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TalkieToaster47
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Joined: 02 Aug 2016
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 		Good evening. In this edition, Justin displaces Jim and continues taunting us with 1901 references. But first, a recent development I missed in my previous posts.

The password is behind your eye.
The ID3 tag for Red Pages Podcast Episode 77 (featuring Justin) contained the message 'The password is behind your eye'. This episode was realeased around the same time as the Joshua/Girraffe login, so initial suspicions were that it may relate to manga Uzumaki. Uzumaki contained an incident where someone's eye was absorbed by a spiral from behind , so initial investigation has been around that, but so far that has not led anywhere. Other considerations are a literal interpretation of things that are behind eyes, such as brains and optical nerves, and there's also the posibility of the clue being something much more obtuse. Considering we don't actually know what the username is, or even what the password is for (timetravel.club is the obvious choice, though we've still never solved decaytruth.info), any of these could worth persuing, along with any other avenues anyone can come up with.

Train Hot Dog Episode 63: The One Where Jim Doesn't Talk
The lastest edition of THD doesn't feature Jim at all. Instead, Justin just lists off a bunch of stuff that happened in 1901. That't right, the same 1901 that he was streaming from! Now, my history isn't great, but some of the events he mentioned don't seem to be accuarate, such as Abraham Lincoln being exumed and becoming the first Cyborg, and Alfred Nobel inventing antimatter. Annie Taylor going over Niagra Falls in a barrell is also mentioned, however we're fairly sure that actually happened. In any case, this is somthing that definitely needs further investigation.

Breaking News! - The RESIST_DECAY twitter has been overrun by Pontiff Zagmar!
It appears the resistance has fallen, repeat, THE REISITANCE HAS FALLEN!!!1!!1

It also looks like Zagmar has liberated Jim, who has presumably been held captive by the time travelers since his arrest way back in April 2014. Jim has agreed to join Zagmar's cause in exchange for his freedom!

What does this all mean? Tune in next time, when we still probably won't know! And drop by our discord channel for up to the minute updates on these developing developments.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:38 pm
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TalkieToaster47
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Joined: 02 Aug 2016
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 		And we're back. In this edition, the outcome of the Zagmar incursion, and we actually solve something!


Crisis averted!
And with the following tweets, the Zagmar incursion ends as quickly as it began.
Quote:

RESISTANCE ‏@RESIST_DECAY Aug 15
The intruders have been contained in sublevel C. We have reclaimed communications channels.

RESISTANCE ‏@RESIST_DECAY Aug 15
Intruders are recieving assistance from prisoner JC101-B. Contain and eliminate if necessary.

RESISTANCE ‏@RESIST_DECAY Aug 15
Casualties are limited. Our superior technology has triumphed.


A little worrying is the fact that prisoner JC101-B apprears to refer to one of Zagmar's earlier tweets;

Quote:
PONTIFF ZAGMAR ‏@RESIST_DECAY Aug 13
This prisoner has offered to join our cause in exchange for freedom... he claims he has been imprisoned for years.


Also featuring this image*.


Isn't he supposed to be making a game for us? Or is this an evil Jim Crawford from the darkest timeline, where no one ever figured out that Frog Fractions was awesome, leading him down a dark path of rage and resentment? The fact that he was held prisoner by the resistance ties all the way back to the start of all of this inthe ARG in April 2014, when on onlookers at UC Berkeley witnessed him arrested by time travelers for distributing bug porn. But what is his current status - have the resistance put him down, or have he and Zagmar escaped, to return when we least expect it?


The terminal
Timetravel.club was down briefly during the incursion, but it returned shortly after. When it did, Number Six's login had a new feature - a text basted terminal. Upon entering, we're greated with... another request for a username and password. We're in Number Six's login, so that's probably still his username. Unfortunately his normal password, 'revolution' doesn't work, so we're briefly stumped.


