Corvus

Corvus
Active since 2017-01-01
It's stars, you fools.
Type	Independent
Creator	Unknown
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 reddit thread promoting their new Discord server and linking to an Imgur gallery containing screenshots of their currently released games. Small letters were hidden in these images, spelling out /a/8nLqb.

This was another 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.

	Mee6 BOT 01/01/2017 at 5:01 AM
	=Unch5mb1R3c1NGI1RWdwBXYsxWZgUnbhRXQ d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

	Mee6 BOT 01/01/2017 at 6:00 PM
	c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a01c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b

=Unch5mb1R3c1NGI1RWdwBXYsxWZgUnbhRXQ, when reversed, decodes from Base64 to Atanu ellappudu custunnaru, which is Telugu and translates roughly to "he always watches".

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is the MD5 hash of an empty string.

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

Sniped

The /sniper page contained an embedded Imgur image that has yet to be solved.

In my sights

	Mee6 BOT 01/01/2017 at 9:41 PM
	c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a01c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b