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[Trailhead] Gateway to Hell
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jabroni
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kira1000 wrote:
My name is kelbris, which is also my name on steam and in the Black Watchmen game


I still see you on the user list. You're not in the deleted list either. Not sure why you wouldn't be able to log in?

PostPosted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:40 pm
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jabroni
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Joined: 07 Mar 2007
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So this forum hasn't been kept up to date since everything is going on in the Slack.com group. I'll try to re-cap:

The Gatekeeper seems to be either dead or kidnapped. Sebastien has joined the group and taken over the account. He seems to be the leader of the church, or possibly the son of the leader. He has one personality that acts like a child, the other seems normal. He posted a new challenge for us...

Quote:

Assignment IV: What Pretty Lights
daddy helpd me mak dis page cause he want new people but is my idea! K?! games like gate keepr made but better cause der MINE!! u have to make em to git frends for dady oN twiter.com/circleskeep so u make puzzels an triks stuf too make peple like it but ist my ideaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!


There has been quite the debate in the group chat as to whether we should cooperate or not. In the interest of moving the game along, I decided to do the assignment. I basically interpreted the assignment as create a puzzle that looks like Sebastien made it that gets people to follow their twitter account. So here's what I submitted as my "answer"...

Quote:
sebastein, I have created a puzzle for you.So far it has been posted to reddit here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/UnsolvedMysteries/comments/2ofijq/pmmfitzbtofjutbcft/

The subject is: pmmfitzbtofjutbcft
This is a variation of a Caesar cipher. If you shift each letter by one, (ex. p>o) it will read: ollehsyasneitsabes. When reversed this reads: sebastien says hello. The message is: cnfgrovapbztx05HqEL

This is also a Casesar cipher, but rotated 13 times. It decodes to a website: http://pastebin.com/gk05UdRYThis site contains a large block of text.
The text is base64, which can be converted into an image using a website like this (http://www.askapache.com/online-tools/base64-image-converter/).

The image is your Circulus Keep logo. At this point they will need to google Circulus Keep and find your twitter and follow it.
For an extra clue, the user name of the post is a letter number cipher, decoding to "follow us."


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zerovin
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Joined: 23 Sep 2012
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I have now been deleted. Looks like thats the end for me, good luck for the rest of it guys.

EDIT: Anyone who has been deleted, go to this status, and appeal to sebastien to be let back into the slack room.

https://twitter.com/CirculusKeep/status/541112260312051712

PostPosted: Sat Dec 06, 2014 4:03 am
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jabroni
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So, after the latest chat with Sebastien he has told us that we need to get 100 twitter followers for his "daddy's" church. I don't like it when PMs do this type of thing.

Anyway, if you were still interested in joining you can follow their twitter account here: https://twitter.com/CirculusKeep/

It seems like they are waiting to continue the game until they get more people, but honestly I have no idea. It's been pretty weird so far.

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mrshomersimpson
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jabroni wrote:
So, after the latest chat with Sebastien he has told us that we need to get 100 twitter followers for his "daddy's" church. I don't like it when PMs do this type of thing.

Anyway, if you were still interested in joining you can follow their twitter account here: https://twitter.com/CirculusKeep/

It seems like they are waiting to continue the game until they get more people, but honestly I have no idea. It's been pretty weird so far.


ehhh been watching from the sidelines tbh on this one but yeah its kinda caught my attention now..

As for the 100 twitter followers? Ambitious to say the least. Lets hope they are prepared to continue with less, but yeah if you need extras sure why not i'll go for it..
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astrofig
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Just sent the email to join; I'll be called Astra. Have things reached a stop for now then? I wonder if trying to promote the game to our respective twitter followers might gather any new players......

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JLopez
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I'd like to get in on this. Is there any community hub outside the slack.com closed forum?

PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:14 pm
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lordhatesall
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from what i can tell this has been sort of a hybrid experience. people who made it in from the beginning and put most of the work in receive a more rewarding exclusive experience. people who came in late cannot receive an invite to the slack group but can still play and follow along to an extent. reddit.com/r/gatewaytohellmystery seems to be the most used public hub and a new puzzle has emerged that can be accessed and worked on by anyone gatewaytohell.org/0110111001101111011101000110100001101001011011100110011101101110011001010111001101110011

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ads123
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So if anyone does want to get into this and wants to be able to get into the Slack area so they can experience the ARG first hand the PM me on here as every one has been given 1 invitation which they are allowed to spend on a person they trust. Otherwise the reddit does still seem to best place to keep up with things at the moment and I will probably give a run down of everything that has happened at the end of this.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:42 pm
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Xkeeper
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I wouldn't mind checking it out, but there doesn't seem to be a lot that can be done, from the outside.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:52 pm
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jabroni
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Joined: 07 Mar 2007
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Location: Michigan

We've managed to solve the latest puzzle (http://gatewaytohell.org/0110111001101111011101000110100001101001011011100110011101101110011001010111001101110011/)

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

011100110110100001100101
ABABBABAAABABABAABAAAAABB
gur
... .- -- .
vbzY
rcp
ZGllZA==
alone
(leave blank)


This leads to a password protected zip file:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
gatewaytohell.org/0110111001101111011101000110100001101001011011100110011101101110011001010111001101110011/WhoMurderedElizabeth.zip


The password for this file is:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
0110111001101111011101000110100001101001011011100110011101101110011001010111001101110011


The zip file contains a text file, an audio file, and a video file.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Father always wanted her. And even if she wasn't already married, she despised him. When he faced her she expressed revulsion and when he turned his back she laughed.

His love unfulfilled with no outlet turned to poison. The thin red of his heart turned to a thick black. Obsession was his master and it had its orders.

One day he burst through the door boasting of a big surprise, in the same moment going back out to his car. He returned with a body slung over his shoulder wrapped in his old army blanket and bound with twine. In his other hand a burlap sack from McFarrel's Hardware. He entered his room and slammed the door.

Almost an hour later he finally brought us in for our "big surprise". That's when I first met Elizabeth, lying there bloodied and raped, tear-soaked face turned in shame and horror, chained to the bed.

He held her captive for years until the day that either out of love or hatred, someone released her from her painful span of existence. We grew to love one another as parent and child.


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