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Related (google) documents

• TMagP ARGhive : Timeline of Discoveries
• TMP ARG NARRATIVE : Tackys Narrative Summary
• Magnus Protocol ARG Collated Timeline of Events : Overarching Timeline

• TMPARG - GDR Threads : Timeline and Character Profiles
• TMP ARG Password Testing : Password Attempts for 7z and urclna
• TMagP Repository : Colins Code Collection Decoded Version
• 03/10/2023 MUD Cracking Thread/Saga : Summary on MUD Investigations

• TMP ARG Newsroom Translations : Usenet Email Translations
• Newspaper translations : Newspaper (Dead-drop Berlin) Translations

• chdb.xlsx : chdb.xls as a gdoc
• klaus.xls : Klaus.xls as a gdoc

Story overview

We are participating in a huge story about a group of defectors and an organisation that might or might not be beholding them and their antics. The defectors are originally from East Germany before German Reunification and they know each other well enough to have been invited to this forum. At some point it was exclusive and then not and then was again. It had many conversations and a mod that preferred that we focus on the topic of the forum. Moderator-chan nuked the forum whenever the conversation diverted enough to derail the entire subject. We play some odd role in all of this as harmless observers that are trying to understand the organisation, this forum and how everyone plays a role in this massive story.

And there’s a conspiracy theorist who everyone always kinda shuts down because his ideas are insane, which then leads him to eventually find something in 2001, telling everyone and then disappearing.

There's the bit where one of them 'finds something really gay' and then goes 'aaaargh I've been dumb, avenge me if I vanish' and then vanishes after sending some cryptic messages.

User Directory

Please see TMPARG - GDR Threadsfor a sheet of the characters’ most pertinent information

SandmannS@internetnews.local

• Started (and closed) forum
• Head moderator
• Locked the forums 2002, asked to not be contacted - Update
• (Username is a possible reference to E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Der Sandmann, mentioned in MAG 98 Lights Out, or famous children's TV show Sandmann that originated in DDR)

• The archive number for the statement is #8640514.
• In MAG the statement giver lost their eyes. He blinded himself.

• Says they’re keeping an eye on DDRGudGuy

BerlinSpiderman_UK@internetnews.local

• Urban climber (allegedly) - hobbies
• Beekeeper on abandoned rooftops (allegedly) - hobbies

• Lives in Manchester
• Sister lives in US

CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.localtravel

• Moved to London and works at a travel agency organising all trips to Germany - Finding work in the UK

• Lived in Canada in 1994 (liked the vastness?)
• Also said she lived in Munich in 1994

• Name is a reference to Checkpoint Charlie, a famous crossing point between east and west Berlin during the Cold War.
• Was injured while crossing out of DDR - suggests she defected before the wall came down
• Was stuck in Manchester while injured
• Has started “sculpturing again” - Hobbies
• Used to live in the countryside, family wasn’t political but uncle went to a public assembly, had to jump the Wall, has a little sister - Stasi

• Also has a cousin in San Francisco who works as a temp

• Interested in art
• Cousin moved from Munich to San Francisco
• Recommends the “Fawlty Towers” which is a British sitcom related to Monty Python and takes place in a hotel.

DDR_Diaspora_AU@internetnews.local

• Lived in or visited Berlin in the past

• Lives in Australia as of 1995

• Enjoys techno music
• Read "Brave New World" and watched "Sophie's Choice"
• (Username “Diaspora” describes a type of religious or ethnic minority who left their homeland and kept their connection to traditions and believes throughout generations)

DDR_GoneGlobal@internetnews.local

• Only posted once, on 4/4/1999
• Thinks “The political views of an ape are more important than that of a childs”
• Teaches German in Tokyo
• Thinks student in Tokyo don’t “understand” what the DDR was

DDRGudGuy@internetnews.local

• Lives in Berlin
• Has many positive things to say about DDR, including defending the stasi
• Supports leftist politics
• Likes East German punk music
• Anti-capitalist

DeutscheDiva_FR@internetnews.local

•  Works in tech in France, possibly Paris
• (Username “Diva” means a well-known and celebrated singer or actress, especially used in connection to opera, less often in conjunction with theatre, film or pop music)

DormantDDR_UK@internetnews.local

• Worked in tech in the UK
• Is stated to “only remember a utopia that was never real.” about the DDR
• Believes in the DDR and the values it held (Pro communism??)
• Believes CheckpointCharlotte is entitled because of their criticism of the DDR
• (Username “dormant” (adj.) “sleeping”/”idle” or (sub.) “threshold”)

Dynamo87@internetnews.local

• When they were 10, their father was taken away by DDR state security. (stasi)
• Runs a museum on east german sports in 96
• From a “family of educators” (Education in DDR)
• Worked in the Mcdonalds in the UK - Berlin tech scene
• (Username might originate from the soccer team “Dynamo Dresden”)
• Additional username theory is reference to SV dynamo, the east German sports association for the security services.

East2West_FR@internetnews.local

• Moved to Lyon, France from the GDR in 1992 - Finding Work in France thread
• Does ballet
• Rather sentimental, reminisces

EastSideStory_UK@internetnews.local

• Read Agatha Christie novels
• (Username might be inspired by “West Side Story”, an US-american musical from 1957, which was originally called “East Side Story” and is a 1950 romeo and juliet retelling?)
• Recommends Canadian roads

Einsamernarr@internetnews.local

• Lives in UK - hobbies
• Avid conspiracy theorist, was banned for derailing the conversation “again” - Politics in Germany thread

• Believes in the “New World Order” and possibly lizard people, both of which are anti-globalist/borderline anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
• Believes that the Lizard People can see the “entire forum” after a mention of them by BerlinSpiderman (possibly a joke)
• Possibly Anti-vaxxer
• Claims he has evidence in 2001, offers to show it to Sandmann
• Claims that “They” use “photos to train facial recognition software for the police etc. You DON’T want to be part of their database, believe me.”

• Is part of the Police Database??
• CV photos

• Has found a “huge pile of old records” in an online database of which they are not sure if they are fictitious or not. They claim the records seem really bizarre.
• Sends troubling emails to IronCurtain and Charlotte after finding old records. ( “- cryptic news about an institute-“ )
• Posted photo of cookbooks containing hidden alchemical symbol.
• (Username is German for “lonely fool”)
• States that Americans like CVs short to about one page, however, CVs in America are usually 2-3 pages but can go up to 8 if needed
• Forum password is D83W!tz - possible leetspeak for Drewitz, a checkpoint on internal German border

FreedomFritter_FR@internetnews.local

• Believes the French are rude (RACISM!!?!?!!!)
• Likes Agatha Christie novels
• (username may be anachronistic – "freedom fries" wasn't a joke until 2003)

• (could also be a pun on freedom fighter)

GDR_GoneGlobal@internetnews.local

• In 1995, discussed previous encounters with spiders and snakes in AU
• Returned to berlin 1997, has since left -Berlin Art scene thread

• Lives in Tokyo as of 1999

• Read “One Hundred Years of Solitude” - Book recommendations.
• (Username “GDR” stands for “German Democratic Republic”)

IronCurtain_UK@internetnews.local

• Lives in Manchester - Hobbies
• Hikes - Hobbies
• Historical battle reenactments - Hobbies
• Married with multiple kids in ‘01 - Treffen (Meet-up)
• Left DDR before the wall came down
• (Username “Iron Curtain” is a “political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991” - Wikipedia)

KarlMarxMyWords@internetnews.local

• Enjoys debating
• Likes eating fried herring (brathering)
• Watched “Jacob the Liar”
• (Username in reference to the “German economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist” - Wikipedia. A play on “mark my words”, a saying/idiom that is used for “emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen”- Collins Dictionary. “Mark my words” originally occurs in a 1535 translation of the Bible, in the book of Isaiah and has an ominous connotation- Grammarist)

N204R2@internetnews.local // N2O4R2

• Enjoyed tattoo studios in DDR
• Watched “Red Dwarf”
• Possibly in London (cat posts)
• “Lost too many people” in DDR
• (username feels like it must be something referential)

• N2O4 is a chemical compound, dinitrogen tetroxide, used in rocketry in Germany and USSR
• Made with nitric acid and metallic copper
• R2 could be a fire/explosion reference???
• Possible connection to alchemy: (Discord link to the article)

• Twitter account @N204R2 was created April 2014 and says it’s based in Manchester. Tweets about AI. One tweet mentions alchemy.
  
• Internet search for “n2o4” “r2” led here; maybe these numbers are useful for something?
• pee
  
  And:
  
• VERY similar username, NO24R2, appears in Colin’s Code Corner, trying to feed corrupted data into the enciphering program.

Ostalgie_Otto@internetnews.local

• Assumed to live in New Berlin (only posts are informing Diaspora_AU of changes there) - i.berlin, New Berlin
• (name is a word mashup between nostalgia and german for east (aka ddr area))

• This is an established term

Sputnik_Surfer_US@internetnews.local

• Visited France - Finding Work in France
• Wanted to work for a space agency
• Lived in LA in 1993, worked in tech
• Has an interest in space and space exploration
• Got a job in a tech company in LA in 1995

• Job said they had a “unique perspective” because of their time in the DDR\
• Shocked about the amount of money invested in tech
• Considers “the people” (Americans?) not better educated than “we” (Europeans?) are so they don’t have to “catch up” like people think.

• Highly critical of DDR; anti-communist, individualistic

• “The DDR-education left a lot to be desired. When we weren‘t being fed propaganda we got forced to do manual labour without thought, so we don‘t question the status quo.”

• (Sputnik is the name of the first space satellite, name could allude to silver surfer too. Jan Kilbride vibes???)

TearDownThisWall_US@internetnews.local

• In the US
• Familiar with temp agencies & American networking culture
• Likely male (“Tough times make tough men”)
• (Name inspired by Ronald Reagan quote to USSR president, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”)

TrabantTerror@internetnews.local

• Owns a Trabant car and is very proud of it.
• Mentions salary for truckers - may be a trucker?
• (Username “Trabant” is a car model produced between 1958 and 30th April 1991 in the DDR/BRD)
• (“Trabant” also means “companion” or “satellite” in German)
• Recommends driving down Route 66, which goes through the american dustbowl.

