Yes, no luck

Yeah, sadly nothing under the name of "Edmudokon" or anything Oddworld-y for "lsot.mp3". Just checked OWI official soundcloud page and nothing on there, nor are they following anyone / linking to anything to do with Ed. Might be the wrong path to head down.

Piece 8 is now marked with a ?, no further clues as of yet.

Maybe they're trying to tell us the pieces won't be revealed in a linear fashion. That's a relief. Thought we'd have to wait for piece 2. We see what ya doing guys. I'm convinced they're watching us squirm on here haha.

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My message didn't carry over the formatting properly. Have a look for yourselves, it's more spaced out.

Do the random messages that we receive from typing stuff mean anything when all combined? I'm talking about the ones on that box on the site.

If you type moolah, it replies: now there's an addiction. Idk if it's just random or if all of them combined could mean something.

Or perhaps there's something on isot.mp3 that we're perhaps missing.

There's so many generic responses that come up, I think it'd be impossible. I think they just made buzzwords from the franchise spit out funny answers as a bit of a fanservice

Seems that way yeah...just brainstorming.

Though the new clue at least gives us a new direction! :)

Very true! :)

Any thoughts on the change to the source code? It seems like he is trying to tell is to "Ignore OW" in the middle section. Ignore Oddworld? OWI?

EDIT:

Ed just tweeted:

3
i

Wonder what that means?

New tweet

"3
i"

i think he's communicating now.

3
i

— ed (@edmudokon) April 5, 2016

Edit: got speedyshitted.

Lol, sorry X.

This changed too?

X O - - X - - ? -

EDIT: The name of the twitter profile pic is "-5r31_QC"

Could 5r31 be part of the code?

Well I'm stuck for ideas. Could the formatting on the page source mean anything that relates to that tweet?

Maybe it literally means "iii"; something in the source code, something linking into the audio? I agree we need to be analysing our audio leads more, considering the cryptic, albeit literal hints we've had so far.

I think so too. It looks like its showing us a cypher to me...

Oddworld isn't telling us everything? So perhaps we need to look elsewhere? xD no idea either

I agree. Anyone seen this kind of formatting before with big spaces?

EDIT:

Also just thought by "ignore ow" he might mean out of the URL, so I went to www.soulstorm.com and I got that weird page, with that picutre. Probably entirely unrelated.

So our clues now:

1. The source code on the site has changed to strange formatting. Possibly a cipher? And in the middle a warning to "ignore ow"

2. Piece 8 has changed to a question mark

3. Ed, on Twitter, has asked us in morse code "Are you listening?" and also sent the cryptic message of:

3
i

Could this be to do with the source code?

It's definatly a cipher. But perhaps the key to it isn't there...on the oddworld site. Somewhere?

could the key be the 3 i?

Ok dudes, I sacrified my lunchtime and got some work done on the wiki :)

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

I have to admit I don't understand how the Pieces are working yet (I don't have access to Oddworld.com on my work laptop) but I plan to try to have a look later tonight.

Thanks, Xav! That's really helpful. I can do a bit on the pieces if you like? :)

Nope, but it does seem that the lines line up with the message from OWI – they all start with at least 3 spaces, and none of them extend past the end of the message. Perhaps there’s some kind of substitution we need to do?


Definitely unrelated, the domain name isn’t owned by OWI.


Previously, the message here was signed by OWI. Perhaps by telling us to ignore OW, he wants us only to focus on the I?

Inhabitants. Yeah I had a feeling it was to do with the I in OWI. It's lacking there, and he tweeted:

3
i

Any thoughts on the substitution element?

EDIT: Think I've got it. The ignore ow lines up with the letters "heard.mp" lets look for an .mp3

GOT IT! The 3i. The letters line up as such:

heard.mp
ignoreow

then I is 3 according to his tweet.

OWI = MP3

HEARD.MP3

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/heard.mp3

YEAH BABY ON A ROLLLLLL. More morse code in the sound. Anyone able to translate it?

gj!!!

I'm shit at morse code. Anyone able to decipher it?

It starts with SO but then it just keeps coming. I‘m listening to it at half speed and it’s difficult to transcribe it on the fly.

It's so quick. I can't believe I spent hours this morning looking at "There was minor code here. Message(s) apologies." Which was each word the letter was under, instead of each letter individually. Was so close haha.

It would be a lot easier to decode without the sound of the train station in the background, but I guess that’s part of the challenge.

I like the previous song more. There's just too much ambient on this one.

On a side note, I just tried to see if the rest of the spread out text aligns to the letters in the middle, but it doesn't seem to spell out anything legible at first glance. It might have just been there to cloak the strangeness of the ignore ow being spaced out.

Can we get an audio person in here to neutalize the background noise? It’s way too hard to concentrate even when playing at 0.25 speed.

EDIT: I’ve got this so far:
... --- ..- .-.. ... - --- .-- -- ... .-.. .- ... .... .-.. ... .... .-

Which translates to:

SOULSTOWMSLASHLSHA

That’s an incomplete transcript and I’ve obviously got some parts wrong, but it looks like it may be a URL.

I've got SOU as the start.. safe to assume first part is Soulstorm?

Nice work Manco! Probably SOULSTORM/ something, I wish I could tell where you're up to to help from there, but fuck I can't even get past the third letter haha.

That’s my thinking. But at around 0:25 the background noise just gets way too loud to easily hear anything.

EDIT: I fucked up and missed out a chunk of characters somewhere close to the end, but I have:

... --- ..- .-.. ... - --- .-. -- ... .-.. .- ... .... . -.. ... .-.. .- ... .... .. -. -.. - .... . ..-. ..-. -.. --- - .--- .--.

SOULSTORMSLASHEDSLASHINDTHEFFDOTJP

soulstorm/ed/[filename].jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../heardedit.wav

hope this helps, may not, but it could.

Holy shit that's so much clearer! Cheers, acedude. Manco, do your thang!

Does anyone else find this way more exciting than they should?

... --- ..- .-.. ... - --- .-. -- ... .-.. .- ... .... . -.. ... .-.. .- ... .... ..-. .. -. -.. - .... . ..-. ..- - ..- .-. . -.. --- - .--- .--. . --.

SOULSTORMSLASHEDSLASHFINDTHEFUTUREDOTJPEG

oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/findthefuture.jpg

Edit: This is only the first half of the file, might be more morse code in the second half too.

Very good!

25 photos ? damn

Manco is the MAN. I own New N Tasty on 3 consoles but I don't own the scrub outfit what is this bullshit.

http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/findthefuture.jpg

For those unable to access the URL. Does anyone know if Scrub abe can be purchased on Wii U? It's the only console I have with me at the minute.

The second half of the audio is the same message repeated.

So, guess we need to start getting screenshots of NnT together!