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edmudokon 01-19-2017 07:44 AM

https://s29.postimg.org/dl0vhlhh3/soulstorm.jpg
I have no idea how you upload an image but it looks like I wasn't quick enough here's my version

Crashpunk 01-19-2017 07:46 AM

Unsure if anyone is taking the audio. But from what I can hear. I hear Rupture Farms alarm, ambient factory sounds towards the end and distorted Mudokons crying out for help?

EDIT: Christ you lot are speedy.

Phoetux 01-19-2017 07:48 AM

I finished the job with the audio. I couldnt do much but all I heard were screams and the words that I mentioned earlier. I tried several times to isolate the voices but I don't think it's good enough. If you want me to load the audio file isolated just say it.

I also tried to isolate the morse code, I think it repeats several times. Here's the audio of it. Note that it's a bit quiet.
I don't know morse code so I'm not able to translate it

Scrabaniac 01-19-2017 07:57 AM

How long has Oddworld's twitter picture been a distorted Alf? I haven't looked at their page in quite a while.

HOMINIX 01-19-2017 07:58 AM

Just when Ask Alf came back

OWI_Pete 01-19-2017 07:59 AM

well, this is a bit of a mystery, huh?

Varrok 01-19-2017 08:00 AM

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Hi Alex, are you here to help? I hear some Mudokons are being mistreated.

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You can probably hear lots of things.

Wow, just wow. That's cruel. I thought you were one of the good guys.

lol

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well, this is a bit of a mystery, huh?

At least OWI_Pete seems willing to help the Muds.

HOMINIX 01-19-2017 08:03 AM

I ran the mp3 through this Morse decoder website: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/labs/decoder/

Doesn't look like it's anything, but just in case, here's what I got.

EHE#ES E EEEIH EI####55#5EH5######S#ES###S#IEIEIIISEEEE I EEEEEE SS EEISIIEEEEEI EE EEEI##H#####5EH###I##EE E EEE E E I E

I didn't change any of the volume or frequency options, so if someone more audio-savvy than i wants to mess with that or maybe try to clean up the audio, we may get an answer.

Varrok 01-19-2017 08:10 AM

Why is Abe blinking symmetrically? Abe usually blinks asymmetrically. Is there a pattern to his blinks?

acedude 01-19-2017 08:11 AM

HOMINIX, I'm trying my best to fool around wth the audio. I'll post it if it turns out well enough.

edmudokon 01-19-2017 08:14 AM

I've tried to copy everything the note says but some words are hard to read.
I looks like the "product" is SoulStorm beer.

Date:

Period: XXXXXXXXXXX
Specification Details:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-Observe XXXXXXX and XXXXXXXX changes in test subjects
-Assess long term XXXXXXXX on XXXXXXX
-Determine product safety
Authorization: XXXXXXXXXXX
Tests requested:
-XXXXXXXX Pronostics
- ?Access whenever? product XXXXXXX
-Acidity Levels
- ????? XXXXXXXXX
-Product safety
Expected results: XXXXXXXXXX make XXXXXXXXX interesting
Test results:
-XXXXXXX highly XXXXXX
-XXXXXXX this XXXXXX ?? XXXXXX ?nice? XXXXXXXX
-Highly XXXXXXX
-Subjects: XXXXXX
- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Conclusion: Product (ready) for consumption
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
??? : XXXXXXXX there is XXXXXX here but it will XXXX ???? XXXXX
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YOU ARE THE KEY YOU KNOW IT IF YOU WERE LISTENING







acedude 01-19-2017 08:37 AM

I don't know if this any anything better than what has already been done, but here are some of my attempts. The second link only plays out of one speaker because I figured that's where the code is most prominent. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...0/test%207.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...0/test%208.mp3

Mr. Molluck 01-19-2017 08:49 AM

Don't know how I can help, but it seems my views on getting content on the general Soulstorm thread have been right: we've been given a puzzle that hints at bigger things. We gotta work together to get the REAL stuff they're sending. Let's get to it! :D

Xavier 01-19-2017 08:50 AM

The symbols at the top are runes

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mvhp-aCMuH...Bguerreira.jpg

They spell "ED" :p

Manco 01-19-2017 08:56 AM

Can’t see if anyone’s solved the Morse code in the audio file yet, but if that’s our key then someone needs to get on it – I’m a little busy now but if it hasn’t been solved in the next few hours I’ll take a crack at it.

