Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Mon Nov 11, 2024 6:41 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Chaotic Fiction » QU13E
[TRAILHEAD] QU13E
View previous topicView next topic
Page 4 of 29 [430 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 27, 28, 29  Next
Author Message
Vandino
Boot

Joined: 03 Nov 2005
Posts: 61
Location: Colorado

Puppy_Zwolle wrote:
Hex to ASCI: 6F62616B65 converts to: obake

But thats uhm... wel it produces letters so it could be something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obake

Obake are a shape-shifting form of yokai (spirit) from Japanese folklore that have also been imported to other languages and cultures, such as the Hawaiian Pidgin of native Hawaiians.

Fits.. could be it.

wikipedia wrote:
Yurei (ghosts of the dead) are not necessarily malevolent, but obake-yurei are the spirits of those who died in great sorrow or agony and therefore seek revenge.

Yea, i think you're right on that one. Tried using a couple different words from the wiki page with jphide to desteg the pic, but no luck so far.

Oh, and no response so far to my email to random.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:58 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
draghkar
Entrenched


Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 771
Location: Netherlands - the hilly part of it that is

Hereby a first attempt on the words with characters replaced with 13:

In the original flash:
in the section Invisible eye: everything is a Q1u3e
In the flash screen:to be Continu13ed


In the 6F62616B65.JPG
after the word "time" in ythe 1st paragraph is a small print word that i cant read but is starting with Q1

The phrase: Mind your Peace and qu13es

In the clockstop image: all qu13e things to those who wait
_________________
I live... wake me when I die
Call me nightshade, since I am known as such in the summer court


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:22 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
draghkar
Entrenched


Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 771
Location: Netherlands - the hilly part of it that is

Just my 2 cts on the source comment:

It says:
<!-- 2453705.45325-23 -->

It must be some code, So i tried some logical thinking: There is a dot in it, That leads me to think we are looking for the name of a webpage.

Looking at that further I have come to the following:

24 53 70 5 . 45 32 5- 23
? ? ? ? . h t m l

Anyone see a sequence that might resolve the 1st 4 characters?

Greetz,

Draghkar
_________________
I live... wake me when I die
Call me nightshade, since I am known as such in the summer court


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 6:46 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
draghkar
Entrenched


Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 771
Location: Netherlands - the hilly part of it that is

I wrote another mail to qu13e to reply to his mail:

qu13e wrote:
Quote:

One memory at the price of another; for to dance with shadows, one must betray the light.


So I replied:
Quote:
Memories.. You talk about memories, yet so many are remembered, others are not, while they are still memories. Why would one try and remember memories of shadows, let alone dance with them. One for all I am intriged. I would like to know what is still lurking there. One I know, splinternails. But is he willing to come out of the shadows?? and who all is still lurking there? And after all, who are you, and where do you recide? In the light? in the shadows? and am I supposed to remember you? Do I have any memories of you?

Please enlighten me.

Draghkar


Lets see if we can get more info this way.....

Greetz,

D.


EDIT: I got a non user error back:
Quote:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<qu13e@qu13e.com>
(reason: 550 <qu13e@qu13e.com>: User unknown)


wondering what is going on
_________________
I live... wake me when I die
Call me nightshade, since I am known as such in the summer court


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:48 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
labfly
Unfettered


Joined: 30 Apr 2005
Posts: 717
Location: nyc or the haunted house in maine

perhaps this series of numbers from the source

2453705.45325-23 is actually a new contact addie?

24537SPLAT5.54325-23... remember the first code for the qu13e addie
was a series of numbers and the 0 was the substituted for @

i'll try to work on this soon
(i just woke up)
edit: i'm having no luck with letter substitutions! Sad
_________________
r u a sammeeeee? yep.
resident of Snow Town
(friend of Peeps & Peg)


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:51 am
Last edited by labfly on Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:30 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
labfly
Unfettered


Joined: 30 Apr 2005
Posts: 717
Location: nyc or the haunted house in maine

source has changed again
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

"QU13E, qu13e, splinternails, Clockstop the Whys, random martin"

<!-- 334-22 -->

_________________
r u a sammeeeee? yep.
resident of Snow Town
(friend of Peeps & Peg)


PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:01 pm
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Vandino
Boot

