I must have interpreted its “everywhere you look” as that or I must have been reading someone else post about it.
I’m still compilating clues, and there are far more things pointing into essoteric programming languages:
- The LOL message about the TAU cannon left on the wiki, there is a language called LOLCODE.
- Nimrod phrase on Tempus Omnia Revelant, Malboge programming language.
- Tempus Omnia Revelant: Time might be refering to half-life, there is one called Unlambda.
Maybe I just see the conections because I read too much about it, like somebody staring at clouds.
Edit: I thought I had the most brilliant idea in the world, BENALOHPAILLIER is an anagram for AIRPLANE BIO HELL, hell was reffered to in the clues, bio and airplane, well, Dr. Horn likes airplanes and works in the biodome. Unfortunately, it’s not the password, if somebody wants to try, please do try, I might have missed something. Keep in mind that you can change the order in the words AIRPLANEHELLBIO, BIOHELLAIRPLANE etc.
Reliable Halo Pin
A Liberal Pin Hole
A Albino Hell Ripe
Yes, there are actually more than one hundred thousand anagrams with BENALOHPAILLIER cases, I checked after findind that one, and there doesn’t seem to be any others that could be related to the story.
The world is just full of big fat pizza lies…
And… PIZZA CAKES!
I’ve been compilating more information, but I did not find anything useful.
The announcements during Anomalous Materials mention that Officer Sisk has a medical emergency in the office complex, then another security guard reports the same. There are others were Dr. Horn, Commander Montero and other developers names are mentioned, and some messages directed to captains telling then that they have received and encoded message.
Also, Tempus Omnia Revelant is in third person of the plural “[The] Times will reveal all”. The latin phrase is normally spelled Tempus Omnia Revelat, third person singular. I don’t know if it has any meaning, I will leave it here just in case somebody finds any meaning on it.
Edit: It’s not even that, Tempus is singular, revelant is plural.
Wait, wait - THE timeS will reveal all?
Something to do with the clocks in the game, then, perhaps?
There’s the 8:47 one in inbound, and the 9:01 one in AM…
And in UC there’s one that says 9:47…
Exactly an hour passed between the beginning of the game and Gordon waking up in the ruined test chamber… Might not be a coincidence…
Though with the DalSystems site essentially gone, I don’t know what to do in terms of trying to use this information…
Not exactly, I already edited the post. The time, in singular, will reveal all, in plural, it doesn’t match, pretty much like “the puzzle are hard”. The clocks certainly they seem to advance from map to map, but that maybe is just attention to detail and nothing else, at least I wouldn’t know what to do with the time they give.
Tempus Omnia Revelant is also the name of a song by James Murphy. I checked and it is instrumental, but it isn’t the password, actually, if we are assuming the puzzle was solvable from day 1 it couldn’t be the password, but well…
I’ve also been looking into Time-Released Encryption, but it’s not an option, we do not have any of the parameters needed.
I doubt Pizza Theorem has anything to do with nothing.
It has to do with slicing pizzas, so it actually has something to do with something.
Well, I give up, I don’t have any more ideas. Nothing seems to be even close to the solution (who can tell anyway?) and I dedicated far more time than I should these days to test passwords and try to make sense of the clues. Maybe I’ll try to solve it again when I have more free time. The only thing left to say is, go home puzzle, you’re drunk.
Maybe stormseeker copy-pasted the phrase from this page: https://www.alanemrich.com/Class/Class_Practical_Latin.htm, which also uses the incorrect form of the verb. The page has a long list of latin phrases translated and interpreted from the perspective of a game developer.
Another relevant phrase, Vox Populi Vox Dei is also on that page. Perhaps it’s a hint?
EDIT: Also on the page, probably unrelated, “everything in threes is perfect”. This being a mod based on a Valve game, I found that amusing.
“Vox Populi” is stolen from bioshok infinite
and since infinite has a something to do with “time reveals all”
J/K
however how do you test a password?
arent we looking for a cybertext to decrypt the hex code?
a instrumental song could yield a wave patten that could be used a cypercode.
also all clock together in diginal notation like 084709010947… could also be used a cypercode
i highly doubt the solution is in what the npc’s say, becase stormseeker wasnt doeing sound recordings right…
I wouldn’t say stolen considering it’s just Latin for a basic phrase. That may be grasping for straws.
Just to clarify this… did I test passwords for nothing, since you all knew that the code was not encrypted with a block cipher?
What is this cybertext we are looking for? Does it have wings? :what:
Did you use the word cybertext instead of ciphertext for a reason? O_o
“Cybertext is based on the idea that getting to the message is just as important as the message itself. In order to obtain the message work on the part of the user is required. This may also be referred to as nontrivial work on the part of the user.
The fundamental idea in the development of the theory of cybernetics is the concept of feedback: a portion of information produced by the system that is taken, total or partially, as input. Cybernetics is the science that studies control and regulation in systems in which there exists flow and feedback of information.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybertext
Are you stormseeker? D: How do we know that you are not an spy in the case you are not stormseeker? Was you the one who stole the pizzas? Where did you hide the Niobium? Is this the real life? is this just fantasy? J/K
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality?
I don’t know… Open your eyes, look up to the sky and see [for youself]?
It was just to make clear that I was jokingly not making sense. I mean, I do not think that Portal wrote cybertext on purpose, maybe I’m wrong, but no matter what, it holds a meaning:
“Cybertext is based on the idea that getting to the message is just as important as the message itself”
That’s how the ARG is, so broad that basically we could probably relate anything to it in two steps, and a lot of things with one, it’s just like the Bacon Number, any actor you can think off is related to Kevin Bacon in two steps, maybe three or four for some strange cases, just like this.
https://www.google.com/#q=harrison+ford+bacon+number
So, since this is supposed to be a extremely difficult puzzle, and stormseeker does not seem to give any help to narrow the possible solutions down, maybe we should interpret Vox populi vox Dei as “do whatever you want”. So… we make a message 376 ASCII characters long, and then apply OTP with a custom key to get that from the code 
Anyone familiar with nodegraphs? Real-time AI navigation? Could this hold a pattern/key?
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Nodegraph
“It is one thing to communicate with something mysterious but it is quite another to be silently observed by it. I am concerned whether it understands the same concept of reason that we do.”
Well, he could have literally written something with the nodegraphs, maybe in place where there are no enemies, so it would not interfere with the gameplay. With the ai_show_connect console command you can see them.
Thank you, I had no idea if it might be useful. I just read an interview of Stormseeker, saw nodegraphs and AI, which made me think.
https://www.sk3maps.com/cssmappers.html
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There’s something hand written on the taco hut board, on one of the pages. I cannot read it properly, but it is something like this 296930-472A691x5282
On the same page, but written on the left bottom corner 01908 311313 and a 20 below the last 13
Straws.
Grasp them.