Soulstorm ARG - Piece 4

[Connell]

Piece 4 is now a "?" on the site. Now we wait.

[Manco]

I saw that piece 4 has a ? now so I've been trying the chat box on the soulstorm page to see if there was anything new for a responce and I think I have gotten something new but I have no idea if it's related to the new piece or if it's just a new generic reply but I've been getting "seeme? wave."

Linklegend2 managed to find what looks like our first clue – spam the message box enough and you get “SEEME.WAV”

Do the usual – oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/seeme.wav

I can’t listen to it just now, so someone else can pick up on this.

[Scrabaniac]

I don't know what it is, but it sounds fucking awful

[FennecFyre]

I was hoping I would be able to help again this time around, but I got nothing.

There's a definite pattern/rhythm to it, though. What does it look like in Audacity or another program that shows a "visual" version of the sound?

[Linklegend2]

The sound reminds me of an Easter egg that was in portal 2 where with a program the sound turns into a picture

[FennecFyre]

...see me.

See me.

Linkle's onto something! Maybe there's a picture in the sound.

[Varrok]

Can't wait for the death metal drum cover

[EJ Prime]

using this method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDS7r_mv7U
I got this


EDIT: hwich led me to this http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/SO1029.txt
Don't know what it is

[SgabbitGabbiar]

using this method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDS7r_mv7U
I got this


EDIT: hwich led me to this http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/SO1029.txt
Don't know what it is

Wow , nice find!

[FennecFyre]

The file name makes me makes me think of http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/spiritof1029.jpg but I'm not yet sure if they're related. Lsot.mp3 was in this one, wasn't it?

[Linklegend2]

Nice find! It's a.. Interesting read but while looking through it I saw some words that are scrambled here and there

Edit: so far all the words I thought were scrambled have just been backwards

[Manco]

I’m not entirely sure of this one, but some possible encryptions could be:

Baconian: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/baconian.php

Skip: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/skip.php

[EJ Prime]

I googled the first two sentences and found this blog
http://excelenttalks.hol.es/when-be-...commend-su-25/
The post was made 2 days ago

[Manco]

oh holy fuck that’s a lot of gibberish

EDIT: Some of the text very conspicuously doesn’t match. For example, the first paragraph of SO1029.txt:

When be draw drew ye. Defective in do recommend suffering. House it seven in spoil tiled court. Sister others marked fat missed did out use. Alteration possession dispatched collecting instrument travelling he or on. Snug evig made at spot or late that mr.

The first paragraph from the link above:

When be draw drew ye. Defective in do recommend suffering. House it seven in spoil tiled court. Sister others marked fat missed did out use. Alteration possession dispatched collecting instrument travelling he or on. Snug give made at spot or late that mr.

I bet there’s more.

[Gunnr]

using this method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPDS7r_mv7U
I got this


EDIT: hwich led me to this http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/SO1029.txt
Don't know what it is

1029, Rupture Farms? "SO" maybe short for SOul storm?
I know RF used to be the main source of bones before it was blown up and mining in Necrum started.
Also not a clue with that long gibberish note/story but a cipher defiantly may solve it(duh,right?)
But which cipher?
Sound, ratman method sounds like a great idea
Was a clue to this pattern already given in a previous answer?
@_@

[zigggyy]

I believe the text file contains lorem lipsum. So is anyone aware of a lorem lipsum decoder or cipher ?

[Manco]

The following words have all been flipped backwards in SO1029.txt:

give
otherwise
king
breakfast
objection
quince
object
defective
distrusts
sweetness
xylophone
queenly
means
victory
yearns
celebrated
off
brought
too
zinc
quarry

[Connell]

Well I missed a lot! Nice finds guys, I'd been expecting one of those audio files to translate into a picture sooner or later. I think you're on to something with the flipped words, Manco. But what do they mean now we've found them?

A cipher seems likely, however. Why would they write so much gibberish for only one word to be used every 3 or 4 sentences? The obvious things like the first letter of each word don't return anything.

Worth putting the flipped words into the chat box? Or maybe googling them?

EDIT: Is it worth mentioning there are several other blog posts on that website also? I don't know how they'd relate. The amount of gibberish is a bit overwhelming.

[Manco]

A cipher seems likely, however. Why would they write so much gibberish for only one word to be used every 3 or 4 sentences?

I think they lifted the text from the site EJ Prime found, then picked out the words they wanted and flipped them. I’m not sure the site itself is relevant here.

The large amount of text is probably to obscure the flipped words.

Worth putting the flipped words into the chat box? Or maybe googling them?

Googling the complete string does nothing, and doing the same for individual words would be pointless since they’re so common.

It may just be coincidence but worth noting that “object defective distrusts” = “ODD”.

[Gunnr]

http://www.lipsum.com/

http://baconipsum.com/

I'm looking at these two sites in hopes. There's no translation at all from what I'm looking into.
What do theses words share besides being flipped backwards?

Also is this another generic response?

[Connell]

I think they lifted the text from the site EJ Prime found, then picked out the words they wanted and flipped them. I’m not sure the site itself is relevant here.

The large amount of text is probably to obscure the flipped words.

Googling the complete string does nothing, and doing the same for individual words would be pointless since they’re so common.

It may just be coincidence but worth noting that “object defective distrusts” = “ODD”.

Good point, those sly dogs them, so I suppose the logical way forward is to examine what ciphers could apply to the word string you extracted from the .txt

[Manco]

I got it, I had the solution like half an hour ago but I missed it because I’m lazy.

The first letter of every flipped word = “gokboqoddsxqmvycobtzq”

I ran it through a Caeser cipher decrypter but the usual ROT-13 didn’t yield any results. However, if I’d been more thorough I would have spotted that ROT-16 is:

wearegettingcloserjpg

http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/wearegettingcloser.jpg

[Connell]

I had legit just compiled the first letter of each word then haha. Well done for finding that! So then. Anyone got any guides on how to make GIFS from a ps3? Hahaha

[Gunnr]

I got it, I had the solution like half an hour ago but I missed it because I’m lazy.

The first letter of every flipped word = “gokboqoddsxqmvycobtzq”

I ran it through a Caeser cipher decrypter but the usual ROT-13 didn’t yield any results. However, if I’d been more thorough I would have spotted that ROT-16 is:



http://oddworld.com/soulstorm/ed/wearegettingcloser.jpg

You're right! 16
wearegettingcloserjpg
So? Now time to make gifs then

[SligValet]

I barely know how to make gifs on my PC lol

[Connell]

I refuse to join the PC master race! I'll be holding my phone up to the TV and then converting video to gifs. The ARG has made me resourceful.

[Gunnr]

O.o it only gives the option to place a link. I hope it turned out better on m my Twitter (doing this from my phone) all gifs autoplay there erased old ones replaced with my new stuff...https://twitter.com/AzureSeahorse/st...160067073?s=09 phone apps don't seem to have as many capabilities
-_- idk

[Connell]

I sent 1
=p sooo 20?

Where did you send it to, out of curiosity? I can't find any .gifs sent to either OWI or Ed.

[seniormeatbox]

Here is 5 from me







I just took some of my old gameplay recordings cut the deaths up, and ran them through a mpeg to gif converter
Don't know who to send it to, so for now, ed.

[HOMINIX]

I wonder what they'll accept as "new"... regardless, I'll try to capture some deaths and make some gifs