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 Tue Nov 19, 2024 8:24 am
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 » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
[trailhead?] stareightsix.com
View previous topicView next topic
Page 1 of 17 [252 Posts]   Goto page: 1, 2, 3, ..., 15, 16, 17  Next
Author Message
thebruce
Dances With Wikis


Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 6899
Location: Kitchener, Ontario

 		[trailhead?] stareightsix.com
or just a puzzle website?
Found this blog entry about the discovery of a strange video and website.

http://stareightsix.com - the page name has the title "part four"

Read the blog entry first, as the rest skips to spoilers.

He searched through the site and eventually came to http://stareightsix.com/hyperplane

It's labeled "verify" and has a number of screens from the video in a grid, and symbols around the outside.
Below is another grid of text field, using a font that shows the pie-style symbols for numbers.

The values for the grid that match their symbol labels are:
1 2 3 4
10 11 12 13
14 20 21 22



Any thoughts? Looks like it may have been up for a while (by the "part four" label), or it might just be another web-based puzzle trail...
_________________
@4DFiction/@Wikibruce/Contact
ARGFest 2013 - Seattle! ARGFest.com

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:45 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
natas
PHP Ninja


Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 3177
Location: Northwest Indiana

 		what does *86 do on a telephone. Anything special like *67 or *69

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:32 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life

Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
natas wrote:
what does *86 do on a telephone. Anything special like *67 or *69


Exactly the same question I was about to ask lol.

According to this website: http://8help.osu.edu/2264.html

Quote:
Call Park Deactivate *86


Edit: Upon first glance the video does seem somewhat "ARG"ish, a bit too much for a mere puzzle (but that's just my opinion). Will check out the site and such now.
_________________
PM'd: Chryo-Pharm. || ITFS. || Weirdnessicity/Lif3. ||

Playing: Help me find something!

Watching: Nothing yet...

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:34 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
you.
Decorated

Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Posts: 178

 		nice find, gonna see what i can figure out...

also, *86 is a non standard code - certain carriers or local PBX' might assign it... I recall it being a continuos redial option for Bell, but it could mean alot of things...


Heliĝu seems to mean "clear" is Esperanto, and Ek! is the abbreviation for Esperanta Klavaro, a program that can process Esperanto and and display diacritic letters... not sure if Esperanto is the right path though... just a guess so far....

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:44 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
natas
PHP Ninja


Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 3177
Location: Northwest Indiana

 		By accident, I found out that jaybill (jaybill.com) is blogging about his very own ARG. Maybe that's why he has so much info for us.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:47 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
you.
Decorated

Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Posts: 178

 		FYI, here is the YouTube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/stareightsix - the account was created Nov. 28th, the video was only posted two days ago, with a sign in of an hour ago - the domain has been around for over a year - but this 'game' is new...

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:50 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
thebruce
Dances With Wikis


Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 6899
Location: Kitchener, Ontario

 		bah! jaybill! (eta: care to disseminate how you know it's jaybill's arg? I hvaen't found any 'meta' notes at all yet)

anyway, perhaps Ek! is actually "Ok!" it seems to submit the form values when clicked, as also "Clear" well, clears the fields. Wink
_________________
@4DFiction/@Wikibruce/Contact
ARGFest 2013 - Seattle! ARGFest.com

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:50 pm
Last edited by thebruce on Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:53 pm; edited 1 time in total
 View user's profile Visit poster's website AIM Address
 Back to top 
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life

Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		Natas I don't mean to sound rude (or stupid lol) But are you basing the assumption it's Jaybill's blog on the comment
Quote:
...aaand just to be thorough, I blogged about it as well: http://jaybill.com/2008/11/30/stareightsixcom/#
??

Or, am I missing something else?

---

Okay so if you click the word "Heliĝu" the two sets of circles in the "Top second column" without the photos, move closer together and if you click the "Ek!" the words "NE" Appear just next to the two clickable options...
_________________
PM'd: Chryo-Pharm. || ITFS. || Weirdnessicity/Lif3. ||

Playing: Help me find something!

Watching: Nothing yet...

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:51 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
natas
PHP Ninja


Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 3177
Location: Northwest Indiana
Leyton Stone wrote:
Natas I don't mean to sound rude (or stupid lol) But are you basing the assumption it's Jaybill's blog on the comment
Quote:
...aaand just to be thorough, I blogged about it as well: http://jaybill.com/2008/11/30/stareightsixcom/#
??

Or, am I missing something else?

---

Okay so if you click the word "Heliĝu" the two sets of circles in the "Top second column" without the photos, move closer together and if you click the "Ek!" the words "NE" Appear just next to the two clickable options...


@ Leyton Not, rude, or stupid. Just wrong. You know what people say about assumptions, right. Anyway, I don't wanna post how I came to that conclusion on the forums.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:56 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
you.
Decorated

Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Posts: 178

 		ok... here we go...

the first row of numbers correspond to 2, 11, 0 and 4

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

the next two rows the answers are:
0, 3, 0, 2
0, 1, 0, 0

this will lead you to: http://stareightsix.com/2-11-0-4-0-3-0-2-0-1-0-0/


PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:06 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life

Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
natas wrote:
Leyton Stone wrote:
Natas I don't mean to sound rude (or stupid lol) But are you basing the assumption it's Jaybill's blog on the comment
Quote:
...aaand just to be thorough, I blogged about it as well: http://jaybill.com/2008/11/30/stareightsixcom/#
??

