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| Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter
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| [http://time-travel.club/ Time-travel.club]
| 2014-03-11
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| 2015-07-30
| Solved
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| Ongoing
| Kickstarter Launch. Contains announcement video, leading to twinbread.com. Recipe on Twinbread.com is entered in Frog Fractions. Leads to Obama Shaving Simulator. Obama shaving simulator leads to fake tweet, advising of UC Berekley Meet.  
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| Time-travel.club has been the main source of narrative developments since it was discovers. Many unrelated puzzles have led to new [http://time-travel.club/admin login details]. See the main time-travel.club page for more information.
|At the UC Berkeley Meet we Aquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj. stinky.arj is eventuall cracked, unlocking Live Action Frog Fractions
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*Are there any more login accounts?
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*Does the ever-changing operatives list have a purpose?
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*Does the requisitions list have a purpose?
 
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| Train Hot Dog
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|[http://time-travel.club/client Time-travel.club terminal]
| 2015-05-28
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| Ongoing
 
| Ongoing
| Jim Crawford's weekly podcast, Train Hot Dog, in which he (usually) talks to himself on a train. Several major developments (and a large number of red herrings) have come from this podcast. THD 14 - Contains a Ridermail from Tunisia discussing time travel.
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| An encoded Message in THD 12 leads to time-travel.club. The spectrogram in THD 13 contains gadsby/password123.
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|*What secrets does the terminal hold?
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*Should we expect any more emails?
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| The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio
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| 2015-09-24
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| Cold
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| The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Fall 2015 Quarterly Brewsletter posted on Kickstarter. Leads to decaytruth.info. Admin page found. IP Hashes in decaytruth.info decoded, giving the characters 12bzayx. No use for these characters has been found, and theadmin page has yet to be accessed.
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*Is there a login to the admin page?
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*What are 12bzayx for?
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*Why does the text on the beer page change based on IP addresses?
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*Is there anything at the address in Berkeley?
 
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| Time-travel.club
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|Propaganda Posters
| 2015-07-30
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| Ongoing
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| Time-travel.club has been the main source of narrative developments since it was discovers. Many unrelated puzzels have led to new login details. See the main time-travel.club page for more information.
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|Refer to Frog_Fractions_2/propaganda_posters
 
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*What secrets do they hold?
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*Does DST mean anything?
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=Sources of clues=
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The following should all be monitored, as they are known to provide clues and ARG related information.
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! Source
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! Discovery Date
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! Status
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! Details
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! Links
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|Train Hot Dog
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|2015-05-28
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|Ongoing
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|Jim Crawford's weekly podcast, Train Hot Dog, in which he (usually) talks to himself on a train. Several major developments (and a large number of red herrings) have come from this podcast. Refer to the Train Hot Dog page for more information.
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|Youtube playlist
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Dowloadable MP3s
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Train Hot Dog Wiki
 
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| Twitter
 
| Twitter
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| Ongoing
 
| Ongoing
 
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| The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio
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| Justin Bortnik's Twitch stream
| 2015-09-24
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| N/A
| Cold
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| Ongoing
| The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Fall 2015 Quarterly Brewsletter posted on Kickstarter. Leads to decaytruth.info. Admin page found.
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|  
| IP Hashes in decaytruth.info decoded, giving the characters 12bzayx. No use for these characters has been found, and theadmin page has yet to be accessed.
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| Red Pages Podcast
 
| Red Pages Podcast
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=Solved Investigation Threads=
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The following are investigation threads that are considered solved
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! Source
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! Discovery Date
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! Status
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! Details
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! Outcome
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| Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter
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| 2014-03-11
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| Solved
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| Kickstarter Launch. Contains announcement video, leading to twinbread.com. Recipe on Twinbread.com is entered in Frog Fractions. Leads to Obama Shaving Simulator. Obama shaving simulator leads to fake tweet, advising of UC Berekley Meet.
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|At the UC Berkeley Meet we Aquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj. stinky.arj is eventuall cracked, unlocking Live Action Frog Fractions
 
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| Indiecade 2016
 
| Indiecade 2016
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| TTC login
 
| TTC login
 
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| Justin Bortnik's Twitch stream
 
| N/A
 
| Ongoing
 
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= Themes =
 
The following are themes and common terms that have appeared throughout the ARG.
 
 
==Time travel==
 
Since the original kickstarter video, time travel has appeared to be the overacrhing theme to the ARG.
 
 
===Occurances===
 
*Kickstarter Video
 
*UC Berkley Event
 
*Ridermail in THD
 
*Time-travel.club
 
*Justin Bortnick's twitch steams on ??? and ???
 
