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[TRAILHEAD?] (disunity) What is this countdown?
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illspirit
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[TRAILHEAD?] (disunity) What is this countdown?

Hey all. I used to have an account here, and played a few ARGs (most fully, the ancient Matrix ARG, Metacortechs), but it was apparently deleted. I'll hazard a guess that it was for inactivity.

Anyway, a forum I frequent (for a webgame called Nationstates) recently had a thread with the following URL in it: http://disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/. The poster never explained what the website was about, or what the counter was counting down to, but said that we should figure it out ourselves.

Naturally, some of us were curious, and proceeded to investigate, and it seems to be a quite blatant ARG. It's been underway for a while now (about two weeks), and we've made a little progress, but the "plot" has yet to emerge.

I thought I'd post it here in case some of you ARGers were interested.



(adding a name to the topic for later reference -- catherwood)

PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:44 pm
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audioslave
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Binary turns out to be something like:

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if (is_valid($disunity)) {
execute_transaction($usr);
} else {
destroy();
}

2465AD. It begins here.


and the URL is acctually ROT14, not 13

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http://disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/china.html


On the bottom of that page there's
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filelist.html


Which leads to

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http://disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/filelist.html

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:49 pm
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ALISDAIRPARK
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good work Audio - At the foot of the first page there is some text that translates to
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Terran empire... Vanishes! The Earth dies.

On the second page there's some other ROT says
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China left the Earth
and on the filelist page:
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Access denied.

Relevant credentials rejected;
repeat offences will be logged.

E'veway otgay away ucktonfay ofway eoplepay erehay. The ESUS does not exist in my timeline.

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The last bit I reckon is pig latin to start - We've got away fuckton of people here


On the first page before the binary box comes up another box flashes, is anyone quick enough to get it?

Also you can click on the first green binary block and it takes you to a login screen saying: Verify Unauthorised attempts are logged. and the logged is a further link to here http://disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/userinput.txt which does seem to be a log of every entry, along with some code after each one

The code seems to be linked to the user, my attempts have all the same code after.
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:20 pm
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
On the second page there's some other ROT says
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China left the Earth

You missed a couple of words here, ADP. It actually reads:
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In AD 2126, China left Earth.


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OmegaX
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:

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The last bit I reckon is pig latin to start - We've got away fuckton of people here


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Actually, that'd be We've got a fuckton of people here. 'Away' is some variants of piglatin's way of saying 'a'.

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Russell
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Plus if you check the image directory you will find the launch date:

http://disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/images/concept_8.gif

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sexievodka
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Quote:
On the first page before the binary box comes up another box flashes, is anyone quick enough to get it?


www.disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/binary.html but its the same page that comes up. i caught it with my screenshot program.

PostPosted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:20 pm
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Nova Loop
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ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
Also you can click on the first green binary block and it takes you to a login screen saying: Verify Unauthorised attempts are logged. and the logged is a further link to here http://disunity.esusalliance.co.uk/userinput.txt which does seem to be a log of every entry, along with some code after each one

The code seems to be linked to the user, my attempts have all the same code after.


The code at the end is an HD5 hash of your IP address.
Test it here:
http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php
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064071062060067067066071067063066070062060064071062060066070066061066064062060
067064066071066104066065062060067064066106062060064061065062064067062105060060


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EmmanuelGoldstein
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
<title>Binary solution; it all adds up.</title>


On the 'login' page.

ALso the filelist.html message has changed:

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Don't worry about me. I'll sort it.


PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:00 am
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EmmanuelGoldstein
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I was bored

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http://www.esusalliance.co.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=15


PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:22 am
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Jiroe
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What if you add up the decimal representations of the binary codes? I tried adding up just the ones in green (837), but that didn't work. I have to leave in a bit, but if someone else wants to give it a shot, the green ones add up to 837, so just add that to whatever the white ones turn out to be.

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bwochinski
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http://wiki.esusalliance.co.uk/index.php?title=Disunity

So it's all part of this RP community then...
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:42 pm
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Nature
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Jiroe wrote:
What if you add up the decimal representations of the binary codes? I tried adding up just the ones in green (837), but that didn't work. I have to leave in a bit, but if someone else wants to give it a shot, the green ones add up to 837, so just add that to whatever the white ones turn out to be.


Didn't work. I tried "disunity" and a few other things too, and those didn't work.

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illspirit
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Nature wrote:
Jiroe wrote:
What if you add up the decimal representations of the binary codes? I tried adding up just the ones in green (837), but that didn't work. I have to leave in a bit, but if someone else wants to give it a shot, the green ones add up to 837, so just add that to whatever the white ones turn out to be.


Didn't work. I tried "disunity" and a few other things too, and those didn't work.


Oops, that was me. Anyway, I think our group has cracked it.

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If you look at the binary page while tipping your head sideways, the green binary looks like a stylised algebraic sum. Specifically, "7 + 1." So, we tried various versions of 8 - spelling it out, etc. Eventually, we tried the binary version (1000). Lo and behold, we got redirect to http://rachel.roundedlove.co.uk/


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TheOutspoken
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The tagline at http://rachel.roundedlove.co.uk/ is the arabic version of Leviticus 24:5 which reads: "Then you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it; two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake."

An ephah is about 35 liters, meaning that about 7 liters of flour should go into each cake.


Don't know if that will help at all.

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http://michael.roundedlove.co.uk/userinput.txt
http://michael.roundedlove.co.uk/login.php


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