I would like to report that bmrf.us has been renewed.
I feel like this ARG is finally dead so wont be commenting until something solid happens. Thanks for all the fish!
I donât think itâs dead, I think itâs just simply in hibernation. Personally, I havenât had anything of any importance to contribute but I do look EVERY day to see if anything new has been posted. I think most of us are under the impression that we are simply going to have to wait for Storm to reveal some new information to us. He had said, under a pseudonym, that âI have a feeling this is a holding puzzle, designed to allow time to construct further aspects of the ARG or work on whatever is behind their NDAâ. If him saying âtime will indeed reveal allâ is also literally true then we are going to have to simply wait. It certainly appears to be the case from what weâve been unable to discover since then.
Two other pieces of info he gave us are:
âThere is a way to solve it, and time will indeed reveal all.â and âThis unlocks at the start of the end. 21 into 1.â
Telling us âtime will indeed reveal allâ could be the literal truth or could it be a reference to Tim Evans, the author of the news release at kxbm.net/article/ whose twitter name isnât âtim_evansâ but rather âtime_vanâ
and could âthis unlocks at the start of the endâ simply be a clue telling us to take the hex and reverse it? Should we start at the end?
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
If we simply should reverse the code then what would â21 into 1â mean?
â21 into 1â could simply mean to lose the first part of each pair. Have we tried that yet?
Okay, so trimming off the higher nibble of each byte in the reversed string above yields
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
⌠Which is, unsurprisingly, half the length of the original code. Is this what we need to use as a key?
(Sorry for the double-post)
Ehhh, now that I think about it, it seems kinda strange that part of the plaintext would be used to make its own key⌠That could very well lead to the key being nothing but garbage, which is a good way to camouflage it, but⌠than again, how was the key generated? By looking at the ciphertext. And how would the ciphertext be generated, if the key hasnât been generated yet?
Guess thatâs the wrong direction to go, again.
Dammit! Posted it in the wrong thread!
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Could THIS be of any importance to us??âhttps://forums.blackmesasource.com/index.php/Thread/29218-A-Curious-Objectâ
That seems real suspect⌠If not for this ARG, then definitely Xen-related. OR an update on older content (similarly to the STU update)?
anybody know anyone with the bday 2/11/86-88? Has anyone considered that everything told to us via storm has been completely false? Damn near everythingâŚexcept for a few numbers.and 99% of what we have been led to Was false? , Iâm not saying this is how it is, but if we throw out everything dr. Horn and storm has said. What are we left with?
Just dropping by to post this:
https://www.bmrf.us/ has changedâŚ
âŚand:
https://terminal.bmrf.us/ is back with:
[code] ____ _ _ _
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DALsystems Remote Terminal Module
Copyright 2000, Version 2.01
licensed to: Black Mesa Corporation
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[CRITICAL FAULT]: CANNOT CONNECT TO LOGON SERVER
[SYS MESSAGE]: PLEASE CONTACT IT DEPARTMENT: EXT 12[/code]The terminal text has changed slightly from what it was originally (you can see the original text on the wiki)
Itâs been a whileâŚ
Anyone has any idea on what âEXT 12â could be, or how to contact it?
EDIT:
On previous page, version was 1.65, but now itâs 2.01 (201, 21?), and, âCopyright 200Xâ, to âCopyright 2000â.
Extension 12 ?
Thereâs also the fact that 12 is 21 in reverse (which Iâm sure someoneâs going to bring up sooner or later).
There are some slight changes to the main site as well. First, the year 200x has been removed from the dates. Second, the Directory Assistance phone number has changed from 505-123-9876 to 1 (800) 786-1410.
Calling the number (the toll-free one) results in the emergency broadcast when they were about to release the Steam version of the game, then it hangs up.
I attempted to input â12â and â#12â when it picked up, but all it did was end the call when I did it, but it also hangs up when I input other numbers, so itâs not a purposeful thing, I think.
The only other thing is maybe thereâs a specific number you need to input, idk.
Well, isnât this a bit of a moral boost.
Perhaps this is for both xen and the arg.
Anyway, i found that model that a few of us where interested in and after some time trying to get the half life model viewer to work i managed to open it. However i found another model of interest called qe_jenn0desk that i have found in game.
This is Mark Forman one of the devs.
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ââŚby noonâ.
Ext 12
âŚ12:00 noon?
What about calling that phone number, 1 (800) 786-1410, at 12:00 pm MDT?
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Also, I can confirm that there are no hidden text hints of note, or scripting at all, within within bmrf.us or terminal.bmrf.us.
We need to get a closer look at the red text on the pad on the left in that model.
After no success dialing 800-486-1410, I dialed 800-486-1421 (21 into 1) and ended up connecting to what sounds like a fax machine handshake.
To me, that just looks like heâs cleverly-not-cleverly âdodgingâ the issue. In other words, itâs a tongue-in-cheek non-denial that it exists for a reasonâlikely because it will be used in Xen.
As for this phone number, I like that. I really do. There are some very interesting things that can be done with phone numbers. Something of interest I found regarding telephone numbers and â21â:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_forwarding
This section, in particular:
Most EU fixed-line carriers use the following codes based on CEPT and ETSI standards developed in the 1970s on both POTS and ISDN lines: (There may be some variation to these, but the unconditional code 21, is very much universally standard on EU telephone lines.)
I tried inputting â21â during the recorded message, but nothing happened. However, with this new telephone number, the excitement is growing again!
Can anyone confirm this? I would do it myself, but Iâm not sure how phone charges would turn up for country where Iâm calling from (Croatia). Sorry for doubting you. 
Because, if broadcast is same, then we could have new source of clues, or at least, information.
EDIT:
I think you miss dialed, phone number is 800 786-1410.
EDIT:
I tried calling the number 800 786-1410 with Skype, since you can call toll free numbers without Skype credits, and, oh my, number responds with same emergency broadcast, just like at bmrf.us, before they changed it. I think this number is in some way important.
If you type in some number, message will skip to beginning of resonant cascade, more specifically, when scientists were shouting: âShutting down, itâs⌠itâs not shutting downâŚâ.
I think this number can/will be used in some way or another, sooner or later.
If anyone doesnât believe me try it with Skype, itâs free, you donât need Skype credits.
EDIT:
POSSIBLE NEW CLUE. During the call, if you (on your Skype keypad) type in *12 (ext 12 again), it will ask you for PASSWORD. A female voice will say:
âPassword. Login incorrect. Please enter your password, followed by pound key. x2 Goodbye.â And it hangs up. Did I just discovered something important?!
By the looks of it, we need to enter a password, and hit #. For example: call number --> *12 --> 123456#
No idea what could be the password though.
Hmm . . . that is very interesting, but my money is on that login simply being used to access the client, rather than leading to other clues. I say that because the voice sounds like a standard phone operator.
However, I have been wrong in the past, so I wouldnât put it to bed until one of the developers/Storm deny or confirm its importance.