The Red Pages Podcast Patreon
Jumping to a completely different topic now. A while back, a couple of uses decided to support the Red Pages Podcast on Patreon. Thier reward has been the occasion cryptic letter in the mail. Previously they have received postcards with the message 'Help I'm a bug' on them, and I think at one point there was a note with some french poetry? Someone else can verfiy that. Anyway, so far none of it has really led anywhere, but the latest was even more suspicious - A folded piece of paper with creepy eyes hand drawn on it. On the back, was the message "The eyes have you..."



Wait, didn't we get a clue about eyes recently...?


number six/theeyeshaveyou
That's right, the password was behind our eye (see last week), and it gets us into the terminal! At the moment, there's not too much in there - typing dir gets us a list of commands, which can be played with to get a few different results. The main point of interest is two emails;

Quote:
$ read e51420813
Roth,
We've lost contact with Brown down in portal experimentation. There's something going on down there. Do you know anything?
-Croft


$ read e51420815
Roth,
The boys downstairs have really stuck their foot in it this time. A routine resource run went sideways and some crazy followed them back with a small army. That's the reason for the communications outage yesterday.

We've contained the extradimensional intruders in a lower level for now but may require military backup. Will update you soon.
-Hearn



Beyond that, there's a couple of easter eggs - (xyzzy, plugh & aptitude moo) but they all seem to be References rather than anything important.

And that's where I'm going to leave you today! I'd tell you what to expect next time, but I honestly have no idea. So I won't.

*Side note - I tried to post the image of Jim directly, but it ended up really huge and freaked me out. I couldn't be bothered figuring out how to resize it, so you just get a link.

PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 5:41 am
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bozu
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Joined: 12 Mar 2014
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 		The Indiecade 2016 box (https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Frog_Fractions_2#Indicade_2016) contained a stylized skull marble puzzle (https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=File:FF2boxmaze.jpg).

I wonder if FF2 will be at Day of the Devs this weekend.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 03, 2016 10:07 pm
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jimmc3rd
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Joined: 01 Aug 2015
Posts: 97

 		Newer things
Hey fellow Frogtions and Fractioneers! Sorry it's been a while since we've updated here on unfiction, but a lot has happened since we last posted, so here goes.

Here's a quick reminder of where you can go to hop on in:

FF2 discord: https://discord.me/ff2
Mind map (out of date, but I'll try to get it up to date) : https://www.mindmeister.com/657363408?t=T2QuVC6xXt
FF2 wiki page on Game Detectives: http://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Frog_Fractions_2
Game Detectives have been kind enough to give us a channel in their discord and wiki support. Very Happy
Other than the FF2 discord, this page is the most up to date for the FF2 ARG.

New stuff:

Late August we got some new emails in the terminal accessed from number six/theeyeshaveyou as well as the gustav email talking about Anti-sparkle suits and a possible login to the terminal.

Terminal:
Code:
$ read E51420820
Roth,
 You're so lucky being located upstairs.  It's been a real crapshow down here over the past five days.  We managed to starve the crazies out and they retreated through the portal, but we can't seem to get the thing closed.  They took the prisoner with them.  The crazy one that appears to be their leader screamed some nonsense about returning soon with more forces, so we need to get this shut down before we have an army in our base.  We can't fight a war on two fronts and the soldiers don't need this distraction from the true enemy.
  I think we may have bitten off more than we can chew with this stuff - again.  This time we can't let it turn out as badly because we won't get a third chance.  Any support the boys upstairs can provide would be greatly appreciated.
 -Hearn
$ read E51420827
No. 6,
 Speaking in my capacity as military liason to science, I want to let you know that the latest anti-sparkle suits are a rousing success.  I'll have an official report on your
 desk by Tuesday, but yesterday's field operation allowed us to directly take full exposure for half an hour with no adverse effects.  Tell the boys in the lab great work, and look out for the report soon. 
 -Lt. Samuel

Gustav email:
Code:
Howdy partner,

I just let No. 6 know that the suits worked out great, and we need like 20 more fabbed asap.  I put a work order in so you should see that coming through on your terminal, but thumbs-up on the new metamaterial.  Works great.

