Did we cheat? All I know the clear images suddenly popped, and some people claimed it's because of the detectives.
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And it was only after I posted HERE that the page was still active... |
Cheating is subjective! But it does seem to be my fault...
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I think regardless of the images being available on the page, they weren’t meant to be found so quickly – possibly they were mistakenly on the list of images to randomly select, or possibly they wanted us to discover them slowly. Either way, when they saw there was bruteforcing in play, they clamped down on it. It’s safe to assume that bruteforcing is out of bounds for future puzzles.
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Seems not to be what OWI wanted though |
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I wouldn't hold you responsible :fuzgrin: :
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Let's assume that everything on the page was in rotation, but let's also assume that there was a key in knowing how many times you had to refresh to push out a clean version, which might have proved helpful along the way... Nothing we can really do about that now, it appears the remaining clean images have vanished, and Asset 98 appears to have fallen victim to another kind of machine. :D |
You shouldn't blame them for taking the opportunities.
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E: Oh lol, didn't realise you were an OWI employee :P |
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Can someone solve the 3rd picture please? It's the last one
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Not really, theyre all saved here
http://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index...orld_Soulstorm below the non-clean (unclean?) images |
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Finally got it! https://pbs-0.twimg.com/media/C4GMYaFUYAA7q8j.jpg |
That's WB8 right?
http://www.1029.io/repository/asset9...8_RDHRHAHA.jpg Also it looks like the Mudokon in the full picture is about to get his eyes sewn shut :/ |
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Wow, I forget to check all day and then all this happens! It was really scary reading those posts as I suddenly realised what was going while I was reading and hoping my assumptions were untrue. This is getting really scary!
Just trying to find something I can start to work out, not great at ciphers and it looks like there has been loads of that at the moment. May have to wait until Image 3 starts as I have a headache at the moment :( Still it's great to see so much discussion and progress. |
It looks like the clean images are fair game then? |
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EDIT maybe not |
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.
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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. |
No hints this time, right folks? Riiiight??? |
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. https://i.imgur.com/iousN4q.png |
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
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 (?) |
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 |
Wow! good job so far! ;)
Question: are some pictures inside the picture really duplicated? |
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.
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Lovely! :fuzwink: |
If you read the underlined audio as morse code it reads "Ed"
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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. |
The image looks like a poor mud on an operating table awaiting some horrible procedure.. Maybe being blinded?
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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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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 |
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Maybe we need to apply the "Subjectivity or objectivity key" |
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... |
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
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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 |
Sorry! exited here!
;o well, you are right, we solve the first things first then go to the second ... but that puzzle... damn |