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Zandar posted:The character in 4pkly is definitely a small l. The mistake you've actually made is that the "straight" I is almost certainly a capital i.  You're right, once I changed all of the characters that didn't have the bottom little nub shifted to the right over to an I from an l, the password GOBBOSDROOL worked. So the actual code is code:....which is not the correct password to Project 2. Dammit e: dammit the password was just "ORCZ RULE" without the exclamation marks lmao FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Aug 28, 2018 |
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Okay. Project 2 is this. https://www.normalhuman.business/project-2 Password is "ORCZ RULE" On that page, the story is on a frame which has this data located in it. quote:
So I need another password. I tried GOBBOSDROOL but through experimentation I've found that GOBB and GOBBOSDROOLORCZ RULE all work as passwords but none of them actually return text that is uhh readable. For example, GOBBOSDROOL just returns the text as quote:»rä¼J }Ða9@tÀ‘AÓO=J[ è so I think there's some kind of password on that page itself or within the text and I just need to puzzle that part out next.
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If you're still stuck, I believe the password was "Re'elts" and this message follows: The numbers are 7177399832 Good luck on your ARG!
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Lacerda posted:If you're still stuck, I believe the password was "Re'elts" and this message follows: Oh thank God. It's obvious in hindsight but I tried the other 2 names before I got to that one and I figured "ok this isn't going anywhere" That's a phone number. LIMM picked up and gave me a new address to go to.
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So the phone number leads to an automated voice message from LIMM saying to go to https://normalhuman.business/1518319 This page Oh my god  No clue what's going on here though.  Tuesday, July 31, 2018 Whether that's important or not is another thing entirely. I didn't see anything in its frame info. The text I'm confused about as well. No idea what REDACTED could be. There's also the number on the license plate, 2Z77767 but I don't know if that's part of this or not either Edit: wait poo poo, that's not a clock, that's a countdown timer. Which means it'll be done on Tuesday, September 22, 2018 FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Aug 28, 2018 |
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That looks like map co-ordinate format. The letters go from A to J, which is the tenth letter, so they probably correspond to 0-9 in some way. Dunno if it's just a straight map or hinted at by something else, though.
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I don't know whether to be glad or sad that this will be solved before mine arrives in the mail.
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Zandar posted:That looks like map co-ordinate format. The letters go from A to J, which is the tenth letter, so they probably correspond to 0-9 in some way. Dunno if it's just a straight map or hinted at by something else, though. Hmm Yeah I thought coordinates too but I was just doing straight up A1Z26, so but 410 isn't a proper coordinate. So if it's actually A0Z25 then that would work since J is the highest value letter there. so REDACTED would become.... REDACTED Which leads to this REDACTED idk if that's right though e: well I thought maybe there is an event happening at that location when the timer reaches 0, so I looked up events in REDACTED and wouldn't you know it THEY'RE HOLDING A TOWN HALL MEETING THAT DAY Which obviously is the answer to this part of the puzzle. Clearly Limm is going to be part of that town hall meeting. Obvs. e: I have been asked to edit out any references to a place that people are not supposed to go to, so please do not go to a place that I have removed from this post FirstAidKite fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Aug 28, 2018 |
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quote:You didn't think that was all I had for you, did you? My children await you. Is that... a Shodan quote?
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I'm not involved with Orc Star ( I regret this now), but this adventure is amazing.
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The supposed coordinate codes on the page have ~mysteriously changed~ to DJ.ABCJII -HH.BAFDFA aka 39.012988 -77.105350 These new coordinates point to the following area https://goo.gl/maps/Qwm1Tp8fTLv Maplewood Alta Vista Local Park in Montgomery County, Maryland So I'm guessing that there will be some event there at the date posted earlier. Sorry I've been cluttering up the thread with ARG stuff
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FirstAidKite posted:The supposed coordinate codes on the page have ~mysteriously changed~ to God I hope it's this one, that's only 30 minutes from me!
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Alright, I've tried to make any necessary changes to previous posts that had incorrect info, so here's a sorta errata (is that the right term) post to clarify stuff. Ok, so it says Limm is waiting. The text underneath is a set of coordinates that directs you to here https://goo.gl/maps/Qwm1Tp8fTLv I hosed up earlier, I was using a time calculator website and I ended up typing in the numbers wrong. Instead of the (at that time) 607, I typed 670. So the current hours remaining are 605:57 which means the exact time of the event will be...  So to make this absolutely clear, unless I have hosed up somewhere yet again, the event will be on September 22nd at around 4:00 PM est and it will be at the Alta Vista Park in Maryland. Hopefully I've gotten everything correct. I've been told that I solved the ARG but I only just realized I hosed up the date and that'd be a terrible thing if people saw it and missed it because of me loving up typing some numbers in.
