevant it is hmm There are audio glitches around the words "to", "but the" ("butt"?), "get some". I wonder if it's highlighting those words. I'm more interested in the words following the audio glitches. "decay" "truth" "info" Maybe he is pointing us towards the buff kitten video, did we miss something? This? http://memegenerator.net/instance/47065192 [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 3:38 am Decaytruth.info [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:45 am We need a user name and password for here http://decaytruth.info/admin.php gadsby and password123 does not work [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:58 am ajbau wrote: Decaytruth.info Ha ha, I didn't even think about that, good job. also some texts on the site itself Hours & location Quote: The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio 2020 Oregon Street Berkeley, CA 94703 Daily 9 Am to 9:00 Pm Privacy policy Quote: The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio reserves the right at all times to determine whether Content is appropriate and in compliance with this Agreement, and may pre-screen, move, refuse, modify and/or remove Content at any time. You acknowledge and agree that The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio may, without liability to you, access, use, preserve and/or disclose your Account information and Content to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and/or a third party, as The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate. Employees may access file metadata (e.g., file names and locations) when they have a legitimate reason, like providing technical support. Like most online services, we have a small number of employees who must be able to access user data for the reasons stated in our privacy policy (e.g., when legally required to do so). You give us permission to do those things, and this permission extends to trusted third parties we work with. Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored. You grant The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sublicenseable, fully paid up and royalty-free right to us to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any information you provide, directly or indirectly to The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio, including, but not limited to, any user generated content, ideas, concepts, techniques and/or data to the services, you submit to The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or to any third parties. The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio or its agents will review Content in order to resolve the issue. This is in addition to the uses we describe in this Agreement and the Privacy Statements. When you acquire, install and use the Program, The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio collects information about you, your devices, applications and networks, and your use of those devices, applications and networks, for example, when you: enter text, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocomplete and spellcheck features. About us Quote: The Ashby Brewery was founded in 1777 by Charles Foster Ashby, a Belgian philosopher and entrepreneur. From the age of 5, Ashby had lived among the monks at the Chevetogne Abbey near the city of Liege. During his stay among the devout, Ashby studied and perfected the Trappist brewing techniques for which the monks of Chevetogne became so well known. Following the destruction of the abbey during the Blue Revolution of 1738, Ashby booked passage to the New World and made his way to what is now known as downtown Berkeley, California. Bringing with him ancient yeast strains and the knowledge of the Chevetogne monks, Ashby started up a rudimentary brewery on the future site of the Ashby Brewery in South Berkeley. His efforts attracted local businessmen and game designers, who spun tales of a grand salon where new diversions would be crafted, along with delicious ales and lagers, for consumption among the colonies of New California and Jefferson State. As Ashby’s reputation for creating high quality beer spread, so did the legends that surrounded the man himself. Ashby was notoriously long-lived, having reached the laudable age of 122 before retiring from public life in spite of his youthful appearance. When asked by a young Mark Twain what had been the secret to his success, Ashby famously declared, “I bring you a message of great importance!” The author didn’t know what to make of this, and the legend of the Ashby Brewery grew. At the Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio, we continue to spread Charles Ashby’s vision of radical new games and brews. We start with pure filtered water from the high hills of outer Berkeley; we add organic malted barley from Oakland community garden spaces; our hops come from a hidden slope of Albany Hill known only to Ashby himself; and the yeast, still the original strain from Chevetogne, dates back to time immemorial. We hope you will join us for a pint next time you come to the Bay Area. In addition to our classic Cherry Wheat and Shamrock Stout, we hope you will enjoy our Summer Blueberry Pilsner, Press ‘A’ to Continue Ale, and C. Ashby’s 2x Multiplier Dubbel, centuries in the making. Menu Quote: Please ask your waitstaff for today's menu! Beer 101 Quote: Hops marley malt yeast [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:24 am the link to get to the login is pi if that means anything I have to sleep soon I expect to play Frog Fractions 2 in the Morning [Post]Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:39 am Also from the cached page decay. donkey kong. decay. donkey kong is here. 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[Submit /image/donate.gif] ered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next Message barley is misspellt as "marley" (a name?) also how do we contact waitstaff? 47 am Hi I'm new. I found you through r/ isthisfrogfractions2. I thought that I'd mention that the address given for Ashby Brewery + Indie Game Studio is on decaytruth.info is actually the Berkley Bowl grocery store. Some likely irrelevant info based on things I've read in this thread: * If you drive from Euclid Ave. to the Berkeley Bowl the route that doesn't get on the interstate takes MacArthur Bvd. to Shattuck Ave. the return trip takes M.L.K. Jr. Way to MacArthur. If you take BART you'll use the Freemont- Richmond line. * Damian and Stephen Marley will be appearing at the Bay Area Vibez festival in Oakland this weekend. I didn't notice anything in the code of decaytruth that stands out. A reverse image search of the background brings up five or six of blogs for Taiwanese teenagers, a comment to an article about Space Jam on Taringa! (the Spanish speaking world's answer to both facebook and Buzzfeed) and one for an adult Taiwanese game programer. I'd link to them, but one of the pages gave me a virus. Anyway, the programmer's page caught my eye because the first post includes VB code for generating the fibonacci sequence. 01 am Is it possible that there could be some beer for sale at this store from the Ashby brewery? There is a post on goombas.org from like 2012 with a picture of a beer bottle with an Ashby label. http://goombas.org/ 1347_ashby-brewery- indie-game- studio.html 54 am Curious that the vid says beer is the only barley, hops, yeast, and water, vs. the website's hops marley malt yeast. (And then he says he likes to add pumpkin, cherry wheat, blueberries.) There are plenty of related beers that Berkeley Bowl might carry (Old Marley, etc.), but I don't have time to pop over to Berkeley today. [Smile] 24 pm still wrote: Curious that the vid says beer is the only barley, hops, yeast, and water, vs. the website's hops marley malt yeast. (And then he says he likes to add pumpkin, cherry wheat, blueberries.) There are plenty of related beers that Berkeley Bowl might carry (Old Marley, etc.), but I don't have time to pop over to Berkeley today. [Smile] The video is saying that some old German "law" says that those are the only things that should go into making beer, but he was just saying that they don't follow that. I gave the Oregon St. Berkeley Bowl location a call and asked if they carried any beers from Ashby Brewery and they said that they do not. Hopefully they won't get too many calls about that today. :S Edit: Interesting note: The hours given on decaytruth.info are not the actual hours of Berkeley Bowl. The store hours are 9:00AM-8:00PM. Ashby says "Daily 9 Am to 9:00 Pm". Note the differing styles of notation. Probably doesn't mean anything though. 39 pm New Train Hot Dog! Episode 20: BART Noise Reduction Plugin https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=c4a2rRiqP8c 45 pm 06 pm Nothing super obvious found in THD 20. Jim says something about wondering how you get barcodes near the end. I did compile all of the random bits from these YouTube preview thumbnails side by side to see if that revealed anything, but I'm not seeing much. Here's a link anyway. Each "sliver" in the thumbnails are 3 pixels wide, and in this image you're looking at 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, & 20 in order, with 2 pixels of black between each. http://i.imgur.com/ 6u3TSma.png Edit: Oh geez, I just realized I quad- posted. My bad. :S 27 pm dangerskew wrote: Nothing super obvious found in THD 20. Jim says something about wondering how you get barcodes near the end. I did compile all of the random bits from these YouTube preview thumbnails side by side to see if that revealed anything, but I'm not seeing much. Here's a link anyway. Each "sliver" in the thumbnails are 3 pixels wide, and in this image you're looking at 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, & 20 in order, with 2 pixels of black between each. http://i.imgur.com/ 6u3TSma.png Edit: Oh geez, I just realized I quad- posted. My bad. :S Just out of curiosity, where did you get the bigger thumbnails from? I did basically the same thing, but I grabbed them from the video page (which were larger than the ones in the next video section) and thus got a different result. 42 am Irregular Programming wrote: Just out of curiosity, where did you get the bigger thumbnails from? I did basically the same thing, but I grabbed them from the video page (which were larger than the ones in the next video section) and thus got a different result. I use this url and plug the video ID into it. http:// img.youtube.com/vi/ VIDEO_ID/0.jpg 04 am dangerskew wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: Just out of curiosity, where did you get the bigger thumbnails from? I did basically the same thing, but I grabbed them from the video page (which were larger than the ones in the next video section) and thus got a different result. I use this url and plug the video ID into it. http:// img.youtube.com/vi/ VIDEO_ID/0.jpg Ah thanks, forget about my previous post then, it doesn't seem like it holds true. 42 am Maybe unrelated but Ashby brewery has a twitter that hasn't been active since 2012 https://twitter.com/ AshbyBrewery 42 am Probably just for fun: the privacy policy is a compilation of the "5 worst privacy policies." https://www.sync.com/ blog/top-5-worst- privacy-policies- youve-probably- agreed-to/ What this means is there probably aren't good admin password hints buried there. I'm interested in "Press 'A' to Continue Ale" -- I'm wondering if A is a password. I tried 'marley/A' and some others to no avail. 07 pm The About Us page makes it pretty clear that this Charles Foster Ashby fellow is a time traveler. It mentions that he retired at the age of 122, "in spite of his youthful appearance", and also says that he was asked by a young Mark Twain about the secret to his success. Mark Twain was born in 1835, which is 58 years after the founding of the brewery. Edit: Random side note: Gadsby is Gatsby with the T changed to a D. THD 20 and the About Us page both mention Twain. Change the T to a D in Twain and you get Dwain, which sounds identical to Dwayne when spoken aloud. 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Where is this in the audio, I can't hear it. So... I'm not sure if this is related, but given we're in the "Any game might be FF2" phase, I thought I'd share. There's a new game out on iOS from Simogo called SPL-T. They normally do amazingly atmospheric visual novel type things with a lot of hidden content like Year Walk and Device 6. This game is a radical departure. Its only monochrome, it only has basic chip music. It was just dropped on iOS with no preview. The file size seems way too big for such a basic game. But.... when you wait on the instructions, the game glitches and suddenly you start seeing weird messages appear. And..... the instructions seem to give the address of a hotel.... All this would mean nothing of course, except, the instruction screen features a frog that's very similar to the frog in the FF logo. The kickstarter page said it would be for Windows though, with Mac and Linux coming later. Euclidean is a game that has just released on steam ajbau wrote: Euclidean is a game that has just released on steam The kickstarter didn't reach occulus support though [Laughing] It seems that decaytruth.info has had some minor changes made to it. The link to the admin login page from the Privacy Policy is now gone, although the page can still be accessed by going to www.decaytruth.info/ admin.php. The "Beer 101" page now reads as: Code: Hops marley malt yeast AND WATER. 1140a3b01dbd0115aa6dd41f60d628e2 9a1f71d093ccb3f6677b39df45540d39 4af79e2e4729d94cf825ab1f78d43765 e09f2bec6c32df9aa0177f5d7e9009a7 be13b6fdbb6ec3e7a49010c111344ba1 31ef37dc1d2b4455ab837817cc07565d 59887f8112c43314d934a37ac8d221f2 I don't know if this is relevant but according to the german law he is refering to you are not allowed to add yeast to the beer. Only water, barley, malts and hops. The admin page is also updated, before you got a 404 error now you get a bad login. This is in the admin source: 4c9a5c6e42afce897fd4022ad5064e4f If you enter the same username and password, instead of getting "Bad login." It will show you whatever you enter with a question mark at the end. dangerskew wrote: If you enter the same username and password, instead of getting "Bad login." It will show you whatever you enter with a question mark at the end. Neat find, can't seem to do anything with it though. Code: index   efcc9c1dead59307b0a3e270ed189724 hours   f88a5c30f86fd3ebb3c4a11b23cc58a2 about   f5317d4c7bf05958e6739bde11681788 menu    4e9dd25313178629522d814759892099 beer    fa86d5acc66c4f1de295a21d9f8786ba privacy 15dd24d247b6bea9778c8e349cd9d76d admin   dd3a98007276f749aa27a77f9c9a81c1 There are comments at the end of every page on decaytruth.info. I've no experience really with ciphers/crypto, but there surely is something to this. I do see the word "dead" in the comment found on the index.html page. dangerskew wrote: Code: index   efcc9c1dead59307b0a3e270ed189724 hours   f88a5c30f86fd3ebb3c4a11b23cc58a2 about   f5317d4c7bf05958e6739bde11681788 menu    4e9dd25313178629522d814759892099 beer    fa86d5acc66c4f1de295a21d9f8786ba privacy 15dd24d247b6bea9778c8e349cd9d76d admin   dd3a98007276f749aa27a77f9c9a81c1 There are comments at the end of every page on decaytruth.info. I've no experience really with ciphers/crypto, but there surely is something to this. I do see the word "dead" in the comment found on the index.html page. These seem to be different for all of us, right now my admin page has Code: 42c523eeb619985e91d773fb37b4da8a And I posted another before on the same page. It looks like an md5 hash to me. Ok, the MD5 seems to have something to do with your IP, I checked the number on two computers one connected to my phone and one to my wireless and they were different, putting both on my wireless gave me the same hash on both computers. Hmmm, that definitely seems to be the case. No idea what we're supposed to make of this then. It's got to be there for a reason though, right? dangerskew wrote: Hmmm, that definitely seems to be the case. No idea what we're supposed to make of this then. It's got to be there for a reason though, right? Well, the md5s(?) are still different for every page, so there is something more to it. 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The power of Frog Fractions is strong! Has anyone tried looking at the latest Train Hot Dog more closely? I'm messing around with it right now (no idea what I'm doing, AT ALL) but because the subject of the recording is so focused on audio quality, that seems maybe kinda relevant. I'm no good at ARGs, but I love playing around with them...I'll do my best to think of something marginally helpful... 45 am The following is from NeoGaf: "I saw someone on another forum mention that the hashes in the HTML comments were changing based on IP address. So, I figured that the hash was the IP address plus some other string concatenated. I wrote some brute forcing code using the hashes I was getting and my IP address and I actually found some matches. For me at least, each page's hash is being calculated as the MD5 of my IP address concatenated with a single character. Here are the matches I found for each page: Index: MD5(IP + 1) Hours: MD5(IP + 2) About: MD5(IP + b) Menu: MD5(IP + z) Beer: MD5(IP + a) Privacy: MD5(IP + y) Admin: MD5(IP + x) Can somebody else confirm that the hashes you're seeing match this pattern? So all the extra letters are: 12bzayx Maybe these can be unscrambled for the username and/or password?" 20 am ajbau wrote: The following is from NeoGaf: "I saw someone on another forum mention that the hashes in the HTML comments were changing based on IP address. So, I figured that the hash was the IP address plus some other string concatenated. I wrote some brute forcing code using the hashes I was getting and my IP address and I actually found some matches. For me at least, each page's hash is being calculated as the MD5 of my IP address concatenated with a single character. Here are the matches I found for each page: Index: MD5(IP + 1) Hours: MD5(IP + 2) About: MD5(IP + b) Menu: MD5(IP + z) Beer: MD5(IP + a) Privacy: MD5(IP + y) Admin: MD5(IP + x) Can somebody else confirm that the hashes you're seeing match this pattern? So all the extra letters are: 12bzayx Maybe these can be unscrambled for the username and/or password?" The initials of those Ashby Brewery pages in the NeoGAF post above almost spell out "Amphibian", other than the missing N (perhaps a "News" page is yet to come?!) That has to be significant in some way, right? As in the password could be: (IP+b) (IP+z) (IP+y) (IP+2) (IP+1) (IP+a) (IP+1) (IP+b) followed by (IP+whatever the MD5 value of "N"/News/the N page is) I'm not a member over on GAF but hopefully the guy sees this! 38 am otal ajbau wrote: The following is from NeoGaf: "I saw someone on another forum mention that the hashes in the HTML comments were changing based on IP address. So, I figured that the hash was the IP address plus some other string concatenated. I wrote some brute forcing code using the hashes I was getting and my IP address and I actually found some matches. For me at least, each page's hash is being calculated as the MD5 of my IP address concatenated with a single character. Here are the matches I found for each page: Index: MD5(IP + 1) Hours: MD5(IP + 2) About: MD5(IP + b) Menu: MD5(IP + z) Beer: MD5(IP + a) Privacy: MD5(IP + y) Admin: MD5(IP + x) Can somebody else confirm that the hashes you're seeing match this pattern? So all the extra letters are: 12bzayx Maybe these can be unscrambled for the username and/or password?" The only thing those letters makes me think of is the SNES controller, the n64 had a Z button aswell but I doubt this is relevant. 59 am Irregular Programming wrote: The only thing those letters makes me think of is the SNES controller, the n64 had a Z button aswell but I doubt this is relevant. Neither of those controllers had a 1 or 2 button and the SNES had no Z button. I think the letters and numbers are more likely abstract placeholders for numerical values (like in equations) that need to be added to one's IP address for the unique password that works for any given user. 06 pm Maybe the password is simply "abxyz12"? Although you'd think it'd be "abcxyz12", or even "abcxyz123". Hm. AMPHIBIAN has nine letters. Are we missing a second page that starts with I as well? 25 pm Zaratustra wrote: Maybe the password is simply "abxyz12"? Although you'd think it'd be "abcxyz12", or even "abcxyz123". Hm. AMPHIBIAN has nine letters. You're right in it being likely to be a combination of abcxyz123, and with the two A's and two I's (One missing, as you say, either C or 3 depending which is N) it gives possible combinations of: bzy21acx3 bzy2ca1x3 xzy21acb3 xzy2ca1b3 bzy23a1xc bzy21a3xc xzy23a1bc xzy21a3bc to spell out AMPHIBIAN... (I may have missed some, first time ARGing and am getting "snowblnd" to the letters and numbers! Coffee then I'll look afresh at it [Very Happy]) I'm right in thinking nobody's worked out a login other than the "admin/admin" one the other day, yes? edit: Seeing as it's kind of a rookie error to leave "admin/admin" in an ARG, I thought perhaps it's a clue that login and password are to be the same, especially as that brings up the ? error rather than "Bad login". I tried all the possibilities above to no avail, just to save anyone else's time trying exactly that! double edit: Removed combinations ending in 1, as we know that N cannot be 1 if one of the I's already is! Silly me xD 43 pm otal http://decaytruth.info/home/tbeard/public_html/arg/dti/ You forgot this page, I think it also has an MD5, could this be the missing letter? 47 pm as for the admin/admin spitting back admin? if the username and password are the same it will spit back what you wrote in with a question mark. 43 pm FriedGoat wrote: http://decaytruth.info/home/tbeard/public_html/arg/dti/ You forgot this page, I think it also has an MD5, could this be the missing letter? This is just 1 again. Quote: As Ashby’s reputation for creating high quality beer spread, so did the legends that surrounded the man himself. Ashby was notoriously long-lived, having reached the laudable age of 122 before retiring from public life in spite of his youthful appearance. When asked by a young Mark Twain what had been the secret to his success, Ashby famously declared, “I bring you a message of great importance!” The author didn’t know what to make of this, and the legend of the Ashby Brewery grew. This is probably a reference from the kickstarter video btw. https://youtu.be/P48lSsS6h2M?t=202 47 pm Hmm.. https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/648770622047195136 Quote: Bisp ‏@hanmik01 Sep 29 @mogwai_poet I forgot my login for this page http://decaytruth.info/admin.php what was it again? Jim Crawford ‏@mogwai_poet @hanmik01 I believe it was bisp/bisp? You might have to call tech support. Bisp ‏@hanmik01 Sep 29 @mogwai_poet lol... I contacted tech support.. they told me you changed the admin/admin code to make me dig deeper. My shovel is broken .. 02 pm Just a quick heads-up for daveisok over on NeoGAF as he's reading over here and my GAF account has never been approved so can't reply to him there (been waiting for about 4 years so I guess it ain't gonna ever happen!) There are two A's, each with a different letter (x and b) so it probably means that both I's are different letters too (One being 1, the other probably being either c or 3, depending what N is) rather than both being 1 as in your post! 39 pm Link to the Neogaf thread where this is being discussed? I've got a Junior account; took like 3 months to be approved a year or two ago, but I registered with a .edu email address which surely helped. Edit: Nevermind, found it. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1117771&highlight=frog+fractions&page=3 52 pm Thanks Mealtime, I edited my post over there. As someone who hasn't been following this thing since the start were these things ever figured out/used? http://time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php DangerSparkles 22 pm I had a funny, unlikely and wildly speculative thought the other day... You know the narrative of the two timelines? And the joke about Frog Fractions 1 being Frog Fractions 2? And you know the Internet Wayback Machine over at archive.org? 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I don't think that was worked out yet but I may have missed it. 29 pm dave is ok wrote: Thanks Mealtime, I edited my post over there. As someone who hasn't been following this thing since the start were these things ever figured out/used? http://time- travel.club/ accesslevelbeta.php DangerSparkles DangerSparkles never was. 35 pm Irregular Programming wrote: dave is ok wrote: Thanks Mealtime, I edited my post over there. As someone who hasn't been following this thing since the start were these things ever figured out/used? http://time- travel.club/ accesslevelbeta.php DangerSparkles DangerSparkles never was. Was Access Level Beta? I know Alpha was gadsby/ password123 but I couldn't anywhere listing the login info for beta. Also: mire exhuberant mushiness and the podcast that was just him reading off code haven't been used I'm pretty sure 50 pm There's been a lot of small things here and there that haven't really led us to anything. For example, there is http://time- travel.club/test.php Entering gadsby/ password123 gives you an incomplete draft of the FROG 1.5 "briefing". 05 pm Well, the login form spitting back your login on the page leaves a vulnerability for injecting html/js. Intentional? 43 pm aklreaxmer wrote: Well, the login form spitting back your login on the page leaves a vulnerability for injecting html/js. Intentional? Hmmm, injecting html you say? [Dunce] 59 am dangerskew wrote: aklreaxmer wrote: Well, the login form spitting back your login on the page leaves a vulnerability for injecting html/js. Intentional? Hmmm, injecting html you say? [Dunce] We did it! we found it, time to go home everyone [Smile] 45 am Train Hot Dog Episode 21: Shark Lips https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3SdCxW8hP04 Edit: DEFINITELY something up here, just by listening to the first minute and a half. 29 pm It sounds like something in the background is slowed down. after the first minute. 