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{{argbox
| float       = right
| name        = Corvus
| image       = File:Corvus.jpg
| imagewidth  = 250
| description = It's stars, you fools.
| creator     = Unknown
| type        = Independent
| status      = Active
| discovered  = 2017-01-01
}}
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'''Corvus''' is an ARG that began with secrets hidden within a VR game studio's promotional images.

= Subreality Studios =

== A gallery of secrets ==

The VR game studio Subreality Studios posted a [https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/5l84r9/subreality_studios_invites_you_to_our_discord/ reddit thread] promoting their new Discord server and linking to an [https://imgur.com/a/sBsvy Imgur gallery] containing screenshots of their currently released games. Small letters were hidden in these images, spelling out <code>/a/8nLqb</code>.

This was another [https://imgur.com/a/8nLqb Imgur gallery link], depicting the constellation of Corvus.

Users investigating the ARG in the Subreality Discord server were given a special Corvus role, allowing them into a private #corvus channel. Three messages have been posted by the Mee6 Discord bot to that channel.

{{DiscordQuote
|bot=true
|avatar=Mee6_Bot_Avatar.png
|username=Mee6
|date=01/01/2017 at 5:01 AM
|theme=light
|width=60%
|message==Unch5mb1R3c1NGI1RWdwBXYsxWZgUnbhRXQ

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
}}

{{DiscordQuote
|bot=true
|avatar=Mee6_Bot_Avatar.png
|username=Mee6
|date=01/01/2017 at 6:00 PM
|theme=light
|width=60%
|message=c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a01c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b
}}

<code>=Unch5mb1R3c1NGI1RWdwBXYsxWZgUnbhRXQ</code>, when reversed, decodes from Base64 to <code>Atanu ellappudu custunnaru</code>, which is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language Telugu] and translates roughly to "he always watches".

<code>d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e</code> is the MD5 hash [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10909976/why-do-seemingly-empty-files-and-strings-produce-md5sums of an empty string].

== Sniped ==

<code>c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a01c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b</code> is the concatenation of a 40 character string <code>c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a0</code> and the 32-character string <code>1c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b</code>. The first one is the SHA-1 hash of <code>www</code> and the second – the MD5 hash of <code>sniper</code>, leading to http://subrealitystudios.com/sniper/ on the Subreality Studios website.

The [http://subrealitystudios.com/sniper/ /sniper] page contained an embedded Imgur image that has yet to be solved.

http://i.imgur.com/trTc853.png

==6c6f7462==

After a few more hours, the Mee6 bot posted another message:

{{DiscordQuote
|bot=true
|avatar=Mee6_Bot_Avatar.png
|username=Mee6
|date=01/01/2017 at 9:41 PM
|theme=light
|message=150164164160163072057057167167167056171157165164165142145056143157155057167141164143150077166075120166112130132165121163114155101
}}

This was found to be octal, and led to a YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvJXZuQsLmA. The description of the video contains the same [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language Telugu] phrase as before, "Atanu ellappuḍū cūstunnāru." Within the video there is a sticky note on a door, which seems to have more words:

[[File:telugu.png]]

The larger word above turned out to be in a language called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmukhi_alphabet Gurmukhi]; the word is ਖਾਲੀ, and means "empty," according to Discord user taru. This continues the theme of the empty hash from earlier.

==Sunbaked and Crow's Calling==

At this point, Discord users Jeppevinkel and jumpre discovered that there were two more pages added to the Subreality Studios website. Jeppevinkel discovered http://subrealitystudios.com/sunbaked/, which contains a pixelated image of a red herring, implying that it is a dead end. Jumpre discovered the page http://subrealitystudios.com/crowscalling/, which contains [http://i.imgur.com/hJmFY95.png the image of a text message conversation] containing a hash:

<pre>
ca73ab65568cd125c2d27a22bbd9e863c10b675d3d637fc604995b51a048db0058a7c210e57a38ccbbccdf2efb33b52e6c9d0a14dd70b2d415fbea6e0e8a3ad980ec179
856012b7eecf4327e99cd44cd
</pre>

This hash has yet to be solved.

==Account==

Discord user jumpre discovered that the empty hash that was found was a password for the Google Account that had posted the video (the hash in the username decodes to "lotb"):

<pre>
username: 6c6f7462@gmail.com
password: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
</pre>

The only thing of note within this account is a single email draft, which contains:

<pre>
e09315fa02d775f3e707a7af455093a1c240583b up
</pre>

This decodes to <code>look up</code>.