TheElderCore
It’s an ARG
The Channel & Discord Link
�Discord link (The ARGs Thread in Mystery Discussion):
https://discord.com/channels/773771861812183080/1057343881336864809���TheElderCore Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJRTqgq40OEb1C6W2ArnH_Q
Note:
All images from Dropbox are mirrored on Ashleigh’s webserver, the path is “http://homesrv.ashleighhost.net/eldercore/” and then the original Dropbox’s filename as the final part.
All times are in messages are in UTC.
Template: Video Title/Image Here
Link: Video Link/Image Link Here
Description: Description of Video
Explanation: Explanation of whatever is there
Abnormalities: Abnormalities in the video
Pictures of spectrograms on following slides if needed
Images which are part of the puzzle should also be on the following slides
“6 - Avoid the Fog”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb2cskZdUNE
Description:
We konw you're trehe (We know you’re there)
The lihgt is sfae (The light is safe)
The lghit is safe (The light is safe)
Avoid the fog
We are wctanhig (We are watching)
Don't go aolne (Don’t go alone)
Explanation:
This is the first video uploaded on the channel. We see a player walking along a line of torches. He is actively trying to avoid the fog, while glancing at it every now and then. We can hear a low pitch noise that sounds like beeping in the background. If we put it in spectrograph we get the image shown in the next slide. After a while he gets to 2 signs one says “don’t worry the light is safe” and the other says “mgRjxcd”if this code is put which is an imgur link which leads to https://imgur.io/a/mgRjxcd.
“6 - Avoid the Fog”
Spectrogram:
“Avoid the Fog”
Image from the Imgur link:
It looks like a light at the end of a mineshaft.
ElderCore Messages
ElderCore Messages
“8 - A way out”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHJLLg-lJKA
Description:
Is tihs a way Out
Is it a way hmoe
Where is it
I don't wnat to let them g
Explanation: We see a player moving through a cave. He is moving along the line of torches until he decides to go into the fog. We hear the high pitch beep again which gets louder the more he walks into the fog. He then turns around and goes back to the light. At the end of the cave, there is a sign saying “is this a way out?” as we hear the beeps again before the video ends.
“8 - A way out”
Spectrograms:
Transcription: “We see you”, “RUN RUN RUN”, and “no way out”
ElderCore Messages
“7 - We’ll Meet Again”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqRZTjpPMNA
Description: �We'll meet aiagn (We’ll meet again)
Don't know werhe (Don’t know where)
Don't konw wehn (Don’t know when)
But I know we'll meet aagin some sunny day (But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day)
Explanation: �Our player wanders through a burning forest and walks into the dark. Then, he gets attacked by what seems to be skeletons. Then, the screen brightens for a couple frames, which is enough to show that our player is on the surface and not in any caves. He sprint-jumps over to a lake and jumps in. He stays there and looks around. After, the screen turns dark.
Abnormalities: Screen goes dark, colors invert. The video was originally unlisted, but made public after #8 uploaded,music of a song called we’ll meet again in the background slowed down.
“7 - We’ll Meet Again”
Spectrogram:
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Transcription: “RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN”, “We see you”, and a stanza from the poem “In the Fog” by Giovanni Pascoli:
“I stared into the valley: it was gone!!! Wholly submerged! A vast sea remained, gray, with no waves, no beaches; all was one.”
“9 - But the Crying”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsbKo3CCcuM
Description: 104 116 116 112 115 058 047 047 119 119 119 046 100 114 111 112 098 111 120 046 099 111 109 047 115 047 054 120 053 099 110 057 100 117 111 107 104 052 104 102 051 047 054 037 050 048 109 099 049 046 112 110 103 063 100 108 061 048 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/6x5cn9duokh4hf3/6%20mc1.png?dl=0 converted from decimal to unicode)�
Explanation: *sheep noises*
Abnormalities: This video was originally unlisted, but was made public later on. Last frame of the video is inverted.
“9 - But the Crying”
Spectrograms:
Transcription: “Avoid the fog; eight faithless.”
