So it turns out Photoshop has the exact function I was talking about; if you add 2 layers in and then set one to "difference" it shows you everything that has changed between one layer and the other in white, and things that remain the same in black. Thanks to the lack of movement we can see the numbers bleeding through:

http://i.imgur.com/3KHLtFv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NGx1W4N.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/B4IirYV.jpg?1

http://i.imgur.com/e6F7W29.jpg

The 9 is the biggest stretch of the imagination, as unfortunately it is almost completely lost to the background image. But given the rest, I think it's safe to assume it's a 9. Does anyone know what font it is being used? It'd be great to be able to overlay actual text on the images to confirm.

Once I've finished doing these I'll go back and do the clip from yesterday and see if there's anything to be learnt from that.

EDIT: Frick sorry double posted.

I think this is the font style

http://i.imgur.com/GvVw7XSm.jpg


Nice work, man (:

That is indeed the font, cheers for finding that man!

I've just converted some of the pictures from the "Stiff bridge" image from yesterday, and the pixel difference between when the numbers flare up and the normal picture are so small that it's literally impossible to decipher the numbers. Either they didn't intend for us to actually be able to tell what the numbers are, or there's a method I'm unaware of for finding them. Because for now, it's practically impossible.

http://i.imgur.com/0mYxzro.jpg?1

Here's the first image with the "difference" shown. (The top left of the bridge) It's likely that it's an "8" again, as like the hand tattoo image from today there is 4 individual frames where numbers pop up, unfortunately this is the only one that is remotely legible.

http://i.imgur.com/yC1nlmw.jpg

Here's the second frame with "difference" shown. It's basically impossible to see a difference. The change is in the bottom left. I drew over the shape here to show that it probably is a 2:

http://i.imgur.com/giWFEAy.jpg

For now I can't think of another method to definitely figure out what number it is. The next 2 frames aren't worth uploading because you literally can't see anything, but they're most likely the "9" and the "1"

It's also worth pointing out the 4 numbers appear in the same positions as on the hand tattoo image. (E.G: 8 in the top left, 2 in the bottom right, 9 in the top left and 1 in the bottom right.)

EDIT: For good measure as I said before, I overlayed text on top of the hand tattoo image to confirm we were looking at "8291". The 8 overlapped with the 1 when the frames were combined so I did it separately:

http://i.imgur.com/XuyjiUU.gif

http://i.imgur.com/Uj6f1R7.gif

Nice work Connell!

EDIT : i tried to write "8291" to the 1029.io link and it shows this :

http://1029.io/8291/

Whoa. This is a ton of progress. I can't believe I didn't think I could do the overlaying trick. This is great.

I sort of feel like it only seems like progress. I mean we already knew the phrase "8291" was everywhere, and aside from that we just got a string of letters that may or may not be correct (the "e l i k e d e t s" phrase). I have no idea what to do with any of it sadly :( It was pretty cool to see the 8291 on the hand come to life with the overlaying trick, but aside from that this progress doesn't help us much. Perhaps we need to look more at the elikedets bit and see if it's correct, or can be ciphered or whatever.

I'm so ready for more clues, can't wait haha.

Excite

I put elikedets through an anagram solver. It's probably nothing, but there are a few sentences that start with "ed".

Just throwing my thoughts out there; 8291 is only one digit different from making 1029, that being the 8. Turn the 8 on its side and you get the symbol for infinity. Big Face was drawing the infinity symbol in the sand after Abe died during his escape from RuptureFarms 1029...

I might be overthinking it by miles but I thought it was an interesting 'out of the box' thought.

Long time viewer of this arg forum, first time poster (I'm usually not very good at these sort of things and usually find it easier to read everyone else's theories and revelations)

I was looking at the phrase that was found 'elikedets' and our new favourite number 8291 and have a couple of theories

1 - there 9 letters in our phrase and 8291 could map to a letter which would give 'tlse' which when put through an anagram solver didn't give anything useful. I wasn't convinced that the last letter was an s either so I made that letter a wildcard and same result.

2 - 8291 is a word with 4 different letters that would be a cipher for our phrase. Words I thought of were bone and brew but when put into a keyword cipher, nothing resembling a word or useful anagram came out.

Don't know if any of this helps at all and this is my first ARG so my skills are pretty limited.

If the message in the Abe concept art vid is "Spirits" Held this way"
could it be a reference to the Ghost traps in Exoddus? As in informing you where the spirits are being held.

Just throwing my 2 cents around outside the box. As far as the letters e l i k e d e t s being an anagram, Here are some random words i got out of rearranging and messing around:

elite desk
like steed
like eds te
tis leeked
delete sike
delete skie(s) extra s



I'm sure we're to do something else with these letters if they are correct(e l i k e d e t s)

I'm not sure about the S on the end. I think it could possibly be another E, or a whole different letter entirely. These are good ideas though guys, an anagram is a possibility because at the minute it does look like gibberish.

The thing is, with previous steps of the ARG, when we've been presented with gibberish, there's always been a hint also hidden somewhere as to what to do with that gibberish (E.G giving us random letters, as well as a hint suggesting that it needs to be ciphered down 13 steps etc.) but at the moment we just have the letters. Maybe we've missed something, or we need more info to proceed?