Stay frosty,

Samuel

PS: Did you hear about the crazy portal accident down in Research?  Those clowns almost compromised the entire base.  Nuts.

During a stream, Justin drinks a ginger beer made by Ashby Brewery, emphasizing that it's from 1901, a year which has been referenced a few times in the ARG recently.
Ashby twitter confirms the site is up to date, but they have no phone line.
https://twitter.com/AshbyBrewery/status/769951837310980096

There was also a reference to the Sombra ARG when the following showed up in the terminal:

We feel this is a joke since the skull appeared in the terminal as discord chat was talking about Game Detectives at the time, as well as a message in Cyrillic during a stream during early November (referenced below).

About mid-September Justin shows off a plain wooden box on a stream and suggests it be retrieved at Indiecade 2016.


Meanwhile, Kickstarter backers received Update 12 asking eligible backers for their picture to be included in the game as a character.

Mid-October Justin streams and reminds viewers to go to Indiecade 2016.
The box is then obtained by someone that attended Indiecade and handed off to myansar who uploads images of the opened box.
Contents include a BottlePop candy, fake moss, sand, a toy plastic maze with a day of the dead skull on it and 4 miniature skulls, one in each corner of the box under the sand.


Early November, myansar used a UV light to discover numbers and russian words both outside and inside the box, and on the skulls.
The skulls appear to have the first letters of the russian words for the 4 cardinal directions.
Cipher on top of box:


Believed to translate to "see?"


"yes/no"


Found inside the box
(translated by DukeBG)
HA HA HA! You've been tricked!
97300982289905583
We are dying from laughter


Underneath the box - it looks to me to say "zagmar knows what you are doing and we don't want your help"


Skulls
Code:
Lower right - С - North
Lower left - В - East
Upper left - Ю - South
Upper right - З - West


Box image album: http://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Frog_Fractions_2/Indiecade2016box

With getting the box from Justin, he stated the contents are different, but when asked what we should have gotten, he simply told us it was 'Top Secret"
We speculate Zagmar may have intercepted the box.

After finishing a stream on twitch, Justin posted a message on screen in Cyrillic
https://imgur.com/a/BfTxf

Which translates to:
Code:
"Security compromised...
Backup copy protocol initialized
Recieving files.
Good day
(sombra skull)
just a joke
;)
Target:
Bug Mars
citizen observation currently active
president sabotage inducing
deleting bug porn economy
See you soon, cutie!  (repeated)"


That's all for now!
Happy ARGing!

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Corv
Greenhorn

Joined: 18 Apr 2014
Posts: 3

 		There may be something encoded in typos coming up on @IsTheJigUpYet. Starting on November 3, and coming once per day, all tweets containing "Wikipedia article might be Frog Fractions 2." have contained a single extraneous character, or replaced one character from that template with a novel one. The only exception to this pattern is the tweet on November 11.

So far, those unexplained characters are as follows, with the well-formed message from the 11th shown as a question mark:
Code:
aGFja2VF?aG


https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/794298114857259008
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/794660498788720640
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/795022888948695040
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/795400376216387586
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/795762763964579840
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/796125153155543040
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/796487537091022848
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/796849925699108865
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/797574702428463105
https://twitter.com/IsTheJigUpYet/status/797937089392377856

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Xeraans
Boot


Joined: 08 Aug 2007
Posts: 40

 		This is semi-relevent, so reviving this old account to post:
For those who haven't been following the Eye Sigil ARG, it just lead to a new working username and password for http://time-travel.club/client.html

/r/gamedetectves Discord user srmeister discovered through bruteforce a working overlay for the Sigil Map onto the Firewatch word soup.

This gave us the string: "number one/elmourouj".