UberAmpelmann@internetnews.local

• Moved to New York in 1993 - Work in the USA

• (there was a recession during this time)

• Younger than other users (specifically Sandmann & WittyKat) (Education in DDR); “I was taken too young out of the DDR to remember much.”
• Hasn’t played sports before “the wall” (so before 1961)?
• Considered moving to France for work (1994/05/02), Finding Work in France

• Works primarily in tech
• Struggles with networking
• Found a job in publishing in New York by 1998

• Enjoys(?) baseball – “gets in trouble” for not understanding the rules
• Enjoys arts & culture, keeps up to date with news from Germany
• Visited Berlin in ‘96
• (Ampelmann means "traffic light man" <- more specifically referencing the person on a traffic light at a pedestrian crossing)
• 
• Left - East German, Right - West German. The eastern Ampelmännchen are iconic and basically one of Berlin’s icons

WittyKatarina@internetnews.local

• Lives in France - Finding Work in France
• Visited London in 1993
• Planning road trip in Ukraine
• Has a friend in saudi Arabia
• Describes self as "older woman"
• May enjoy electronic music? (Hard Wax record shop)
• May enjoy figure skating? (Katarina Witt)
• Opinionated about DDR politics (Kohl and Lafontaine)
• Read "The Master and Margarita"
• Best friend (female) was an informer - (Stasi)
• Makes fun of conspiracy theories
• states “the vastness is incredible” about the US/CA

Wendebender@internetnews.local

• Very funny post in cats thread <3
• Recc’d Catch-22 as a reminder of “nightmare bureaucracy”
• (username refers to “wende,” or “the turn,” period of transition after German reunification)

• Play on “fender-bender”?

Hammer&sickle_89

• Got banned
• Mentioned to be clearly a troll

Concrete Cowboy

• Got banned
• Mentioned to be a ‘sexist pig’

Walljumper1990

• Got banned
• Blocked and reported to authorities
• Supposedly on the hunt for information

Red Revolutions

• Got banned
• Was posting links that were fake

Hidden usenet threads

At the bottom of the HR application mail was found the following text:

<p style="color: #ffffff; display:none">

  <span> ZWluc2FtZXJuYXJyOkQ4M1chdHoK </span>

 </p>

The string of letters and numbers decodes to: einsamernarr:D83W!tz .

These login details can be used on the usenet (How: Check the Statement Remains: ARG Discord Server, under #code-cracking there is a thread called #solves in which user Ophie (littleplanetofficial) posted a video-tutorial on 17/09/2023).

Afterwards, a new thread becomes visible, called i.mitglieder (i.members).

Important messages:

DE (15/12/2001, 03:32) Einsamernarr@internetnews.local

Ich habe etwas Dummes getan. Ich habe etwas Dummes getan und ich glaube, sie sind hinter mir her. Ich weiß, dass das nicht der Sinn dieses Threads ist, aber ich muss hier schreiben, falls mir etwas zustößt. Wenn ich mich in den nächsten sieben Tagen nicht melde, sucht nach mir. Ich kann nicht sagen, wo ich gerade bin, aber ich werde versuchen, etwas für euch alle zu verstecken. Ich weiß, dass ihr mich alle für verrückt haltet, aber ihr müsst mir ausnahmsweise einmal glauben: Egal, was ihr tut, gebt KEINE persönlichen Informationen in diesem Forum weiter, es ist nicht so sicher, wie wir dachten.

EN (15/12/2001, 03:32) Einsamernarr@internetnews.local

I did something dumb. I did something dumb and I think they are after me. I know that that is not the purpose behind this thread, but I need to write here in case something happens to me. If I don’t get in touch within the next seven days, search for me. I can’t tell you where I am right now but I will try to hide something for all of you. I know, all of you think I am crazy, but you have to believe me for once: no matter what you do, do NOT spread (/tn emphasis was on giving NONE of the information) personal information in this forum, it isn’t as safe as we thought.

DE (23/12/2001, 15:23) CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.local

Weiß jemand, was 144 157 153 165 155 145 156 164 145 100 146 162 145 151 150 145 151 164 145 156 164 163 143 150 154 165 145 163 163 145 154 156 056 144 145 bedeutet?

EN (23/12/2001, 15:23) CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.local

Does anyone know what 144 157 153 165 155 145 156 164 145 100 146 162 145 151 150 145 151 164 145 156 164 163 143 150 154 165 145 163 163 145 154 156 056 144 145 means?

The string of numbers decodes (using octal) to: dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de . for more see >here<.

Sending an email to this address gives the following response:

Subject: Kein Betreff!

Sei vorsichtig, rede mit niemandem! >Dokumente.7z< >[circle with a cross]<

Subject: No subject!

Be careful, talk to no-one! >Dokumente.7z< >[circle with a cross]<

English words in the i.members thread

“Sorry” – RE: RE: Forum Admin, 16/07/1995, 13:52 SandmannS@internetnews.local

“Threads” – RE: Forum Admin, 10/07/2001, 15:00, CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.local

“Online” – RE: RE: RE: RE: Forum Admin, 23/12/2001, 13:37, East2West_FR@internetnews.local

Date anomalies

• In thread “Cat pictures”, in 1994 TrabantTerror replies to a post made in 2001 followed by a reply from sandman from the same year 1994 (for full messages including picture please check Document ‘TMP ARG Newsroom translations’)

(01/10/2001, 08:45) DDR_Diaspora_AU@internetnews.local:

This is a tree.

tree_pic19.jpg

(15/11/2001, 19:30) WittyKatarina@internetnews.local 

This is also a tree.

esel_pic20.jpg

(07/02/1994, 11:55) TrabantTerror@internetnews.local 

This is not a tree. This is a donkey.

cat_pic20.jpg

(09/02/1994, 11:49) SandmannS@internetnews.local 

Stopp!

(21/11/2001, 14:20) WittyKatarina_FR@internetnews.local 

Cat.

• In thread “Cat Pictures” the cat in the picture has the millennium dome in the background which has not yet been built at the time of the message (opened in 2000)
  
  (07-02-1994, 14:20) N2O4R2@internetnews.local
  The cat from London is in London.
  cat_pic7.jpg

• In thread “what do we miss” Posts are made after the forum was locked in 2002

(28/04/2003, 16:45) Ostalgie_Otto@internetnews.local replies with New Subject: Trabis!

Guys, let‘s not forget the Trabis! Those little beasts were glorious, right?

(13/06/2003, 10:25) CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.local replies

@Ostalgie_Otto, Trabants! Cute, but a nightmare to repair, believe me.

(15/10/2003, 11:30) Ostalgie_Otto@internetnews.local replies

@CheckpointCharlotte, but the happiness of finally getting one running! That feeling of fulfilment!

(10/11/2003, 13:20) TearDownThisWall_US@internetnews.local replies

@Ostalgie_Otto @CheckpointCharlotte, Trabants? Booo. What about the Wartburgs? You could bomb them and they would keep driving!

(11/11/2003, 14:00) Ostalgie_Otto@internetnews.local replies

Wartburgs? Awful things. Eye Catching, but that‘s all!

(11/11/2003, 14:00) TearDownThisWall@internetnews.local replies

@Ostalgie_Otto, sacrilege!

(13/11/2003, 09:30) SandmannS@internetnews.local replies

Off Topic boys. First Warning.

(22/06/2006, 15:55) DeutscheDiva_FR@internetnews.local replies with

New Subject: Art

I miss the art, the fight for survival produced something unique that I could never grab afterward

• In “education in the DDR” LonelyFool replies to a post made in 1996, in 1995

Which is then replied to again in 1995 by sandman

(20/03/1996, 14:05) WittyKatarina@internetnews.local replies

I used to teach at a DDR-school. I have to admit that the political influence was too big.

(20/03/1995, 14:17) Einsamernarr@internetnews.local replies

And it’s not only politics! The censorship will only get worse. In those days we all had to accept that the DDR was better, no matter what we noticed about the Wall. Now the oppression is worldwide! There are already self-sufficient hydrogen engines that could replace gasoline cars overnight, but the Elite conceal that intentionally, so that we all hold on to the state infrastructure. That was part of the deal that the Soviets made with the Western powers. They are allowed to continue to supply oil if they act as if they had granted their satellite states their independence.

(21/03/1995, 15:31) SandmannS@internetnews.local

Congrats @Einsamernarr. I have to block this thread before someone sees this nonsense.

• TearDownThisWall mentions the phantom menace before it comes out (It’s released in May 1999)

(03/01/1999, 19:20) TearDownThisWall_US@internetnews.local replies

The simplicity of DDR films is what I miss. Look at Star Wars. It started off so well, but "A Phantom Menace" is just CGI trash.

• In thread “Feelings of guilt” SandmannS and Dynamo87 replied a few days earlier than the original message was sent

(15/06/1996, 10:33) IronCurtain_UK@internetnews.local

I just had a family reunion. There are still some who don't want to talk to me or my wife, but everyone has been wonderful with the kids. I can live with that.

(04/12/1997, 13:25) CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.local

I'm really happy for you @IronCurtain_UK. I have friends here now, but no one to meet up with again.

(20/06/2001, 12:50) East2West_FR@internetnews.local

You could reunite with us?

(09/06/2001, 10:10) Dynamo87@internetnews.local

Count me in!

(15/06/2001, 09:02) SandmannS@internetnews.local

Just be careful, this is the internet after all.

(16/06/2001, 06:59) CheckpointCharlotte@internetnews.local

Naturally @ SandmannS

• Some of the websites provided as links under i.ressources have been created after 2000 - mistake or important?

Posts Timeline

Current date format - YYYY-MM-DD.

1994-02-02 - Forum created

SandmannS, N2O4R2 already in

1994-02-03 - Start of cat picture thread

1994-02-05 - UberAmpellman wants to move to France to find a tech job.

1994-02-08 - SandmannS posts potential code in cat picture thread Codes not relevant

1994-02-09 - SandmannS posts second potential code in cat picture thread Codes not relevant

1996-02-10 - CheckpointCharlotte works for a travel agency.

1994-02-16 - CheckpointCharlotte wants to move to the UK.

1994-02-25 - GDR_GoneGlobal moves to NY

1994-02-25 - SandmannS posts first “Ressources” post

1994-03-02 - UberAmpellman has recently moved to the USA

1994-03-05 - GDR_GoneGlobal was recently working in Boston

1994-03-10 - WittyKatarina_FR and Einsamernarr write in the forum intro

1994-03-18 - UberAmpelmann_US introduces themself in the forum intro

1994-03-28 - TrabantTerror introduces themself in the forum intro

1994-04-10 - BerlinSpidermann_UK has somewhat recently moved to the UK (just opened a bank account)

1994-05-15 - KarlMarxMyWords introduces themself in the forum intro

1994-06-04 - WittyKatarina recently “had the opportunity to drive” in the UK

1994-06-06 - WittyKatarina asking for tips for driving in the USA. (Note that this is 2 days after Kat says they were recently in the UK)

1994-08-?? - Counting of members finished

1994-08-28 - DDRGudGuy introduces themself in the forum intro

1994-09-?? - Join by invite only

1994-09-03 - IronCurtain_UK forum intro

1994-10-?? - “Random” added

1994-10-12 - CheckpointCharlotte forum intro

1994-12-?? - “Pictures” added

1995-01-20 - DormantDDR_UK forum intro

1995-02-?? - “Pictures” and dead threads deleted, new guidelines for topic deletion

        Cat pics thread still visible despite being “deleted”

1995-02-28 - East2West_FR forum intro

1995-03-30 - BerlinSpiderman_UK forum intro

1995-05-15 - Wenderbender forum intro

1995-06-?? - Inactive users removed

1995-07-18 - GDR_GoneGlobal forum intro

1995-12-12 - FreedomFritter_FR forum intro

1996-09-01 - DDR_Diaspora_AU recently moved to Australia

1996-02-?? - Problematic users deleted. New members invite only.

