SoulStorm ARG - Spirit of 1029 - Photo 2
 

Our agent has delivered another transmission. We will verify its origins and pass it on.

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) February 2, 2017

Ooooh goody! Can't wait to see what they have in store for the second picture :D

YEAH IT'S ON NOW

Any guesses as to what the next picture will reveal?

Wooot, start in up again! Maybe we'll get something about the blind mudokons or tear extractors. That would give a shudder

I'd like to see some bloodthirsty Slogs and trigger-happy Sligs. Greeters would be nice too.

Greeters would be a good pick for me too. They're really unnerving.

Just so you know

We were just contacted again. Don't go anywhere, we might need your help with this...

— Oddworld Inhabitants (@OddworldInc) February 2, 2017

@zulag Won't be long, we just needed to make sure everyone knew we'd been contacted again :)

— Oddworld Inhabitants (@OddworldInc) February 2, 2017

EDIT:

Looks like they updated the oddworld.com/soulstorm page.

the message now reads: Photo 2 - Encrypted

Dots, dashes and slashes... what could this mean?

I got
OTDOTDOT DMSDASH D
From the morse in the top right. I think I did something wrong.

Seems like the morse code on the new image is spelling out more morse code...this'll be fun

Seems like it. I fiddled around with top right and got this


-....- -....- -....- / -....- / -....- .-.-.- .-.-.- / -....- -....- -....- / -....- --..-- / .----. -....- .-.-.- .-.-.- / -....- -....- -....- / -....- / -..-. / -....- .-.-.- .-.-.- / -....- -....- / .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- / -....- .-.-.- .-.-.- / .-.-.- -....- / .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- / .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- / -..-. / -....- .-.-.- .-.-.-

Which comes out like

*--- - -.. --- -, '-.. --- - / -.. -- ... -.. .- ... .... / -..

Which turns back into the first lot.

This is going to be fun

EDIT: Pigpen cypher (maybe) so far I have

OEBU FEEN PPAZ

Working from a phone is slow

Woo hoo!!! Work for four hours, then in I shall dig....

http://i.imgur.com/KUYAEAWl.png
I dont have time to decipher gtg, sry.
something new?

I can't do anything right now because I am in class but looking at the image, there are small black spots under the social links in the bottom left corner, they look like they form more symbols for a cipher. I will check back after class!

New image everybody and there's a lot on it:

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/1029contact/pada.jpg

EDIT: Just taken a quick stab at the image to identify what is on it. I have marked what I have seen with red rectangles with numbers next to them.

1 - Morse code - Haven't translated much of it and I believe all the codes are part of a big code. One I quickly typed into a Morse Code translator gave me a sentence reading 'OTDOT DOT D7DASH D' Maybe we need to translate these and then translate the result?

2 - Some alphabet swapped set of characters? The sort that are mathematically based? I think remember Gunnr figuring these out on the redacted document.

3 - Arrows like the ones from the redacted document.

4 - Strange pattern, doesn't look random, looks very uniform

5 - Braille?

6 - 1029 symbol over glukkon's face. 'We will rise'

http://i64.tinypic.com/2m2i4hs.jpg

Deciphered, so far it's

OEBU FEEN PPAZ TMX
EVMPG OEBU LEEQ
VEFMG JTMX ZMNQ

I'll try decode the decoded message

Edit:

Good spot. It's Braille that says:

Spread our message

Yeah I'm getting decoded pigpen much different from the cleartext you posted using the same image as a decoder.

[Edit - Should have refreshed before posting. Damn, you guys work fast]

Hi! I'm quite new to the forums, but I just want to thank everyone for their work so far!

I think I've deciphered the Braille on the bottom left of the new picture. If I've got it right it says:

"Spread our message"

Hope it helps!

I might have done it wrong. I used the image from wikipedia of all places. I definitely see what you mean though.

Just had an email from the Oddworld newsletter!

And there is a barcode in it, I guess we need to decode it as well

EDIT:

Link to newsletter:
http://us3.campaign-archive2.com/?u=...0&e=6a2b5665ee

https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2b6dca...ce4084fc2c.png

looks like the barcode reads:

Ivzw gsv mfnyvih pmld gsv gifgs

(I used this site: https://online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com/)

Wow, you guys are forum ninjas, you managed to get some translations going before I managed to upload lol. Also, looks like I originally posted in the wrong place seeing as I'm now mysteriously here so to whoever moved my post to the appropriate thread, thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

I'm gonna try and see what I can uncover seeing as you guys have this special set of characters and morse code underway

EDIT: Figured out the braille under the social media part of the image.

It says: "Spread our message"

The barcode from the newsletter says:

Morse code translates to

DASHDOTDOTDOT DOT DASH DOTDOTDOTDOT DOT DOTDOTDOT DASH DASHDASHDASHDASH DOTDASHDOT DASHDASH

Or

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

Or

BETHESTORM

Excellent find GreenAnhinga! I see 3 different morse code, which one are you referring to?

Ugh, I just spotted the arrows on the left side of the pic, we never managed to break that code, did we?

Edit: Nice work PenguinX45654, it's easier to point out what we are looking at, could you maybe give different numbers to the different morse codes?

Also could item 4 be two barcodes, one horizontally and one vertically?

All four. The one on the left is the only one that's more than three lines. If you put all four together and arrange it so it's all on three lines you get the message that leads to bethestorm

I hate those arrows more than I should.

Could the cube be morse code horizontally and vertically? For example:

https://i.imgur.com/soesyrC.png

Edit: Looking more closely, the dashes seem to vary in length which more or less rules out it being morse code... However with code running vertical and horizontal maybe there are just some "artifacts"... Or maybe tap code/some other form of dots/dashes code? hmmmm....

I hope not. My phone hates me as it is

The Pigpen code is upside down... first two words spell "KNOW YOUR", working on the rest as we speak.

EDIT:

The BabelStone Pigpen code reads:

KNOW YOUR CODES
KEEP THEM CLOSE
YOU WILL NEED THEM

I had a theory that it could be a 2-dimensional barcode but when looking those up they look like QR codes, nothing on the scale of this....

I think those might be barcodes, try stretching the two bars you extracted and decoding them here:
https://online-barcode-reader.inliteresearch.com/

I ran what you quoted
(Ivzw gsv mfnyvih pmld gsv gifgs)
through a cryptogram solver and got

READ THE NUMBERS KNOW THE TRUTH

Edit: Could very well be something else but I didn't find sense in the other results

Sounds like something they would say yeah...

What cryptogram solver did you use?

Doesn't seem to be cooperating, I think you could totally be right though... Stretching the isolated line vertically gives something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/ofj5isR.png

Which sure does look like a barcode, but sure does not want to scan any way I'm trying... Just for reference, that stretched bit is from the vertical line I pulled out.

It certainly does. I used http://quipqiup.com

On a side note. I'm not posting too much or anything like that am I?

Nah you can post as much as you want as long as your posts are relevant and interesting.

Do you guys think they used the same trick for the arrows?
http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/qu...←↓

The morse is all one message chopped up into parts (notice the slashes cut off etc), here it is aligned:

https://i.imgur.com/8V5HYen.png

Edit: Decodes to aprox DASHDOTDOTDOT DOT DASH DOT DOTDOTDOT DOT DOTDOTDOT DASH DETSHDASHDASH DOTDASHDOT DASHDASH, -... . - . ... . ... - --- .-. --, BETHESTORM - Same decoding as GreenAnhingam posted earlier.

Yes GreenAnhinga deciphered it previously but it's good to see the full picture :)