Frog Fractions 2/Investigation Threads
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Active and unsolved investigations
| Source | Discovery Date | Status | Details | Questions |
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| 60MinutesToEscape Room Escape Run | 2016-12-09 | Ongoing ABOUT TO HAPPEN | [email protected] sent us an image that after multi-step decoding pointed to 60 Minutes To Escape room escape games facility in Portland, Oregon. We've given them the password and they contacted us in regards to arranging a special session outside of their regular hours (it will be free). Our Portland agents have arranged to go there on 2016-12-12 at about 19:00 PST. | |
| Berkeley Bowl IRL event | 2016-12-02 | Ongoing Fresh | The writeup of the even that occured on 10 Dec 2016 can be found here. We got a multi-layer puzzle from it that we solved and the final solution is pointing to a specific book in a specific library: "Slithy toves: illustrated classic herpetological books at the University of Kansas in pictures and conversations" by Sally Haines, in the Marian Koshland Bioscience & Natural Resources Library (University of California, Berkeley). We're currently looking for a person to be able to get to it the soonest, might be in the next few days. | * What's there in that book?
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| Time-travel.club: FROG 1.5 | 2015-07-30 | Ongoing | Pages of FUTURE RESISTANCE OPERATION GARRISON 1.50 pages on time-travel.club have been the main source of narrative developments since the website's discovery. Many unrelated puzzles have led to new logins. See the main time-travel.club section for more information. |
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| Time-travel.club Terminal Client | 2016-08-16 | Ongoing | The terminal is available through the login for Number Six and later Number One. Number Six has yielded 5 emails thus far, with the last on Aug 28 2016, when it gave a sombra skull spoof. On Nov 14, 2016, Number One login was discovered as the conclusion of the Eye Sigil ARG and gave us links to Soupertasters videos. |
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| Indiecade 2016 Box | 2016-09-18 | Complete? | During one of Justin's streams, he mentioned a mystery box and held it up to the camera. The box was obtained on Oct 15 and opened Oct 22. It contained some skulls, sand, and moss. On Nov 6 and 7, the box was subjected to UV lights. This revealed UV writing in numbers and Cyrillic words. Photos of contents and writing can be viewed here. The numbers were translated using a binary, Braille and Playfair cipher into a message directing us to the IsTheJigUpYet twitter feed.
The box was later described as being retrieved and/or stolen in different timelines, being mentioned in the silent film and The pastebin from the library note |
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| 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 as Update #11. 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 (other than changing text on some pages), and the admin page has yet to be accessed. This was considered cold until 28 Aug 2016, when Justin mentioned in on his stream. The brewery's twitter also briefly became active again. Full involvement and details here.
The beer (a character gluing labels of it on the bottles) was also featured the silent film released through the IsTheJigUpYet twitter on 19 Nov 2016 after the box was solved. On 04 Dec 2016 The Ashby brewery and the website were heavily mentioned in a puzzle that lead to the Berkeley December event. |
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| Propaganda Posters | 2016-02-18 | Cold | Obtained via Museum of Jurassic Technology Event. Refer to Propaganda Posters for more details about the posters. |
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| Quartz | 2016-01-20 | Cold :( | Emails received in Gustav account advising of a delivery of goods to a Amazon locker in Cerrito, El Cerrito Plaza on January 20th. This is the result of the Indiecade 2015 amiibo.
The goods were retrieved. They were addressed to "James A Crawford" and contained "One Pound Quartz Rock Crystal Healing". Imgur album here and Amazon page here. Something like these stones can be seen in the silent film found 19 Nov 2016 |
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| IsTheJigUpYet Twitter | 2016-11-03 | Ongoing Fresh | The twitter account began making spelling errors on 03 Nov 2016. The encoded message on the mystery box confirmed this twitter account is a part of the ARG. See here for the decoding. Currently (05 Dec 2016) it gives a string EBARD2N superimposed on a repeated hacked.
After the indicade 2016 box pointed at this twitter, it was used several times to spawn new puzzle leads (in addition to the "typos"). |
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| Denizens of Bug Mars videos on Youtube | 2016-11-19 | Ongoing Fresh | a.k.a. A Fiend Bronzes Mugs, a.k.a. The Museum of Relics of Extinct Timelines of Bug Mars. This is a Youtube channel that continuously adds more videos. There was the first video describing the current state of affairs on Bug Mars, but other than that the videos are mostly stills with no sound and a (usually heavily colour-shifted and mirrored) image of something insects-related. Videos used to be 5 seconds long, but then switched to 10 seconds. Sometimes the video on this channel would be a professionally made original music track (credited with links to the artists).
The videos are described as "artifacts" and have a DS and LaS designation. Those are numbers from two known sequences (1, 2). See the table here for full listing. On most videos the artifact number was destroyed by sparkles. However from 29 Nov 2016 to 01 Dec 2016 we got 5 videos with that "intact". It (together with another clue) pointed to the books in the specific library, that we visited and got stripes with a string pointing to pastebin. See below as a separate investigation thread. Occasionally there would be more puzzles either in the videos (like clicks in Dirge: Decay) or linked in the descriptions, or as a straight up video (see Closed for repairs). |
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| Datamoshed Zagmar | 2016-11-23 | Just flavor? Fresh | The tweet that lead to the discoveries of the silent film and the Bug Denizens youtube channel also had a trail through the symbols in the description of the russians channel. Initially it ended in the joke about secret stuff being a crummy kind of a commercial. However, later we noted more clues in it and they lead to the datamoshed image of Zagmar that had some text string included near the end. | * Is this text just flavor or it contains more clues? |
| A note forever voyaging | 2016-12-03 | Ongoing Fresh | The clues from the Bug Denizens youtube channel lead to five stripes of identical notes between the pages of books in a library in Tennessee. This string is an URL for a pastebin titled A note forever voyaging. It's a message from somebody with [email protected] address talking about the indicade 2016 box and passwords. So far, we only got a french "Alors!" message with a quote from a french movie script from emailing "17" to it. The gmail user is "jiggy withit". |
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| Megaman Battle Network Playlist | 2016-11-10 | Unconfirmed | During Justin's false "Jig is Up" stream, he said one of the missed clues was a youtube playlist that had a song that didn't belong on it. A LordHuffnPuff YouTube channel was found with this playlist on it. | *Is this a missed clue? |
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 |
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| 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 |
| Various | Ongoing | Twitter accounts both from the devs and from in game organizations | ||
| Youtube channels | Various | Ongoing | Youtube channels that featured ARG-related contents |
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| Justin Bortnik's Twitch stream | N/A | Ongoing | Refer to the twitch log for more information | |
| Red Pages Podcast | 2015-10-07 | Ongoing | Has given clues in a few episodes but not as consistently as THD | http://redpagespodcast.com/ |
| Gustav Klimt Email account | 2016-01-15 | Sporadic | Used for obtaining quartz, most recent email coincides with terminal email |
Solved Investigation Threads
The following are investigation threads that are considered solved
| Source | Discovery Date | Status | Details | Outcome |
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| 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 acquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj. stinky.arj cracked unlocks Live Action Frog Fractions(considered end of investigation). Twinbread codes also led to a Rickroll |
| Indiecade 2015 amiibo | 2015-10-26 | Solved | Several clues pointed to Indiecade 2015 as an event. | Luigi Amiibo. Leads to Gustav email account. |
| Game Developers's Conference 2016 | 2016-3-14 | Solved | Business card from Justin | TTC login |