Discord user Randomiser discovered that it functions as a correct login to http://time-travel.club/client.html, a site known to be owned by Twinbeard (Frog Factions).

The login gives TIME TRAVEL CLUB ADMIN access to four videos of soup tasting.


french_onion.mp4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0opgc_noxg
chicken_tortilla.mp4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXOyFDFFpKk
top_ramen.mp4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNBnIwYA7_g
pasta_with_chicken.mp4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHGuaPGRyLM

Useful links:



Please excuse formatting as I edit and relearn how to BBCode. (Goodness it's been a while.)

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sparkletime
Boot

Joined: 14 Jan 2016
Posts: 10

 		ARG Update: LT HOPS NEEDS YOU
A lot occurred since the Souptasters videos and I'll attempt to summarize, but first...

A NEW EVENT IS HAPPENING IN BERKELEY ON DEC 10!
Today, the @IsTheJigUpYet twitter (I'll explain the confirmation in a bit that this is offiical) led us to https://soundcloud.com/user-751095988/14oo1010 that is titled 1400DEC10 and a cipher that decodes to DKTRUTHLOCATION.

The event should occur at 14:00 at the Berkely Bowl on December 10
Reply here or on discord to let us know if you can make it.

Stuff since Soupertasters
I'll start with some Lore stuff. After the ARGs were confirmed to be the same, journalists from Waypoint received communications from someone calling themself the Sigilmaster who proved their legitimacy by providing an unfound Sigil. The basic gist is the find the portal for somewhere called Jixlandia. Full logs of these communications are on this spreadsheet


After using hints from the box and passing the numbers through binary, Braille and the Playfair cipher (see Frog_Fractions_2/Indiecade2016box), the resulting message is go to Twitter at IsTheJigUpYet. We were already monitoring the typos and have yet to get anything out of the typos.

Within a day, a tweet led us to a youtube channel A Flesh Virtuosi Worm (anagram of From Russia With Love) with the following video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps5YniZ35Fw

The channel description is a code for "Don't forget to drink your Ovaltine", a commonly used meme in the Eye Sigil ARG community.

In the video, one of the characters is viewing another Youtube channel - The Museum of Relics of Extinct Timelines of Bug Mars. The channel's name A Fiend Bronzes Mugs is an anagram of Denizens of Bug Mars.

Each video contains information like
Code:
Artifact from timeline:
DS 41, LaS 312211
Contributor: "Nothing But Centipede Legs" NatDog Lowell
Artifact number: [destroyed by sparkles]

We're currently tracking the DS and LaS numbers using certain number ciphers to interpret them as the channel posts fairly regularly. A table about the videos can be found through here.

Here's the charming song that the above Artifact information is for, it's just worth a listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kDcPjuv0Aw

One video that was posted, CLOSED FOR REPAIRS led to a live event at a library in TN. On the self were books mentioned in the artifact descriptions and inside were slips of paper containing the end to pastebin.com/4kmVdND3. On contact using 17, we got a message quoting the french film La Jetée.

The IsTheJigUpYet twitter also tweeted out some cities that led us to the message "Your Jim is in danger goo.gl/aRsw0c" and the subsequent message at that address.

And then we come to the most recent development, the event at the Berkeley Bowl at 14:00 on Dec 10 from the tweet leading to Castor Griffin's soundcloud (the name is an anagram of Frog Fractions).


You can always look at the gamedetectives wiki for more details if needed.

Join us on discord for a very active chat about this ARG!

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sparkletime
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Joined: 14 Jan 2016
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 		Game found and confirmed!
After a lot of craziness that ended with an actual FF2 launch button, as can be found here
http://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Frog_Fractions_2#FF2_Launch_Box

The game was released and found!

We're still under the keep it secret, keep it safe mentality right now so if you want the name of the game, send me a PM and don't ruin the fun or the surprise for anyone that wants to find it!

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