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trying to set up an ARG for my friends
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plox
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Joined: 10 Jan 2012
Posts: 11

trying to set up an ARG for my friends
help wanted

Hi everyone

at the beginning of this year i got pulled in by the 3301 cicada ARG that started on 4chan
i was so fasinated by it that i couldnt sleep for atleast 7 days straight

i told my friends about what an ARG is and it pulled them in to
now i want to try and set up an ARG in my area
i used some encryptions like ROT 13, QR codes, morse code, coordinates and beta64 code to hide messages in my quest
also set up an email which is part of the quest and puzzle

before reading any further please bare in mind that we are all just starters (maybe im not a newbie to this all because i did alot of reading about it and i participated in the 3301 cicada but i like to consider myself one)

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so it starts with a simply story i made up
its an old newspaper i made with photoshop and it says on the frontline that there was a bankrobbery and the robbers were nowhere to be found
they only robbed a single vault from an sculptur that made some monuments around town here
and the newspaper says the only thing the police found there was a code which was never translated
so the code is in ROT 13 and tells the players to go to the diamond table (a monument in my town)

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when they solve the first part the next part is to get to the monument
there im going to plant a letter with a puzzle and a code
the code translates to a mail adres and the puzzle translates to a number which they have to add to the code in order to get the entire email

3

after that they have to mail the mail adres asking what they should do next
i tell them to visit a wheelbarrow with "turf" on it (dont know the english word to it im dutch so)
which is another monument in another part of my town
and there i will have another clue hidden somewhere nearby
i also will hide a part of the coordinate in the mail but its incomplete and nothing leads to using it
and i made a logo for the gang which supposedly stole the inside of the vault
and i will email them that to

4

when they get to the second monument
on the note that i will hide there i will have a QR code which leads them to a new puzzle
the puzzle says to go to the abandoned church on the outskirts of town

5

when they get to the church i will hide another note
this one has a simple message which has nothing to do with anything ( a red herring i believe its called)
but on the back i will hide a ROT13 message which indicates they have to mail a secret code in order to get further

6

i will email them back with a new puzzle this eventually leads to another monument which also has another note on it
and in this email i will hide another part of the coordinate
also the logo i mentioned earlyer
in this one i have hid a message
you can easily find it by opening the image in notepad or anything
or by changing the extention to .txt

7

so on the note it will say that a second team (i split my friends up in 3 teams) is placing false leads and that they have to hurry up
also i give a weird statement about a new code were using instead of ROT13
the statement is that the new code is in beta but has been used over 64 times
so if they google beta64 they will find a decryptor for it and they can decrypt the message hidden in the logo in my email

8

the message in the logo
the message is in beta64 code but if they translate it it gives them a new sentence
they will have to mail the sentence to me in order to proceed

9

in the mail im mailing back i also hide coordinates the last part of them
but again no clues to use or combine them or whatso ever
also i mail them a morse code and a new logo with a bonus hidden message (if they think like a true ARG mind they will also open this in notepad or rename it to .txt if not then they wont get the bonus price)

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the morse code tells them to search all the emails for the final solution
which is the coordinate
now i thought about this and i might be able to hide a sequence to it
like email 1 is part 3 of the coordinate email 2 is part 1 of the coordinate and email 3 is part 2 of the coordinate but im not sure how to fit it in my whole bankrobber story

as soon as they get the coordinate together they will have to go to the forrest here and in the forrest there is a bird spotting house (there is the coordinates are 51.371658 5.65923)
the first team that gets there wins a price
not sure what it will be but im thinking a medal or trophy with our friendgroup name emprinted in it

so any feedback or things that you would do different
also if you want to help me write the story or help me set it all up please contact me
like i said im just a rookie and i can use all the help i can get
i want to make this enjoyable for my friends to

and if anyone want a PM for there ARG or help
please contact me
im very interested in ARG's and i cant stop thinking about it

also do you guys know the 3301 cicada ARG ?
i havent found alot information on here
but at one point in our search we got a clue that the creator might have used people on this forum to set up some global clues
so thats what got me here in the first place

thank you for reading all this and sorry for the long post

PS. sorry for my bad english im dutch so english is not my native language

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:14 pm

plox
Boot

Joined: 10 Jan 2012
Posts: 11

today we started with it all and i must say
my friends are more clever than i thought they are
in just under 3 hours they finished the entire thing with no help from me

everyone thought it was alot of fun and im already planning a part 2 Smile

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:58 pm

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