1996-02-08 - TearDownThisWall_US forum intro

1996-03-?? - FAQ added

1996-03-28 - DDR_Diaspora_AU forum intro

1996-04-15 - Dynamo87 forum intro

1996-06-?? - Rules edited

1996-10-04 - UberAmpelmann is back in Berlin (visit?)

1997-01-12 - Sputnik_Surfer_US forum intro

1997-06-18 - EastSideStory_UK forum intro

1997-09-20 - Ostalgie_Otto forum intro

1997-10-?? - Updated hosting

1998 - No new threads after 1998, allegedly. Only new messages on older threads!

1998-01-20 - UberAmpellman has found a publishing job in the USA.

1998-02-15 - DeutscheDiva_FR forum intro. This is the last message in the Forum Introduction thread.

1998-03-22 - Last new topic not from Sandmann - Berlin Music scene from UberAmplemann_US

1998-7-?? - FAQ updated

1998-07-13 - Date of latest FAQ update (date of the FAQ post) This is also the last new thread

1998-09-10 - Ressources thread updated for the first time

1999-01-?? - Dead topics archived

1999-03-?? - Archived dead topics deleted. Updated hosting.

1999-05-?? - Invites closed.

1999-07-?? - Security update. (“I’ll notify you when he comes back.”)

2000-11-18 - Ressources thread updated for the second time

2001-02-?? - “Blocking at random. Too much noise.”

2001-07-?? - Deletion of all problem threads (not archived). Repeated deletion of all problem topics. Banning all problematic users and deleting all their posts.

2001-11-15 - Einsamernarr posts cooking book picture with platinum alchemical symbol in cat picture thread

2001-11-15 - SandmannS posts third potential code in cat picture thread Codes not relevant

2001-11-21 - WittyKatarina posts potential code in cat picture thread Codes not relevant

2001-12-10 - Einsamernarr says he found an online database with interesting documents.

2001-12-11 - Einsamernarr offers to show SandmannS proof of conspiracy theories.

2001-12-12 - Einsamernarr says he “found something great” in a thread about housing, but does not elaborate when asked for more information.

2001-12-15 - Einsamernarr demands they stop planning a meetup because “something happened.” He also posts that he “did something dumb” and wants them to search for him if they don’t hear from him in 7 days.

2001-12-23 - CheckpointCharlotte & IronCurtain say they got an email from Eisamernarr about “the Institute” and people out to get him. Message apparently contained an encoded email address: dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de.

2002-01-?? - Locking all the forums. (“Don’t contact me.”)

        Still activity on certain forums, up till 2006 in some cases

2003-04-28 Posting resumes

2006-06-22 Last recorded post

Locations

(Now featuring a shared map)

Usenet

Places mentioned in the usenet threads, organised by categories.

Broad Cities

• Paris, France (Finding work in France)
• Lyon, France (Finding work in France)
• Munich, Germany (Working in the USA, Best country after the DDR)
• San Francisco, USA (Working in the USA)
• Berlin, Germany (Working in the USA, Berlin Art Scene, Berlin Tech Scene, New Berlin, Best country after the DDR)
• Manchester, UK (Working in the USA, Work in the UK, Hobbies)
• New York City, USA (Working in the USA, Living in the USA, Social Security USA, Driving in the USA…)
• Tokyo, Japan (Working in the USA)
• London, UK (Work in the UK)
• Bristol, UK (Work in the UK)
• Los Angeles, USA (Living in the USA, Driving in the USA…)
• Brooklyn, USA (Living in the USA)
• Boston, USA? (The US health system…)
• Montreal, Canada (Driving in the USA…)
• Frankfurt a.M., Germany (Best country after the DDR)

Roads and Places

• M 25 Ring Road around London (Driving in the UK)
• Route 66, America (I don’t think it’s funny)
• Alexanderplatz, Berlin (New Berlin)
• Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (New Berlin)
• Friedrichshain, Berlin (New Berlin)
• Berlin Marzahn, Berlin (New Berlin)
• Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin (Berlin Music Scene)

Specifics

• East Side Gallery (Berlin Art Scene)

Open Air Gallery on the longest, still-standing part of the Wall

• Berlin Biennale (Berlin Art Scene)

an exhibition of international contemporary art

• Tacheles (Berlin Art Scene)

Cultural place, former shopping centre, not exhibition

• Tresor (Berlin Art Scene, Berlin Music Scene)

Techno-Club, Berlin

• KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin Art Scene)

Art Museum, Berlin

• Television Tower (New Berlin)

Television Tower, Berlin

• Berlin Airport (New Berlin) (<- not sure which one, there are quite a few, probably TXL?)

Airport, Berlin

• Berghain (Berlin Music Scene)

Techno-Club, Berlin

• Club der Visionaere (Berlin Music Scene)

Techno-Club, Berlin

• A-Trane (Berlin Music Scene)

Jazz-Club, Berlin

• Hard Wax (Berlin Music Scene)

Record Store, Berlin

• Philharmonie (Berlin Music Scene)

Concert house, Berlin

• SO36 (Berlin Music Scene)

Club, Berlin

• “a place that serves really good red cabbage in Northampton” (DDR Food)

Anyone volunteering to try cabbage in Northampton?

• Messeturm (Best country after the DDR)

Landmark, tower, Frankfurt a.M.

• Commerzbank Tower (Best country after the DDR)

Landmark, skyscraper, Frankfurt a.M.

• Frauenkirche (Best country after the DDR)

Famous church, Munich

• Neuschwanstein Castle (Best country after the DDR)

Famous castle, Bavaria

strangehauntsUK tumblr

• South Kentish town tube station 
• Point Ayr lighthouse
• The sunken city
• Barnot Quarrey Bunker
• Durham city baths

YouTube Video

Locations shown in the >YouTube Video<. Keep in mind that this is stock footage.

0:00 - 0:04

By Videvo

“37% of incidents in the U.K. go unreported”

51°45'13.0"N 1°15'31.1"W

Close to St Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket St, Oxford OX1 3EY, UK

0:05 - 0:08

Benjamin Reel on Pexels

Houston, Texas, USA

29°42'31.9"N 95°24'05.6"W

Close to 6624 Fannin St #2590, Houston, TX 77030, USA

0:09 - 0:11

“The O.I.A.R. is looking for people to help”

By Videvo

Blackfriars Station

London, Upper Thames

0:12 - 0:14

Pressmaster on Pexels

0:14 - 0:15

fauxels on Pexels

Yel’tsin Center (Ельцин Центр)

Ulitsa Borisa Yel'tsina, 3, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, 620014

http://www.yeltsincenter.ru/yeltsin-presidential-center/

0:16 - 0:21

“Visit our website for more information: office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk”

Mart MLJ on Pexels

Central London

Specifically, stood on London Bridge and looking East towards Tower Bridge, and also toward Royal Mint Court (home of the OIAR); RMC is not visible, however, blocked by other buildings

The ship in the river is HMS Belfast

Visited by a Discord server member on the evening of 9/19. Nothing ARG related was noticed.

0:22 - 0:28

“REALISE. REPORT. RESPOND.”

Mat Brown on Pexels

Guildford Castle, London

Castle St, Guildford GU1 3SX, UK

https://www.guildford.gov.uk/article/25594/About-Guildford-Castle

Misc

Drewitz

City in Potsdam, Germany

Might be a plain text version of einsamernarr’s E-Mail Password “D83W!tz”

Might be related to einsamernarr’s past, or somehow sentimental to him

This is a theory!! No proof yet, might come in handy

Manchester

• Location of The Magnus Institute in The Magnus Protocol

“The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assement and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger.” (TMP official website)

• Usenet related

BerlinSpiderman moved to Manchester

(10/09/1997, 19:45) BerlinSpiderman_UK@internetnews.local

Any news @UberAmpelmann_US? When I moved to Manchester, the local community centres offered Workshops for people looking for employment, but I don’t know whether there is something like that in New York?

(17/02/1994, 10:00) BerlinSpiderman_UK@internetnews.local

I live in Manchester, but the basics of job hunting haven’t really changed. Just get a good CV that’s converted to the British format, no photos!

IronCurtain moved to Manchester

(25/02/1994, 10:00) IronCurtain_UK@internetnews.local

Since moving to Manchester, I started to hike. The landscape is incredibly beautiful and the history of this place is fascinating. Has anyone else found a new hobby since they left?

(17/02/1994, 13:15) IronCurtain_UK@internetnews.local

Yes and no. In Manchester I still get condescending jokes, but people seem to be open to learn. Most of the time people try to be compassionate, but they don't really understand it.

(03/12/2001, 21:55) BerlinSpiderman_UK@internetnews.local

Can I suggest Manchester? I could help everyone to find an accommodation that has a bit of a DDR-vibe?

• noreply email

Two locations

see >noreply<

• TMP billboards were found in two places in Greater Manchester.

Recurring motifs

The Sandmann

1 || E.T.A. Hoffmanns 1816 tale

• the eye motif; taking away a person's sense of reality by mutilating the eyes
• alchemy; the main characters dad dies in an explosion following alchemist experiments (character cue Coppelius)
• fire and heat motive; following the main characters descent into madness?

2 || German children's show on KIKA (childrens TV channel)

• where an adorable little guy puts "Schlafsand" ("sleeping sand") into the children's eyes supposedly making them sleepy
• An unaired episode was filmed by the first DDR cosmonaut in space, while in space.

