SoulStorm ARG - Spirit of 1029 - Photo 2 -

GlitterPanther · #**541** 02-07-2017, 02:24 PM

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We can't reach Asset 98 but we do still have his clear transmissions. Prove you're worthy. Show us that you're able. Send us the grid.
— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 7, 2017

It looks like the clean images are fair game then?

Thier saying we have to solve the last puzzle to prove we are worth, the one with the grid

EDIT maybe not

Manco · #**542** 02-07-2017, 02:29 PM

I think that what we need to do is take apart the images, and assemble the photos inside them into a grid that shows the original image as clearly as possible. Then, we send that to OWI so they can clean it up for us.

Gunnr · #**543** 02-07-2017, 02:35 PM

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Oh hey guys how's ...oh........O.0 ah, bu....WHA?!
Ed? Ed? No.

Aw COMMON!

:'( Rip Ed. You were the best mud whovever tweeted weird encrypted distress messages...rip mud

Damn, I was hoping we'd save him.

I'm loving this arg more and more
>: )
Props and love to OWI.

Manco · #**544** 02-07-2017, 02:49 PM

You found the grid, the letters and the numbers. Tell us how they fit together. Prove you're no longer slaves to the machines.
— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 7, 2017

No hints this time, right folks? Riiiight???

mattb150 · #**545** 02-07-2017, 02:58 PM

So this image is very *very* rough but gives a vague idea of how those pictures look all together. The next step would probably be to try to pull each photo out one-by-one like Manco suggested so as to get clear results for every image but not a full wall-shot:

https://i.imgur.com/lfS3GjA.jpg

I think our options are:

a) Go back to the source code present a solved grid
b) Do a good enough job re-assembling the photos we currently have and then send them to OWI(?)

Regardless, that was.... interesting! I'm still a little stumped with it all but hey, let's do it.

Edit: And a little movie magic from Herrmyth, who is in the process of editing them all together to get as clear an image as possible:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...0753/test1.png

& Randomiser on another postion of the image:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...07/unknown.png

Edit2: Herrmyth hitting hard with another rendition of the almost-complete image that the various pieces of paper seen on the wall comprise! Full res image attached. Warning: Its yuge.

Vince · #**546** 02-07-2017, 03:25 PM

Alright then, back to the final puzzle.

Here's a recap:

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OK, I think I may actually have something here, although it seems a bit strange to me.

Taking the hint about just looking at the start I thought maybe just ignore all the lines that start with a \ and only use the ones starting with a /.

This left me with only two lines

/\//\\//5,1:4.1,2:8.1,3:2.3,3:2.4,3:3.7,3:3.1,5:3.4,5:9.5,5:2.7,5:4.7,6:6.3,7:3.

AND

///\\/JQEABTVKNUCSEYCMBILDKOSCYSITECPAGFAXHKETJNZURWCIE

I then split the letters up into a 7x7 grid like this

1234567
1 JQEABTV
2 KNUCSEY
3 CMBILDK
4 OSCYSIT
5 ECPAGFA
6 XHKETJN
7 ZURWCIE

and using the coordinates from the row of numbers to look up the corresponding letters I got this.

B K C B I K E A G A N R

which is an anagram of the word

BACKBREAKING !

Can't seem to get the Twitter posts to work properly, the most important one was a response to 'Backbreaking':

https://twitter.com/OddworldInc/stat...53055844122624

@Retro_Finds_UK is there something else on that page you can use with what you've found?
— Oddworld �� (@OddworldInc) February 7, 2017

And then that was as far as we got.
Both Glitterpanther and myself, tried all 16 codes, and found the only one able to produce any results was -- as Dawlthy suggested -- the ones beginning with a 'truth' value.

BACKBREAKING... Use with the grid...

Unresolved figures:
8992
8554
73
57 (?)

Manco · #**547** 02-07-2017, 04:15 PM

Here is where I am currently at with the image, but I need stop for a while.

e: Imgur embed code isn’t playing nice with me, here’s the direct link to the image: http://i.imgur.com/rxIYuws.png

e2:

View post on imgur.com

Shade_Meadows · #**548** 02-07-2017, 04:17 PM

Wow! good job so far!

Question: are some pictures inside the picture really duplicated?

Manco · #**549** 02-07-2017, 04:21 PM

Seems so, particularly the ones which are drawn on, but a few others as well. I think it’s a single spread of photos seen from different angles, with a lot of overlap.

