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[Trailhead] Innocent Living/Little Minds Incorporated
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 		[Trailhead] Innocent Living/Little Minds Incorporated
Disneyland never seemed so dark.
Alright boys and girls, here's what I got for ya.

I found this over on /r/ARG, where I find most of my ARG related material.

The link was to this site: http://v896020502.wix.com/innocentliving

It looks to me like it's some kind of weird art institute thing, I have no idea. Anyways, If you scroll down you can see panels from their upcoming comic. On the middle one there's some red text that I'll get to later. There's more exposition and stuff there too, but you can read that yourself. Scroll down far enough you'll find some audio files. It's literally just Disney's Gravity Falls' theme song. But, I'm familiar with the show and know that there's some backwards speech at the end of the song hinting at the cipher to use for that season. When played backwards, the speech in the file said "Switch A and Z". From there, we can move back up to that aforementioned red text. Using the ATBASH cipher on it (switching A and Z) gives us this plain text:

Quote:
-Orggov Nrmwh- Little Minds
-Rmxliklizgvw- Incorporated
-Kzhh- Pass
-erigflfh- virtuous


Next, go to the "Special Thanks" section and click on that "Little Minds" logo. Insert the password, and boom, welcome to the ARG.

Also, if you scroll down a little further on the Innocent Living site, you'll find "Help Missing Kids" under the "Proud Supporters" section. Click that. I'm almost positive that'll come in handy later on. Also, on that Missing Kids page, there's a box that says "Have you seen any of these Children?" (notice that for some reason "Children" is capitalized.) Clicking this opens another prompt for the password. I have no idea what it is. One more note about the Missing Kids page. All of the children disappeared from Disneyland, Florida. If you've actually been to the Disney park in Florida, you would know that it's not Disneyland, but in fact, Disney World. Not sure if this means anything, but it stood out to me.

Final thing, back on the Little Minds site, go to gallery. There you can look through sketches of what seem to be Disney and Cartoon Network cartoons. The middle picture has some writing on it. It says:

Quote:
neigh thug
micro neighbor
smooth reed
Buffi vegan
ablaze rodent


No idea what it means. That's where I'm stuck now.
Happy hunting!

Side note: Forgot to mention that I already emailed Little Minds, requesting a job position. I don't expect a response, as I believe the only way to get them to answer it to trick them into thinking we are already a customer by sending them a "Special Message" as mentioned in the "Contact" section of the Little Minds site.

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Touchstone
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 		Re: [Trailhead] Innocent Living/Little Minds Incorporated
Disneyland never seemed so dark.
nintendo wrote:
Final thing, back on the Little Minds site, go to gallery. There you can look through sketches of what seem to be Disney and Cartoon Network cartoons. The middle picture has some writing on it. It says:

Quote:
neigh thug
micro neighbor
smooth reed
Buffi vegan
ablaze rodent


No idea what it means. That's where I'm stuck now.
Happy hunting!


Probably stating the obvious, but "neigh thug", "micro neighbor", etc don't appear to be anagrams, at least not individually.

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 		Re: [Trailhead] Innocent Living/Little Minds Incorporated
Disneyland never seemed so dark.
Touchstone wrote:

Probably stating the obvious, but "neigh thug", "micro neighbor", etc don't appear to be anagrams, at least not individually.


I just figure since everything else is a legitimate sketch and that those things are edited in with text, we should probably pay attention to that.

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 		On the Missing Children Database site, the question "Have you seen any of these Children?" is clickable. A password prompt pops up. It is not the same password that is used in the Little Minds Incorporated site. Still looking...
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 		I sent an email to the one listed on the Contact page of Little Minds Incorporated: littlemindsincSPLATgmail.com. All I said in the email was:

Quote:
Hi. I am interested in knowing more about your organization. If only I knew the Special Message. How can I become a loyal customer?


I used the subject line "Interesting".

I got an immediate automated response:

Quote:
The e-mail you are trying to contact is currently unavailable.


Please:
- Please make sure you have typed the correct e-mail
- See if the e-mail is still currently active
- Make sure you have followed any listed instruction(s)
- Check to see if your subject line is filled


I found the line "Make sure you have followed any listed instruction(s)" interesting. It sounds like we need to know the Special Message before we can continue...
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 		Aha! I figured it out. Those words on the sketch give the Special Message.

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Hidden inside each of the 2-word "names" is a number. If you put those numbers together, it becomes the secret message that you put in the subject line in an email to send to them.


The secret message is:
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81350


After sending the secret message in the subject line, they immediately send an attachment with their real "products". This is getting extremely creepy...very fast. I sure hope this is an arg...
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phenexfirf wrote:

After sending the secret message in the subject line, they immediately send an attachment with their real "products". This is getting extremely creepy...very fast. I sure hope this is an arg...


Super creepy indeed! I sent an email back saying "how do I go about purchasing?" but no automatic reply this time.

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 		The attachment in the email is a Google doc that contains the password for the "Have you seen any of these Children?" popup.

I don't want to spoil anything more...but it seems like this leads to the end of this "game". Very interesting. Short and sweet. I wonder if this is a test game for somebody learning to start creating their own ARGs. If so, I applaud the efforts and hope the individual or individuals continues making more. I enjoyed this unexpected treat tonight.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:01 pm
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 		Ah just figured it out as well. I'll leave some hints and the solution for others:

Hint 1:
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Find letters in the pictures


Hint 2:
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Put the letters together based on the children's names in alphabetical order


Hint 3:
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Sold = a space


Solution:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
mickey lake


PostPosted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 3:48 am
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phenexfirf wrote:
I wonder if this is a test game for somebody learning to start creating their own ARGs. If so, I applaud the efforts and hope the individual or individuals continues making more. I enjoyed this unexpected treat tonight.


I'll second that. Although, part of me desperately wants the moose article to be a Monty Python-inspired rabbithole. A Rabbit-of-Caerbannog-hole, perhaps?

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