Waking Titan/Phase 3
| Waking Titan | |
|---|---|
| A website with 16 radio stations, which may be leading to something more. | |
| Type | [[List_of_Investigations#Official|Official]] |
| Creator | Alice & Smith & Hello Games |
| Discovered | 2017-05-28 |
Main Page > List of Investigations > Waking Titan > Phase 3
Note: This page will always have the most thorough and complete documentation of Phase 3 of the Waking Titan ARG. However, if you just want a fast, easy way to get up to speed, we suggest you take a look at the main Waking Titan page, which is much more concise.
Phase 3 began on 2017-08-06.
Twitch Stream
Phase 3 of Waking Titan began in the midst of the Twitch stream where Phase 2 concluded.
Third Calibration
On August 6th, the live stream screens switched to the following arrangement:
Inputting IDENTIFY CSD into the Waking Titan console redirects the player to a new PDF, containing the instructions for the third calibration sequence.
After the calibration process, the DREAMING state changed to WAKING UP, while the middle screen showed another cipher, containing TERMINAL SEMAPHORE
Inputting SEMAPHORE into the Waking Titan console redirects the player to a new
PDF, containing details about the loop16 and the need for it to be shut down.
I Have Questions
Soon after, the top-left, bottom-left, and bottom-right corner screens changed to display I HAVE QUESTIONS, DON'T VOTE, JUST LISTEN, and Group #1 respectively. The center screen started displaying a sequence of 8 statements that were either true or false.
Then the bottom-right screen then switched to display Group #2, and another 8 statements were displayed. There was a total of 5 groups of 8 statements.
Players then assigned a binary value to every statement based on their respective validity. Results among players varied.
Eventually a poll was put up on stream, with four options that could be voted as the right answer:
Option B won the vote, and the center screen changed to display the phrase YOU'RE HUMAN. IT'S OK.
It is assumed this message refers to human error, and suggests Option B was incorrect.
Growing
The center screen displayed the text IT'S TOO SMALL IN HERE which was gradually reduced to a string of incoherent characters.
Simultaneously, the websites of all companies related to Atlas started giving out error messages and a set of characters, --6r0w1n6--, which can be read as growing in leet speak.
Consequently, the bottom-left screen displayed the following message:
CONSOLE COMMAND MAELSTROM
Inputting MAELSTROM into the Waking Titan console redirected players to a Reddit post containing a thought experiment. The experiment is a problem known as Newcomb's Paradox, which relates to the concepts of determinism, free will, and prefect predictions.
Players are able to vote for an answer, which will be ultimately revealed on Monday, August 7, 2017, at 19:00 EST.
Minutes later, the center screen displayed the single word PURGE. Imputing the command PURGE into the console redirected players to a new PDF.
