[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

[dinnsfire5]

word

[RocketJumper]

Guys, can we have a list of ALL the “The Pizza is a LIE” appearances? It would help to see if it has been posted or not.

And since I don’t want to double post, I seem to have found a new scribbling on the tunnel next to the heli-pad on the tram ride.

[EvanCanton]

@iamevn

I’m still curious what DORN is from the terminal page.

There are a few Dorns who were famously involved with science…

There was a real-life theoretical physicist by the name of Dorn:

From Wikipedia: Friedrich Ernst Dorn (27 July 1848 – 16 December 1916) was a German physicist who was the first to discover that a radioactive substance, later named radon, is emitted from radium.

Friedrich Ernst Dorn is remembered mostly his discovery of radon gas. And, if I’m not mistaken, there was a reference to radon on one of the whiteboards.
BTW Rn (Radon) has a Half-Life of 3.8 days; atomic weight=222, group=18, period=6, and block=b.

Our beloved protagonist is a theoretical physicist!

Then we also have Gerhard Dorn (c. 1530 – 1584), Belgian philosopher, translator, alchemist, physician and bibliophile. And, Walter Dorn (born 1961), scientist, educator, author and researcher.

[Pyroclase]

alchemist

Probably nothing, but still, that’s interesting.

[Pop]

ok so I found what may be a full date, on the side of a crate:
5-1-08
Clicky
If it is a date then in 6-digit form (as part of a cipher component) this could be 050108 or 512008
It’s not unique and features on all these types of crates.

[Gunsrequiem]

Found something new:

Was messing around in the area after you exit the laser lab and found this picture:

It looks like a picture of the furnace area after the laser shoots a hole through the wall. So I went back there and discovered this:

Note the numbers highlighted on the keypad. This was in Lab D, so is it possible it’s Code D or related?

EDIT: Also, the console is obviously intended as an egg / joke so perhaps it is directly related? Is our Dr. Horn perhaps cooking people in this thing or whaaaaat?

[Pyroclase]

If that’s seriously the code, which makes sense given the otherwise random image of a cremator, we’re all idiots.

[Gunsrequiem]

Another thought about that Victor code–the phonetic alphabet the military currently uses was adopted in 1957 and uses the word “Victor” as v. That could be related. The 1957 would match up with the keys on the keypad.

EDIT: Gonna attempt to plug the numbers from the big code into a match with the phoentic alphabet on a phone keypad, excluding 1’s and 0’s since they have no corresponding letters. Could be futile, but will give it a shot anyway.

[dky.tehkingd.u]

Can you cook a pizza in there?

EDIT: Doesn’t seem to be any pizza-specific triggers in the cremator.

[nerog]

@The Master

Anyone else notice the security guard in QE say “It might be a good idea to stock up on pizzas before you head out” pause “Don’t give me that look” after the fight right before you head outside? I kept trying to talk to him to see what would happen before leaving, and thats what came out.

EDIT: Have these been noticed before? They are immediately before the room with the crazy machine you have to shut down to release the scientists, in the small airlock with two doors on either end. (Forgive my not scrolling back 35 pages to see :p)

The top sign indicates a material that is Highly flammable, non-hazardous to health, and is likely to react if shocked/shaken, or exposed to heat.

The bottom sign is a material that is not at all flammable, not at all reactive, but is very dangerous to health, and should not be handled at all.

Not sure if that’s really relevant though, although it shows the attention to detail the team put into the mod as it appears to correspond with what barrels are placed beneath it.

[Pyroclase]

@Gunsrequiem

Another thought about that Victor code–the phonetic alphabet the military currently uses was adopted in 1957 and uses the word “Victor” as v. That could be related. The 1957 would match up with the keys on the keypad.

EDIT: Gonna attempt to plug the numbers from the big code into a match with the phoentic alphabet on a phone keypad, excluding 1’s and 0’s since they have no corresponding letters. Could be futile, but will give it a shot anyway.

We might be making progress here! :o

Or just making random connections. But why else would those letters be highlighted? I can’t think of a single reason.

[UnhingedMouse0]

@dky.tehkingd.u

Can you cook a pizza in there?

EDIT: Doesn’t seem to be any pizza-specific triggers in the cremator.

Already tried it…

…interestingly enough, if you noclip into the middle cremator, there’s a gibbed torso inside, lol.

[Pyroclase]

I shot a pizza with the huge laser. Nothing happened.

[Pop]

@nerog

Not sure if that’s really relevant though, although it shows the attention to detail the team put into the mod as it appears to correspond with what barrels are placed beneath it.

different one here:

[RocketJumper]

@Pyro

I shot a pizza with the huge laser. Nothing happened.

Shoot it with the laser a couple more times. For science.

[Heisenberg]

@Gunsrequiem

Note the numbers highlighted on the keypad. This was in Lab D, so is it possible it’s Code D or related?

EDIT: Also, the console is obviously intended as an egg / joke so perhaps it is directly related? Is our Dr. Horn perhaps cooking people in this thing or whaaaaat?

I brought this up a few pages ago but im not sure if it ever was discredited! If it is the code i found it XD

[RocketJumper]

Just in case there’s someone still trying to access the DALsystems.com page, it’s not related to the ARG. The domain’s been registered since 2002, so unless it was planned way before the announcement of HL2, it isn’t related at all.

[Pyroclase]

@RocketJumper

Shoot it with the laser a couple more times. For science.

'Fraid I can’t, it was vaporized the first time through.

[Gunsrequiem]

Still cranking out some code into the phone theory, but damn this is hard–sooooooo many possibilities for words. Managed to piece a couple phrases like “while hype got” and so forth, which could have some relation to the whole BMS mod community before the release, but nothing solid yet.

And, of course, as with anything it could be pure coincidence.

[player]

@Phlogiston

EDIT: Also I think we’re on the right track somewhere because otherwise we most likely would have heard something from the devs by now, we’re stalled because no-one has been able to code a proper VIC decoder yet and the one on the net isn’t a fully featured implementation, not sure if we still have a guy working on it since he’s been afk all day

If anyone else can code, then drop me a line on IRC, I’m 100% upto scratch on how it works…but…I can’t code myself

I’m writing an encoder in C right now. I’m pretty rusty so it’s going to take me a while. The decoder shouldn’t take me long once I get the encoder working though.