3 || Character Sandmann in this

Surveillance 

1 || Stasi (‘Staatssicherheit’) secret police

• Might be connected to the eye motif
• Included spying on others, constant surveillance
• For the smallest misstep you could be punished

2 || Conspiracy theories about video cameras and digital tracking

• Namely from Einsamernarr

Time (travels/anomalies)

1 || Dates in the UseNet server not matching (see >Date anomalies<)

2 || CCC documents most likely from the 90s, only uploaded recently

Alliterations

1 || Realise, Report and Respond with the O.I.A.R. - website very bottom

2 || Patience, precision, and [a complete lack of imagination] perseverance - Careers, A Final Word

3 || Bonzo, Bonzo, Bonzo! (also: Bonzo Brigade Brings the Beans and Big Bang Bonanza)

4 || Colins Code Collection

5 || Access Administrative Area

1 || New News

2 || Queries and Questions

3 || Bonzo Bazaar

Codes

Code Breaking resources (list from the last ARG)

Cipher Identifier/ Solver (boxentriq.com)

Keyed Caesar Cipher Solver (boxentriq.com)

Tutorial for playing Alternate Reality Games (unfiction.com)

All TMA Transcripts (robertdenby.com)

Useful Tools for ARG's (endgame arg wiki)

Cipher Decoder (dcode.fr)

Layered Cipher Solver (cyberchef.org)

Spectrum Analyzer (academo.org)  

Link identifier

Book cipher decoder

Steganography Decrypter

D1P2H2W3

Found: In the TMagP trailer from last year (unsolved, RQ said it needed more context and couldn’t be solved at the time)

• Mapped on a 26 x 10 grid it makes a weird letter Z kind of like it was rotated clockwise 20 Degrees.

In chemistry/alchemy

• Partially translates to ‘PHOSPHORUS HYDROGEN TUNGSTEN’
  via https://www.cachesleuth.com/multidecoder/ under elements
• “discussed the possibility that the numbers were oxidation numbers” (Quote: Luke (Notafuckingmermaid) on the Discord server)

 442 038 143 355

When combined, the file names of the images on the OIAR create this series of numbers.

Each has a numerical code in the file name (as does the logo at the top)

• Logo: 1.442
• Legals: 2.038
• Careers: 3.143
• Contact: 4.355

442 038 143 355, if formatted as a phone number is +44 2038 143355 OR 02038 143355.

When the above number is called:

[robo voice, female] “You have reached the Office of Incident Assessment and Response. We are currently engaged in system assessments and upgrades and as such cannot accept new messages at this time. This process should complete by Friday the 22nd of September. Thank you for your patience. Realise, Report and Respond with the Office of Incident, Assessment and Response.”

(a few seconds pause)

[robo(?) voice, masculine] “Thank you.”

[human voice, masculine] “Thank you. Good-bye!”

There is a second variation for the ending: 

[robo voice, masculine] “Thank you. I’m sorry, an error has occurred.”

Pressing 0:

“Please hold while I try that extension. The person at extension 6000 is unavailable.”

(long pause)

”Thank you, good bye.”

Pressing #:

(beep) “Thank you, good bye.”

Youtube video with the message: https://youtu.be/_4szkuJ0dTc

Calling on Sept. 22nd

We have received the code:

49 59 27 56 58 39 27 56 49 26 58 58 18 49 37 58 19 30 58 56 59 37 56 39 49 59 39 26 56 39 28 47 48 PLATINUM

With a 5x5 alphabetic cipher, this decodes to:

ST GEORGES BOOKSHOP WORTHER STR BERLIN

The platinum symbol suggests it pairs with September 30 11:00-19:00 (which are in fact the shop’s operating hours that day).

Calling on Sept. 25th

The call gets answered by static noise, before ending with a BEEP.

Currently undergoing investigation in the SR ARG Discord.

DO NOT CALL ANY OTHER NUMBERS BUT THE INITIAL ONE ABOVE, DO NOT PRESS *, IT IS NOT PART OF THE ARG

Possible morse codes from the video

When setting a 1000Hz filter on the audiofile from the YouTube video, clear beeping can be heard from 0:16 onwards, which is also when the Mercury symbol appears in the video. Current theory is that this could give us the login information to the urclna-page, since it also has the Mercury symbol. Different sound gates filter out some beeps, and there is pitch variation. The beeps vary in length and spacing, making Morse Code difficult to apply.

Possible morse codes from the beeps:

• TToTMTMTJTO
• IE6SEH5
• IET5SEBEJNES
• AN#UEBT@KNB
• ITT5DEI
• LEDRUTDTATNES
• IEDSSTL
• ITDIEUTD
• AET5SDERM
• AETSDERM
• AAAA …?

EXTENSIVE audio wizardry was ultimately able to coax URCLNA20891928 out of the morse.

The tone filter could also be applied to the podcast ad audio.

Another possible purpose for this clue: using a 1000Hz tone for “phreaking,” an early form of hacking where you played recorded tones into a phone to get the phone system to do stuff. The OIAR phone number will be able to take caller input on 9/22.

1000Hz is also known as 1KHz.

After finishing the ARG, we got the following information in the sr discord server:

The Morse at :16 in the YouTube video was meant to be Morse for the URCLNA password. We had it play tested with our editors and they were able to decode it. Unfortunately, in trying to make it a little more accessible, a couple of days before the start we wanted to boost the volume bc it sounded too buried and we worried no one would notice. I upped the volume and slowed it by 10%, but mistakenly put it over the compressed audio that caused the distortion, this was the version y’all ended up getting.

So y’all were right, and we added the tumblr header and icon after realizing

it was unsolvable, and tried the 1000Hz hint to see if that would help totally my fault - but holy cow are y’all determined and how close you got was so impressive (genuinely i would not have noticed what I did wrong if I hadn’t been watching y’all work the way you did)

• April [RQ]

Cookbooks

The presence of the alchemical symbol on the cookbook photo suggests the photo contains a clue.

Symbol: Platinum. Combination of symbols for Silver and Gold/Moon and Sun.

AUS DEM WOK

https://www.amazon.com/Aus-dem-Wok-Veronika-Muller/dp/B0020HH6O4#detailBullets_feature_div

Author: Veronika Müller

Publisher: Gräfe und Unzer

Publication date: January 1, 1992

ISBN-10: 3774211817

ISBN-13: 978-3774211810

All text on cover:

Veronika Müller

GU Küchen-Ratgeber

Aus dem Wok

Köstliches - Fernöstliches

Gemüse, Fisch und Fleisch: richtig geschnitten, schnell gerührt, perfekt serviert!

Jedes Rezept in Farbe

GU Grafe und Unzer

Translations: 

Veronika Müller

GU Cooking guide

From the wok

Delicious - far eastern

Vegetables, fish and meat: cut in the right way, stirred fast, perfectly served

Every recipe in colour

GU Grafe & Unzer [publisher]

Objects depicted in cover photo: wok, shrimp, vegetables, chopsticks, soy sauce bottle.

HEILEN MIT DEM EXTRAKT DES GRAPEFRUITSAMENS

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Heidelore-Kluge/dp/3517019380#detailBullets_feature_div

Author: Heidelore Kluge

Publisher: Sdwest Verlag GmbH

Publication date: January 1, 1997

ISBN-10:  3517019380

ISBN-13: 978-3517019383

All text on cover:

Heidelore Kluge

Heilen mit dem Extrakt des Grapefruitsamens

Zur äußeren und inneren Anwendung bei Allergien, Hauterkrankungen und Infektionen durch Bakterien und Pilze. Mit Rezepten für Gesundheit und Kosmetik

Die natürliche Alternative zu Antibiotika

Lebensratgeber

Harmonie für Körper und Seele

Südwest

Translations:

Heidelore Kluge

Healing with extract of grapefruit seeds

For internal and external application in case of allergies, skin infections and infections caused by bacteria and fungal. With recipes for health and cosmetic

The natural alternative to antibiotics

Life guide

Harmony for Body and Soul

Southwest [publisher]

Objects depicted in cover photo: grapefruit, seeds, bowl, leaves.

RAFFINIERT WÜRZEN

https://www.amazon.com/Raffiniert-w%C3%BCrzen-gemacht-k%C3%B6stlichsten-Rezept-Ideen/dp/3774250235/ 

Author: Antje Schunka

Publisher: Grafe und Unzer

Publication date: 1990?

I’m also seeing 1987

ISBN-10: 3774250235

ISBN-13: 978-3774250239

All text on cover:

Antje Schunka

Raffiniert würzen leicht gemacht

Die köstlichen Kräuter und Gewürze

Rat und Rezept-Ideen

Gräfe und Unzer

Translations:

Antje Schunka

Refined season made easy

The tasty herbs and seasonings

Advice and recipe ideas

Grafe & Unzer [publisher]

Objects depicted in cover photo:  saffron, lemon, herbs, garlic, pepper, peppermill.

Comments:

The word “rezept” (recipe) appears on all three covers, as does “rat” (advice).

With the image run through a steganography site, we get the date “Saturday, 30th September 11:00 to 19:00” (see below).

This correlates to Sept. 30th in 1995, 2000, 2006, 2017, and 2023, this year. Are the bolded years most relevant?

OIAR Website

Logo

Original

Distorted (see noreply@office…)

Flipped upside down, showing Philosopher’s Stone symbol?

Spelling and Typos

Missing Letters

Current jobs page:

• funtioning - under first section - missing 'c'
• dutes - second section title - missing 'i'
• no determiner in front of 'standard array', could be a missing 'a' (was not used as part of the phone number)
• mticulous - first duties bullet point - missing 'e'
• ovrsight - third duties bullet point - missing 'e'
• demonstating - sixth duties bullet point - missing 'r'
• xcellent - fifth candidate bullet point - missing 'E'
• desgnated - link under application procedure - missing 'i'
• prvide - application procedures - missing 'o'
• reiew - first selection process bullet point - missing 'v'
• stattory - under remuneration and benefits - missing 'u'
• overime - under disclaimer - missing 't'

Missing letters are: c i a e e r e i o v u t

• Taking the number of the letter missing within the word (e.g. ‘c’ as the 4th letter in functioning) gives the phone number already found through the image titles (+442 038 143 355), for more information see 442 038 143 355
• Got the 0 between "mticulous" and "ovrsight" from the "taking0wnership" typo

Americanisms:

• organization - seventh candidate bullet point
• Missing Oxford comma in text: Assessment, archiving and deletion (every other enum. has one)

Misc:

• taking0wnership - also a part of the phone number
• First 3 bullet points of the ‘application procedures’ section have no period

Home Page:

• ‘Specialized’ under external associates tab

Careers Page:

Misc:

• 'a an' - under potential applicants section in careers page
• potentially missing commas:
  after ‘stability’ and ‘hours’ - Potential Applicants
  after ‘you’ - How to apply
• ‘governments’ is missing an apostrophe before the s. - “Though lesser known, our organisation plays a pivotal role in the UK governments efforts to maintain orderly societal functions.”

Contact Page

• Potentially missing commas:
  After ‘website’ - Web Enquiries
• ‘Correspondence’ is usually not used in a plural form - Disclaimer

Symbols

Current Jobs Page:

• + sign after first paragraph (part of the phone number, see Spelling and Typos or 442 038 143 355)
• 🜁 - under disclaimer, at the end of the paragraph - alchemical symbol for air

        Careers Page

• 🜁 - In the file name for the image

[Messages]

Homepage:

• [Insert pointless news here] - First bullet point of recent news section

Careers Page:

• [And humouring pompous assholes.]  - At the end of the second bullet point under Available roles. Could imply whoever wrote it used to be the IT legacy specialist?
• [a complete lack of imagination] - Under the Final Word section

        Emails:

• [NichtdurchkommenlassenEsistwichtigdasswirdieKontrollebehalten🜶] - Found at the bottom of emails sent to the OIAR addresses. Translates to “Don't let it get through It's important that we stay in control 🜶"

 Logins/Codes

Code Page (Username and Password) that

• do not work:

(regarding: https://code-urclna.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk)

Emails 

• do not work:

• All emails with announced character names included in the title and body come back with nothing.
• Urclna for all emails with it in the title or body come back with nothing.

