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[R2] Day of Injection 08/19/08
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thebruce
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 		ok, a whole bunch of my programs just crashed because I had too much open and no memory left from working on this trail Razz
anyway, so here's my path to the solve, in a nutshell...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
don't know why it's spoilered, since the image is attached Razz

* First, download the RF992388LS file (it's an mp3)
* note "1200hz (Duplo)" in the MP3's ID3 title tag
* open the sound file using a spectrogram program, and get an image of the audio from start to finish. (I personally prefer Sonic Visualiser)
* note the two layers of extremely long strings of dots and dashes through the sound file - these are not morse codes!
* 1200hz is the approximate frequency of the main signal in the sound, but it does drop to about 800hz about a third of the way through, before returning to the original level - but that's not important =P

Ok, skipping all the trial and error to find out the method it was actually coded...
* notice that every 3 (in some cases 2) sets of 2x3 blocks, ends with the top row of 3 empty
* following the idea of 'duplo' (duplex, or essentially doubled, stacked), place each block on top of the previous one
* in whichever order you want to do it, just make sure at the end you flip the entire string vertically - the text is mirrored (consequently, if the spectrogram frequency was mapped from top to bottom, flipping wouldn't be necessary)
* so, each 'letter' is comprised of 3 (or in some cases 2) sets of 2x3 blocks. once correctly grouped and the letter/number determined, through the whole freaking sound file Razz, you get the resulting message:

..............CQ CQ CQ CQ SRPARU9 SRPARU9 SRPARU9 DE SRPARU9 SRPARU9 SRPARU9 DE SRPARU9 SRPARU9 SRPARU9 SRPANETHQ SRPANETHQ SRPANETHQ PSA KKK ITEM RETRIEVED, PHOTOGRAPHED AND REPLACED WITHOUT SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE. ALL APPEARS IDENTICAL TO AS DETAILED IN DM177532 SOURCE OF ORIGINAL TRANSCRIPT UNIDENTIFIED. WILL CONTINUED SURVEILLANCE. SRPARU9 ---OLT..............

Some of those letters were hard to figure out... numbers especially. the 5 in the file code I tried as S, g and 9 before getting the 5 right =P

And I'm hoping the transcription is right (SRPARU9 is new, and I'm not sure if OLT is a real term?). But at least the file name is right =)

*phew*!




Also, gregory - EXCELLENT work on the translation! Worshippy :brownie:
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Gregoriev
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thebruce wrote:

Also, gregory - EXCELLENT work on the translation! Worshippy :brownie:


Thanks, although doing all that isn't nearly as hard as translating.

That is - until you find out that this guy wants to philosophical. Half of the words he was talking about were insanity to translate grammatically. It's like (as i described on IRC) Being strapped down and being forced to listen to chalkboard scrapings. At one point, you want to start cutting yourself. Still, it only took like 1/100 of the time it took us to go through differnet codes, and then you to figure out the code.
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 		Since document DM177532, as translated by Gregoryn95, mentions soldiers who are "not people and not aliens", I would assume they are finally introducing The Cloven. For anyone not familiar- from wikipedia:

wikipedia wrote:
They are bald, pale-skinned humanoids in foreign military uniforms. In intelligence reports and on the official site, they are said to be maniacs who speak Russian, ritualistically mutilate themselves and their victims, and feed on the bodies of their own dead soldiers. They appear to be enemies of both the Chimera and the Euro-American forces, due to their hostility towards both. Despite this, they seem to be somehow connected to the Chimera, but in what way is unknown.


They played almost no role in the first game, but are supposed to be more active in R2. Which is awesome! I've been waiting for them to show up in this ARG.
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sirpoins
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 		Is it just me or does The Bruce rock!

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Gregoriev
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PostLarval wrote:
Since document DM177532, as translated by Gregoryn95, mentions soldiers who are "not people and not aliens", I would assume they are finally introducing The Cloven. For anyone not familiar- from wikipedia:

wikipedia wrote:
They are bald, pale-skinned humanoids in foreign military uniforms. In intelligence reports and on the official site, they are said to be maniacs who speak Russian, ritualistically mutilate themselves and their victims, and feed on the bodies of their own dead soldiers. They appear to be enemies of both the Chimera and the Euro-American forces, due to their hostility towards both. Despite this, they seem to be somehow connected to the Chimera, but in what way is unknown.


They played almost no role in the first game, but are supposed to be more active in R2. Which is awesome! I've been waiting for them to show up in this ARG.


And a lot of that shows in the translation.

1. Russian? Check.
2. Mutilation? Check.
3. Military? Check.
4. Enemies of everyone? Check.
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sometallusjinks
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 		Could anybody help me in regards to extracting flv video files from the Project Abraham website? I would like to extract today's video and add it to the wiki.

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sometallusjinks wrote:
Could anybody help me in regards to extracting flv video files from the Project Abraham website? I would like to extract today's video and add it to the wiki.


I always use a firefox plugin called Download Helper. http://www.downloadhelper.net/

Sits right on my toolbar... when there's a video on a page that I want to save, I click the button, the video is downloaded, simple as that.
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sometallusjinks
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 		Thanks for your help! I'll get right on updating the wiki!

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sometallusjinks
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 		Okay, I'm pretty dumb.... I just realized that the Wiki's video pages were just linking straight to the Project Abraham site! So, I didn't need to do any uploading, I just had to link it straight to there. Embarassed

Now I just need to figure out how to extract the images from SRPA...

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sirpoins
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sometallusjinks wrote:
Okay, I'm pretty dumb.... I just realized that the Wiki's video pages were just linking straight to the Project Abraham site! So, I didn't need to do any uploading, I just had to link it straight to there. Embarassed

Now I just need to figure out how to extract the images from SRPA...


Good luck there. I know that for some you can simply do save and type the document number, but it doesn't work for many of them..

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 		I just take screenshots, then crop.
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 		just to be clear i thought of using the spectrograph back on page 4 Very Happy sorry i had to put that in there need to inflat my ego just a little Cool

ASOME work bruce! you must belong to mensa or something!

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 		That's what I get for sleeping. Come back and it's all figured out. A big congrats to all those that came through on this one.
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Verdammt wrote:
That's what I get for sleeping. Come back and it's all figured out. A big congrats to all those that came through on this one.


Same here

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Bartock
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 		Great job everyone, I come back to this this morning and find a full solve.

Second, Im wondering what happened to (as they call him in DM177533, since it's shorter) JAS. Did he fully transform into a Chimera or die like Khaner did? Obviously the chart comparing to normal Russian viral load is referring to the Cloven that Larval mentioned first so he didn't become one of them. But at the same time in DM17751 they say JAS will still be a key component to fending off the invaders, seeming to me that he is still alive somewhere, maybe being held in some secure room or something.

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