59 pm There is indeed slowed down speech in THD 21. Having trouble making out some of it, but I'll type what I think I hear. "Thank you for breaking the scripts. You must. YOU MUST! I need/ mean (help? not sure here). (something else I can't make out). STOP DECAY. DON'T WASTE TIME." It also sounds like there might be morse code underneath this too? 26 pm Here's what I managed to get from the audio: https://clyp.it/ o4ovhypu Edit: At least part of this speech is from Myst. Credit to Yarbskoo on Neogaf for pointing it out. Quote: I recognize that speech. "Thank you for bringing the red page." https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=t0womMj8PLA 08 pm dangerskew wrote: Here's what I managed to get from the audio: https://clyp.it/ o4ovhypu Edit: At least part of this speech is from Myst. Credit to Yarbskoo on Neogaf for pointing it out. Quote: I recognize that speech. "Thank you for bringing the red page." https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=t0womMj8PLA Pretty sure all of that is from myst, just jumbled and recut. I wish we knew what was actually decaying. 35 am The use of "decay" and "sparkly" makes me think of dental hygiene. Maybe Frog Fractions 2 is hidden in a game about brushing your teeth. 20 am dave is ok wrote: The use of "decay" and "sparkly" makes me think of dental hygiene. Maybe Frog Fractions 2 is hidden in a game about brushing your teeth. Well most likely ff2 is gonna be teaching us something, there are a couple of tooth cleaning games on ios so maybe you aren't far off. 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I think it was mentioned earlier in the thread... http://killscreendaily.com/articles/simogos-pure-puzzle-game-seems-be-hiding-something/ It's also the assignment this week for Video Games Hot Dog... Other than that, I love the Myst reference. It's IOS only right [Sad] [edit] I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with this but it still sounds like a cool game.. 41 pm so I was snooping around the sources of the pages on the ashby brewery website and found that each page had a 32 character string that I can only assume to be a hash code commented out in the html. Here's the hashes in order from homepage, then the pages corresponding to links going left-> right then top -> bottom. Code: d89e2ba550f4f054c3bbf91d5ef73227 a350adc718ea05a8fbd9f58ddf9153be 764e3a08eff6dde4f02e412ad83e34fd d1a1cb9008d531e24f2c14c13b797de7 835eb2f2503c55a963973a933067a96a a04e606e407a834d279f855b55d03c8d tried looking them up but didn't find anything. I don't really know much about cryptography so I don't really know what I'm doing lol 38 pm Hey stemberto! Some people on the forums who are pretty good at figuring stuff out (IE -- not me [Razz] ) have noticed those too--look at page 31 of this thread. Seems like the keys are related to our IP address...but no one has posted much beyond that! Notice anything else? We're trying to figure out what's next! 28 am shy lil derp wrote: Hey stemberto! Some people on the forums who are pretty good at figuring stuff out (IE -- not me [Razz] ) have noticed those too--look at page 31 of this thread. Seems like the keys are related to our IP address...but no one has posted much beyond that! Notice anything else? We're trying to figure out what's next! We solved them already. It's the letters "abxyz12" (in no particular order) depending on which site you are on and the IP. Frankly I don't have a clue what we missed because I assume we have. Currently we have no idea these things are about: Danger(s)/Sparkes http://time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php https://clyp.it/o4ovhypu <- sound clip from last podcast abxyz12 <- letters from ashby brewery Tell me if I missed anything. 41 am Updated my list: stacktrace error read in thd18: offset read aloud is read as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.TryConsumeMetaData() +61 but was printed from http://trainhotdog.cool/thd18notes.png as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +138 large offsets of: +6738869 and +6741487 weird voices in thd19 decay. donkey kong. decay. donkey kong is here. Youtube thumbnail pixel strips: thds 20, 15, 13, 12, 11, 09 Has anyone asked Jim if SPL-T is FF2? IP hash numbers from Ashby site: abxyx12 Ashby pages may end up spelling out AMPHIBIAN Ashby login for decaytruth.info/admin.php I think the red pages myst quote derived from thd21 may be pointing us to the red pages podcast SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM found both at the red pages extrasode and thd16 DANGER! SPARKLES! http://trainhotdog.asymmetric.net/beards.jpg time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php speech to text used on thd space coast lost phone from area code 321 tunisia area code 216 rider mail spectrogram empty quotes THD 14 unused gifs on time-travel.club/404_files unused image_002.png and .thmx http://time-travel.club/typesoftimetravel_files/ I Robot psychologist loop quote from extrasode Physical bag contents from the event COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM recipie13(poem): “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” missing bug porn month Frog Fractions Walkthrough odd topic of discussion http://goombas.org/1092_you-ever-get-those-balls-in-your-earlobes-.html#c902 Rosencrantz roleplay page Not sure how much of this will be useful, but it's what I've seen through the forums that we've speculated on that may still have some clues. Hope this helps with anything we might have missed. 51 pm So if FF2 is like Myst... I'VE GOT IT! This so called "Jim Crawford" has been a plant all along, a cover... FOR JONATHAN BLOW!! FF2 IS THE WITNESS YOU GUYS!!! [Wink] --- I've been running the audio through every filter I can think of in Audition to see if I could squeeze out any more info, but I wasn't able to improve at all on what dangerskew did. I also did a bit more investigation into the background image of decaytruth. It turns out the background is taken directly from the official archive of the Warner Bros. website for the movie Space Jam (http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm) (When I went back to the GIS and looked at the names of all the images the Taringa! image was named the same (bg_stars.jpg) and linked directly back to the WB site.) So... Space Jam. Is it a clue or just the first terrible site BG that jumped to mind? 51 pm shy lil derp wrote: Hey stemberto! Some people on the forums who are pretty good at figuring stuff out (IE -- not me [Razz] ) have noticed those too--look at page 31 of this thread. Seems like the keys are related to our IP address...but no one has posted much beyond that! Notice anything else? We're trying to figure out what's next! Did anyone actually manage to reproduce the MD5(IP+X) thing? I know I couldn't. If anyone could please clarify what is the exact format of the input to MD5 that's needed to reproduce the results, I would be grateful! 46 pm I didn't bother trying to reproduce it but you should be putting your own IP address into a site that encrypts it into an MD5 hash. Good call whoever connected the Red Pages podcast with the Myst speech in the lasted Train Hot Dog. I wonder if there is anything new hidden in newer Red Page episodes 48 pm rmartins wrote: shy lil derp wrote: Hey stemberto! Some people on the forums who are pretty good at figuring stuff out (IE -- not me [Razz] ) have noticed those too--look at page 31 of this thread. Seems like the keys are related to our IP address...but no one has posted much beyond that! Notice anything else? We're trying to figure out what's next! Did anyone actually manage to reproduce the MD5(IP+X) thing? I know I couldn't. If anyone could please clarify what is the exact format of the input to MD5 that's needed to reproduce the results, I would be grateful! I did, it's your full IP and the letter. so for example 88.92.345.23x 12 am Quote: stacktrace error read in thd18: offset read aloud is read as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.TryConsumeMetaData() +61 but was printed from http://trainhotdog.cool/thd18notes.png as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +138 large offsets of: +6738869 and +6741487 Quote: I think the red pages myst quote derived from thd21 may be pointing us to the red pages podcast Hmm... The end of the error read in thd18 is "+61" and the red pages podcast's most recent episode is number 61, released on September 14th, 2015. THD18, according to the RSS feed, was released on "Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:00 AM." Both 61, both around the same time in September. Coincidence? I think not! [Wink] I don't have time to listen to the Red Pages podcast episode 61 right now, but I plan on listening to it tomorrow. Both of them being number 61 alone wouldn't be all that suspicious to me, but both being released within 4-5 days of each other as well? I think that warrants some investigation. [Smile] The red pages podcast episodes can be found at http://redpagespodcast.com/episodes if you're interested. EDIT: WHOA! I just scrolled down on that page accidentally, and realized that they talk to Jim in "Episode 55: Frog Fractions 2 is a Yacht" and in "Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim Crawford" from the Red Pages Podcast! OK, this is definitely related I think. [Shocked] On a side note, it seems that Frog Fractions 2 has actually been a yacht all along. :^) 59 am Mister wrote: Quote: stacktrace error read in thd18: offset read aloud is read as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.TryConsumeMetaData() +61 but was printed from http://trainhotdog.cool/thd18notes.png as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +138 large offsets of: +6738869 and +6741487 Quote: I think the red pages myst quote derived from thd21 may be pointing us to the red pages podcast Hmm... The end of the error read in thd18 is "+61" and the red pages podcast's most recent episode is number 61, released on September 14th, 2015. THD18, according to the RSS feed, was released on "Thursday, September 10, 2015 1:00 AM." Both 61, both around the same time in September. Coincidence? I think not! [Wink] I don't have time to listen to the Red Pages podcast episode 61 right now, but I plan on listening to it tomorrow. Both of them being number 61 alone wouldn't be all that suspicious to me, but both being released within 4-5 days of each other as well? I think that warrants some investigation. [Smile] The red pages podcast episodes can be found at http://redpagespodcast.com/episodes if you're interested. EDIT: WHOA! I just scrolled down on that page accidentally, and realized that they talk to Jim in "Episode 55: Frog Fractions 2 is a Yacht" and in "Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim Crawford" from the Red Pages Podcast! OK, this is definitely related I think. [Shocked] On a side note, it seems that Frog Fractions 2 has actually been a yacht all along. :^) It's gonna turn out that the arg isn't for frog fraction 2 but for Jim re-branding his company to ashly brewery, he bought the yatch for the kickstarter money. Also, this podcast has worse audio than Jims train hot-dog, how is this possible. There is morse code and messages at the end of chatting with Jim Craford, I'm not able to decode it right now. 40 am God dammit Jim. Morse code Code: lwo osoutriv deniarpsssenihsum tnarebuxe erimssenihsum tnarebuxeerim ssenihsum tnarebuxe erimssenihsum tnarebuxe eri7senihsum tnarebuxe erim This is the reversed string, it's a little more than what we had before also I don't know what the seven is about. Code:  mire exuberant mushines7ire exuberant mushinessmire exuberant mushiness mireexuberant mushinessmire exuberant mushinesssprained virtuoso owl There is also some speech that I can't transcribe right now because I'm in a resturant. In the background of the morse code is a quote from I, robot, it's "If you do you hurt so you mustn't" speech which ends with "and herbie screamed." The rest is more interesting though I think, I can't really hear what he is saying but he is repeating something and there is noise in the background which sounds like it's edited somehow. Everything starts at 37 minutes in. Nicely done connecting the Red Pages podcast with this, I would never have thought of it. 29 am Sprained virtuoso owl sounds like a gfycat link. They use AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal for their filenames, but it didn't work [Sad] 28 am Irregular Programming wrote: God dammit Jim. Morse code Code: eri7senihsum This is the reversed string, it's a little more than what we had before also I don't know what the seven is about. What we expected here is erimssenihsum (mushiness mire), but the "ms" was replaced with a 7. 7 in morse is --.... m in morse is -- s in morse is ... So I am going to guess that this is a transcription error. I haven't listened to the audio, so it's possible that the source really does say - -..., which means we would need to figure out whether that was on purpose or not. 16 pm dave is ok wrote: Sprained virtuoso owl sounds like a gfycat link. They use AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal for their filenames, but it didn't work [Sad] I checked the gyfcat sources (http://test.gfycat.com/adjectives & http://test.gfycat.com/animals) and Sprained and Virtuous are not in their word lists. Maybe synonyms would be the right answer? 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Morse code Code: lwo osoutriv deniarpsssenihsum tnarebuxe erimssenihsum tnarebuxeerim ssenihsum tnarebuxe erimssenihsum tnarebuxe eri7senihsum tnarebuxe erim This is the reversed string, it's a little more than what we had before also I don't know what the seven is about. Code:  mire exuberant mushines7ire exuberant mushinessmire exuberant mushiness mireexuberant mushinessmire exuberant mushinesssprained virtuoso owl There is also some speech that I can't transcribe right now because I'm in a resturant. In the background of the morse code is a quote from I, robot, it's "If you do you hurt so you mustn't" speech which ends with "and herbie screamed." The rest is more interesting though I think, I can't really hear what he is saying but he is repeating something and there is noise in the background which sounds like it's edited somehow. Everything starts at 37 minutes in. Nicely done connecting the Red Pages podcast with this, I would never have thought of it. Looks like we missed the Owl part the first time we saw this (Page 21) what does this mean though jimmc3rd wrote: Updated my list: ... decay. donkey kong. decay. donkey kong is here. ... I don't remember seeing this mentioned anywhere, but I assume this is a reference to the DK_Rap from Donkey Kong 64. The chorus for that song is "DK! Donkey Kong! DK! Donkey Kong is here!" I don't know if it's just supposed to be a joke or if DK64 is somehow relevant, but I would guess that is what this is referring to. Weird: it looks like http://twinbeard.com/eolo5387.html doesn't redirect to twinbread anymore. Do we know when that happened? bozu wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: God dammit Jim. Morse code Code: eri7senihsum This is the reversed string, it's a little more than what we had before also I don't know what the seven is about. What we expected here is erimssenihsum (mushiness mire), but the "ms" was replaced with a 7. 7 in morse is --.... m in morse is -- s in morse is ... So I am going to guess that this is a transcription error. I haven't listened to the audio, so it's possible that the source really does say - -..., which means we would need to figure out whether that was on purpose or not. I was thinking the same thing, I cleaned the audio up from background noise and the 7 is now gone. Could someone else please look into what he is saying in the end. it's 17 repeats, "at a degree"? atta-degree..? [edit] I guess it could be "stop the decay" it would fit thematically but I need a lot of imagination to get it to sound like that. THD 22 - Ashen Stools has been posted. http://shows.kingdomofloathing.com/ahd/thd22.mp3 dangerskew wrote: THD 22 - Ashen Stools has been posted. http://shows.kingdomofloathing.com/ahd/thd22.mp3 Definitely sounds like some noise in there At the beginning we have Quote: were on the plane on february 3rd 19... Relevant things that happened on that date 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. ajbau wrote: At the beginning we have Quote: were on the plane on february 3rd 19... Relevant things that happened on that date 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. This is a pretty huge one from that date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died So the date would be 59 (maybe pointing us towards Red Pages Podcast #59) and who was on the plane would be Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper (and the pilot) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgW1q17_IFg The font this time is Webdings. It translates to Code: TRAIN HoG DoT I think it's interesting to note that the Red Pages Podcast episode, or rather "Extrasode," that Irregular found all that stuff in, is not available on their website. If you try to download it or play it, see here: http://redpagespodcast.com/listen/chatting-with-jim-crawford, then it will give you an error message "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt," so the only way to listen to it is to get the podcast for free on iTunes. File corruption = decay? Maybe that was Jim trying to point us to that specific episode of the podcast. Also, good idea, dave. Quote: This is a pretty huge one from that date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died So the date would be 59 (maybe pointing us towards Red Pages Podcast #59) and who was on the plane would be Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper (and the pilot) That would make sense since at the beginning of THD22, we can also hear a woman saying "We're on the plane? OK," right before the "Febuary 3rd, 19-" part. I think you've probably found the right date, dave, given that the accident was a plane accident. Irregular Programming wrote: Could someone else please look into what he is saying in the end. it's 17 repeats, "at a degree"? atta-degree..? [edit] I guess it could be "stop the decay" it would fit thematically but I need a lot of imagination to get it to sound like that. Perhaps 'Up at the creek' 'Up a degree' or maybe 'up at the greek'? also speeding it up 4x sounds like 'seventy' or '7D' dave is ok wrote: ajbau wrote: At the beginning we have Quote: were on the plane on february 3rd 19... Relevant things that happened on that date 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger. 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. This is a pretty huge one from that date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died So the date would be 59 (maybe pointing us towards Red Pages Podcast #59) and who was on the plane would be Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper (and the pilot) How is it relevant though? It does not fit thematically where as the constant rider mail from the 321 area code the space coast and talk of the space shuttle does. I could be wrong but this is the direction I would be looking They said the word "plane" and then the date of the most famous plane crash in history. I'm not trying to tie it in to existing loose ends. 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None of the other pages have this. Probably nothing, but I figured I'd note it here. am Mister wrote: I think it's interesting to note that the Red Pages Podcast episode, or rather "Extrasode," that Irregular found all that stuff in, is not available on their website. If you try to download it or play it, see here: http:// redpagespodcast.com/listen/chatting-with-jim-crawford, then it will give you an error message "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt," so the only way to listen to it is to get the podcast for free on iTunes. File corruption = decay? Maybe that was Jim trying to point us to that specific episode of the podcast. Must have been a temporary hickup, the episode plays fine for me now. The episode seems to be hosted on archive.org so I doubt they can do anything with it. am jimmc3rd wrote: Not sure the significance, whether an error or intentional, but on the Ashby admin page, the copyright is preceded by Â. None of the other pages have this. Probably nothing, but I figured I'd note it here. From the learn about ~Time Travel~ link on the time-travel club Quote: In the 2002 remake of The Time Machine, it is explained via a vision why Hartdegen could not save his sweetheart Emma — doing so would have resulted in his never developing the time machine he used to try and save her. Maybe related? pm Irregular Programming wrote: Mister wrote: I think it's interesting to note that the Red Pages Podcast episode, or rather "Extrasode," that Irregular found all that stuff in, is not available on their website. If you try to download it or play it, see here: http:// redpagespodcast.com/listen/chatting-with-jim-crawford, then it will give you an error message "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt," so the only way to listen to it is to get the podcast for free on iTunes. File corruption = decay? Maybe that was Jim trying to point us to that specific episode of the podcast. Must have been a temporary hickup, the episode plays fine for me now. The episode seems to be hosted on archive.org so I doubt they can do anything with it. That's really wierd... I can play any of the other episodes on their site, no problem. But when I try to download "Extrasode 3" specifically, it gives me an error message. Screencaps here: http://snag.gy/mTm5J.jpg and here: http:// snag.gy/GT4zx.jpg. Probably nothing, maybe something with my computer, but it's really weird that it only does that for that one specific episode of the podcast... [Confused] EDIT: On a side note, it feels really good to be posting and participating in the discussion again, after lurking for a good while. I'm also glad to see that it seems like we're moving along at a steady rate now, and although we still seem to have possible red herrings coming out of our ears, we're also still making progress. [Very Happy] pm So, probably not a clue or anything, but kind of a cute easter egg: Ashen Stools is episode 22, and the runtime is 22:22. Doesn't go all the way to 22:22.222 though...the micro seconds come out to .511. Don't think I'm cracking anything open here but Episode 22 running 22 minutes and 22 seconds made me smile [Very Happy] pm Irregular Programming wrote: jimmc3rd wrote: Not sure the significance, whether an error or intentional, but on the Ashby admin page, the copyright is preceded by Â. None of the other pages have this. Probably nothing, but I figured I'd note it here. From the learn about ~Time Travel~ link on the time-travel club Quote: In the 2002 remake of The Time Machine, it is explained via a vision why Hartdegen could not save his sweetheart Emma — doing so would have resulted in his never developing the time machine he used to try and save her. Maybe related? Must have been an error, since it's no longer there now. am I just spent 15 minutes looking at the source for the RPS episode wondering why it said LAME3.99.3 all over, only to find out that it's probably the mp3 encoder, just in case someone else finds it and starts investigating. am Irregular Programming wrote: I just spent 15 minutes looking at the source for the RPS episode wondering why it said LAME3.99.3 all over, only to find out that it's probably the mp3 encoder, just in case someone else finds it and starts investigating. Ok, I did some more digging. Since Mister got errors I started thinking and it turns out that the file is most likely indeed corrupt. On the first line I found this. Code:    eng www.gustavklimptuplink.com; TCOM   Z   01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001TDRL       2015-06-25PCST         APIC X8@   image/png   ‰PNG The binary reads "dispatch 1" the gustavklimptuplink url is invalid, there is a Gustav Klimpt on google but I couldn't find any Gustav Klimp There seems to be a PNG in there but I can't find a way to get it out. am Irregular Programming wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: I just spent 15 minutes looking at the source for the RPS episode wondering why it said LAME3.99.3 all over, only to find out that it's probably the mp3 encoder, just in case someone else finds it and starts investigating. Ok, I did some more digging. Since Mister got errors I started thinking and it turns out that the file is most likely indeed corrupt. On the first line I found this. Code:    eng www.gustavklimptuplink.com; TCOM   Z   01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001TDRL       2015-06-25PCST         APIC X8@   image/png   ‰PNG The binary reads "dispatch 1" the gustavklimptuplink url is invalid, there is a Gustav Klimpt on google but I couldn't find any Gustav Klimp There seems to be a PNG in there but I can't find a way to get it out. You're seeing the ID3 tags on the podcast. The image encoded in the mp3 is a famous painting by Gustav Klimt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_I) but it has some... corruption? Modification? Here's the image: http://postimg.org/image/cc8o9gw0x/ The binary is in two Comment tags in the mp3. Nothing else looks off in the ID3 tags. I'll try to subtract the original painting from the modified version and see if I can make the changes stand out more. pm TryingLobster wrote: I'll try to subtract the original painting from the modified version and see if I can make the changes stand out more. I think this might be the original he used: http://www.creativescoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fifth-most-expensive-painting-Gustav-Klimt.jpg Did a google search with the exact dimensions (708x708) and that came up. Of course, he could've just resized another image, but... they sure look identical -- other than the fact that the original is a JPG. pm Also, am I the only one getting a 40.6 MB file when trying to download that extrasode? The page says "9.53 MB". If that's intentional, then there might be stuff hidden in there, somehow. Edit: Ok, this is probably nothing, the audio is ~43 min. long so that's a reasonable size. Also, I just noticed that Episode 60 also shows 9.53 MB when it's actually 35.1 MB, so I guess this is some kind of bug on the podcast website. pm l rmartins wrote: TryingLobster wrote: I'll try to subtract the original painting from the modified version and see if I can make the changes stand out more. I think this might be the original he used: http://www.creativescoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fifth-most-expensive-painting-Gustav-Klimt.jpg Did a google search with the exact dimensions (708x708) and that came up. Of course, he could've just resized another image, but... they sure look identical -- other than the fact that the original is a JPG. I actually think it's just 50% of the unresized wikipedia image. I uploaded a decent diff here: http://postimg.org/image/5f8caxpcl/ . The diff seems to show that only her skin is modified; I'm not seeing anything written in the background anywhere. Also I think the download size is just wrong; Extrasode 3 is definitely around 40 MB, not 9.53 MB. Also episode 55 is also listed as 9.53 MB but actually clocks in around 100 MB. I wasn't able to extract anything interesting from the ID3 tags of episode 55, and the bitrate times the length seems to roughly match the size of the file, so I doubt anything's hidden in the metadata there. EDIT: All their podcasts appear to be listed as 9.53 MB. Seems like just a site bug to me. pm bozu wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: God dammit Jim. Morse code Code: eri7senihsum This is the reversed string, it's a little more than what we had before also I don't know what the seven is about. What we expected here is erimssenihsum (mushiness mire), but the "ms" was replaced with a 7. 