Connell 01-19-2017 09:02 AM

I know some very, very talented guys who I've asked to do me a huge favour and look into the audio; they already believe there's reversed and slowed down audio hidden there, and they think the morse should be easy to pick out. I'll let you know how they get on :P

Varrok 01-19-2017 09:04 AM

Nice job at decoding the numbers, scrabaniac! I only managed to crack the first one

OWI_Alex 01-19-2017 09:05 AM

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I know some very, very talented guys who I've asked to do me a huge favour and look into the audio; they already believe there's reversed and slowed down audio hidden there, and they think the morse should be easy to pick out. I'll let you know how they get on :P

That's the Spirit. :)

Manco 01-19-2017 09:07 AM

Side note: the audio sounds a heck of a lot like Tear X-Tractors being used…

acedude 01-19-2017 09:23 AM

This Morse code is much harder to hear than the original Heard clip from a while back. Not that I want it to be all super easy, just an observation.

JayDee 01-19-2017 09:45 AM

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http://i.imgur.com/VhGwBvT.png
A bit rushed, but here ya go.

Those Runes at the top are Elder Futhark for "Ehwaz" "Dahgaz"
ED
Who knew buying a set of runes would profit the ARG.

edit:Xavier is a speedy shit

Connell 01-19-2017 10:04 AM

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That's the Spirit. :)

Emphasis on the capitalised Spirit I assume? ;) We'll be spreading the message of 1029 far and wide :P

MrsKJJ 01-19-2017 10:09 AM

I've listened to the audio and it sent the most disturbing shivers down my spine, I started shaking. I haven't got that from anything (movie/book/music) in a very long time. You guys, have done a very good job to get all you have from it.

I'm investigating the arrows with Kevin.

HTML_Earth 01-19-2017 10:16 AM

Hearing those sirens in high quality brings a lot of nostalgia.

kjjcarpenter 01-19-2017 10:34 AM

Here's what I could make of the arrow code on the right side of the sheet, when read from Top-to-Bottom:

↖ ↖ ← ↙ ↘ - ↓ ↘ ↙ - ↓ ↑ ↖(?) ← - ↖ ↖ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↖ ↙ - ↓ ↘ ↙ - ↓ ↙ ↖ - ← ↙ ↙ ...(?)

Not sure what way they need to be read, or if they are even relevant. I'm not certain of the third arrow in the third group, or the final arrow, which I've left blank. I've also separated the groups of arrows with a hyphen.

Scrabaniac 01-19-2017 10:40 AM

Looks like a cheat code for invincibility if you ask me

MrsKJJ 01-19-2017 10:42 AM

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I'm investigating the arrows with Kevin.

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Here's what I could make of the arrow code on the right side of the sheet, when read from Top-to-Bottom:

↖ ↖ ← ↙ ↘ - ↓ ↘ ↙ - ↓ ↑ ↖(?) ← - ↖ ↖ ↑ ↓ ↓ ↖ ↙ - ↓ ↘ ↙ - ↓ ↙ ↖ - ← ↙ ↙ ...(?)

Not sure what way they need to be read, or if they are even relevant. I'm not certain of the third arrow in the third group, or the final arrow, which I've left blank. I've also separated the groups of arrows with a hyphen.

Goodluck to whoever can decipher this type of HTML. It jogged up a lot of memories just to recognise the coding on the side of the paper, but unfortunately, this is now a foreign language to me.

http://htmlarrows.com

seniormeatbox 01-19-2017 10:42 AM

That cipher near the bottom, its not the Tic-Tac Code of the "We will rise" piece. Anyone solved it yet?

