SoulStorm ARG

[JayDee]

I find it strange that the image is actually saying WISH YOU WERE HERE? in the form of a question rather than the usual, "Wish you were here(!)"

Perhaps 0451 is the factory number for Soulstorm Brewery? Similar to how Rupturefarms was RF1029.

E: Soulstorm Brewery was actually SoulStorm Brewery 401, similar numbers but definitely not 0451, unless they retcon the factory number or use it for a different facility.

[Manco]

The Brewery in Exoddus was number 401. Not far off.

[JayDee]

I don't know if it's just coincidence or not (are there any coincidences right now?) But Lorne Lanning confirmed an Abe's Exoddus remake last year in April.
04/15. Not exactly 0451, but interesting atleast.

Link to Oddworld.com Article.

[Varrok]

I was born on the 15h of May, it's 15/05. If you reverse it, you get 0551, which is almost 0451!

[grimGadabout]

So I was looking through that text page, and one of the lines stood out to me. Taking away everything else in the line leaves "spirit of #RF dot jpg"

[STM]

If you type in Fuzzle you get "EEBER]["

[FennecFyre]

Going off grimGadabout's post...

http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/spiritof1029.jpg

Hmmmm. PS wizards, do your thing!

[SgabbitGabbiar]

i've edited it:

[grimGadabout]

I brightened it and this happened.



Its hard to tell what the lower word is, even with lessened brightness.

[Varrok]

http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/lsot.mp3

[SgabbitGabbiar]

http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/lsot.mp3

That reversed sound is creepy.

[STM]

Anyone know morse code then?

[FennecFyre]

Cool music sample, but what does it do/say when it's reversed? On a phone right now so I can't do much with it myself at the moment.

[Varrok]

It sounds as reversed as it was before, maybe even less fun.

Are the beeps a morse code?

[FennecFyre]

Misread the post, then. I thought someone had already reversed it, not that it WAS reversed.

[grimGadabout]

It sounds... Strange when reversed. I'm trying to get a spectrogram to see if there are any messages within the song itself.

[STM]

So, if that lsot.mp3 worked, I wonder why spiritof#rf.jpg brings up a #404.

[Varrok]

Oh, STM, you silly goose, #rf means "the number of RF (in AO)" which is 1029

[FennecFyre]

I was puzzled by that too, until I realized that #RF possibly meant Rupture Farm's number, which is 1029, which led to me finding the above picture, spiritof1029.jpg.

Annnnd Varrok beat me.

[STM]

I literally missed like the first four or five posts of this page, I went back up after I posted that and felt spastic.

e: well done though, +rep for the find.

[Moot]

I left for like an hour, and my mind is exploding.

Edit: Alright, this again might be a coincidence... but "lsot" was on the source page. They either needed to give us more clues to figure it out, or they're tying everything together.

still lsot ? .m

I think we should revisit some of the source information.. I think we could dig some more out of it in the meantime!

[STM]

I tried to decipher the morse code, but I'm not very good at it and came out with "BM"...


BULLET MAGNET CONFIRMED AE.

[Varrok]

So that's why he's not posting anymore. Lorne Lanning kidnapped him to include in his latest game.

[grimGadabout]

I found one! I typed in "tears" and got "SO MANY TEARS, SO MANY MEMORIES"

Edit: I also got "*** SO GOOD. SO TASTY. ***" when I typed in "brew".

I think they may be changing a bunch of the responses compared to the list we already have.

[Varrok]

Also, this is in braille and says "monday" (or MON | DAY, if you prefer)

[Michael]

I had a go at deciphering the morse code in the audio. It's probably wrong haha, i've not passed it through any software.

I found three instances of beeps that stood out to me as morse code. These were;

00:15 . .. .. (EII), or maybe ..... (5), can't decide which it is?

01:11 ._.. (L)

01:48 _. (N)

So that's EIILN, or 5LN depending on the 00:15 one. I had a go passing these through the +13 caesar cypher, and that gave me RVVYA or 5YA respectively. Neither of which mean anything to me! It's either wrong or there's more to it somewhere that I'm missing I think.

[JayDee]

I reversed the audio and am trying to figure out some of the morse so far I've found "In" at roughly 20 seconds reversed

[FennecFyre]

I think the answers are changing too. I tried "can you hear me?" again and got "YES, FAINTLY - COME CLOSER". The come closer bit is new. Will test out others later.

[Varrok]

For me it's more like:
-- --.. --

[grimGadabout]

Maybe it's changing because we're finding stuff out?