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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		Ark Light
"Matrix-esque" Game. With a Portal!
Continuing from the trailheads thread. Hoping a mod can splice the earlier posts into this one.

I sent:
Quote:
I've always been told that ignorance is bliss.

Are we talking "ark" as in the biblical ark of the covenant?

With the numbers, are you giving me the dimensions to build a raft?


And received:
Quote:
Guide 03e


Must have been the Noah's Ark allusion I made.
The link goes to an image with a graphical link to a freewebs site:
http://arklight.webs.com/index.htm which is titled "The Portal" and includes a counter with a broken wikipedia link (fixed) set to go off in 48 days and some change.

There are also semi-hidden links on the page to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savior
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:47 am
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Wulf74
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 		Don't hurt me if this is a trout - just happened to be the only related thread I could see.

I got an email yesterday:
Quote:
Subject: Ark Light
From: arklightSPLATinbox.com

This world is not real.

You are living in a dream.

Reach past the Light.


17 - 9 - 26 - 4 - 93 - 52 - 55 - 11 - 70 - 33


It's pretty late where I am, and I'm crashing for the night, so I haven't tried to solve the part at the bottom. If this belongs in another thread - lemme know.

[ignorance] Did I swallow the red pill before I went to sleep? [/ignorance] Very Happy

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Merago
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 		Intriguing. I'd say this is definitely the right thread Wulf74.

To collate all of the emails that have been received and replied to so far (from the Trailhead thread):-

Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Got an email a little bit ago...
Quote:
from Guide 07c <arklight>
to mSPLATthew7_14.com
date Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:49 PM
subject Ark Light
mailed-by inbox.com



This world is not real.

You are living in a dream.

Reach past the Light.


17 - 9 - 26 - 4 - 93 - 52 - 55 - 11 - 70 - 33


I sent:
Quote:
from Rogi Ocnorb <rogi>
to Guide 07c <arklight>
date Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM
subject Re: Ark Light
mailed-by gmail.com


Why would you say such a thing?
I'm perfectly content in my ignorance.


And received:
Quote:
from Guide 07c <arklight>
to Rogi Ocnorb <rogi>
date Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:21 AM
subject Re: Ark Light
mailed-by inbox.com


Ignorance and happiness are not the same.

Ignorance and happiness are not the same.

5 - 991 - 32 - 78 - 41 - 69 - 87 - 11 _ 7 - 00


Ocellis, from the same thread wrote:
Just got that email myself.

Pretty random since I've not been too active xD

[EDIT: Well, appears it is a preset response. I got the same reply as Rogi. And my message content was different.]
[EDIT: Since this appears to be something, maybe it needs a thread of it's own..?]

[BIG EDIT:

Okay, I responded again,

like this:

"You catch my attention.
What do you propose I do to reach past this light?"

and got this:

"null sentance. ERROR. reality is Light.

00 - 0 - 99 - 77 - 5555 - 00 - 11 - 2 - 25 - 33"


And enaxor wrote:
I got two emails today, the first one is the same as Rogi's, the second one was in response to what I sent...

enaxor wrote:
You call yourself Guide 07c, are there others?


to which the response was...

Guide 07c wrote:
One is many and many is 1.

0 - 00 - 5 - 44444 - 00 - 00 - 000 - 0 - 00 - 0


I'm going to have a play around with the numbers, but nothing leaps out as an obvious encryption method.
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thebruce
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 		velly intellesting....

so so far we've got numbers:

Code:
(spaced for columns)
17 - 9   - 26 - 4     - 93   - 52 - 55  - 11 - 70 - 33
5  - 991 - 32 - 78    - 41   - 69 - 87  - 11 _ 7  - 00
00 - 0   - 99 - 77    - 5555 - 00 - 11  - 2  - 25 - 33
0  - 00  - 5  - 44444 - 00   - 00 - 000 - 0  - 00 - 0


number w/guide07c and the link w/guide03e

references to "Ark Light", "Flood Control"...
Matthew 7:14 - But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
....and the site has the title "The Portal".
Halo? Razz

But Virtual Reality, Virus and Savior seem a little disconnected.

The countdown is to 12am, Thursday April 30 (for my machine; not sure if timezone dependent)
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Merago
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 		So, each line of numbers is 10 'characters' long. I wonder if it's the same phrase encoded using different encryption methods?
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Capslock
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 		Lurking! (Read: Trying to help but sofar have found or done nothing of importance)

Anyway, thebruce, as much as i'd LIKE another Halo Arg...and that WOULD work seeing tho they had some for the first 3 games (the Cortana letters, ILoveBees...and I can't remember the third), and Halo: ODST is coming out....I don't think its related.

