Monday recap

This ARG seems to follow a schedule, one main puzzle a week :

  • puzzle and clues on weekdays
  • hints to help us solve it late weekend

So this thread aims to sum up each week so far. Concise. Chronologic.

Check also this much more detailed timeline, from @ThatBomberBoi

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18th of May - Awakenings

Last Friday (15th of may), Leaders let us know that a new user, @the_architect has been kicked out by our infamously sniping bot @discourse_ai_spam here but then reinstated by the System without their input.

Post that triggers Discourse AI : Connection detected : Access denied

This suspicion plus odd behaviour (liking randomly an old post of @Polyphemus) lead to an inspection of this user account details revealing this website https://project-skyscraper.com/ (which was an early codename for NMS engine :eyes: ).

Several pages have been found on this website, all dated and stamped by Unix timestamps (aka memory blocks) :

and that’s all for this week recap, y’all!

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25th of May - Spreading wings

Last Monday (18th of may), @Sir_oops revealed a behind the curtain insight on the site structure which triggered a security breach. Later @Ekimo1920, made a bot posting changes from the main site (it’s a good bot, sometimes really loud, but hey, give it a gentle pat).

@The_Architect’s profile picture identified by @Sullykiwi : it is the Atlas Tower :eyes:. Some of PuppetMaster (PM) other social accounts (reddit’s one banned) were discovered :

Overall post times are synchronized between social medias, in few cases, there are discrepancies, but all pointing towards a strong connection with NMS and Waking Titan ARG themes.@YourBasicMaths found a cadence in the posting, giving us a time window for next post.@ThatBomberBoi found in social posts something regarding heartbeats being excel timestamps.

Others pages were found :

The Quote puzzle

At first, the poem focused our attention on social medias, BlueSky, Blue_bird, as a way to communicate with to make known our answers and, of course, DirectMessaging (DM) here. Poem itself didn’t match Wallace Stevens words. It became unstable and words changed, some became all caps even letters shifted many times.

A community effort, along with @RustyHarper, @adsk46nkster, and @Rinha on NMScord , lead to discover the place of the driftwood sculpture in France :rooster: , “Le Forgeron”, where a local “operator” went and… didn’t find “the Blacksmith”.

Community stalling, an hint has been given, and another page went up.

WIP

We also tried a lot of connection attempts to main page, but with the help of @Oskar1up fanbase, it resulted in an acknowledgement of our combined efforts.

and that’s all for this week recap, y’all!

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1st of June - Morse London trip

WIP

and that’s all for this week recap, y’all!

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8th of June - Exceeding expectations

WIP

and that’s all for this week recap, y’all!

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