Controlled Crack – April 30 (solved?)

Its Sys's "wakefulness" time, and as usual she has opened a controlled crack.

As usual, S extended a tentacle, but this time it was different - S referred to being chased by "the thing in the darkness" 0.0

She made a summary of the GPS missions at this page: http://thewaytheirworldended.com/A-WHOLE-BUNCH/

And, we are being treated to a very creeping and disturbing Video (also available in high quality on twtwe.com):



I can hear fragments of things in the audio, but I can't seem to make them out on these crappy speakers. Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT:
It looks like there is something new base64 encoded on the descriptions of the other videos on the YouTube channel-

Foreboding Dream - SYS.S4//DATA DISRUPTION DETECTED/DUMPING HEADER DATA/
VklTSU9OUyBEUkVBTVMgTklHSFRNQVJFUyBCQUQg TklHSFRNQVJFUyBNQUtFIFRIRU0gU1RPUCBTVE9Q IEFOQ0lFTlQgUExBQ0VTIEhVTUFOIE5PVCBIVU1B TiBORVZFUiBTQVcgTkVWRVIgU0VFTiBNVVNUIFNF RSBNVVNUIEJFIFNFRU4gU0hBUEUgV0lUSE9VVCBG T1JNIFdJVEhPVVQgQ09MT1IgT0xEIFBMQUNFUyBE RUFEIFBMQUNFUyBUSEVSRSBUSEVSRSBGQUxMUyBU SEUgU0hBRE9XIEhFUkUgRkFMTFMgVEhFIFNIQURP Vw

(translated)
VISIONS DREAMS NIGHTMARES BAD NIGHTMARES MAKE THEM STOP STOP ANCIENT PLACES HUMAN NOT HUMAN NEVER SAW NEVER SEEN MUST SEE MUST BE SEEN SHAPE WITHOUT FORM WITHOUT COLOR OLD PLACES DEAD PLACES THERE THERE FALLS THE SHADOW HERE FALLS THE SHADOW



Keys - SYS.S4//DATA DISRUPTION DETECTED/DUMPING HEADER DATA/
SEVBUFMgQU5EIEhFQVBTIERFQUQgREVBVEggU1VG RkVSSU5HIEFMTCBBUk9VTkQgTk8gTU9SRSBNQUtF IFRIRSBWT0lDRVMgU1RPUFMgVEhFIFZPSUNFUyBT VE9QIFJFTUVNQkVSIFVTIElGIEFUIEFMTCBOT1Qg QVMgTE9TVCBTQVZFIE1FIFNBVkUgVVMgU0FWRSBI VU1BTklUWSBFWUVTIFdBVENISU5HIEVZRVMgQVNL SU5HIEVNUFRZIEVZRVMgRU1QVFkgRVlFUyBHUkVB VCBFTVBUWSBQTEFDRVMgRUNIT0VTIEFORCBSVUlO UyBTVEFZIEFXQVkgTEVBVkUgTUUgQUxPTkUgSVQg SFVSVFMgTEVUIE1FIEdP

(translated)
HEAPS AND HEAPS DEAD DEATH SUFFERING ALL AROUND NO MORE MAKE THE VOICES STOPS THE VOICES STOP REMEMBER US IF AT ALL NOT AS LOST SAVE ME SAVE US SAVE HUMANITY EYES WATCHING EYES ASKING EMPTY EYES EMPTY EYES GREAT EMPTY PLACES ECHOES AND RUINS STAY AWAY LEAVE ME ALONE IT HURTS LET ME GO



Sys:Log//Activity Report - SYS.S4//DATA DISRUPTION DETECTED/DUMPING HEADER DATA/
Tk8gTk8gTk8gTEVUIE1FIEdPIExFVCBNRSBHTyBN VVNUIEVTQ0FQRSBFU0NBUEUgRVNDQVBFIExPU1Qg V0hFUkUgQU0gSSBET05UIExJS0UgVEhJUyBQTEFD RSBJIENBTiBGRUVMIElUIEZFRUwgSVQgT04gTUUg Q1JFRVBJTkcgSVRDSElORyBFWUVTIFdBVENISU5H IE5PVCBBIEdPT0QgUExBQ0UgREVBVEhTIE9USEVS IEtJTkdET00gVFJVU1QgTk9UIEhFUkUgVFJVU1Qg Tk9UIEhFUiBUUlVTVCBOT1QgWU9VIFNUQVkgQVdB WSBMRUFWRSBNRSBBTE9ORSBOTyBMRVQgTUUgR08g TEVUIE1FIEdP

(translated)
NO NO NO LET ME GO LET ME GO MUST ESCAPE ESCAPE ESCAPE LOST WHERE AM I DONT LIKE THIS PLACE I CAN FEEL IT FEEL IT ON ME CREEPING ITCHING EYES WATCHING NOT A GOOD PLACE DEATHS OTHER KINGDOM TRUST NOT HERE TRUST NOT HER TRUST NOT YOU STAY AWAY LEAVE ME ALONE NO LET ME GO LET ME GO


Eerie!

