I know right... It's so close. I was shameless and asked people to like and follow OW in my FB, heh.

if only we could push a button that would give us the exact numbers instead of an estimate

Just wanted to let you guys know, especially those working on the wiki, the Soulstorm ARG wiki page has launched itself to be the longest article on the wiki since it started. Ironically enough, Munch's Oddysee is second longest. Go figure.

What is your point? That MO is as good as the ARG?

I'm pretty sure that each locked piece is bound to a piece in progress. So as soon as we finish an O we'll get a new piece to the puzzle.

Sort of true. Technically, we finished an O last week and we haven't had anything since. O's can be open at the same time concurrently, though. The Facebook / Twitter ones have been open together pretty much the whole way through, and there was a point were 3 O's were able to be solved at the same time.

Actually, there is:
Visit the website, click on the button on the left and a window with the exact number appears.

14276

I was just referring to these last 2 follower count O's.

The "there was a minor error in the code here please ignore / nobody was a witness find the .p" text or however it went has been removed from the source code on the Soulstorm page. Making way for new clues perhaps? ;)

Also, OWI are on 22,959 followers. Probably see that piece unlocked by the end of the weekend.

CAN YOU S- HARD TO K- IF BREAKING- THROUGH HA- ON NEED A D-
Not sure if anyones figured it out, since the Wiki page says its still unkown.
CAN YOU S(EE) HARD TO K(NOW) IF BREAKING THROUGH HA(NG) ON NEED A D(RINK)

Hasnt that veen a generic response since the beginning?
30 followers left now, looks like itll probably hit 23k today or something

Ed spoke up again.
"so thirsty.... tired..."
Doesn't sound like he is in good shape

He should drink some brew

But it's made by Glukkons. It's probably bad for ya.

So the website has gone mental... http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/

In the source code it makes a picture of Abe with characters.

http://i.imgur.com/XtwZNae.png

Also, the Twitter one has been unlocked.

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed...s_codes_02.jpg

Sorry about the long post guys.

Whoa, nice ascii art Ed. :p

I think the site going mental is Ed struggling to keep the ascii art contained in the html comments.

Indeed! I think they've managed to stop the symbols flowing out from the HTML comments as they no longer appear down the sides of the site. Also, they've updated the picture to black out Abe's eyes... Or make him blind you could say ;)

http://i.imgur.com/cSrJnp2.png

Edit: I don't know if it happens for you guys, but when I refresh the page certain images that have been used throughout the ARG pop up momentarily, such as the "9" on the white background that was discovered right at the start. I think they're trying to symbolise the site breaking.

Also, here's a direct link to the new Abe video playing on the homepage. Anything to be learnt from it? http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/abeface1.mp4

Am I glad I saved the first version right away:

Version 1:

Version 2:

It's deteriorating even further now:

Version 3:

Version 4:

Version 5:

That really is so cool!

This is the image I keep seeing popping up for a second when I refresh. http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal4.jpg

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal4.jpg

It does appear in the source code but it doesn't seem to hint towards anything. I think it's behind the video, and thus loads slightly quicker.

I screengrabbed the page whilst it was refreshing, notice the text from further down the site leaking through on the right hand side. Sorry it's blurry, not sure why : http://i.imgur.com/yVDii0C.png?1

Also, the ascii art has been garbled and destroyed. This is happening realtime! Every time I refresh the source a little bit more has been deleted or jumbled. Reckon Ed got the brew and his visions gone funny?

EDIT: We have text

Not sure that's formatted exactly how it is on the side, I just copied the [/CODE] box from your post, Xav :P have a look for yourselves at the source

EDIT: Now it's just this! They're moving fast!!

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

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal1.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal2.jpg
http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal3.jpg

have something too...

Spells "1029"... again...

Yeah those are the images from way back at the start of the ARG, right? They've edited the reveal4.jpg to be a different images now,

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/images/reveal4.jpg

EDIT: Source code now reads this:

http://i.imgur.com/DntxXoM.png?1

Definitely hinting at Rupture Farms.

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)