SoulStorm ARG

[Pirfsich]

First two done. For the other one's I have to play to get there first. Feel free to tweet them, Connell.

EDIT: I love my shitty 1360x768 monitor <3

[edmudokon]

Hi I'm not really ed I just didn't have any ideas for a nickname, how can I help you guys

[Pirfsich]

Hi I'm not really ed I just didn't have any ideas for a nickname, how can I help you guys

Welcopme to the forum!

By screenshotting Abe rescuing 9 mudokons while wearing the scrub-outfit and tweeting the pictures to @OddworldInc, of course!

[Connell]

First two done. For the other one's I have to play to get there first. Feel free to tweet them, Connell.

Nice, Pirfsich! I'll send them over to OWI now

[Varrok]

Hi I'm not really ed I just didn't have any ideas for a nickname, how can I help you guys

Welp. If you're not ed, there goes our chance for ed to actually make an OWF account |D

[cleanshirtuk]

Well damn. Left this for a couple of days because I'm currently up to my eyeballs in moving my house and this happens. Will help where I can but won't have much time until after the weekend, anything I can help with in short bursts feel free to PM me!

[Nepsotic]

"Hey it's fucking Clean Shirt!"
"Clean Shirt? Isn't that good?"

Welp. If you're not ed, there goes our chance for ed to actually make an OWF account |D

It probably is him, he's trying to pull a fast one on us!

[Connell]

Hi I'm not really ed I just didn't have any ideas for a nickname, how can I help you guys

That's the sort of thing the REAL edmudokon would say!!

In all seriousness, welcome

I feel like the real Ed wouldn't make an account here anyway, a certain distance kind of has to be kept between "us and them" to make the ARG feel real, which is what they're going to great lengths to achieve.

EDIT: On a side note, I wonder what exactly it is that OWI "isn't telling us". All of his recent messages to us have really been pushing this notion we're being kept in the dark and they aren't telling us something. What do you guys think it is?

[Pirfsich]

EDIT: On a side note, I wonder what exactly it is that OWI "isn't telling us". All of his recent messages to us have really been pushing this notion we're being kept in the dark and they aren't telling us something. What do you guys think it is?

Microtransactions.


No, seriously. I think it's a big gameplay or story element that's new or completely altered in comparison to Exoddus.

[Manco]

Not sure I can do better via the wiki to get more people to help.

There’s also that shitty Paramite puzzle and the group of Mudokons at the very end of the Zulag 1 return, but no one is crazy enough to put themselves through those for a screenshot.

Edit: I did it.

[Fatherbrain30]

I can probably imagine that there is a major character we don't know/know little about, and the ARG will reveal that.

Maybe Sam?

[Xavier]

I'm such a cunning fox:

@oddworldinc happy "Scrub Abe saving 9 Mudokons at once" day! #SAS9MAOD #Party #NotSuspicious https://t.co/iPzCkHulxu

— Xavier De Coster (@zulag) April 6, 2016

I'm counting 12 screenshots sent to @OddworldInc

[Connell]

Woo! My favourite holiday of the year!

I hope there's some challenges involving screengrabs from the original Exoddus. Now THERE'S something I can get behind. Although I might have to just take a picture of the TV... the good old days before consoles could screenshot

[Manco]

Woo! My favourite holiday of the year!

I hope there's some challenges involving screengrabs from the original Exoddus. Now THERE'S something I can get behind. Although I might have to just take a picture of the TV... the good old days before consoles could screenshot

Exoddus is only a few bucks on Steam, get in there you tightwad

[Connell]

Exoddus is only a few bucks on Steam, get in there you tightwad

I think I do actually own them on one steam account somewhere. But if there is a challenge I will definitely grab them on my current account. Do they have Mac support? I remember way back when they didn't.

Plot twist: The last piece of the puzzle is 75 screengrabs from "Oddworld Adventures" printed out on the GameBoy printer.

[Manco]

Do they have Mac support? I remember way back when they didn't.

Nope. However they’ll run on anything past Windows 98!

or you could just OpenEmu like I’m doing on my current run

Plot twist: The last piece of the puzzle is 75 screengrabs from "Oddworld Adventures" printed out on the GameBoy printer.

SoulStorm is actually a remake of Oddworld Adventures 2

[TafuSeler]

"There was a deeper, darker, and more sinister story that we never got to tell," explains series creator, Lorne Lanning. "Soulstorm gives us the opportunity to flesh out more meat on the bones of an original spine, but re-tell the fable from a very different angle." - wiki

I'm guessing this ARG is going to hint on the darker side of Exoddus, maybe Ed will play some major/minor role in it. Necrum Mines is a gloomy place so i hope it goes towards the creepy way rather than the futuristic/neon one.

[Snukm]

SoulStorm is actually a remake of Oddworld Adventures 2

Hahahahahaha xD

[Varrok]

Maybe Ed is the blind guy Abe kills in the AE cutscene

[Manco]

That’s been my theory from day 1.

Anyway, I added a bunch more Scrubshots over the past few hours – there’s a handful of opportunities in Zulags 3 and 4.

[Connell]

Brilliant. Does anyone have an idea of the count at the minute? I just saw 12 tagged to OWI from browsing through on Twitter, but I could be wrong. I don't think I saw any of Acedude's. Have all the ones we've compiled been sent in?

[acedude]

Brilliant. Does anyone have an idea of the count at the minute? I just saw 12 tagged to OWI from browsing through on Twitter, but I could be wrong. I don't think I saw any of Acedude's. Have all the ones we've compiled been sent in?

The ones in my imgur album have all been sent in. I gave up on adding to it because I thought there were 25 unique locations but I think that's wrong. I sent in my 5 (@ace2826), Manco I believe sent in 7, and there are more from other people. It's hard to keep count.

[Pirfsich]

Maybe we can ask Ed for help? A two-digit-number is not important for them and they won't notice... *cough* *cough*

[edmudokon]

I haven't got the scrub outfit, but can anyone take screenshots with abe chanting like 1 or 2 step backwards so that the pic isn't exactly the same, so that I can upload them with my twitter account?

[Connell]

I haven't got the scrub outfit, but can anyone take screenshots with abe chanting like 1 or 2 step backwards so that the pic isn't exactly the same, so that I can upload them with my twitter account?

That's a rather naughty way of doing things. We have reason to believe that the guys at OWI are observing this thread, so they'll be on to the plan already What does everyone think of doing that?

[Pirfsich]

Well, if we do that, we could have just ripped screenshots from let's plays right from the start... I don't approve this, we will get 25 screenshots.

[Connell]

Well, if we do that, we could have just ripped screenshots from let's plays right from the start... I don't approve this, we will get 25 screenshots.

I agree. Let's give this ARG our all.

[Xavier]

Manco is on fire. I'm counting 15 screenshots.

[Connell]

Coming along nicely! You have no idea how tempted I am to buy N'n'T for Mac... If there was a sale on I'd probably go for it.

OWI: The only company on the planet I'd buy the same game from 17 times.

[mouthbeast]

So, the chat box has a new look.



I assume nothing else has changed, but if anyone wants to run all the current phrases through it again, feel free to do so.