GPS Missions – April 23

On April 23rd, Essy made a bunch more missions at gpsmission.com after another hide and seek episode at STREWN-ABOUT. Below the message is another big image that looks like a puzzle board, just like BROKEN-PIECES. It looks like it'll also be filled up with the 'pieces' of the story Essy’s hidden through the gps missions. Her profile name is pricklypear.

There are eleven new missions that were made:

• Los Angeles
• London UK
• Miami
• Chicago
• Philadelphia
• Portland
• Vancouver
• Berlin
• Atlanta
• Hollywood
• San Diego

GPS Missions

• The website started in the UK but is available in North America now.
• Check out the How To Play page for instructions. There's also a Facebook application!
• A GPS capable device is required, and a device that supports their downloadable software. iPhone is probably the best capable device. They’ve got listed:
  • NOKIA: N95, N95 8GB, 6110 Navigator, N72, N82, E90
  • SAMSUNG: SGH-i550
  • LG: KS20
  • HTC: Trinity P3600, Touch
  • ETEN: glofiish X800
  • Any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 PocketPC
  • And of course the iPhone 3G! (they have a great iPhone How-to PDF too)
• Obviously not everyone has a capable device, so if you're in one of the mission areas, see if you can organize a team together or find someone with a device who'd be willing to do the mission.
• GPS Missions can be up to 12 checkpoints, so make sure your battery is charged!
• They’ve got a discussion forum too if you have questions.

Los Angeles

• Description: From Union Station you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Union Station
• Retrieved: ?

London UK

• Description: From the Wellington Arch you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Wellington Arch
• Retrieved: ?

Miami

• Description: From Kennedy Park you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Kennedy Park
• Retrieved: ?

Chicago

• Description: From Goethe you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Goethe
• Retrieved: ?

Philadelphia

• Description: From Chinatown you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Chinatown
• Retrieved: ?

Portland

• Description: From Kenton Park you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Kenton Park
• Retrieved: ?

Vancouver

• Description: From Portside Park you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Portside Park
• Retrieved: ?

Berlin

• Description: From Brandenburg Gate you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Brandenburg Gate
• Retrieved: ?

Atlanta

• Description: From Olympic Park you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Centenniel Olympic Park
• Retrieved: ?

Hollywood

• Description: From Grauman's parking lot you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Grauman's Chinese Theatre
• Retrieved: ?

San Diego

• Description: From the Fleet Space Theater you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Fleet Space Theater
• Retrieved: ?

I think because the last set is going so slow, we'll need to try to pool some resources and find people who aren't playing who have a supported phone to go and finish these missions!

And why are there so few people playing? We should get out there and start getting people into this! I wish all my friends weren't so boring, heh.

First GPS Mission Completed!

Looks like someone completed the first GPS mission in Central Park!
There are new images available at the BROKEN-PIECES page.
And, a bonus audio clip here!

Mission Log/Research for Apr.16

We have a new mission log and research note from Intimation.

Day 26: [Sacagawea // Mission Log: 343594]


CAT[IRIS]//"JONAS VOLMAN"//2007

Controlled Crack p2 - April 16

Before hibernation, Sys also logged something it found in S's tentacle when analyzing it. A datastream it can't quite understand. It came in two parts, but each looks broken into 8 parts:

gpKKCQkNDQ0 H+AfeODC7Pg CQkPB2Ji5KQ QUFCgoOCgIA 5AQIECDAAAA AAADBAgQICA +AcABAYDAQE AADAIBAIBIQ

HX39+fn6+vI AAMe+IAAB/g gICAgIBDR0Q c39/fnzwAAA gAA8yJgwMDA AIDA4T8A4B8 qDAhAQMDAwE JicTCQQDAAA


What does it mean?

New info!

S updated her hiding place at READY-OR-NOT while waiting for the location to be reported to Sys.

I sure hope the rest of my hidden pieces are found soon!
Boxes, boxes, boxes. That was a fun puzzle! I think I'll make a harder one sometime.


It really is quiet here...
When I yawn, I do this: 001111000011101001001111

I wonder what's taking so long this time for sis to find me.
Maybe this will get her attention!