7 in morse is --.... m in morse is -- s in morse is ... So I am going to guess that this is a transcription error. I haven't listened to the audio, so it's possible that the source really does say --..., which means we would need to figure out whether that was on purpose or not. You are correct. I looked at the spectrogram to transcribe the morse and it is "erim ssenihsum". Also the first word is "owls": the first 's' starts immediately as soon as the noise ends. Also also there is a space between the words like "mushiness" and "mire"; it's hard to hear but easier to see on the spectrogram. I'll try to verify the rest of the morse later this weekend... pm Hey TryingLobster, nice job, and thanks for correcting me. About the PNG diff, how did you do it? Just curious! Since PNG is lossless, isn't it weird that you got these small differences (dark blue) all over the picture? If you open a PNG file, draw some lines, then save it again, then diff, shouldn't you have a perfect match except for the lines you drew? pm rmartins wrote: Hey TryingLobster, nice job, and thanks for correcting me. About the PNG diff, how did you do it? Just curious! I used a python script called eyeD3 (get it? ID3? Hur hur). I use Linux in my professional life and I like using it for puzzle solving because I have access to all sorts of scripts and tools to analyze obscure file formats. rmartins wrote: Since PNG is lossless, isn't it weird that you got these small differences (dark blue) all over the picture? If you open a PNG file, draw some lines, then save it again, then diff, shouldn't you have a perfect match except for the lines you drew? Good point! I think it's because my original is a JPEG and I probably don't have the real unmodified original. 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This movie was also released this year about the same painting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_in_Gold Dunno if it's releated. [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:05 am TryingLobster wrote: rmartins wrote: Hey TryingLobster, nice job, and thanks for correcting me. About the PNG diff, how did you do it? Just curious! I used a python script called eyeD3 (get it? ID3? Hur hur). I use Linux in my professional life and I like using it for puzzle solving because I have access to all sorts of scripts and tools to analyze obscure file formats. Right, but how did you actually run the diff between the images after extracting it from the ID3? I'm asking because I'm using ImageMagick and, instead of a smooth diff like yours, I'm getting red pixels for every different pixel, no matter *how* different it is. Yours seem to consider that, so it looks a lot better. [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:53 am I've tried each combination with the following on the ashby admin and the beta access pages and they did not work: User: Gustav gustav Klimt klimt Klimpt klimpt pass: dispatch 1 dispatch1 'dispatch 1' seems like it should be a password for something. I'll try to think of other usernames I've yet to try. [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:06 pm I transcribed the rest of the Extrasode 3 morse code. At 37:38 I get Code: SLWO OSOUTRIV DENIARPS SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM At 38:44 I get Code: SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIMSSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIMSSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM There is in fact an error in the encoding around the second ERIMSSENIHSUM: in the spectrogram there is a visible separation between the "--" and "..." but it's only maybe 10s of ms. I haven't looked at the exact timing because I'm 99% sure it's just a mistake. My theory is that each code word represents a digit. Do these words (reversed of course) show up anywhere else? With a little more ciphertext I feel like I could decrypt it but I haven't been able to translate anything with just this. I also looked into Episode 55. There are two things that stick out: 1) At 51:55 there's some kind of reverb effect that's been applied. It's subtle but glows like crazy on a spectrogram. The transcript is: "Uh, and it was really enjoyable stuff. Like, very much of, like, replicating the style of the time where, like, these people don't really know how to write and there's this very very awkward, like, focusing on, like, things that aren't that important." I think he's just trolling us here. 2) At 1:10:29 there's a noise around the time they're talking about the FF2 kickstarter. The transcript is: "Is that where the money went? You just, ah, you just bought a yacht and named it Frog Fractions 2?" [laughing] The noise occurs just after that. After the noise they're talking about how you can't buy a decent yacht for $70k. I also think this isn't really a clue, but it was interesting. This afternoon I'll look into THD 22, Ashen Stools since dave is ok thinks there's interesting noise in there. [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:07 pm rmartins wrote: Right, but how did you actually run the diff between the images after extracting it from the ID3? I'm asking because I'm using ImageMagick and, instead of a smooth diff like yours, I'm getting red pixels for every different pixel, no matter *how* different it is. Yours seem to consider that, so it looks a lot better. Oh! Yeah I ran into that too. Use composite instead: Code: composite wiki_source.png OTHER.png -compose difference diff.png [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:09 pm TryingLobster wrote: Do these words (reversed of course) show up anywhere else?. THD16 [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 12:14 pm In THD22, a notch filter has been applied at exactly 2 kHz. I haven't figured out the significance of this, but it's definitely very visible in the spectrogram. The notch widens a bit while he's looking for the rider mail. I can't identify anything during that interval besides train noise... The filter's definitely on purpose but I'm not sure it actually means anything. [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:30 pm jimmc3rd wrote: TryingLobster wrote: Do these words (reversed of course) show up anywhere else?. THD16 OK, finally took the time to read through the whole thread. Looks like the morse in THD16 is exactly the same, down to the short pause between repetitions. Looking at it again I don't think the code words map to digits, but I don't have another theory. If this ends up being a red herring I'm going to be mad. [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 6:09 pm Ok, hm... Just some thoughts I wanted to share, nothing solid, but hoping it could be useful anyway. 1) The wallpaper of the Red Pages Extrasode 3 is a mock picture of a game with "Gold: 285". It could of course be a random thing, but then Irregular Programming mentioned a few posts ago that the nickname of the painting in the ID3 is "Woman in Gold". If there's indeed no stegano in that picture (I tried a few things and couldn't find anything) maybe it's just a way of pointing to "gold". If we ever need a three-digit number it might be useful to remember this. 2) Everytime I read "Mire Exuberant Mushiness" and "Sprained Virtuoso Owls" I can't help but think these are anagrams. I mean, these are exactly the kind of weird nonsense things you get when looking at possible anagrams of english phrases. So I've been playing with the idea and the most interesting I got was "Password is Revolution". http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=sprained+virtuoso+owls&language=english&t=100&d=&include=passwordis&exclude=&n=&m=&source=adv&a=n&l=n&q=n&k=1 You can get "Username is" from Mire... but then the rest doesn't make any sense. http://wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=mire+exuberant+mushiness&language=english&t=100&d=&include=usernameis&exclude=&n=&m=&source=adv&a=n&l=n&q=n&k=1 Edit: By the way, where was that "www.gustavklimptuplink.com" url? I never found that in the ID3 of the podcast's MP3... [Post]Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:29 pm username is the number six ? [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:33 am Hi, first time dabbling with these sorts of games and I can already see how they could drive a person nuts. For example: I read here that there was a phrase from 'I, Robot' hidden in a file and I notice that one of the external links from the Wikipedia article on 'The Woman in Gold' is iKlimt.com Is it a clue? Useless? Is FF2 the "Magnus the Magnetic Dog" children's book advertised on that site? I should do the dishes, ARGs hurt my brain. [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:47 am spir wrote: username is the number six ? Nice catch! Could also be "the username is number six". However I tried to login on accesslevelalpha, beta and decaytruth's admin page with "6", "six" and "numbersix" as username (and "revolution" as password), and it didn't work. [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 11:35 am Nice work everyone! rmartins wrote: Edit: By the way, where was that "www.gustavklimptuplink.com" url? I never found that in the ID3 of the podcast's MP3... If you open the MP3 as a text file it's there on the first line. [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 12:58 pm Irregular Programming wrote: Nice work everyone! rmartins wrote: Edit: By the way, where was that "www.gustavklimptuplink.com" url? I never found that in the ID3 of the podcast's MP3... If you open the MP3 as a text file it's there on the first line. Weird. I just re-downloaded the podcast to be sure and this is what I get: Code: ID3   Y 6TCON      PodcastTALB      Red Pages PodcastTYER      2015TYER      2015TIT2   (   Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim CrawfordTPE1      Justin, Gord & PaulCOMM   ^       01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001COMM   ^   XXX 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001APIC @   image/png   ‰PNG [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:54 pm Red Pages Twitter ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================ The Red Pages podcast has a Twitter with some things of note: https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/653449532382941184 Similar corrupted image to the "woman in gold" before. Maybe we need to piece them together somehow? https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/652886193248440321 Corrupt episodes appear to be a bug https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/651855579829288960 Reference to "Mire Exuberant Mushiness" but I don't think there's anything much deeper [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:37 pm Display posts from previous: [One of: All Posts/1 Day/1 Week/2 Weeks/1 Month/3 Months/6 Months/1 Year]  Sort by: [One of: Post Time/Post Subject/Author] [One of: Ascending/Descending] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /48/49/50/51/52/53/54/55] Next ilatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/|   |___ TimeWasters/|   |___ The Master Theorem/|   |___ Perplex  |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Purple Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Black Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Silver Puzzle Cards/ layer Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in Pieces/|    /|___ Administration/|   |___ Terms of Service/|   |___ Announcements/|   |___ General/|    /|___ Archive/    |___ Archive: Ephemeral/ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/    |   |___ CF: Studio Cypher/    |    /    |___ Archive: General/    |   |___ Old News & Rumors/    |   |___ Low-Volume Games/    |   |___ ARG: 48 Hours in Purgatory/    |   |___ ARG: Acheron/ RG: Anyone Seen James?/    |   |___ ARG: Ares Station/    |   |___ ARG: ARGtalk/    |   |___ ARG: Aware/    |   |___ ARG: The Baldulc Will Rise/    |   |___ ARG: Beacon of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/ ARG: Dark Detour/    |   |___ ARG: The Dark Knight/    |   |___ ARG: District 9/    |   |___ ARG: Eight Days, Thirteen Lights, 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost   |   |___ ARG: Institute for Human Continuity/    |   |___ ARG: Iris (Halo 3)/    |   |___ ARG: The Jejune Institute/    |   |___ ARG: Legend of the Sacred Urns/    |   |___ ARG: LegionPharma (Sin2)/    |   |___ ARG: Lenny's Xanga/ Reloaded/    |   |___ ARG: (Mnemosyne and) The Widow's Son/    |   |___ ARG: Monster Hunter Club/    |   |___ ARG: NoahBoddy/    |   |___ ARG: Ny Takma/    |   |___ ARG: Ocular Effect/    |   |___ ARG: O.P. 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Visit_Ye_Olde_Tradin'_Post!   Our_Esteemed_Contributors /48/49/50/51/52/53/54/55] Next Message Thought I'd look to see which of the downloaded thd's I have downloaded have ID3 data, and thd16 seems to be the only one I've seen that does have it when I open it in notepad. I'm not too familiar with what I'm seeing, but does it seem odd that the others don't have this info? Also, under properties the genre is listed as blues. thds I've looked at: 8, 12, 14, and 16-22 If we've not already done so, maybe it'd be worth checking 1-7, 9-10, 13 and 15. Here's hoping we find something. [Very Happy] [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:43 pm Re: Red Pages Twitter ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== bobbysq wrote: The Red Pages podcast has a Twitter with some things of note: https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/653449532382941184 Similar corrupted image to the "woman in gold" before. Maybe we need to piece them together somehow? https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/652886193248440321 Corrupt episodes appear to be a bug https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/651855579829288960 Reference to "Mire Exuberant Mushiness" but I don't think there's anything much deeper Cool, I was just about to post these tweets! [Very Happy] These are my hypothesis: 1) the first one (about mire etc.) was just to say "hey FF2 arg'ers, pay attention to this tweeter account, it's related." 2) The second one, about the corruption, shows that they're actually reading this thread; Mister's post about the podcast being corrupt was from Oct 08 if I'm not mistaken (2 days before the tweet). Of course it could just be a coincidence, but maybe they're saying "we're watching!". 3) The king card is definitely related. They both look like zombies with red eyes, with similar markings in their face. Now, other than "what do these zombified images mean?", there's another question: "who's Herbie?" Have you guys noticed this other tweeter account before? https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/648648711577309184 https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/634430042370478080 [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 5:54 pm Re: Red Pages Twitter ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== rmartins wrote: there's another question: "who's Herbie?" I think that's the robot that went nuts in I, Robot when presented with a logic paradox. edit: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar!_(short_story)[/url] [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:15 pm rmartins wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: Nice work everyone! rmartins wrote: Edit: By the way, where was that "www.gustavklimptuplink.com" url? I never found that in the ID3 of the podcast's MP3... If you open the MP3 as a text file it's there on the first line. Weird. I just re-downloaded the podcast to be sure and this is what I get: Code: ID3   Y 6TCON      PodcastTALB      Red Pages PodcastTYER      2015TYER      2015TIT2   (   Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim CrawfordTPE1      Justin, Gord & PaulCOMM   ^       01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001COMM   ^   XXX 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001APIC @   image/png   ‰PNG This is the original. Code: ID3TALB      Red Pages PodcastTYER      2015TIT2   (   Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim CrawfordTCON      PodcastTPE1      Justin, Gord & Paul ID3   X;vTIT2   (   Extrasode 3: Chatting with Jim CrawfordTPE1      Justin, Gord & PaulTALB      Red Pages PodcastTYER      2015TCON      PodcastCOMM   !   eng www.gustavklimptuplink.com; TCOM   Z   01100100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 00110001TDRL       2015-06-25PCST         APIC X8@   image/png   ‰PNG  Maybe something else changed in this recording? [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:22 pm Re: Red Pages Twitter ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== rmartins wrote: https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/648648711577309184 https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/634430042370478080 The Great Gadsby starts with an ephigraph. Quote: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:33 pm Did anyone try LordHuffnPuff's Mario Maker level? https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/642524838125371392 [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 6:59 pm I just went through the whole Ep. 55 of RPP (phew!) and noticed one part that I think ties in with the "username is the number six" anagram. The real interview starts around 1h03min with (roughly) the following exchange: RP - what's your favorite number? JC - I don't really have one. RP - (...) were you going to say seven? JC - No... There are a lot of numbers that start with ssss... Hm, but also what starts with ssssi... I don't really have one! (laughs) RP - I was going for a 7th guest reference... JC - Still can't think of... Still can't think of one. I don't know, it feels like he was going for a six, but hiding it. There's also a quick burst of static at 1:10:29, and in the final 2 or 3 minutes there's a lot of what seems like artificial stuttering, but I couldn't make anything of it. [Post]Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:13 pm Re: Red Pages Twitter ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Irregular Programming wrote: rmartins wrote: https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/648648711577309184 https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/634430042370478080 The Great Gadsby starts with an ephigraph. Quote: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’ —THOMAS PARKE D’INVILLIERS The first tweet, "And Herbie screamed" is a line from Asimov's short story Liar (thanks jimmc3rd!) wherein a telepathic robot becomes catatonic after encountering a situation where it is forced to hurt a person no matter what it does (violating the First Law of Robotics). Could definitely be the Herbie from the RPP tweet. Are the images a symbol of Decay? Are both images supposed to be robots? There's Lady in Gold (Robot in Gold?) and the king of spades. King and Queen perhaps? The second tweet contains the first line of The Great Gatsby with all E's removed. The novel Gadsby was written without using the letter E. My guess is that this is just a joke and not a clue. [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 12:40 am jimmc3rd wrote: Thought I'd look to see which of the downloaded thd's I have downloaded have ID3 data, and thd16 seems to be the only one I've seen that does have it when I open it in notepad. I'm not too familiar with what I'm seeing, but does it seem odd that the others don't have this info? Also, under properties the genre is listed as blues. thds I've looked at: 8, 12, 14, and 16-22 If we've not already done so, maybe it'd be worth checking 1-7, 9-10, 13 and 15. Here's hoping we find something. [Very Happy] No ID3 information in any other THD. I've checked 1-22, downloaded either today or yesterday. THD10 and THD16 contain some XMP information from Adobe Audition CC, but it's just metadata that didn't get scrubbed. Doesn't appear to contain anything relevant. I'm still looking through all the other THD spectrograms. Nothing interesting so far. I think the notch filter at 2 kHz was just an attempt to clean up the podcast and not a clue. There are a few other THDs that have steady noise at 2 kHz that I imagine is annoying to listen to. [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:15 am Herbie ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Herbie is also the name of a famous bug... VW Bug that is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie Just thought I'd throw that out there in case the waters weren't muddy enough already. [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:29 am With such a strong time-travel theme, I'm surprised we've found (or rather noticed) little or no significant dates to move us along. Here's a small list of time/dates that I was thinking that would most likely have any real significance: "gadsby" printed 1939 Ashby page copyright 1999 Ashby founded 1777 Ashby comes to new world when abbey burns down during Blue Revolution of 1738 "Liar!" printed 1941 "I, Robot" 1950 Feb 3, 19XX I'll probably get around to posting another composite list of our clues soon. My guess from the tweet including the Spooky King of Spades is that we have all the pieces of the puzzle and now need to figure out these logins. The more likely scenario is we still have a ways to go, but we'll see I guess. [Very Happy] [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 6:19 am Quote: In my youngr and mor vulnrabl yars my fathr gav m som advic that I’v bn turning ovr in my mind vr sinc. - opening line, "The Great Gadsby" [edit]I missed that lobster already brought this up[/edit] I also think we have everything we need, but haven't found a way to use the passwords or anything. [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:10 am edited by Irregular Programming on Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:47 am; edited 1 time in total Re: Herbie ========================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== FluffRat wrote: Herbie is also the name of a famous bug... VW Bug that is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie Just thought I'd throw that out there in case the waters weren't muddy enough already. Herbie the Love Bug would seem to fit the Bug Porn theme - but that seems a bit of a stretch. [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:00 am Has anyone tried logging into the Ashby site with usernames related to the Ashby characters, like Charles Foster Ashby, Hunter S. Gunderson, or Amy Rengstorff (from the original Kickstarter video)? I tried a few different usernames based on those and none worked, but it might just be because I had the wrong passwords. Seems like the Ashby staff should have their own logins on their site. [Post]Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 8:05 am spir wrote: Did anyone try LordHuffnPuff's Mario Maker level? https://twitter.com/LordHuffnPuff/status/642524838125371392 This does not seem to contain anything concerning FF2 sadly. 