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[^BonoVox^]

Well, I can't speak English in an excellent way but I'll do my best since ARGs are great! So... Count me in!

Did anyone tried looking for embedded data in the video screenshot posted on the page where you can actually download the video? I looked roughly at the html but it seems there's nothing interesting.

Also, I notice that in the header of the mail Sente sent us there is a sort of linkage with unfiction but I suppose it's only functional to the game and not really meaningful.

Guys, I'll do my best, maybe I could only give you some advice (have you tried this and that...) but I hope to be helpful

[brat-sampson]

Can't believe I was away the day this started. Typical.

Anyway, looks like a japanese video and irritatingly brief ad taken out on the USA Today should be enough to keep us pondering and theorising for about another 3 months. (Just look at how long the postcard lasted!)

Just thinking, should we be working on trying to use the info they give us in the papers to decifer the blank spaces in the video?

I'll be sure to pick up copys of the UK papers as and when they come out.

[^BonoVox^]

Also... Why does the words "the cube" have a great space between them in the last shot? Wouldn't anyone write them closer to each other?

[tanner]

in total cities mentioned or inferred on all sites and pics and vids --- melbourne - singapore -- istanbul (ataturk airport) -- london -- tokyo

anywhere else?

[Mikeyj]

Some wild spec

[Seej]

OK, here's what I've got from this so far - the Japanese of the signs seems to be pretty much innocent as far as the few bits I can translate go. I don't actually think it's got any more relevant information than a drive through Picadilly Circus or Times Square would have (though I admit my skills are rusty).

I tried running the video through stegdetect before remembering that stegdetect only works on jpegs. Did the same on the still image from the video download page but got a negative. I then opened the video and the jpeg in a hex editor to look for anything interesting. Again, I couldn't see anything, though since there's a heck of a lot of data to scroll though it's possible that I missed something.

Lastly, if we take the blackouts on the video to be a 1 if there's a newspaper reference and 0 if it's blank we get the binary number 11100100001 which is 1825 in decimal. Means nothing to me ATM, but maybe it'll come in useful in future.

My personal feeling is that this is the start of the game for the people who haven't been massively over-analysing the few scraps of data we already have - just an intro/trailhead for them without any more data than what we've already established, though I would dearly love to be wrong

EDIT: more info on stegdetect results here

[Mikeyj]

I'm not so sure...We get extra snippets each time and I think we haven't synthesised these properly yet. There are bits we don't understand about everything even without the over analysis that has definitely been occurring



Mikey

[g_rott]

11 black screens some with text, also 11 messages in http://www.perplexcity.com/tmp/httpd/errorlog/ there may be nothing in it but should we miss it we'll be kicking ourselves. i have a day in the lab but thankfully have a connection. So whilst my little guinea pigs tap buttons and squeak with joy i can stare blankly at the possiblitly of a possible puzzle, that may infact not be there. Yet still i'll stare.

g_

[Mikeyj]

see e-mail thread with

one year one month one day.

[firefox]

okay, just noticed. the gap at the end of the video between 'the' and 'cube' is explained because theres a word blanked out- or purposely not written, its debatable see how its whiter than the rest of the paper.


the soup thickens.

guess you guys already knew, just answering someone elses question on a separate? thread.

edit: added screen cap for those who cant view video

[Black Cat]

Re: USA Today

[Mikeyj]

With the voice-over being a girl and this Sente's communication does this lend credence to the suggestion that Sente is a female lady?

[firefox]

it doth say master, and not mistress on the recent email. but then again, who knows. maybe shes a modern-business-woman-type.

[KSG]

Or they worked together on whatever the text is from, or it's just supposed to sound cool, or someone discovered what Sente had written and we're hearing them...I don't see any solution to this short of being given more information.

[I.Diogenes]

probaly out of game, but wtf....