Major Update Speculation Thread V3: Tonight's the Night, forever and always
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A very good and detailed recap of the ARG so far: [url]http://lambdageneration.com/posts/team-fortress-2-receives-suspicious-updates-including-seven-mysterious-junk-items-and-more/[/url]
I have an exam tomorrow. I've barely studied since I finished my previous one, about 6 hours ago. Between this and Pokemon BW2, I cannot look away. And then there is Dawnguard the 26th.
Fuck this shit.
#14 will be important as it contains dimensions of the image.
[QUOTE=ZGear;36431462][url]http://stats.tf/banana/[/url][/QUOTE]
What image number is this for?
[IMG]http://imgur.com/lugEg.jpg][/IMG]
I got this!
Thanks @DJF
Clue #1: The dischipered code from the items translate to "hink of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser." Which is only discovered via Having both The Private Eye, and the Nine-Pipe Problem items.
Clue #2: The quote itself is from a short Sherlock Holmes story titled "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches". The below is a summary of the story itself from wikipedia
[quote=wikipedia]Violet Hunter visits Holmes, asking whether she should accept a job as governess; a job with very strange conditions. She is enticed by the phenomenal salary which, as originally offered, is £100 a year, later increased to £120 when Miss Hunter baulks at having to cut her long hair short. This is only one of many peculiar provisos to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions.
She announces to Holmes, after the raised salary offer, that she will take the job, and Holmes suggests that if he is needed, a telegram will bring him to Hampshire, where Mr Rucastle's country estate, the Copper Beeches, is situated.
After a fortnight, Holmes receives such a message, beseeching him to come and see her in Winchester. Miss Hunter tells them one of the most singular stories that they have ever heard. Mr Rucastle would sometimes have Miss Hunter wear an electric blue dress and sit in the front room reading, with her back to the front window. She began to suspect that she was not supposed to see something outside the window, and a small mirror shard hidden in her handkerchief showed her that she was right: there was a man standing there on the road looking towards the house.
At another such session, Mr Rucastle told a series of funny stories that made Miss Hunter laugh until she was quite weary. The one astonishing thing about this was that Mrs Rucastle not only didn't laugh, but didn't even smile.
There were other unsavoury things about the household. The six-year-old child that she was supposed to look after was astonishingly cruel to small animals. The servants, Mr and Mrs Toller, were quite a sour pair. A great mastiff was kept on the property, and always kept hungry. It was let out to prowl the grounds at night and Miss Hunter was warned not to cross the threshold after dark. Also, Toller, who was quite often drunk, was the only one who had any control over the dog.
There was also the odd discovery by Miss Hunter of what appeared to be her own tresses in a locked drawer. Upon checking her own luggage, however, they turned out to be another woman's, but identical in every way to Miss Hunter's, even to the unusual colour.
However, the most disturbing thing of all about the household was the mystery wing. Miss Hunter had observed that there was a part of the house that did not seem to be used. The windows were either dirty or shuttered, and once she saw Mr Rucastle coming out of the door leading into the wing looking most perturbed. Later, he explained that he used the rooms for his photography hobby, but Miss Hunter was not convinced.
A drunken Toller leaves the keys in the door to the mystery wing. Miss Hunter sneaks in. She finds the place spooky and when she spots a shadow moving on the other side of a locked door, she panics and runs out, into Mr Rucastle's waiting arms. Mr Rucastle doesn't reproach her, instead he pretends to comfort her. However, he overdoes his act and alerts her suspicions, causing her to claim that she saw nothing. In an instant, his expression changes from comfort to rage. Perhaps the most terrifying thing about Mr Rucastle is his acting ability and dual personality.
With the aid of the great detective, it is discovered that someone has been kept a prisoner in the forbidden wing. The purpose of hiring Miss Hunter becomes clear: her presence is to convince the man watching from the road that Rucastle's daughter Alice, previously unknown to Miss Hunter, and whom she resembles, is no longer interested in seeing him.
Holmes, Watson and Miss Hunter find Miss Rucastle's secret room empty; Rucastle thinks the trio has helped his daughter escape and goes to fetch the mastiff. Unfortunately for Rucastle, the dog has been accidentally starved for longer than usual and attacks him instead. Watson shoots the dog with his revolver. Later, Mrs Toller confirms Holmes' theory about Rucastle's daughter and reveals that when Alice came of age she was to receive an annuity from her late mother's will; Rucastle tried to forforce his daughter to sign control of the inheritance over to him which only resulted in Alice becoming ill with brain fever; hence, the cut hair. Rucastle then tried to keep Alice away from her fiancé by locking her up in the mystery wing and hiring Miss Hunter to unknowingly impersonate Alice.