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[update] If we can I couldn't find out how. It was missing hops and barley (and marley) Irregular Programming wrote: Could someone else please look into what he is saying in the end. it's 17 repeats, "at a degree"? atta-degree..? [edit] I guess it could be "stop the decay" it would fit thematically but I need a lot of imagination to get it to sound like that. If you run it at normal speed you hear that and also, in the middle, a small sound excerpt from Myst. However, if you speed it up a lot, say 300%, you also hear "17" twice! http://vocaroo.com/ i/s1yCGxwkclwm So maybe 17 is Jim's favorite number, and not 6? LorduffnPuff made a new level he says may be of interest to somebody. code 04AA-0000- 00A6-45F2 https:// twitter.com/ LordHuffnPuff/ status/ 654019664226336768 anyone with Mario maker wanna check it out? jimmc3rd wrote: LorduffnPuff made a new level he says may be of interest to somebody. code 04AA-0000- 00A6-45F2 https:// twitter.com/ LordHuffnPuff/ status/ 654019664226336768 anyone with Mario maker wanna check it out? I'll check it out when I have a chance tonight. Who is this LorduffnPuff? I see on his Twitter it says "I write stuff for Frog Fractions 2", but this Red Pages stuff is the first I've heard of him. dangerskew wrote: Who is this LorduffnPuff? I see on his Twitter it says "I write stuff for Frog Fractions 2", but this Red Pages stuff is the first I've heard of him. He's one of the 3 guys that host the Red Pages Podcast. He's also a dev on FF2. https:// twitter.com/ LordHuffnPuff/ status/ 617516693695406080 jimmc3rd wrote: LorduffnPuff made a new level he says may be of interest to somebody. code 04AA-0000- 00A6-45F2 https:// twitter.com/ LordHuffnPuff/ status/ 654019664226336768 anyone with Mario maker wanna check it out? I'll do it now. Course could not be found. edit again, there is a level called "dispatch 2" on here. code: 40AA-0000- 00A6-45F2 It says PWD: SCREAMED edit, I've been testing around using Herbie screamed as login/ pw at places with no success. UPDATE Access level beta works, all lowercase. Code: USER:HERBIE RANK:CORPORAL COMMANDING OFFICER: WILLIAM Welcome Corporal! Your continued dedication to the human resistance movement authorizes you to additional resources unavailable to new recruits. About the Resistance Our nemesis is one you know all too well; the decay has changed the landscape of the earth and irreparably altered the path of mankind. As we are unable to combat our foe head-on, the resistance exists to win humanity's liberation through covert operations and advanced technology of types unavailable even to our most powerful enemies. United, we stand between the decay and the sparkly annihilation of our species. This website will serve as your home base for intelligence updates and new information vital to the survival of this organization. As you prove yourself and are promoted through the ranks, you will gain access to additional resources and information to aid you in completing the operations we assign you. Keep up the good fight corporal. Your service is integral to the cause. Resources Requisitions Operative List (LOCKED) Current Operations Terminal (LOCKED) %corrupt_entry%segf (LOCKED) Party Lounge (VERY LOCKED) Code: USER:HERBIE RANK:CORPORAL COMMANDING OFFICER: WILLIAM REQUISITIONS Please contact central command in order to place order. Your current rank allows access to the following requisitions: AVAILABLE REQUISITIONS Hops Marley Malt Yeast Water F-Rations Anti-Sparkle Lotion Bread Code: USER:HERBIE RANK:CORPORAL COMMANDING OFFICER: WILLIAM OPERATIONS Please contact central command for deployment instructions. Your current operation assignments are as follows: ASSIGNED OPERATIONS Operation Glitterbuster TT Operation 2014 - CRAWFORD TT Operation 1965 - M. BRADLEY. Operation B.R.E.A.D. Irregular Programming wrote: I've been testing around using Herbie screamed as login/ pw at places with no success. UPDATE Access level beta works, all lowercase. Awesome, awesome work; seriously well done! This is a lot of new stuff. www.time- travel.club/ accesslevelbeta.php username: herbie password: screamed Nice, Irregular Programming! was the other code 40AA-0000-00A6-45F2 ? he posted a second one on twitter not too long ago [quote="Irregular Programming"] jimmc3rd wrote: Code: USER:HERBIE RANK:CORPORAL COMMANDING OFFICER: WILLIAM OPERATIONS Please contact central command for deployment instructions. Your current operation assignments are as follows: ASSIGNED OPERATIONS Operation Glitterbuster TT Operation 2014 - CRAWFORD TT Operation 1965 - M. BRADLEY. Operation B.R.E.A.D. The board game 'Operation' was initially produced by Milton Bradley in 1965. Holy $#%@, nice work!! So the string "PWD: SCREAMED" was in Mario Maker? From the new access level beta pages: Code: link rel="stylesheet" href="/milk.css" type="text/css"/ There is no milk.css. jimmc3rd wrote: Nice, Irregular Programming! was the other code 40AA-0000-00A6-45F2 ? he posted a second one on twitter not too long ago That's the level that gave the password. I took a screenshot so those without Super Mario Maker can see: requisition snarfblat operation snarfblat these are in the urls for the requisitions and current operations pages respectively not sure how relevant, but I think that was what the seagull called a smoking pipe in the Little Mermaid jimmc3rd wrote: Nice, Irregular Programming! was the other code 40AA-0000-00A6-45F2 ? he posted a second one on twitter not too long ago I could not find anything in his first level that he posted, maybe he just wanted us to look at the rest of his levels and find the dispatch 2 level that way. The string in Mario Maker was exactly PWD:SCREAMED written in coins. Irregular Programming wrote: I could not find anything in his first level that he posted, maybe he just wanted us to look at the rest of his levels and find the dispatch 2 level that way. 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It looks like he posted the correct one second and then the incorrect one third and deleted the correct one, since he now just has the one starting with 40 Sorry I am really tired, 04 is the wrong one and 40 is the correct one, he seemed to have deleted his old tweet. It said 04 before but now it says 40 which is correct. The only other thing that could be hidden in this level is these blocks, which are seemingly erratically placed, but could translate to morse code somehow? http://i.imgur.com/nAWvK7I.png Here is the placement of the blocks "translated" to dashes: Code: - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - -- -- --  -- - - - -- -- -- -- - - - - - -- -  - - - - - -- - - -- Irregular Programming wrote: If we can I couldn't find out how. It was missing hops and barley (and marley) Could you check for Milk (milk.css) and "marley malt" (as one ingredient)? (Frogs hop, too. Maybe "HOP" is a command?) dangerskew wrote: Here is the placement of the blocks "translated" to dashes: Code: - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - -- -- --  -- - - - -- -- -- -- - - - - - -- -  - - - - - -- - - -- There aren't enough breaks to easily translate that to morse. could be it's morse without breaks, which would be hard to decode. ......-...-..--- -...----.....-. .....-..- What a glorious mess. dangerskew wrote: I took a screenshot so those without Super Mario Maker can see: Amazing, thank you! So it seems we moved up from recruit to corporal. You guys think there's more to be found now or do we wait for something like accesslevelgamma? bozu wrote: There aren't enough breaks to easily translate that to morse. could be it's morse without breaks, which would be hard to decode. ......-...-..--- -...----.....-. .....-..- What a glorious mess. I'd say that if it were to be morse code, then maybe there's something in the level itself to delimit the chars. If not, perhaps it's binary? HELLO NUMBER SIX Edit: I just remembered that in RPP-55 they mentioned The_Prisoner, so it might be related. rmartins wrote: HELLO NUMBER SIX Well done. I'd worked out the 'SIX' bit and was planning on hacking the rest out with Python tonight. So, herbie is number six? And the number six is the username, and revolution is the password? bozu wrote: rmartins wrote: HELLO NUMBER SIX Well done. I'd worked out the 'SIX' bit and was planning on hacking the rest out with Python tonight. So, herbie is number six? And the number six is the username, and revolution is the password? I used this: http://www.jbowman.com/remorse/ Nice little web tool! And well yeah, probably... but I couldn't get it to work on any of the current login screens. Here's a quick video of the whole level in the editor, in case something else is hidden in there: https://youtu.be/LqBM1XpupnE New accesslevelbeta response ================================================================================================= Now when you use number six / revolution on http://time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php it gives you this page: USER:NUMBER SIX RANK:XXXXXXX COMMANDING OFFICER:N/A Greetings Number Six. Your login is currently being prepped - please continue to use Corporal Herbie's login for the time being. Re: New accesslevelbeta response ================================================================================================= spir wrote: Greetings Number Six. Your login is currently being prepped - please continue to use Corporal Herbie's login for the time being. Amazing progress tonight! Edit: The number 7 seems to really be a recurring thing lately. There are 7 X's as the placeholder for the user's rank, there were 7 Piranha Plants stacked on top of each other in the Mario Maker level, 7 red-winged Koopa Troopas in a peculiar formation, and the stuff from the Red Pages podcast. Re: New accesslevelbeta response ================================================================================================= spir wrote: Now when you use number six / revolution on http://time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php it gives you this page: USER:NUMBER SIX RANK:XXXXXXX COMMANDING OFFICER:N/A Greetings Number Six. Your login is currently being prepped - please continue to use Corporal Herbie's login for the time being. Yep... just found out too! [Very Happy] I wasn't trying spaces on the login! Now this makes me wonder if alpha would have another login. Nice work everyone! Wow! What a great couple of updates to log into see after a long day at work! 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Your login is currently being prepped - please continue to use Corporal Herbie's login for the time being. Awesome! I'm totally jealous; that combination definitely did not work last night. Super exciting to see all this progress! EDIT: I thought I tried that combination but I did not! So close but no cigar. pm l Wow! nice job guys. P.S. We've been at this for over a year and a half! Jim really knows how to lead us on... pm So... any ideas on how to contact central command to place orders or get deployment instructions? Our commanding officer is William but I have no idea who that is. am rmartins wrote: So... any ideas on how to contact central command to place orders or get deployment instructions? Our commanding officer is William but I have no idea who that is. Train hot dog #7 talks about this guy https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ William_O._Douglas ? pm Just to let you guys know, I asked Jim by e- mail if Bedlam was related and he said he didn't know what it was, so maybe. Which means it probably isn't. I decided to ask because the whole time-travel genre-shifting thing got my attention, and there is some kind of mutated soldiers with red eyes which reminded me of these pictures we found lately. Also, he tweeted about Undertale and The Beginner's Guide, so I guess I'd rule those out too. I've been meaning to check TBG out... did anyone here try it? pm http://time-travel.club/ accesslevelbeta.php username: herbie password: screamed oh wait you got that Interesting that the CSS file of those pages is broken. pm Zaratustra wrote: Interesting that the CSS file of those pages is broken. I tried looking for that milk.css on twinbread.com and other sites, as well as poking at milk.html, or /css/ milk.css... no luck yet. pm Train Hot Dog 17 ======================== I feel that the 'seventeen' clue probably points back to Train Hot Dog 17 (Kitten Gains/Decay Truth.) Listening to the file backwards is no more enlightening than listening to it forwards... pm Re: Train Hot Dog 17 ======================== spir wrote: I feel that the 'seventeen' clue probably points back to Train Hot Dog 17 (Kitten Gains/Decay Truth.) At first I thought that too, but RPP Extrasode #3 was in June and THD #17 was just last month... so I don't know really. pm Re: Train Hot Dog 17 ======================== spir wrote: I feel that the 'seventeen' clue probably points back to Train Hot Dog 17 (Kitten Gains/Decay Truth.) Listening to the file backwards is no more enlightening than listening to it forwards... What do you mean, I learned buff was a color. [Wink] To be fair this was the first thing I thought of as well but I still couldn't find anything in that recording. I saw the milk.css a long time ago, I couldn't really understand what to do with it and guess I forgot to mention it. am bozu wrote: I tried looking for that milk.css on twinbread.com and other sites, as well as poking at milk.html, or /css/ milk.css... no luck yet. I tried googling milk.css and the actual line of code in the access level alpha page, and I did see the milk.css code in other pages and some code on github I think it may have to do with password validation or something like that, but I'm not 100%. My guess is that the milk.css is not a clue, if one is in the source code. edit: after a bit of research, it seems milk.css would be the theme for the page style. So maybe this is something after all, if not a coincidence. http://bit.ly/1Ge9HD3 am rmartins wrote: I've been meaning to check TBG out... did anyone here try it? It's a short (1.5hr) and interesting story, with very few "twists" and depth. I enjoyed it but wasn't overawed. Don't be expecting "The Stanley Parable 2" and it stands on its own quite well. am So, I was looking around the beta page after the login was discovered, and I was trying to figure out what was going on with http:// time-travel.club/ operationsnarfblat.html. The listed Assigned Operations for Herbie are: Quote: ASSIGNED OPERATIONS Operation Glitterbuster TT Operation 2014 - CRAWFORD TT Operation 1965 - M. BRADLEY. Operation B.R.E.A.D. Not sure about Glitterbuster or B.R.E.A.D., but I think it's a safe assumption that TT Operation 2014 - CRAWFORD is related to the time travel shenanigans we've been seeing from Mr. Jim Crawford in the arg. TT Operation 1965 - M. Bradley --Milton Bradley? Incidentally, the board game Operation was published in 1965. This might be a clue, but it could also just be funny. Other games published by Milton Bradley in 1965: * Barrel of Monkeys (1965) Battle Cry: A Civil War Game (American Heritage) 1961- 1965 Broadside (American Heritage) 1961- 1965 Camp Granada (1965) Dogfight (American Heritage)1961-1965 Frustration! (aka Trouble) (1965) Go For Broke (1965) Hit the Beach (American Heritage) 1961- 1965 I Dream Of Jeannie (1965) James Bond 007: Thunderball (1965) King Leonardo and His Subjects Game (1965) Lost in Space (1965) Mystery Date (1965) Operation (1965) Stay Alive (1965) Trouble (1965) Sidenote: Snarfblat is what the bird in the little mermaid calls smoking pipes. EDIT!: OK, this was NOT published on the wikipedia page for Milton Bradley products, but in 1965, a board game called Frantic Frogs was also released. https:// boardgamegeek.com/ boardgame/7668/frantic- frogs pm Train Hot Dog - Episode 23: Accessory Bolt Holes for Camel ======================== The new train hot dog episode 23 is out. I listened through it once. The first things I noticed were that at a little bit after the 8: 45 mark, Jim complains about a website saying it is mobile-friendly when it is actually almost unreadable on mobile. He mentions css, which is what I noticed. Approximately what he says: "Oh man, nice! OK, here's a page- thanks CSS! (sarcastic tone)- here's a page that is mobile, quote on quote mobile-friendly. Can't zoom in or out, can't scroll left or right, and you see about half the text. Like the left half of the text is on the page. So, good job guys! ...I'll try reading it anyway" I figured that maybe signing in to the number six account, the page with the milk.css thing, would do something different on mobile, that is if your browser tells the website that it is a mobile browser, like the identifier or whatever. No luck with that. Also, at about 10:50, he says something about the number six. It's hard to understand what he says before it, but here's a really rough quote of what I heard: "*something something*discuss O- wait, that's a six, discuss six. Maybe I could leave a comment saying I can't read this on mobile. If I click this discuss six link, if that's in fact a discussion link. Uhhermmm... Oh, here's a forum thread that reproduces the text, except I can read it... Well, I already read it, so fuck it." Dunno what that may or may not mean, but hopefully the people on here who know how to dig through the files, or the audacity wizards, will find a clue in there. [Razz] EDIT: Also, nice find, shy lil derp! Given that Milton Bradley was founded in 1965 AND they came out with an apparently not very well know frog-related board game in that same year, I think you're right on the money with that! [Very Happy] pm So, how do you actually leave rider mail, do you call the number and leave an audio message? Do you send an SMS? Youtube comment? 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Do you send an SMS? Youtube comment? Maybe someone should leave a ridermail saying "Corporal Herbie here, requesting deployment instructions" or something. We haven't interacted much with him through that channel, maybe it could be a good idea. Most of the time he will read it if you call the beards number, but the issue with that is that he has a speech to text program that garbles most of what you say. I think once or twice he read a youtube comment, but I'm not sure how much luck you'll have with that method. Never hurts to try though. pm Here's the THD23 spectrogram: It looks a bit odd, but I'm kind of new at this, so I don't know how to interpret it. pm Nothing interesting in the ID3 tags or spectrogram of THD23. I spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out what the low-frequency noise was until I realized it's at 60, 120, and 180 Hz (which means it's from the electrical grid and not an interesting signal). I thought maybe there were some distorted voices at the beginning but I think it's just the standard into but very quiet compared to the train noise? I don't think we ever figured anything out from the bread pages, right? I was thinking about Operation B.R.E.A.D. in Corporal Herbie's operations list and how that might tie in to twinbread.com. I haven't found anything interesting on the pages beyond what folks have already found. The BF code is identical on every page. The only discrepancy I found was that Gramercy Tavern’s Gingerbread isn't present on the main index.html but I think that's just an oversight. I know the primes on recipie36 were used to decode the Butts image, but I don't think anything's been done with recipie13 or the copyright date (1863). None of the images on the site have any interesting metadata, btw. pm bobbysq wrote: Here's the THD23 spectrogram: It looks a bit odd, but I'm kind of new at this, so I don't know how to interpret it. I'll be damned. I was just about to suggest that you downconvert to 16 kS so you get rid of all that black space, but then there's this big signal sticking out at 9.5 kHz. I thought I heard something funny but I thought it was just a squeak in my AC. Working on analysis now. pm Seems like morse code again to me. Sounds like it could be, too. am Sounds like a jazz swing beat. ♪ am dangerskew wrote: Seems like morse code again to me. Sounds like it could be, too. w e e i a e e i g t? p e i r e i g t = pier eight? I dunno, it does looks like it's added there purposely though. am Irregular Programming wrote: dangerskew wrote: Seems like morse code again to me. Sounds like it could be, too. w e e i a e e i g t? p e i r e i g t = pier eight? I dunno, it does looks like it's added there purposely though. It's definitely on purpose. Take a look at this: The pings last almost exactly 100 ms each and are spaced in a patterned way. There's no way this is aliasing or some other effect that's present because of the train or the speech. It looks to me more like RS-232 using on/off keying with a carrier at 9.5 kHz. The baud rate would only be 10 bps. I'm looking through the data now if fits that model. Any other ideas? Maybe the beeps correspond to parts of words being spoken? Or some numeric code? am There's more of that in the audio than what's visible in the image I posted. I'll put up one that shows it all. am Could the code perhaps be binary? Like say 500ms followed by a 100ms beep be 000001? edit: I also noticed there was a line before the beeps - could this be a starting point? am Okay, here's hopefully a better image. Not going to embed it because the width will screw up the forum. Ignore the vertical black lines that cut through everything. I can't figure out how to tell Sonic Visualizer to not do that. http://i.imgur.com/H3RmKVb.jpg am jimmc3rd wrote: Could the code perhaps be binary? Like say 500ms followed by a 100ms beep be 000001? edit: I also noticed there was a line before the beeps - could this be a starting point? I think that's likely, except that some of the spaces aren't multiples of 100 ms. All of the pulses are very near 100 ms long (what might appear to be a longer pulse is actually two 100 ms pulses). There's just over 60 seconds of this data, though several places have multiple seconds of silence. At most, that's around 600 bits or 60-75 bytes depending on encoding. That's all assuming this is actually binary and not something else. I don't think I'm on the right track with RS-232-type encoding. There are lots of places that don't have the expected pattern. I would hope that if we hit on the correct encoding it would be really clear that we were on the right path. am Could it possibly be read by a C64? Or PS/2 Keyboard Signals? http://www.computer-engineering.org/ps2protocol/ am Grimsicle wrote: Could it possibly be read by a C64? It doesn't look nearly long enough to be a binary C64 file, and for text files Commodore used a version of ASCII: http://www.portcommodore.com/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=larry:comp:commodore:cbmmultichart.pdf am TryingLobster wrote: jimmc3rd wrote: Could the code perhaps be binary? Like say 500ms followed by a 100ms beep be 000001? edit: I also noticed there was a line before the beeps - could this be a starting point? I think that's likely, except that some of the spaces aren't multiples of 100 ms. All of the pulses are very near 100 ms long (what might appear to be a longer pulse is actually two 100 ms pulses). There's just over 60 seconds of this data, though several places have multiple seconds of silence. At most, that's around 600 bits or 60-75 bytes depending on encoding. That's all assuming this is actually binary and not something else. I don't think I'm on the right track with RS-232-type encoding. There are lots of places that don't have the expected pattern. I would hope that if we hit on the correct encoding it would be really clear that we were on the right path. One interesting thing to notice is that you never get more than two "on" bits. If "on" meant 1 and "off" meant 0 that would be very weird. So it looks to me like binary data with differential encoding, something like DPSK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift_keying#Differential_phase-shift_keying_.28DPSK.29), where a change means 1 and no change means 0. With that you get a more diverse binary data. 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I was about to argue that any binary would stack, but the repetitions of this pattern (in red) are way too suspicious: https://imgur.com/cAekCMG By the way, I can't even begin to imagine how you had the idea of stacking them. Nice @#$% job. pm Hah, i've seen that trick used once or twice. Also, the left and right halves of that stacked image look almost identical except for a few details. I tried arranging it as a stack of six lines but couldn't get anything nice. pm Well it's not the galactic standard alphabet which I thought it looked like at first, neither is it klingon, could it be some sort of punch card code? Edit, I made some alternative ways to sort these edit, maybe it's marain? It would fit thematically, coming from "the player of games" am I really like the idea of stacking them. There are definitely 3 distinct sections separated by a little over 4 seconds. I'm not seeing how you can put them together to form valid braille though. In braille, the top line always has at least one dot. The other two lines can be empty, but the first line must always have a dot in each character. There are pieces of each of the three sections where there's at least one dot not matched on other lines (only possible if the section is the top line), but there are also places where the section is blank while there are dots on other lines (only possible if the section is not the top line). Maybe the order of the lines changes? pm http://imgur.com/ivntYUt (Edit3: minor improvements) They're coordinates: 34 1' 30.5148'' N 118 23' 36.1932'' W Last line of the braille stacking had to be shifted one position to the left, I realized the repeating pattern looked a lot like the "number" symbol. Edit: finally managed to properly format my google maps search [Very Happy] https://www.google.com/maps/place/ 34%C2%B001'30.5%22N+118%C2%B023'36.2%22W/ @34.0249358,-118.3933838,19z/ data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 https://goo.gl/maps/fJCSj8irxT82 It's in Los Angeles, but no timestamp, so I'm not sure what to do with it... Edit2: Street View http://imgur.com/7woytVz The Ashby Brewery address is also a grocery store, right? pm "Red Pages Podcast reminds all Resistance members: If you don't open your communications with the #17, you may as well not open them at all" https://ia601509.us.archive.org/16/items/ RPP151004/RPP15-10-04.mp3 edit: seems they mention tunisians developing time travel around 39 mins or so I didn't listen to closely to the entire podcast, but I did notice a child making different noises throughout. At the end Someone talks to the child and says: "Ahh! What do I do William?", which also happens to be the commanding officer for herbie on the beta access page. Perhaps the audio with William is a clue somehow? pm Nice job rmartins! Good call using all the punctuation. No wonder I couldn't form words out of the sequence! Has anybody noticed that the capitalization of the last two words changes on this page? http://decaytruth.info/beer.html As of Oct 17 9:32 PM CDT it ends with "AND water". I've been checking pages looking for updates or changes and this is the only change I've seen. pm jimmc3rd wrote: "Red Pages Podcast reminds all Resistance members: If you don't open your communications with the #17, you may as well not open them at all" https://ia601509.us.archive.org/16/items/ RPP151004/RPP15-10-04.mp3 edit: seems they mention tunisians developing time travel around 39 mins or so I didn't listen to closely to the entire podcast, but I did notice a child making different noises throughout. At the end Someone talks to the child and says: "Ahh! What do I do William?", which also happens to be the commanding officer for herbie on the beta access page. Perhaps the audio with William is a clue somehow? From the ID3 tags: Comment: [Description: ] [Lang: ] Ashby: 17 Varieties Comment: [Description: ] [Lang: XXX] Ashby: 17 Varieties UserTextFrame: [Description: BPM (beats per minute)] 17 pm TryingLobster wrote: Nice job rmartins! Good call using all the punctuation. No wonder I couldn't form words out of the sequence! Has anybody noticed that the capitalization of the last two words changes on this page? http://decaytruth.info/beer.html As of Oct 17 9:32 PM CDT it ends with "AND water". I've been checking pages looking for updates or changes and this is the only change I've seen. I read on NeoGAF that a guy added "and water" back when the admin/admin login was still working, but after it got fixed, for some reason Jim kept it. Here's the link: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/ showpost.php?p=180206664&postcount=61 am jimmc3rd wrote: "Red Pages Podcast reminds all Resistance members: If you don't open your communications with the #17, you may as well not open them at all" https://ia601509.us.archive.org/16/items/ RPP151004/RPP15-10-04.mp3 edit: seems they mention tunisians developing time travel around 39 mins or so I didn't listen to closely to the entire podcast, but I did notice a child making different noises throughout. At the end Someone talks to the child and says: "Ahh! What do I do William?", which also happens to be the commanding officer for herbie on the beta access page. Perhaps the audio with William is a clue somehow? I will listen to the podcast tomorrow (these things are looong...) but it seems to me that they're telling us to get in touch, and to start messages with #17 so they can separate it from the rest of the questions they must get normally. If William is in the podcast (in one way or another) then I will reinforce what I said earlier: we should ask for deployment instructions or resources, like it says in Herbie's page! am TryingLobster wrote: As of Oct 17 9:32 PM CDT it ends with "AND water". I've been checking pages looking for updates or changes and this is the only change I've seen. I can't remember where I saw it exactly, unless it's been removed from a post around somewhere, but IIRC, when NeoGAF started looking into it, they found the actual admin login for the site using admin/admin and started editing the pages. For that page in particular, they added "AND WATER" to "Hops marley malt yeast" and then whoever manages the ashby site edited it to have water in lowercase. edit: rmartins (thank you!) posted the link am Quote: As of Oct 17 9:32 PM CDT it ends with "AND water". I've been checking pages looking for updates or changes and this is the only change I've seen. It now ends with "and WATER" hmm... am aklreaxmer wrote: Quote: As of Oct 17 9:32 PM CDT it ends with "AND water". I've been checking pages looking for updates or changes and this is the only change I've seen. It now ends with "and WATER" hmm... That's odd. I still see "AND water". 