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But what's the significance of 4:13:55?!
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Anniversary posted:But what's the significance of 4:13:55?! To be perfectly honest, I've been getting various different results because I don't know the exact time the timer is on, but I find that the meetup time seems to be very very very close to 4:20 est
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Ah poo poo, I'll be in Denver on the 22nd. No fun park ARG for this Rad 80s Orc Stabr.
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Thank you everyone who helped me puzzle out the solutions to this ARG, thank you to the creators of ORC STABR for the neat and successful kickstarter game as well as for making the surprise ARG, and thank you to all of the people who backed ORC STABR to make it a reality so that they could make such an interesting product and a fun little ARG to go alongside it. 
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This is absolutely not what I expected from a $20 KS for half a sheet of paper. Amazing.
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potatocubed posted:This is absolutely not what I expected from a $20 KS for half a sheet of paper. I pledged for the higher reward tier and I regret not giving twice as much. This is awesome.
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I'm regretting just going in for a couple of bucks. This started funny, but holy poo poo.
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Holy cow, guys. I hope mine is in the mail today. This has been epic. I love reading through people solving puzzles like this.
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Hey, ya'll are amazing. Reading these past 2 pages has been probably the greatest sense of validation I've ever gotten. We spent a lot of time worrying about folks "getting" this whole nonsense, so, thank you all for that. Big smiles all around Sandy Pug HQ right now.
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dwarf74 posted:Holy cow, guys. Yeah, I'm also going to be checking the mail today with great anticipation. (And hoping someone does a trip report for whatever's going down next!)
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 Got my Orc Stabr today, the Rare Dice Edition.
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 apparently I got just the regular edition. On the other hand, there's a giant orc poo.
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I'm 90% sure I set my mailing location for Orc Stabr as my work, and I quit yesterday, so this adds an extra level to the ARG for me.
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rydiafan posted:I'm 90% sure I set my mailing location for Orc Stabr as my work, and I quit yesterday, so this adds an extra level to the ARG for me. Sounds like you have your first campaign ready to go.
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Bad news for international backers, because the US postal system is awful at sending things to not the US, we miss out on the Orc Army pins 
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Given how amazing they've been about everything so far in the campaign (including contacting me about my above post like 40 seconds after I posted it) my guess is that if anybody super wanted a pin internationally and was willing to pay that extra shipping they could get one. Obviously not an official statement, but if you're $15 heartbroken about the pin I'd ask.
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It doesn't look like I got a monster card with mine, unfortunately. On the plus side, I have SCENTED Orc Stabr! (It smells like school supplies.)
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I got the Sleepy edition with bonus Dallas ending!
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NTRabbit posted:Bad news for international backers, because the US postal system is awful at sending things to not the US, we miss out on the Orc Army pins Yeah, I'm kinda heartbroken about this, but we are including some extra bits for international people to make up for it - extra monster cards is the current thing.
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I RECEIVE ORC STUBR YES STUBR ULL A'S URE NOW U'S ULSO LIMM ORC URMY PIN UND BONUS HUNT: ELF STUB SUNDY PUG GUMES YOU BEST HUMUNS LOVE, STEVE THE LEVEL 20 FIGHTER
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Got my copy of Orc Stabr!
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I didn't get mine today, I hope it comes soon and didn't get delayed/stolen/sent to the wrong address somehow. 
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Hell yes, my stabring package arrived in the mail! But wait! Look closer!  No, not at that cool stabrable thing.  The printing press Limm stole from those gobbos is full of snakes. Despite this hardship he still sent me well more than $20 worth of reward for his orcy Kickstarter. Be careful Limm! Snakes!
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Leraika posted:I didn't get mine today, I hope it comes soon and didn't get delayed/stolen/sent to the wrong address somehow. I wouldn't sweat it just yet, I mailed out all the people who said they'd be at GenCon+maybe 50 others on Friday, then the rest of Domestic on Tuesday. I expect the vast majority of people will be getting their copies today or tomorrow.
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So the Mint Works/Mint Delivery Kickstarter is looking more and more like mismanaged trash. Some people got some of their stuff, but getting replacements for missing things has gone from "email us" to "fill out a parts replacement form" to "contact the shipping manager" to "contact a different team at the shipping manager" to "use a separate form with the shipping manager, they don't actually check email"
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