[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

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#3081

There is the Gman sighting in questionable ethics that is the only one not in the original Half-life

EDIT: And it is in a room that has “the pizza is a lie” on the wall

EDIT: AND has the whiteboard mentioning cascade ciphers

#3082

Of course! Gman works for the NSA! It all makes sense now! sarcasm

And to think I almost thought Dr. Stone double-crossed Welsh to steal HALOS and the Niobium, and was now trying to eliminate him and Horn.

#3083

Welp, got a new avatar out of it at least…

#3084

Done and sorry. I’ve lurked here for the better part of a year and thought this was my time to add to the quest to break this code.

Alas, I was wrong. :stuck_out_tongue:

#3085

Hey, like I said, I don’t mind you dumping all those links here, off-topic or not. I just don’t like massive amounts of scrolling, especially since I also check this forum on my phone (which already requires more scrolling than normal). So thanks for the edits! =D

I don’t know if G-man has any connection to the ARG. I just think it’s quite a few possible connections, and G-man isn’t that big of a stretch, right? I mean… what IS G-man doing in background.mp4, something fully connected to the ARG?

As for the double-crossing thing - it could be, but right now I can’t make heads nor tails out of the storyline. The messages are too jumbled up, especially for someone who came into the ARG late like me, and there’s no clear overview to help me out. Who sent what to who with what intention? In fact, what’s the timeframe of the messages in the ARG as compared to the Half Life 1 storyline? I’m fairly sure the start was before the whole alien invasion thing - these pizzas came from outside, and I bet Pizza Hut couldn’t just ring the doorbell with all those aliens walking around. But the Base64 filenames on KXBM.net mention the alien lifeforms. So… yeah. Any ideas?

#3086

bmrf.us only started redirecting to kxbm.net after the EAS broadcast. This would seem to indicate that the resonace cascade happened after most of the events in the ARG, which might explain why the only messages we have gotten since were the SOS.

#3087

I wrote Dr. Stone’s wiki page. In that sentence you quoted, I was referring to posts by Dr. Stone’s namesake, Anthony Stone, a.k.a. OnboardError. [1] [2] [3]

One interesting bit of info about 0418_08151814’s avatar image: On the old forum (before the switch to new forum software) the original file name of an avatar image was kept, and thus you would see it if you downloaded/saved the image. The file name of 0418_08151814’s avatar image was “cryptos.jpg”.

#3088

Last bit of sciency stuff from me for a while.

If you’re wondering where the “21 into 1” fits in, it turns out a quantum computer cant be built with niobium alone. You also need a dielectric.

Its mentioned on one of the whiteboards that EP-0021, the crystal that did NOT go into the AMS, is a dielectric medium.

EP-0021 could literally go into a quantum computer like HALOS.

#3089

Thanks! Do you think we should add that data to the wiki pages? Stone’s forum posts in particular. As for 0418’s avatar’s filename: I checked the filename myself yesterday or so for exactly that reason, and indeed found the names are lost. On the other hand, we already know he’s part of the ARG, so I’m not sure how useful it is to add the data to the wiki now.

Combining this with “21 (goes) into 1”, that would make HALOS “1”. I’m not sure what this tells us. Is HALOS the first quantum computer, and are they trying to build more, or something?

#3090

Perhaps this is what was meant by “seek Code out”?

#3091

Is https://terminal.blackmesasource.com/down for anyone else?

#3092

Seems to be okay on my end.

#3093

Weird, it’s down for me.

#3094

It’s not down for me either…

#3095

Same here, even after Ctrl+F5. However, looking at the source I saw some of the DR HORN caps are marked and some aren’t. Why are the first R and the H not marked with while the other 4 letters are?

In other news, playing through Black Mesa. In a security (?) room right in front of a big frozen room (constant HP drain) in Apprehension, there was a scientist who used the exact quote “The science team has been tracking your progress with the Black Mesa security system. Unfortunately, so is the military.” - as found in Base64 on KXBM.net. I don’t believe I’ve found any of the other quotes yet, though. I’m not sure what this means for the ARG storyline.
#3096

All of the quotes on kxbm.net are Half-life 1 scientist quotes.

EDIT: I found out why https://terminal.blackmesasource.com/ was down for me, problems with my internet.
#3097

Nope.avi

It is not down for me.

You get connection Timeout or something else?

#3098

I get “Google Chrome could not load the webpage because terminal.blackmesasource.com took too long to respond. The website may be down, or you may be experiencing issues with your Internet connection.”

EDIT: and ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

#3099

For some reason I got the same issue yesterday (not with terminal.blackmesasource.com/) using Chrome, site is ok for me.

#3100

But what would be able to do to help them? I don’t know this kinda seems far-fetched to me :confused:

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