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The agentsystems are all "down", replaced with noise (LOUD). Two tones repeated twice, then 4 chirps (which repeats a few times), then the synth voice saying "1 8 0 3 2" quickly, ending with awful feedback for the rest of the time.

There doesn't seem to be any data in the noise.





Edit: It's worth noting that the noise bears some resemblance to prior SSTV signals (about 36 seconds long, same sort of "intro") but the main tone is off (511.5hz instead of ~1500hz).

I've done some tests and can't get anything out of it, and there's too much noise for anything else.

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we are thinking about SSTV mode that was custom made,

http://dialer.otp22.com/2013-01-22%2015-57%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2018032.wav

this mode is picking some of it and it shoews that there might be something in it similar than sstv




btw, all those modes doesnt fit at all

http://prntscr.com/q1dt9


Edit 9. march, 2013

OTP-Decoder
The hidden voice in the supposed SSTV.
I'd just like to see what someone with further knowledge of the subject could do as apposed to me.
It only worked when I previewed it. When I applied the EQ to the track, the results weren't the same.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ECrVd7zHpC

I slowed it down a shitton and then applied EQ to it.

http://i.imgur.com/xLTqF55.png

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Lurker trying to get active in this. I am not far from the Ai Cemetery, Swanton, Oh location. Is that assumed to be anther dead drop? I'd go check it out if so.

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trope37 wrote:
Lurker trying to get active in this. I am not far from the Ai Cemetery, Swanton, Oh location. Is that assumed to be anther dead drop? I'd go check it out if so.


Right now, it's just a "point of interest" (there is nothing there at this moment). But you should hang around IRC; if (when) we use the keepalive with message desk, we might go with giving that as the location for the drop.

None of this is set in stone, though! We're still at a loss wrt the latest happenings.

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Will do! Glad to offer any services I can, it's been too long since I've had an adventure.

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WOW Shocked COMPONENT DROPS ARE BACK IN GAME
One of players got package on his address... and it wasnt the guy who ordered ABISM modem and leave his address on message desk but a guy that dont remember sharing his address in channel ?!?!

We will try to find out where PM found his address.

AND WE NEED TO PUT ALL THE OLD DROPS TOGETHER
please all the people that have old drops at home drop in IRC channel so we told you how to mail them to.

IRC:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#arg

Old component drop parts gallery:
http://imgur.com/a/kNWId
Our threads about component drops:
http://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/11k89s/metallic_components_deaddrop_from_alternate/
http://ask.metafilter.com/226747/What-are-these-mechanical-components#3281078

NOTE: agent system still down, transmitting that sstv like sound
Code:
   status:
   md: off
   agentsys: weird
   same as always
   709: still the same



SO now the images of things blyind got on his home address:

NOTE address is TUSCON ARIZONA Shocked http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=984273#984273















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MD is on

yesterday calling MD we got some strange music and word WORM


Just few copypastas from logs:

Code:
09:21]   filer   MD appears to be back up
[09:22]   filer   323 => 15/603319/3822616
[09:25]   filer   creepy... http://goo.gl/maps/v6oZ8

[09:42]   filer   so what's 18032 supposed to be anyway?
[09:42]   XkeeperLaptop_   if you call agent sys, it does tones, then after a few repeats says 1 8 0 3 2
[09:42]   XkeeperLaptop_   and then lots of feedback loop noise for half a minute or so
[09:42]   XkeeperLaptop_   thn disco
[09:47]   XkeeperLaptop_   your call is very important to us, please continue to hold
[09:47]   filer   yeah, dammit, needs music
[09:48]   crash_demons   did someone say disco? http://www.freewebs.com/allyoursystems/Harry%20Tipper.jpg
[09:48]   filer   wtf
[09:49]   filer   someone call that back and record it
[09:49]   filer   I think he said "worm"
[09:49]   filer   (and then hung up, of course)
[09:51]   crash_demons   hmm
[09:52]   filer   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms,_Germany ...? just sounded like "worm" though
[09:54]   XkeeperLaptop_   would probably hve to retry but surprising it took so long
[09:55]   crash_demons   I guess we're Waiting for the Worms then


[22:59]   wrkq   (Side note, WORM tapes = Write Once Read Many)


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WE CALLED MD guy and used KEEP ALIVE CODE

no transcription for now, call lasted one hour fifteen minutes

mp3:


http://einherjar.rustedlogic.net/MDesk-Jan26-2013-Cropped.mp3
18.9MBytes

questions and answers:


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al70Vly2pVETdGd0QWFqeV9wQ1dKeVlfVldRVHRuckE

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Sukasa
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That audio file is altered; Noise was removed and silent lengths were cropped out. Send me a PM if you want the full MP3, or .wav if you really want to take a good listen to the audio.