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Thought it may be a cache issue, but after clearing it I still see "and WATER". What happens when you clear your browser cache? aklreaxmer wrote: Interesting. Thought it may be a cache issue, but after clearing it I still see "and WATER". What happens when you clear your browser cache? I still have "AND water." after clearing cache edit: appears the same in multiple browsers Huh. Same for me, multiple browsers still say "and WATER". Must be uniquely generated based on IP. I wonder if any other pages have similar things like this. Edit: Here is a_pastebin of the text on the pages I see, in case you can spot any more discrepancies. beer: Code: Hops marley malt yeast AND water. menu: Code: Please ask your waitstaff for today's menu! about: Code: The Ashby Brewery was founded in 1777 by Charles Foster Ashby, a Belgian philosopher and entrepreneur. From the age of 5, Ashby had lived among the monks at the Chevetogne Abbey near the city of Liege. During his stay among the devout, Ashby studied and perfected the Trappist brewing techniques for which the monks of Chevetogne became so well known. Following the destruction of the abbey during the Blue Revolution of 1738, Ashby booked passage to the New World and made his way to what is now known as downtown Berkeley, California. Bringing with him ancient yeast strains and the knowledge of the Chevetogne monks, Ashby started up a rudimentary brewery on the future site of the Ashby Brewery in South Berkeley. His efforts attracted local businessmen and game designers, who spun tales of a grand salon where new diversions would be crafted, along with delicious ales and lagers, for consumption among the colonies of New California and Jefferson State. As Ashby’s reputation for creating high quality beer spread, so did the legends that surrounded the man himself. Ashby was notoriously long-lived, having reached the laudable age of 122 before retiring from public life in spite of his youthful appearance. When asked by a young Mark Twain what had been the secret to his success, Ashby famously declared, “I bring you a message of great importance!” The author didn’t know what to make of this, and the legend of the Ashby Brewery grew. At the Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio, we continue to spread Charles Ashby’s vision of radical new games and brews. We start with pure filtered water from the high hills of outer Berkeley; we add organic malted barley from Oakland community garden spaces; our hops come from a hidden slope of Albany Hill known only to Ashby himself; and the yeast, still the original strain from Chevetogne, dates back to time immemorial. We hope you will join us for a pint next time you come to the Bay Area. In addition to our classic Cherry Wheat and Shamrock Stout, we hope you will enjoy our Summer Blueberry Pilsner, Press ‘A’ to Continue Ale, and C. Ashby’s 2x Multiplier Dubbel, centuries in the making.. hours: Code: The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio 2020 Oregon Street Berkeley, CA 94703 Daily 9 Am to 9:00 Pm privacy: Code: The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio reserves the right at all times to determine whether Content is appropriate and in compliance with this Agreement, and may pre-screen, move, refuse, modify and/or remove Content at any time. You acknowledge and agree that The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio may, without liability to you, access, use, preserve and/or disclose your Account information and Content to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and/or a third party, as The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate. 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When you acquire, install and use the Program, The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio collects information about you, your devices, applications and networks, and your use of those devices, applications and networks, for example, when you: enter text, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocomplete and spellcheck features. π copyright on all pages: Code: © 1999 The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio, LLC All the text seems identical, though I do not have the PI symbol at the end of my privacy.html page... aklreaxmer wrote: All the text seems identical, though I do not have the PI symbol at the end of my privacy.html page... The pi symbol is the link to the admin page for me. I do remember at some point some users were no longer able to see it, while others were still able to see it. edit: it appears on the bottom right of the page for me edit 2: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=180327982&postcount=104 Not too sure what we'd be able to determine with differing text on the same page. My MD5 code for beer is still the same on beer.html (IP + a) lol IPA aklreaxmer wrote: All the text seems identical, though I do not have the PI symbol at the end of my privacy.html page... My Beer 101 says "AND WATER" in all caps, and no pi symbol on the privacy.html page. All the text that's differing seems to have been from edits through the admin/admin login. I am guessing that these edits are local to a cached version of the page on a content distribution system, instead of being done properly through the provider's content editing tools. Both things are indeed probably IP based... I was seeing "AND water" and the PI symbol, after changing my IP I see "and WATER" and no PI symbol. I would guess it must be some kind of simple relation, like using the last number of the IP address or something. I can't keep resetting my IP address right now, but later I could probably try to understand that (if someone doesn't do it first). rmartins wrote: http://imgur.com/ivntYUt (Edit3: minor improvements) They're coordinates: 34 1' 30.5148'' N 118 23' 36.1932'' W These are the exact coordinates of the Indiecade festival, Oct 23-25 http://www.indiecade.com/ Bennett wrote: These are the exact coordinates of the Indiecade festival, Oct 23-25 http://www.indiecade.com/ I wonder if FF2 would be one of the games shown at the festival. Bennett wrote: rmartins wrote: http://imgur.com/ivntYUt (Edit3: minor improvements) They're coordinates: 34 1' 30.5148'' N 118 23' 36.1932'' W These are the exact coordinates of the Indiecade festival, Oct 23-25 http://www.indiecade.com/ Ah, awesome!! Something will definitely happen there! We must find volunteers to register everything! I wonder if #17 is like a booth number or something. Should we make a list of stuff to look for for anyone that might go? jimmc3rd wrote: I wonder if #17 is like a booth number or something. Should we make a list of stuff to look for for anyone that might go? I hope we can get someone on the grounds there, I'm living in Europe and can't. I'm gonna send an email to the redpages podcast guys asking if I can get deployment orders and beer. They appear to have an event that involves beer. 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You mean this game? http://store.steampowered.com/app/323380/ For what it's worth, The Magic Circle is a great game. jimmc3rd wrote: I didn't listen to closely to the entire podcast, but I did notice a child making different noises throughout. At the end Someone talks to the child and says: "Ahh! What do I do William?", which also happens to be the commanding officer for herbie on the beta access page. Perhaps the audio with William is a clue somehow? According to the blog below, William is the name of Gord's son, so that's why. Makes sense that he's a child now, so he'll be the commanding officer in the future. Nice! [Smile] http://redpagespodcast.tumblr.com/post/122417373399/on-being-a-stay-at-home-videogame-developer-dad Well I hope they give him my letter. jimmc3rd wrote: edit: seems they mention tunisians developing time travel around 39 mins or so The only thing I can remember that connects Tunisia and time travel is Lost. I didn't find anything else in google. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Frozen_wheel This is the book series they were talking about: http://www.dianagabaldon.com/books/outlander-series/ Don't know if this is important. I Google image searched the background tile from http://decaytruth.info/index.html . Got this http://seamlesstile.tumblr.com/post/8214454100/httpwwwart404comlog . Clicked the Ellis link leading to this http://www.eilismcdonald.com/ . Clicked the ..... at the top left for this http://www.eilismcdonald.com/cv/ . Then clicked RGKSKSRG and got this http://www.rgksksrg.com/eilismcdonald/ . Weird. So, guys, I propose we do a list of "things to watch out for at IndieCade" and spread it around -- like on Reddit and NeoGAF -- to look for volunteers to send us pictures/videos and keep us updated during the event. I'll start: * * Anything with the Ashby name on it, specially of course games or beers. * Stuff with the number 17 - again, specially games or beers. * Anything weird involving time traveling. * The main characters: Gadsby, Herbie, Number Six, Dwayne, William, Charles Foster Ashby, (anyone else?) * Frogs? * Please stalk Jim Crawford during the event! rmartins wrote: So, guys, I propose we do a list of "things to watch out for at IndieCade" and spread it around -- like on Reddit and NeoGAF -- to look for volunteers to send us pictures/videos and keep us updated during the event. I'll start: * * Anything with the Ashby name on it, specially of course games or beers. * Stuff with the number 17 - again, specially games or beers. * Anything weird involving time traveling. * The main characters: Gadsby, Herbie, Number Six, Dwayne, William, Charles Foster Ashby, (anyone else?) * Frogs? * Please stalk Jim Crawford during the event! butts Someone LARPing as Rozencrantz bread spir wrote: rmartins wrote: So, guys, I propose we do a list of "things to watch out for at IndieCade" and spread it around -- like on Reddit and NeoGAF -- to look for volunteers to send us pictures/videos and keep us updated during the event. I'll start: * * Anything with the Ashby name on it, specially of course games or beers. * Stuff with the number 17 - again, specially games or beers. * Anything weird involving time traveling. * The main characters: Gadsby, Herbie, Number Six, Dwayne, William, Charles Foster Ashby, (anyone else?) * Frogs? * Please stalk Jim Crawford during the event! butts Someone LARPing as Rozencrantz bread Yeah whoever goes should probably look out for bread and any acronym of it, also going to the Beer thingy is a given (regardless) [Smile] btw Quote: ASSIGNED OPERATIONS Operation Glitterbuster TT Operation 2014 - CRAWFORD TT Operation 1965 - M. BRADLEY. Operation B.R.E.A.D. Is TT = TableTop? Is Jim making a FF tabletop game? A lot of people are looking for frogs, but I don't think we will see any, Jim did say that this game would have nothing to do with FF. Irregular Programming wrote: Is TT = TableTop? Is Jim making a FF tabletop game? A lot of people are looking for frogs, but I don't think we will see any, Jim did say that this game would have nothing to do with FF. I'd wager it's Time Travel, but table top does seem to make at least some sense with Bradley's Operation. spir wrote: rmartins wrote: So, guys, I propose we do a list of "things to watch out for at IndieCade" and spread it around -- like on Reddit and NeoGAF -- to look for volunteers to send us pictures/videos and keep us updated during the event. I'll start: * * Anything with the Ashby name on it, specially of course games or beers. * Stuff with the number 17 - again, specially games or beers. * Anything weird involving time traveling. * The main characters: Gadsby, Herbie, Number Six, Dwayne, William, Charles Foster Ashby, (anyone else?) * Frogs? * Please stalk Jim Crawford during the event! butts Someone LARPing as Rozencrantz bread Also I'll add a new thing: look for the Red Pages Podcast guys, and if possible buy them a drink (I'm betting there'll be some kind of Ashby #17 beer available there). Maybe that's what they mean by "opening the communication with the number 17" -- it means you should start the conversation by buying them a #17 beer. Or something!? See the messages below! Sent e-mail: Code: 17 Corporal Herbie here, requesting deployment instructions. Please say hi to Officer William for me (even if he won't probably understand it). Corporal Herbie out. Response: Code: Hello Herbie! Thanks for listening to Red Pages Podcast!  We're a bit baffled by the meaning of your email, or what you mean by "Officer William" (he's still a baby) but appreciate your patronage.  Make sure to come say hi to us at the Indiecade festival this weekend in Culver City, LA from the 23rd through the 25th if you're in the area - maybe you can buy us a drink and explain what you mean! We hope you keep listening and enjoy the show! xoxox, Justin, Gord & Paul Ok guys I posted a request for volunteers on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/isthisfrogfractions2/comments/3pi5ps/arg_anyone_going_to_indiecade_we_need_volunteers/ Can anyone post something similar on the NeoGAF thread? I registered a week ago but still no permission to post. Also, anyone has any idea where else we should try? rmartins wrote: Also, anyone has any idea where else we should try? Only other place I can think of right away is the FF2 kickstarter page. Okay guys so basically we pretty much got... nobody. I guess we'll just have to hope we're lucky and whatever is important for the arg will be visible enough in the general media coverage, or that somebody will come to us after the thing, or... I don't know. rmartins wrote: Okay guys so basically we pretty much got... nobody. I guess we'll just have to hope we're lucky and whatever is important for the arg will be visible enough in the general media coverage, or that somebody will come to us after the thing, or... I don't know. I'm attending the festival (I'm a speaker and we're showing a game), so I'll check it out. We've got a houseful of peeps here who are all very intrigued. We'll be at the festival site tomorrow, but the games aren't being shown until Friday, so I'll scope stuff out, but whatever it is might not be accessible for a while. hs/1 Year]  Sort by: [One of: Post Time/Post Subject/Author] [One of: Ascending/Descending] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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Smith/ : Rookery Tower/    |   |___ ARG: Sable & Shuck/    |   |___ ARG: Sammeeeees/    |   |___ ARG: Sammeeeees II/    |   |___ ARG: Sarah Kiddo/    |   |___ ARG: Search4E/    |   |___ ARG: Silver |   |___ ARG: Test Subjects Needed/    |   |___ ARG: This Is My Milwaukee/    |   |___ ARG: Tom Tooman/    |   |___ ARG: Township Heights (Virtuquest 6.5 Open)/    |   |___ ARG: Tranquil   |___ ARG: We Lost Our Gold/    |   |___ ARG: Who Is Benjamin Stove/    |   |___ ARG: Zoe's World/    |   |___ Zombie Truth/    |   |___ CF: The Human Pet/    |   |___ GAME: Our Colony/   |   |___ GAME: TimeHunt/    |   |___ GAME: Vanishing Point/    |   |___ GAME: Virtucube/    |   |___ GROUP READ: Daughters of Freya (Aug. 1-23)/    |   |___ Non-ARG: Project Gateway 8)/    |   |___ Cloverfield: General / Updates/    |   |___ Cloverfield: Reference / Press / Questions/    |   |___ Cloverfield: Social / OT / Humor/    |    /    |___ Archive: Deus City/    |   |___ PXC: Quick Reference/    |   |___ PXC: Questions/Meta/    |   |___ PXC: Puzzles/    |   |___ PXC: Project Syzygy Pre-Game/    |    /    |___ Archive: Catching the Wish (CTW2)/ ost Experience/    |   |___ TLE: General, Updates, Spec, & Info/    |   |___ TLE: META, OT, and Social Interactions/    |    /    |___ Archive: Orbital Colony/    |   |___ Orbital Colony: t Call Poker/    |   |___ LCP: General/Updates/    |   |___ LCP: Quick Reference/    |   |___ LCP: In-Game Interactions/    |   |___ LCP: Meta/Questions, Social Fun, & Poker Help/ tions/    |   |___ The Art of the Heist: Questions/Meta/    |    /    |___ Archive: Wildfire Industries/    |   |___ WI: General/Updates/    |   |___ WI: Synagoga/    |   |___ WI: nce/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Interaction/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Axon Coordination/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Puzzles/ |   |___ Urban Hunt: Interaction/    |   |___ Urban Hunt: Puzzles/    |    /    |___ Archive: MetaCortechs/    |   |___ MetaCortechs: General/Updates/    |   |___ MetaCortechs: Quick  |___ CTW: Quick Reference/        |___ CTW: Puzzles/        |___ CTW: Interaction/        |___ CTW: Pre-Game] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum You cannot post calendar events in this forum /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next essage hall wrote: martins wrote: kay guys so basically we pretty much got... nobody. I guess we'll just have to hope we're lucky and whatever is important for the arg will be isible enough in the general media coverage, or that somebody will come to us after the thing, or... I don't know. 'm attending the festival (I'm a speaker and we're showing a game), so I'll check it out. We've got a houseful of peeps here who are all very ntrigued. e'll be at the festival site tomorrow, but the games aren't being shown until Friday, so I'll scope stuff out, but whatever it is might not be ccessible for a while. hew, thank goodness. I was afraid that we wouldn't be able to get anybody to check it out, especially because of the cost to attend the whole estival, since we don't really know what day any related stuff will be shown/present/whatever. Thanks, lhall, you're a hero.  [Very Happy] ust out of curiosity, what game are you showing? ust realized something else. ndiecade n decay ed UN DUN DUN hall wrote: martins wrote: kay guys so basically we pretty much got... nobody. I guess we'll just have to hope we're lucky and whatever is important for the arg will be isible enough in the general media coverage, or that somebody will come to us after the thing, or... I don't know. 'm attending the festival (I'm a speaker and we're showing a game), so I'll check it out. We've got a houseful of peeps here who are all very ntrigued. e'll be at the festival site tomorrow, but the games aren't being shown until Friday, so I'll scope stuff out, but whatever it is might not be ccessible for a while. hank you so much!! I don't know how much you have been following the whole thing, so I'll replicate my list of "things to watch out for" here, aybe it helps you: Anything with the "Ashby" name on it, specially games or beers. The "Ashby Beer and Indie Games Studio" is a big thing in the ARG. Stuff with the number 17 - again, specially games or beers. The number has been coming up a lot lately. Anything weird involving time traveling, like people RP'ing time travellers, or something. The main characters so far are: Gadsby, Herbie, Number Six, Dwayne, William, Charles Foster Ashby. If you see anything with one of these ames on it, please let us know! Frogs? Not likely to have a lot to do with frogs, but anyway, weird stuff involving frogs could be a hint. If you see Jim Crawford during the event, please stalk him! No, just kidding, but if possible, at least say Hi, buy him a beer (we can refund ou later) and ask for instructions. If you see the guys from the Red Pages Podcast, please say Hi to them, buy them a beer if possible (we can refund you later) and ask for nstructions. According to this_tweet they will be wearing a green shirt with a lime in it and a red polo? Something like that! butts? If you see someone LARP'ing as Rosencrantz (the guy from Hamlet) please also keep an eye on that. Anything involving bread, or the acronym B.R.E.A.D., might be related. Operation Glitterbuster (whatever it means) The game "Operation", from 1965, and Milton Bradley. dave is ok wrote: Just realized something else. Indiecade In decay ed DUN DUN DUN wesome! So maybe the event is REALLY important. ccording to Jim's twitter he will be at Indiecade ake sure to record anything that looks suspicious. Especially any conversations involving the ARG. ll I've seen odd with the new thd is that the first second of the 17th minute was deleted from the podcast. Didn't yet listen to the entire hing, but it's a lot shorter than usual. o rider mail this week. on't see anything noteworthy in the spectograph of THD 24. jimmc3rd wrote: All I've seen odd with the new thd is that the first second of the 17th minute was deleted from the podcast. Didn't yet listen to the entire thing, but it's a lot shorter than usual. No rider mail this week. he YouTube video of this episode is not missing that part. In fact, the YouTube version of the podcast is a whole 14 seconds longer than the p3 on the THD website. ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsxScF_beQ p3 downloaded with an image like the ones on the youtube vid. t reads: Looking for Riccardo Zacconi tragicomedy in two acts jimmc3rd wrote: mp3 downloaded with an image like the ones on the youtube vid. It reads: Looking for Riccardo Zacconi A tragicomedy in two acts orry man but I didn't understand what you mean... you found ID3 tags somewhere? rmartins wrote: Sorry man but I didn't understand what you mean... you found ID3 tags somewhere? orry didn't clarify. It does have an ID3 tag with an image added, but the image appeared in my preview pane after I downloaded the file. would guess the file is embedded somehow using ID3. dit: using win8.1, if that will matter. jimmc3rd wrote: rmartins wrote: Sorry man but I didn't understand what you mean... you found ID3 tags somewhere? sorry didn't clarify. It does have an ID3 tag with an image added, but the image appeared in my preview pane after I downloaded the file. I would guess the file is embedded somehow using ID3. edit: using win8.1, if that will matter. es, there is an ID tag with those words (white on a black background) in THD 24. iccardo Zacconi is the CEO of king.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga and many other games I haven't played. spir wrote: jimmc3rd wrote: rmartins wrote: Sorry man but I didn't understand what you mean... you found ID3 tags somewhere? sorry didn't clarify. It does have an ID3 tag with an image added, but the image appeared in my preview pane after I downloaded the file. I would guess the file is embedded somehow using ID3. edit: using win8.1, if that will matter. Yes, there is an ID tag with those words (white on a black background) in THD 24. Riccardo Zacconi is the CEO of king.