I have a few new possible passwords although it's nothing big. First of "soulstorm" it self could be it. Now the next one is not a specific word but maybe it's something that has to do with abe? What exactly..I don't know. I'm just tossing ideas out as I think of them as I go through bits of the old parts of the arg :p
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this is great
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I tried layering @spiritof1029 and @edmudokons's profile pictures because I want to believe this technique is applicable somewhere. http://i.imgur.com/F6AdRrK.jpg It kind of works but it is probably a coincidence.
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Corrupted archive made me try to repair archive but I had no success. I'll try opening the file with HEX editor and manually put something like 8029 as file checksum. I need to look and study ZIP format though. Give me a couple of hours |
We could bruteforce the password easily if it's like 5 characters long with no special characters
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Ok guys it took me quite less than a couple of hours but I think that may have been a half-success.
I opened the zip file with hex editor and i located the file checksum (not the zip checksum but the squares_codes_07.jpg one). That checksum was 0x153D. I changed that to 0x1F5D (which is 8029 hex) and tried opening the file with that password again. Now the result says password incorrect. I attach here some screenshot and the newly generated zip file. |
Wait wait.
When you download an archive and it's somehow corrupted, you just redownload it. The original archive doesn't seem corrupted to me. We just don't have a password |
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We don't want to brute force it, that defeats the purpose of having puzzles to solve and goes against the spirit of things.
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Guys let's find this password fair and square. I completely agree with Manco it'll just undermine all the work we've all put in so far like I said before. We'll get it eventually ;)
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Or maybe something went wrong and OWI fucked up and accidentally gave us a corrupted file?
since C4GD did something, I would check whatever steps we did to get that. |
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I tried C4GD on the zip because I was looking for some passwords from way back at the start of the ARG, some numbers that perhaps we didn't end up using for anything that they intended for us to go back and get, seeing as this is the last step. I'm not sure why it returned that error message, but I think it'd be too simple for that to be the password. Who knows though. |
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Damn this is annoying. How can none of us realise what it is? So close.
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May the key be sone combination of the codes we already have?
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If it IS combination of all (or partly) codes from other pieces, then there's my suggestions.
(As with every last puzzles :) ) there's presumably can be connection with 8291 - so it could be that pieces 8, 2, 9 and 1 - is all we need, perhaps in such direct order or without order, perhaps we have to combine them somehow, to form some word or IDK. It could also may have an another meaning - perhaps all codes EXCEPT pieces 8, 2, 9 and 1... I also noted that there's numbers in pieces: :
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***1I may only suggest to use any unused keys\phrases from before, like, we still don't know what :
I CAN HELP YOU KNOW THE DATEEDIT: Perhaps "WHO" will help us to solve this? What is WHO? First letters of words? File type? "Who will help" - SAVIOR? |
I've tried stuff like SAVIOR but it doesn't work. I'm trying to tweet questions at that @SPIRITOF1029 twitter account. Ed didn't seem to deny it's involvement, so perhaps that's the "key" that we need to use to get the password. Perhaps the right question will trigger a response from the account.
Or it could be we have the code already in the text on the Soulstorm site. |
There's also this message in code, which is there long enough:
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Well, I rescued Mudokons, but who's gonna rescue me?!Big Face helped Abe in O:AO after this phrase (in good ending), just reminding you :) |
I was looking at that earlier, BIGFACE, BigFace, nor Big Face or anything like it works. But you are right, those are the only 2 mentions of "who" in the source code. This is driving me crazy :p
It has to be something to do with "who will help?" it's the only new question in this part of the ARG. He wants us to ask what he asked. Ask who? I've tried the chatbox and all Twitter accounts. If it's literal, like with "find a way" we literally needed to find "away.zip" then I would have thought it literally meant "WHO will be the word that helps you", but helps us how? Think we're gonna need another shuv from Ed. We're all gonna kick ourselves later. :p |
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WHO was one of the first passwords I suggested when we found the ZIP. But sadly it doesn't work :/
I think we must have the exact phrase we need to type in already. That's why Ed is giving us clues. He's literally like "IT'S IN FRONT OF YOU" we probably genuinely have it. :p |
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.. . .. .. . . . ..Number of dots (32431415) doesn't work. "3STY" is fifth piece code... Nope, doesn't work. |
5th puzzle is also the piece with the strange name... and it's related to Alf. Still not sure what it means.
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"3STY" and connection with Alf... New'n'Tasty's Alf's Escape? Somewhere hidden like with Lorne Lanning (or how he spelled) page?
But Ed is telling that it's "RIGHT IN FRONT OF US"... EDIT: "many" is fifth word of :
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Yep, tried "many", no dice. Damn this is silly, we've solved much harder bits than this :p
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I've got a feeling that it's "3STY" and "GE3IJNSA", but how to combine them... Maybe another cipher?
But on another thought, that's not freaking obvious like it should be. There's no hints for that except for "fifth"... |
Wait. Piece 5 was like, according to wiki,
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Hopefully one of us will experience fridge brilliance about this sometime soon.
Accurate depiction of OWI right now- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTL8f8Xqm4w |
Think we're gonna need one more nudge. I can't think what it is.
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If it's really somehow connected with "many" (fifth word in sentence in sourcecode), then:
- "many" is used twice in that part of code; - there's also was "secrets, too many secrets", which also can mean "two (2) many"; - "ed is one" can mean "ed = 1", and "two many" can be interpretted as "many = 2". "edmany", "manymany" of course, doesn't work -___- And I still think that it's a riddle: :
ed is one of many, we are manyEd, did I tell you the definition of insanity? |
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As already pointed out by ndvr the fifth comment in the source code is the braille for JOIN US. I think we somehow need to join stuff together to get the password.
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I think we're going much too in depth. I think it's very literal. But I don't know.
. We already have the key. I assume the key is the password itself, rather than a key to find the password. . Ed tells us to "Ask what I asked... Find a way..." the only two things he's asked recently are: Who will help? Are you listening? . We also have the clue "fifth" Fifth what? Fifth word? Fifth puzzle? A date? :
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I guess it's something near spiritof1029.jpg and lsot.mp3 times... |
March 19th 2016
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Connell, March 19th what? I litteraly just tried every combination of 03 19 and 2016 and nothing....
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At that date Ed tweeted:
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