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Keep Alive session transcript

http://pastebin.com/V8j8HsYg

http://einherjar.rustedlogic.net/MDesk-Jan26-2013-Cropped.mp3




One time MD answered with "servicio de message" that sounds like portugese

Link to post with recording og MD speaking Portugese and/or Russian:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=978229#978229


APPARENTLY THAT LANGUAGE IS PORTUGESE but there are different dialects in both recordings. In old recodring it sounds european portuguese while in keep alive it sounds Brazilian.




Link to first KEEP ALIVE SESSION
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=979278#979278

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bambusar wrote:
One time MD answered with "servicio de message" that sounds like french or italian


Pretty sure we conclused that was portugese earlier.

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Razz Agent system is back

About KEEP ALIVE SESSION

[18:01] Oversight mold and lichens <-- lost my shit at this for some reason.
[17:59] Oversight From the MD QnA...they chanted photos of our acquired drops............ How/where do we upload?
[18:01] Oversight Unless we upload them VIA SSTV from agent number 9
[18:57] wrkq And yeah, Xkeeper, considering 9# is "Storage. *answering machine beep, silence*" it sure sounds like they want us to play SSTV into it.
[19:13] Xkeeper [00:45] AluisioASG DEC SIXBIT + mark parity
[19:14] Xkeeper [00:45] AluisioASG "One popular variant was DEC SIXBIT. This is simply the ASCII character codes from 32 to 95 coded as 0 to 63 by subtracting 32; it includes the space, punctuation characters, numbers, and uppercase letters, but no control characters."
[19:14] Xkeeper [00:46] AluisioASG 392 is mark parity; if it's not there, then there was a transmission error.

About #9:
http://otp22.referata.com/wiki/Agent_Systems/Investigation#Below_10000_range

9: "This agent code is not to be dialed."

18:24, January 11, 2013 (UTC) (+/- few days): now has a tone at the end. Accept a single-digit agent code, e.g. entering 9 will repeat this sequence, 0 goes to radiotest.
17:01, January 28, 2013 (UTC): "Storage. (beep)". Ending tone still present, dialing 9 repeatedly still works. Maybe waiting for different data?




Agent codes 17001, 16042, 16043

[16:25] Xkeeper agentsys is up <3
[17:04] Xkeeper 17001 tones look sort of like abism ones from before
[17:06] Xkeeper yeah the 16042/16043 messages look like abism again.
[17:08] Xkeeper there are 6 tones + one extra
[17:09] Xkeeper so you just decode the bits + 0x20 or smth... I forget the specifics
[17:54] nadando which was 6 bit ascii or something
[17:54] wrkq DEC SIXBIT.
[19:13] Xkeeper [00:45] AluisioASG DEC SIXBIT + mark parity
[19:14] Xkeeper [00:45] AluisioASG "One popular variant was DEC SIXBIT. This is simply the ASCII character codes from 32 to 95 coded as 0 to 63 by subtracting 32; it includes the space, punctuation characters, numbers, and uppercase letters, but no control characters."
[19:14] Xkeeper [00:46] AluisioASG 392 is mark parity; if it's not there, then there was a transmission error.
[19:14] wrkq Yeah, stop bit.
[19:14] wrkq Could be worse, could be baudot...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27790736/otp22/2013-01-28--16042-16043-x.png

Message is supposed to be thta, but it looks like message is DIFFERENT while FORMAT is the same:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=978516#978516



Agent Code 18032


http://dialer.otp22.com/2013-01-28%2016-28%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2018032%23.wav


http://pastebin.com/7hvH9ZNY


Code:
Z 28071129Z JAN 13
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/ZEUS//
SUBJ/ZEUS//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
ZEUS TEST WILL COMMENCE
29053958Z JAN 13
CONTACT MDSK WITH GROUP
CODE GROUP A FOR RESPONSE
POSITION. TEST IN ALL GEO
ZONES. REPORT STATUS OF
ZEUS TEST TO MDSK REF
CODE ZEUS ALPHA ONE TEST.
//


[18:56] wrkq So are they saying "Call MD after 29th 5:40am UTC and say 'Group A'"?


Agent code 18033

http://otp22.com/2013-01-28%2016-36%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2018033%23.wav

http://pastebin.com/bpsmvPCG

Code:
Z 28071645Z JAN 13
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/MOLD//
SUBJ/LICHEN//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
RECEIVED FIRST DROP
OF PARTIALLY DESTROYED
GREEN BOOK AT LOCATION 390
AGENT UNABLE TO RETRIEVE
SECOND DROP OF DAMAGED
ORANGE BOOK. RETURN
TO COLLECT THIS DROP.
WILL BE ASKED TO RETURN
THIS MATERIAL AT LATER
DATE.
//


[19:23] nadando return to knights of pythias cemetery to find orange book?
[19:23] Xkeeper or take another damaged book or smth?
[19:23] Xkeeper it could go either way
[19:23] nadando it says collect
[19:23] nadando also, MOLD and LICHEN...
[19:24] Oversight so they got our drop (the green book) and didnt get the drop of the orange book (we had to drop 2 books??)
[19:25] Oversight now we go to the knights (and pick up the orange book)

