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[TrueEyes]

lol agreed, But outside the choppy intrance to the whole thing, This has so far been interesting. I found the internet files to be almost on par with what could really happen out in the real world. Craziest part is if your watching the matrix while playing this game, cut the lights off and stick on head phones and listen to background music on the project b6 page. Almost feel like your about to see some sort of demon evoked or something lol. Definatley want to see more of this.

[Zian64]

[Uzumaki]

Looks like they killed that link.

[Yamato]

[TrueEyes]

Wish I could figure out all the words in the Project B6 part. Its down to breaking whatever cypher that is or decoding the Audio files for now with this one. Not sure I want to delve into either until I see how much happens in the coming few days at least.

[Uzumaki]

Ah, I see.

0xx013 and 0xx014 are up. More crazy sounds. 13: I can clearly hear someone saying "I can't, I don't think I can," then two different voices say "February 21, 2028." 14: March 1, 2028.

[Brian Morton]

HAs anyone been workin gon the b6 project? I still believe that it may be a cipher albiet with a lot of links for ambiance. ANy other ideas?

[DLT]

[catherwood-offline]

[DLT]

Okay, so, looking at the symbols it does seem that perhaps they could just be a simple substitution cipher with just such compex symbols to throw us off scent.

However, its a painstaking process to not only try to see which symbol is most common and replace it with an e etc. etc. but to even make sure you've substituted in the right order and not gotten symbols confused, and so on.

With this in mind, I decided that if deciphering these symbols as if they were a substitution cipher is indeed what we are supposed to do, then splitting it into two steps would be easier. The first step, which I've just done, was to painstakingly transpose all the symbols for a different computer symbol (!, ", £, etc.) so that, while the pattern remains the same, it is easier to differentiate between different symbols while substituting.

The second step, then, is clearly to do the substitution. I've literally gotten sick of looking at these symbols while doing stage one so I can't be bothered trying now, but if anyone else wants a go I'll post my substitution here:

Note that, the "Line x" refers to the line that the symbols are on on the image that I'll attach below, there are 6 lines in total. Some lines have 2 or 3 different sets of symbols on them. I've tried to copy the pattern shown on the image as best I can so as to reduce confusion as to what symbol is what. Each symbol is numbered so that, worst case scenario, you can just count from the left of the symbols on the image, check my corrosponding number in the transposition text, to see what symbol I've swapped for what symbol, if that makes any sense at all.

In any case, here it is:

<EDIT> Code tags are messing it up somehow. I'm attaching it as a notepad file instead.

My initial guess at looking at this is that they were too many unique symbols/too many lines without enough repeated symbols for this to be a substitution cipher. But I could be mistaken.

[Yamato]

not sure if this has been mentioned before, but on that projectb6 page, shortly after the symbols appear, boxes appear very briefly around a number of those symbols. i think they correspond to the ones used in the matching puzzle on interdimensiongames.com after clicking on the anomaly and before accessing the desktop.

as for those two latest audio files, in 0xx013, reversed i can hear at the end, "i told myself i wouldn't"

in 0xx014, reversed i can hear "with any luck, after tonight we should".

[Aces and Eights]

33 symbols, at the least. So I agree with DLT, as a straight cipher this is not likely.

...Wait, 34? Line 6, group 3, number 3 is not as marked (Diamond, as 3rd symbol from top left)-- it's another symbol altogether.


Other observations:
1) Discount piano tones on letters? It seems randomly selected each time you hover the mouse over a symbol, not consistent.
2) Examining order of keywords now (e.g. "consortium"). Too many symbols, yes, but if we can narrow down 1 symbol=1 letter to a few symbols meaning 1 letter then we can make this work. The frequency outliers are there for a language -- 12% of the symbols are that diamond-marked one-- but I'm not sure what to do with the keywords besides drop letters from them in and cross my fingers. I'm giving that a shot now.

@Yamato: That may also be a way to trim down the number of symbols to something that will fit the alphabet? I hadn't noticed it before. Wow, that's fast. Going to need serious luck to screen shot it. I did just download a flash decompiler, I'll give that a shot.

EDIT-update:
Well, that wasn't terribly productive. The tool does not work on 64-bit systems; I'll need to dig up another. My freehand attempts at a screen grab of those boxes have resulted in nothing but frustration.

If anyone else would like, I've tabulated the symbols (as categorized by DLT, thank you for that), along with their associated words and an image of the symbol they're attached to. It saves time waiting for the keyword to be 'written', if nothing else. Although, come to think of it, I didn't note which letters were reversed when written-- which could be a clue.

[Lysithea]

[TrueEyes]

If it really is this hard to translate....is there a chance that IDGI would actually have someone who can speak or translate Ancient sumerian? Just a thought, this is only my 5th ARG so maybe i just dont understand how deep some of these things go.