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[Trailhead] somasystems.org / nextfrictionalgame.com

**Posted:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 12:26 pm

aklreaxmer · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 78

Re: [Trailhead] somasystems.org / nextfrictionalgame.com

**Posted:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 1:05 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

42% - This may take a while. Smile

**Posted:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 2:56 pm

GuestUser17 · Entrenched Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812

4chan reference to somasystems.org???

**Posted:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:45 pm

aklreaxmer · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 78

The mandarin in the bottom left of the loading box is

**Posted:** Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:55 pm

SeriToolsDE

Well, 100% reached - it now shows "Website Disabled".

The source code of somasystems.org now has a changed HTML comment:

**Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 8:50 am

SeriToolsDE

Moving the top part and the small bottom part of the text to the right yields this:

**Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 10:28 am

MrToasty

**Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:42 am

SeriToolsDE

https://twitter.com/frictionalgames/status/384728813521088512

Seems they are getting a big DDoS attack. :/

EDIT: nextfrictionalgame.com is back - at 99%.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:36 pm

SeriToolsDE

Something happened!

somasystems.org lets us know: "Booting in progress..." Page title: "SOMA: Booting..."

nextfrictionalgame.com is ~~down for now~~ back at the 99% status.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:01 pm

SeriToolsDE

It seems to be in a kind of loop...

somasystems as well as nextfrictionalgame point to the same old progress bar at 95%.
No frames or redirection involved.

The only thing that has changed is the favicon, it seems.

Edit: Tweet confirms further booting:
"Seems like dark forces have been against us. Despite that, servers are up again and booting continued. ETA: 5 hours. http://somasystems.org/"

**Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:09 am

Zockerfreak112 · Greenhorn Joined: 01 Oct 2013 Posts: 6

Hey guys!

I just registered so I can discuss about the ARG.

About 2pm (time of middle europe) the progress was finished.
Just visit the website and see! Don't forget to watch the interesting video.

After you read and watched everything, look at this picture. It is the background of the website that continuously changes.

http://somasystems.org/gfx/recovery/cf-05-darker.png

Maybe we can put together the text so we can read it.

Also, the corrupted text can be found here:

http://somasystems.org/gfx/reader/corrupt-1.png
http://somasystems.org/gfx/reader/corrupt-2.png
http://somasystems.org/gfx/reader/corrupt-3.png
http://somasystems.org/gfx/reader/corrupt-4.png

The last corrupted text/image you can see on the website is corrupt-1.png again.
I don't know if the images have a special meaning or are just gibberish.

EDIT: Can someone maybe save the important files/images, so we still have access to them when Frictional Games changes the website again?
I really have to go now, I can't do it now. Later I will try to decipher the text of the background. But I don't really know how..

**Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 8:39 am

SeriToolsDE

**Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:22 am

Zockerfreak112 · Greenhorn Joined: 01 Oct 2013 Posts: 6

I don't know what to do next, searching in the source code was the only thing I could do. Seems that I have to wait for the next case file to be able to help actively.

Well, it seems like the corrupted images don't have any hidden message, do they?

I found a way for me to be useful again Smile

The second chinese letter seems to mean "right" or "the right".
See here:
http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%8F%B3/1318558

The third could be this one:
http://www.nciku.com/search/zh/detail/%E5%88%97/1309565

The forth may be this one:
http://www.nciku.com/search/all/%E5%B2%80

I don't know what sense it makes, because each chinese letter has many meanings.

I'm not sure about the first letter, it COULD be this, although it is a bit different.
http://www.nciku.com/search/all/%E8%B2%A2

By the way, the letters I meant can easily be accessed with this link:
http://www.nextfrictionalgame.com/gfx/reader/Document-Top.png

EDIT:
The progress on recovering files took about 12 hours to get from 0% to 7%. So it will need about 7 days to complete..

**Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 7:37 pm

aklreaxmer · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 78

@Zockerfreak112

Yes, we were discussing the chinese text earlier. You nailed the translations.

The pinyin (romanization of chinese characters) for the second and third characters is "Y�u li�".
@SeriToolsDe proposed that this could be taken to mean "You Lie" (english).
Also, the first character is definitely the one you linked to. Look in the parentheses. This is the traditional character, the one outside parentheses is simplified mandarin.

So, now we have english translations of all characters: "Tribute", "Right Column/row" (2nd and 3rd char.) and "go out". Doesn't make much sense as a sentence (Google Translate yields "right tribute list").

**Posted:** Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:49 pm