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[LOCKED] [Trailhead] 746865656e64 [Numbers aka Ny Takma]
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darklord
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[Trailhead] 746865656e64 [Numbers aka Ny Takma]

Recieved this today:


Quote:
To: ********@yahoo.com
Subject: Digg Story: Strange website
From: "Digg" <shareastory>

Yshk Lanti
Yshk La
Yshk Gai

do not attempt to understand what will reveal itself to you

digg user YshkLanti would like to share this story with you:
http://digg.com/videos_animation/Strange_website
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"Strange website"
I was browsing through different videos and stumbled upon this video at
google, followed the link to a strange website - I'm not sure what the
heck it is about, hopefully someone can help figure it out?
+12 people dugg this story


Some things in the source of the website

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at top:
yshklanti.mp3
understand.mp3
when it begins you must find him

bottom:
88461H2125E12516112153613613613612
36W2917508I15151697L12450876L12415
080897161315N159161O16117T12501613
08151K976N012351012151W11510761708
08012351H124107I124161S12516901245
23589008124R124O1245161L12461E1351
1T12161E12356107A9151346C125612H12
0973561H912479I124075M124365897201
125161231608712479T124087561O12516
973599725F1245616I124597697623ND12
125169769723450123597H135E135R1236


Which is
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HE WILL NOT KNW HIS ROLE TEACH HIM TO FIND HER


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LatentMoths
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Also
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In hexadecimal 746865656e64 = theend

Is this the end of the world as we know it?!?

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81 117 105 116 32 108 111 111 107 105 110 103 32 97 116 32 109 121 32 65 83 67 73 73 33

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That looks weird what ever it is it starts oct 13.... friday the 13th...lol

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Links to the audio clips hinted to in the source.

yshklanti.mp3
understand.mp3
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The first sounds like a tribal language.... the second the last word sounds like die ... dono

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Hmm...interesting. It definitely seems to be saying that the end will begin on Friday the 13th. I always knew Jason was trying to warn us about something! /lame joke The chanting is actually kinda fun to listen to. As for the scrolling text, when I tried to see what it actually said, my eyes started a picket line, heh. The soundfiles are both probably some other language, but figuring out which language that is will be tough...

EDIT: Does anyone else hear similarities between the "understand" mp3 and the phrase, "We're going to die"?
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The second audio file, 'understand', says "We will die". I have tried a few different audio tricks on the 'yshklanti' but have come up with nothing.

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There are two flash files on the site with flashing paragraphs of greek text. I decompiled the files and have put images of the text into a pdf so that it can be examined. I've also pasted the text strings into txt files (this is not a transcription on the Greek characters into the Roman alphabet, just what keys were pressed to type the text into the flash file). All files in the attached archive are named after the appropriate flash file.

It doesn't translate into words or sentences so I assume its a code of some kind. It uses 13 characters:

a d e f h i j k l n o r s

(excluding semi-colon, slash,and space)
greek.rar
Description  Archive contains: pdf's of greek text; text strings as typed into flash file.
rar

 Download 
Filename  greek.rar 
Filesize  202.7KB 
Downloaded  256 Time(s) 

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This looks like it could be a doomsday cult to me. it looks too weird and Cultish to me. I find it best to stay away from these find of things....
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Esteed
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Zazaban wrote:
This looks like it could be a doomsday cult to me. it looks too weird and Cultish to me. I find it best to stay away from these find of things....


That's the entire reason I'm interested. What could be more fun than a game about a doomsday cult? Becoming a hero by thwarting a doomsday cult, of course! /sarcasm

Seriously? I just love me some apocalypse stories. That said, let's see what the Greek translates to before jumping to any conclusions one way or the other, eh?

EDIT: Listening to the first mp3, I can't help but find certain aspects of the language spoken somehow familiar. I can't say why, just the flow of the words and the inflections seem like something I've heard before. Almost like Elvish, at least as spoken in the LotR movies...
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I'm not saying it's a ARG about a doomsday cult, i'm saying it's a real Doomsday cult and not a ARG at all.
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I understand that's what you were saying, I was just being sarcastic. I don't see how you could tell whether it is or isn't a real cult from what we've found so far. Which is why I'm sticking to my guns about it being an ARG, but if I'm wrong and it turns out to be a real doomsday cult, I promise I won't drink the Kool-Aid.
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I have found a couple of site related to this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1240318603114359269&hl=en

http://www.746865656e64.com/98sghfgiy.html

http://www.digg.com/users/YshkLanti/dugg

http://www.746865656e64.com/yysayia.html

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Here's a Trout for you. The Digg information was the first site posted. The others are extensions of the same site.

Here are the discussions at Below Top Secret.

and GodlikeProductions
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I think all the Greek letters (adsfdfa dfaf dffdsaf kkal sflakfjkdlsaksladsfdfa dfaf dffdsaf kkal sfadsfdfa dfaf dffadsfdfa dfaf dffdsaf kkal sflakfjkdlsaksladsfdfa dfaf dffdsaf kkal sfadsfdfa dfaf dffdsaf kkal sflakf sdjflkajfl kasj skdj)

...are possibly a red herring, sort of like lorem ipsum stuff? Here on these sites, if you zoom in, you can see the same stuff, same order, but in English chars instead of Greek.

At the above listed URL
http://www.746865656e64.com/98sghfgiy.html

Clip: Asian Man: "How are you going to live your life" with Chinese? txt below (attempting to translate?), a view of some African children with a text overlay "MAKE THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION"...and then a blonde boy on a sailboat (an American flag displayed behind him) with a text overlay of NY TYLD DI LANTI.

ETA:Shortly after posting the above about the clip, it's now on the front page along with another version. Was it always and I just missed it?

The second one txt "ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OR FIGHT FOR A FUTURE"....

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