[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

Those runway maps are used elsewhere in the game. I found them both in Office Complex.

I think the only thing exclusive to the shack is that cork-board of the devs running jokesā€¦ which makes that CE code also exclusive. Still quite a long shot though.

That cork board also appears in lambda complex, after the scientist lets the ladder down for you, just before you get the gluon gun.

Just checked the names of all the sound files, the only one that sticks out is the already discovered qecode

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\sourcemods\BMS\sound\BMS_scripted\qe\qecode

It even draws attention to itself by listing Dr Horn as a contributing artist in the file info so Iā€™m pretty sure that there are no other sound codesā€¦

https://imageshack.us/a/img507/8394/qecode.jpg

thats actually good newsā€¦ everybody search the files for dr. Horn as contributing artist

I thought bible ciphers were designed to be groups of 6 numbers, not 5.

Thatā€™s what I just did - there are no others

So that line of inquiry is closed :confused:

darn itā€¦ and I thought I could atleast contribuite to this nonesence onesā€¦:ā€™(

anyways you guys keep brainstorming I read too much already I donā€™t wanna break my brain on those cyphers or whatever. :rolleyes: :lambda:

Iā€™m just having a little recap really - basically the three codes weā€™ve found so far have all been 4 digits and encrypted in different forms:

Code A - pigpen encryption stored as a plain texture file
Code B - composite picture stored as a model with various skins
Code C - image file encoded as a sound file stored as an mp3

Itā€™s unlikely that the final code will be in plain sight or will have reused one of the previous methodsā€¦ thatā€™s my thoughts anyways

EDIT: The thought Iā€™m left with isā€¦ maybe an audio file encrypted into a picture? No idea how to check for these things but I have heard of them in previous ARGs - I guess if it were something like this thereā€™d be a clue of some sort to lead us to the right image file as there was with the audio file previously - havenā€™t noticed anything so far so might be a dead end

EDIT EDIT: Possibly something hidden on the webpage rather than in game? Not sure if itā€™s been mentioned before but Horn is Stormseekerā€™s surname IRL, so possibly heā€™ll have given us an out of game clue somehowā€¦

clutching at straws here :slight_smile:

EDIT^3 Then again everything so far has been available in-gameā€¦probably just the coffee talking started a new irc channel on quakenet #BMS-ARG if anyone wants to chat/brainstorm on there https://webchat.quakenet.org/

EDIT^4 Bizarre - might be someone messing with me/us, or could have been Stormseeker leading us to look more closely at a current clue:

could be that when looked at upside down, the word lie! looks like 1317ā€¦or could be someone messing with me xD

my guess is someone screwing with us.

So stormseeker replied to my message, but all that he said was ā€œWhatā€™s an ARG?ā€

:hmph:

roflā€¦ out of curiosity, did he reply recently - as in during the timeframe where I got the irc message?

Wait you actually messaged him for clues? Come on now, thats not fair now is it. :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah that really isnā€™t how ARGs work :stuck_out_tongue:

Think I might have found a texture file which needs looking at:
How it appears in hammer editor (right side)
how it appears in VTFedit

Itā€™s double the filesize of other same sized textures but Iā€™m not sure if itā€™s just corrupted on my computer, if someone wants to double check it then:

materials/metal/sign_area3b.vtf

It does have an ā€˜unusedā€™ tag on it, so maybe was just never working right in the first placeā€¦ something maybe

The ā€œwhatā€™s an ARGā€ statement was probably sarcastic, based on the fact that asking for help from the creator is way outside the lines, and could very easily be considered cheating.

As in ā€œNow, letā€™s think for a minute, youā€™re asking me for information about a puzzle I designed for you. So, tell me againā€¦ Whatā€™s an ARG? An Alternate Reality Game. Itā€™s for you guys to figure out.ā€

That, or it could be taunting.

If only someone had a way to make sure it was himā€¦ either way, I wouldnā€™t bet any money on that it wasnā€™t Stormseeker on IRC.

meaneh said that the ip was originating from a London locationā€¦ no idea whether thatā€™s a match up or notā€¦

but still, it could be him trolling as much as it could be a random personā€¦ or it could be a clue xD

Hi there, iā€™m new in the forums.

I appologise in advance for my english but iā€™m from Argentina and spanish is my mother language, but i get used to read and (i think write) english.

<Iā€™t funny because the explorer is red-underline every Word i write (iā€™t actually camellcased the ā€˜wā€™ in word )>

Anyway, I have read this topic since the first page.

Yestarday i have started thr BMS.

Maybe shoud give some helpful iformation.

After the Freemanā€™s landing in sector C and entering one of the offices, a security officer mention somethig as he has won a bet.

Something like "Ah Mr. Freeman " ā€œSomeone has to pay me a pepperoni pizza and a refresh sodaā€

Later on, at home i will translate the dialog (mine is in Spanish).

Este no es buen thread para empezar :slight_smile:

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