@!!$$%!*!(@)!!$$(!$&

[Blurred_9L]

Maybe it's a vineger cypher key? Or we should apply a ceasarian shift to it as well?

[eli_gone_crazy]

Dryu if you keep using small text I'll murder you...

I'm pretty sure the logo says "New-", but I'm going to start looking harder for it today.

[SpiritfChaos]

Doesn't the frame near the start look like a QR code?

I think it's just random pixels. QR codes usually have a square in one of the corners to mark them as such.

Also, tried scanning it, came back with nothing.

[SpiritfChaos]

Or maybe we're overthinking this.


What's being reset, and why is the password "Metaguards?" For that matter, what is it a password for?

[Dryunya]

UPD from Matrx:

Error reports flooding systems. Response system slowed.
You hear what you heard and now you must read what is written. The pen is no longer

mightier then the sword. It has been replaced.

Emphasis added. I find some grim satisfaction in correcting an AI.

I still see no big picture, so I'll stick to analysis. It may take longer than usual, as I'm busy at work (UPD: Turns out, I can't even exfract the audio here). I have transcribed the pixelated frames - if anyone wants to find patterns, be my guest.

Code: Select all

01010110011010010011
00011010110101011010
01000110100010011010
10001000001011000100
00100000001111001101
10001000000010000000
11010000100000010100
01100000010001111000
00011100000000000000
11100010001101001100
10000101100001000000
01000000100110000101
11110011000100001001
01100000100000001011
00101000000000010010

01010110011111010111
01111110110111111111
01101110111110011011
10111111101011010110
00111101101111011111
11001011011111111000
11011011101010111100
01101001010011111000
01011110101101101000
11111010111111101110
11110101110011100110
11010000101111101111
11110111110111101101
11100100100100011111
00111100110100110110

10 (the rest are ones)

(this one is the same as the first, but inverted)

(this one is the same as the second, inverted)
=================================

01010110011011010111
00111010110101011010
01001110110010011010
10001100101011000100
00110000101111001111
10001000000010000000
11010000101000011100
01100000010001111000
00011110000000001000
11111010001101001110
10000101100001000000
01000000100110100101
11110011000100101001
11100000100000001011
00101000000000010010

01010110011111010111
01111111110111111111
01111110111111111111
11111111101011110110
00111111101111011111
11101111011111111111
11111111101110111100
01101101110011111001
01011110111111101100
11111011111111101111
11111101111011100110
11111011101111101111
11111111111111111101
11110110110100111111
00111100000000111111

10101001100101111100
11110101001111100111
10111111011101100101
01111111110101111011
11011111111011110011
01110111111111111111
01101111111111111111
11011111111111101111
11110011111111111111
00011111110110110111
01111110011111111111
10111111011011111111
00101101111011111111
10111111011111110100
11110111111111111111

10101001100100101000
10000001001010000000
10010001000001100101
01010000010100111001
11000110010000100000
00110110110001001111
00100110010101000011
10010110101100000111
11100001011110010111
00000101000000010001
00001010001110011011
10101111010000010000
00001000001000010110
00011011011011100100
11000011011011001001

Dammit forum! Why can't I attach TXTs?!

[Lordxana0]

Huh the misspellings and stuff seem to be a bit rampant. Maybe it has something to do with the whole sleeping thing? IDK just a theory. Anyway any figured out what Candlesonly means?

[SpiritfChaos]

Huh the misspellings and stuff seem to be a bit rampant. Maybe it has something to do with the whole sleeping thing? IDK just a theory. Anyway any figured out what Candlesonly means?

Maybe another password?

[Scarab]

Huh the misspellings and stuff seem to be a bit rampant. Maybe it has something to do with the whole sleeping thing? IDK just a theory. Anyway any figured out what Candlesonly means?

Maybe another password?

ANOTHER one?
How many friggin' passwords does this guy need?

[SpiritfChaos]

Huh the misspellings and stuff seem to be a bit rampant. Maybe it has something to do with the whole sleeping thing? IDK just a theory. Anyway any figured out what Candlesonly means?

Maybe another password?

ANOTHER one?
How many friggin' passwords does this guy need?

What else could it be?

[The Wild West Pyro]

How many friggin' passwords does this guy need?

What else could it be?

He's going to need a lot of passwords, seeing that his computer is pretty badly damaged.

[Sophira]

A few observations:

* n Dryu's pictures, the grid pattern in pictures 1 and 4 are perfect inverts of each other. If it was random, this wouldn't happen unless it applied the same rules for dissolving out as it did for dissolving in.

The binary provided by Dryu doesn't immediately translate into ASCII (at least not for the first frame), so maybe something more is needed. Or it could be a red herring, of course.

* The text behind "initiating hard reset" in image 6 is the login form from a forum - perhaps even this one. You can see text like "You need to login in order to reply to topics within this forum" and "hide my online status this session", as well as the username/password boxes.

