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[GateauBot]

Actually I did just find a weird image after looking through random links in the HTML code.

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In the top left corner there appears to be a pixel drawn smiley face.

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[The Good Doctor]

[The Good Doctor]

New tweet from Esther:

"Hey guys!! The people gave me a papper from under my door!!! It says Lbh pnabg rfpncr zr Rfgure #loveyouguys #blessed"

Ran the same vigenere decipher with the same key that Zobot broke earlier.

It translates to:

[GateauBot]

Also I don't know if anyone else has noticed but if you go to the weirdinternetusers blog and look at the post on TutorialHacks, weirdinternetusers has responded to some questions.

[GateauBot]

TutorialHacks tweeted a new photo that has binary code that translates to:

[The Good Doctor]

Our friend Esthet was very chatty last night! Definitely check out Twitter for a full set of interesting stuff. Here's one good back and forth that we had, mostly in code:

[haydencct]

Esther has posted about a new twitter account she follows. I'm checking it out right now, I was sleeping when Esther first got back. And, according to his DMs with me, he is no longer (or not in the first place), on Sandy Island, and is under the care of "some really nice people.

[haydencct]

Takebackhome has yet to interact with Esther or 2074, but I assume he is related to the ARG, as Esther gave him a shoutout. He is running a game, which I can only assume is similar to the seven trials of HABIT, but we'll find out. I'm entering, as there is still time left.

[zerovin]

I've checked out the acount as well, and whoever this "showrunner" wants people to sign up to be an entertainer, whatever that means. To do that hes requiring people to send an email containing you youtube username and

[Zobot257]

So here's a rough approximation of what we know right now. Esther/Tutorialhacks gets abducted from wherever they once were, we haven't asked. At some point their captor provides them with a laptop and demands they start this twitter account. Once people start seeing the twitter account with Esther's life hacks and some weird hashtags hinting at something more sinister, things start to get progressively stranger. We start seeing messages in binary, and some puzzles and riddles and whatnot. Esther mentions at some point being abducted and even tweets the longitude and latitude of a fictional island, Sandy Island. They also mention they may be underwater, but just don't know. Then, they run out of battery power on the laptop, presumably due to an attempted escape, and we lose contact with them.

@7024 has been making random tweets, and save for the fact that the two watch each other and Esther has talked about @7024 on her twitter, we don't have any direct link between the two of them.

Once Esther gets back online, presumably after being captured again, her laptop is recharged or connected to an outlet or both, and resumes Life Hacking. We've learned that their captor, whom to quote Esther "we call him tommy" periodically requires Esther to distribute puzzles or riddles and tweet what they're told to, or else they get punished. Nasty business, that.

Lastly, Esther tweets that people should follow a twitter user called Takebackhome, whom seems to be running a game of some sort but hasn't posted too many details yet.

This raises a few questions:

1) Who is this "We" Esther talked about? That implies a third party aside from Esther or Tommy. Maybe someone should ask?

2) What the fuck is Tommy's deal? Why would they be doing this? I mean, beyond just this being essentially torture, what is the POINT of all of it? Is Tommy insane or is there a method to their madness? Do they act alone?

3) Why the Life Hacks thing? Just to garner attention?

4) How does @7024 fit into all this?

5) Is Takebackhome involved in this at all or another thing entirely? Cross-promotion between args or part of the same "game"?

6) I don't have a question six so I'm writing something here and ending it with a question mark to make it seem like I have a 6th question?

What are everyone else's thoughts?

[zerovin]

for the third point, I think the life hacks were something like Allantutorial, where he/she is doing it for fun, and now Esther has been taken or captured by an unknown party who are apparently "very nice" possibly by the showrunner themselvels because in the tweet that Esther last put out he/she says "I'm entertaining in my own way" or something along those lines.
thats assuming the @takebackhome twitter is involved

[haydencct]

A new tweet has arrived. I attached it.

All I can get so far is the binary says "Watching", so it presumably says something along the lines of "All Watching U". I still don't know what "J nlf" or "Qba'g eha Rfgure, Oba'g rira GEL" mean.

[GateauBot]

weirdinternetusers has just updated the blog post they did for @tutorialhacks. They said they received multiple dm's from @tutorialhacks that contained various riddles and they have yet to solve them.

[The Good Doctor]

[The Good Doctor]

Great summary, Zobot. One other point: her tutorial last night was about making an imaginary friend with the hashtag #no. It's possible Tommy is a figment of her own mind...