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gimlet
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I haven't assumed they were divorced at Megan's 13th - just that they might have been. We don't know when they separated, just that they did. I was just building a narrative to help along my "mind palace" as it were, and in the narrative I was building it made sense.

Howard keeping secrets could be the reason his wife split up with him as likely as it is something he did after the split.

I've just noticed it's a common trope for the divorced Dad who secretly spoils his kids. The reasoning usually being that he doesn't get to spend much time with them so he wants the time they do spend together to be special. "Don't tell your mother." The mom with custody usually hates this because she has to be the realistic disciplinarian. It's not necessarily what's happening here, but given what we do know it fits nicely. And I've seen it happen way too many times. It's cliche.

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DougBThree
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gimlet wrote:
It could just a random coincidence - or an argument for FAPT being out of game as much as the realty company being in game :/


Regarding the confidence of FAPT being IG, it's worth mentioning that Dennis at CloverfieldClues.com, who is credited with discovering the Employee of the Month pages at tagruato.jp, states in a P.S. to his post about the FAPT site that he was initially skeptical that it was IG, but later confirmed that it was. I asked in a comment how he was able to confirm it, and he responded that he spoke to someone at Paramount/Bad Robot.

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CynAnne
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ljm wrote:
I don't actually think this is a lead, I've already flipped the image around a couple times and don't see anything, but it's driving me crazy that the "K" in the right side of the bead letters image has the "arm" of the K stemming off of the leg, when the leg typically stems off of the same point on the vertical line of a K or off of the arm. Given that the missing beads spell "MEGAN" I thought I would look at it a little closer.

It actually makes the "K" look like it's been flipped vertically:



So, I pulled the image and flipped it vertically and didn't see anything that jumped out at me. What I did eventually notice is that the "K" bead in the white beads is what I would call normal, where as the "K" bead in the bottom left well of round letter beads also has the weird arm-off-leg. So that basically ended that lead for me because it shows that it's just a quirk of the bead manufacturer and not an intentional edit. Also found multiple real life bead products with the same weird shaped K.

I also noticed that in the image of the star shaped boxes there are three letter beads in the boxes, R O and C. I doubt it means anything because that looks like a stock image, but figured I would call it out.


In that too-weird video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXFpHIs7mIo ), at 2:05 in the clip whoever the girl is opens the third white box...which is filled with loose blue beads (and what appear to be pliers or snips used for jewelry-making). Letters of the alphabet have been 'snipped' from words throughout the messages...

Hmmmm.

Confused

(*edited to finish train of thought)

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Falco
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damn it feels like we are either WAY far behind from where we should be or this game is way bigger than we think cause bad robot and dan trachtenberg are out here admitting things left and right. what is this nonsense lol

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.js.map

AntaresMHD wrote:
Just to clarify a few things: the analysis I did posts ago of the source code I did it as a web developer, and I was fairly certain the answer wouldn't have been able to be deciphered from it since the field POST data is sent and compared directly into the server, no way to bruteforce it directly.
I did find that chat.js.map file suspicious and I am curious no one has brought it up anywhere else, because it does have a piece of data that doesn't seem to have a specific function in the validation form, other than that I doubt that's the way to go, we gotta crack it in the traditional way.
Like it says in the source code, "Megan wouldn't go there".


My js-foo is not strong, but its my understanding that map files are just references to the original code, vs the code generated when the .js is called. I looked through it and didn't see anything weird. the AAA,AACA... are base64 encoded references to lines,columns, and files (line 1, column one of generated code equates to line 2, column 16 in example.js) but I'm at work and haven't had a chance to dig any deeper.

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IronJ146
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It seems with the type of character they're painting for Howard, his gift would be something deliberately unrelated to anything to keep it secret or something for survival. Probably both. I'm assuming it would be on the FAPT page in some puzzle form, but maybe that's exactly why it wouldn't be there. Maybe there wasn't an answer in the code because there's another piece we're missing or it's not been revealed yet?

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Melodyman
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It feels as though we may have caught up to where they wanted us to be after 3 weeks since the announcement/trailer.. Granted things will hopefully move along faster than the past due to the short lead time.. But it sure is great to have any game again..

