Rasputin ARG
| Rasputin ARG | |
|---|---|
| The Rasputin Chamber Puzzle ARG - an ARG involving an in-game Rasputin and out of game items. | |
| Type | [[List_of_Investigations#Official|Official]] |
| Creator | Bungie Entertainment |
| Discovered | 2018-05-09 |
| Completed | 2018-05-12 |
Main Page > List of Investigations > Rasputin ARG The Rasputin Chamber Puzzle ARG was an ARG for the first-person shooter [http:destinythegame.com Destiny 2:Warmind Expansion], developed by Bungie Entertainment. Rasputin was the name of a smart intelligence who helps fight enemies on mars and several clues existed in his chamber. The ARG final clue was a cypher referencing the Bray Corporation head Ana Bray and the powerful weapons she brings such as the Valkarie spear.
At the Warmind's release on 2018, May 8th, several elements started to appear which were a little out of place in the world such as lore tidbits with no purpose, small images around the map and some computer consoles. Several attempts were made to piece them together including the lost fragments, bray journal, and and upon which some led to in game content such as the sleeper stimulant, worldline zero, and G335 overdrive sparrow items. The ARG concluded finding real out of game Destiny Valkarie, letter, and limited Bray currency.
Contents
Rasputin Chamber Puzzle
Rasputin's AI is located in a large octohedron. The elements of the puzzle are found as you traverse around the region. The region has 3 classical songs and the tables have 3 words implying a 3 letter key is needed for the final vignere cipher. The original puzzle piece to combine elements is found at the entrance to the octahedron. This was the first piece identified as the key element by players on Reddit at the raid secrets channel. Further elements were compiled by other players in a megathread.
Rasputin Chamber Analysis
The wall design gives us 6 distinct items, a ghost, a rectangle with 3 bars resembling a server terminal, a diamond, a speaker microphone, 3 bars, and a lock. These elements needed to be identified and combined in order to solve the puzzle.
Symbol 1:Ghost
The ghost clue was thought to correlate with a number of ghost images around the map.
Ghost Clues
Several crates are found throughout the mars basin in game. They were compiled into an infographic by a few Reddit users.
Ghost Analysis
The figures were collected into a database as in the picture on the left, then ordered using the numbers beneath them.
Symbol 2: Server
The server appeared as an obvious choice since it's related to a diary that is given to the user immediately after completing the warmind campaign.
Server Analysis
In the main guide it's connected to a Braille grid, and a few crates have been found on Mars with Braille letters on them. The letters are OEAARRTFWTH, and the current theory is that they are an anagram of The Art Of War. As showed by u/Rpaulv and u/certainpersonio, this seems to give us the sentence "Destroy all second A and B. Then destroy all third C and R". by using the page number, paragraph, word notation from the terminal in this thread by Rpaulv.
Symbol 3: Diamond
The diamond clues were not actually inherently found to solve the puzzle. Leading options were blinking lights counting the number of flashes next to underlined characters around the map, audio terminals, or a hidden terminal.
Diamond Clues
The blinking light is next to this place with underlined letters found around the map.
Diamond Analysis
This part was not actually found to solve the puzzle and the final solution was made without a complete anagram to solve. Thus there is no full analysis here. Only analysis done was the flashing light converting 1=a, 3=c, 13=m, 26=z. The final output is expected to yield an anagram for mechanized.
Symbol 4: Speakers
The speaker element was given that name as a reference to looking like a speaker in the infographic.
Speakers Analysis
The image contains dots which were converted to morse code which led to the sequence. NTEHNMLNEEGIT which was then anagrammed to ENLIGHTENMENT.
Symbol 5: 3 Bars
The terminal for this was found near the end of the map on an upper room. The elements in it matched a way to do the japanese notation. Reddit user javano_ found it transcribed to swan lake via jianpo.
3 Bars Analysis
When transcribed it results in a nearly identical notation to the song of swan lake which was later confirmed via reddit user xmrtogo.
Symbol 6: Lock
Upon nearing completion of the tasks several reddit users found a final terminal cipher which needed the other information above to decode. This decoding eventually fell into the game detectives discord where several users worked on it. Successful decifering was completed by the user Randomiser.
Lock Analysis
The deciphering of the text was performed in the order of the other events as found by the reddit community. Namely reverse it,remove 2nd a and b, third c and r, then employing attempts at brute breaking the cipher text given the missing key(mechanized) and two known keys(englightenmenet,swan lake) in a vignere cipher. This led to the following text-
Thank you for taking the time to piece together this message, friend. The time of our final conflict is drawing closer and you and ana have an important role to play in the events to come. So watch over her, guardian. I would have no life without ana or the exoprogram. I regret that we have become strangers, but we each have a path that we must walk. and, ironically, there never seems to be enough time. Tell her, rasputin's first attempt was in the right location, but the wrong moment. Look here: 43.549573, -73.544868
This message appears to come from a destiny 1 character Elsie Bray, the exo stranger.
Sleeping Beauty
Using the coordinates (43.549573, -73.544868) reddit users _I_love_science_ and Freakopolis comics group went to the location and found several items including a valkarie weapon from the game. Collectible numbered Clovis Bray currency and a letter from vicarious visions.
References:
https://gamerant.com/destiny-2-lost-memory-fragment-mars-where-to-find/ (in game content for puzzle solving)
https://www.reddit.com/r/raidsecrets/comments/8ibe9i/rasputins_chamber_puzzles_megathread/
https://www.reddit.com/r/raidsecrets/comments/8i6pfl/rasputin_cipher_decrypted/
