[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

Certainly living up to your name you are.

Good.

Good. Mission completed.

Glad to see that you have achieved that. Well done. Note if anything different happens. Has anyone else done this?

Thanks. You know you could of just edited your original post instead of posting numerous posts. Right? Otherwise i will note if anythings different, but i doubt anything will be.

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At first I was skeptical of this, but then I noted the Taco Stand reference: The Pizza Code Mystery

The Taco Stand link leads to a dead page, and the pictures of the “supposed site” is of a blank wall.

I suggest we do some digging here. Even if it’s not related, somehow, it gives us something to do!

EDIT: Another thing–if you look at the timing of the page, the page and its images were uploaded right around 12/12/12, the date we received the Tempus page.

I also happen to note this quote:

However, I think this may just be Jesus Toast, but who the hell knows nowadays?

Yeah, the more I look at it, the more it just makes sense. Of course Storm wouldn’t give us anymore hints, recently–it was a simple Google search away, and on the first page of results to boot.

He even referred us back to the terminal page, remember? The page that explicitly states: “. . . what has become known as ‘The Pizza Code Mystery’.” And it practically headed the Tempus page, too.

Sorry, Storm. We suck. :confused:

EDIT: This right here is huge:

"Deep Dish Pizza, which was long thought to have evolved seperately, from something put on this earth by Satan to tempt man into overindulgance, has been discerned via DNA testing not to have it’s own genome at all, which is pretty obvious now that you think about it. As such it is impossible to trace it’s evolutionary origins and they may remain unknown for decades to come until more advanced technologies are developed, such as Time Travel."

There’s this, too:

“Originally founded as a traditional brick and mortar Pizza joint under the name The Pizz by a Mexican wrestleman and suspected illegal alien and his ‘yellow dog’(unkown Underground Pizza Code Word) . . .”

EDIT 2: A search of “wrestler” and “yellow dog” brought up this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Pillman, as well as this novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maigret_and_the_Yellow_Dog

If this isn’t part of the ARG, it sure is one hell of a coincidence. :thumbsup:

Yeah, what I first thought of with that was alien and “yellow dog” being a similarity of Houndeyes since they’re like big, dangerous, yellow puppy dogs.

Yeah I agree with the sentiment of that being a big deal if at all connected. Time Travel recalls, of course, the Tempus quote, but the whole thing about Satan recalls that one quote about Satan and a cage or something(I forgot it). But the whole passage is confusing, or maybe I’m just missing something. If we talk symbolically, where does everything we know in this ARG fit into this quote. What’s the Deep Dish Pizza? Is it HALOS? Maybe it was put here by Horn, aka Satan? If so, how is whatever HALOS/Deep Dis Pizza’s use is for tempting(assuming HALOS would be the Deep Dish Pizza, anyways)?

Also anyone near the location of the Luigi’s Pizza & Wings? Here’s the coordinates ripped from the Google images of it: 42°35’28.56’‘N 72°13’53.59’'W Seem’s to be in Athol, Massachusetts, behind a restaurant, ZEDAS Pizza & Restaurant. Maybe geocaching is involved? I got a feeling there’s a possibility of that, given how meta this ARG is.


Side Note: That wiki page has me cracking my shit up, I love it even if it isn’t related.[/size]

Unfortunately, i am nowhere near the location, however i do live in the U.S, but i live in Tennessee.I did look at street view, but the images on google earth date back to 2009. It would be a good idea if necessary to do some Geo-searching. However in google earths street view there was something related to pizza. I found it nearby your location that you provided. Here is a screenshot of it. Could be useful.

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Gunsrequiem, since we have been talking about public key cryptography, could you inform me on what are our suspect methods that we could use?

That wiki looks like total nonsense to me.
I see no reason to believe it has anything to do with us.

@Nonimportantuser: This is what I received in a PM from Code/Storm:

"Level 0 - 2 = Non Encrypted or Encoded (similar to private and confidential?)

Level 3 - 4 = OTR 1 - Base 64 or Base 85 encoded

Level 5 - 6 = OTR 2 - Hyper-encrypted (layered) Pen and Paper Ciphers

Level 7 = OTR 3 - Hyper-encrypted (layered) One Time Pad

Level 8 = OTR 4 - 128bit/256bit block cipher (AES or Rjindael or Twofish or Serpent)

Level 9 = OTR 5 - Cascaded Block Ciphers with salt (SHA 512 or Whirlpool etc)

Level 10 = OTR 6 - Cascaded Block Ciphers with salt and possible key file additions (to increase password strength)"

@faed: It does look like total nonsense, but the sheer number of references to the clues we’ve been given from the ARG are just too coincidental. If it is a coincidence, it’s a whopper.

Just some things I’ve noted, thus far:

The title of the page: “The Pizza Code Mystery” (exactly what Storm called it on the terminal site)
Multiple instances of capitalization of the word “pizza”
The “Taco Stand” reference, as well as the image of the taco that is on this page (linked from the main page): https://uniju.com/wiki/index.php/Rudnicki
The “Underground Pizza Code Word” reference
The Satan reference
“They spread lies about Pizza”
And then there’s the timing of the page creation and the image uploads–right before 12/12/12 and a few later on.

I don’t know, it does look like gibberish, but it’s perfect, too.

Glad to see that you are still alive @Gunsrequiem.

Thank you, sir. I’m pretty glad, too! :thumbup:

I have an idea. Can someone get me a level top down view of the array of pizza boxes and level views of the walls of “ThePizzaIsaLIE!” graffiti found in the background maps?

There’s this image from a few pages back:

This wiki page lists all the messages found thus far: The Pizza is a LIE

EDIT: The layout of those boxes still really bugs me. :cursing:

We seem to keep forgetting about them,

Personally, I don’t think it makes any sense looking for patterns with the hidden pizza boxes.

Who hid the Pizzas?
It was Dr, Welsh and his cohorts.

Why would Welsh hide pizza boxes from Dr. Horn and place them in specific patterns that are only useful to Dr. Horn and his communiques?

It doesn’t make any sense.

I think it’s a wild goose chase because it wouldn’t make any sense story wise.

Its still worth a shot.

After i got the rare specimen achievement on an another new play through in unforeseen consequences, i did get a random distant “ACCESS DENIED” overhead vox.

These still bother me.

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This also still bothers me a lot.

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Wait, what’s that last picture from?

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