Shade_Meadows · #**550** 02-07-2017, 04:50 PM

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Seems so, particularly the ones which are drawn on, but a few others as well. I think it’s a single spread of photos seen from different angles, with a lot of overlap.

Oh, like a wall of pictures... and this is pieces of a picture of pieces of a picture...
Lovely!

**JayDee** · #**551** 02-07-2017, 05:08 PM

If you read the underlined audio as morse code it reads "Ed"

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. -..

There's more of the underlined audio but that's all I got so far.

OrangeLightning · #**552** 02-07-2017, 05:32 PM

Okay, here's what I got for a pieced together pic, guys. Some of the stuff was distorted by the perspective on some of the pieces but in terms of lining stuff up I think everything is in the right place

I tried to keep all the written on stuff in the final pic, even if I had to overlap.

I'm gonna go back through the images just to make sure I didn't miss anything important.

Scrabaniac · #**553** 02-07-2017, 05:34 PM

The image looks like a poor mud on an operating table awaiting some horrible procedure.. Maybe being blinded?

mattb150 · #**554** 02-07-2017, 05:46 PM

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Okay, here's what I got for a pieced together pic, guys. Some of the stuff was distorted by the perspective on some of the pieces but in terms of lining stuff up I think everything is in the right place

I tried to keep all the written on stuff in the final pic, even if I had to overlap.

I'm gonna go back through the images just to make sure I didn't miss anything important.

Very nice!! What a brutal scene, though. They taking that guy's eyes? Extracting brain matter *through* the eyes to make beer?? Mmmmmmm.....

OrangeLightning · #**555** 02-07-2017, 06:25 PM

Did one more check and didn't see any other piece that should be in there that wasn't. The only thing I changed was that in one version of the heart monitor it's framed in two red lines and in the other version it has circles marking particular parts of it, so I saved them as two images.

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Very nice!! What a brutal scene, though. They taking that guy's eyes? Extracting brain matter *through* the eyes to make beer?? Mmmmmmm.....

I know, it's super gruesome

poor little schmuck... Just taking a gander at the different monitors, it looks like there's one with a full body X-ray (circle surrounding the lungs, maybe showing respiration) with the ID of '110110BG' on it which I believe matches the numbers on this muds chest from what I can see... so I'm thinking that's whos on the table, not Ed. Then we've got a pulse monitor, a monitor showing a diagram of his head, and a monitor showing a bunch of binary with a possible Vykkers lab symbol on the top. There is also a SS Brew container on the left that has another ID number that stars with a 'B' on it, but it doesn't look to be the same number as BG's. The needle on the bottom right also has a ID number on it and says 'SS Brew' like the container.

There is a heeeeck of a lot going on in this picture.

Edit: I'm gonna send this to OI and see what happens. Hopefully nothing bad LOL I can't take any more bad stuff today xD

GlitterPanther · #**556** 02-07-2017, 06:26 PM

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Alright then, back to the final puzzle.

Here's a recap:

Can't seem to get the Twitter posts to work properly, the most important one was a response to 'Backbreaking':

https://twitter.com/OddworldInc/stat...53055844122624

@Retro_Finds_UK is there something else on that page you can use with what you've found?
— Oddworld �� (@OddworldInc) February 7, 2017

And then that was as far as we got.
Both Glitterpanther and myself, tried all 16 codes, and found the only one able to produce any results was -- as Dawlthy suggested -- the ones beginning with a 'truth' value.

BACKBREAKING... Use with the grid...

Unresolved figures:
8992
8554
73
57 (?)

If you need help testing theories im ur man

Maybe we need to apply the "Subjectivity or objectivity key"

Shade_Meadows · #**557** 02-07-2017, 06:36 PM

So... based on what we got so far, this is what they did until they got their MAIN ingredient, they experimented and experimented until realizing that Bones and Tears are the profitable parts! the rest become Pops
And the Glass Jar does say "SS BREW" But it also says "STRAIN" so... this is one of the many versions they got until we got to our tasty beverage...

Shade_Meadows · #**558** 02-07-2017, 06:38 PM

Also... people saying that it can be Vykkers? Well.. the instruments near the needle (that also say "SS BREW" have those holes that the Vykker's instruments have in Munch

GlitterPanther · #**559** 02-07-2017, 06:39 PM

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So... based on what we got so far, this is what they did until they got their MAIN ingredient, they experimented and experimented until realizing that Bones and Tears are the profitable parts! the rest become Pops
And the Glass Jar does say "SS BREW" But it also says "STRAIN" so... this is one of the many versions they got until we got to our tasty beverage...