Dropbox: 6 mc 1
Dropbox: 7 mc 2
Dropbox: 8 mc 3
Dropbox: 9 CUS
Dropbox: 10 OEY
“Into each life”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrUafO50D3A
Description: 104 116 116 112 115 058 047 047 119 119 119 046 100 114 111 112 098 111 120 046 099 111 109 047 115 047 115 052 052 098 104 105 099 052 053 057 113 117 102 048 101 047 055 037 050 048 101 114 105 046 112 110 103 063 100 108 061 048 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/s44bhic459quf0e/7%20eri.png?dl=0)
Explanation: *baa*
Dropbox: 7 eri
Dropbox: 8 oww
Pastebin:
Dropbox: 19 lib
Dropbox: 20 bnlc
“The First Core Has Opened”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMi0Ado8RfU
Description: TFCHO ayvwg://pby.kfhudvl.vto/z/1rfmfqmk5562zdq/%21HYHJIC.isi?kz=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/1dmhdjyr5562ubj/%21TFCHBO.png?dl=0 decoded with viginère cipher with key “TFCHO“)
Explanation: A player with torches digs up from a hole in the ground. They place torches until they see pillars with flames. A sheep dies in one of the flames. The video ends of the player looking at a sign between 2 flames saying “Refqzpq zanue rupqy fgmy.” This means “Fstende nobis fidem tuam” (decode by caesar shift ->12), which is latin for, “Extend your faith to us.”
Abnormalities: The frame inverts after going between two pillars. This happens 6 times.
Dropbox: !TFCHBO
tffbe://bmefqnuz.oay/ySWZYJsG�(https://pastebin.com/mGKNMXgU decoded by caesar shift ->12)
This appears to be a obsidian rectangular prism with glowstone and a block on the top and bottom(gold or diamond). Right side is unknown.
Pastebin: Remember the code
“54 68 65 20 66 69 72 73 74 20 63 6F 72 65 20 68 61 73 20 6F 70 65 6E 65 64 0A 49 74 73 20 73 65 63 72 65 74 73 20 66 61 72 20 61 6E 64 20 77 69 64 65 0A 42 65 77 61 72 65 20 74 68 65 20 6E 65 61 72 69 6E 67 20 66 6F 67 0A 42 75 74 20 64 6F 6E 2019 74 20 69 67 6E 6F 72 65 20 74 68 65 20 67 75 69 64 65 0A”�(“The first core has opened Its secrets far and wide Beware the nearing fog But dont ignore the guide” converted from hexadecimal to text).
The code to remember is probably: IIaesA9
“hunt the ceorbrkeaer”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-SatWTqtnI
Description: “hunt hunt find hurt fog hunt find hunt guide hunt breaker hunt find”
Explanation: Images on following slide, but here are the text translations:
The databursts are between 1 kHz and 3.5 kHz on the left channel exclusively.
Block One: “in the fog in the fog hunt hunt hunt find Eboxia find find hunt find see the path follow hunt fog fog”[1]�Block Two: “find corebreaker hurt core find hunt stop hurt”�Block Three: “the guide the guide hunt find”�Block Four: “break end light no light fog hunt fog fill hunt guide”
1: “Eboxia” is “Herald” under a ROT-3 cipher.
“hunt the ceorbrkeaer”
“Hunt”
Pastebin: Predator/Prey
We are the Herald.
The Hidden.
And the Harbinger.
3 Guardians of 4 Cores.
We cannot be freed.
We must not escape.
We are the fog.
The fog is us.
A core has been broken.
3 more remain.
Harbinger and Hidden.
And the ElderCore.
The locus
(Should be Locusts but cuts off)
“Ghost Town”
“Mnonlc”
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMYwwWzuXjY
Description: 68 74 74 70 73 3A 2F 2F 77 77 77 2E 64 72 6F 70 62 6F 78 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 73 2F 77 69 70 7A 65 79 6B 35 38 79 39 65 6B 71 34 2F 32 37 25 32 30 62 75 72 6E 2E 70 6E 67 3F 64 6C 3D 30 Mnonlc (https://www.dropbox.com/s/wipzeyk58y9ekq4/27%20burn.png?dl=0 decrypted by hexadecimal to text. Mnonlc->Defect(Shift -> 9))
Explanation:
Abnormalities:
Dropbox: 27 burn
Great People Who helped with the decoding and helpers <3
Møldovalla#5376 (moldovalla)
PheonixXam#4595
camelboy#7076
Mizo#3340
ShimmeringStars#8024
AshleighTheCutie#5491 / amoore@ashleighhost.net
Ace.#8583
Image dump(TEMP)