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Ghosty
Greenhorn
Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Posts: 6
Silver Ladder kicking off once more? possible new ARG Hey guys,
Today as I turned on Facebook, a guy by the name of Uno Hallucinine posted the following link:
http://www.silverladder.com/13.html
Knowing this is the guy who did the ARG for the '9' movie, I am now a bit lost in the rabbit hole he put before me. Am I mistaken it's a an ARG or am I actually on the right track? As a newbie to this sort of thing, it is quite confusing.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
If you click the right eye of the gasmask, you'll be taken to this video on youtube, which can also be found on his channel 'Silver Ladder'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9KBvNhk7IQ
If you click the left eye, you are taken to a page with the text:
The host harbors the parasite.
When clicking on the final word, you are taken to a page with the text:
Just remember, you invited me in.
I couldn't find anything, so I highlighted the page and saw the shape of a man's face, almost like a mug shot.
After this, I have been unable to find anymore clues.
In reply to his post, someone posted this:
http://silverladder.com/links/badscary/nocry/ruby.htm
Talk about a rabbit hole alright!
So, is there a sequel coming to '9'? It seems awfully in the same style.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:10 pm
Ghosty
Greenhorn
Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Posts: 6
this is what I have been able to figure out from the video link:
I recorded the audio, then reversed it to find the woman is speaking some kind of code language, it being:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
W K L U W H H Q space
D U L V L Q J stop
I U R P space
W K H space
J K R VW space
R I space
H O H Y H Q stop
W K H space
E B K H V space
K D Y H space
F R R O H G
I am unfamiliar with the type of code here, any thoughts?
[edit - moved spoiler tag so we know what is being spoiled - kona]
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:17 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Ghosty wrote:
this is what I have been able to figure out from the video link:
I recorded the audio, then reversed it to find ...
{block}
I am unfamiliar with the type of code here, any thoughts?
first, welcome to unfiction.
second, if you are posting spoilers, just hide the data, do not hide the descriptive text which would let someone know what is being hidden, so they know whether or not to take a peek.
third, if this is a new game (or a new chapter or trail, even for an old game), you'll get more eyes on it in our News & Rumors section, rather that posting in the archives. (my personal pet peeve is that archives should be a vault where no posting should be possible anyway.)
lastly, your block of "code" is easily solved.
data and solution
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Step one is to smash it all into word lengths:
WKLUWHHQ DULVLQJ . IURP WKH JKRVW RI HOHYHQ . WKH EBKHV KDYH FRROHG
Step two is a simply ROT substitution:
THIRTEEN ARISING . FROM THE GHOST OF ELEVEN . THE BYHES HAVE COOLED
Hang out here long enough and you'll learn to throw blocks of cipher text into all sorts of standard decription tools. (also, I will ask a moderator to move this thread to the News section. I see many more pages to load beyond this rabbithole.)
{returned later to add}
I see MANY MANY more pages to load beyond this rabbithole. Backtracking to the home index, I find both "13" and "badscary" as only two of twelve possible branches, each with its own trail of links to follow. I have not yet determined whether any of this is new content or just something old that was recently brought up again.
Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:53 pm
Pixiestix
Resident Angry Midget
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 2465 Location: Tomorrow's Talk Studios
FTR you did EXACTLY the right thing by posting here and not starting a thread in News & Rumors. I'll pass it along to the other Mods&Admins that the game is maybe back and someone will look into if it needs to move out of archives.
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:47 am
mmdoogie
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Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 91 Location: Huntsville, AL
Hi Ghosty, and others...
I too saw that note from Uno the other day but just got around to looking at it last night. I found a lot of different paths, but none that really lead anywhere as far as I could tell.
Today, he posted another message on Facebook. "Samuel is merely a crimson fish." along with a link to a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRrlboVUduk
The messages in the video and description lead me to believe there will definitely be something coming along sometime.
The message in the video:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
is a standard pigpen cipher.
Decoding it you get PXZNZEPCZX
They painted it from right-to-left, so reverse the letters to XZCPEZNZXP
Do a ROT-15 on that and you get MORE TO COME.
ROT-15 is slightly interesting to me, perhaps the 15 is a hint to date?
The message in the description:
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is standard morse code using x for dit and o for day.
Substituting gives you:
.- - .- .-.. .- - . .-. -.. .- - .
.. -. .- -.. .. ..-. ..-. . .-. . -. - .-- .- -.--
-. --- - .. -. - .... . ... .- -- . .--. .-.. .- -.-. . ... .- ... -... . ..-. --- .-. .
Which translates out to:
AT A LATER DATE
IN A DIFFERENT WAY
NOT IN THE SAME PLACES AS BEFORE
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:13 am
mmdoogie
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Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 91 Location: Huntsville, AL
Meh, just noticed that the video although recently linked was over a year old.
Also interesting, the video title:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
means "free books in the future"
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:20 am
Ghosty
Greenhorn
Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Posts: 6
I messaged the ARGnet about what I found on Facebook, who prompted me to this thread, hence I posted it in here. As a new face, I am unaware of how true ARG players work but I'm definitely interested to learning this particular type of game. It's caught my attention definitely.
Been a bit out of it this week due to massive heaps of work I had to do ( gigging and whatnot), but I'm noticing I need to learn more on encoding and whatnot. So far all I found was a reply by Uno to the post he made for the Youtube link ( posted it twice, in fact) that simply said '13'. I'm thinking it might be for something that will come out this year, but what it is I am having difficulty figuring out. He's obscuring it quite nicely.
Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:06 pm
lavender0129
Greenhorn
Joined: 01 Oct 2013 Posts: 6 Location: Ontario
Is there a trailhead thread for this somewhere?
Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:01 am
Pixiestix
Resident Angry Midget
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 2465 Location: Tomorrow's Talk Studios
lavender0129 wrote:
Is there a trailhead thread for this somewhere?
This is it. So far, I'm seeing that something is a year old? Either way, waiting on Admins to move it out of archives if it needs to be.
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:20 am
Ghosty
Greenhorn
Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Posts: 6
Surprised to find this having been uploaded a week ago, though I keep wondering if I haven't seen this uploaded before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBeUImeafbQ
I shall be honest and state I have no idea what is being written there, so I imagine it being a cypher.
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:46 pm
Ghosty
Greenhorn
Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Posts: 6
I should check my Youtube responses more often, but that's what you get when you're a busy man!
Apparently eight months ago I received a message from Silverladder:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
BCJWMKH OXA CAJWBVRBBRXW
I'm assuming this is a ROT cipher, but I can't seem to figure out what it means. Anyone who can help me out on this one?
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 8:50 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
Ghosty wrote:
Apparently eight months ago I received a message from Silverladder:
...
I'm assuming this is a ROT cipher, but I can't seem to figure out what it means. Anyone who can help me out on this one?
The fastest way to test your theory is to plug the string into a massive ROT engine. A good one is hosted right here on Unfiction. You'll get a page with all 26 possible shift values, which makes it easy to spot the correct solution.
http://www.unfiction.com/resource/rot-it/
(but if you got the message 8 months ago, it may be stale.)
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 7:59 pm
Shad0
I Have No Life
Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 2180 Location: Southern California, USA
Re: Silver Ladder kicking off once more? ROT cipher
Ghosty wrote:
Apparently eight months ago I received a message from Silverladder:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
BCJWMKH OXA CAJWBVRBBRXW
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
ROT-17: STANDBY FOR TRANSMISSION
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 12:38 am
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