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byte321
Boot
Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 19
<Trailhead?> Fear The Machine [Graphic Violence/Adult] Is this an ARG? Hello unforum,
Some days back someone on 4chan posted the website: fearthemachine.com and it showed a video of some gruesome events (things related to 9/11, the Iraq War and the fight for the rights of African-americans). At the end there was some animation of a man inside a capsule touching a screen. During the video there were some text and numbers that popped out, as I recall there were the numbers "2, 14 and 19" in one of the scenes. Also below the video there were some japaneese letters that I couldn't translate (it was an image so no use of Google Translator). The title page was efgshotpedobear, an allusion to 4chan memes.
Today I checked back on the site and now there is a new image of a mask and a scrolling text below:
Time 4:37 pm
Date: Unknown
EX: 3xcsf46dhn
CODE: 3456647910
Channel: 8
Longitude: 33¡ 56' N
Latitude: 118¡ 24' W
Name: Unknown
Reason: For destroying the truth
Weapon: ?not to be disclosed?
Examination: <--->
Code Words: As Follows....
The Stage
Betrayal
Legion
The Darkness
Forest hills
Beginning of strength
Inner child
Death list
The mixing of two species
Caged Animal
weapon of mass destruction
Internet Terrorist
Believe
Exception
Denial
Covert
Immortal Thoughts
Putrid Retribution
Vomet on Books
Wear the Grey Jacket
Iron Hand and rubber tounge
Class all by itself
transfusion
Gold Blood
Ark
The Dog Told Mary
Ancient puzzles
Links to a map and a poem are also below.
The title page is "amidoinitrite?", another 4chan meme.
So, do you think this is an ARG or something really bizarre?
*Be advised - The video linked further down this thread is graphically violent. -Addlepated*
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:39 am
Nereus_Theophilus
Unfettered
Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Posts: 456 Location: Canada
What ever it is, it is messed up he really want you to call and leave that poem... I vote no. I want to live, and not in jail.
And having your page titled "Do it Faggot!" that is... low.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:51 am
Lunsford
Unfictologist
Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 1602 Location: With Rorschach
Umm. I have to agree... Very weird stuff
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:42 am
anonymousloli
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Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 475 Location: Michigan
I'm thinking it is a game. 4chan gets more trailheads than you'd think.
There's a soundfile and I managed to download it but it's not working on my computer and is acting weird. If I can get it to work, I'll attach it, since I think there's something being said at some point, very fast.
Edit to say: If it's not a trailhead, I'm scared to death of whatever is going on. I don't get the poem fully and I'm just scared.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:01 am
Soda
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Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 107 Location: Vancouver,Wa
So has anyone try and called the number and said it? There was a mission one thing that pop up.. I'm kind temp to call it and see what happen, but there a lot of word in there.. Kind bad..
And If you wait long eough the site start to play music and skull start to dance.
Kind scared.. Maybe it like a cult thing..? *use Caller ID Block!* lol
Edit: The Number take you to Fox News update sys..Odd
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:20 am
anonymousloli
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Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 475 Location: Michigan
This is *chan lashing out at something, somehow. Not *chan as a whole, but a couple of people on *chan. I know I'm leaping to conclusions, but I just have a feeling. I think this is one for me to watch, not to take part in, and I think I advise everyone else to be cautious as well. Individual *channers have done some stupid shit before.
Just proceed with caution. They mention revolution, but a revolution led by "legion" just scares the shit out of me.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:33 am
Soda
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Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 107 Location: Vancouver,Wa
Yeah, I turn some info blacking stuff on before i went to the site, just blocking my IP and such, it's kind creepy! I the number i called was to fox..I think at less? Lol it's what it said.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:35 am
anonymousloli
Unfettered
Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 475 Location: Michigan
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77538,00.html
Yes, it is the number to contact Fox.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:38 am
TrierK
Greenhorn
Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 4
Well ... it's weird. But we might as well asume it's a game.
Can't find the poem and map links.
I only get the 80s disco scull and the gregorian choir.
Dunno if this is what what the map shows as well, but the long/lat given is LAX as far as I can google (+33° 55' 60.00", -118° 23' 60.00")
EDIT: Found the map and poem
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 4:59 am
byte321
Boot
Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 19
recovery I was able to recover the image and the video I talked about in the first post through Google's cache. The image is named "puzzle.gif" and is attached to this message, idk if someone can translate what it says.
I'll later upload the scenes of the video that contained some weird numbers.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:00 pm
byte321
Boot
Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 19
Ok, here are some scenes from the video I was talking about:
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Man in capsule
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:15 pm
kosmopol
I Never Tire of My Own Voice
Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 3167
OK,
すべての終わりに
means
"At the end of everything"
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:49 pm
anonymousloli
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Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 475 Location: Michigan
I posted an entry on 4chan's LJ community . A member replied with this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgLtv9IhLU0
I guess it's related?
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:49 pm
Soda
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Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 107 Location: Vancouver,Wa
Yeah it is, I did a whois on the site awhile ago and that mask came up with the info with it as well, Kind creepy.
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:08 pm
byte321
Boot
Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 19
Ok, I managed to transcript the sound file that anonymousloli was talking about, it's located at:
www.fearthemachine.com/machine.mp3
"There's a fine line between a terrorist group and a resistance, we are in fact a resistance".
(after some seconds)
"The world is a violent place, sometimes you must fight fire with fire."
I couldn't play the file with Windows Media Player but only with VLC Player
You know, this mght be a real deal, but there are some things that make me think that it's some sort of a game: First of all, this is too much elaborated to be some sort of a resistance group, I mean, you just have to look at the video elaboration to see what I'm talking about. Second, why all the cryptic stuff? A hidden audio file? A map with only symbols and without any kind of legend? Also, in the YouTube video posted earlier, why could step three be "censored" by static? There are also different languages involved in the material we have so far: English, Japaneese in the text that was below the video and Spanish in a text that was at the ending of the YouTube video, which by the way it read: "Have you ever wondered why the functioning of human society is so unfair?"
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:45 pm
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