SoulStorm ARG - Spirit of 1029 - Photo 3

[OrangeLightning]

Hey guys! Sorry, this week has been crazy xP But Alex and Varstahl's mention of NOTEs reminded me of something I saw a few weeks ago on 1029.io back at the end of February. I didn't really think too much of it at the time because it didn't seem to be connected to anything else, but I screencapped it anyway just in case.



1029.io isn't showing this same configuration of highlighted letters spelling 'NOTE' anymore, though. Or at least it didn't when I reloaded the page a few times just now.

Also, Xav, thank you for updating the Wikia! I wonder if there is a way we can get the original movie file... but then again, this may end up being the clues we follow for Image 4 and maybe then they'll give us a better quality downloadable version.

Hope you're feeling better, tmakz!

[Silver angel]

Well everything I can remember about NOTE is that it actualy abbreviation of NineOneTwoEight.

[MeechCrunchies]

Ugh, has anyone figured out anything? I'm so impatient to just move on to the next part of the ARG. I've loved following along to the beat of the forum even if I do lag behind when it comes to solving these puzzles, and now that they've dried up for the time being I find myself impulsively checking in whenever and wherever I can and it drives me crazy!

[Xavier]

Hey guys! Sorry, this week has been crazy xP But Alex and Varstahl's mention of NOTEs reminded me of something I saw a few weeks ago on 1029.io back at the end of February. I didn't really think too much of it at the time because it didn't seem to be connected to anything else, but I screencapped it anyway just in case.

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1029.io isn't showing this same configuration of highlighted letters spelling 'NOTE' anymore, though. Or at least it didn't when I reloaded the page a few times just now.

Well I saved a copy of the highligted letters early Feb and as far as I can tell it has always been like that, it only shows up randomly after a few refreshes of the page:
http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/...201029.io.html

As Silver angel just posted we always assumed those letters were highlighted as a reference to 8291, Eight Two Nine One

[Silver angel]

I found this in 1029.io code. If I remember right, words weren't there earlier.

WHA
TIF
WET

[Nemin]

That's "WHATIFWETOLDYOUTOO". But the community already solved it, and got the newest video.

[Xavier]

I found this in 1029.io code. If I remember right, words weren't there earlier.

WHA
TIF
WET

Indeed, that's new to me... I'm not sure when this was added but as Nemin said, this is probably part of the previous puzzle.

[STM]

It's probably a hangover from whatifwetoldyouto.

[Wircea]

Ugh, has anyone figured out anything? I'm so impatient to just move on to the next part of the ARG. I've loved following along to the beat of the forum even if I do lag behind when it comes to solving these puzzles, and now that they've dried up for the time being I find myself impulsively checking in whenever and wherever I can and it drives me crazy!

Same thing there. I check every few hours only to find out the flow stopped in the thread.
At this point it's hard to tell what's going on. I wish I could contribute somehow, but I'm way too lost between the clues.

[Xavier]

If you want to know what the latest status is have a look here:
http://www.oddworldforums.net/showpo...&postcount=507

We're still stuck on those codes

[tmakz]

Heya wonderful Community Thanks Orange Lightning for your blessing and Yes im 98% better now ^•^/ Guys i reckon pic 4 will be released in April now cause now they having a Stranger Week Discount so yeah definitely big Build up!!!!! So its worth the wait ^•^

[Wircea]

I'm starting to believe the sales have nothing to do with the ARG at all besides bringing new people to the series.

Still remaining positive about it, even if we met a dead end with that messed up code.
If we don't get a clue after this sale, I'm not sure what we're really going to do. Unless they kick in with a new n' tasty discount and leave us dead for another week.

After all, this whole ARG is damn huge and we are barely halfway through it. You people are amazing for figuring it out so far.

[Shade_Meadows]

Maybe we solved it too fast? i think they want to have a distance with each photo, maybe by the end of the ARG, we will get a trailer or a release date! or both, that's why they have to take long to give more clues

[Xavier]

I don't think we are going too fast.
They buffered quite some time with the whatifwetoldyoutoo page.

OWI shared the video exactly when they wanted to.

[tmakz]

Good things come to those who wait

[Varstahl]

Good things come to those who wait

Yesterday I would have told you that's a lie, but currently I'm waiting for a Strix 1080ti to be delivered to my doorstep, so maybe there's a bit of truth in those words.

[kjjcarpenter]

Yesterday I would have told you that's a lie, but currently I'm waiting for a Strix 1080ti to be delivered to my doorstep, so maybe there's a bit of truth in those words.

Will it help you solve the ARG?

[Varstahl]

Will it help you solve the ARG?

Given that PS is hardware accelerated and that a lot of the stuff I did in ARGs recently is photo manipulation, yes. Interestingly it will.

_{It also helps with the bruteforcing…}

[Xavier]

_{It also helps with the bruteforcing…}

Last time we tried bruteforce a Mudokon was killed (or tortured until he lost consciousness).

Let's not do this again please.

