Advanced ARG

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When changing the color levels of some documents (ChapmanNote.jpg, 11_14_73.jpg, 06_11_79.jpg, 01_10_78.jpg, 11_22_76.jpg, Subproject82_01.jpg and Subproject82_02.jpg) you can see drawings as backgrounds and/or writings on the sides. Anyone skilled enough to make sense of it??? I suuuuuuck at photoshopping :'(

 

I'll get right on it

 

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I do manage to make out some blue boxes in the Subproject images. I don't know how to make them clearer without increasing the background noise too much to see anything though. Looks like we might be seeing a sheen through of what's on the back of the pages?

 

Spoiler: I'M A LITTLE NUTS

I don't know why I worked on this so long thinking I was crazy, hehe, before I shared with Noshi but here is what little I have. The first page of subproject 82 and the one dated 11-22-1976 have the same writing, pretty much, on the side but it you have to turn it 90 degrees and flip it horizontally. That makes me think layering. And some how I got it in my head that the dates might be RGB, dunno. Except Maybe the Subproject doc it refers to R38 in the text that with the rest of the file name could be used instead???? Or it might all be nothing...

 

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The symbol in the middle of the device seems to be composed of the symbols after the checkpoints- perhaps they go together in some way?

 

Spoiler: We're all mad here

Looking at it in gimp, the background document for two two files are complete identical, they've just edited in the text onto them.

HOWEVER! Interesting finding: The fold on the left side of Subproject 82 page 1/11-22-1976 is an EXACT match with the fold on the right side of Subproject 82 Page 2. I haven't looked into it yet but it could be that they all link together.

 

Spoiler: Down the rabbit hole

Yeah, there's definitely something there.

Spoiler: Addendum

Also, the Chapman Note matches the fold, but updside down. Haven't been able to connect the 73 note and the 78/79 notes (those two are also identical).

 

Spoiler: Aaaand it's a bust.

I found the texture they used online, those blue lines were already present and not something they added. Bashcorpo Paper Texture 10:



Seems we gotta start digging elsewhere.

 

Shit. SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!

but awesome finding Lion of Comarre!

 

Still does not explain the writiting on the side, however you would think it would be legible if important??? edit-duh-didn't notice the writing in the texture...

 

I guess Bashcorpo just figured it looked neat. Like something written on the back of an old document.

 

We seem to have two leads currently.

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One is text from the Silver Key describing Yog-Sothoth, since that appears in all the Oak Valley documents after a reference to a Rhopagroup server, and we've yet to find anything useful to input in the magic square on the Rhopagroup site.

The other is the sunflower video, since Anashel has outright said that "Somnus is only a door that has yet to be solved as we speak." in another thread.

Edit: Never mind, I just made progress on the Rhopagroup site.

 

Progress?? Nudge??

 

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If you click the picture, it tries to make you connect to secure.rhopagroup.com using port 80. Replace the port with the number you get from the magic square.

 

Where are these developments being made? IRC?

 

Mostly on steam chat.

 

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Any leads on 356-2016? I can't find instances of anything starting that year, continuing to the present.

 

People are on the steam chat? Odd. I've been trying to go to the irc more when I work

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Are you sure it's a year? Or which year in particular? I see the 2016, but 356 can't refer to a date month, at least not if we don't transcribe it somehow. Unless 356 refers to an event that happened in 2016?

 

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Themadhuman suggested it it's the 356th day. And since 2016 is a leap year, that would be the 21st of December. Which would mark the beginning of

Edit: Damn, it automatically changes the link to a video and removes the timestamp. Jump to 22 seconds.




Also, since tis the season:

 

ok so regarding the parent company website...

Spoiler: don't open me

so NoShitSherlock got it in my head that the solution to, well if you have not got past the first page of rhopagroup.com then...

Spoiler: really, don't open me

like i was saying noshi made me think that this

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is a phone number, but I played with it anyways. So if you look at it like a math problem 356-2016=-1660, and (-1660)^2 since it's in a square is 2,755,600 or like noshi suggested 275-5600 so I'm back to a phone number without an area code, however it seems more likely to be a business... or I could be going in exactly the wrong direction?!?!?!-edit noshi said the words phone number in a different context and my brain hijacked itself

and after finally getting some sleep this seems unlikely, so I am not going further down this road. Not deleting as this is a great example of what fatigue does to one's cognitive functions.