• do work:

• Subject line- Job Application: Gives the message: [NichtdurchkommenlassenEsistwichtigdasswirdieKontrollebehalten🜶] at the bottom

FR3-D1 Form

• do not work:

• Urclna in all fields except email, provides nothing.
• Email fields:

• All emails listed under “contact” on the website lead to the error page
• All usenet user emails lead to the error pages

• do work:

Emails

freddie@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk

When messaged triggered nonreply (next day).

noreply@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk 

Automated response.

Dear [Recipient's Name], Thank you for your recent correspondence with the O.I.A.R.

After careful consideration, we have reviewed your message dated [Date of Message]. It is the policy of the O.I.A.R. to ensure that all communications we engage in are constructive and directly pertain to our stated mission and objectives.

Upon thorough review, we have determined that the content of your message does not provide the necessary value for further discussion or action on our part

Thank you for your attention, The O.I.A.R. Team

Realise, Report and Respond with the O.I.A.R.

Office of Incident, Assessment, and Response

Royal Mint Court, London

EC3N 4QN, United Kingdom https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/

In accordance with governmental guidelines we encourage you to consider the environmental impact before printing this email.

Contains:

Image Filename

1bf9e1ad-1645-4db1-97a4-13245d644fe5

c5827104-fa7d-41ad-81e5-f09e150347d8

GPS Coordinates

53°29'57.2"N 2°15'21.6"W

263 Bury New Rd

Salford M8 8DY

United Kingdom

53°29'34.70"N 2°13'31.21"W

Manchester M40 7PN

United Kingdom

Morse Code

.---- ----- ----- ----- / .... --..

“1000 HZ”

• The 1000 Hz referred to the sound frequency the OIAR video needed to be at in order to glean Morse code from it. The Morse code gave us the urclna page login details.

Audio File

Morse Code translation

Dates

28/09/2023 16:00

From exif data

19/09/2023 16:00

From exif data

Creation date

Discovered on 19/09/2023, 11 am

                This may represent the date range the billboards are active.

Billboards

At coordinates provided by data above

Non-canon addresses

Email addresses that gave no response upon messaging:

Other Details

The OIAR motto “Non Vacillabimus” translates from Latin as “We will not falter”.

Homepage:

• ‘Recent News’ Section lists dates and companies that may be important:

• 2000/01/03 - OIAR stops associating with Starkwall Protection Services.

• Checked www.starkwallprotectionservices.com and .co.uk, as well as www.starkwall-protection-services.com and .co.uk - nothing.
• Note that the website suggests contacting Starkwall. Tried emailing contact@starkwall-protection-services.co.uk and designatedcontactpoint@starkwall-protection-services.co.uk, to no avail.

• 1998/07/11 - Stationery suppliers updated to reflect changes to government procedures

• Possible allusion to Paper Run Limited, the stationery company mentioned in TMA

• Checked paperrunlimited.com and .co.uk, as well as paper-run-limited.com and .co.uk - nothing

• 1995/04/10 - OIAR continues to associate with Rightforce International, formerly Diligence Security Systems

• Checked rightforceinternational.com and .co.uk, as well as rightforce-international.com and .co.uk - nothing
• Same for diligencesecuritysystems and diligence-security-system        

Careers:

• The roles of Data Entry Administrator and IT Legacy Specialist were available, but these offers have expired

Contacts:

• enquiries@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk
• report@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk 
• careers@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk
• externals@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk
• webmaster@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk
• FR3-D1 identification form

Address:

Office of Incident, Assessment, and Response

Royal Mint Court

London, EC3N 4QN, United Kingdom

Overall:

• Several references to a ‘FR3-D1 algorithm’
• Bottom of each page shows a copyright for 1998
• Source code of the website is not 1998-style HTML but more contemporary
• Careers, Contacts, and Legals each have an image in the corner, looks to be stock images.

• Each has a numerical code in the file name (as does the logo at the top)

• Logo: 1.442
• Legals: 2.038
• Careers: 3.143
• Contact: 4.355
• Combined: 442 038 143 355

• Phone number: see section “+44 203 814 3355”

The ‘urclna’ page / Colins Code Collection

https://code-urclna.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/redirect.html

https://code-urclna.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/

Original discovery

https://www.shodan.io/domain/office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk

Official discovery

Billboards placed in Central Manchester

locations discovered through exif on the corrupted Logo of an automated email (for more information see >nonreply mail<)

QR code

Includes >Mercury Symbol<

Login Details

User: URCLNA

Password: 20891928 

Discovered through morse code hidden in header of @strangehauntsuk on tumblr

Also discovered through the OIAR recruitment video when the audio is put at 1000 Hz.

Alchemy symbols

• K🜃y                → key
• K🜃y                → key

• 🜐y🜐🜜🜕🝖🜜🜏🜁🜪🜪🜓🝆🜻🜕🜃🜻🜏        → myMindIsAllCorners
  Translated from: f0 9f 9c 90 0a 79 0a f0 9f 9c 90 0a f0 9f 9c 9c 0a f0 9f 9c 95 0a f0 9f 9d 96 0a f0 9f 9c 9c 0a f0 9f 9c 8f 0a f0 9f 9c 81 0a f0 9f 9c aa 0a f0 9f 9c aa 0a f0 9f 9c 93 0a f0 9f 9d 86 0a f0 9f 9c bb 0a f0 9f 9c 95 0a f0 9f 9c 83 0a f0 9f 9c bb 0a f0 9f 9c 8f 0a (Found in K🜃y)

• 🜐🜁🜜🜕.🜓        → main.c
• 🜐🜁🜜🜕.🜘        → main.h
• 🜜🜕                → in
• 🝆🝕🜩                → out

New folder 25/9/23

🜁🜻🜓🜘🜜🜊🜃🜻.🜓 - Archiver.c

Repo cipher (symbol alphabet)

COLINS CODE COLLECTION

TMagP Repository

Logging into https://code-urclna.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/ (see >Login Details<) leads to a code repository. The site’s favicon is the Oxygen symbol previously seen in the dokumente email.

This is my personal code repository I am using for my own experiements.

Unauthorized access is prohibited. If you are not authorized to access this repository, bugger off. If you are authorized to access this repository, please be aware that all actions performed on this repository are logged and monitored.

Folder “6963616E747468696E6B70617374746865636F726E657273”

• HELP.TXT

• Sat Sep 2 03:12:23 2023 UTC (2 weeks, 4 days ago) by urclna
• What the actual fuck is this???
• Contents of file:

• Found all over environment. Figure out a way to just fucking magically secure this piece of crap because the high-ups have their heads too far up their own asses to update anything. Also get a fucking raise.

• k🜃y

• Tue Jun 20 03:00:00 2023 UTC (3 months ago) by _6A1F7106A_$
• *** empty log message ***
• Contents of file:

• f0 9f 9c 90 0a 79 0a f0 9f 9c 90 0a f0 9f 9c 9c

0a f0 9f 9c 95 0a f0 9f 9d 96 0a f0 9f 9c 9c 0a

f0 9f 9c 8f 0a f0 9f 9c 81 0a f0 9f 9c aa 0a f0

9f 9c aa 0a f0 9f 9c 93 0a f0 9f 9d 86 0a f0 9f

9c bb 0a f0 9f 9c 95 0a f0 9f 9c 83 0a f0 9f 9c

bb 0a f0 9f 9c 8f 0a

• 🜁🜻🜓🜘🜜🜊🜃🜻.🜓

• Tue Jun 20 03:00:00 2023 UTC (3 months ago) by _6A1F7106A_$
• *** empty log message ***

• 🜐🜁🜜🜕.🜓

• Tue Jun 20 03:00:00 2023 UTC (3 months ago) by _6A1F7106A_$
• *** empty log message ***

• 🜐🜁🜜🜕.🜘

• Tue Jun 20 03:00:00 2023 UTC (3 months ago) by _6A1F7106A_$
• *** empty log message ***

• 🜜🜕

• Thu Jun 22 23:47:59 2023 UTC (2 months, 4 weeks ago) by NO24R2
• *** empty log message ***
• Contents of file:

• ERR: DATEN KORRUMPIERT

• 🝆🝕🜩

• Tue Jun 20 03:00:00 2023 UTC (3 months ago) by _6A1F7106A_$
• *** empty log message ***
• Contents of file:

• nzmgogdcqzhgmrkosqqdrvcn

Folder “address_management”

• address_management/address_management.pl1

• Sun Mar 14 02:17:00 2021 UTC (2 years, 6 months ago) by urclna
• PoC for PL1 ADDR MGMT
• Contents of file:

• [Fairly unremarkable looking code]

Folder “easy_accounting”

• easy_accounting.cbl

• Sun Mar 14 04:29:00 2021 UTC (2 years, 6 months ago) by urclna
• Let's get our spending under control
• Contents of file:

• [Fairly unremarkable looking code]

Folder “linux-1.0” (trying to figure out what to include and not include here is a PAIN)

Contents of folders: [Several files in all of them, needs someone well versed in Linux to check if anything stands out]

• boot/
• drivers/
• fs/
• ibcs/
• include/
• init/
• ipc/
• kernel/
• lib/
• mm/
• net/
• tools/
• zBoot/
• CHANGES
• COPYING
• CREDITS
• Configure
• Makefile
• README
• Config.in
• Linux-1.0.tar.gz
• makever.sh

Folder “mud_client”

• mud_client.cpp

• Tue Oct 3 07:21:00 2023 UTC (3 hours, 31 minutes ago) by _6A1F7106A_$ (This is new as of October 3rd, for more see >The MUD<)
• *** empty log message ***

• tnet.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk 10023

• mud_client.cpp

• Wed Sep 29 03:36:00 2021 UTC (23 months, 3 weeks ago) by urclna
• Write my own mud client
• Contents of file:

• [Fairly unremarkable looking code]

Folder “simple_math”

• simple_math.py

• Fri May 28 01:56:00 2021 UTC (2 years, 3 months ago) by urclna
• Test this new fancy python stuff
• Contents of file:

• [Fairly unremarkable looking code]

• test_simple_math.py

• Fri May 28 01:56:00 2021 UTC (2 years, 3 months ago) by urclna
• Test this new fancy python stuff
• Contents of file:

• [Fairly unremarkable looking code]

Timeline of COLINS CODE COLLECTION

• Early to Mid 90’s

• Linux 1.0 released
• Python considered “new”
• MUDs popular
• COBOL & PL/I used for programming

• 2021

• Jan 14 - Linux 1.0 files created
• March 14 - address management and easy accounting files (COBOL) created
• May 28 - Python test files created
• Sept 29 - MUD files created

• 2023

• June 20 - _6A1F7106A_$ creates c program and cipher files incl OUT
• June 22 - NO24R2 creates corrupted IN file
• Sept 2 - urclna confused & thinks his repo has been hacked

Colin’s Email

Some users who emailed colin@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk received the following message from him at ~ 9:40 ETC:

Subject: Change of email address

I’ve swapped this email to an auto-respond after some smartarse gave my email to spammers.

