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[duke9509]

Project Repertum

[Cagliostro3301]

I've never heard about this before, but it looks interesting!
Could you explain a bit, what this was about? Was it an actual ARG?
Also.. according to the countdown (check the source) something will happen on the 3rd of May this year.

[duke9509]

It was a somewhat scatter-brained sci-fi thing about an R&D firm that was using technology from the future. There was a lot of time-travel gobbledygook and some prophecies, and a race of future humans on another planet who were destined to destroy themselves but managed to set up some sort of time loop so each time it happened, time reset to give them another chance, with one person able to remember everything from the previous loops.

...I think.

There was quite often a bit too much going on and I don't remember it all.

There was a wiki, though it wasn't well-kept. Might help you to explore it, though: http://failtech-arg.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline
(actually, it looked like someone went and cleaned up the timeline page (linked above) a bit. Maybe a PM.)

[Cagliostro3301]

[grgisme]

Not one I'll follow, but for what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that image is supposed to be a Rosetta stone of sorts. "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."

[duke9509]

Good catch!

That only makes sense if the alphabet we're looking at is phonetic (becuase the Q C and K are all the same symbol in "quick," but also make the same sound) and if we omit the opening "the."

Aside from that, though, the repeating symbols and the letter counts all do seem to fit that. I'll work on a translation guide and then see to the string at the bottom of the image.

EDIT: Key attached

EDIT2: Okay... Most of those symbols at the bottom have accents or otherwise aren't present in the key. So, with what we know offhand, it works out to:
?C/K/Q ?N ?X ?P ?? ?G

[Cagliostro3301]

I just noticed that you mentioned that new Twitter account.
It only has one tweet yet, and no picture for it:
Sol 1007-3677: Sol 0516-3678 207 Cycles

Sol probably stands for sun and the amount of cycles. No idea what this is about though, because I don't know much about the type, nature etc. of this ARG..

[duke9509]

I'm as unfamiliar off-hand as you are with the "cycles" thing.

[catherwood]

[duke9509]

Hey catherwood! You played the original too, right?

And that makes sense! Good call!

[Cagliostro3301]

So, now that you have this.. What would you do with it?
I mean, if this is a "clue", there's not really a way to put it in use, is there??

[duke9509]

Well we are waiting on a countdown, aren't we? This was probably just giving us an opportunity to understand a "language" that'll be used later on.

[Cagliostro3301]

[duke9509]

Well, I just had a thought. I sent an email to the contact address asking what Repertum was, why it was so important, and why/how a website dated 3677 is being seen in 2014. I also asked a couple questions to try to work out whether this is a complete reboot (god, I hope so... I have very little recollection of old events... Though now that the Wiki's nicer, I could read up on it if I have to.), or if the old events and such are still being considered/remembered.

As for the length of the countdown: It was pure chance that I found this the way I did. If I hadn't been fumbling like I was with LastPass, it would still be unseen to everyone, FAILTECH being remembered as a fizzled-out game of the past. The fact that there was nothing done to gain (or regain) attention from, at least, the old players makes me think that they weren't planning on "launching" for a little while longer. The countdown probably wasn't meant to be THIS long of a wait.

But that's the way things work in ARG town. We stumble onto things!

[Cagliostro3301]

Yea, indeed.
I hope they speed up the countdown process very soon.