Or, am I missing something else?

---

Okay so if you click the word "Heliĝu" the two sets of circles in the "Top second column" without the photos, move closer together and if you click the "Ek!" the words "NE" Appear just next to the two clickable options...


@ Leyton Not, rude, or stupid. Just wrong. You know what people say about assumptions, right. Anyway, I don't wanna post how I came to that conclusion on the forums.


Yeah that's why I asked, fair enough. Thanks for clearing it up! Very Happy

---

you. wrote:
ok... here we go...

the first row of numbers correspond to 2, 11, 0 and 4

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

the next two rows the answers are:
0, 3, 0, 2
0, 1, 0, 0

this will lead you to: http://stareightsix.com/2-11-0-4-0-3-0-2-0-1-0-0/


How did you figure that out?

Edit: Okay so... The next stage is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Decoding this: SWEOH_RB_WITEO OH,MIIEIIANO_W ME_ENNDLSIG_KN ERSTGCIE_T_BN

_________________
PM'd: Chryo-Pharm. || ITFS. || Weirdnessicity/Lif3. ||

Playing: Help me find something!

Watching: Nothing yet...

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:24 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
natas
PHP Ninja


Joined: 06 Oct 2007
Posts: 3177
Location: Northwest Indiana

 		Ok, someone I trust just told me it's not likely that what I found could be used to hack jaybill's site. (I'm not internet savvy like a lot of folks around here). So here goes...

I went to http://stareightsix.com/HYPERPLANE/ and clicked on the background image... http://stareightsix.com/wp-content/themes/illuminosity/images/sitebanner.png

I removed the last two bits, (/images/sitebanner.png) hoping to find some sort of index or anything, but instead got,

Quote:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/content/j/a/y/jaybill/html/wp-content/themes/illuminosity/index.php on line 1


Apparently, it's a wordpress error, but interestingly enough, it contains jaybill as a directory. Coincidence. maybe. Probably not though.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:30 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address Yahoo Messenger
 Back to top 
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life

Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
natas wrote:
Ok, someone I trust just told me it's not likely that what I found could be used to hack jaybill's site. (I'm not internet savvy like a lot of folks around here). So here goes...

I went to http://stareightsix.com/HYPERPLANE/ and clicked on the background image... http://stareightsix.com/wp-content/themes/illuminosity/images/sitebanner.png

I removed the last two bits, (/images/sitebanner.png) hoping to find some sort of index or anything, but instead got,

Quote:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/content/j/a/y/jaybill/html/wp-content/themes/illuminosity/index.php on line 1


Apparently, it's a wordpress error, but interestingly enough, it contains jaybill as a directory. Coincidence. maybe. Probably not though.


Ah yeah there we go, that'll do it. - No it more than likely could not be used to hack the site and it makes sense.

Okay well I dunno who Jaybill is and didn't before this (Except that he's the blog guy) So I'm going to pretend I missed that and move on.

Cheers for the info Natas!
_________________
PM'd: Chryo-Pharm. || ITFS. || Weirdnessicity/Lif3. ||

Playing: Help me find something!

Watching: Nothing yet...

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:34 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Amazing Larry
Boot

Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 19
natas wrote:
Ok, someone I trust just told me it's not likely that what I found could be used to hack jaybill's site. (I'm not internet savvy like a lot of folks around here). So here goes...

I went to http://stareightsix.com/HYPERPLANE/ and clicked on the background image... http://stareightsix.com/wp-content/themes/illuminosity/images/sitebanner.png

I removed the last two bits, (/images/sitebanner.png) hoping to find some sort of index or anything, but instead got,

Quote:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /home/content/j/a/y/jaybill/html/wp-content/themes/illuminosity/index.php on line 1


Apparently, it's a wordpress error, but interestingly enough, it contains jaybill as a directory. Coincidence. maybe. Probably not though.


OK, just to nip this in the bud, I'm one of Jaybill's friends mentioned in his post and he has nothing to do with this, unless he enjoyed pretending to be stumped along with me for the last day and a half. A friend of his pulled the video off of YT's Recently Posted and tweeted it, and Jaybill blogged it. (And it would be a little impatient of an ARG creator to start spoiling solutions a day after the game begins, wouldn't it?)

Late yesterday afternoon we reached the page you guys have managed to get to in under an hour. (The solution is to
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
multiply the coordinates of each image, and place that value in the boxes below in the order the images appear in the video.
)

So no idea about the code yet. Only idea I have at the moment is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
the message is tagged as code in the source, and we're asked to "decode" the message three times. Might just be coincidence, or a clue that the solution involves computer code? Could the underscores and comma represent instructions instead of a letter? It's obviously not any kind of straight substitution.


Hope I'm not over-spoiling.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:44 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Leyton Stone
I Have No Life

Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)
Amazing Larry wrote:
Late yesterday afternoon we reached the page you guys have managed to get to in under an hour.


Just for fun - O/T - META - OOG: Well... We got into it in 32 minutes from the start of attempting to filter the puzzle so Razz lol
_________________
PM'd: Chryo-Pharm. || ITFS. || Weirdnessicity/Lif3. ||

Playing: Help me find something!

Watching: Nothing yet...

PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:49 pm
 View user's profile AIM Address MSN Messenger
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 1 of 17 [252 Posts]   Goto page: 1, 2, 3, ..., 15, 16, 17  Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: General » Old News & Rumors
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