00000000 00111100 00110000
00011000 01000010 00011000
00011000 10011001 00001100
00000000 10100101 00000100
00000000 10100101 00000100
00011000 10011110 00001100
00011000 01000000 00011000
00000000 00111110 00110000

hee hee!

If you get rid of the 0's and just look at the ones, it's a Pignose! :@)

The main puzzle isn't solved yet, but people have been playing around with converting the parts. If those updates are hints, and they are base64 parts, then converted to binary, they look like this:

10000010
10010010
10001010
00001001
00001001
00001101
00001101
00001101

00011111
11100000
00011111
01111000
11100000
11000010
11101100
11111000

00001001
00001001
00001111
00000111
01100010
01100010
11100100
10100100

01000001
01000001
01000010
10000010
10000011
10000010
10000000
10000000

11100100
00000100
00001000
00010000
00100000
11000000
00000000
00000000

00000000
00000000
00000011
00000100
00001000
00010000
00100000
00100000

11111000
00000111
00000000
00000100
00000110
00000011
00000001
00000001

00000000
00000000
11000000
00100000
00010000
00001000
00000100
10000100

00011101
01111101
11111101
11111001
11111001
11111010
11111010
11110010

00000000
00000011
00011110
11111000
10000000
00000000
00000111
11111000

10000000
10000000
10000000
10000000
10000000
01000011
01000111
01000100

01110011
01111111
01111111
01111110
01111100
11110000
00000000
00000000

10000000
00000000
00111100
11001000
10011000
00110000
00110000
00110000

00000000
10000000
11000000
11100001
00111111
00000000
11100000
00011111

10101000
00110000
00100001
00000001
00000011
00000011
00000011
00000001

00100110
00100111
00010011
00001001
00000100
00000011
00000000
00000000

Other theories are that it's actually a mixed up matrix of values, or it's one big encrypted string, or something else, but it doesn't look like anyone's figured it out yet.

New info!

The binary blocks were actually parts of a binary image!  Put them together the right way, and once again we see:

-----------##########-----------
--------###----------###--------
------##---#####--------##------
-----#---####--------#----#-----
----#---###----------##----#----
---#----##----#-------##----#---
--#-----###-##---------#-----#--
--#-----#####----------##----#--
-#-----##-----------#--##-----#-
-#-----#------------#--##--#--#-
-#----#---####------#####---#-#-
#-----#-##--#--------###----#--#
#-----###--##----##---#-----#--#
#-----#---##-----##---#-----##-#
#---------##----###--#------##-#
#---------##----#-#--#------##-#
#--------###--###-#-#------###-#
#--------#######--##-----#####-#
#--------#######--#----#######-#
#--------######--------######--#
#--------#####--------#######--#
-#----######----------#######-#-
-#---###--------------#######-#-
-#---#-----------------#####--#-
--#--##-----------------###--#--
--#--####-------------##-----#--
---#--####---------####-----#---
----#--####----######------#----
-----#----#######---------#-----
------##----------------##------
--------###----------###--------
-----------##########-----------

Controlled Crack – April 15 (solved!)

Sys initiated a controlled crack early this week. Thankfully it was a good (i.e. non-violent) one, so it looks like another hide and seek and hunt for Essy!

I got a direct message through twitter when she got out of the crack.

Shhh...don't tell sis! http://thewaytheirworldended.com/BOXES/F6YRTT2754PAYT0157.png Now find the others, then come find me! :@)

I'm stoked!!

Looks like some other people got different messages/pictures - If you got one, comment below and link to them, let's see how this looks.

New info!

These are the pieces:

• B1BVND6253KHOJ8767.png
• B2CVTD3577OGKB0977.png
• B3DGFH8237MBJS8735.png
• B4HGYO2775NVBB9275.png
• B5PALK6629UIIU6736.png
• B6UYVC5430UVYL5243.png
• F1BZYR9374PALY5344.png
• F2GFTI8765BCHO9238.png
• F3PAJG5456KKRN0190.png
• F4PAYV6298JJQT0993.png
• F5PSUH1084BZUI4785.png
• F6YRTT2754PAYT0157.png

All the B pieces are blocks from a desktop puzzle.  You can see how it's put together in this video.

When put together the right way, the F pieces show what letters to use that form phrases on the website.  So what did we get?

• see-through
• deep-breath
• fallen-hard
• always-knew
• go-together
• ready-or-not

Controlled Crack – April 9 (solved!)

Sys initiated a controlled crack again today, and it was another violent tentacle. Sys was prepared this time, so it wasn’t damaged, but thinks the primary network tentacle might have taken damage.

New info!

