Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
 
The time now is Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:47 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)
View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Updates » News & Rumors
New ARG from Seraph Films, LLC
Moderators: Administrators, Moderators, ndemeter, Varin
View previous topicView next topic
Page 2 of 6 [81 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
Author Message
Jim Sawyer
Veteran

Joined: 14 Dec 2009
Posts: 101

Hey so I've just caught up on all the videos today. I don't know if this has been pointed out but I was trying to see if anything informative would come from the username of the mysterious uploader.

Code:
p4 th0l0g ic411y r3


I didn't see it at first but get rid of the spaces...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
p4th0l0gic411yr3

replace 4=A 0=O 1=L and 3=E

pAthOlOgicALLyrE

you get pathological lyre.


Google tells me pathological lyre is a band but obviously it also makes you think pathological liar, like the videos are a lie maybe??? If this has already been mentioned or was really obvious to everyone except me I'm sorry.


EDIT: I decided to do some digging on the second mysterious video "Stabilimenta" to see if I could come up with anything from the images within.

Here's a play by play of all the images that appear in the video, I watched it frame by frame to pick up some of the faster flashes and used reverse image search to determine what they were:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Writing scrolling quickly (I think someone mentioned somewhere that this was a screen test?)

Spider weaving a web

Rain Falling

Clear Sky

"Black Mailbox" Belonging to Steve Medlin - Linked to UFO's/Aliens/Area 51 (Has the numbers 61 and 80 on it, could be relevant...)

Doll with snake in its eye

A quick flash of an image from a "Trig Ceremony" from Vassar College. Related to women studying mathematics

Back to doll

Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Quick Flashes of:
-100 dollar bills
-ChloeB from "Can't believe I'm doing this"
-The Sands of Time by Thomas Richard (Interesting point what you see in the video is only part of this painting but the other half of the painting is the same thing repeated next to itself)
-Madison blindfolded
-What looks like fire or an explosion

Back to Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral

Police car

Rocky Creek?

Quick flash of a sign from Nellis Bombing and Gunnery Range (Supposed location of area 51)

Trees

A drawing of an eye (reverse image search lead to a website talking about Queen Elizabeth's fascination with the occult)

ON9)O9GX)T4O the dreaded code which the PM seems to be hinting is the password for the word doc on the USB

Burlesque Dancer

Quick Flashes of:
-A fence with what looks like shipping containers and palm trees behind it (reverse image search returned nothing)
-The cave from El Escorpian park (already found)
-A mural in Baltimore painted by an artist named NETHER in memorial of local rapper SMASH (aka T-MAC / Terrell Taylor)
-Deer skull (reverse image links it to vintage occult but looks like generic image)
-Generic explosion image
-20 pound note
-Pink/Purple neon musical notes (also generic)

Woman with surgical mask

Man from the park under surveillance

Unknown building with clock tower, reverse search had no matches

A witch coven (according to reverse image search)

"A UFO flies over Mono Lake" Stock image from gettyimages

A man holding a camera and zooming or focusing

A generic image of a guy on the phone

Surveillance footage of ChloeB and the man in the park

Flashes between:
-An image of a seance apparently related to Abraham Lincoln and the White House (with AreaCode.## over the top)
-Unknown clock tower building from earlier, this time with AreaCode.## over the top.

The bathroom from the first video(?) with the lights above the mirror flashing

Some skittles assorted by colour (picture taken from soundcloud account "Skittles_1563")

Deer skull picture again

People walking on train tracks

Clock tower with AreaCode.## Flashing

ON9)O9GX)T4O flashes again briefly

A stock image of a creepy hallway

Clock tower with AreaCode.## again

Trig Ceremony again

ON9)O9GX)T4O again

Surgery?

Spider again

Surveillance of ChloeB? (Girl with red jumper and brown hair, looks like she is studying. Would fit with clothes worn in "Thank you Cale" video. Another woman with dark curly hair seen briefly but may not be important)

Clock tower building again

A girl walking in the dark who is approached from behind by camera operator.


From what I've read of the comments, the PM seems to really be emphasising the importance of the ON9)O9GX)T4O code... In various comments they've mentioned the importance of the brackets, the odd positioning of the O's and its been linked in at least one comment by ChloeB to the roman numerals, 29, mirror, plate glass through 30 from the first video. I have been playing around with the code. I was thinking mirroring the code left-to-right, mirroring just the first half of the code which would give a complete set of brackets etc. but haven't found anything useful. Hopefully this post might spark an idea for one of you.

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:04 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
KimmyGoodwin
Boot

Joined: 20 Jul 2014
Posts: 26

I've been searching for this park all weekend to no avail. I might be chasing a red herring, but It seems different to the rest of the images and has purposely been inserted.

I though I had hit something with an area called Westminster in Hollywood, as the video flashes a sign with golden square Westminster on...I did find a memorial park in that location but I couldn't find any area that match on google street view and the PM has steered me away from that site.....

I'm also not sure if the clip of the man walking the dog is supposed to be leading us to a dog walking park??>>??!!

The code is also driving me mad....I just can't work it out Bang Head
Capture.JPG
 Description   
 Filesize   70.78KB
    50 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.


PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:43 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
GuestUser17
Entrenched


Joined: 22 Feb 2011
Posts: 812

I agree that the picture of the fountain does not look like stock video but I'm not sure it's from the LA area based on the plants. I didn't really see any parks that had similar trees when I was looking for that fountain. I didn't have a lot of time to look too hard for it though. And that stupid code... Evil or Very Mad

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:28 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
KimmyGoodwin
Boot

Joined: 20 Jul 2014
Posts: 26

true I didn't think of the tree thing....being from UK I'm not sure what plants and trees look like what over there......I guess it could be a park from the UK (The Westminster sign keeps creeping in my mind) but I don't see that somehow as what would they have to gain in that?

Think I am just going to wait for the next video and hopefully we will get more clues.....She has a lot to visit with the bowling alley, the book shop and the mountains so maybe something will crop up to give us a further clue...

I'm still intrigued by the secret video you found and what she says at the end Baying of the hounds etc...so I will be interested in that connection that has with everything else!

PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 12:01 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
themightymooker
Veteran

Joined: 29 Nov 2015
Posts: 109
Location: Not Quite Lincoln, NE

I know there haven't been any major developments lately, but there is a website (findmadison.com) and a couple of new videos. One of them is an excellently cool shout-out list to anyone who's commented so far. Thought I'd give you all a heads-up in case it sneaked past you.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:57 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Dantanian
Boot

Joined: 01 Jul 2016
Posts: 14

Re: [Trailhead] Chloe's Videos
Apparent web series/ARG

TargoBindas wrote:
First time posting, but I've run into a web series that almost certainly has an ARG component. They seem to be pretending it's real, but considering it's on a film company's YouTube that doesn't seem likely.

It's been going on for a couple of weeks and it doesn't seem to have many players despite thousands of views on each video.

Here's the playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTv5PuPH45wEbG0dfUtD6RXGJqZGwi_I0

It's referencing another channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0-bGXQVJru_Bk2wBZWQB_Q


Love that guy's flock of seagull haircut in the opening video. Shocked

PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:56 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
themightymooker
Veteran

Joined: 29 Nov 2015
Posts: 109
Location: Not Quite Lincoln, NE

GuestUser created a thread (Seraph Film ARG or something along those lines) that took off, and it is about Chloe's videos. You should check out our work over there, and of course contribute yourself! Smile Not to play moderator, but I think it's better to keep things sorted out and unified.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 3:34 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
GuestUser17
Entrenched


Joined: 22 Feb 2011
Posts: 812

Maybe we can get a moderator to merge these two threads. It's nice to see some more interest in this. I don't want to be the only one getting videos made thanking them for their efforts Smile

*eta merged ~ enaxor

PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2016 4:32 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
BubbleBoy
Decorated


Joined: 16 Jul 2007
Posts: 271
Location: United States

Since the PMs are clearly pointing people in the right or wrong direction when it comes to their ideas via comments on the YouTube videos, I feel the following might warrant some attention concerning the "code" to crack the USB password.
image.jpeg
 Description   
 Filesize   85.75KB
    41 Time(s)

Unfortunately, this file is no longer in our archives.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:42 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
reesylou
Decorated

Joined: 07 May 2003
Posts: 260

I think I have solved that code
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I had a weird idea that maybe the keys being pressed were offset left/right by one on the keyboard......
shifting everything one key to the right, you get:
pm0_p0hc_y5p

which if you read in reverse is p5y_ch0p_0mp or psychopomp.


Not sure what you are trying to unlock with it though

PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:13 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
GuestUser17
Entrenched


Joined: 22 Feb 2011
Posts: 812

That's brilliant! I had tried shifting on the keyboard but didn't get anything meaningful but now that you point it out it makes so much sense. We are hoping it's a password to unlock a document on a USB drive that Chloe has. I sent it to Chloe so now we wait.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:10 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
themightymooker
Veteran

Joined: 29 Nov 2015
Posts: 109
Location: Not Quite Lincoln, NE

reesylou wrote:
I think I have solved that code
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
I had a weird idea that maybe the keys being pressed were offset left/right by one on the keyboard......
shifting everything one key to the right, you get:
pm0_p0hc_y5p

which if you read in reverse is p5y_ch0p_0mp or psychopomp.


Not sure what you are trying to unlock with it though


You are amazing. Even if this isn't correct, you deserve a pat on the back. If you ARE correct, you deserve a round of applause.

PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:27 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
GuestUser17
Entrenched


Joined: 22 Feb 2011
Posts: 812

That was it Reesylou! http://youtu.be/Zp3pjZVj97U?a

PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:25 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
KimmyGoodwin
Boot

Joined: 20 Jul 2014
Posts: 26

At last!!!

Well done guys!!!! Rock On

PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 5:46 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
BubbleBoy
Decorated


Joined: 16 Jul 2007
Posts: 271
Location: United States

Not quite the result I was hoping for. A note? That's it? Grrrr

PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:59 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 2 of 6 [81 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Updates » News & Rumors
Jump to:  

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group