Lifejumper
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The Order 1886 official twitter account tweeted this website: http://theorderexposed.com/
Looks pretty interesting..
Looks pretty interesting..
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The Order 1886 ARG - Missing person
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Lifejumper
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Its real, tweeted by the official account.
Got to be part of the marketing campaign.
One of the user posts in the comments mentions looking for the missing person in the hospital, which we know from trailers etc is where something big goes down in the game. I believe the hospital is also where Gallahad sees that Eldar Lycan which roughs him up in the recent E3 demo, but I'm not entirely sure.
anexanhume
Member
They list the e-mail as Ian.q1985@gmail.com. I wonder if there's significance to it being 99 years after title date.
SlasherJPC
Banned
All this focus on modern times leads me to believe a few things are possible. A. The game is told from a modern time perspective, as someone is reading stories written about the order from the past. B. The game has some time jumping around that they haven't shown off at all and are keeping secret. Or C. If it does well they can do a sequel in more modern times.
ThatGuyAgain
Member
Interesting. Hopefully no spoilers though.
Lifejumper
Member
Video wont play in google chrome in the ''expose the truth' section.
With how much emphasis they've put on making things seem accurate to the Victorian Period I don't see them leaving it unless there's some kind of frame about someone finding out what happened then. I think the modern marketing materials are just to illustrate the lifespan of the knights and the lycans.
Awesome, I love these. Will have a good look through tomorrow 
Edit: Should be working but can't resist, did a little digging already.
The email thing seems like a dead end. We've got an image of a coded page (with the decoding key included) - way too easy - so it must just be a little warmer upper.
It translates into:
There's also the two books mentioned which I'm guessing will be useful via book cipher somehow? On this page it mentions the book and a page number but I'm not seeing a page number so not sure whether that's important. That's all I got so far :3
Edit: Should be working but can't resist, did a little digging already.
The email thing seems like a dead end. We've got an image of a coded page (with the decoding key included) - way too easy - so it must just be a little warmer upper.
It translates into:
There's also the two books mentioned which I'm guessing will be useful via book cipher somehow? On this page it mentions the book and a page number but I'm not seeing a page number so not sure whether that's important. That's all I got so far :3
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
I was starting to wonder what the email was for.
Seems like Ian is missing. But he left this code:
UcrxtfwvRahfzVuyzwXspgbIsfedXgys
He said it's the first of four.
He also posted Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" with a code saying OTP 54614.
EDIT: I think that Alexandria is just a fan, if you go to her profile and then go to her tumblr page, and it's really filled with GIF's from lots of games and movies and stuff.
Seems like Ian is missing. But he left this code:
UcrxtfwvRahfzVuyzwXspgbIsfedXgys
He said it's the first of four.
He also posted Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" with a code saying OTP 54614.
EDIT: I think that Alexandria is just a fan, if you go to her profile and then go to her tumblr page, and it's really filled with GIF's from lots of games and movies and stuff.
I think evolution is gonna be a part of the half-breed's lore.
EDIT:
Damn, I was hoping they were elaborate enough to put fake comments in that tumblr page.
I'm guessing "UcrxtfwvRahfzVuyzwXspgbIsfedXgys" is cracked somehow using one of the books somehow? But without page numbers and stuff it's a bit of a shot in the dark. Not sure about the second code.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
OTP might refer to One Time Password. It could be that the long code I posted is somehow cracked with that number and using Darwin's work.
I missed one of the posts on the site, it mentions a cipher method by the 'other' Frank Miller. That method being 'One-Time Pad'.
So the long string of characters + 54614 + One-Time Pad = Something.
Elitist1945
Member
God I love marketing like this.
It reminds me of MGS3 period Kojima.
It is just so so fun to crack and follow, at least when done well. I'm yet to join in on a bad ARG
Elitist1945
Member
It is just so so fun to crack and follow, at least when done well. I'm yet to join in on a bad ARG
I mean I'm too dumb to make sense of any of it - but its fun watching others crack it and see what comes out of the it all.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Damn, I didn't see that one.
The numbers refer to chapter-page-line or something along those lines?
EDIT: Also, thanks to whichever mod closed the other thread, it will probably get some people into this thread to help heh. (I bet it was Kev, he hates moustaches)
JuanLatino
Member
so excited for this world
Haha you never know.
