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.

The last 32 characters of c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a01c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b are 1c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b which is the MD5 hash for 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