Flood control? Okay..yeah that could make some sense. Ark light...again could work..Virus...maybe an AI default? I doubt it. And they would have used Reclaimer instead of Saviour anyway...seems abit of a long shot XD
A hopeful long shot..but yeah Sad

Anyway, the code has ALOT of zeroes towardss the end...that's whats confusing me. What has THAT many zeroes that is decodable? I have absolutely no idea.

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Capslock wrote:
Anyway, thebruce, as much as i'd LIKE another Halo Arg...


Heh, I think (but I'm by no means certain) that thebruce was being sarcastic and he was implying that this might be a Portal ARG. I have to say, as soon as I started reading this thread I thought the same.

Capslock wrote:
Anyway, the code has ALOT of zeroes towardss the end...that's whats confusing me. What has THAT many zeroes that is decodable? I have absolutely no idea.


Yeah, that's getting me too. It is possible that it's a direct substition cypher and '0' is one character, '00' is another and '000' yet another, but I've had no luck with that avenue so far.[/i]
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Moontje
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 		I got the same email and i replied with

Quote:
> Why am i living in a dream? I am realistic person....
> So why do i have to reach past the light?


And i got this.....
Quote:
Data null.
System intrusion detected.
Hostile presence.
Active data loss detected.
Return pass code to initiate counter measures.
Knowledge-Base.dbss at 89% integrity

0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0


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Merago
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Quote:
Data null.
System intrusion detected.
Hostile presence.
Active data loss detected.
Return pass code to initiate counter measures.
Knowledge-Base.dbss at 89% integrity

0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0


Oof! Now we've done broked it. Shocked
Heh, does the highlighted text mean we need to return a password d'you think?

Also:- more bloody zeroes!

EDIT:- Ok, so adding the new line to thebruce's grid gives us:-

Code:
17 - 9   - 26 - 4     - 93   - 52 - 55  - 11 - 70 - 33
5  - 991 - 32 - 78    - 41   - 69 - 87  - 11 _ 7  - 00
00 - 0   - 99 - 77    - 5555 - 00 - 11  - 2  - 25 - 33
0  - 00  - 5  - 44444 - 00   - 00 - 000 - 0  - 00 - 0
0  - 0   - 0  - 0     - 0    - 0  - 0   - 0  - 0  - 0

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thebruce
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 		*ahem*

Moontje wrote:
Data null.
System intrusion detected.
Hostile presence.
Active data loss detected.
Return pass code to initiate counter measures.
Knowledge-Base.dbss at 89% integrity

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thebruce wrote:
*ahem*

Moontje wrote:
Data null.
System intrusion detected.
Hostile presence.
Active data loss detected.
Return pass code to initiate counter measures.
Knowledge-Base.dbss at 89% integrity


*ahem*
Whats DSHARK meant to mean Razz
It ends in Ark? D-Shark? I have no idea.

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Ocellis
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Capslock wrote:
thebruce wrote:
*ahem*

Moontje wrote:
Data null.
System intrusion detected.
Hostile presence.
Active data loss detected.
Return pass code to initiate counter measures.
Knowledge-Base.dbss at 89% integrity


*ahem*
Whats DSHARK meant to mean Razz
It ends in Ark? D-Shark? I have no idea.


If it meant "DataSHARK" I'd laugh and start wondering if this was a prank.. But, I'd doubt that.

If it's a username, then there's a lot of places to check...

Wonder how it'd respond if someone sent back all the numbers? xD

Or "DSHARK"..

[EDIT: As I sat here looking at everything I just thought about "The Matrix." It was after all a virtual reality, which had a repeating virus that allowed people to wake every someodd time. And the savior was Neo xD
Also just noticed Wulf74's little phrase. Nice, hehe.
"[ignorance] Did I swallow the red pill before I went to sleep? [/ignorance]"

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Capslock wrote:
*ahem*
Whats DSHARK meant to mean Razz
It ends in Ark? D-Shark? I have no idea.

hehe no idea, just seemed to obvious not to mention Smile
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Ocellis
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 		May not want to email it too much or it'll be broken for good.

It apparently doesn't like seeing it's own codes. Maybe they're one big math trick?

I've been out for so long that I'm a bit confused, lol. (So random that they chose me to email xD)

[EDIT: But I figure if we figure it out, we could get it to give us more, if we can get a passcode figured out. We've only got a few chances.

Quote:
Null code.
Knowledge-Base.dbss at 78% integrity


0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0 - 0
]

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Capslock
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 		Heh Thebruce, at least its been pointed out, right? Who knows if it actually means anything or not....I hope it does tho...except we havent got any login area yet...so I dunno! I spose we wait and see! I hope we dont have to way 48 days! what a bummer!

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