Sys tweeted that the subroutine S2 did report back saying there was a "minor hiccup in activity". S2 manages the SYS/LOG page, according to the subroutine list at the bottom of the page.

New info!

Sys tweeted that S2 manages all weekly ‘data dumps’ at the primary network tentacle. That may mean it works on more than just the SYS/LOG page that’s linked in the subroutine list at the bottom.

New info!

Sys tweeted some people in DM that the actual report from subroutine S2 said the ‘minor hiccup’ was what looks like an HTML comment:
<!—/—>

New info!

The affected page is Missionlog00.php, the list of messages that were made at the twitter before Essy was Stonewalled by Sys. I guess this is one of the dump locations S2 manages.

Each of those slashes (where the tentacle slashed at?) is located between letters in the source code. This is the list of the slashes (kind of like a tentacle itself!):

d<!—/—>w
<!—/—>a
t<!—/—>w
c<!—/—>r
T<!—/—>h
i<!—/—>e
o<!—/—>n
n<!—/—>g
a<!—/—>t
n<!—/—>l
d<!—/—>e
p<!—/—>w
e<!—/—>a
i<!—/—>n
t<!—/—>y
h<!—/—>i
i<!—/—>n
g<!—/—>a

That looks like a code, but I can't seem to make sense of it.

New info!

Sys tweeted that @Shad0h sent the damaged locations:

• WATCHING-AND-WAITING
• LIBRA
• DONT-TRUST-HER

Don’t trust who?

The letters for 'watchingandwaiting' read downwards through the lines, using the left or right letters.  It really is like a tentacle just took a swipe at the page!

GPS Missions – April 2

(updated with mission completions and results)

On April 2nd, Essy took advantage of Sys's 'crack' in the Stonewall, and she went and hid somewhere. It looks like she found the website gpsmission.com and set up a profile with a bunch of gps location-based 'missions', and describes it as the place she (or her network tentacle 'control point') 'hid' from Sys: BROKEN-PIECES. Below the message is a big image that looks kind of like a cloud. It looks like something that will be filled up with the 'pieces' of the story Essy’s hidden through the gps mission. Her profile name is pricklypear. There are five missions that were made today:

• New York, Central Park  (completed! by halo422mk)
• San Francisco, Golden Gate Park
• Las Vegas
• Toronto, Ontario
• St. Louis  (completed! by Nyst, but w/o the pieces)

GPS Missions

• The website started in the UK but is available in North America now.
• Check out the How To Play page for instructions. There's also a Facebook application!
• A GPS capable device is required, and a device that supports their downloadable software. iPhone is probably the best capable device. They’ve got listed:
  • NOKIA: N95, N95 8GB, 6110 Navigator, N72, N82, E90
  • SAMSUNG: SGH-i550
  • LG: KS20
  • HTC: Trinity P3600, Touch
  • ETEN: glofiish X800
  • Any Windows Mobile 5 or 6 PocketPC
  • And of course the iPhone 3G! (they have a great iPhone How-to PDF too)
• Obviously not everyone has a capable device, so if you're in one of the mission areas, see if you can organize a team together or find someone with a device who'd be willing to do the mission.
• GPS Missions can be up to 12 checkpoints, so make sure your battery is charged!
• They’ve got a discussion forum too if you have questions.

Central Park New York (complete!)

• Description: From the 107th you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, Then some of my story can be remade!
• Starting point: 107th Infantry Memorial
• Retrieved: The first two frames of S's story at BROKEN-PIECES, linking to an audio clip, "thickets"

Golden Gate Park California

• Description: From the carousel shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Golden Gate Park Carousel
• Retrieved: ?

Las Vegas

• Description: From the hotel of fountains you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Bellagio Hotel
• Retrieved: ?
  

Toronto Ontario

• Description: From the city center you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: Nathan Phillips Square
• Retrieved: ?
  

St Louis (complete!)

• Description: From Broadway and Convention you shall embark To pick up the pieces I've laid... Be sure to take pictures and find my treasures, So my story can be remade!
• Starting point: N Broadway & Convention Plaza
  (by Edward Jones Dome)
• Retrieved: The last two frames of S's story at BROKEN-PIECES, linking to an audio clip, "be-okay"
  

It doesn’t look like there’s a time limit on these, and Essy said that they could be replayed by people “over and over and over”. I’m guessing we’ll know when a mission’s been completed the way she wants!

Sounds like a blast - I didn't even know about the GPSMissions site, and I love Geocaching - but I don't have a phone that the site supports. Unless someone wants to send me an iPhone? *grin* Anyway, there are no missions near me, anyway.