Ah, I see. Thanks.
Thatās odd; when I looked at that website before it said that otr 4 was released this past June. 
maybe they fixed the site after they saw your post
The OTR client is 4.0, but the OTR protocol is 3.0. They havenāt changed anything since the ARG started.
I found a message, Saying someone caused this glitch in the system.
https://http//imgur.com/gallery/5KpsBZo/new This has a code at the bottom, dunno if this helps.
A code thats on a box Dunno if this helps. https://imgur.com/sJWReTt
People may have done this before, but Iāve made a little program (in Python) that should allow a unified decryption system - everyone will use the same version of each algorithm (with luck!).
The idea is that you clever lot will submit additional functions that can be merged into the core for each encryption/decryption algorithm. All potential passwords are to be stored in passwords.txt and functions and files to be registered in files.txt as
FILENAME FUNCTION_NAME
The file you wish to decrypt can be put wherever. The example function (caesar.shift) and file can (and should) be removed for use.
A current major issue is that it assumes every password can be used with every function, which it probably wonāt be. Some may need to be longer, and shorter etc. I will add functionality for this later.
Out of curiousity, has the IRC channel changed location/name? Just I connected to the channel given in the original post, on the quake irc server, in both my IRC client and the webchat, but no-one at all was there (not afk, just not connected). Have I connected at bad times, or has it been abandoned/moved?
Is this something thatās been found before?
probally, as its not like its hidden in any way 
Yeah, weāve been through that. Itās meaningless, as far as I can remember.
I see.
O great Stormseeker, bring us your wisdomā¦ Please?
2 years today, and still not solved. I canāt imagine how it must be for those of you who were with the ARG from the beginning.
As someone whoās been here from the beginning, itās much like my experience waiting for the game to come out. I just kind of forget about it for a bit, until something or other brings it back into my mind, and I check and HOLY SHIT THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. Unfortunately, in recent days, itās been more like, still nothing.
Yeah, Iāve only followed the ARG since April or May, and read up on the basics. Must be hell to still have not figured it out this much later. Then again, I havenāt been any help at all because I know nothing about hex codes and whatever weāre dealing with right now.
Itās also kinda tough for new people to dive into all this material, especially without knowledge of which paths have been thoroughly analyzed and which clues were put on standby. I for one am trying to fiddle with the files found on bmrf.us, not knowing how much work has been put into that already; the only thing worth of any mention that I managed to find so far is that the latest the Thumbs.db file was modified was on Nov 17th, 2012. I can guess my knowledge of scope of the search is very limited, but looking at the wiki, thereās a lot of stuff that could be somehow linked to each other; Iāll probably focus on trying to analyze whatever I can during the next few days.
Actually, I forgot about a few other small things that I noticed:
- The IP address mentioned on the terminal.bmrf.us comes, at least right now, from Zhengzhou, China. Has no ports opened (searched between 1 and 1024); the only server whose IP consisted of the same numbers (1, 12, 156, 192) that had an open port was 1.192.156.12:23.
- bmrf.us site has a hidden top menu with working graphics and effects; just gotta uncomment it in the source and replace the hash signs with letters (research and careers). I tried checking if other filenames had meaningful substrings in them, but the only one was ectro (notabene, sectroc.png is misspelled; if the index page has been hand-made, then it was on purpose), which is a prefix for ācongenital absence ofā. Most likely unrelated.
- I tried checking if the terminal is actually running on php; doesnāt seem like it though.
The img directory is handmade; it is a ul with the li elements being links (a) to images with the same name as the links themselves. Bother the image and text have sectorc misspelled to sectroc.