Yep, those were the very first pictures that were hinting at this whole ARG.

Now it's:

That's NOT good.

Speech from the bad ending, correct?

Yep :)

I didn't see the "coming soon" in the code, nice catch.

Just spotted this at the end of the page:

Cheers!

Perhaps an upcoming challenge will require us to get the bad ending in N'n'T?

Nice one, I tried typing "He shot us!" into the text box but generic returns came back :P

EDIT: Edward was close to getting through to us.

Almost… They took it away. Almost.

— ed (@edmudokon) May 6, 2016

Almost… They took it away. Almost.

— ed (@edmudokon) May 6, 2016

Maybe there's a clue in the stuff we grabbed?

EDIT: this line is in all the ascii versions except the first one, maybe we should look into it:

Probably the best course of action is to look over all the stuff. Would they be willing to bargain on us being ready and able to get all of it documented before they wiped it, though? Perhaps they truly now how dedicated we are :P

Also, I just realised I'd never seen the N'n'T bad ending before until 5 minutes ago. Those masks are cool, but I still think that credits song is the most out of place thing ever.

That line also stuck out to me, I feel like it's all code for something, but that would be extremely elaborate. But for example it says in one "@@@@@@@@@@@ was the original working title" or something along those lines. Soulstorm was the working title for Oddysee. Reaching here but perhaps it's the first steps towards something.

I'm pretty sure they only changed the code on the page once we posted it on the forums. So I would say we have captured what was needed.

I have a feeling we might be looking for another Twitter handle, with the amount of @'s. Or maybe my millennial brain just associates that character with Twitter too much.

EDIT: Some of the text is taken from the Soulstorm Wikia page:

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

I googled "used this side effect to entice" and "would indicate nothing short of" together from the 4th version of the source code they had, and halfway down the results page is the Soulstorm Brew Wikia page. I nearly shut Google before I spotted it. They've taken the text from the trivia section.

Some of it also comes from the "Effects on Mudokons" section:

I don't know it is important or not, but penult picture of code also says: SAVIOR?

I was literally about to type that. The letters are spread out throughout the 4th variation of the source code.

EDIT: Also, the Soulstorm Brew Wikia page hasn't been updated since 2015 last by Havok I believe. so it's highly unlikely there's anything hidden on there for us to find. They just ripped the text from there. Perhaps the clue is hidden somewhere on the Wikia? Savior is also a good lead.

To recap:

. Several images of ascii Abe appeared in quick succession in the Soulstorm page source code.
. Some had text in that is ripped from the Soulstorm Wikia Page, but it hasn't been updated since December 2015.
. The source code now reads text from the bad ending of Oddysee / N'n'T
. The phrase "SAVIOR?" appears spread out through 4th version of the ascii Abe picture (See Xav's post that compiles them all)

Kind of makes me think of the quote at the back of AO's box:

salami.jpg confirmed:

http://www.axgig.com/images/78512262032222042600.jpg

;)

(Is it bad I actually tried that, just in case?)

All I can think is of when the Three Weirdos say to Abe he's the "Savior of the Mudokon's" in the opening cutscene of Exoddus. The letters XX and I are also spread out in the the 4th variation of the source code, as well as a lower case f and a c. I feel like this line means something:

;''''';'''''''++'+''+'++++++++#''';,+';':,`I@@@@@@@@@@@
bone powder

Yeah, he didn't do much.
But Abe, he's one of us
(Upon inspecting page) sry of you already had this:p
Why quotes from NNT bad ending?

I can't see how you'd translate that into an alphabetical code, but why not a numerical one? Could we have to count each type of character? Or perhaps uncover a sequence?

That's possible, but we'd need to figure out which symbols we count, and which are there to separate each set of symbols.

Glad to see the ARG is back in action!

Me too! It's been a while

For that line maybe use rumkin? Then put that result into Caesar cipher decoder (using that alot in this ARG) Could be nothing but that's my thought.

Will post results after I tried a few ideas (when I have time today :s). Hope I get a chance to jot down results if any.

exciting as hell.

the happening is abening

;''''';'''''''++'+''+'++++++++#''';,+;'':,`I@@@@@@@@@@@
AEAFBABAAGACAAAAAAIK (When numbers to symbols in order of whats next to eachother)

Or, counting each symbol total,

Number of ;= 4 Letter D
Number of '= 17/Number of "= 8 Letters R and/or I
Number of +=13 Letter N
Number of ,= 2 ( if you count the ; ) Letters B and F
1 # and 1 ` A and A
Number of @= 11 Letter K
DRNBAAK/DINBAAK/DRNFAAK/DINFAAB -Normal
QEAONNX/QVAONNX/QEASNNX/QVASNNO -Caesar, key 13
WIMYZZP/WRMYZZP/WIMUZZP/WRMUZZY - Reversed
JVZLMMC/JEZLMMC/JVZHMMC/JEZHMML - Reversed Caesar


Last guess-
the #''' means Number 3?