If you’re contacting me about work, hold fire. I’m sending everyone the new address a.s.a.p.

For everyone else:

LEAVE. ME. ALONE. YOU. IRRITATING. GOBSHITES.

Zero Regards

Realise, Report and Respond with the O.I.A.R.

Office of Incident, Assessment, and Response

Royal Mint Court, London

EC3N 4QN, United Kingdom 

https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/

In accordance with governmental guidelines we encourage you to consider the environmental impact before printing this email.

>Screenshot Link<

Attempting to email Colin again after this image results in the standard OIAR automated email response — so far no clues or secrets have been discovered in the email or its code.

The MUD

Originally uploaded by urclna as one of the files in Colin’s Code Collection.

Updated on October 3rd, 07:21:00 2023 UTC by _6A1F7106A_$

Access via telnet:

Windows: >How to use telnet on Windows<

Linux: >How to use telnet on Linux<

telnet tnet.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk 10023

After spamming a number of commands, the client seems to glitch out.

Cinnabar ‘🜓’ is spotted in the error message.

‘Print 4 7’ returns base 64, this being Freddies personal PGP key.

For more see >BonzoBazaar<.

Further investigations:

MUD "DOS Terminal" Cracking Thread/Saga

dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de

Originally discovered through the hidden usenet threads, see >Hidden usenet<.

Returned Dokumente.7z and Oxygen Alchemy symbol upon messaging.

Auto Mail on Oct 5th

At 10:25 pm (GMT) an automated Email was sent. No subject. All it includes is a gif of the corner symbol from Of the Generation of things.pdf.

When dismembered, the single frames show the Earth Alchemy Symbol, as well as binary code.

For further information see >OtGot<.

Dokumente.7z

File name: dokumente.7z

Found through hidden paragraph that contained login details for an additional usenet thread: emailing “dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de

Open with: (please add to this if you know more paths)

Windows: winrar, 7zip, breezip

MacOS:Unzip One (on the mac app store)

Linux: file-roller, 7z x dokumente.7z -pPASS

Link to download: https://freiheitentschluesseln.de/.versteckte-dateien/dokumente/dokumente.7z 

Criteria the password should theoretically meet: (list can be added to)

1. Can be found by the other usenet users (or at least those in the i.members part)
2. Hints posted after 15/12/2001, 03:32 OR part of the Date anomalies

It’s rather unlikely to be related to einsamernarrs own password (D83W!tz), though the encryption might be similar. Furthermore it’s unlikely to be directly from the OIAR website, as there is no obvious link the other usenet users could follow yet, in compliance with criteria 1.

Password attempts that Do Not Work now on >this document<

Dokumente password is: DDRDONOTTRUSTACHTNEUN

Found through Colins Code Collection. Was encrypted with Playfair cipher in the “out” folder.

Exif data gives the modification date 15/12/2001, date einsamernarr posted his last message on the usenet (see >Hidden usenet threads<).

Found inside

Bonzobucks

BonzoBuck1.png

#61722E636F2E756B

BonzoBuck2.png

#626F6E7A6F62617A

-symbol bottom right corner.

Chdb.xls

chdb.xlsx

chdb initials

• Alphabet starts with AA09911 Aaron Atkinson row 136
• Last names start going alphabetically (and diverging from IDs) row 171

Mismatches:

- JK09874 Josie Jordan row 154

- NO09567 Nicole Owen row 156, OP09732 Oscar Patterson row 157 (two Os in a row)

- YZ09527 Yasmin York row 162

…

- QR09530 Rylee Rodgers row 197

- QR09608 Remy Edwards row 210

- QR09867 Ruby Ellis row 236

- WX09654 Ulysses Howe row 239

Of the Generation of things.pdf

Excerpt from “The Golden Chain of Homer” by Anton Josef Kirchweger, plain text available here: https://sacred-texts.com/alc/catena1.htm

🜃 - earth symbol

10 pages of annoyingly hard to read, mostly force-justified text.

Corner symbol:

Appears in the four corners of each page in different orientations.

page  2 - 4 - 6  all have the symbol in the top right and bottom left.

Page 7 - 9 both have bottom right and bottom left.

Page 2 has a larger margin at the top than any other page.

page 1 - 0001

page 2 - 0110

page 3 - 1001

page 4 - 0110

page 5 - 0111

page 6 - 0110

page 7 - 0011

page 8 - 0101

page 9 - 0011

page 10 - 0010

The above code is also found on the single frames from the gif sent by dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de. For more see >dokumentemail<.

This decodes in decimal to 1696763532 and is a UNIX code.

Considering the Earth Alchemy Symbol, the time and date can be paired with the Location found through the Newspaper at the Berlin dead-drop. For more see >Berlin DD<.

Strange Haunts UK (tumblr)

Strange Haunts on Tumblr

Via Reddit comment

The images on the post contain fragments of a number sequence that looks like this when compiled.

The coords of 51.50414° -0.06554° are in London: >Location<

51°30'14.9"N 0°03'55.9"W

Cinnabar Wharf Central, 24 Wapping High St, London E1W 1NQ, UK

All images have been run through steganography, and EXIF information has been checked. All photos have a date in the EXIF ProfileDateTime field - 1998:02:09 (may just be a technical thing)

The account is following three innocuous-looking photography accounts.

Messages and Asks have been sent to the account; no reply so far.

The fencepost image at the top contains very faint morse code.

Translates to “URCLNA20891928” - using URCLNA as the user and 20891928 as the password as the login for https://code-urclna.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/ 

Locations mentioned in posts:

• The Magnus Institute, Manchester, England

• The Magnus Institute Fire
• Manchester, England
• The Magnus Institute ran educational programs for gifted children and adults. It was founded in Edinburgh in 1818 and relocated to Manchester in 1868. The program was discontinued when the main facility burned down on 24th December 1999. Interestingly, all of the previous hubs for the Institute have either met an ill fate or been abandoned entirely. 🝰

• South Kentish Town Tube Station, London, England
• Point Ayr Lighthouse, Flintshire, Wales
• The Sunken City, Derwent, Derbyshire
• Prankster’s Valley, Somerset, England
• Barton Quarrey Bunker, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Durham City Baths, Durham, England

Newest post (8th of October) containing the video for the final clue. (see >IRL event 4<)

Weird find near one of the local haunts! Some burnt up VHS i was finally able to get digitized!

#abandoned places#creepy vibes#manchester#the magnus institute#magnus institute#Youtube

Bonzoland

Bonzoland

Via Tumblr

Emails

Careers@bonzo.land

LegalQueries@bonzo.land

MerchSupport@bonzo.land

BonzoBrigade@bonzo.land

Careers@bonzo.land

Auto response upon messaging all above emails:

Hello Bonzo Buddy,

We appreciate your email! Alas, Bonzoland is on a break, and this email address is no longer monitored.

Bonzoland Ltd. might be done trading, but the spirit of Mr. Bonzo lives on in our hearts and memories. Remember to keep the Bonzo spirit alive and keep checking our website for any new updates. Who knows? Mr. Bonzo might pop up for another round of fun when you least expect it!

Should your email concern any past incidents at the park, our legal team's details are on our website's Legals page.

Best,

Bonzoland Team

Spelling, Typos and Format

Homepage:

• Glory - should be lower case ‘g’
• do wish you - should be ‘do you wish you’
• Himself - should be lower case ‘h’
• Mr Bonzo - should have a . after ‘Mr’ (at least all the others do)
• his kingdom - should be “its kingdom”

• Inconsistency with –, - and —

“Should have a comma in between”-section:

Homepage

• Bonzoland, and - should not have a comma
• prankster Mr. Bonzo - should have a comma in between
• lifetime and - should have a comma in between
• calling otherwise - should have a comma in between
• well-being but - should have a comma in between
• enthusiasts so - should have a comma in between
• Well guess - should have.. You know the deal by now
• Right unlimited
• Well Bonzoland
• All Mr.

Date Format

• 3rd March 2000 -
• (31st Dec 1999) —
• (23rd November 1998) —
• (October 31st 1998)         –
• (July 10th 1998) -
• June 27th 1998 -
• 1st May 1998 -

Discrepancies

• Mention about a full list of rules in the “park rules page.”

• rules.html and park-rules.html only bring up the normal error page.

• Mention about a merch store, hyperlinked as bonzobazaar

• brings up bright orange page with scary Bonzo image and text reading “Under Construction”

• Promises of “free unlimited access” after sign-up, hyperlinks as join-the-brigade

• brings up normal error page

• Mentions Privacy Policy

• privacy-policy, policy and privacy.html bring up normal error page

Images

The Bonzo error image on Bonzoland: It's Bonzo Time! has the filename “03:00;03:00;03:00;03:00;03:00;03:00;03:00;03:00.png”. Basically no EXIF data except name “terms.html” and title “The Magnus Protocol ARG”. The page terms.html does exist on the site, but it appears identical to join-the-brigade.html (error-page).

At 03:00 UTC, there was a refresh of the Bonzoland website. It came with this image (content warning for creepy!!!)

Allegedly, there’s a video, but uhh this archive assistant (it’s Goose! hi!) cannot get the page to refresh to save her life, so the picture will have to do. Enjoy.

It was accompanied by an audio file with the filename being the Alchemy Symbol for Day/Night that turned out to be a spectogram. The spectogram was found to say “1st of October, 2023, 13:00 - 16:00  BST.”

BonzoBazaar

https://bonzobazaar.co.uk/

As of 25/09, this website requires a password to sign in to the Access Administrative Area.

When wrong password is entered:

Invalid Password. Please try again.

Console reads:

Nullam Password. password non congruit: kxyigcxyhcwhkxjknarigao

(EN: ‘No/Wrong password. Password does not match: kxyigcxyhcwhkxjknarigao’)

Next to the ‘Login’ button is an Alchemy symbol:

‘Kxyigcxyhcwhkxjknarigao’ can be decoded with the key ‘allisbonzomerch’ provided by the Protonmail using a Caesar cipher.

