NO, number is meaningless!

I would have guessed it'd have taken you to the store page where it'd have said that shirt was not found.

Oh I understand what you meant, I read your last post wrong previously, my apologies.

- Announcement created to guide newcomers to the wiki
- Wiki page updated with the html comments in the "following the trail" section
- Dedicated thread created for the analysis of the lsot.mp3 file: http://www.oddworldforums.net/showthread.php?p=617861

I tried contacting OWI through facebook, but to no avail, unfortunately.

http://i.imgur.com/j7MCTGC.png

Inb4 someone tells me I spelt "immediately" wrong, I know. I was living a lie.

Ha, nice.

“are you alive” returns BARELY, CAN YOU SAVE ME?.

Clearly it's a reference to Barely Alive.

This is probably a very long shot, but this always makes me think of regex. I'm not an expert, so I'm not sure, but I don't think 'l/' at the start of a regex string is meaningful. But I'm just throwing this out there in case someone knows better.

Someone just made a reference to Fahrenheit 451 to me and I thought of this thread. Has anyone read the book? Are there any hints that they can put together?

(and credit mlg man for mentioning this already)

EDIT: Whoops. Didn't realise it was a double post. Sorry.

I've read it. Good book actually! The dystopian quality is very similar to Oddworld, if you imagine the characters as goofball aliens.

Spoilers for a sixty-year-old book:

The story is about a book-burner who learns an appreciation for literature, fights against the system and escapes, finding himself in a community of book-loving rebels who have memorised all of the literature in the world—kind of like Denzel Washington in Book of Eli (heh, double spoiler)—and aim to fight back against the powers that be.

I'll read through it again tomorrow and see if I can find anything important. It's been a few years and I've read far too many books since, so nothing stands out in-particular. I'll ask my fiancé too, because she read it only last month.

Out of interest I think I've found a new generic response today:


[RJF NARRRVFFYY]VG UBVPLJRY Q CQNBVZGZ

comes back with

[NIX PQNNNUXXGG]UE STUDYING A CAPTURER

...I don't know.

I was just explaining to my girlfriend where we're at with this, was discussing the message response for ed on the form. I just entered it and it came back with attemptseventyfive.jpg, which is an oddity (I had only just opened up the window). Does this mean that there could be something missing in either 0451.jpg or spiritof1029.jpg?

Not sure how about you, guys, but I'm starting to feel a little lost. We've got multiple leads, but no hints on how to take any of them on. Like that /ed/ message. I thought that maybe its a cipher, but since in another coding its just a glitchy message we already heard, there doesn't seem to be anything more there. Logic tells me that we should focus on the message itself, and it's probably about a secret message in lsot.mp3, but can't see anything more in the file.

Not to mention it was the file itself that brought us to /ed/. I'm not even sure if it was supposed to bring us there in the first place. Maybe it was just a huge coincidence that bleeps in morse code meant ed.

The 0451.jpg is another mystery. I don't see *anything* interesting in the picture.

0451.jpg contains another clue toward ED. It might not be its only purpose, but so far every clue we’ve unearthed has led toward ED.

Right now there’s enough we don't know about in lsot.mp3 to make it likely there is more to find, and there’s some cryptic messages coming back from the message box to imply that we’re still missing something, but that’s all we have. 0451 might contain more clues, but it seems very unlikely.

There’s so many clues pushing us towards sot.mp3 as well – the message box keeps talking about us hearing its message and asking if we got it, the HTML comments on the site tell us to listen and even drop a hint about the filename.

I hate to say it, but what if the next clue isn’t even there to be found yet? Maybe they’ll only add it after Abe’s face is revealed? I think that would be a bad move, which is why I think there’s still something we haven’t solved yet.

Oh, you mean the text in itallics? I must have missed that before. I literally just noticed that.

I do agree that waiting is a bad idea. Furthermore, looking at the twitter count it's safe to say Abe's face is NOT going to be revealed anytime soon.

I've been thinking this based on the response where they're like 'I'm trying to show you'

I'm not entirely sure where to go anymore. How can the ED page just be a dead end? The only thing you could possibly take away from it, is the UI (the only non-strange letters in it, once you save the page as a .txt). The audio is literally gibberish, only ED prove significant.

I'm still combing through the audio, and I just tried combining the first R and L channels together, whcih gave me -- . or .. - or . .. (it's hard to tell the tones with the beat n the backround. Which gives us: ME IT EI being the three possibilities.

The only substantial thing I learned, was the MC at the very end was indeed reversed. Once I re-reversed it, you could hear the subtle drumbeat in its backround, so it does translate to: ET

Edit: I really dislike this stage of the ARG.