Rucastle's daughter escapes with her fiancé, and they marry soon after. Watson notes, at the end of the story, that Holmes appears to have been drawn to Miss Hunter. However, to his disappointment, Holmes does not show any interest in Miss Hunter after the mystery has been solved, which was the real force behind his feelings. Rucastle survives as an invalid, kept alive solely by his second wife. Miss Hunter later becomes principal of a girls' school, where, according to Watson, she meets with "considerable success".[/quote]
You should read that summary yourself, it does share some traits with the pyro.
[QUOTE=Marlamin;36431483]If only it would take into account the different error codes.[/QUOTE]
wait..yeah. isnt he going to end up with scrambled image?
Something quite doesn't add up. If there are 388 codes per error, and the error code is simply an offset in the data, that means that each image is less than 400 bytes long.
400 bytes really isn't a lot. I don't think you can even fit a 24x24 image into that. Unless it's all black and white, but I don't remember PNG supporting that.
[QUOTE=Untouch;36431511]What image number is this for?[/QUOTE]
It's different ones mashed together. 133-134 don't correspond like they should.
wait can someone tell me why you think it is a png specifically?
[QUOTE=Netsc;36431454]Ned can you update the OP with everything thats happened over teh past few days? Like just the fundamental aspects?[/QUOTE]
yep
[editline]21st June 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;36431534]wait can someone tell me why you think it is a png specifically?[/QUOTE]
it's got a PNG header
[QUOTE=Eriorguez;36431492]I have an exam tomorrow. I've barely studied since I finished my previous one, about 6 hours ago. Between this and Pokemon BW2, I cannot look away. And then there is Dawnguard the 26th.
Fuck this shit.[/QUOTE]
I'm on summer vacation so I can just grab some popcorn and watch as this plays out until I pass out.
[img]http://i45.tinypic.com/14iitmf.jpg[/img]
Code 75, posting it here just in case.
This [url]http://stats.tf/banana/[/url] seems pretty good but unless it's segregated by error number (which it doesn't look like it is since it goes up to 388) it's useless.
Make 8 lists like that with each error number and start over to make sure they didn't get anything wrong and we're on to something.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/lvliA.gif[/img]
You guys are blowing my mind in this thread...
[QUOTE=_Kilburn;36431522]400 bytes really isn't a lot. I don't think you can even fit a 24x24 image into that. Unless it's all black and white, but I don't remember PNG supporting that.[/QUOTE]PNG suports palettes. We think it's a QR code.
Holy shit there are so many watching this thread right now.
My speculation for now on? Valve will give us all the rest of the week to "crack the code", then activities resume on Monday, more clues, a blog post, Update day 1 maybe.
can someone set the stats.tf guy straight. the way he's showing is is nice. but the order is wrong.
It must be a Qr code.
[QUOTE=_Kilburn;36431522]Something quite doesn't add up. If there are 388 codes per error, and the error code is simply an offset in the data, that means that each image is less than 400 bytes long.
400 bytes really isn't a lot. I don't think you can even fit a 24x24 image into that. Unless it's all black and white, but I don't remember PNG supporting that.[/QUOTE]
Each line is much larger than a single byte.
I wonder if it's something extremely simple and all we needed to do is think with indeed, a simple mind.
I trust Kilburn. He's a code wizard.
[QUOTE=Danzflor;36431557]My speculation for now on? Valve will give us all the rest of the week to "crack the code", then activities resume on Monday, more clues, a blog post, Update day 1 maybe.[/QUOTE]
The Damaged Capacitor has 6.22 marked right on it.
Somebody equip the medic set and get in a server and craft bananas
[QUOTE=DoctorStranglov;36431576]Each line is much larger than a single byte.[/QUOTE]
each of these codes is 8 bytes
we know they overlap though
anyways how do you know it's a png header? has anyone posted low error codes?
[QUOTE=Grahul1;36431569]It must be a Qr code.[/QUOTE]
QR codes don't support grays. If it were a QR code, all we'd see is 0xFFs and 0x00s. It's a puzzle of something with the dimensions, 1x8, 8x1, 2x4, or 4x2 (considering there is only 8 pictures)
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