Hopes this helps, or at least shows us what isn't the answer

Based on the fact that we have the picture, can characters be related to the colors, that should be there?

Could we possibly use the rest of the text on the Soulstorm Brew Wikia page as a guide? I have a feeling it might match up. if you refer to my post and the ascii, all the phrases taken from the wikia page appear in order. Perhaps there's some characters that don't match up or something?

[QUOTE=seniormeatbox;620989];''''';'''''''++'+''+'++++++++#''';,+;'':,`I@@@@@@@@@@@
AEAFBABAAGACAAAAAAIK (When numbers to symbols in order of whats next to eachother)

Or, counting each symbol total,

Number of ;= 4 Letter D
Number of '= 17/Number of "= 8 Letters R and/or I
Number of +=13 Letter N
Number of ,= 2 ( if you count the ; ) Letters B and F
1 # and 1 ` A and A
Number of @= 11 Letter K
DRNBAAK/DINBAAK/DRNFAAK/DINFAAB -Normal
QEAONNX/QVAONNX/QEASNNX/QVASNNO -Caesar, key 13
WIMYZZP/WRMYZZP/WIMUZZP/WRMUZZY - Reversed
JVZLMMC/JEZLMMC/JVZHMMC/JEZHMML - Reversed Caesar


Last guess-
the #''' means Number 3?


Glad you checked, I was getting worried of my constaint for time today lol

Sry. Accidentally doubled, oops

If there is anything that takes time but might be useless anyways, I'm here to do it so that someone else doesn't waste their time.

As true as that may be, Unless
Stop Savior
or XX I F C is somewhere in the wikia.

An absolute whim, could this line that we're focussing on

;''''';'''''''++'+''+'++++++++#''';,+';':,`I@@@@@@@@@@@

Potentially be a IP address for the URL of the next piece, once converted into numbers somehow? Or something along those lines.

Each symbol must have a numerical value or something, if we're doing the right thing by chasing this line up. All I could really come across looking into that was ALT codes for windows, which is also knows as ASCII code. It assigns symbols a number to type them whilst holding ALT. I can't see how it fits into our puzzle right now, but the fact this code is also known as the ascii code makes me feel like we might onto something.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...188eadf2ec.jpg

Here's a more comprehensive table that lists each character's decimal, hex, octal and html code next to it. Have a gander guys:

http://www.bindichen.co.uk/uploads/ascii%20code.jpg

Using the text to ascii converter I found on this page

http://www.dcode.fr/ascii-code

our phrase we're focusing on returns the decimal values of

"59 39 39 39 39 39 59 39 39 39 39 39 39 39 43 43 39 43 39 39 43 39 43 43 43 43 43 43 43 43 35 39 39 39 59 44 43 39 59 39 58 44 96 73 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64 64"

which seems absolutely meaningless, Sadly. But if there was ever going to be a numerical value for each symbol, it'd probably be that.

EDIT: Hexadecimal values are as shown:

3B 27 27 27 27 27 3B 27 27 27 27 27 27 27 2B 2B 27 2B 27 27 2B 27 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 2B 23 27 27 27 3B 2C 2B 27 3B 27 3A 2C 60 49 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40

The ascii code for that would be:

059 039 039 039 039 039 059 039 039 039 039 039 039 039 043 043 039 043 039 039 043 039 043 043 043 043 043 043 043 043 035 039 039 039 059 044 043 039 059 039 058 044 096 073 064 064 064 064 064 064 064 064 064 064 064

Then...

using Rumkin would make it:

EI CI CI CI CI CI EI CI CI CI CI CI CI CI DC DC CI DC CI CI DC CI DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC CE CI CI CI EI DD DC CI EI CI EH DD IF GC FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD

The question is, where do we go with it?

Nowhere.

Roll credits.

The last three random letters in the ascii code, XX I are 21 in roman numerals.

On a whim, I tried looking for something like spiritof1021.jpg. No dice.

5 more followers. This wait is unbearable

The Twitter code was already unlocked when the "estimate" counter on their page hit "23k". Check out the Soulstorm site, I think they had about 22,983 when it unlocked.

Yeah I know, but isn't 23k the hit for abeface.jpg?

Asked my friend to follow them, I think thats 23k?

i think the symbols might just be nothing. perhaps to throw us off until the next html change. Or another ed update

It said that when the soulstorm site first opened. They might of changed it since they aren't ready.

where did you hear that they aren't ready?? from what I know they haven't mentioned anything regarding being ready or not to show Abe's face when it's clearly already finished and set up

If it is, that's nothing to do with this ARG. The face reveal is it's own thing, not an ARG goal. They probably have changed the amount that they're going to reveal Abe's face at. The counter hasn't moved in weeks.

Oh ok, my bad, was sure it was all tied together