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Found this on the tube... very intrigued

Cherry@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:54:57 +0000

Hi everyone,

I'm a tube driver on the London Underground and when I was walking through my empty train on Sunday night at about 11.30 I found a sealed envelope with a black bird on the front. Inside was a A4 piece of paper with "do you know who i am before i gone missing ?" on it. It looks like it was done on a typewriter but there's no indentation on the back, so it's been printed. (Same with the bird actually).
There is also a black and white photo of a man leaning on a car by a field. It seems like a genuine old photo. On the back this is written - " Nry Gt. Yarmouth. Aug 15-22. 19Yo"

So I've done a bit of googling but I have no idea what I'm doing to be honest. I've also searched this forum but can't seem to find anything. Sorry if I've done anything wrong - very, very new to this (never heard of ARGs or trailheads before yesterday..!) I want to find out what this is - whether it's a project or advertising or whatever! Any tips on what to do next would be gratefully received!

[Trailhead] Year Zero Patient 2

jenni42ld@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:00:57 +0000

https://twitter.com/nineinchnails/status/886981398602502144

Roomer has it p2 may be coming

[edit - updated the title to the thread - kona]

Possible Twin Peaks trail head?

u05mpb@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:48:30 +0000

Not sure if this has been posted already, or is of interest, but http://welcometotwinpeaks.com/theories/flickering-airplane-windows-code/

Update

Pixiestix@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 00:02:24 +0000

I have called the number, and it seems that it is off the hook. Has anything significant happened?

[Trailhead] Ascend

MsDirection@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:10:38 +0000

Received the following link without further comment. Multi-lingual video of a cultist "Ascensionism" religion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFhSVFU-r_k

[trailhead] S.V.V.

CuriosityKitten@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 22:16:45 +0000

This ARG centers around Applicants joining the S.V.V. or Sodalitas Vulturis Volantis. Which roughly translates to the Brotherhood of the Flying Vulture or Brotherhood of "Altair". Vultur Volans is also the name of the star Altair, one of the brightest stars in the night sky (wikipedia). Altair seems to be a central theme to this ARG.

The S.V.V. is apparently an "outer order" of the Department of Convolution, which is using the internet to find recruits. Something they don't typically do.

Players begin by submitting their application from humanisbeing.com/application . After which the Secretary e-mails them some details. Shortly after the Chancellor e-mails the applicant a clue or puzzle.

Applicants are then put through a series of tests, some are cryptograms (ranging from substitution ciphers to steganography;or integer sequences to musical cryptograms; or made up alphabets to DNA/RNA encoding turned into ciphers). Some puzzles are for all players, while others are individualized tasks - given to each player based on the way they answer some questions. Some tasks are for anyone capable of completing them (i.e., actually playing some musical pieces on a real instrument - we tried submitting a midi, was not accepted haha).

A player has found an object in Northern San Diego after going to the location of a tweet; another object was found in a library in Zurich. One object had symbols and a phone number, while the other contained the message "Tell the Chancellor 'The Wedding will commence'" in German. Unknown objects/clues may be at other locations @svulturvolans has tweeted imgur.com/a/9hhpd

After Applicants pass the first couple of tests they are "Knighted" and given a "Name". Each Name corresponds to one of the 72 Names of God according to a Kabbalistic tradition. Players are asked to "transmit" their Name, after which it is added to a chart on humanisbeing.com/72 .

There's also a youtube channel with strange videos. And a soundcloud with strange music.

For more info check out the discord we're active on: https://discord.gg/VKaxFbq

We're making a wiki for it here: http://oldwlf.wikia.com/wiki/Special:AllPages

[edit]

K, that's all! We really could use more players and help with some of these puzzles.

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Edit: April 2nd.

I'm editing this post cause I don't want to keep posting things below and said I'd give an update.

So, some additional findings:
departmentofconvolution.com
odlwvlf youtube channel
oldwvlf soundcloud
Maria Padhalia facebook - the "Secretary of the Northern Jurisdiction"
SVV facebook page
"docleaks" - A "hacker" who may or may not be a character has a dropbox and twitter and has been "releasing" things he found when he hacked the SVV. Apparently there are government connections. raw e-mail files, etc

There's stuff hidden in the website html, like you click on view - developer - and then there's code behind the code.

[Trailhead] LEVELS

CuriosityKitten@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 21:41:31 +0000

https://levels.your-host.xyz/

IT HAS BEGUN

_______________________________________________

TO THE MODS: We are aware there is another topic on your forum about our project. However it primarily discusses events prior to our temporary shut-down, and what we are now is nothing like we were then. (Nor is that topic even titled with our correct name.) Discussion here would be much more appropriate, as people would not have to bypass 10+ pages of incorrect information to find what is now valid.

Additionally, many still believe that we never resumed our project, and though that topic is still active, when searching for us on Google, the date that displays does not reflect this, as it is dated previous to our shut-down.

We ask that you please contact us before deleting or merging this topic. We are simply attempting to correct the outdated and incorrect information we are finding and, today, to announce a significant addition to our project. We appreciate your assistance with these attempts.

[TRAILHEAD] What's In The Box?

Rogi Ocnorb@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 04:48:40 +0000

Here's a video. Some nice effects, a frantic kind of disaster Half-Life feel to it. Definitely not Valve as you can tell from the white coveralls later on. Enjoyable to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU_reTt7Hj4

The description on the youtube page gives http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/

Mousing over the box gives some kind of weird text that breifly flashes on the cube itself:

And causes question marks to appear over particular letters in the "credits" section.

The page source contains the note:
Every medium, as its ancestors
Every pro, has his anti's, now you think about that

Which so far only seems to yield this:
http://www.whatsinthebox.nl/anti.jpg

Which isn't very helpful.

I'd say there's definitely a puzzle here of some kind, but looking at the names on the "credits" it seems to be something unaffiliated with Valve. Thoughts?

(Credit to Relicnews dolts for getting it this far)

Moderator's Note: For a quick overview of what has happened in What's In The Box so far, see thebruce's wonderful article here ~ varin

UNFICTION IS ON THE VERGE OF CLOSING!!!!!

Rogi Ocnorb@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 03:25:47 +0000

[Trailhead] Project WT

MsDirection@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:06:12 +0000

Not clever rabbit hole but in private this link and the following message was dropped into my mail box: http://www.project-wt.com/

"It's the countdown to a new, large-scale ARG launching this summer, starting with 16 radio stations across the world. It's being produced by veteran puppet masters and includes NPCs, actors, live events and much more... "

Looks like various cities around North America will have events (alas, not Las Vegas).