From what I gather with one-time pad encryption, you have a message, you use a key and then it spits out a jumbled encrypted version of the message.
We've got the outcome of the encryption : UcrxtfwvRahfzVuyzwXspgbIsfedXgys
Not sure, here's everything I found on OTP's (also known as the Vernam cipher).
http://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/codes/onetimepad.php
http://www.mobilefish.com/services/one_time_pad/one_time_pad.php
http://www.wikihow.com/Decrypt-Messages-with-an-Alphabetic-One-Time-Pad
Wow, it sounds like unless you know exactly what the key is to decrypt it, and you know exactly how the method works, it is completely uncrackable.
I like when you dont know the game....something like a Valve ARG when it was later revealed to be Portal 2 stuff.
neither do I.
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
So I found a page that could decrypt the OTP, but it seems like this is not the text to be decrypted:
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/otp.php
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/otp.php
From what I gather, the key needed to decrypt it has to be the same length as the thing you are decrypting? I'm a bit lost and it's late so I'll try again tomorrow
So this clearly is meant to tie in with the BCO 'news broadcasts' from a couple of weeks ago, which featured a Lycan corpse being dug up, and a dude in a hoodie who gets hit byt a car, drinks 'a black liquid' and then runs off, seemingly unharmed.
Said virals...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWouPl9l-zA
http://games.dailymotion.com/video/x2epntd
Also - top lulz at TTTT in the YT comments who starts going on about how the lycan body is a Nephilim...jesus there are some mouth-breathing idiots out there...
Said virals...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWouPl9l-zA
http://games.dailymotion.com/video/x2epntd
Also - top lulz at TTTT in the YT comments who starts going on about how the lycan body is a Nephilim...jesus there are some mouth-breathing idiots out there...
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, this is the first time I'm this participative in an ARG, I really want to know what's on the other side. And no one else seems to be interested. Oh well. Tomorrow then!
EDIT: Also possible that the news have a clue or something.
EDIT: Also possible that the news have a clue or something.
I tried looking at the origin of species for a pad. I tried chapter 4 page 164 line 5, which is the last line of the 4th chapter and you can get that out of reversing the numbers next to OTP.
"branching and beautiful ramifications"
It doesn't work with the given encoded message though.
"branching and beautiful ramifications"
It doesn't work with the given encoded message though.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Do we know if this game is based entirely in 1886? What if it jumps between time zones and that's why we've seen very little of it?
Hidden One
Member
Hype!
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
Megaton. Hope that there isn't an asshole who spoils the game for the rest.
SlasherJPC
Banned
That's what I was saying. Would be megaton.
1970 Chevelle SS
Neo Member
It's going to be ok. Just breath.
Vincent4756
Member
In my skimming of Chapter 5 in OTS, it talks a lot about hybrids.. So maybe a clue is in there?
EDIT:
Using the Capitals in the long string of characters and looking up their value is the cipher boox I get the following.
U - 11132
Pryoxene
R - 08946
Network
V - 11312
Ramaden
X - 11855
Rinseed
I'll update if I get anything new.
EDIT 2: not seeing any relevant results. Still not sure what the page number is for the Arthur book however pg 37 directly mentions the Morte Darthur book. And on that is a series of numbers on the first page. I have not used the series of numbers in the cipher, I used the OTP number which may be where I went wrong.
Anu way I'll be at work all day so I can't contribute much any more but most likely I don't contribute anything. I hope to see some cool stuff tonight GAF!
EDIT:
Using the Capitals in the long string of characters and looking up their value is the cipher boox I get the following.
U - 11132
Pryoxene
R - 08946
Network
V - 11312
Ramaden
X - 11855
Rinseed
I'll update if I get anything new.
EDIT 2: not seeing any relevant results. Still not sure what the page number is for the Arthur book however pg 37 directly mentions the Morte Darthur book. And on that is a series of numbers on the first page. I have not used the series of numbers in the cipher, I used the OTP number which may be where I went wrong.
Anu way I'll be at work all day so I can't contribute much any more but most likely I don't contribute anything. I hope to see some cool stuff tonight GAF!
CosmicGroinPull
Member
Yeah I think so too. Also because where are you going to find Victorian period sets to shoot your live action ads on?
I don't think there's going to be any more posts on the main site. Will probably find more stuff once the first puzzle is solved. Gonna have a try again later when I get home. Anyone had any luck?