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[Entropy&Ivory]

Possible theory on Exclamation marks

[Gerdef]

Birds in background

[DigitalNihilism]

I'm not sure most migratory birds fly in a V formation behind a leader so for the birds to be flying to the right seems normal.

[one]

I see where you are confused. These are not regular birds, they are geese. Geese have long necks. The splitting you're seeing is the lack of depth perception due to the 2d image, and the bottom "lip" or whatever you want to call it i'm not sure because it's a still but i'm willing to bet it is just the back wing swinging below the bird.

[Guest]

Re: Possible theory on Exclamation marks

[teamonkey]

[Lachlan]

Hi there. I'm new to ARGs, but this stuff has me hooked. I've read through a few pages on this forum, and I hope what I'm posting is helpful:

Regarding the next site - here's what I'm thinking:

The message both on the front page of the slusho site, and in the email that is sent as an auto-reply is "you can't drink just six". This is an anagram for: "A toxic industry's junk", and obviously something we're meant to notice and fixate on. The kanji below the "happy friends" link translates to something like "distributing companies", while the rest of the kanji on the page approximates to the english which appears below it. This is a clue that the next site we're looking for is that of a company associated with the distribution or production of slusho.

Skipping what becomes apparent once you accept this, how to find the name of the company? I think the clues to this lie in the animals moving across the history page. The donkey thinking of a blue oven glove only travels across the screen once - the donkey goes first. The fish thinking of cheese loops across the screen. The title of the company will be two words, or a long word or phrase split in two. The first part of which will be gleaned from the donkey or seahorse, the second part from the fish.

I don't think a frame by frame analysis of the trailer, or a decompiling of the flash sites is going to get us any further. Rather, it will provide confirmation when we do discover the third site.

Hope this is helpful, I seem to be at a bit of an impasse for now.

Tchus!

[Carnus]

 Slusho Horse

[tastes like chicken]

With the "distributing companies" in mind, it just occurred to me that maybe the swiss cheese is a hint as to the nation of origin of the parent company, because I know sometimes referring to cheese you just use the first word.

The web code for a swiss company is .ch. I already tried a bunch of variations on oven mitt and other things (like ovenmitt.ch, or even trying to translate into swiss with no luck), but it might be a swiss webpage we are supposed to find next.

Also, been reading since seeing Transformers a week ago, but just signed up today. I loosely followed the Lost ARG, but this is the first OBSESSION.

[Lola]

Geese! Does "duck duck goose" fit anything?

[CHaese]

In the trailer there is a girl who seems to be deliberately keeping her back to the camera, on the back of her jacket it says "Switzerland." So there's your swiss cheese connection?

[tastes like chicken]

[Edonicus]

MITT.ch is a technology and futurist website that looks unrelated.

I think we're onto something with the "Swiss" connection, but the key now is figuring out how the mitt, donkey, and/or fish factor in.

Perhaps the fish doesn't factor in, and just happens to be there because their underwater...there are LOTS of fish around. The donkey, on the other hand, is out of place.

[Guest]

Could someone post a screenshot of the duck basket from the Downloads page. It's a significant clue, seeing as it is some of the new content that was added yesterday. The patterns on it indicate a potential code to me.

[tastes like chicken]

Here is the duck basket.



I can't help but notice the pattern resembles less than and greater than symbols, just like the flying V of geese/ducks.