Any one else get an email about WARE’s competition and, protocol PH-13, and a %60, boost to the engine for the WARE headset.
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Isn’t there a PH-16 designation for the Atlas Passes? And what could PH-13 mean?
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Yea, got the email. And wow, check out Oceansmoke Games. Well, all 3 should be looked at. But Oceansmoke seems to stand out.
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Yeah, I received the same email I guess anyone who registered to ware should have received it.
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Going through the Oceansmoke site:
At the very bottom you see the text
“Fbuqiu xubf ki, mu qhu jhqffut. Mu sqddej mqau. Mu sqddej mqau. Ehjxqwed yi huqb”
Which, when run through a Caesar +16 cypher, gives us:
“please help us, we are trapped. we cannot wake. we cannot wake. orthagon is real”
Additionally, at the bottom-right corner, there’s the text:
"Qdt jxud mu mqau. Eh te mu? Ibuuf udtkhui
Cehu jxqd jxu cehdydw sqd, mxud ixqtemi byu
Ixqhfuh jxqd cekdjqydi, "
Which, when done with the same thing, gives us:
"and then we wake. or do we? sleep endures
more than the morning can, when shadows lie
sharper than mountains, "
Text from the poem “The Deepest Dream” by Mark Van Doren
Also if you navigate to the “about” section via the box at the top, you can find a comment (About – Oceansmoke Games) with hex code. Decyphered, it states:
"Here is no water but only rock
Rock and no water and the sandy road…
HELP US"
The top two lines are from TS Elliots “The Waste Land”
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This sounds like something out of a darker version of “Tron”.
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On the same page Oceansmoke, is a static gif, possibly with a hidden message or image within it.
Also spotted: in a jumble of random letters:
“&97*–Ple…se&828-we—6as5cann&t72101)(asd(0&26^^^A78a7d2187&21–h3lp9)–*”
I can definitely make out “Please”, “we”, “cannot” and “help”
A guy on Reddit posted a few hours ago that the Ocean site was his and he put some puzzles in there. He said;
Edward_Monton • 8h
Hey! I don’t want anyone to get sidetracked, the oceansmoke site is mine. It’s not part of waking titan. I thought it would be fun to put some little puzzles in.
Don’t know if he’s legit or not.
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Some team (or ARG player) really did great job. The Oceansmoke site is very succesfull.
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It’s amazing. Great skills.
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This guy is seriously talented. It seems a few people are putting fun ARG like puzzles in their websites. Very clever and lots of fun.
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So the person that made the website is just an individual player with great skills, right?
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I believe so. They have been active on Reddit before and shared fan art.
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