Looked at TIDO wave, Le Bandid Vert and Les Guerres de Mere-Terre but no changes so far...(xcept Tidowave web site is still active)

Its cool that they expected those from the first ARG to still have the bookmarks 8 years on to email them and get a prepared response.. Now to see whaer Swamp Pops puzzle pieces fit in.. Neat!

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kosmopol
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I suppose, the t543w.jpg can be used as a sign for (non)activity of an ingame website.



Tagruato has removed the sign - and the things are going on. Other pages are sealed (=not active/related for this ARG).
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unclear
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kosmopol wrote:
I suppose, the t543w.jpg can be used as a sign for (non)activity of an ingame website.



Tagruato has removed the sign - and the things are going on. Other pages are sealed (=not active/related for this ARG).

This is what I took them removing the symbol to mean, and I agree it implies the other sites are not part of the game this time around. I bet when they took down the symbol on tag.jp is when they put up the /employeeofthemonth page, just took us a few days to find it!

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IronJ146 wrote:
It seems with the type of character they're painting for Howard, his gift would be something deliberately unrelated to anything to keep it secret or something for survival. Probably both. I'm assuming it would be on the FAPT page in some puzzle form, but maybe that's exactly why it wouldn't be there. Maybe there wasn't an answer in the code because there's another piece we're missing or it's not been revealed yet?


Don't know if this has been mentioned before, but in Howards letter to Megan, the word 'your' is misspelled as 'yoru'...which translates to 'night' or 'evening' in Japanese.

http://www.behindthename.com/name/yoru/submitted

Tried using 'yoru', 'night' and 'evening' as the 2nd passwords...nothing yet.

Drat. Sad

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bermudalife
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unclear wrote:
kosmopol wrote:
I suppose, the t543w.jpg can be used as a sign for (non)activity of an ingame website.



Tagruato has removed the sign - and the things are going on. Other pages are sealed (=not active/related for this ARG).

This is what I took them removing the symbol to mean, and I agree it implies the other sites are not part of the game this time around. I bet when they took down the symbol on tag.jp is when they put up the /employeeofthemonth page, just took us a few days to find it!


Yeah, I was trying to confirm that same theory, but couldn't find dates of when those symbols started showing up on the sites.

Are we thinking that they put it on the back of that Missing Teddy Hanssen pic in order to show that the blog from Alyse was done too? That's the only one that stood out as kind of weird, since it was associated with a specific picture, instead of a site.

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I keep going back to the Eiffel tower picture on FaPT since the tower plays such a large part in the trailer. I also think this is not a picture of a tower in a specific location but is a smaller (assumption on it being small) representation photographed in front of the mountain background, looking at the picture after converting to gray scale and lighten it up some the tower appears to be sitting on top of something (looks globe shaped) and that there is a star emblem with bodies laying around it...? what do you all see?

Pic:


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LockNLoad wrote:
I keep going back to the Eiffel tower picture on FaPT since the tower plays such a large part in the trailer. I also think this is not a picture of a tower in a specific location but is a smaller (assumption on it being small) representation photographed in front of the mountain background, looking at the picture after converting to gray scale and lighten it up some the tower appears to be sitting on top of something (looks globe shaped) and that there is a star emblem with bodies laying around it...? what do you all see?

I think the general consensus is that it's a miniature of the Eiffel tower, photographed in front of a window.

~~~~~ Image removed from quote, see previous post. ~ Pixie

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What lies beneath...

LockNLoad wrote:
I keep going back to the Eiffel tower picture on FaPT since the tower plays such a large part in the trailer. I also think this is not a picture of a tower in a specific location but is a smaller (assumption on it being small) representation photographed in front of the mountain background, looking at the picture after converting to gray scale and lighten it up some the tower appears to be sitting on top of something (looks globe shaped) and that there is a star emblem with bodies laying around it...? what do you all see?


Underneath the tower looks to me like a badge or medal with a star in the center and some sort of laurel wreath or filigree detail around it.

~~~~~ Image removed from quote, see previous post. ~ Pixie

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Any thoughts on this Tumblr?

http://boldfutura.tumblr.com/

No idea if it's IG or even remotely related, but the only post was made on January 27th, so...

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