SoulStorm ARG - Spirit of 1029 - Photo 3

[Xavier]

here are the codes I found. I'll try to clear them up a bit!

Nicely​ found, the second code looks like Pigpen again.

[Varstahl]

I've tried several things on the first glyphs found, including rotating them 180°. Using the regular alphabet I just get out

NM OU WSQOCDIB SNM YO? GD TMQADIS <-- regular
WIHEMQY HC YKU MNW FNHGKMWSYKMN   <-- 180°

Perhaps the morse and mud languages have to be Vigenèred? They're roughly the same lenght, if we exclude a couple of non existing glyphs from the mud. Maybe the answer is in the pigpen, but I can't seem to find them in the original video so far, I'll just recheck every frame again. I should probably use a frame difference mask though, but never attempted such a thing.

[Gunnr]

Using Varstahl's interpretation of of the Morse :GDPQOJ/QK/QCO/BCKGQP/DO/QKO/OTT and noting the 9 squares found before I decided to use Caesar cipher with Key 9, 9 times over, using the result from the previous decoded answer each time. The 9th time I got:

AXJKID/KE/KWI/VWEAKJ/XI/KEI/INN
Nothing really significant except the word "weak" but since the rest doesn't make sense I guess this isn't the way to go. Just something I thought I'd try

[GlitterPanther]

GDPQOJ/QK/QCO/BCKGQP/DO/QKO/OTT


My work

GROWTH/AN/ECO/BACKHAUL/DO/WHO/OUT
GROWTH/WORK/ECO/BIOGAS/DOING/WHO/OUT
GROWTH/WORK/ECO/BACKHAUL/DOING/WHO/OUT


Also, "Numbers guide"

Lets assume these letters translate to numbers
Using varshtals guess we get

14 13 0 15 21 0 23 19 17 15 3 4 9 2 0 19 14 13 0 25 15 0 7 4 0 20 13 17 1 4 9 19

[Varstahl]

Using Varstahl's interpretation of of the Morse :GDPQOJ/QK/QCO/BCKGQP/DO/QKO/OTT and noting the 9 squares found before I decided to use Caesar cipher with Key 9, 9 times over, using the result from the previous decoded answer each time.

The 9 squares in reality are 8 9 1 2, in four different frames. As for the caesar cipher (or rot-N) there are only 25 possible rotations (excluding the starting one), so the (9 * 9) % 26 equals a rotation of 3, which can be decoded by 26-n, 23. Beside that, you also made a mistake, rotating it 8 times, (9 * 8) = 72, 72 % 26 = 20, 26 - 20 = 6, which is the result you obtained while decoding

Useless nerdity aside, I used a different approach for the separation of the glyphs from the video:



Still looks pretty much the same to me tbh. And I still can't find the two other damned strings in the video. Are we sure it's there? Can anyone mention the frame numbers?

[Shade_Meadows]

Don't want to jinx it or anything like that...
but i guess the codes can't get harder than this, right?
i tried some codes but... yeah, you guys are WAY better than me

[Xavier]

As far as I can tell only Wiese found those two new codes, no one else confirmed they were there.

[Wiese]

Well, I downloaded the clip and looked up frame by frame. Do you want me to screenshot the whole frame to confirm the codes are there? o.o

[Varstahl]

I think I found something new on frame 38, but god dang it it's faint as hell… I've uploaded the highest quality available to me on the my imgur album. I still have no idea where the more code/pigpen comes out from. Anyway, I'm off to delta frame 38, wish me luck.

Well, I downloaded the clip and looked up frame by frame. Do you want me to screenshot the whole frame to confirm the codes are there? o.o

I think I may have found one portion of it, but the frame number or roughly where exactly you found it could help out.

[Wiese]

I think I may have found one portion of it, but the frame number or roughly where exactly you found it could help out.

I'll take a look real quick!
This could take a while. Windumbs is updating...

[GlitterPanther]

I dont know why I bother trying to help, yall just ignore anything I suggest. Im out.

[Xavier]

It's just that it is kind of unclear how you got to the result you posted. And also what the actual result is.

GDPQOJ/QK/QCO/BCKGQP/DO/QKO/OTT


My work

GROWTH/AN/ECO/BACKHAUL/DO/WHO/OUT
GROWTH/WORK/ECO/BIOGAS/DOING/WHO/OUT
GROWTH/WORK/ECO/BACKHAUL/DOING/WHO/OUT

[Wiese]

Well, the morse code is on frame 21 https://sharepic.moe/img/G5udU.png
and I found the other glyphs on frame 31 https://sharepic.moe/img/z5wXV.png

See you later, I really have to get some sleep.