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And we found more new messages:

22:58] Xkeeper 18028
[22:58] Xkeeper 18030
[22:58] Xkeeper 18031


[22:58] Xkeeper http://otp22.com/2013-01-28%2021-53%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2018028%23.wav
[22:58] Xkeeper http://otp22.com/2013-01-28%2021-54%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2018030%23.wav
[22:58] Xkeeper http://otp22.com/2013-01-28%2021-54%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2018031%23.wav



18028
Code:
Z 21231903Z JAN 13
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/POS//
SUBJ/POS//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
PRESENT IN TUCSON AZ US
USE ADDRESS LOCATION
US064894 ON FILE. VALID
UNTIL 26235959Z JAN 13
 //


18029
Code:
/NOTE/IN TRANSIT FOR DEPLOYMENT IN REGION 9/NOTE/TRAVEL TO REGION 9/NOTE/NEXT UPDATE 250113/



18030
Code:
Z 21233519Z JAN 13
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/POS//
SUBJ/POS//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
COMPONENTS SENT TO
SPECIFIED DESTINATION
//




18031
Code:
Z 21234947Z JAN 13
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/POS//
SUBJ/POS//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
CORRECTION USE LOCATION
US604894.
//



18101

Code:
Z182301 Z OCT 12
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/OPERATIONS-NOTICE//
SUBJ/EQUIPMENT ORDER CODES//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
OP-VOLTDSK
VOLTAGE DESK CONSISTING OF
VOLT METER, HYDROMETER,
GROUND STANDOFF
OP-GENCON
TWO WIRE PLUG POSITIVE+
NEGATIVE CHARGE CONNECTOR
CONT 18003
//


18102

Code:
Z182302 Z OCT 12
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/OPERATIONS-NOTICE//
SUBJ/EQUIPMENT ORDER CODES//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
OP-GENSET
PORTABLE GAS GENERATOR UNIT
FOR FIELD BATTERY CHARGE
MAINT
OP-UHFCOM
UHF RADIO REPLACEMNET ASSM
OP-UHFANT
UHF ANTENNA REPLACEMENT
CONT 18103
//


18103
Code:

Z182304 Z OCT 12
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/OPERATIONS-NOTICE//
SUBJ/EQUIPMENT ORDER CODES//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
OP-OTPMOD
OTP KEY SPACE REPLACEMENT
OP-OTPHRD
OTP HARDWARE ENCRYPTER
//


18104
Code:

Z190202 Z OCT 12
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/OPERATIONS-NOTICE//
SUBJ/BATTERY INFO//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
BATTERY REPLACEMENT
TEST W VOLTAGE DESK PER P.27
OBTAIN BATTERY USING LOCAL
SOURCING OF 12 VOLT DESIGN
BUILD STRING FOR HIGHER
VOLTAGES.
AMP RATING PER MAINT-0001.
//



The weird part is that "US064894" on google maps give you some address in florida.


Also we found few funny MD responses
[23:30] nadando 15070 is 15070

To understand recursion you need to first understand recursion?


WE HAVE NEW PAGE TO ENTER MD RESPONES


---> http://sukasa.rustedlogic.net/MD/Index.aspx <---



[23:59] Xkeeper new agentsys # found ...
[23:59] Xkeeper 17002 http://otp22.com/2013-01-28%2022-56%20UTC%20-%20202-999-3335%20-%2017002%23.wav
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/27790736/otp22/2013-01-28--17002.png
[23:59] Xkeeper abism-style tones again.


ABSIM like messages from previous post were also not solved yet, THAT SIX BIT CODE must be changed somehow

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WE ARE SEEKING FOR PEOPLE NEAR Rainier, Oregon.



Apparently we have to pickk up the book from Knights of Pythias cemetery now.

Code:
Z 28071645Z JAN 13
SECRET//PRJMLPL//75X5
MSGID/MOLD//
SUBJ/LICHEN//
/FORMAT/OBJ/00001/ASCII//
/OBJ/00001/
RECEIVED FIRST DROP
OF PARTIALLY DESTROYED
GREEN BOOK AT LOCATION 390
AGENT UNABLE TO RETRIEVE
SECOND DROP OF DAMAGED
ORANGE BOOK. RETURN
TO COLLECT THIS DROP.
WILL BE ASKED TO RETURN
THIS MATERIAL AT LATER
DATE.
//




All in that area with some adventurous spirit drop in oru chat to get mure detailed instruction.

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ABISM tones mostly decoded, they're similar to previous ones. I'll do some writing about the format later, but if you open them in a spectogram and take note of the frequencies as bits from top-to-bottom (tone = 1) you can paste it into abism decoder.

New abism-like tones from 16042, 16043, and 17002 use Reverse, Chop Bit 4. Old ABISM tones from 17001 use Add 0x20, Chop Bit 6.

Chop bit in new ABISM-like tones seems to be more data, but unsure of what. Any help appreciated.

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