They said on twitter we need to show them how the numbers and letters fit the previous grid. I think we should refocus on that.

Vince, do you have kik so we can discuss theories quicker? PM me

They said we found the numbers, and the letters, so I think we have the right strings, its just how to put them on the grid...

Well.. I tried cracking the correct string forwards and backwards, placing it on the grid forward and reverse, checking the spots marked on the grid and I got nothing apart from

BUEMDYHNI

Also line 4 can be read

CEK SCYTHE JZR

Also last string placed in a grid, written down reads

VYKTANE Lets assume its supposed to be VYKKERS thats also 7 letters

Shade_Meadows · #**560** 02-07-2017, 07:32 PM

Sorry! exited here!
;o well, you are right, we solve the first things first then go to the second
... but that puzzle... damn

***Xavier*** · #**561** 02-07-2017, 10:05 PM

Side note, just so you guys know, I've started hosting the 1029.io site on the OddWideWeb:

http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/web/1029.io/

Shade_Meadows · #**562** 02-07-2017, 10:14 PM

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Side note, just so you guys know, I've started hosting the 1029.io site on the OddWideWeb:

http://oddworldlibrary.net/archives/web/1029.io/

Didn't know this was a thing!
GOOD JOB!

TopHattedTime · #**563** 02-08-2017, 12:11 AM

YEEEEESH!! So much stuff went down!! I'm so sad that Ed is gone

((((

And i thought I'd never have to look at those number and letter strings again

kapteeni13 · #**564** 02-08-2017, 12:44 AM

Ed gone?! Stay Storm!
Also lot progress seems happenED. Keeping curiosity up.

TopHattedTime · #**565** 02-08-2017, 12:51 AM

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They said on twitter we need to show them how the numbers and letters fit the previous grid. I think we should refocus on that.

Vince, do you have kik so we can discuss theories quicker? PM me

They said we found the numbers, and the letters, so I think we have the right strings, its just how to put them on the grid...

Well.. I tried cracking the correct string forwards and backwards, placing it on the grid forward and reverse, checking the spots marked on the grid and I got nothing apart from

BUEMDYHNI

Also line 4 can be read

CEK SCYTHE JZR

Also last string placed in a grid, written down reads

VYKTANE Lets assume its supposed to be VYKKERS thats also 7 letters

BUEMDYHNI could be an anagram of "UH, BYE MIND" lol

GlitterPanther · #**566** 02-08-2017, 12:53 AM

I dont know if its anything but I was looking for words in the strings and got

KEY SYMBOL PAGE ABE SITE FACTS NICE SICK RUN HUT and then left over JQVCDCXKJZW
JUST TRY TO LONG HEAD BELONG

Vanilla ✜ · #**567** 02-08-2017, 01:51 AM

Come back to all this after a few days out, glad I found out what eds tweet was about, RIP ED. Even so I'm still impressed by you guys, when it comes to numbers and strings I can't work anything out.

***Xavier*** · #**568** 02-08-2017, 04:35 AM

Wiki has been updated now:

http://oddworld.wikia.com/wiki/Souls...d_transmission

It contains links to the OddWideWeb, Havok I hope that's ok for you.

Vince · #**569** 02-08-2017, 04:52 AM

Why is this puzzle so damn difficult!?

I don't get how we're supposed to use the word 'BACKBREAKING' on 'something else on the page'...
Assuming that 'something else' is the grid, we already used the grid to obtain the word 'BACKBREAKING'.

One thing is for sure, backbreaking is no coincidence. It has a purpose.

And remember, the final result is *probably* going to be 1173418569.

Maybe we can work backwards from that?

BACKBREAKING as numbers = 2-1-3-11-2-18-5-1-11-9-14-7
2131121851119147

1173418569 as letters = A couple of different combinations but here's one KGCDREFI

And once more:
8992
8554
57
73
E=5OUEHRA(U)

Pohatta · #**570** 02-08-2017, 04:53 AM

Well, I'm speechless... Harsh stuff.
Ed lost a friend...
"...he never came back. I could hear him screaming all night... helpless. they took him... he was my friend. how did they know?"