Keep in mind too that it could be a fluke. Glitch, perhaps, which is why they only run in one direction in one area.
If thatās the case then the password is āxā or ācrossā probably, which matches up with the lies image.
Found the area you were talking about and no-clipping revealed nothing. Obviously, āXā doesnāt mark the spot.
New Idea:
If this particular instance reveals an āXā perhaps other instances will reveal them spelling out other letters of the alphabet revealing our clue! Now, who wants to go through the game one more time searching for cockroaches? Any one here an experienced exterminator or perhaps, enjoys looking for ābugsā in games?
Well the first order of business is hopefully for Storm to tell us if this is a wild goose chase or not because you are talking a serious investment
I think its only a glitch.
I posted a video of it if you want to see if you want to see it.
Found another " The pizza is a LIE!" graffiti and bio-dome logo in the first map of blast pit. It was hidden in the toxic sludge in the toxic pool. Obviously requires no clip and god mode.
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There was also another āthe pizza is a LIE!ā graffiti that the player could swim to without dying behind the rail in the same map.
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Been a while since Iāve posted here. Since someone brought up Residue Processing, I just remembered something I found months ago. One of the Vox announcements from Anomalous Materials mentioned some of the scientists from QE reporting to waste processing. Someone might want to check the game sound files just to be sure.
Not 100% sure but I believe there were some roaches under the boxes somewhere around the big freight elevator in UC. As in, they scatter when you break the wooden crates.
Hey, Iām new to the ARG but will attempt to collect and digest all the information in this thread in the near holidays.
Anyway, I decided to start at the open wound, the 752 cipher, as it was the easiest to understand in terms of its role in
the ARG. Since Iām a complete scrub when it comes to cryptography and all this technical jumbomumbo, I started by looking up the number
752 in the OEIS, which yielded little to no results. The first sequence mentioned something about binary languages, doesnāt look like much
to me, but then again who am I to judge. Iāll include the link for completionās sake. I next looked up the number 376, which brought up
more interesting results. Downplaying the chance of a simple coincidence, the number 376 is part of a sequence named āTau numbersā,
which relates to the 21 in 1 clue in the way that the triangle numbers were conceived by Gauss, which relates to the Gauss rifle, which
is also called Tau cannon, which in turn points to the Tau numbers. 21 in 1 -> Triangle numbers -> Gauss -> Gauss rifle -> Tau cannon -> Tau numbers.
I wouldnāt know what do with this information in the case that it were plausible and correct, but I hope someone here does.
752 Dyck-Language decimal sequence: https://oeis.org/A014486
376 Refactorable numbers (Tau numbers): https://oeis.org/A033950
By the way, since it seems like weāre opening more doors than weāre closing, has someone made a list of all the un-used hints and information
weāve received? What about AI5BM, what about BENALLOHPAILLIER, what about the LIEs image?
Very interesting about the Tau numbers (and it does fit in with the Tau cannon), but the numbers we get in decimal format donāt fit the construct of the Tau numbers:
179 43 0 58 53 186 221 102 87 124 36 193 79 201 25 6 67 70 209 49 167 197 75 184 47 254 3 224 34 97 87 119 36 121 35 220 33 246 44 212 24 46 145 195 178 103 181 69 171 202 237 175 2 97 81 13 78 234 30 135 205 51 199 199 113 49 48 156 196 40 14 180 36 61 17 84 240 68 249 207 98 150 217 191 247 57 126 67 144 152 127 230 50 3 218 13 228 2 120 179 165 79 93 220 105 117 250 4 247 73 132 158 26 98 89 90 159 99 11 7 149 145 61 224 21 62 58 172 56 140 69 251 157 133 12 254 145 53 65 214 192 131 152 242 200 131 50 168 47 223 0 40 29 98 252 220 79 231 228 106 233 12 81 197 200 6 180 17 100 227 58 185 44 150 134 46 6 139 12 22 192 153 144 184 56 26 0 218 121 21 182 127 228 162 15 89 155 15 27 109 72 25 19 199 185 83 140 238 99 145 68 244 21 97 186 146 228 254 117 29 30 36 44 216 143 81 214 149 81 152 135 19 106 124 21 170 189 123 64 4 73 34 1 65 48 169 31 23 15 102 204 179 193 57 70 58 126 144 154 55 170 134 63 178 120 5 252 151 49 192 156 140 121 6 126 121 147 10 64 101 70 178 76 154 98 155 38 194 206 42 75 228 143 88 154 55 95 235 115 31 196 171 34 92 17 132 140 248 158 41 31 148 113 51 151 12 6 54 24 71 74 137 40 1 237 214 143 84 105 140 94 91 80 103 70 246 118 90 111 127 18 37 222 164 218 17 64 254 182 15 101 7 69 36 28 105 54 149 136 61 203 33 230 251 254 251 184 90 41 145 148 128 54 165 43 93
Definitely like that youāre thinking outside the box on this one, though.
