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Aesculapius
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seanman wrote:
If you search for the drug name you can find on wiki its attached to another ARG from 2007.

Already known. All the messages are. The thing is there are some aweful coincidental connections to the previous args here.

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Aesculapius wrote:
seanman wrote:
If you search for the drug name you can find on wiki its attached to another ARG from 2007.

Already known. All the messages are. The thing is there are some aweful coincidental connections to the previous args here.


Finished going through all of E24 site..... Feb.7 that is the only connection I could find really. Re-did some of those contact pages nothing new.

There were some 15 year ago references so that would land it at (1996) but it doesn't look like there is anything new on the pages.

So all in all the only connection is Feb.7 /1996...

EDIT: oh and wrigley field was mentioned but that seemed kinda out there.

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 		At this point, I think it is safe to stamp out the talk and say that the exhibit24 stuff is unrelated. It's already well known that 42 Entertainment is behind this and that the discovery of e24 was accidental because they didn't clean our their system before starting this campaign.

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 		Enh I guess this is the best thread... fwiw I tried a few more tricks on the images and couldn't find any hidden data. Previously I've seen info hidden in alpha channels, but all the files are jpegs.

So, yeah. Might still be worth someone opening the files with WinRAR (I'm on a Mac), or trying their own steganography tools, but I'm afraid it looks like a dead end...

We really didn't have much to solve before the last countdown ended, so that may be the case again. Will go back through the video again too anyway...

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 		Ok...may have missed it and I apologize if I have, but has anyone found a significance to the numbers on the 4th page of the prelude comic? I tried calling the phone number on the traelekinstitute.com and then pressing the numbers, but the message just stopped and there was silence.

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ADarkly wrote:
Enh I guess this is the best thread... fwiw I tried a few more tricks on the images and couldn't find any hidden data. Previously I've seen info hidden in alpha channels, but all the files are jpegs.

So, yeah. Might still be worth someone opening the files with WinRAR (I'm on a Mac), or trying their own steganography tools, but I'm afraid it looks like a dead end...

We really didn't have much to solve before the last countdown ended, so that may be the case again. Will go back through the video again too anyway...


Well I know for a fact looking at this commercial that without the Vetruvian Man the 5 pages combine to look like the thing from the cobalt commercial

YouTube: Link to a point I'm fairly certain it's no coincidence. Really wish I had image editing software at my disposal. I may have to crash course with photoshop instead of gimp at my school tomorrow just to prove this point, lol.

There REALLY is more to this. I just don't know what. So far what we have is the cryptically spaced "Paper tokens" (assumed to refer to the usage of gum packs) and is weird spinny thing from cobalt.

Misguided has to have some weird secret to it. the other 3 do in some way shape or form.

Really need to get a power cable for my real computer again... I'd be all over this! >_>

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 		thought: five gum is just the decoy? ok. i feel better with that thought. any new weird discoveries though? apart from what has been mentioned in the last couple pages?

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 		decoy: sometimes riches must be sacrificed for salvation

possible meaning: sometimes it is neccessary to sacrifice money for freedom/saving/etc

translation: go buy gum.....but it's under decoy.

ascent: little girls drawings related to commercial

cobalt=spinny thing (icey peppermint flavor)
fivereact=everyone reacts differently, like to the original video
i dont remember the name of the gum...but today saw a commercial for a newer one with nothing but iceflies. i am a little concerned about this.

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 		http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3420378&pagenumber=3

another, not so good forum......but it has a few newer ideas.

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LadyNecra wrote:
decoy: sometimes riches must be sacrificed for salvation

possible meaning: sometimes it is neccessary to sacrifice money for freedom/saving/etc

translation: go buy gum.....but it's under decoy.

ascent: little girls drawings related to commercial

cobalt=spinny thing (icey peppermint flavor)
fivereact=everyone reacts differently, like to the original video
i dont remember the name of the gum...but today saw a commercial for a newer one with nothing but iceflies. i am a little concerned about this.


Probably React2.

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Aesculapius
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PostColour wrote:
LadyNecra wrote:
decoy: sometimes riches must be sacrificed for salvation

possible meaning: sometimes it is neccessary to sacrifice money for freedom/saving/etc

translation: go buy gum.....but it's under decoy.

ascent: little girls drawings related to commercial

cobalt=spinny thing (icey peppermint flavor)
fivereact=everyone reacts differently, like to the original video
i dont remember the name of the gum...but today saw a commercial for a newer one with nothing but iceflies. i am a little concerned about this.


Probably React2.


Yesterday I tried substituting letters in paper tokens (with appropriate spacing) with strings made of various flavors that fit in the 21 spaces, as well as the latin in misguided backwards. Nothin!
But I did come up with a couple ideas for flavors that matched each.

Decoy - react (there is a theme with reflections in this picture. Letters reflected on ring, and backwards handwritting)

Ascent - cobalt - makes the cobalt ball transport thingy and ascent can be related to the recent icefly cobalt commercial

Blameless - Flare (fire theme) - Rain (blameless... geddit? Also mentiones being shaken like in rain ads)

Misguided - swerve (redirect?)

So far, again, nothing. (But there has to be something there!)

One thing I *really* want to try but can't till I get my compy working again (or until I go to my college on a non-holiday) is fading the brochure picture with the shield on it from misguided in with the blameless article with the shield linking up with the burning house picture. Maybe fade the ring into the picture as well.

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 		Traelek Institute number
Pressing 6 during the Traelek Institute pre-recorded message connects you to their fax line. I first tried putting in the numerical phone keypad version of "papertoken" after the hiccup thing and it repeated the ten digit number to me saying "Your fax number is (whatever the number I put in was). To change your fax number, press 1" so I pressed 1 and put in my real fax line number. It repeated the "to change..." message but I didn't press anything more, so there was a pause, and then the automated operator said "There are no fax documents available." and then the call disconnected. Found that interesting.

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 		Re: Traelek Institute number
buzazzle wrote:
Pressing 6 during the Traelek Institute pre-recorded message connects you to their fax line. I first tried putting in the numerical phone keypad version of "papertoken" after the hiccup thing and it repeated the ten digit number to me saying "Your fax number is (whatever the number I put in was). To change your fax number, press 1" so I pressed 1 and put in my real fax line number. It repeated the "to change..." message but I didn't press anything more, so there was a pause, and then the automated operator said "There are no fax documents available." and then the call disconnected. Found that interesting.


I did that Thursday or Friday and reported the same findings. If I had to guess, it's another of 42E's leftovers.

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 		Maybe the Ring/Decoy should be taken literally. 'Ring' ing the numbers is just a 'Decoy'. Maybe the other stuff left on the 42E system is there for Decoy reasons???
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