Bonzobazaar Password is: tabernabonzotasticmerch

The HTML hides the Alchemy Symbol cinnabar.

Image 2, 4, 7, and 8 are text files disguised as pgp files. Opening these as text files reveals a PGP message split across the 4 files:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----

hQIMA0FBfvaKbLOnAQ//QZRw5mmdp6ic/bj2JJXrbCZ39HP/1DjcMK7XBPAHgKWq

to2VMAFDc0ZPG43s9+sd7TcPC6pOCZfLzn7bsw3ytJ3jQW45u0RpFPeV6csKc2im

WuU6nNUswYWc6ySpfKZ2RpoqMl0KpAGBPOs+76DCUcRdUdoc0cbI+zcbysY0h5ca

OTL8B71KX0BYTBYY5uIXY5+bTOslG6toGoZzxyyeXudUDwYMK7bzayLXImQ/VGJi

Uporv0JO+dK5OXFT8QOenWwFcvW7s+Ke/oQhThLBKZeMiNtD9NDZUD7B7d73ynET

EjMCLYuPQKAuWTe2rLB4W5bb6kkBNw3g5WYTNCeyzBEDfj9Vmg0wKx+/YdRl9fsf

PeNNrnLOlYX0b4jQkbvjWB7kB6eS+URd/ZrAlUhf8pF1XfeKRE31kaDmtCi/CUKA

ykbTbpnqs9/hg6qhyIp8tyjMhvfFTL3PvQhFgnON3JWfOR+qX4h7Lo/WZDGArHBp

KI9RidzN3s9SIB3KR3Wnbajm1ADQZgO4Zc3Q8SXJtUJkMb04GOXeJTgPffQ7hjMT

bmrsoyA2QxH4fg3jjXthn6j8sAqLc/rFq4yd/h8nwvTB+4nEHqTErSI9vInDQ0K1

PKGDJf5pFw86C9dT8/EThvwq6dym9PoG8KnVY81KqG+wWMT/pQmW03bThRQG2T7S

wGoBjJgi+gjULbLzAYQeGL0j17M53ROxLFv3ZxR+Smbk5f/BCEyXwJfxH9nlfYce

Cq2rNlM9SdO6XK4MUhsa6Iwa9RDEE2auVfjan0hPaYmREgAEarnrXjt9uXwWZQAS

tsAESKzGAG/HpAb7fRI/Pe8ReP9GZPTrx33WdYYp5Q9KtglFBgbQfkrOuD7WycTc

+86MRP2f5Ct5VJ1Fjtc2B6MfdwK+sYeR0c1/uYA5QsFoLcoAdJxDpph50jvGZ0o8

rTx8MUArFrVsOHLVJvqgG78HqtRtgZLhqvyT+lXVktGIjr7kHAaGvmJMnT1AdZ6C

8ezzezgBxDVAVCEk7nktllWscBGSWwBPi/Xacjqa7b23DuWRuyPKvyUmAJ+Wa26X

vHuFbmdCIGcj5PSv

=Jhh8

-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

The order of the files so a correct pgp message appears is: 8, 2, 7, 4.

Decoding this message using freddies public and private key successfully decodes the message to:

html

<html>

<head>

        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="3; url=https://db.themagnusinstitute.org/">

</head>

<body style="background-color: #EB1323;">

        <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 1000px; color: black; font-weight: bold;">🜓</div>

</body>

</html>

Which leads us to the following website: https://db.themagnusinstitute.org/

The Magnus institute

The Magnus Institute was an organisation dedicated to academic research into the esoteric and the paranormal, based out of Manchester, England. It burned to the ground in 1999. There were no survivors. Now, almost 25 years later, Alice and Sam, a pair of low-level civil service workers at the underfunded Office of Incident Assement and Response, have stumbled across its legacy. A legacy that will put them in grave danger.

• RQ TMP website

Mentions:

strangehauntsUK tumblrpost

The Magnus Institute Fire

Manchester, England

The Magnus Institute ran educational programs for gifted children and adults. It was founded in Edinburgh in 1818 and relocated to Manchester in 1868. The program was discontinued when the main facility burned down on 24th December 1999. Interestingly, all of the previous hubs for the Institute have either met an ill fate or been abandoned entirely. 🝰

#manchester#magnus institute#fire#the magnus institute#abandoned places

Website

https://db.themagnusinstitute.org/

Test at the top reads:

Search The Magnus Institute Digital Archive Symbol Search

Select up to 10 symbols to lookup.

Correct input to get the final message:

lead -> mercury -> sulphur -> fire -> salt -> jupiter -> gold -> cinnabar -> ashes -> iron

Putting in this sequence gets you to the following website:

https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/94c3/8aa7821f-d685-4318-98a7-a0ef86cd3c49/index.html?tm=wqfCnsKUwqXCnMKcwpXCm13CqsK5wp3ClcKuwp7CrcKfX8KpwpzCm8KewqXCp8KhZQ==

Here, the ARG ends. Thank you for playing, everybody.

IRL event 1: Newspaper

Found on Saturday, 30th September 2023. In between two seemingly random cookbooks. Saint George’s English Bookshop, Wörther Str. 27, 10405 Berlin.

The location of the dead-drop was discovered through the OIAR telephone number.

see: >Calling on Sept. 22nd<

The time and date have been found in the picture of the Cookbooks in the usenet thread.

see: >Cookbooks<

Connected through the Alchemy Symbol Platinum.

Links:

Scan of the Newspaper

41f952a7ebd6447e5cbe2c6d3502e7788d1b7d43.pdf

English Translation

Newspaper translations

Original Newspaper

>here<

The newspaper contained ‘🜃’ on multiple pages (2, 3, two on 4, 5, 6). When looking at these pages and comparing them to the original newspaper there were differences which gave the following coordinates.

53°27'56.0"N 2°16'03.8"W

The building we’re placed in front of belongs to the Church of Scientology as of 2007. Before that, it was a Duckworth's Essence Distillery building, where essence and flavour were made. Built in 1896. Now abandoned.

IRL event 2: Polaroids and Floppy discs

Found on Sunday, 1st of October 2023. In two book-safes hidden in the little free library. Cinnabar Wharf Central, 24 Wapping High St., London.

The location of the dead-drop was discovered through the strangehaunts.uk tumblr.

see: >Strange Haunts UK (tumblr)<

The time and date were found on the 3 am Bonzoland website.

see: >Images<

The timeframe was later updated via the official ARG website.

Connected through the Alchemy Symbol Day/Night.

The book-safe displays the Alchemy symbol 🝰. The code to open the booksafe was 123, as in Bonzoland’s address (this is a theory!! It might be an easter egg, or actually the connection, but it is not official, as we found the password through sheer brute force).

The polaroids display various hardly recognisable subjects including but not limited to a graveyard, bushes, an underground station, and a wooden fence. They are severely singed and cut in places.

The floppy discs include a corrupted picture.

BADF.jpg

It is a picture of the Boy and Dolphin Fountain in Hyde Park, London.

(not corrupted picture: >here<)

It shows a time, 14:00 - 16:00, as well as the tin Alchemy symbol ♃.

Further, there is a document called Klaus.xls, which includes the tin ore Alchemy symbol 🜩 as the title of the sheet.

Klaus.xls

klaus.xls

The sheet lists different occurrences, possibly paranormal sightings and activities. Many of the panels are displaying [Datenschaden] (data damage/corruption).

The page is labelled with the Alchemy symbol Tin Ore.

One of the dates lies in the near future: October 7th 2023.

IRL event 3: Wingdings and Dame M

Happened on Saturday, 7th of October 2023, 2 pm (BST). London, Hyde Park, next to the fountain displaying a boy and a dolphin.

The date of the event was taken from the Klaus.xls sheet.

see: >Klaus.xls<

The location and time were found on the floppy discs.

see: >IRL event 2<

Connected through the Alchemy symbol Tin / Tin Ore.

On Location was an actor, holding a clip-board which displayed the Alchemy symbol Tin, dressed in a smart black suit and sunglasses, and wearing an earpiece.

They were approached by our field researchers and then asked for a one-on-one conversation. The following is the transcription of a video taken by one of our field researchers.

(Note: this is the second time this conversation happened. The first one was not recorded. It included a few more pieces of information, which are listed below.)

Agent- "I've just been given this by my lady."

Player- "By your lady? Okay, yeah."

A- "Would you like some help?"

P- "Yes, please."

A- "Okay. Unfortunately I can only speak to one of you at a time. If you can allocate one person then I will take you and give you some information."

P- "I'm happy to go."

A- "I won't take you far."
(they go a few steps)

A- "So I believe you are part of the investigative team?"

P- "Yes, I am." (overlapping)

A- "You've discovered some clues."
P- "Yes we have."

A- "I understand. Okay. My lady would like to make it clear that no more investigation into Lady M should be done. However, we are able to give you some information if you can promise that that will be the case."

P- "Yes, I absolutely promise."

A- "Absolutely. Okay. Please come with me. (slightly inaudible)"

P- "Of course."

A- "Ma'am, am I able to give this person the clues?" (pause)

A- "Understood. Okay, may I just have one more confirmation you are not to look into Lady M anymore."

P- "Of course, of course."

A- "Very good. I will hand you this... And there is to be no more discussion about this furthermore."

P- "Yes, of course." (overlapping)

A- "Understood?"

P- "Thank you, thank you."

A- "Thank you very much, enjoy your day."

P- "Thank you very much."

The first conversation included the following information not given in the above one:

• demand not to give their names to strangers
• “If your investigations reach a dead end here, we will be happy to help”
• all investigations could have dire consequences

The following information were given to our team as a whole:

• (after being asked why they were here, to which they responded with they’ve found clues) they’d ‘followed the missives’
• “May I leave you with one last piece of information? 7 pm.”

The Klaus.xls sheet had the remark “Dame M” (EN: “Lady M”) in line with the date that led to this event. This Lady M is most likely the person above referenced to as “My Lady” and “Ma’am”. We have reason to believe that she is connected to Lady Mowbrey, who was featured in the TMP voice actors list. (Note: this is speculation only and not proved.)

The player was given an envelope with the following contents:

Protonmail account

These are the Login details to a proton email account.

https://account.proton.me/login

Username: m2aph8kxwk@proton.me

(upon breaking the first one, RQ provided us with a new email address:

m2aph8kxwk2@proton.me)

Password: bkncnw9WCHrmv6adh

On October 7th at 7 pm (BST) we received the following email on this account:

The attachment:

When viewed in Thunderbird, the sender is actually admin@bonzobazaar.co.uk.

In the email header can be found:

X-Bnzbzr-Clavis: YWxsaXNib256b21lcmNo

YWxsaXNib256b21lcmNo which is base 64 for ALLISBONZOMERCH

For more see >BonzoBazaar<.