 
==Sparkles==
 
 
 
==Decay==
 
 
==Butts==
 
Throughout the ARG, the word "butts" has been used to confirm involvement with the ARG or as a funny reward for effort
 
 
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! Butts Reference
 
! How it was found
 
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| http://twinbread.com/butts.html
 
| On twinbread.com's home page the bottom says "This site is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 3.1 or Higher!", if clicked it takes to the link shown and simply says "butts"
 
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| http://twinbread.com/recipie36.html
 
| This is a list of primes but several primes are missing, when the missing primes are used to draw a picture (missing white, others black, you get this image http://i.imgur.com/3a7eu8I.png that says Butts
 
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| "XXbuttsbuttsb"
 
| When entered into the brainfuck interpreter it outputs "```````````"
 
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| "BUTTSBUTTSB"
 
| at the bottom of the brainfuck message there are some squares and arrows ([http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=29965 view here]), they translate to BUTTSBUTTSB
 
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| http://twinbread.com/kernal.html
 
| This is a copy of the Kernal of Truth audio, the mp3 is tagged with butts as the title and NTSC in the description
 
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| Jim says "Butts"
 
| When Jim approached the group at Berkeley, he said Butts
 
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| Pj5WaWdWaA==
 
| Translates to base 64 ">>VigVh", fed through brainfuck "BUTTS"
 
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| Sticker on the frog statue
 
| was on its butt, nothing really under it or anything
 
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| Train Hot Dog Episode 13
 
| Titled "Butt Folk"
 
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| "YnV0dHM= #Resistance"
 
| By @Resist_Decay , the official twitter of the resistance, googling YnV0dHM= returns butts
 
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| RPP Episode 67
 
| The genre is Buttscast
 
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| Twitch stream
 
| Justin went through the best butts of HotS, it's Stitches, if you're curious
 
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| Gustav Email
 
| In Gustav Klimt's email, there was a message to itself "Note to self," the body read butts 
 
 
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==Cyborgs==
 
*The 'borg' chess piece images.
 
*The poster
 
*Zagmar's twitter incursion
 
*Train Hot Dog 64 - Mention of Abraham Lincoln becoming the first cyborg in 1901.
 
 
==Chess==
 
For a period of time, there were a large number of references and clues pointing towards Chess. This appears the have culminated in the Musuem of Jurassic Technology Event, where a game of Chess was played for a Mario Amiibo. Since then, no new Chess related clues have appeared.
 
===Occurances===
 

Revision as of 02:39, 17 September 2016

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Active and unsolved investigations

Source Discovery Date Status Details Questions
Time-travel.club 2015-07-30 Ongoing Time-travel.club has been the main source of narrative developments since it was discovers. Many unrelated puzzles have led to new login details. See the main time-travel.club page for more information.
  • Are there any more login accounts?
  • Does the ever-changing operatives list have a purpose?
  • Does the requisitions list have a purpose?
Time-travel.club terminal Ongoing *What secrets does the terminal hold?
  • Should we expect any more emails?
The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio 2015-09-24 Cold The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Fall 2015 Quarterly Brewsletter posted on Kickstarter. Leads to decaytruth.info. Admin page found. IP Hashes in decaytruth.info decoded, giving the characters 12bzayx. No use for these characters has been found, and theadmin page has yet to be accessed.
  • Is there a login to the admin page?
  • What are 12bzayx for?
  • Why does the text on the beer page change based on IP addresses?
  • Is there anything at the address in Berkeley?
Propaganda Posters Refer to Frog_Fractions_2/propaganda_posters
  • What secrets do they hold?
  • Does DST mean anything?

Sources of clues

The following should all be monitored, as they are known to provide clues and ARG related information.

Source Discovery Date Status Details Links
Train Hot Dog 2015-05-28 Ongoing Jim Crawford's weekly podcast, Train Hot Dog, in which he (usually) talks to himself on a train. Several major developments (and a large number of red herrings) have come from this podcast. Refer to the Train Hot Dog page for more information. Youtube playlist

Dowloadable MP3s Train Hot Dog Wiki

Twitter Various Ongoing
Justin Bortnik's Twitch stream N/A Ongoing
Red Pages Podcast 2015-10-07 Ongoing

Solved Investigation Threads

The following are investigation threads that are considered solved

Source Discovery Date Status Details Outcome
Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter 2014-03-11 Solved Kickstarter Launch. Contains announcement video, leading to twinbread.com. Recipe on Twinbread.com is entered in Frog Fractions. Leads to Obama Shaving Simulator. Obama shaving simulator leads to fake tweet, advising of UC Berekley Meet. At the UC Berkeley Meet we Aquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj. stinky.arj is eventuall cracked, unlocking Live Action Frog Fractions
Indiecade 2016 2015-10-26 Solved Luigi Amiibo. Leads to Gustav email account.
Gustav Klimt Email account 2016-01-15 Dormant Email received in Gustav account advising of a delivery of goods to a Amazon locker in Cerrito, El Cerrito Plaza on January 20th. On 16-Feb-12016 -Map of location of MJT meet emailed to Gustav account and Case codes 042 492 added to the Gustav email account, as a note marked 'contingency'. Goods from Amazon locker are retrieved. They are a bag of Quartz Healing Crystals. MJT Meet, to aquire the Mario Amiibo and Propaganda posters
Game Developers's Conference 2016 2016-3-14 Solved Business cards TTC login