* The same screen appears behind the upside-down-ice-cream-cone-ish-like-thing with the word 'NEW' below it. Correcting the colours, rotating the image then isolating the cone gives us http://imgur.com/6I88dzR, but Google Image Search doesn't know what it is, and neither does TinEye.

In short, I'm not very helpful, sorry.

[Dryunya]

Pictures 2 and 5 are inverts, too.
I have finally taken a better look at the audio... Other than confirming the CANDLESONLY code, I didn't find anything. The only other information it could contain (as in, a sun could explode any minute now ) is in background clicks and weird swirly noises at ~ 500 Hz - 2 KHz frequency. But the clicks are difficult to isolate and count, and it's all pretty deep at tinfoil-hat level. My opinion is, we need to do something with that not-quite-password.

Maybe it's some Coffee Room in-joke?
You know it's not my...

Cup of tea.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!

[Scarab]

Maybe it's some Coffee Room in-joke?
You know it's not my...

Cup of tea.

... *slow clap*

I think we've got all the information that videos gonna give is. The questions I have are

• What is that 'upside down ice cream'?
• What does candlesonly result in? (It doesn't seem to be a password for the guy's computer or whatever it is, but it MUST be relevant, it's encoded in friggin' Morse for goodness sakes.)
• Has anybody tried hunting for a brand name, or website? I looked up www.candlesonly.com, net and org, none of them are bought domains, but it's maybe something else...

[Blurred_9L]

What does candlesonly result in? (It doesn't seem to be a password for the guy's computer or whatever it is, but it MUST be relevant, it's encoded in friggin' Morse for goodness sakes.)

The only thing I can think of is that, like real computers, the password is case sensitive. Since I gave CANDLESONLY as input, perhaps the expected password was in all lowercase (candlesonly), or a mixture of both (which would be evil :/)

Has anybody tried hunting for a brand name, or website?

Well, there's always that suspicious twitter handle, with no followers and only following some driver or something like that. Matrx did say "follow" the sound, but it sounds too much of a stretch, besides, the whole idea of having to ask somebody who might not even be related makes me uneasy. Also, we're looking for a password, after all :/

[Tohrinha]

Well, there's always that suspicious twitter handle, with no followers and only following some driver or something like that. Matrx did say "follow" the sound, but it sounds too much of a stretch, besides, the whole idea of having to ask somebody who might not even be related makes me uneasy. Also, we're looking for a password, after all :/

It looks unrelated. At least, it shares its name with a real company.

[Blurred_9L]

Well... does anybody think we have a limited number of attempts at the reset password?

[Dryunya]

I'm pretty sure the number of attempts is only limited by our (and the GM's) patience. The number of attempts in the tweet was masked by question marks, which seems to indicate that, and it goes with all that glitchy aesthetic.

[The Wild West Pyro]

I'm pretty sure the number of attempts is only limited by our (and the GM's) patience. The number of attempts in the tweet was masked by question marks, which seems to indicate that, and it goes with all that glitchy aesthetic.

Is it possible to reverse the image of that supposed QR code (even though it isn't).

[Dryunya]

Ok, that does it. "Follow the sound"? I'll follow the sound. Literally. On twitter. And ask him for password. AND use his full name as a password. If that fails, the name of the guy he follows. That's nothing compared to what we did trying to find Deanna, anyway.

Also, his later tweets seem to have a cyberspace theme (how internet replaces paper, and all that).

[Scarab]

Okay maybe the answer is buried in his most recent tweets, guys.

The pen is no longer mightier then the sword. It has been replaced.

Your secret thoughts for all to see.

Trees no longer wasted on opinions plain.

...I don't get it, but it's clearly leading us towards something.

Edit: Maybe something to do with recycling? "Not wasting trees" and allt hat.

[Dryunya]

I'm telling you, it's about computers and internet.

• The pen has been replaced by a keyboard.
• We coordinate our actions in public (ahem).
• We don't use paper to exchange information anymore - hence, trees are safer.

And Matrx is an AI-like entity himself. I think it's just his background chatter, but time will tell.

[Adell]

Ok, that does it. "Follow the sound"? I'll follow the sound. Literally. On twitter. And ask him for password. AND use his full name as a password. If that fails, the name of the guy he follows. That's nothing compared to what we did trying to find Deanna, anyway.

Also, his later tweets seem to have a cyberspace theme (how internet replaces paper, and all that).

What about the sound in the video?

[eli_gone_crazy]

theres morse at the end that translates to "CANDLESONLY" and I think that's it

[Adell]

theres morse at the end that translates to "CANDLESONLY" and I think that's it

oooh, yeah okay ma bad

[JackAlsworth]

I feel like the Twitter messages are aiming us at a blog of some kind, but "thesound.blogspot.com" and "thesound.wordpress.com" are both defunct, and "thesound.tumblr.com" is a blank page (and I'm not creating a tumblr account just to follow something that may or may not be involved).