 IRL event 4: Tape #3 DO NOT VIEW

Found on Sunday, October 8th 2023, around 12:25 pm (BST). Dead-drop found at a property owned by Scientology, abandoned for years.

The date and time were found through the Of the Generation of things.pdf and the gif sent by dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de.

see: >OtGot<, >dokumente@<

The location was found as coordinates in the Newspaper from the Berlin dead-drop.

see: >IRL event 1<

Connected through the Alchemy symbol Earth.

As the Tape was singed and the video badly corrupted, we got the video containing the final clue via a new tumblr post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdsGI4iE08

The sequence at the end can be put into the Magnus Institute website. (see >Website<)

Alchemy symbols

for graphic overview see: >drawio<

CLUE SYMBOLS

🜶

Found: in the signature of the email reply you get when sending an email titled “job application” to hr@office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk

Also present: in the youtube video next to the numbers below the logo at 0:26

Also present: in the error code on https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/api/fr3di/identification.html and https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/portal.html

Both of these clues lead to the IP address of the usenet forum.

Meaning: alkali

(probably sodium or potassium hydroxide, NaOH or KOH)/cobalt (Co 27)

“It is becoming clear that the alkali symbol stands for some sort of variable.” – The timeline doc

Could mean that the text it’s found next to is connected to germany.

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0xB6

Unicode - U+1F736

🜁

Found: At the very bottom of https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/current-jobs.html

Also present: in an image name from https://office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/contact.html

Both of these clues lead to the telephone number.

Meaning: Air

could mean that the text it’s found next to is connected to England, could be a stand-in for Oxygen, since that symbol is not in Unicode

Potential entity connection: The vast

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x81

Unicode - U+1F701

☿

Found: has been found at 0:16 in the youtube video (along with the OIAR web address) and on the TMagP logo

Also present: https://code-urclna.office-of-incident-assessment-and-response.org.uk/refresh.html as of 18:00 (UK time), 19/09/23

Also present: in the header image of the Strange Haunts Tumblr page accompanying morse code of the urclna password

Also present: Tape #3 from Manchester DD

Meaning: Mercury/spirit (one of the three primes) (80 Hg)

Not an Unicode Alchemy symbol but present in Unicode

Utf-8 encoding - 0xE2 0x98 0xBF

Unicode - U+263F

[crescent moon shape + circle]

Found: In one of the UseNet pictures, lower right corner

Also present: “Platinum” is said at the end of the voice message you get when calling the OIAR phone number on september 22

Meaning: Platinum (78 Pt)

Platinum was thought to be the combination of gold and silver. Combining gold and silver was thought to be a key component of the Philosopher's Stone.

This is not a unicode symbol but the sun (gold) and moon (silver) are:  ☽☉

🝰

Found: On https://www.tumblr.com/strangehauntsuk/728479917159940096/manchester-england-the-magnus-institute-ran,  in a post about the abandoned location of the Magnus Institute

Also present: in the description of the blog at Strange Haunts on Tumblr.

Also present: Bonzoland 3 am website audio file name.

Also present: London In-person booksafe.
Meaning: Day/Night cycle or 24-hour period

Unicode - U+1F770

Potential entity connection: The dark

        🜃

Found: In the pdf file found in dokumente.7z

Also present: in the urclna, used as ‘E’

Also present: in the newspaper found in Berlin 30/09/2023

Meaning: Earth

Unicode - U+1F703

Potential entity connection: The buried

 [tree on a cross]-L’manburg reference??

Found: Bonzobucks images (bottom right corner)

Also present: Bonzobazaar.co.uk next to password input field

Meaning: Phlogiston/Fire (Outdated theory of an element that was responsible for combustion)

Potential entity connection: The Desolation

 [circle with a cross]

Found: In the reply you get when emailing dokumente@freiheitentschluesseln.de (just after the link to the locked file)

Also present: in the site icon of the urclna website

Meaning: Oxygen

Note: this is not a Unicode symbol. It also gained the “oxygen” meaning late, likely from Lavoisier at the end of the 18th century. Before that, it usually means "oil."

🜩

Found: on the Klaus.xls spreadsheet (name of the table page)

Meaning: Tin Ore

Unicode - U+1F729

♃

Found: In the corrupted picture on the floppy discs from the London dead-drop, and on the clipboard of the actor at Hyde Park event.

Also present: Tape #3 from Manchester DD

Meaning: Tin/Jupiter

Unicode - U+2643

🜓

Found: In the MUD client error message

Also present: BonzoBazaar website code

Also present: Tape #3 from Manchester DD

Meaning: Cinnabar

Unicode - U+1F713

TMAGP LOGO SYMBOLS:

🜍

Found: In the TMagP logo and on the tmagp banner

Also present: Tape #3 from Manchester DD

Meaning: Sulfur/soul (one of the three primes) (16 S)

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x8D

Unicode - U+1F70D

🜔

Found: In the TMagP logo and on the tmagp banner

Also present: Tape #3 from Manchester DD

Meaning: Salt/body (one of the three primes)

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x94

Unicode - U+1F714

🜐

Found: in alchemical cipher on CCC; also possibly alluded to in _6A1F7106A_$

Meaning: Mercury Sublimate

Unicode - U+1F710

🜄 (possibly)

Found: The big triangle in the TMagP logo, not sure if it’s actually referencing the symbol though

Meaning: water

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x84

Unicode - U+1F704

Philosopher’s Stone

Found: The symbol of the Philosopher’s stone is depicted upside-down in the structure of  the TMagP logo

• capable of turning base metals such as mercury into gold or silver
• called ‘elixir of life”, useful for rejuvenation and achieving immortality
• symbolising perfection at its finest, enlightenment, and heavenly bliss

(Note that logo also includes ︽ symbol, Unicode U+FE3D - unknown in alchemy or chemistry; in heraldry, it means protection)

Other possible symbols in logo:

Banner background only: 

🜏

Found: The TMagP banner on the ARG website

Meaning: Brimstone (or possibly Black sulphur (residue from sublimation of sulphur))

Also called the Leviathan Cross

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x8F

Unicode - U+1F70F

🜘

Found: The TMagP banner on the ARG website

Meaning: Congelation (crystallisation)

Only symbol that refers to a process rather than a substance.

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x98

Unicode - U+1F718

🜇

Found: The TMagP banner on the ARG website

Meaning: Aqua regia (english translation; royal water), a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. Known for being able to dissolve gold and platinum. HNO3 + 3 HCl, Nitric acid hydrochloride.

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0x87

Unicode - U+1F707

♁

Found: The TMagP banner on the ARG website

Meaning: Antimony, 51 Sb, also known by the arabic name kohl.

• Not unicode alchemy symbol
• Means earth in the context of unicode characters
• Recorded as Anitmonium/Anitmony in “Alchemist’s handbook”, Frater Albertus, following the Rosicrucian Alchemy

Utf-8 encoding - 0xE2 0x99 0x81

Unicode - U+2641

🜡

Found: The TMagP banner on the ARG website

Meaning: Chalcopyrite, CuFeS2

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0xA1

Unicode - U+1F721

🜼

Found: The TMagP banner on the ARG website

Meaning: Realgar (“ruby sulphur”) As4S4

Utf-8 encoding - 0xF0 0x9F 0x9C 0xBC

Unicode - U+1F73C

Note 1: Most of the alchemical symbols above are available as Unicode symbols or as combinations of Unicode symbols. They could be entered into forms as usernames or passwords.

Note 2: MASSIVE TROVE of alchemical symbols in Colins Code Collection; see above.

remember:

Dead ends / Confirmed Unrelated

Codes in the cat picture thread of the UseNet server:

They are just a formatting problem, and not actual codes.

Archived from codes:

These are possibly demarcations for the nntp protocol used for the forum and refer to the message Id instead of any actual code. All messages in the Katzenbilder thread (except the first message) has a —-------<CODE>-- part under the message (view the message source to see this code at the bottom), all messages that dont have an image in it display the code in plaintext, this is just part of multipart that acts weirdly in this scenario (https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html). Basically rendering all listed codes as useless as they are just part of the email protocol

The codes beneath the cat forum pictures are likely MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) codes that only show up due to a formatting error, and are probably meaningless.

Sudden changes in brightness in the Youtube video

We suspected that the sudden changes in brightness in the youtube video (starting at 00:16) might have been morse code or smth. Checking the original footage confirms that the brightness changes is in the original, and was not added by RQ:

THANK YOU

As a fun little finish of the document [and because it grew on me so much that I don’t want it to end] I thought to write up a small thank you note.

The past few weeks have been awful. The sheer amount of Ups and Downs that can happen in the span of less than a month is incredible. So, we’re saying thank you.

Firstly, of course, to Rusty Quill Ltd. Without you guys all of this would never have existed in the first place. Thank you; for years of entertainment, and for providing a place for a community to grow. Thank you for spending time and money and effort and nerves on creating complex puzzles with clues scattered across the UK and Germany, which led for people to meet, from all over the world, who otherwise would probably still be strangers. And of course, thank you for not giving up on us, no matter how many times we broke the newest toy [clue] provided.

Then, there are the mods. You guys are truly fighters. Thank you for providing us with a safe space to discuss, theorise, and occasionally goof around. Thank you for your endless efforts to keep us to specific channels, and keeping a cool head when everyone went crazy over new clues. Thank you for watching out for us and our safety, while being part of the team. You are our heroes.

Of course, an enormous shout out goes out to all our diligent ARGhivists, as well as the numerous people who created documents, threads, and graphics, so everyone could follow along complex thought processes. You helped to shape this place into a community, a place where people help each other, and enjoy working together. Thank you, for your tireless work.

Now, I can’t possibly forget our fellow players. To put it short: thank you for playing! To put it long: thank you; for putting time into the ARG, for sharing your knowledge, for keeping the thing going. Regardless whether you were a Red String Weaver, a Code Cracker, a Temp. Archivist, part of the Cheer Cardet, or even hopping channel and thread and document to help out here and there; we seriously appreciate you. Weeks we spent together in the Discord, racking our heads, getting frustrated about morse and tone frequencies, connecting names to locations, years to events, reading and re-reading hundreds of translated emails, learning about Alchemy, code, and ciphers, s̶i̶m̶p̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶e̶v̶e̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶a̶n̶g̶e̶ ̶e̶n̶t̶i̶t̶i̶e̶s̶  and so much more. And of course I’m not forgetting those who were actively helping in the subreddit or other community websites. Thank you for being part of the experience.

And lastly, a Thank You goes out to all our silent watchers. To those, joining late, those who were too busy to actively help, but always cheered us on. To you - yes, you! - reading the document right now [and putting up with me being all sappy in the supplemental]. Thank you, for believing in us.

Now, back you go to the Discord Server, or your reddit hole, or wherever you came from! TMP is approaching!

And don’t forget:

• C over and out