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga and many other games I haven't played. his is probably a play on Waiting for godot, a tragicomedy in two acts, by Samuel Beckett. It's an absurdist comedy, similar to "Rozencrantz nd Guildenstern are Dead" outube 2 x 180 pixel bands ot a solution, but hopefully it'll help. ============================================================================================================================================== o with the pixel bands we found on Youtube, I thought I'd try to just mix them around and shortly came to the conclusion that I'd like to have ll permutations to see if it made anything, but I was feeling lazy and wanted to see if there was a way to do it in as few numbers as ossible. Long story short, I read that a mathematician worked to solve a problem related to this sort. (for example: 121 has all combos of 1 nd 2 without repeating, 123121321 for 1, 2 and 3, etc) f you're interested in the math, I found it here sing a combo they came up with for 6 numbers, I made this 'm having doubts this would be too helpful, but maybe someone can see something in the image that may shed some light on at least what the ands could mean. dit: the bands were taken from thds 9, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 20 thumbnails on twinbeard's Youtube channel. /Author] [One of: Ascending/Descending] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! Psychic Readings/    |   |___ ARG: Geist/    |   |___ ARG: The Jejune Institute/    |   |___ ARG: Legend of the Sacred Urns/    |   |___ ARG: LegionPharma (Sin2)/    |   |___ ARG: Lenny's Xanga/    |   |___ ARG: Lonelygirl15 mosyne and) The Widow's Son/    |   |___ ARG: Monster Hunter Club/    |   |___ ARG: NoahBoddy/    |   |___ ARG: Ny Takma/    |   |___ ARG: Ocular Effect/    |   |___ ARG: O.P. Smith/ : Rookery Tower/    |   |___ ARG: Sable & Shuck/    |   |___ ARG: Sammeeeees/    |   |___ ARG: Sammeeeees II/    |   |___ ARG: Sarah Kiddo/    |   |___ ARG: Search4E/    |   |___ ARG: Silver |   |___ ARG: Test Subjects Needed/    |   |___ ARG: This Is My Milwaukee/    |   |___ ARG: Tom Tooman/    |   |___ ARG: Township Heights (Virtuquest 6.5 Open)/    |   |___ ARG: Tranquil   |___ ARG: We Lost Our Gold/    |   |___ ARG: Who Is Benjamin Stove/    |   |___ ARG: Zoe's World/    |   |___ Zombie Truth/    |   |___ CF: The Human Pet/    |   |___ GAME: Our Colony/   |   |___ GAME: TimeHunt/    |   |___ GAME: Vanishing Point/    |   |___ GAME: Virtucube/    |   |___ GROUP READ: Daughters of Freya (Aug. 1-23)/    |   |___ Non-ARG: Project Gateway 8)/    |   |___ Cloverfield: General / Updates/    |   |___ Cloverfield: Reference / Press / Questions/    |   |___ Cloverfield: Social / OT / Humor/    |    /    |___ Archive: Deus City/    |   |___ PXC: Quick Reference/    |   |___ PXC: Questions/Meta/    |   |___ PXC: Puzzles/    |   |___ PXC: Project Syzygy Pre-Game/    |    /    |___ Archive: Catching the Wish (CTW2)/ ost Experience/    |   |___ TLE: General, Updates, Spec, & Info/    |   |___ TLE: META, OT, and Social Interactions/    |    /    |___ Archive: Orbital Colony/    |   |___ Orbital Colony: t Call Poker/    |   |___ LCP: General/Updates/    |   |___ LCP: Quick Reference/    |   |___ LCP: In-Game Interactions/    |   |___ LCP: Meta/Questions, Social Fun, & Poker Help/ tions/    |   |___ The Art of the Heist: Questions/Meta/    |    /    |___ Archive: Wildfire Industries/    |   |___ WI: General/Updates/    |   |___ WI: Synagoga/    |   |___ WI: nce/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Interaction/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Axon Coordination/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Puzzles/ |   |___ Urban Hunt: Interaction/    |   |___ Urban Hunt: Puzzles/    |    /    |___ Archive: MetaCortechs/    |   |___ MetaCortechs: General/Updates/    |   |___ MetaCortechs: Quick  |___ CTW: Quick Reference/        |___ CTW: Puzzles/        |___ CTW: Interaction/        |___ CTW: Pre-Game] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum You cannot post calendar events in this forum /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next Message Oh, alright yeah, I just realized I was using a tool that supports only ID3 1.x. Also, I remember that at some previous event, Jim used the name "Riccardo" on a badge/name tag, didn't he? rmartins wrote: Oh, alright yeah, I just realized I was using a tool that supports only ID3 1.x. Also, I remember that at some previous event, Jim used the name "Riccardo" on a badge/name tag, didn't he? https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/657650239155777536 rmartins wrote: Oh, alright yeah, I just realized I was using a tool that supports only ID3 1.x. Also, I remember that at some previous event, Jim used the name "Riccardo" on a badge/name tag, didn't he? I think he was wearing it at the Berkeley meet. Was anyone from the forums able to make it to the event? Looked super fun, wish I could have been there even outside of the potential for ARG- iness. Mister wrote: Phew, thank goodness. I was afraid that we wouldn't be able to get anybody to check it out, especially because of the cost to attend the whole festival, since we don't really know what day any related stuff will be shown/present/whatever. Thanks, lhall, you're a hero.  [Very Happy] Just out of curiosity, what game are you showing? Our game Dysforgiveness was in the Big Games showcase. I also did a talk as part of the Analogue Games panel about the escape room game we run at home in Portland, Oregon. FYI, the king.com GDC badge was a joke from that event two years ago. They possibly modified it in some way for puzzles but it in itself isn't a clue. rmartins wrote: Thank you so much!! I don't know how much you have been following the whole thing, so I'll replicate my list of "things to watch out for" here, maybe it helps you: * Stuff with the number 17 - again, specially games or beers. The number has been coming up a lot lately. * If you see Jim Crawford during the event, please stalk him! No, just kidding, but if possible, at least say Hi, buy him a beer (we can refund you later) and ask for instructions. * If you see the guys from the Red Pages Podcast, please say Hi to them, buy them a beer if possible (we can refund you later) and ask for instructions. According to this_tweet they will be wearing a green shirt with a lime in it and a red polo? Something like that! So, I ran into Justin and Jim! Everything is a bit of a blur, but in short: I said the word "seventeen" to them and was given my choice of Amiibo (I chose Luigi). I received no instructions; in fact, after this interaction they vanished into a puff of smoke, leaving me standing alone on the street...very mysterious. (They're actually very nice people.) Note that in the picture there is also a Mario Amiibo, which is still in their possession. There are no markings on it, so my next step will be to get ahold of a reader for it, when I get back home. Nice work! Can you take some pictures of the amiibo? Nfc taginfo is an android app which may allow you to get the data Nicely done! Thanks! I'd be willing to bet that there is a clue stored as the Amiibo's name. You'll need either a Wii U, New 3DS, or regular 3DS with the NFC Reader/Writer Accessory to do that, as amiibos are encrypted as far as I know. dangerskew wrote: I'd be willing to bet that there is a clue stored as the Amiibo's name. You'll need either a Wii U, New 3DS, or regular 3DS with the NFC Reader/Writer Accessory to do that, as amiibos are encrypted as far as I know. Would prefer if it was read with the NFC reader first just in case there is information stored via hacking the nfc the Wii U could overwrite this information. Great!!! Thank you very much!! Awesome! Thanks for going!   =============================================================================================================================================== awesome! congrats on picking up an Amiibo too [Very Happy] All I noticed on the new thd was the 3 alerts that sounded like they were added. /Author] [One of: Ascending/Descending] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] /50/51/52/53/ /55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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I'm a grad student with a procrastination problem.) While I was reading, I noticed that someone identified the recipie13 poem as being from the Rubaiyat, but no one really followed up on that, it seems. Also, at some point Australia had some sort of relevance? Anyway, this caught my attention because the Rubaiyat is related to the Somerton_Man, who is a famous unsolved/ unidentified murder victim sometimes theorized to have been a secret agent/ operative of some sort. This is partly because of his mysterious identity and death, but also because his copy of the Rubaiyat contained some handwritten code. Maybe in the context of the game, he's a time traveller whose mission didn't go so hot? Anyway, I don't know if this is likely to be anything, but since no one seems to know what to make of the poem, I figured I'd point this out while we wait on the Amiibos. m I think we may want to keep watch of the 0-hour game jam tonight. Jim has submitted things to it in previous years, and he's made multiple mentions of it on Twitter. He could just be trying to spread the word of a game jam he likes, but there is of course also the possibility that he'll be submitting something anonymously that ends up being a clue or, dare I say it, Frog Fractions 2 itself? (I don't actually think Jim would release FF2 into the wild in this fashion) http://0hgame.eu/ m Quote: So I just found this ARG and caught up on everything (yes, all 47 pages. I'm a grad student with a procrastination problem.) While I was reading, I noticed that someone identified the recipie13 poem as being from the Rubaiyat, but no one really followed up on that, it seems. Also, at some point Australia had some sort of relevance? Anyway, this caught my attention because the Rubaiyat is related to the Somerton Man, who is a famous unsolved/ unidentified murder victim sometimes theorized to have been a secret agent/ operative of some sort. This is partly because of his mysterious identity and death, but also because his copy of the Rubaiyat contained some handwritten code. Maybe in the context of the game, he's a time traveller whose mission didn't go so hot? Anyway, I don't know if this is likely to be anything, but since no one seems to know what to make of the poem, I figured I'd point this out while we wait on the Amiibos. That's really interesting, Roseface! I am kind of in the same boat as you-- while we wait, I'm going back and trying to understand the larger narrtive of what we're exploring. Everyone here is awesome at cracking the codes, but I think understanding more about the world of the ARG and having a narrative reference might help us a lot! m dangerskew wrote: I think we may want to keep watch of the 0-hour game jam tonight. Jim has submitted things to it in previous years, and he's made multiple mentions of it on Twitter. He could just be trying to spread the word of a game jam he likes, but there is of course also the possibility that he'll be submitting something anonymously that ends up being a clue or, dare I say it, Frog Fractions 2 itself? (I don't actually think Jim would release FF2 into the wild in this fashion) http://0hgame.eu/ http://twinbeard.com/ pumpkin-carver-pro It appears to have nothing significant, but it's a fun distraction. m bobbysq wrote: dangerskew wrote: I think we may want to keep watch of the 0-hour game jam tonight. Jim has submitted things to it in previous years, and he's made multiple mentions of it on Twitter. He could just be trying to spread the word of a game jam he likes, but there is of course also the possibility that he'll be submitting something anonymously that ends up being a clue or, dare I say it, Frog Fractions 2 itself? (I don't actually think Jim would release FF2 into the wild in this fashion) http://0hgame.eu/ http://twinbeard.com/ pumpkin-carver-pro It appears to have nothing significant, but it's a fun distraction. Technically that could just be FF2. [Wink] m Any update on the amiibo? m I've just caught up to this ARG, and while we're waiting for the amiibo, I think that there are some other games worth investigating for possible clues. looking on the neogaf form, they came up with this image back in September [/code] as you can see, it mentions frog fractions, as well as other games that have been of interest to the ARG, super Mario Maker and SPL-T. Picross is really my main concern here, because according to the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Picross_3D picross 3D has a level designer akin to the Mario Maker. Add this with being the first one on the list, it may be worth looking into for someone who has this game on their DS. m embross wrote: as you can see, it mentions frog fractions, as well as other games that have been of interest to the ARG, super Mario Maker and SPL-T. Picross is really my main concern here, because according to the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Picross_3D picross 3D has a level designer akin to the Mario Maker. Add this with being the first one on the list, it may be worth looking into for someone who has this game on their DS. It's not a clue. I know this because the listener's mail about Picross in that episode of VGHD was actually sent in by me. The puzzle editor in Picross 3D doesn't have an easy way to share custom levels; it has to be through local wireless or Wi-Fi, and I'm pretty sure those servers are down now. A sequel was just released in Japan, which I've dumped nearly 40 hours into, but it has no editor. m I think we need the amiibo to continue, in retrospect the arg seems to have been pretty dead fast at hinting towards the indiecade. m Irregular Programming wrote: I think we need the amiibo to continue, in retrospect the arg seems to have been pretty dead fast at hinting towards the indiecade. Agreed. m thd26 link connected to thd25 for some reason. Rider mail has a recipe: from #hktom 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1/2 cup 125 grams diced onion 1/2 cup 125 grams diced celery 6 porkloin ribchops (engraving? in gravy?)1.5" 3.7 cm thick set 1 cup 250 grams diced dried (wine? warm?) bread 1 (avenue?) apple peeled cored and diced m https://twitter.com/ mogwai_poet/status/ 662418160335921152?lang=en Don't think it's too important, but figured i'll post it just in case [Smile] m jimmc3rd wrote: thd26 link connected to thd25 for some reason. Rider mail has a recipe: from #hktom 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1/2 cup 125 grams diced onion 1/2 cup 125 grams diced celery 6 porkloin ribchops (engraving? in gravy?)1.5" 3.7 cm thick set 1 cup 250 grams diced dried (wine? warm?) bread 1 (avenue?) apple peeled cored and diced The spectograph looks wierd, but I can't find anything. edit, actually nevermind it was just my settings. m Did the title of thd26 change? It's Extrinsic Blood Coagulation Cascade now but I think it wasn't before? m Irregular Programming wrote: Did the title of thd26 change? It's Extrinsic Blood Coagulation Cascade now but I think it wasn't before? That sounds the same. I don't think it has changed. Youtube shows the same thumbnail that I remember. 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It's Extrinsic Blood Coagulation Cascade now but I think it wasn't before? That sounds the same. I don't think it has changed. Youtube shows the same thumbnail that I remember. Is there a way to see if the video has been edited on YT? I might be wrong then, I got it in my head that it was called "Why does humans pick their scabs" or something like it. I don't think there is anyway to see if a youtube video has been altered. 2 pm Looks like he also edited the thd23 wiki page for the transcript Accessory Bolt Holes for Camel: Here 5 pm So... anything on that amiibo? 8 pm dave is ok wrote: So... anything on that amiibo? I guess we are waiting for lhall to get back from her trip [Smile] There is a new hotdog out, http://shows.kingdomofloathing.com/ahd/thd27.mp3 Jim talks about the band gypsy cafe ensamble, I tried to go to the youtube video he visited but all videos about this band has been deleted. 4 pm "Jim Crawford ‏@mogwai_poet Nov 6 Does anyone out there do Frog Fractions speed runs? I want to talk to you for reasons." https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/662543164121616384 he links to this Gypsy Cafe Ensemble video here: "Jim Crawford ‏@mogwai_poet Nov 11 I heard this in a Whole Foods a year ago, and I've been thinking about it ever since. How this sort of thing happen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xiOqfkKBM …" https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/664617387786952705 8 am Hey, I noticed something odd about the Train Hot Dog titles. The first letters of the first three titles spell out "DNA." Using the first letters of the other capitalized words, I got the sequence "gattctattggcaactcca," which translates to "dsigns." Designs with no E. relevant letters highlighted: http://imgur.com/Mkz11SQ That "XOOX" is such a natural divider between the first three titles and the others... 7 am AverageBeverage wrote: Hey, I noticed something odd about the Train Hot Dog titles. The first letters of the first three titles spell out "DNA." Using the first letters of the other capitalized words, I got the sequence "gattctattggcaactcca," which translates to "dsigns." Designs with no E. relevant letters highlighted: http://imgur.com/Mkz11SQ That "XOOX" is such a natural divider between the first three titles and the others... This is awesome work! Nice find! However I disagree a little, I think we should count the letters in BART aswell which makes it translate to dsigitp which is an anagram of pidgits, a pidgit being: http://www.mariowiki.com/Pidgit I can not load the gypsy video, maybe it's US only, also I speedran FF once, but I'm not sure he is serious (it's not a good game to speedrun). 8 am AverageBeverage wrote: "Jim Crawford ‏@mogwai_poet Nov 6 Does anyone out there do Frog Fractions speed runs? I want to talk to you for reasons." https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/662543164121616384 In the replies, he invites Yerrick (which I believe is in this forum) to come to the Tuesday Coworking, where they do game dev stuff. I wonder if that is part of the ARG. 0 pm jimmc3rd wrote: In the replies, he invites Yerrick (which I believe is in this forum) to come to the Tuesday Coworking, where they do game dev stuff. I wonder if that is part of the ARG. It might well be. It's held at the Albany Hill Mini-Mart, and Ashby Brewery's hops supposedly come from Albany Hill. 7 pm AverageBeverage wrote: "dsigns." Designs with no E. Very interesting - another reference to Gadsby (the novel with no e's) perhaps? 1 am Irregular Programming wrote: I can not load the gypsy video, maybe it's US only, also I speedran FF once, but I'm not sure he is serious (it's not a good game to speedrun). He's serious, he's doing Frog Fractions as a game for http://beatthedev.org/ (Though I probably shouldn't mention that, because it's not mentioned on the site.) I've done quite a few speedruns of frog fractions, but i'm also moving that day, so I don't think i have the time. Unless... 9 am Killrrhubarb wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: I can not load the gypsy video, maybe it's US only, also I speedran FF once, but I'm not sure he is serious (it's not a good game to speedrun). He's serious, he's doing Frog Fractions as a game for http://beatthedev.org/ (Though I probably shouldn't mention that, because it's not mentioned on the site.) I've done quite a few speedruns of frog fractions, but i'm also moving that day, so I don't think i have the time. Unless... Alright, considering FF is mostly autoscrollers and menuing I just figured it was not a very interesting game to speedrun in any serious manner. A race I can totally see. Grimsicle wrote: AverageBeverage wrote: "dsigns." Designs with no E. Very interesting - another reference to Gadsby (the novel with no e's) perhaps? I still think Pidgits is more likely due to it actually uses all letters, and doesn't leave a trailing unused 'a' behind, also counting only some but not all capital letters doesn't really fit neatly for me. Also it fits in the Mario theme. Of course what talks against it is that it's an anagram I guess. The Gadsby reference is also neat. 3 am If you also include the T from YouTube (ep 25), you get dsigits. I don't think trailing letters are that much of a concern, there will probably be more letters in future titles :p 9 pm AverageBeverage wrote: If you also include the T from YouTube (ep 25), you get dsigits. I don't think trailing letters are that much of a concern, there will probably be more letters in future titles :p Alright I missed that, You've convinced me that it's dsgins. 5 am Hey, does anyone know what the black object in Kickstarter Simulator is? 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It appears in Reginald Carmichael's scenes. http://imgur.com/a/uR9D7 a http://www.wirerealm.com/guides/top-10-best-portable-recorders? Anyway, I hope the luigi-amiibo wasn't cursed ala Doom House, and Jim was just trying to get rid of it. [Wink] Irregular Programming wrote: AverageBeverage wrote: Hey, does anyone know what the black object in Kickstarter Simulator is? It appears in Reginald Carmichael's scenes. http://imgur.com/a/uR9D7 a http://www.wirerealm.com/guides/top-10-best-portable-recorders? Anyway, I hope the luigi-amiibo wasn't cursed ala Doom House, and Jim was just trying to get rid of it. [Wink] Sorry, I have been suuuuper sick since IndieCade, and only now have been feeling well enough to catch up on stuff that fell behind. I'll see what I can do this weekend. lhall wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: AverageBeverage wrote: Hey, does anyone know what the black object in Kickstarter Simulator is? It appears in Reginald Carmichael's scenes. http://imgur.com/a/uR9D7 a http://www.wirerealm.com/guides/top-10-best-portable-recorders? Anyway, I hope the luigi-amiibo wasn't cursed ala Doom House, and Jim was just trying to get rid of it. [Wink] Sorry, I have been suuuuper sick since IndieCade, and only now have been feeling well enough to catch up on stuff that fell behind. I'll see what I can do this weekend. So it was cursed. [Laughing] Anyway, good to hear you're feeling better. I hope we get something substantial out of the amiibo. New THD gives gat tct att ggc aac tcc atc cgt dsignsir I hope everyone is having a good week! (and a happy holiday here in the US!) [Very Happy] Thanks! [Smile] New THD has what sounds like some analogue data signal in it, I just arrived at work and won't have much time to look at it, maybe someone else will. It starts at around the 20 minute mark, it's very visible in the spectogram, I didn't listen to the entire thing. It kind of reminds me of the old dial up noise that 56k modems made. jimmc3rd wrote: It kind of reminds me of the old dial up noise that 56k modems made. Yes that's my thought as well, we need to figure out what communicates at 1300 - 2000 Hz Possibly a commodore 64 cassette this was done earlier in the first part of the ARG. I am unsure how to decode if this is the case ajbau wrote: Possibly a commodore 64 cassette this was done earlier in the first part of the ARG. I am unsure how to decode if this is the case If that's the case it should be easy, aren't there a lot of commondore emulators out there? [edit] I converted it to TAP and ran it in a C64 emulator and it didn't work, unsure if I need to clean it up more, or if we are just on the wrong track [edit](ho ho.. track.. get it? [Rolling Eyes]).[/edit] are there any emulators for 56k modems to see if the tones convert into text? So I'm guessing this is what I'm looking for: http://dialabc.com/sound/detect/ I clipped the sound, exported it to .wav and plugged it into the site, and got the following pattern: 02211AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA33A3AAA3A3A33AAAAAA3A3A33AA3A713A33A93A3A393AA33A3A3 Maybe someone can make sense of this, if it's anything. Not sure if those sound like DTMF tones to me, as they are only one frequency at a time (DTMF = Dual Tone Multi Frequency). I'm kinda stumped to be honest. Something is REALLY up with THD 30, which went up today. It doesn't even sound like Jim is on a train, more like in an arcade or something? Sounds like Pac-- Man/Galaga along with some Sega Genesis/Mega Drive sounding stuff. I think I hear voices saying "hello" or "help" at various times through the audio, but it could just be from a game? Spectogram is a bit nuts too: http://i.imgur.com/7yrIspe.png Edit: I'm certain that I've identified the source of the audio. It's from a series of recordings called the Arcade Ambience Project. Jim used the 1986 version. http://arcadecontrols.com/files/Audio/arcade86.mp3 I'll try doing a phase flip in a little while to hopefully cancel out most, if not all of the background noise. mit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] 50/51/52/53/54/ 55] Next __ Elsewhere Philatelic Society/|   |___ Flynn Lives/|   |___ Junko Junsui/|   |___ Marble Hornets/|   |___ QU13E/|   |___ Slender Man Mythos/|    /|___ Diversions/ __ PXC: Red Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Orange Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Yellow Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Green Puzzle Cards/|   |   |___ PXC: Blue Puzzle Cards/     /|___ Meta/|   |___ General META Discussion/|   |___ Glossary/|   |___ Online Tools/|   |___ Player Help/|   |___ Puppetmaster Help/|   |___ Various & Sundry/|   |___ Rest in  |___ ARG: Aporia Agathon/    |   |___ ARG: Bristel Goodman/    |   |___ ARG: Eldritch Errors/    |   |___ ARG: EDOC Laundry/    |   |___ ARG: Intimation/    |   |___ ARG: Year Zero/  |   |___ ARG: Acheron/    |   |___ ARG: Alias v2.0/    |   |___ ARG: Alias:Omnifam/    |   |___ ARG: Angels and Daemons (AKA Jibril of God)/    |   |___ ARG: Another Contest Worth Entering/ con of Light / Shadow in the Darkness/    |   |___ ARG: The Carer/    |   |___ ARG: Channel 51/    |   |___ ARG: City of Domes/    |   |___ ARG: Conspiracy for Good/    |   |___ ARG: Cult of 42 hours (8/13/42)/    |   |___ ARG: Enoch of Gatewood/    |   |___ ARG: Fringe/    |   |___ ARG: Find the Lost Ring/    |   |___ ARG: Free! 