Corvus
| Corvus | |
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| 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.
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Mee6 BOT 01/01/2017 at 5:01 AM
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| =Unch5mb1R3c1NGI1RWdwBXYsxWZgUnbhRXQ
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e |
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Mee6 BOT 01/01/2017 at 6:00 PM
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| 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.
In my sights
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Mee6 BOT 01/01/2017 at 9:41 PM
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| c50267b906a652f2142cfab006e215c9f6fdc8a01c27680133b781cadd037e8a6dcc001b |
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.
6c6f7462
After a few more days, the mee6 bot posted another message:
150164164160163072057057167167167056171157165 164165142145056143157155057167141164143 150077166075120166112130132165121163114155101
This was found to be octal, and led to a YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvJXZuQsLmA. Within the video there is a postit note on a door, which seems to have more Telugu words.
