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brimstoner
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 		DARK TOWER Sombra Group [Trailhead?]
So many people have posted on reddit, and other forums etc. about the Sombra App found at http://www.thesombragroup.com/. There have since been tweets by Stephen King, Idris Elba, and of course the cover of entertainment weekly that interact with this app.

What is interesting is there is an Employee Login on the app, and that has not been made available. I believe this is the trailhead for the official ARG tying into the upcoming Dark Tower Movie.

Forgive me if this has already been posted, I searched and searched and didnt see a reference to it already.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 28, 2016 4:46 pm
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catherwood
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 		in addition to your link above,
someone popped into IRC this morning with other Dark Tower links, which might be unrelated or just fan sites.
http://sombragroup.com/ (not http://www.thesombragroup.com/ )
http://northcentralpositronicsltd.com/ (not http://northcentralpositronics.com/ which was debunked here back in 2006)

PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 2016 3:00 pm
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MrSkin
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 		I was sent a link to the app this morning.

Based on the companies mentioned in the subsidiaries I have found the following sites:

http://www.thesombragroup.com/ (just the website for the app as far as I can tell)
http://www.sombrarealestate.com/ (Just shows a screen that looks like a detuned TV)
http://www.lamerkindustries.com/ (Also, just shows a screen that looks like a detuned TV)

The other companies mentioned seem to yield no useful results so far and I have tried many combinations of usernames/passwords for the login but to no avail (so far).

The app interaction with the Entertainment Weekly Dark Tower Issue cover also includes a mention of Mills Construction but google searches merely show up a couple of very legit looking companies with the same name.

I'll keep digging and monitoring the above sites but I suspect at this point we are waiting on a new tweet from one of the cast of the movie (or SK himself)!

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:34 am
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Adm_BlackCat
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 		http://www.tet-corporation.com/
https://twitter.com/TetCorporation
Add this to the growing list.
Sony Pictures Re-tweeted them during SDCC, the site has standard legal stuff at the bottom.
It is official.
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Aerobane
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 		Has anyone had any luck with the scanner? I scanned the cover of the Entertainment weekly cover found here http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/1469118997/00029399403300zz-ew1423.jpg and got some kind of flower sticking out of it. From there I noticed the card that referenced Mills Construction. Anyone else found anything like this?

Images http://imgur.com/a/E6vNk

PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:45 pm
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Christmas
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 		In the video, there is morse but I could only partially decode it - I believe it leads to:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://bigcoffinhunter.com/ - which has the same title and Crimson King eye picture as sombragroup.com


There could be more to the link in the morse, but my decoder could barely decode any of it. (From this video - http://northcentralpositronicsltd.com/nuke.mp4 about 3:15 in)

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jenni42ld
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 		Just getting started
Hey! I just saw this...very excited! I'm just starting to go through the links and clues and such here, and I am confused - I see both sombragroup.com and thesombragroup.com - are both part of this? Or only one? TheSombraGroup has the Sony Pictures all rights reserved at the bottom so I think that's definitely part of it but SombraGroup seems very arg-ish. Stuff hidden there, lots of audio, very strange. Is it a game jack?
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catherwood
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 		Re: Just getting started
jenni42ld wrote:
... I am confused - I see both sombragroup.com and thesombragroup.com - are both part of this? Or only one?


I looked at the IP address of each hosted URL and found them to be from two different sets.

50.16.141.95 (Sony Pictures)
www.thesombragroup.com
www.tet-corporation.com

198.54.114.204
www.sombragroup.com
www.sombrarealestate.com
www.lamerkindustries.com
www.northcentralpositronicsltd.com

The first set is official. I don't know where the second set came from.

And completely unrelated and fan-made is the older one, which I only mention here for completeness and clarity, not as any endorsement.
64.13.192.110
www.northcentralpositronics.com

PostPosted: Sat Aug 06, 2016 12:48 pm
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jenni42ld
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 		I did some whois looking, and the ones we're not sure of have "whoisprotect" in a bunch of the fields. Which I did not know was a thing. Weird that some sites we are sure of have Sony info and the others do not... Sad
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catherwood
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 		Bumping to relay a report from an anonymous visitor in IRC earlier today.
Quote:
I found a business card at a Barnes and Nobles.
it said SOMBRA GROUP with a stylized eagle in blue and white and beneath that logo it says Technology Corporation.
Then it says in black SOMBRA Group underlined.
Then in red letters it says TECHNOLOGY FOR A BOLD TOMORROW.
THE BUSINESS CARD is for Richard P. Sayre.
Richard.Sayer @ SOMBRAGroup.com
There is a phone number (646) 801-8670
A little girl comes on and quotes the Turtle poem from the dark tower.
On the back there is the sigu of the crimson king and something written in the high speech at the bottoml
If i knew how to put the photo on here i would show you.
I will try to figure it out and post it in unfiction


Remember, this is for the non-Sony non-official branch of this thread. Without more information (like the city) or a photo, this could merely be someone working behind the scenes at the website, trying to drum up interest.

(edit to add): At least this branch is more active and ARG-like than whatever Sony splashed and left dormant.

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Sunburned Goose
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 		http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/07/22/sdcc-deferring-to-you-here-hitmaker

You can scan this book with the app and see the same portal on the sombra website.

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catherwood
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 		I heard back from the person in IRC. They sent me scans of the business card and said they found it in Wichita (Kansas). I hate to admit that I've never read the books. Does anything here look familiar?
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:33 pm
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Nostromo
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 		http://bigcoffinhunter.com/

Video with QR code reveals text:


STOPHIM
STOPHIM
STOPHIM
STOPHIM
FINDTHETRUEPATH
STOPHIM
STOPHIM
STOPHIM
i was just a little girl, i remember it was high summer, when they brought the Master of Locks down to the Great Hall and broke the Keys between the families
STOPHIM
STOPHIM
THEYARELYINGTOYOU
STOPHIM
STOPHIM

The backside of Richard Sayre's business card reads:

/THEHANDSHAVEBEENDEALT

sombrarealestate.com
revealed this picture of a card
http://www.sombrarealestate.com/images/maerlynslights.png

http://northcentralpositronicsltd.com/

written on the wall: SEEK THE TRUTH

Morse: Still not encoded
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Lovek
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 		Ok, well, I'm logged in for the first time in years. Let's see where this takes us!
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Lovek
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catherwood wrote:
I heard back from the person in IRC. They sent me scans of the business card and said they found it in Wichita (Kansas). I hate to admit that I've never read the books. Does anything here look familiar?


Those are definitely icons from the books, but... Wichita? It would definitely make more sense to be in Topeka of all Kansas places.
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