No. The wiki is horribly outdated.
To be quite frank, I see no point. Thereās so much data that even compiling it will still leave a jumble of gunk. We need an āAHAā moment that will allow us to go back and see where each of the pieces fit (if they do). Until I find that āAHAā moment, Iām not too stressed about the extra information we have. Focus on KXBM, BMRF, the Lies.jpg image, the IRC clues, and whatever we may come across in this new version of BM. There are probably many things we have yet to find in the Steam release. Otherwise, youāre just creating a larger pile of muck/hay/shit to sift through.
The point is that we havenāt all been here from the start. You may have a clear view of what is new information and what isnāt, but others (such as those just joining in, from the Steam release) may not. Unless you want people to continuously repeat what has already been said a hundred times, a clearer overview of whatās already known is needed.
You say we should focus on KXBM, BMRF, lies.jpg and the IRC clues. BMRF now redirects to the steam release announcement video which doesnāt seem ARG related, removing the link between the ARG and KXBM, Iām pretty sure the IRC channel has been deserted for years and the lies.jpg is one image on a page on an outdated wiki. How do you expect new players to even find all this?
Iāve been following this discussion for a long while, and been hesitant to say anything or dig into the mystery since I know little about encryption really(Iāve just really enjoyed the game and found this whole thing a good read), but I want to throw in my two cents about this all.
With the Steam release now here, why donāt we start over and retrek all the stuff before getting the HALOS file and try to see if thereās anything new in those parts. Didnāt Storm or someone mention something about there being āpathsā in this ARG we could take? So wouldnāt it kinda make sense for us to start over and maybe find a different āpathā possibly before re-reaching the HALOS file? Or have we ever thought maybe this whole thing is set up like a maze, as to where it has dead ends, and maybe this is one?
Iām willing to help look for clues and such, since itās summer break for me and I have nothing to do, but have no idea where to start.
The obvious starting point would be the Pizza is a Lie graffiti, followed by the QE whiteboards. You can read through the first few pages of the thread to get an idea of how things went the first time around.
On a side note, Iām not sure if yhis has been brought up, but has anyone tried searching the MP maps for clues? I donāt know how much involvement Storm had in the currently released maps, but he did manage to get the graffiti all throughout the SP campaign. It couldnāt hurt to check (or double check).
Yet it is. Storm himself said itās the umbrella site for this stage of the ARG.
But the websites themselves have undergone so many changes recently, how are new users supposed to catch up? Itād be great to know whether or not things like the KXBM radio, terminal.bmrf.us (which seems to be down) or any other parts of the ARG that have seemingly been removed still hold any significance.
If the website is truly still ARG relevant, then it might be hinting at something in a multiplayer map. After all, MP was the key feature of the Steam release, and kxbm and bmrf literally point to said release.
Iām to the point where I think Storm is waiting for us to say something keyāperhaps he has a bomb to drop but only if we come up with that āAHAā moment I have mentioned multiple times. Think about itāif he designed the HALOS file to be unbreakable without the most direct means possible (he was trying to prevent those Cambridge gents from breaking it, for Godās sake), then itās likely that heās got a piece of info we need that he will only reveal when weāve done our due diligence. This is just my theory, but I stand by it.