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Finally got a chance to decode it tonight, and came up with this. Looks like it might just be a joke, but who knows. cambot wrote: That's an SSTV signal in THD 29. Finally got a chance to decode it tonight, and came up with this. Looks like it might just be a joke, but who knows. That's amazing, may I ask how you decoded it? [edit] The image is in style of an old reddit meme where someone faked a Morgan Freeman AMA IIRC. Irregular Programming wrote: That's amazing, may I ask how you decoded it? I used a program called MMSSTV. You just play the audio while the program is running and it automatically recognizes the format and decodes the image. Ok cool, does anyone have any idea why the turkey is a hand though, it has to have some significance an actual turkey would have been the more logical choice right? is he telling us to stop with the DNA thing now? edit: apparently turkey hands are a thing in the US, so maybe it's just nothing and just a joke. edit2: Since we have a new operation (gobbledrop) I went back to check corporal herbie and number six, neither of which have any changes sadly. edit3: I tried logging on to timetravel-club with various variations of morgan freeman and dsigns(ir) and didn't get anything from it. Would anyone be willing to try taking a crack at doing some noise cancellation of the latest THD? The one with the arcade ambience. See my post at the end of the previous page. I'm sure it can be done, but I'm just doing something wrong. Re: operation gobbledrop, is this one of our "operations" like Operation Glitterbuster? dangerskew wrote: Re: operation gobbledrop, is this one of our "operations" like Operation Glitterbuster? Very possible as I said before, it's just that nothing is updated on the old websites, or we don't have the login for a new agent. I'm still curious about the amiibo though. There is a new podcast but I can't find anything strange in the spectogram. I've not had time to listen to the entire thing yet. I gave thd31 a half listen, and all that really stuck out to me was a girl talking about different things (didn't pay too much attention since i was listening to Jim), and that he spent time on a wiki near the end. Perhaps it's a hint to check the wiki for something? jimmc3rd wrote: I gave thd31 a half listen, and all that really stuck out to me was a girl talking about different things (didn't pay too much attention since i was listening to Jim), and that he spent time on a wiki near the end. Perhaps it's a hint to check the wiki for something? The page for episode 31 contains only the text " [Kroafuslamp]", an odd misspelling of Krampusloaf. dangerskew wrote: jimmc3rd wrote: I gave thd31 a half listen, and all that really stuck out to me was a girl talking about different things (didn't pay too much attention since i was listening to Jim), and that he spent time on a wiki near the end. Perhaps it's a hint to check the wiki for something? The page for episode 31 contains only the text " [Kroafuslamp]", an odd misspelling of Krampusloaf. It's worth noting that on youtube Bumper Sandwich Booger Lips, Mobius Face Meeting Itself and Krampusloaf (spelt Krampus | oaf) all are episode 29 Irregular Programming wrote: It's worth noting that on youtube Bumper Sandwich Booger Lips, Mobius Face Meeting Itself and Krampusloaf (spelt Krampus | oaf) all are episode 29 Maybe something could happen on the 29th of the month, or a month? Feb will have 29 days this coming year. Edit: Episode 25 is listed as 24 as well. jimmc3rd wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: It's worth noting that on youtube Bumper Sandwich Booger Lips, Mobius Face Meeting Itself and Krampusloaf (spelt Krampus | oaf) all are episode 29 Maybe something could happen on the 29th of the month, or a month? Feb will have 29 days this coming year. Edit: Episode 25 is listed as 24 as well. Either that or Jim is too lazy to change the backgrounds. : I Hey guys! I've been following the thread even though things seem slow right now...coming by to post that Polygon wrote a nice writeup about the ARG thus far! Hope it leads people over to UF to help us crack the mystery! http:// www.polygon.com/ 2015/12/15/ 10220184/frog- fractions-2-arg shy lil derp wrote: Hey guys! I've been following the thread even though things seem slow right now...coming by to post that Polygon wrote a nice writeup about the ARG thus far! Hope it leads people over to UF to help us crack the mystery! http:// www.polygon.com/ 2015/12/15/ 10220184/frog- fractions-2-arg This article made me even more curious about the contents of the Luigi amiibo. 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Smith/ : Rookery Tower/    |   |___ ARG: Sable & Shuck/    |   |___ ARG: Sammeeeees/    |   |___ ARG: Sammeeeees II/    |   |___ ARG: Sarah Kiddo/    |   |___ ARG: Search4E/    |   |___ ARG: Silver |   |___ ARG: Test Subjects Needed/    |   |___ ARG: This Is My Milwaukee/    |   |___ ARG: Tom Tooman/    |   |___ ARG: Township Heights (Virtuquest 6.5 Open)/    |   |___ ARG: Tranquil   |___ ARG: We Lost Our Gold/    |   |___ ARG: Who Is Benjamin Stove/    |   |___ ARG: Zoe's World/    |   |___ Zombie Truth/    |   |___ CF: The Human Pet/    |   |___ GAME: Our Colony/   |   |___ GAME: TimeHunt/    |   |___ GAME: Vanishing Point/    |   |___ GAME: Virtucube/    |   |___ GROUP READ: Daughters of Freya (Aug. 1-23)/    |   |___ Non-ARG: Project Gateway 8)/    |   |___ Cloverfield: General / Updates/    |   |___ Cloverfield: Reference / Press / Questions/    |   |___ Cloverfield: Social / OT / Humor/    |    /    |___ Archive: Deus City/    |   |___ PXC: Quick Reference/    |   |___ PXC: Questions/Meta/    |   |___ PXC: Puzzles/    |   |___ PXC: Project Syzygy Pre-Game/    |    /    |___ Archive: Catching the Wish (CTW2)/ ost Experience/    |   |___ TLE: General, Updates, Spec, & Info/    |   |___ TLE: META, OT, and Social Interactions/    |    /    |___ Archive: Orbital Colony/    |   |___ Orbital Colony: t Call Poker/    |   |___ LCP: General/Updates/    |   |___ LCP: Quick Reference/    |   |___ LCP: In-Game Interactions/    |   |___ LCP: Meta/Questions, Social Fun, & Poker Help/ tions/    |   |___ The Art of the Heist: Questions/Meta/    |    /    |___ Archive: Wildfire Industries/    |   |___ WI: General/Updates/    |   |___ WI: Synagoga/    |   |___ WI: nce/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Interaction/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Axon Coordination/    |   |___ The Haunted Apiary (Let Op!): Puzzles/ |   |___ Urban Hunt: Interaction/    |   |___ Urban Hunt: Puzzles/    |    /    |___ Archive: MetaCortechs/    |   |___ MetaCortechs: General/Updates/    |   |___ MetaCortechs: Quick  |___ CTW: Quick Reference/        |___ CTW: Puzzles/        |___ CTW: Interaction/        |___ CTW: Pre-Game] [Submit ./templates/unfiction2010/images/common/bs_command_mini_submit.gif] You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum You cannot post calendar events in this forum 52/53/54/  Next Message Coming over from Polygon and reading through the thread, the word snarfblat caught my attention. As everyone knows, Jim Crawford has been doing video games hot dog with the dev team from Kingdom of Loathing. The main adventure link in KOL (triggers all battles, etc) is http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/adventure.php?snarfblat=(some number) where the number represents the zone being adventured in. So it's possible that some number used in that link will take you to a related "zone" in KoL. m Polygon Polygon artcicle comment from ====================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Y'all here's a post from LordHuffnPuff on the Polygon piece Tired of staying at home all winter? Looking for an exciting holiday retreat? Why not take a trip to scenic Bug Mars? Experience the thrill of customs and immigration; dine on the finest freshly-baked bread; be titillated by the planet’s number one cultural export! When you travel with Bug Bros. Travel Agency, the red planet is just a hop, hop and a hop away. For booking information, contact us 24 hours a day! Our travel specialists are ready to take you on the trip of a lifetime. Dial (213) 631-3764 today! [/quote] m Hey guys, I am a total newbie that came here after the Polygon piece, so I apologize if anything I write is obvious or already known from previous searches. I also noticed the comment from LordHuffnPuff and a quick google search finds the following results for the number posted: 1) a directory entry for a "Bernard Prescott W San Fernando Rd Los Angeles California 213-631-3764" on http://hodges-directory.us/directory.php?q=467j-213-631-5512-Los-Angeles-California-Beverly-Blvd 2) a few complaints of annoying calls from the number at http://phpublicsearch.com/who-own-213-631-3764.html Also, these are the 2 most recent tweets after retweeting the Polygon piece: "I've always wanted to be in a @Polygon article so now I can die happy" and "I don't know what's more fun, setting up spooky mysteries or watching people as they try and figure out what's going on." m I'll try and transcribe the voicemail as best I can: "This is Resistancy Agent 3764, Lt. Samuel. I'm probably out on a mission protecting the remnants of our species or maybe training new recruits, but leave a message and I'll get back to you if I'm not dead or enslaved!" Something like that. http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/adventure.php?snarfblat=3764 doesn't seem to lead to anything for me. m dave is ok wrote: I'll try and transcribe the voicemail as best I can: "This is Resistancy Agent 3764, Lt. Samuel. I'm probably out on a mission protecting the remnants of our species or maybe training new recruits, but leave a message and I'll get back to you if I'm not dead or enslaved!" Something like that. http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/adventure.php?snarfblat=3764 doesn't seem to lead to anything for me. Came here from the Polygon article as well. Called the number this morning and received the same message. Here's the call audio for anyone interested: _________________________________________ |____________________12-17-call.wav_______| |Description|_______________| [wav] | |Filename __|12-17-call.wav| | |Filesize __|2.84MB _______|  Download| |Downloaded |37_Time(s) ___|____________| m The new users don't stop flowing. Hello, I've read everything up to now to ensure I'm up to date on everything etc. Now, onto business; there's a couple of things which feel as if something is gonna refer back to it at some point or that we missed something in it. Specifically, the original kickstarter video but also kernal.png? Idk, it could totally just be my mind thinking way too deeply but it doesn't seem right that both of those two are just "done". Also, new_Train_Hot_Dog. It's 2 minutes long, he talks about Blini (russian crepes). Spectrogram for those who can read those is attached. Doesn't seem to be a wikia page yet. _________________________ |_____screenshot.716.png__| | Description| _________| | Filesize _| 209.07KB_| | Viewed ___| 39_Time(s| | | | [screenshot.716.png] | |_________________________| m New info? ====================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Not in on this whole thing, but did anybody mention that if you click on LordHuffnPuff's account it says "shademan.exe@gmail.com" in the description? Haven't emailed it or anything, scared to receive valuable info. Anyway. m Re: New info? ====================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Bageras wrote: Not in on this whole thing, but did anybody mention that if you click on LordHuffnPuff's account it says "shademan.exe@gmail.com" in the description? Haven't emailed it or anything, scared to receive valuable info. Anyway. Good to see more people! We need it. About Shademan.exe, he is a character in the megaman batte network games. http://boktai.wikia.com/wiki/ShadeMan m dave is ok wrote: I'll try and transcribe the voicemail as best I can: "This is Resistancy Agent 3764, Lt. Samuel. I'm probably out on a mission protecting the remnants of our species or maybe training new recruits, but leave a message and I'll get back to you if I'm not dead or enslaved!" Something like that. http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/adventure.php?snarfblat=3764 doesn't seem to lead to anything for me. Cool, we definitely need a log in for this guy at time-travel.club we currently have number six/revolution and herbie/screamed but none for samuel afaik. Also someone should probably leave a message. [edit] maybe it's nothing but this guy https://twitter.com/mightbeadream at first glance it doesn't seem relevant. has the same profile picture as huffnpuff used. Does anyone know where that is from? m How long is it usually before an episode transcript goes up on the THD wikia? There still isn't one for the newest episode, which makes me think that the episode number (32) and blini/blintze is related to something somewhere... edit: never try posting from your phone unless youre into having painful headaches from trying to make things cooperate [Mad] m phosphenes this needs to be identified ====================================================================================================================================================================================================================== WTH IS THIS OMG I CANT CRACK IT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI4O4Rfzg_X_8sbtTYnI9Jg m failing to see how this phosphenes channel is related but then again I'm not viewing it with sound due to being in public at the moment. the comments have managed to crack pretty much all the codes in the videos apart from 'color' and so far there's nothing which points out that it's part of this ARG EDIT: yeah, no please dont post about unrelated things like this. just watched them again with sound and theres 0 relevance, on top of that you also posted a separate thread on it. anyway, has anyone else figured something out RE: the lack of episode transcript for the latest THD yet? m laitayl wrote: anyway, has anyone else figured something out RE: the lack of episode transcript for the latest THD yet? hmm, I tried shademan.exe / 3764 on the access level alpha/beta site with no success, but it might be a username? [edit] Anyway it seem like shademan.exe is not a email set up for the ARG as it has been used before http://forums.kingdomofloathing.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-164860.html m laitayl wrote: How long is it usually before an episode transcript goes up on the THD wikia? For THD31 it took ~1 day, for THD30 - even less than that. The strange thing is - it looks like THD31's page was added by some unlogined guy, according to http://trainhotdog.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiActivity. I dunno, maybe that's Jim, because after looking up that IP, those weird "trace IP" websites showed Oakland, which is really close to Berkeley. m • TT Operation 1965 - M. BRADLEY. • Operation B.R.E.A.D. This is a current assignment. Episode 26 – Extrinsic Blood Coagulation Cascade. The theme is the body. The game is: Operation. Recipe: 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1/2 cup 125 grams diced onion 1/2 cup 125 grams diced celery 6 porkloin ribchops engrave 1.5" 3.7 cm thick set 1 cup 250 grams diced dried waaaaan bread 1 avenue apple peeled cored and dice. This recipe looks like a game board. We are playing Operation. There are three parts in the board game that are relevant here. The spare rib, the adam’s apple and the bread basket. We are required to remove them. (or something) The rib looks to be spare. A pork cut is not generally known as a “pork loin rib chop”. It’s awkward. Out of place. It’s either a loin OR a rib chop. There are four out of place words in the monologue. Engrave after ribchops (and before 1.5, ref: Tunisia code 615? 6 before Porkloin), waaaan before bread and avenue before apple. The last is where the word dice is said instead of diced. A board game ref, I believe And dice = And PLAY. Avenue can link to referencing the throat. Waaaaan – meh not too sure on that one. Perhaps Jim wasn’t either. Sometimes whatevertf will do. I only found FF a few days ago for the first time. I have stuffed my head to maximum, and the emergent properties are quite something. Loving it. Has anyone analysed the audio in this particular hot dog? I don’t have skills in that area. 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BRADLEY. • Operation B.R.E.A.D. This is a current assignment. Episode 26 – Extrinsic Blood Coagulation Cascade. The theme is the body. The game is: Operation. Recipe: 2 tbsp unsalted butter 1/2 cup 125 grams diced onion 1/2 cup 125 grams diced celery 6 porkloin ribchops engrave 1.5" 3.7 cm thick set 1 cup 250 grams diced dried waaaaan bread 1 avenue apple peeled cored and dice. This recipe looks like a game board. We are playing Operation. There are three parts in the board game that are relevant here. The spare rib, the adam’s apple and the bread basket. We are required to remove them. (or something) The rib looks to be spare. A pork cut is not generally known as a “pork loin rib chop”. It’s awkward. Out of place. It’s either a loin OR a rib chop. There are four out of place words in the monologue. Engrave after ribchops (and before 1.5, ref: Tunisia code 615? 6 before Porkloin), waaaan before bread and avenue before apple. The last is where the word dice is said instead of diced. A board game ref, I believe And dice = And PLAY. Avenue can link to referencing the throat. Waaaaan – meh not too sure on that one. Perhaps Jim wasn’t either. Sometimes whatevertf will do. I only found FF a few days ago for the first time. I have stuffed my head to maximum, and the emergent properties are quite something. Loving it. Has anyone analysed the audio in this particular hot dog? I don’t have skills in that area. Anyone? This is a really cool line of thought, I'm unsure if #HKTom is part of the arg though, I think it's a spam bot. One of its posts are located in full here. http://inform-buro.org/naukaizdorove/page,1,7,9334-appleiphone5globusnews.html Might be part of the arg, it was posted after the kickstarter I think but I dunno. Quote: Ingredients 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/2 cup (125 g) diced onion 1/2 cup (125 g) diced celery 6 pork loin rib chops,cut into 1? inches(3.7 cm) thickset 1 cup (250 g) diced dried drained bread 1 medium apple,peeled,cored and diced 1 large egg,beaten 1/8 teaspoon basil 1/8 teaspoon ground thyme 2/3 cup sizzling water 1 beef-flavor bouillon cube 1/4 cup (60 g) diced carrots 6 peppercorns 1 bay leaf full of vim chopped parsley for garnish put and freshly terrain baleful spray 1/4 teaspoon expert Method Step 1 Zeal butter in a brawny nonstick skillet on top of milieu lavish heat. Add 1/4 cup (60 g) onion and 1/4 cup (60 g) celery and cook,thrilling,until vegetables are tender,nearly 5 minutes. Footprint 2 In the interim,using a sharp-witted slash,shape bag in pork by chill horizontally via each chop wellnigh to the bone. Step 3 Dispose of skillet from the heat. Stir in diced dried cadaverous bread,apple,beaten egg,pundit,basil and scope thyme. Mellow with 1/3 teaspoon sarcasm cum grano salis and 1/4 teaspoon bad pepper and stir again. Step 4 Kit pork chops with egg mixture. Sprinkle stuffed pork on both sides with attic wit and negroid pepper. Away the skillet. Impression 5 Cut piece of well-fed from bound of a given of the pork chops. In skillet,upward of medium-high earnestness,rub fleshy over tokus of skillet to grease well;discard fat. Traditional 6 Working in a batches,cook stuffed pork chops until browned on both sides,turning once. Focus on aside. Step 7 In a metal baking pan,come together water and beef flavor bouillon cube. Stir until bouillon is dissolved. Continue carrots,peppercorns,bay leaf,unused onion and celery. Motion 8 Align browned stuffed pork chops in baking spider on cover of vegetable-herb mixture. Cover with aluminum foil. Preheat oven to 325 F (160 C). Stoop proceed 9 Bake in preheated oven as a service to 1 ? hours,turning once during cooking. Eradicate baked stuffed pork chops from the oven. Over on serving platter. Garnish with untrained chopped parsley, Winnow cooking liquid and serve personally as a gravy. Nothing from the audio in episode 26 was glaringly obvious. m Oh, I get it. Waaaaaaan. Wan. As in Pale. As in White bread. (in original recipe) There is only one post I can find from #HKTom and all the accounts it has are dated on or after 1st Nov 2015, when the original recipe was posted in Magic Skillet. http://magicskillet.com/recipe/apple-stuffed-pork- chops/ No matter where it comes from, it’s a funny script. Look at this line/comparison to original: “Mellow with 1/3 teaspoon sarcasm cum grano salis and 1/4 teaspoon bad pepper and stir again.” (#HKTom) "Season with 1/3 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and stir again." (Original) This definitely looks hand crafted and it’s the same flavour as FF. Theme: You gotta deviate from the recipe. I am surprised there was nothing in the audio. It didn’t sound right to me, at all. Could something be buried in a new way? Quote: Please contact central command in order to place order. Your current rank allows access to the following requisitions: AVAILABLE REQUISITIONS • Hops • Marley Malt • Yeast • Water • F-Rations • Anti-Sparkle Lotion • Bread The only object here we haven’t seen elsewhere is the Anti-Sparkle Lotion. F-Rations is the FF inventory, I think. Noted is that they must be placed in order. Placed in order, in order to order. Sparkles has been mentioned a lot. It reminds me of the tape and the wires in the engine room. Sparkly Annihilation Danger Sparkles Anti-Sparkle Lotion Operation Glitterbuster Add - The background at Asbhy Brewery is made up of sparkles m Wonder Woman wrote: I am surprised there was nothing in the audio. It didn’t sound right to me, at all. Could something be buried in a new way? That's of course very possible, I don't have a clue how to extract it if so though. m We need more people and brains on this. if you’re lurking, pls add your thoughts? I have no idea what I’m doing this is all completely new to me, so don’t feel out of place. After a few days of looking around, I haven’t got very far. Here are some things which may (or may not) be of use: We really needed that Luigi! The dates in the “About” page at Ashby’s are 1777 (established) and 1738 for the Blue Revolution. Blue Revolution is a website https://bluerevolution.com/ With “Established in 1999” prominently displayed. The colour blue used is #777777 Asbhy’s website was established in 1999. The opening hours are 9 Am to 9:00 Pm. Am and Pm are capitalised, which they shouldn’t be, so I was thinking there is a code in the capitalisation on the About page, using 9s as the base. I haven’t found anything so far, but then again I am a complete beginner. The address is 2020 (vision; look at map?). Albany Hill (where the hops are sourced) has a supermarket near it called #99 Ranch Market. Their opening hours are 9am to 9pm. Mark Twain wrote a book called The celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County in 1865. I can’t link Samuel, our next presumed log in, to anything. The women in the background in Krampusloaf are talking about the state of the Theatre system and a play involving Krusty the Clown and about there being a hidden message in it to do with the state of the economy. If that is set up, does that have anything to do with the BART thing? I would love for there to be something else we can make in the bread oven. I remember that someone early in this thread said that it was *a fact* that nothing else existed in FF1. Is there a way to be able to tell, presently, if that is true? Just so time isn’t wasted on a fruitless search. I am completely stumped. m Wonder Woman wrote: We need more people and brains on this. if you’re lurking, pls add your thoughts? I have no idea what I’m doing this is all completely new to me, so don’t feel out of place. After a few days of looking around, I haven’t got very far. Here are some things which may (or may not) be of use: We really needed that Luigi! The dates in the “About” page at Ashby’s are 1777 (established) and 1738 for the Blue Revolution. Blue Revolution is a website https://bluerevolution.com/ With “Established in 1999” prominently displayed. The colour blue used is #777777 Asbhy’s website was established in 1999. The opening hours are 9 Am to 9:00 Pm. Am and Pm are capitalised, which they shouldn’t be, so I was thinking there is a code in the capitalisation on the About page, using 9s as the base. I haven’t found anything so far, but then again I am a complete beginner. The address is 2020 (vision; look at map?). Albany Hill (where the hops are sourced) has a supermarket near it called #99 Ranch Market. Their opening hours are 9am to 9pm. Mark Twain wrote a book called The celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County in 1865. I can’t link Samuel, our next presumed log in, to anything. The women in the background in Krampusloaf are talking about the state of the Theatre system and a play involving Krusty the Clown and about there being a hidden message in it to do with the state of the economy. If that is set up, does that have anything to do with the BART thing? I would love for there to be something else we can make in the bread oven. I remember that someone early in this thread said that it was *a fact* that nothing else existed in FF1. Is there a way to be able to tell, presently, if that is true? Just so time isn’t wasted on a fruitless search. I am completely stumped. This is a great walkthrough of what we currently have, it's very possible that we have just missed a lot of clues just because we found something less hidden and assumed that was it. As for FF1 I assume someone decompiled it to check the assets. I also tried to change the recipie back then and had no luck. m I'm wondering if we should compile some of the thematic elements. A lot of the themes have been platformey (Luigi amiibo, among others) so possibly that's the type of game it is hidden under. Also the sparkles, time travel business, maybe a more action-y type of game? I have also sent a few guesses via e-mail (I believe you can do this if you're a backer) and have all turned out negative, those guesses we can rule out are: Domestic_Dog_Simulator (thought it would be future released DLC) Word_Realms (Thought it would be because it was made by kingdom of loathing peeps, who seem to be related to the hotdog train and the podcasts.) Magicians_Apprentice (Thought because it looked so awful and was newly released it had a good chance. But Jim was very witty with his reply so I chose to include it: Quote: Whoa, fascinating. Not many games aspire to the awful grainy pre-rendered billboard look, but, y'know, I get it. Probably there's a decent-sized audience for whom being like Diablo 2 is more important than being good. m Wonder Woman wrote: We need more people and brains on this. if you’re lurking, pls add your thoughts? I have no idea what I’m doing this is all completely new to me, so don’t feel out of place. After a few days of looking around, I haven’t got very far. Here are some things which may (or may not) be of use: We really needed that Luigi! The dates in the “About” page at Ashby’s are 1777 (established) and 1738 for the Blue Revolution. Blue Revolution is a website https://bluerevolution.com/ With “Established in 1999” prominently displayed. The colour blue used is #777777 Asbhy’s website was established in 1999. The opening hours are 9 Am to 9:00 Pm. Am and Pm are capitalised, which they shouldn’t be, so I was thinking there is a code in the capitalisation on the About page, using 9s as the base. I haven’t found anything so far, but then again I am a complete beginner. The address is 2020 (vision; look at map?). Albany Hill (where the hops are sourced) has a supermarket near it called #99 Ranch Market. Their opening hours are 9am to 9pm. Mark Twain wrote a book called The celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County in 1865. I can’t link Samuel, our next presumed log in, to anything. The women in the background in Krampusloaf are talking about the state of the Theatre system and a play involving Krusty the Clown and about there being a hidden message in it to do with the state of the economy. If that is set up, does that have anything to do with the BART thing? I would love for there to be something else we can make in the bread oven. I remember that someone early in this thread said that it was *a fact* that nothing else existed in FF1. Is there a way to be able to tell, presently, if that is true? Just so time isn’t wasted on a fruitless search. I am completely stumped. I was just thinking about Samuel earlier today; Mark Twain's birthname was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and, apparently, he wrote an imitation of the Rubaiyat. I'm thinking the log-in might be "samuel/rubaiyat" or "samuel/twain" or something of that nature, but I'm not sure. To be thorough, we ought to dictionary attack with that snippet of the Rubaiyat we got. Also, re: the Luigi Amiibo, I emailed Twinbeard and asked if we'd need it to continue, seeing as we're having problems getting it. I'll respond if I get an answer. Edit: Actually, if this was really clever, the log in would be related to that Twain-version of the Rubaiyat. It'd probably have a password in the Twain-rewrite of that verse we got ["A Book of Verses underneath the Bough (...)]". m I've been casually following along with this ARG, and I've compiled a list of games that could possibly be Frog Fractions 2. My major criteria were that they had little to no user reviews yet, no reviews by major gaming sites, were released between September - December of this year, and were by developers who had no other games released on Steam. Here's what I've got: Vector_Assault (released as part of Steam's Throwback Thursday even though it isn't a classic game) Euphoria:_Build_A_Better_Dystopia (it's DLC for Tabletop Simulator, but I don't believe DLC has been ruled out as a whole? Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that) Save_The_Creatures (none of the three developers have any other games, plus the Zbigniew Staniewicz mentioned in the Recent Updates section seems to be an actor from the early 1900s) Amos_From_Outer_Space (it mentions "a whole set on insecty games" and "under-water adventure" in its about section) StarForce:_2193 (watch the trailer video - it's all ClipArt and it screams "this can't possibly be a real game" to me) m baliset wrote: I've been casually following along with this ARG, and I've compiled a list of games that could possibly be Frog Fractions 2. My major criteria were that they had little to no user reviews yet, no reviews by major gaming sites, were released between September - December of this year, and were by developers who had no other games released on Steam. Here's what I've got: Vector_Assault (released as part of Steam's Throwback Thursday even though it isn't a classic game) Euphoria:_Build_A_Better_Dystopia (it's DLC for Tabletop Simulator, but I don't believe DLC has been ruled out as a whole? Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that) Save_The_Creatures (none of the three developers have any other games, plus the Zbigniew Staniewicz mentioned in the Recent Updates section seems to be an actor from the early 1900s) Amos_From_Outer_Space (it mentions "a whole set on insecty games" and "under-water adventure" in its about section) StarForce:_2193 (watch the trailer video - it's all ClipArt and it screams "this can't possibly be a real game" to me) Michael Porter, Aaron Smith, Andrew Thomas these names sound extremely familiar to me. I just can not figure out where I've heard about them before. [edit] this seems to be Michael Porter, https://twitter.com/ PredSoftwareMP I think we can write this game off as not being FF2. Also, lmao at the starforce game, if this is ff2 and not a single persons descent into madness (if there is a difference) Jim has gone to lengths to hide it. This is the website of the game, http://starforce.simpledesignsgaming.com/index.php They also provide hosting apparently, http://www.simpledesignsforsimpleminds.com/ They do seem to be a real company though http://www.buzzfile.com/business/Simple-Designs-Software-732-604-7640 m dogint wrote: Wonder Woman wrote: We need more people and brains on this. if you’re lurking, pls add your thoughts? I have no idea what I’m doing this is all completely new to me, so don’t feel out of place. After a few days of looking around, I haven’t got very far. Here are some things which may (or may not) be of use: We really needed that Luigi! The dates in the “About” page at Ashby’s are 1777 (established) and 1738 for the Blue Revolution. Blue Revolution is a website https://bluerevolution.com/ With “Established in 1999” prominently displayed. The colour blue used is #777777 Asbhy’s website was established in 1999. The opening hours are 9 Am to 9:00 Pm. Am and Pm are capitalised, which they shouldn’t be, so I was thinking there is a code in the capitalisation on the About page, using 9s as the base. I haven’t found anything so far, but then again I am a complete beginner. The address is 2020 (vision; look at map?). Albany Hill (where the hops are sourced) has a supermarket near it called #99 Ranch Market. Their opening hours are 9am to 9pm. Mark Twain wrote a book called The celebrated Jumping Frog of Cavaleras County in 1865. I can’t link Samuel, our next presumed log in, to anything. The women in the background in Krampusloaf are talking about the state of the Theatre system and a play involving Krusty the Clown and about there being a hidden message in it to do with the state of the economy. If that is set up, does that have anything to do with the BART thing? I would love for there to be something else we can make in the bread oven. I remember that someone early in this thread said that it was *a fact* that nothing else existed in FF1. Is there a way to be able to tell, presently, if that is true? Just so time isn’t wasted on a fruitless search. I am completely stumped. I was just thinking about Samuel earlier today; Mark Twain's birthname was Samuel Langhorne Clemens and, apparently, he wrote an imitation of the Rubaiyat. I'm thinking the log-in might be "samuel/rubaiyat" or "samuel/twain" or something of that nature, but I'm not sure. To be thorough, we ought to dictionary attack with that snippet of the Rubaiyat we got. Also, re: the Luigi Amiibo, I emailed Twinbeard and asked if we'd need it to continue, seeing as we're having problems getting it. I'll respond if I get an answer. Edit: Actually, if this was really clever, the log in would be related to that Twain-version of the Rubaiyat. It'd probably have a password in the Twain-rewrite of that verse we got ["A Book of Verses underneath the Bough (...)]". He said, quote, "I have faith in you guys". I don't know any more about the ARG, but at least I feel tingly inside. m Uhm.. guys. Herbie/screamed doesn't work on the timetravel page anymore. [edit] I logged in as number six, but it still refered to cpl Herbie. m Irregular Programming wrote: Uhm.. guys. Herbie/screamed doesn't work on the timetravel page anymore. [edit] I logged in as number six, but it still refered to cpl Herbie. it let me use the login herbie/screamed on the accesslevelbeta page m Is there an easy way to catch up on everything that's happened? I was here back when these guys did that IRL meetup and got a few stuff in a bag. Should we have a mindmap like the current Steam ARG is doing? https://www.mindmeister.com/pt/628152815/northpole-noir It looks pretty organized, although I have a lot to complain about mindmeister itself. Bad scrolling/zooming/lag. Maybe a google doc write up would be better. (not public, ofc. dunno why some ARGs did that. it was cancerous.) m jimmc3rd wrote: Irregular Programming wrote: Uhm.. guys. Herbie/screamed doesn't work on the timetravel page anymore. [edit] I logged in as number six, but it still refered to cpl Herbie. it let me use the login herbie/screamed on the accesslevelbeta page Hmm, strange, it must have been a temporary hickup or something, I thought I tried herbie/screamed several times with different capatalization on both pages. Well, never mind me then. m there is a new train hotdog but only on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4uQ0YDVNw0 there is a new URL in the description but it seems to lead to the same place. http://jewelofthehotdognet.work/ nothing in the spectogram from the youtube audio at least. Video Game Hot Dog twitter, maybe a clue? 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My major criteria were that they had little to no user reviews yet, no reviews by major gaming sites, were released between September - December of this year, and were by developers who had no other games released on Steam. I don't remember which episode it was, but back around September I remember Jim saying on Video Games Hotdog that he had been working on FMV for a game, then said "But I guess I shouldn't say anything else about it." I assumed he was talking about FF2 given how important video has been to the ARG so far. If that's true, then FF2 still wasn't in the wild as recently as September/October. pm So, http://trainhotdog.cool has still not updated, and have 32 episodes on it, pairing that with the tweet about 32 bit compability I'm really starting to think that this is a clue. Can we translate the episodes to binary somehow, other than what I did? am baliset wrote: Euphoria:_Build_A_Better_Dystopia (it's DLC for Tabletop Simulator, but I don't believe DLC has been ruled out as a whole? Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that) Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia is a rather awesome Worker Placement tabletop game, so it makes sense that it'll be added as DLC. No Frog Fractions here! Proof: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/133848/euphoria-build-better-dystopia am Alright, a quick rundown on what we have not understood the meaning of yet (if there is one). Known important websites www.decaytruth.info (we still can't log into the admin panel) www.trainhotdog.cool www.time-travel.club (known passwords herbie/screamed gadsby/password123 number six/revolution) http://twinbread.com/ The TKTom recipie Quote: Ingredients 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/2 cup (125 g) diced onion 1/2 cup (125 g) diced celery 6 pork loin rib chops,cut into 1? inches(3.7 cm) thickset 1 cup (250 g) diced dried drained bread 1 medium apple,peeled,cored and diced 1 large egg,beaten 1/8 teaspoon basil 1/8 teaspoon ground thyme 2/3 cup sizzling water 1 beef-flavor bouillon cube 1/4 cup (60 g) diced carrots 6 peppercorns 1 bay leaf full of vim chopped parsley for garnish put and freshly terrain baleful spray 1/4 teaspoon expert Method Step 1 Zeal butter in a brawny nonstick skillet on top of milieu lavish heat. Add 1/4 cup (60 g) onion and 1/4 cup (60 g) celery and cook,thrilling,until vegetables are tender,nearly 5 minutes. Footprint 2 In the interim,using a sharp-witted slash,shape bag in pork by chill horizontally via each chop wellnigh to the bone. Step 3 Dispose of skillet from the heat. Stir in diced dried cadaverous bread,apple,beaten egg,pundit,basil and scope thyme. Mellow with 1/3 teaspoon sarcasm cum grano salis and 1/4 teaspoon bad pepper and stir again. Step 4 Kit pork chops with egg mixture. Sprinkle stuffed pork on both sides with attic wit and negroid pepper. Away the skillet. Impression 5 Cut piece of well-fed from bound of a given of the pork chops. In skillet,upward of medium-high earnestness,rub fleshy over tokus of skillet to grease well;discard fat. Traditional 6 Working in a batches,cook stuffed pork chops until browned on both sides,turning once. Focus on aside. Step 7 In a metal baking pan,come together water and beef flavor bouillon cube. Stir until bouillon is dissolved. Continue carrots,peppercorns,bay leaf,unused onion and celery. Motion 8 Align browned stuffed pork chops in baking spider on cover of vegetable-herb mixture. Cover with aluminum foil. Preheat oven to 325 F (160 C). Stoop proceed 9 Bake in preheated oven as a service to 1 ? hours,turning once during cooking. Eradicate baked stuffed pork chops from the oven. Over on serving platter. Garnish with untrained chopped parsley, Winnow cooking liquid and serve personally as a gravy. Hotdog.cool DNA string Quote: gat tct att ggc aac tcc atc cgt dsignsir THD30 dangerskew wrote: Something is REALLY up with THD 30, which went up today. It doesn't even sound like Jim is on a train, more like in an arcade or something? Sounds like Pac--Man/Galaga along with some Sega Genesis/Mega Drive sounding stuff. I think I hear voices saying "hello" or "help" at various times through the audio, but it could just be from a game? Spectogram is a bit nuts too: http://i.imgur.com/7yrIspe.png Edit: I'm certain that I've identified the source of the audio. It's from a series of recordings called the Arcade Ambience Project. Jim used the 1986 version. http://arcadecontrols.com/files/Audio/arcade86.mp3 I'll try doing a phase flip in a little while to hopefully cancel out most, if not all of the background noise. Various Tweets Quote: https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/653449532382941184 This arrived at the Red Pages office yesterday with a note from "Herbie" that read "You have the pieces." Spooky! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRGE4xZVEAA29Cq.png reference to this: http://postimg.org/image/cc8o9gw0x/ ? https://twitter.com/RedPagesPodcast/status/651855579829288960 "Current Statuses - Gord: mired, Justin: exuberant, Paul: mushy" https://twitter.com/vghotdog/status/677535755250495490 "Train Hot Dog, with its most recent episode, has achieved 32-bit fidelity. http://jewelofthehotdognet.work/" (trainhotdog.cool is stuck at 32 episodes even though a new one has been released.) Breakfast? Quote: COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM Poem from twinbread (recepie 13) Quote: “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” DANGER! SPARKLES! Quote: http://trainhotdog.asymmetric.net/beards.jpg Previous post about the arg jimmc3rd wrote: Updated my list: stacktrace error read in thd18: offset read aloud is read as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.TryConsumeMetaData() +61 but was printed from http://trainhotdog.cool/thd18notes.png as: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData() +138 large offsets of: +6738869 and +6741487 weird voices in thd19 decay. donkey kong. decay. donkey kong is here. Youtube thumbnail pixel strips: thds 20, 15, 13, 12, 11, 09 Has anyone asked Jim if SPL-T is FF2? IP hash numbers from Ashby site: abxyx12 Ashby pages may end up spelling out AMPHIBIAN Ashby login for decaytruth.info/admin.php I think the red pages myst quote derived from thd21 may be pointing us to the red pages podcast SSENIHSUM TNAREBUXE ERIM found both at the red pages extrasode and thd16 DANGER! SPARKLES! http://trainhotdog.asymmetric.net/beards.jpg time-travel.club/accesslevelbeta.php speech to text used on thd space coast lost phone from area code 321 tunisia area code 216 rider mail spectrogram empty quotes THD 14 unused gifs on time-travel.club/404_files unused image_002.png and .thmx http://time-travel.club/typesoftimetravel_files/ I Robot psychologist loop quote from extrasode Physical bag contents from the event COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CH EESE AND BACON; HASH B ROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTT ER AND STAWBERRY JAM recipie13(poem): “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” missing bug porn month Frog Fractions Walkthrough odd topic of discussion http://goombas.org/1092_you-ever-get-those-balls-in-your-earlobes-.html#c902 Rosencrantz roleplay page Not sure how much of this will be useful, but it's what I've seen through the forums that we've speculated on that may still have some clues. Hope this helps with anything we might have missed. I probably missed a bunch of stuff, feel free to add to this list. am al Mire exuberant mushiness and sprained virtuoso owl were anagrams for login details, weren't they? am Grimsicle wrote: Mire exuberant mushiness and sprained virtuoso owl were anagrams for login details, weren't they? You are right! am Bug Mars Travel ============================================================================================================== Last night I received a call back from the Bug Mars Travel Agency and they told me that the codeword for my trip was "caravanserai". pm Travel agency call ============================================================================================================== Quote: Last night I received a call back from the Bug Mars Travel Agency and they told me that the codeword for my trip was "caravanserai". Me too! They were very particular about the spelling of caravanserai. Also really hoping I enjoy my trip to Bug Mars. pm the caravanserai is the password for samuel thing I have fount there 6 little ducks nursery rhyme reference Quote: USER:SAMUEL RANK:SCI_H Greetings Doctor, please select an option. Resources Requisitions Operative List (Partial) Current Scientific Projects Terminal (LOCKED) %corrupt_entry%segf (LOCKED) Party Lounge (SOMEWHAT LOCKED) Quote: USER:SAMUEL RANK:SCI_H SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS The currently-active scientific projects are: SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS Experiment 032 - Sparkle Reverse-Engineering Experiment 033 - R.P.A.G.E.S. Temporal/Cerebral Implants Experiment 1964 - Mousetrap (better) Experiment 034 - Environmental Restoration ARCHIVED EXPERIMENTS Experiment 001 - Anti-Gravity Thrusters Experiment 002 - Experimental Hydroelectrolysis & Subdermatoglyphic Radiation Experiment 003 - Axis-Defeating Local Pancake Experiment 004 - Synthesis of Beer from Sparkles Quote: USER:SAMUEL RANK:SCI_H OPERATIVES Below you will find a constantly-updated list of undeployed operatives currently available for scientific engagment: UNASSIGNED OPERATIVES Recr. Gadsby - Barracks Recr. Arthur - Barracks Pvt. Lambert - Mess Cpl. Dwayne - Firing Range Cpl. Parker - Mess Sgt. William - Perimiter Sgt. Kane - Perimiter Sgt. Jorden - Command Quote: USER:SAMUEL RANK:SCI_H REQUISITIONS Please contact central command in order to place order. Your current rank allows access to the following requisitions: AVAILABLE REQUISITIONS Hops Marley Malt Yeast Water F-Rations Anti-Sparkle Lotion Bread Acid Base Bass (fish) Bass (dropped) Sparkles (contained, pressurized) Membrane M. Brain F. Brain G. Dad Sunny D. [/quote] pm Another boardgame reference with Mousetrap (1964) pm dave is ok wrote: Another boardgame reference with Mousetrap (1964) I am not sure about that the brackets say (Better) the board game is 1963 "The Avengers" Build a Better Mousetrap (1964) pm Experiment 033 - R.P.A.G.E.S. Temporal/Cerebral Implants another red pages reference? He put Gadsby in the list, but didn't reference Herbie (maybe Herbie is on a mission?) I wonder if the six little ducks is referring to Number Six am Experiment 033 - R.P.A.G.E.S. Temporal/Cerebral Implants Red Pages podcast? Experiment 004 - Synthesis of Beer from Sparkles Brewery? am Quote: awibblewobblewibblewobbletooandfrobuttheonelittleduckwiththefeatheronhisbackheledtheotherswithaquackquackquack There is an extra 'o' in here. 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Actually yes, he is. So there may be something about Brian clemens can lead us elsewhere. It seems he was in Army for some time and then became a weapons instructor, and then a screenwriter. he was pretty successful so maybe there's a clue in something he worked on. OR just a red herring, or not. I don't know, but they are related. What if the Samuel Clemens we're looking for is his son (yes he named his son after "mark twain") so that's another avenue. One other thing, is herbie's commanding officer is william, shouldn't he have a log in too? Number Six is unchanged. and get access to Party lounge first, as it's somewhatlocked for samuel, but very locked for herbie. %corrupt_entry%segf (segfault?) keeps coming up. I wonder if ashby brewery is an antagonist, due to their use of sparkles in their website, and now synthesizing beer from sparkles? Sparkles are inherently destructive but it seems they have a great power, and samuel the doctor knows how to use them. and does experiments, he seems up in the chain. Experiment 003 - Axis-Defeating Local Pancake Refers to this paper on Astrophysics. http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0509039 More info in plainspeak http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1069 If i'm understanding it it's about the origins of our universe, and the cosmic background radiation. Basically there's some anomaly in the data that we see which the author says is because of something with lensing, and that we live in a pancake. Probably has to do with sparkles. Chris Vale is the author and he wrote it at these locations Theoretical Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510 Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Berkeley again. Also on Samuel's Requisitions theres a lot of puns Membrane, M. Brain, The three types of bass/base. Maybe there's something obvious like that. The writer_of_this_ARG is a bookish nerd type (i say with love) so i think there would be puzzles of this sort. Here's the spectogram of the red pages 33 podcast. Are those blips of note? Also operation gabbledrop. And decaytruth.info/admin.php Everyone's doing this lately, so I made a discord IRC-like chat for us to communicate a bit quicker. https://discord.gg/0ke7HKsVwUMhmlbo __________________________________________________ |________________________spectroredpage.png________| | Description| Spectogram_of_red_pages_podcast_33| | Filesize _| 568.57KB__________________________| | Viewed ___| 12_Time(s)________________________| | | | [spectroredpage.png] | |__________________________________________________| jimmc3rd wrote: recipie13(poem): “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness-- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!” Someone could have pointed this out already, but this is a word-for-word quotation of Quatrain XII of the Rubaiyat. ETA: In the Discord channel we were compare/contrasting these three recipes (the original pork chop recipe and two posts by HKTom), so I made a Google_Doc_with_a_markup_of_the_differences_between_each_version. ETA #2: The information on the pages for the samuel login on timetravelclub seems to have changed, and there are two new names on the operative list: Sgm. Vasquez - Debriefing Maj. Drake - Debriefing http://time-travel.club/ awibblewobblewibblewobbletooandfrobuttheonelittleduckwiththefeatheronhisbackheledtheotherswithaquackquackquack has also changed to http://time-travel.club/ awibblewobblewibblewobbletoandfrobuttheonelittleduckwiththefeatheronhisbackheledtheotherswithaquackquackquack. The "too" was corrected to a "to". THD 32 ============================================================================================================== Jim Tweeted about THD 32 having 32 bit fidelity. Then THD 33 Came out, and it wasn't on trainhotdog.cool Then THD 34 came out, and it's listed on trainhotdog.cool as 32. so we thinking about what's in THD 32. We think there's something in the spectogram. A user on the discord chat suggested we slow it down more, and that there is possibly blob (Binary Large Object Data) within. This is just the file in audacity, the first part of it looks suspicous. This is after I slowed it down a little bit and tried using a different program. Could be letters, Could be 1's and 0s. I Reversed THD 32 (Via Experiment 32 sparkle reverse engineering) and slowed it down by 32% (via jim's tweet on THD32 having 32 bit fidelity) and I got this. Looks like letters, I'm not sure. Quaxo wrote: I Reversed THD 32 (Via Experiment 32 sparkle reverse engineering) and slowed it down by 32% (via jim's tweet on THD32 having 32 bit fidelity) and I got this. Looks like letters, I'm not sure. Friend showed me Frog Fractions 1, I beat it, loved it, looked up Frog Fractions 2. Found this whole conspiracy. I have never once solved any puzzles, so I will be of no help whatsoever! But if you squint your eyes it is easier to make out the patterns in this, that's all the help I can possibly be! I'm rooting for you guys! Edit: The letters and/or numbers look like they are stretched greatly. Any way to compress them vertically? seems like he may start counting down on thd ...31, 32, 33, 32 my guess about the ashby login is that it's related to the party lounge, or it's the final login where we solve the game edit: thd34 right before 16:54.0 there is a series of tones also about halfway through, he turns the mic off and back on, but the sound quality is different, almost as if he's using a different microphone jimmc3rd wrote: seems like he may start counting down on thd ...31, 32, 33, 32 my guess about the ashby login is that it's related to the party lounge, or it's the final login where we solve the game edit: thd34 right before 16:54.0 there is a series of tones That sounds like someones cellphone. ♕♛Fungsthetics Crew♛♕♛ *LEAN BULKERS CREW* *tea drinker crew* *tans easily crew* *no bodyhair crew* *MMA crew* *put sriracha on everything crew*