SoulStorm ARG - Spirit of 1029 - Photo 1

[Scrabaniac]

Theres an Audio file and an image on oddworld.com/soulstorm!

[SgabbitGabbiar]

Website has updated : https://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/

and there's a image and a audio file to download:

https://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/1...9_01_audio.mp3

[Xavier]

It's on!

Go on Oddworld.com/soulstorm now!

.@OddworldInc the evidence is clear. Heed our call. Spread our message. Save our species.

— SPIRIT OF 1029 (@SPIRITOF1029) January 19, 2017

[SgabbitGabbiar]

i'm pretty sure the voices in the audio file are the Weirdos

[Xavier]

Clearly some morse code in the audio as well.

And some code in the page

<--
    
72   99
  \  /
   27  45
    \  /
     18  39
      \  /
       21  36
        \  /
         ??  28
          \  /
           13  21
            \  /
             7

-->

<--   
    
16 _ 37 _ 58 _ 89 _ 145 _ 42 _ ?? _ 4
|_________________<_________________|   
    
-->

[Connell]

I'm currently out of the house with rubbish internet so I won't be able to dig in until later, but it looks like there's lots to do! Get stuck in guys

[Scrabaniac]

The ?? in the first set of numbers is 15, if we are meant to find it's value.

[Xavier]

Oh my...

Is Abe in the background now moving?

[Scrabaniac]

He is!! And every now and then he pulls a shocked looking face

[Connell]

Might be an idea to jump on the Twitter conversation and direct any potentially interested people over here? I'd do it but I can barely manage to get on here haha. This might grab waaay more people's attention so it'd be good to have all the efforts centralized here.

[Scrabaniac]

Ok i've solved the number sequence:
16 _ 37 _ 58 _ 89 _ 145 _ 42 _ *20* _ 4
|_________________<_________________|

-->

[Phoetux]

I think that GIF represents everyone in this moment. Let's see if I can help somehow for real this time.

[Xavier]

Might be an idea to jump on the Twitter conversation and direct any potentially interested people over here? I'd do it but I can barely manage to get on here haha. This might grab waaay more people's attention so it'd be good to have all the efforts centralized here.

Done:

@SPIRITOF1029 @OddworldInc Investigation has started, help us here: https://t.co/rTOEXSGNtg

— Xavier De Coster (@zulag) January 19, 2017

The ?? in the first set of numbers is 15, if we are meant to find it's value.

Yeah, that's absolutely right, it's each time the right number minus the left number.

<--
    
72   99
  \  /
   27  45
    \  /
     18  39
      \  /
       21  36
        \  /
      *15*  28
          \  /
           13  21
            \  /
             7

-->

Ok i've solved the number sequence:
16 _ 37 _ 58 _ 89 _ 145 _ 42 _ *20* _ 4
|_________________<_________________|

-->

For the sake of clarity can you share the logic?

[Scrabaniac]

The number sequence is determined by taking the sums of the squares of the digits of the previous terms, hence the ?? after 145_ is 20

Edit: The full sequence is 2, 4, 16, 37, 58, 89, 145, 42, 20, 4, 16, 37, 58, 89, 145, 42, 20, 4 and loops indefinitely.

I believe the formula is known as A000216.

[Xavier]

The number sequence is determined by taking the sums of the square roots of the digits of the previous terms, hence the ?? after 145_ is 20

Edit: The full sequence is 2, 4, 16, 37, 58, 89, 145, 42, 20, 4, 16, 37, 58, 89, 145, 42, 20, 4 and loops indefinitely.

You mean you have to sum the squares of each digit to get the next number (not the square root)

Nicely done

[Scrabaniac]

Yes thats correct haha

[Connell]

Wow, I don't think I'd ever have got anything like that. Looks like they're really stepping up the game this time round. Bet they're still gobsmacked that you guys got that so quickly haha. The question is what do we do with those solved numbers? I haven't listened to the audio or looked at the picture attached. Does it shed any light on any of those? Can't wait to get home.

[Silver angel]

In the first sequence of numbers, the last line is wrong: 21-13=8 not 7. Strange.

[Phoetux]

I'm analyzing the audio rn. I can hear a mudokon-like voice, maybe more than one I can't tell, screaming something. All the words I figured out are "Hello?!" and "somebody?!...". I'll try to figure out more.
If I can I'll isolate the voice(s) and upload it here for you all.

[Nicky Ali]

Managed to make a GIF of Abe himself.



This is the video in full, but the quality took a hit I think.

[Xavier]

In the first sequence of numbers, the last line is wrong: 21-13=8 not 7. Strange.

Yeah we might have been too fast:

https://dodona.ugent.be/en/exercises/1191761379/

looks like the answer is 12

<--
    
72   99
  \  /
   27  45
    \  /
     18  39
      \  /
       21  36
        \  /
      *12*  28
          \  /
           13  21
            \  /
             7

-->

Managed to get a GIF of Abe himself.

Well the file is on their server right here:

https://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/AbeRT.gif

[Scrabaniac]

Damn! well at least i know the second sequence is correct

[mlg man]

Fixed up the first image

[Nicky Ali]

Well the file is on their server right here:

https://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/AbeRT.gif

The feels when you wasted your time making a GIF but they already did your job for you 😐

[Xavier]

Fixed up the first image

Nice work!

looks like all the horizontal black boxes should be flipped horizontally and have their colour inverted.

[PenguinX45654]

Did some shifting around with that altered image, found 2 symbols:

EDIT: Just seen at the bottom of the previous post about flipping the black boxes. If it helps, I didn't flip the black box for what I uncovered, just moved it. Might help with the other black boxes.

[OWI_Alex]

Hi guys.

[Xavier]

Hi Alex, are you here to help? I hear some Mudokons are being mistreated.

[OWI_Alex]

Hi Alex, are you here to help? I hear some Mudokons are being mistreated.

You can probably hear lots of things.

[V_O_T]

Those facial animations look fantastic, hypetrain.exe is running.

Alex, care to share something with the rest of the class while you're visiting?