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Are we allowed to discuss the ARG things and share theories here?
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I HOPE SO. I'm not great at the decrypting side of things so I love following allow with what other people do.
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With the usual disclaimer that I won't participate in this silliness. I'll come up with a section of he BBS to move it to later. For now, please keep it to this thread so I can easily ignore it.
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I would like to know more about this. Can someone give more information?
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Post by Skjotur »

Cool.

This first instance was in a tweet on the Contrarium twitter. The tweet has disappeared now and I didn't write down exactly what it said, but it was something like "I hope everyone is having a good holiday, I'm getting a lot done in the code." Then it looked like another sentence was starting but it was cut off and followed by some indecipherable letters and numbers, then the symbol that always clues us in that there's an ARG link or other clue coming. The symbol is: /|\ After the symbol was the following:
192.40.56.156/3.20
This is an IP address followed by some numbers as a filename, which when entered into a browser leads you to a strange sound. Go to http://192.40.56.156/3.20 to hear it.

The sound contains morse code over some weird background noise. The weird background noise throws off my morse code translator so I processed it multiple times and this is the best I was able to get after comparing several garbled translations and picking out the most likely words.
VDFA#ELING SEAMS THE OTHER SIDE #USHES THROUGH THINZS FROM THE WAY #<VE> DREAMS
I think #USHES is probably PUSHES and THINZS is probably THINGS. The first and second to last words are the ones the translator always has the most problems with. I might try to clean up the background noise tomorrow to get those remaining two words.

Lastly these things happened on Somnium too. The symbol was seen there many times leading to these types of things. The translation seems familiar to me and I believe it has come up once before. This means there might be crossover between the two games or worlds. Unfortunately the posts on the Somnium board about these kinds of things have disappeared.
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It's time to revive this thread. People have reported seeing unusual things in-game and on the website, many of which revolve around this symbol:

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/|\
Others can chime in with what they experienced, but I personally encountered the COGG website redirecting to http://192.40.56.156/10.3, which is a strange (and loud) audio file. I participated in a similar ARG in the previous project, so I'll just give out a hint for others to follow. The hint is: you will unfortunately have to be sighted in order to decipher the audio file.

Edited to add that I also examined the Morse code audio file mentioned earlier in the thread, and the message appears to be:

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UNRAVELING SEAMS THE OTHER SIDE PUSHES THROUGH THINGS FROM THE WAY OF DREAMS
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Post by Serity »

Hmm, might as well post what I've seen.

Witnessed the following burst of binary at 00:07:56 game time, which was preceded by quite a bit of lag.

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01    #  110 01/01111 010/    0/0/ 01     0)00 0/0#0

1
#)     011001     01000/0 0/00001/ 
10001/1#)1) # 
  100 010011 # 
1 /101011 # 
 000)
100 0    00010/ 


 # 
1000/  0 001001#)000)111    100   0    0 0
An image can be found here, in case color is relevant:
https://i.imgur.com/p0jPiUm.png
Around the time this occurred, visiting the COGG website redirected you to the following url: http://192.40.56.156/4.6.21



Then at 00:26:35 game time, this showed (can be scrolled down):

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01000110 


100111      101/010 #010
/00 010     0010 01011//1 001 # 
/000 010#0    /0


01000001)#000#100 


1#)1111 )
01011    # 
00001)1))1000100 001)0/00)0 0 # 
1001 00/00111 01)01100      1    00100 


01)000/ 010
1100#01000 # 
01 0 # 
)1001) 010/

101)01000010 00100000)0101/010))1/ # 
0000 0100/11
Image linked as well, in case of color relevancy.
https://i.imgur.com/1bRD1QN.png
The COGG website then started redirecting to the following URL: http://192.40.56.156/10.3
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Post by Navi »

If you go to http://192.40.56.156
Which is the IP address in the last post with the /4.6.21 removed from the end, usually this is the front page of the website you go to. I'm thinking the 4.6.21 is a date, likely the date the link was generated, or the name of the audio file that was created on that date.
It brings up a page. I'm guessing it's a graphic since my screen reader picks up nothing on the page itself, but my OCR picks up the following.

The name of the page is týndu
The text in the graphic reads:
DAUNTLESS
FREE NOW: Dauntless: Epic Slayer Kit
Take to the skies! Be ready for anything with 3 days of VIP
club and currencies to accelerate your progress.

I don't really know what any of this means, and I haven't personally seen or witnessed anything like what's been talked about here.
wander without wanting, thrust into lands unknown. the shadows shift and change, and the worlds with them.
I'm not a soldier but I'm fighting
Can you hear me through the silence?
I won't give up 'cause there will be a day
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Post by Navi »

Okay, so I'm starting to think that my OCR was just picking up an ad from Epic Games LOL
Sorry if that threw anybody off.
On the webpage though, there is a graphic, the same /|\ symbol
wander without wanting, thrust into lands unknown. the shadows shift and change, and the worlds with them.
I'm not a soldier but I'm fighting
Can you hear me through the silence?
I won't give up 'cause there will be a day
We'll meet again
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Re: ARG discussion

Post by Serity »

Navi wrote: Fri Mar 04, 2022 5:36 amThe name of the page is týndu
Converting it to proper unicode gets you the word

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týndu
which is something in a few languages, mostly destroy/defeat sort of related things.
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