EDIT: Well, just realized the background audio is mudokons screaming for help. I'm not sleeping tonight.

HOMINIX 01-19-2017 10:48 AM

The bottom cipher is YOU ARE THE KEY YOU KNOW IT IF YOU WERE LISTENING -

I still can't seem to make sense of the audio code, so I'm hoping Connell's friends come upon something.

I'm still wondering how we're meant to use the "key" when we find it... maybe just tweeting it to 1029 or Ed or OWI is enough

seniormeatbox 01-19-2017 10:54 AM

I've tried separating the morse from the background sounds myself, but its all on similar frequencies and tones, my programs can't pick all of it out.

Varrok 01-19-2017 11:10 AM

A person from OWF's FB page has troubles logging in, so I decided to forward the message:
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Hey so I can't log into OWF and password reset ain't sending, I just wanted to say I'm pretty sure the arrow code on the right of the piece of paper (image oddworld just put up on Soulstorm), is Semaphore code. Semaphore code is often written as arrows. I'm on mobile walking in rain atm so not able to grab my decode book, can anyone look into this for me?

Phoetux 01-19-2017 11:25 AM

This came out:
FFXJP - UPJ - UNF(?)X - FFNUUFJ - UPJ - UJF - XJJ ...(?)
I don't think it's semaphore code

SgabbitGabbiar 01-19-2017 11:25 AM

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16 _ 37 _ 58 _ 89 _ 145 _ 42 _ ?? _ 4
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72 99
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27 45
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18 39
\ /
21 36
\ /
?? 28
\ /
13 21
\ /
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it should be 12 and 20.

if you search "20-12-17" on Google, you'll find this :

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...xodus+20:12-17

From Bible:
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Exodus 20:12-17
Interesting :D

HOMINIX 01-19-2017 11:26 AM

From what I saw at first glance, Semaphore involves both arms/flags per symbol, so I'm not sure how one would try to decode this in Semaphore due to there being single arrows :fuzconf:

Connell 01-19-2017 11:32 AM

So good news and bad news; the Morse proved a bit more tricky for them than originally thought, but they did still manage to isolate it and make it pretty clean. It wasn't slowed down to avoid potentially distorting the beeps, but here's the first effort to share with you. I'm sure someone can do something with it: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen.../Untitled.flac

I'm on mobile ATM so that's the only way I have to attach it. I hope it works, if not I'll sort it when I'm home this evening

Varrok 01-19-2017 11:34 AM

It'd definitely possible to slow down an audio like that in a non-distorting way.

Jaster 01-19-2017 11:39 AM

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it should be 12 and 20.

if you search "20-12-17" on Google, you'll find this :

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...xodus+20:12-17

From Bible:


Interesting :D

Release date? xD

This is very interesting, I don't think I can help you with this, but I'm looking forward to what all of you discover, great job ;).

Varrok 01-19-2017 11:50 AM

OWI wouldn't give us an exact release date like that. Nor they should.

MrsKJJ 01-19-2017 11:51 AM

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This came out:
FFXJP - UPJ - UNF(?)X - FFNUUFJ - UPJ - UJF - XJJ ...(?)
I don't think it's semaphore code

I feel like I'm guessing, but could it be compass code? The picture would have to be made as straight as possible to work out angles, but it could work?

EDIT: Website; The Compass of Enoch featuring the letters of the English alphabet, arranged according to the Atbash cipher.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...c884e2f432.jpg

I swear it's a form of HTML though. I remember it from school.

http://htmlarrows.com

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it should be 12 and 20.

if you search "20-12-17" on Google, you'll find this :

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...xodus+20:12-17

From Bible:


Interesting :D

That is very, very interesting.

Phoetux 01-19-2017 11:51 AM

That mention's cool. The book name tho: Exodus
Doesn't this title remind you an old game you all know?

Also Varrok is right, there are ways to slow down an audio without distorting the beeps. Gonna see if I can do something but I doubt it.