[Varstahl]

Last time we tried bruteforce a Mudokon was killed (or tortured until he lost consciousness).

Let's not do this again please.

That was a web scan though, different beast and has nothing to do with what I meant, not that it would be of much use in this. It was just to note the differential in calculus power of the upgrade. We thought of bruteforcing something but for a different ARG, and in the end it wasn't necessary anyway.

[tmakz]

Xavier definitely agree with you we did cause that unfortunate event regarding a mud im certain OWI will reveal something this Weekend since its April on Saturday actually they said wait until April....

[Xavier]

That was a web scan though, different beast and has nothing to do with what I meant, not that it would be of much use in this.

I'm not sure it was a web scan, rather they refreshed the same page an awful lot of times to get all the "randomly" displayed images.

Xavier definitely agree with you we did cause that unfortunate event regarding a mud im certain OWI will reveal something this Weekend since its April on Saturday actually they said wait until April....

They said to wait until April? I missed that. Can you share a link?

[Varstahl]

Can't find the song I wanted to link, anyway I'm just sitting here, patiently waiting…

They said to wait until April? I missed that. Can you share a link?

They didn't, did they? I think it was speculated here, but I haven't seen any public claim in regard to April. Although, with April's Fool right around the corner…

[Xavier]

Indeed, I'm starting to believe waiting is the only thing we can do now.

The guys over at GameDetectives seem to have completely given up at this point (discord very quiet and wiki not even covering the video)

Would be nice to have Ed or the Spirit of 1029 provide us with a better version of that video so we can have a good look at those codes.

[Varstahl]

I took the screenshots from youtube myself, but yeah, not having a single freakin' method to get the best quality out of youtube pissed me off more than I care to admit.

[tmakz]

Sorry guys it turns out OWI was not Talking about what i thought was so apologize for misleading you all The April info was about game sales not about any info re pic 4

[AvengingGibbons]

So can anyone hear what is being said in the video? You all hear the voice right?

[Nemin]

I don't think it's more than distorted sounds of pain.

[Syphyous]

This is the same message I put in the Discord earlier today, thought I'd put it here for archiving sakes and so people who aren't on the Discord can see it.

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Hey everyone.
I'm new here, and don't really know much about decoding things, but I wanted to see if anyone else had seen stuff I'd seen, so whatever, let's find out.
I've been working on the third code (http://i.imgur.com/ApQyUP6.png) and this is what I've got:
http://i.imgur.com/ZmNvhTO.png
I think this is the finished code but I can't confirm if every letter is right, but I think it is.
The first three letters (before the dot) if put together make NMJ. If we put this through ATBASH and then Caesar -12 we get ABE.
Using this for the Vigenere Cipher we can: (In order so far):
NM --> (CAESAR - 9) --> ED

J.D --> (ATBASH Cipher, Vigenere Cipher: ABE (Twice), CAESAR Cipher +18) --> I.M

WSQWCDIB --> (Vigenere Cipher: ABE, ATBASH Cipher, CAESAR Cipher -21) --> INSIDFWE

So, at the moment we can get "Ed I'm Insid(FW)e. (Not sure what the FW is about or if it's wrong).

Even if this is all wrong, it was still fun to waste some time on. :stuck_out_tongue:
Ok, that's me done talking. I'm gonna see if the rest of the code can lead anywhere.

[Varstahl]

So can anyone hear what is being said in the video? You all hear the voice right?

Tried several cleanups, L/R counter-phasing, and a bit of this and that. Other than some (possible) backmasking, and a pretty clear panned audio (maybe slightly transposed?) didn't find anything. Didn't try to invert and transpose one channel though, but I don't think there's anything intellegible in it. And if there was, might have been clipped through youtube's encoding. Probably nothing though.

Hey everyone.
I'm new here, and don't really know much about decoding things, but I wanted to see if anyone else had seen stuff I'd seen, so whatever, let's find out.
I've been working on the third code (http://i.imgur.com/ApQyUP6.png) and this is what I've got:
http://i.imgur.com/ZmNvhTO.png
I think this is the finished code but I can't confirm if every letter is right, but I think it is.
The first three letters (before the dot) if put together make NMJ. If we put this through ATBASH and then Caesar -12 we get ABE.
Using this for the Vigenere Cipher we can: (In order so far):
NM --> (CAESAR - 9) --> ED

J.D --> (ATBASH Cipher, Vigenere Cipher: ABE (Twice), CAESAR Cipher +18) --> I.M

WSQWCDIB --> (Vigenere Cipher: ABE, ATBASH Cipher, CAESAR Cipher -21) --> INSIDFWE

So, at the moment we can get "Ed I'm Insid(FW)e. (Not sure what the FW is about or if it's wrong).

Even if this is all wrong, it was still fun to waste some time on. :stuck_out_tongue:

Hello, welcome, and nice tries. I've been giving a go at several of the codes too, but I think it's either red herrings or we're lacking crucial information one way or another.