For those of you who follow Black Mesa on Facebook, they’ve sent out an appeal for puzzle geeks to help. Expect new ideas?
Don’t have the time to hello all of you guys, but perhaps I have something wich one can interest you … Oh, and … I’m french so my english will probably sucks .
There we are :
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/52/1419397077-2014-03-19-00001.jpg
I don’t know if you guys already saw it, but maybe it’s your last key ahaha.
I think i’ll join you in you quest again the Pizza mistery, I love all things like it, and this is what gives portal and Half life unique .
Keep the work
Hello ! I don’t have the time to present myself but let’s go on.
I’m french, and my english probably sucks, excuse me.
I found something wich one can interest you, perhaps give you the last key.
I don’t know if somebody already posted it, but here it is :
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/52/1419397077-2014-03-19-00001.jpg
I’ll probably join you, if you guys accept.
This is what give HalfLife and portal unique, all thos “easter egg”
Keep the work
This is what the Base 64 Encoder did (the interesting part is that the encoded message starts with “My”:
QjMyQjAwM0EgMzVCQURENjYgNTc3QzI0QzEgNEZDOTE5MDYgNDM0NkQxMzEgQTdDNTRCQjggMkZGRTAzRTAgMjI2MTU3NzcNCjI0NzkyM0RDIDIxRjYyQ0Q0IDE4MkU5MUMzIEIyNjdCNTQ1IEFCQ0FFREFGIDAyNjE1MTBEIDRFRUExRTg3IENEMzNDN0M3DQo3MTMx…==
I can see a link called “DALsys employees login”.
Is this the webpage where the messages came from?
Is this site put up by the BM Dev Team?
time to get hype guise
Wait, has that directory assistance number always been there?
EDIT: Oh, yes, yes it has.
I’m wondering if that ip address (the one in the login error page) has any sort of significance…
From user pcworld, page 84 of this thread
“whois 1.192.12.156” says this is an IP in the “CHINANET henan province network”, though maybe the authors of the site assumed this was an invalid IP range, or is any BM team member from China? “telnet 1.192.12.156 2828” doesn’t want to connect, the IP pings back though.
Though if we take into account the last clues, the web is part of the next puzzle, not the 752HalosCode
I can’t help but feel the postal code has some significance.
I believe it’s for somewhere around Los Alamos - maybe researching experiments that happened at Los Alamos on the dates mentioned on the site will turn something up?
Though I’m not sure how to look that up…
That is an Internal IP address.
No, that’s definitely new.
Get hype!
Two new resources worth inspecting:
https://bmrf.us/img/EAS_bg.jpg
https://bmrf.us/audio/BlackMesa_EAS_01.mp3
(EAS means Emergency Alert System)
Here’s a transcription of the audio:
Step one of time revealing all.
Don’t know if this was mentioned or not but I was taking a quick look at the materials of this ARG and I found the quote “When you’re building a cage for Satan, you don’t ask him to wait around whilst you put the doors on,” from the Stormseekers website.
I did a quick google search of this quote and it came up that it was a quote from an old TV series from 1996 about an AI that is created turns evil and takes over people’s minds. Strange don’t you think.
It’s been mentioned a few times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1ypp4EOOxm4#t=1761
Also, it looks like Reddit has invaded this thread. Hopefully the new found interest will help us out!
OK guys, I had a chat with Stormseeker on Steam tonight and he was generous enough to throw me a few bones about the current state of the ARG.
- The EAS alert has nothing to do with an imminent release of Xen or HL3 or anything like that.
- Halos is definitely encrypted (and can be decrypted), but NOT with openssl tools.
- A few more hints may be coming soon.