Joined: 03 Nov 2005
Posts: 61
Location: Colorado

so, my email to random didn't work as well as i had hoped ...
Quote:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

random_martinSPLATsplinterworld.com

Technical details of permanent failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: Could not initiate SMTP conversation with any hosts:

drats

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:05 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Vandino
Boot

Joined: 03 Nov 2005
Posts: 61
Location: Colorado

looked at the whois on qu13e.com

the first results i got were 23 days old, and the contact email was qktSPLATqu13e.com

then i had it do a fresh search, and now the email is qu13estionsSPLATqu13e.com

i'm gonna try and send an email to both addresses and see what comes back

also, the old results had this listed "Qu13ical, Tokyo 150-0001", but the new ones had a blank there. Not sure if that's important or not.

edit: just sent it off. hopefully this email is more fruitful than my last.

second edit: got an error message for one of the recipients. Guess qktSPLATqu13e.com doesn't exist anymore. still holding out hope for the other one.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:15 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
draghkar
Entrenched


Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 771
Location: Netherlands - the hilly part of it that is

changed again:

<!-- 7 * 3 -->



I think we need to keep up with the changes: I have the following:

<!-- Rebirth. Tenth. Movie. Twenty Four. -->
<!-- 2453705.45325-23 -->
<!-- 334-22 -->
and now:
<!-- 7 * 3 -->


I see a sequence here..
Spoiler (Rollover to View):

<!-- Rebirth. Tenth. Movie. Twenty Four. -->
<!-- 2453705.45325-23 -->
<!-- 334-22 -->
<!-- 7 * 3 --> (7*3 = 21)


anyone an idea?

Greetz,

Draghkar
_________________
I live... wake me when I die
Call me nightshade, since I am known as such in the summer court


PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:37 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
cs178
Boot

Joined: 05 Nov 2005
Posts: 16
Location: Germany

Just a shot into the dark, since I am new to all this:

Maybe a countdown until it starts???

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:33 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
labfly
Unfettered


Joined: 30 Apr 2005
Posts: 717
Location: nyc or the haunted house in maine

cs178 wrote:
Just a shot into the dark, since I am new to all this:

Maybe a countdown until it starts???


i think you're right about the countdown (to when
the gates open? and the game begins) but what's with
the other numbers? we're missing a code--
i can't get anything so far..
who figured out that qu13e addie? i know it was substitution
but how'd you know to keep the number 13?.. i'm stumped.
_________________
r u a sammeeeee? yep.
resident of Snow Town
(friend of Peeps & Peg)


PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:37 am
 View user's profile MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Puppy_Zwolle
Entrenched


Joined: 18 Oct 2005
Posts: 969
Location: Not Zwolle anymore. really no kiddin'

How about: Countdown to 13... not 0?
Longshot but just crazy enough to be true.
It started at 24. Thats not a nice round number either.
_________________
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:14 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Vandino
Boot

Joined: 03 Nov 2005
Posts: 61
Location: Colorado

No luck so far with all those numbers. I tried using the clue "mind your peace and qu13es" and tried to cube the numbers we got or take the cube root of them, but substituting letters in for the numbers just got me a bunch of jibberish. Still working at it.

Do you think the fact that it says "beware numbers, count onlies" instead of "on lies" has any significance?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:05 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
draghkar
Entrenched


Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 771
Location: Netherlands - the hilly part of it that is

in 6f62616b65.jpg there is the phrase:

Quote:

2+10=10+2=double vision, look the other way


maybe a hint on how to deal with the numbers

look the other way might refer to look from right to left instead of left to right..

just my 2 cts

greetz,

D.
_________________
I live... wake me when I die
Call me nightshade, since I am known as such in the summer court


PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:45 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Randomeis
Unfettered


Joined: 25 Aug 2004
Posts: 426
Location: AL

look the other way

Quote:
2+10=10+2=double vision, look the other way


maybe a hint on how to deal with the numbers

look the other way might refer to look from right to left instead of left to right..


good point maybe we're looking at 31 instead of 13 ....
_________________
Nothing, nothing, my friend; what I have told you: I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . .
Can you imagine that I not even know the date of my death?
-- Jorge Luis Borges jjj.ybfg.rh/677ps


PostPosted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:44 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
 ICQ Number 
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 4 of 29 [430 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ..., 27, 28, 29  Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Chaotic Fiction » QU13E
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group