Deus Ex ARG Puzzle

Started by LennardF1989, August 30, 2011, 09:27:44 PM

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LennardF1989

First message:
okM8-+Ds4Dui?lMh$Mzvm14SBqe7;G.I6=u74b?mkh-45Ki6Od+98XBpCku7

Second message:
5 - /! f/ f q / x c/ q y / d 3 / ? x / t $ / j#

Stephane D'Astous on Twitter:
a d / u k / w 0

David Anfossi on Twitter:
r 5 / i e / y p

Jean-François Dugas on Twitter:
7 2 / m 1 / . 4

Facebook:
b o / z v / 3 n / 4 h / 9 b / $ = / = 8 / s t / - 9

Reddit:
c m / n 7 / p g / g w / + j / # s / 2 a / 8 z / 0 !

Eidos Community site:
o . / l l / e ; / 6 u / ; 6 / h + / v ? / k r / 1 i

Combined:
5 - / ! f / f q / x c / q y / d 3 / ? x / t $ / j #
a d / u k / w 0 / r 5 / i e / y p / 7 2 / m 1 / . 4
b o / z v / 3 n / 4 h / 9 b / $ = / = 8 / s t / - 9
o . / l l / e ; / 6 u / ; 6 / h + / v ? / k r / 1 i
c m / n 7 / p g / g w / + j / # s / 2 a / 8 z / 0 !

SOLVE IT! NOW! I tried numerous of combinations, but it's fun to pull some of you guys in I guess.

People believe it's a find and replace (5 becomes -). But if you keep doing this, you eventually end up at exactly the same value (there are like 5 infinite loops).

Also, the l becomes l is suspicious, it might be a hint (see fourth sequence).

LennardF1989

#1
The next step has been reached! A smart person on the Eidos forums got us on the right track: http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=120594&page=18

The newsbar is now showing: http://13311tower.com

If you take all capitals from the long first message, you'll end up with:
MDDMMSBGIKOXBC

Apply the find and replace technique, and you'll end up with:
13311tower.com

It was so simple!

LennardF1989

#2
More progress.

In the background-image of the site (http://13311tower.com/images/13311tower.jpg) some GPS coordinates were hidden in the EXIF-information. These lead to Ayers Rock in Australia, also known as Uluru.

Next there was a sound-file hidden in the HTML-source. It was morse-code, when playing the sound in reverse, the morse-code gave:
11M13clinic

Throwing these together, we had the login combination for the All-Seeing-Eye on the http://13311tower.com website. The following image is thrown back: http://13311tower.com/images/3CrsBcJciE.jpg

EDIT
According to the producer we solved the puzzle and just have to sit it out: http://twitter.com/#!/DavidAnfossi/status/108649283082911744

Cronky

Wait for what though!?

Glad you did all this, cause I would have never figured it out ;)
If you haven't noticed, I'm REALLY good at making a simple response into a wall of text.
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LennardF1989

Quote from: Cronky on August 31, 2011, 01:06:42 AM
Wait for what though!?

Glad you did all this, cause I would have never figured it out ;)
No idea, some say it's far from over.

Farley4Fan

Some say it's far from over, some say it hasn't even begun. 

The one thing I know is that humanity deserves better.  They deserve to live a life without being under the thumb of some unknown, uncontrollable power.  They deserve the truth.  The whole truth. 

Love this game.  (guess which ending I got)

(I'm too exhausted after playing this game for 3 straight hours and finally finishing it and having my mind blown, so I'll just say that I enjoyed looking at the half-eaten muffin and am happy to resign myself to letting everyone else figure it out).