[Phoetux]

It's just that it is kind of unclear how you got to the result you posted. And also what the actual result is.

Agreed. You didn't explain the whole process GP, but Xav these words would make sense someway.
Obviosly they aren't located in the right way.

[Varstahl]

Well, the morse code is on frame 21 https://sharepic.moe/img/G5udU.png
and I found the other glyphs on frame 31 https://sharepic.moe/img/z5wXV.png

Thank you
On my video, downloaded the 1080p, the morse is on frame 25, will enhance and post it shortly. The pigpens on frame 31 should be the stuff I found on frame 38, but in my videos they're waaay more illegible than in your screen. I wonder why, will check through other ways.

I dont know why I bother trying to help, yall just ignore anything I suggest. Im out.

You shouldn't take it personally. I, for once, have read what you wrote, but at this point I don't know what to make of it. But we do know there's stuff on the video we haven't found or decoded yet.

[GlitterPanther]

It's just that it is kind of unclear how you got to the result you posted. And also what the actual result is.

Auto correct the text to closest logical conclusion, this is what you get.

Probably nothing but if it is I called it ^-^

[Phoetux]

Auto correct the text to closest logical conclusion, this is what you get.

Unfortunately that's not how it works in the ARGs

[GlitterPanther]

Unfortunately that's not how it works in the ARGs

Cuase we totally havent had to use cellphones before...

[Varstahl]

Tried to enhance/correct the morse code. I'm still not to sure if some of the things we considered dots before were in reality just added artifacts.

[Gunnr]

The 9 squares in reality are 8 9 1 2, in four different frames. As for the caesar cipher (or rot-N) there are only 25 possible rotations (excluding the starting one), so the (9 * 9) % 26 equals a rotation of 3, which can be decoded by 26-n, 23. Beside that, you also made a mistake, rotating it 8 times, (9 * 8) = 72, 72 % 26 = 20, 26 - 20 = 6, which is the result you obtained while decoding

Useless nerdity aside, I used a different approach for the separation of the glyphs from the video:



Still looks pretty much the same to me tbh. And I still can't find the two other damned strings in the video. Are we sure it's there? Can anyone mention the frame numbers?

Ah, my bad. I was distracted at the time


Edit: I was also trying to clear up that pigpen bit, this was the best I got: https://imgur.com/gallery/NNJVr

[Varstahl]

Can't seem to make head or tail of any of it. We either need someone way better than me, more information, or both. I tend to think it's both.

I tried to enhance the pigpens a bit:



As for the rest, can't wrap my head around it. It seems to be a mix of Leeson and Club Penguin. That can't be right. And unless I'm wrong, on the left there's even some malachian and another glyph I saw somewhere but can't remember for the life of me.

If we flip it over, I think I spot in order H L D P G C 1 N 5, amongst the few glyphs I can read.

On the left-most part I seem to spot a couple chinese ideographs, but this is insane, and I'm tired as hell, and I'd rather be sleeping.

[Gunnr]

Here's my attempt on the pig pen we found with Varstahls image https://imgur.com/gallery/KygAu

Wish we could get the image clearer

Edit: The translated letters are under the (very blurry) symbols. ?'s Mark what look like pig pen symbols but are too faded to make out.

[OrangeLightning]

This is what I get for being sick haha holy crap, I missed SO MUCH!
I can't believe they actually put out a video! I honestly wasn't even expecting a glimpse of footage until the end of the ARG. This is great!
So it looks like they may be using the same alphabet I translated for that one image, but maybe with different letter substitutions. I'll try to sharpen up the stills you guys were able to grab from the video a bit more in photoshop and see if that'll help.

It's good to be back on here

[tmakz]

Welcome Back Orange Lightning Blessings Hope you are well

[Gunnr]

^^ Hey OL, glad you're back

[Shade_Meadows]

Heyo peeps!
i have to admit, even tough i'm not that good with codes and such... this one seems the hardest yet

[Varstahl]

Well, I might be wrong (as I often am) but I think we're missing something. Admittedly I stopped working on a simple substitution on the mudokan, but there might be something we overlooked. Maybe the key was in the code comments on the page where the video was embedded? Maybe that string that keeps on coming was the Vigenère key? Don't know, I'll do some more tests when I'm done working.

[Wiese]

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

GDPQOJ/QK/QCO/BCKGQP/DO/QKO/OTT

Unless I'm mistaken.

I looked up the morse again and you missed a dot.

Correction:
GDPQOJ/QK/QCO/BCKPQP/DO/QKO/OTT

[Wiese]

Also I isolated every single frame in the best quality i can get with a program.
Should I upload some zip with all of them?

[Phoetux]

Make an album on http://imgur.com instead.