That last line leads me to believe the solution is either indeed inside the game, or here on the forums. I could be wrong. I now win at stating the obvious.
Yep, youâve covered basically any scenario 
You win either way
I was looking through Hubicornâs portfolio, I just wanted to see some other work that he has done. Then I came across this, and I thought that it MUST have something to do with the ARG, especially if they are giving us a 403 forbidden. https://www.joshhubi.com/
Site says it was modified last on September 8th of this year . . . .
Reverse IP Lookup Resultsâ3 domains hosted on IP address 64.15.147.56
Iâve kind of taken a step back from all these new discoveries and gone back to re-investigate the codes and such. So, just a theory, but what if the âVictor would like this extensionâ clue deals directly with the straddling checkerboard. For example, the SECOM cipher uses an âextendedâ straddling checkerboard, meaning that it utilizes an additional row for numbers instead of the standard two for letters only. I see the validity in the straddling checkerboard, but the thing that struck me was that we will need to have something that can work for numbers, too. If the long cipher IS Code D, which I have no reason to believe itâs not, then part of the cipherâs text is probably numbers. That said, the SECOM is very similar to the VIC cipher, but doesnât require a specific date and whatnot, and part of the solution is in the actual ciphertext itself.
Just a thought.
wonder if anythign will happen if you take the pizza from QE to areas⌠so far I have learned you canât take it to the hidden shack⌠going to try the old couple in the teleportation labs next⌠na that probably will not do anything.
I lost faith in the VIC theory awhile ago and spent all my efforts on SECOM.
One of the selling points about it to me is the lack of ambiguity in the implementation (and âvictor would like this extensionâ). SECOM was created by one person, Dirk Rijmenants, fairly recently. The checkerboard is âES TO NI Aâ, itâs the only way heâs ever documented it. VIC just has to many others variables involved, and without very direct information about these variables, it would be very hard to solve. Putting myself in the minds of the devs, I donât think they would have used it.
That being said Iâve tried hundreds of keys and had 56 different ways of looking at the numbers with SECOM. Didnât produce anything out of it⌠yet.
Faed, what method are you using?
Also, Iâve gone ahead and done some hand transpositions using the key phrase âSuperbus Via Inscientiaeâ (sans the last two letters). Iâve posted them on the blog if you want to take a look.
Thing is, being created recently doesnât mean that itâs more likely to be used; that one code from the comic book was from the 1940âs or something.
Your other points, though, faed, make perfect sense.
31529 63776 21295 33399 44534
97341 68095 91847 99899 47843
91327 76794 07031 80431 91909
02118 97319 80497 17819 91998
59314 91931 41651 49161 97998
43089 11933 13937 48491 89198
98878 29905 90941 84992 89313
27810 43844 11818 39111 19562
74899 49301 99848 05075 50994
47717 11522 89919 13139 93187
87339 89438 64933 23042 09364
38899 25012 93143 93496 10193
68393 99855 90591 22893 84499
88299 23898 73571 38537 15395
81199 28050 39045 51198 32189
91192 71948 45160 15835 13817
89530 19314 97313 00149 44841
39991 95319 03338 19887 71111
82261 19390 95231 31788 08497
97784 11139 39519 34949 93559
35177 10951 18199 31599 70923
15122 98343 94109 31461
Frequency Analysis:
â9314â => 5 times.
No other 4 digit combo.
Code C was 3914.
This is some sophisticated sh*t.
Hahahahaha
Amen, brother
9 is the most repeated number and the Code A in binary is 9, I think there must be something about this.
Iâd laugh myself to death if the ARG actually pointed at a HL3 release dateâŚ
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Added a short blog update on PPC-xx hand ciphers, a variation of the SECOM cipherâin case anyoneâs interested.
Also, has anyone seen Code_ on the IRC chat or 0418_08151814 on the forums? He hasnât been around in a while but he had some good ideas before and I was hoping to collaborate a bit with him. Sent him a PM about a week ago and havenât heard from him yet. If anyone sees him on chat could you let him know I asked after him?
I know this particular avenue hasnât been explored for a bit, but a while ago we were toying with the idea of using a cipher that required a keyphrase, and we suspected it might be the name of a song, right? Did we try the song âDaisy Bellâ, the song whose lyrics appear on a monitor in Blast Pit? I was just reading the easter egg thread, someone mentioned the lyrics showing up, and then it occurred to me that I donât remember this coming up before with regards to the ARG. My apologies if we did try this and Iâm just not remembering.