Perhaps the next reveal will contain more letters to add to "ED", and like others have said, it's just been cracked too quickly so far? Which would be a shame because it's really damn fun to watch everyone crack this.

The wiki page has quickly become a pretty big mess of constant add ons. If someone finds the time, please properly rewrite the portions of the ARG that have been solved so far so it becomes a little more light hearted to read. Thanks!

Nothing new for a whole day?

I think it’s safe to say we’re stuck. Looks like we might be waiting for Abe’s face reveal.

Is it me or is the brew meter going down now? :/ something tells me they're going to need to do one more marketing tease in order to reach Abe's face.

Slow pace for reveals isn't necessarily a bad thing for them this early on in the process, but I do think another string of clues would be nice to keep the fans engaged

Hello everyone. I just found out about this.

Just want to say I was a huge fan of the game back in the day and I love the idea of a comeback with an ARG, so I am all in.

Will spend some time reading on what's been discovered so far and I hope I can contribute to the progress.

EDIT: I think a real time chatroom could come handy. I made a discord channel. If anyone wants to join: https://discord.gg/0v1vzaDMgLaszbdW

Anyone notice the html comment at the top of the page now says:

they also added this in the code :

e : and there is also new generic answers like :

[- PLEASE IGNORE THIS MESSAGE -]

*** UOY OT TEG OT YAW REHTONA DNIF DNA YRT S'TEL ,KO ***

Did anyone else notice that reveal1 and 2 are exactly the same, just the text is extra.

Also, is it me, or they look like pieces of a puzzle?

http://i.imgur.com/WBz1Yvv.png

We've seen these already.

Yeah but...

They kind of do.

Looks like the hand (reveal2) and arm of the torso (reveal3) are aligned in the picture JourneyToJah posted. Could it be the second hand (reveal2) is actually a continuation of the mudokon seen from behind(reveal4)?

That's what I meant. I just put them like that in Photoshop, was trying to overlay them with different blending modes.

And the fact that reveal1 and reveal2 are the same, but on reveal1 it says, broken "can you see..." "broken"


Also, when entering the url "/what/" "/0451" they link to other pages.

When entering "SANE" on the form on the site I get gibberish, cant decode it; so far i got 2 different results. This is one of them "VVF]ARZRRFTUEFN[G F R-CRY-TNB

Well according to the wikia the text is:
"CAN YOU S- HARD TO K- IF BREAKING- THROUGH HA- ON NEED A D-".

http://oddworld.wikia.com/wiki/Soulstorm_ARG

It also looks like it's cut from the whole picture, missing another half.

We still dont know what "findme, hear me, and rescue me" are for. *Notice the formatting on findme

PS: sorry if this stuff is already known, I'm just trying to make sure we dont overlook something.

PPS: join the discord chatroom so we dont flood the forums.

Well that's what I interpreted it as, I assume whoever edited the wiki agreed. I don't know what else it could be.

I've got a question: who is behind the idea of the ARG? I can't believe it's Lanning.

It's probaly Alex and a bunch of other guys.

You remember Alex? The guy you drove away?

So the original text was:
If we compare the two, the removed words are:
I don’t know if that’s significant in any way, but maybe someone can find a clue in it. Perhaps it’s just a signifier that we need to subtract something from one of the clues we have?

The “okay, okay...” message is perhaps a signal that either they’ve gotten what they wanted from us, or that they’re aware we are stuck on the current puzzle. Either way, I’d expect more clues to appear shortly.

Also, the face reveal progress bar has filled up pretty quickly, we’re not far from another reveal.

'Experience a sane world' got me thinking. So I used the form, and asked 'Are you The Shrink?'

There was no output at first, so I tried a couple clicks. On the second or third, I got;

*** V XARJ VG! V XARJ VG! ***

Which, through the caesar-13 cipher gives;

*** I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! ***

Is this a generic response or is it something new? I've not seen it before and haven't heard it being discussed :confused:

I think that may be a new generic message, it seems that more were added recently.

Remember to document any findings on the wiki!

Did anyone notice the /headtwitching.mp4 and /headtwiching.gif ?

Also, I think we're missing something here: -- HELL04==five ---- L1PSwhat --

EDIT: I cant format it to appear correctly...



also, did anyone get /bg2.jpg ?
the image is here: http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/bg2.jpg

EDIT2: playing around with bg2.jpg i see this:

http://i.imgur.com/wgprBED.png

Did someone acknowledge that the reveal meter went down.

earlier this morning (for me) if you inspected the html code it said something like 72.5 % of the meter done with 21.4k-21.6k followers on twitter. Right now it sits at 66.25 % with 21.7k followers.

Are we ahead of their schedule or maybe there is still something to be found before the reveal.

Might not have anything to do with the current state of the ARG but it's worth to noting.