Here we go again :

https://twitter.com/OddworldInc/stat...90039494115329

https://s21.postimg.org/v3r9vqktj/Immagine.png

Looks to be exactly the same message as the one one on the picture of Abe. You can see "l i k e d e t e" straight away. At least we now know it's not an S on the end and it is in fact another e.

I interpret the fact it's the same message 2 days in a row as them saying we're missing something. But what though?

EDIT:

I warped the text back so we could be 100% sure it is the same message as yesterday;

http://i.imgur.com/ervEPPB.jpg

That one is clearly just "i k e d e t e" to me

http://i.imgur.com/Jm2hBiX.jpg

This one's a bit more confusing as it reads "e l i k e d e t" then a random mark on the end that I previously thought was an S, but in the previous picture above it would appear that an e comes after the "d e t" part. Weird.

Here's some gifs for giffy goodness:

http://i.imgur.com/t2IH9dU.gif

http://i.imgur.com/Ud1oZ4e.gif

I like the tea?
I like Ed's tea

Maybe it was mentioned earlier or something but when I looked yesterday at concept video on Facebook ( one with Abe ) , I noticed something familiar to white stripes which were played for 2 seconds near ending of clip .Those were before previous videos , which eventually was a voice message or something. On Twitter Spirit of 1029 said ,,Listen to the spirit of the past.Rise with us. " ; first part is more important . Listen to the spirit of past right ? It can referenced to Abe . His concept video could have sound message , but now probably codded with familiar way like in previous videos ... Maybe it is a wrong way to follow , maybe good ... I don't know but just wanted to share with you , guys ...

So right now the clues we have found in the new videos are as follows:

• “hold this way” [x]
• “spirit” [x]
• An unclear message that could be “remains we will not be” [x]
• An unclear message that could be “help” or something similar [x]
• “8291” [x]
• “elikedete” [x]

We also have the following hints:

• The tweet “Listen to the spirit of the past. Rise with us.” [x]
• The page 1029.io/8291 which to my knowledge hasn’t been linked to any other puzzles yet.

We still need to clarify the two unclear messages, and then work out what “elikedete” might refer to. My guess would be that this is part of a larger string, as the phrase appears to be cut off at both sides of the video frame.

To add to that, we also never found out the significance of the letters "ETNO" occasionally being highlighted when you load the 1029.io page. There doesn't seem to be any set pattern as to when they appear highlighted, and it's possible this is just to add to the "glitchy" theme the site has going on.

Also, the number string of "< !-- 33 74 72 83 51 -- >" is still present in the source code with no explanation. Whether or not this all ties in is yet to be seen. Hopefully tomorrow we'll get another throwback video with a clue that will allow us to piece all this together.

E: Every time I see Vikit15 online I'm convinced he's gonna drop the answer to the whole thing. His only 2 posts on the forum are him solving steps that we were completely stuck on. Help us out, Vikit ;)

Yeah I´m good at puzzles and stuff like that so I´m really enjoying this ARG but for now this all is just random texts... but do not worry I´m here and watching so I hope I will help again :)

I totally forgot about the "ETNO" message
i still think it could be "NOTE"or "TONE" both of which have to do with sound.
Maybe something hidden in a vid we have with music or sound or parhaps a pending vid.

With the The concept art vids gibberish, the word "DELETE' popsout at me amoungst the letters. Maybe we are to delete something and enter something else like into the 1029.io link?

I swear to odd, if they are going to just throw us a video of outtakes from the recording of the 3 weirdo voices, and have THAT be the spirits of the past, I'm gonna be disappointed.

Why are we pirates? Because we just ARG.

Okay guys... we get it, you're bored... cut it out.

omg i can't even reported for transphobia and sexism

I was cool with it.

Also didn't see any clues in Ed or lorne or spirit of 1029.io twitter..today but will keep checking...every..day.

Read a dictionary, FA. Also, try to be funny when you're joking.

I can't be funny at 1AM.

Didn't expect my meme to completely de-rail this thread. Apologies everyone :p

Fixd

Half of me was expecting this, and the other half was hoping you just disappeared completely.

Was that the man half or the woman half

just wanted to check the 1029.io page again, but it's offline or something like that. are they working on it?

Also offline for me. This is exciting! Hopefully means they're getting ready to add content in. I believe the Soulstorm site itself did the same thing at one point during the ARG. Screenshots / trailer here we come*

*we can all dream.

so we're all waiting for the so1029 site to come back online.

So we're all waiting for the site to come back online, ok.

Edit: well, given what informations been gathered anyone want to make a guess at what sort of change the Spirit of 1029.up will undergo? And if Ed's role in this is done or will we see a new tweet from him?

It looks like it's back up, with seemingly no changes. Hopefully we'll get some more info during the week.

Just saw this under inspect element. If we look at the capital letters in the inspector we get: WEEWETEEDEE

probably nothing but why not right?
https://s12.postimg.org/72pt5v619/Capture.png