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Michael English Daibouken (What’s Michael?) Solve (forever)

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This post links to this video:

https://youtu.be/B7Auj0jfAW0

Michael English Daibouken (What’s Michael?) NES Famicom Disk System

from description:

It’s Michael, that mischievous dancing cat from Makoto Kobayashi’s comedy manga and anime “What’s Michael?” In this edutainment game for Nintendo’s Famicom Disk System, kids will learn English with the help of Michael, his wife Poppo, their “student” children, and that fat cat Nyajira (Catzilla). It’s an okay platformer from Scorpion Soft, where you must jump carefully to collect letters, then float around to collect words (?) There was also a PC-88 adventure game of What’s Michael? which included a lot more of the manga’s characters and story. The manga and anime presented several different versions of Michael in different situations. This game’s Michael is actually a cat from space (!)

At the beginning (18 seconds in) is a ‘STORY’ screenshot, which has some suspicious misspellings.

Then between the first and second sections (8:47 in) this appears:

Overlaying that on the ‘story’ reveals:

Reading off in RGB order gives: XBUTGQNCGBXMTLXOUUJYMSFYYIPIYD

Vigenere with key ‘sassenh’ (The name of the player in the video, all that could fit in the field) FBCBCDGKGJFIGEFOCCFLFAFGGECBGD

A1-PF 6232347A7069756E336B6167753274

hex b24zpiun3kagu2t

link https://mediafire.com/?b24zpiun3kagu2t testcard.gif

This image does freaky things if you zoom it in and out. Inspecting the GIF revealed there were two layers, one in color, one in black and white. It’s also made up of 6x5 ‘blocks’ of color. Where on the color level, the colors are inverted within each ‘block’ matching the ‘black or white’ locations. (Don’t know if that made sense, you might have to check the file out for yourself)

By looking at the colored image, through the black-and-white image, with either the black or the white made transparent, led to two possible ‘Pangent colored’ blocks.

Suspecting a mediafire link and assuming all pairs of blocks would start with either a ‘3’ a ‘6’ or a ‘7’ for hex digits or lowercase letters, the one with the ‘white as transparent’ was chosen:

White:

62 75 39 34 6a 6e 36 7a 6c 68 38 34 31 61 35 bu94jn6zlh841a5 https://mediafire.com/?bu94jn6zlh841a5 bracelet.jpg

decompose into RGB:

Red:

Green:

Blue:

It is braille; black is dot, white is empty

Red: F E N A J M G S O K Blue: S S Y T P T Y T X T Green: L Z F I Y B L C F O

Read it in columns to get FSLESZNYFATIJPYMTBGYLSTCOXFKTO

Vigenere with argentina to get FBFAFGFLFACCFCFEGBGHFOGJGKFKCI -> pangent hex -> bagka3cerxnpzj9 https://www.mediafire.com/?bagka3cerxnpzj9/ expect.txt

Excerpt from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

Comparing to the original reveals missing letters in Pangent’s version:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

grlttwnncewnkryjsPfcltpxosgdwq

Vigenere with 'argentina’

gafpgdfacefhgefbfPflfpcegfgdfk

A1-PF 716F7461356875626F6B6F3576746A

hex: qota5huboko5vtj

https://mediafire.com/?qota5huboko5vtj whatsassen.gif

This GIF is the ending to the Michael English Daibouken game, as seen in the video, but the colors of the cat and kitten at left are changed.

To match some of Leslie’s cats … Caterine, a kitten, Mayor Sassenheim, and presumably the cat from “Shenanigans”

Some kind of obscured datamatrix at the bottom right…

Can be decomposed into RGB for three datamatrices.

R: GNOGJLFJKM G: BSSWCSBPOW B: MTGNVHIWFO

Read in RGB order, GBMNSTOSGGWNJCVLSHFBIJPWKOFMWO

Vig argentina, A1PF, hex, zpavwho4hj642li

https://www.mediafire.com/?zpavwho4hj642li familyfloe.png

Byte values of the background colours as hex values gives s3s6whbs0fanwdl

https://www.mediafire.com/?s3s6whbs0fanwdl jigspice.png

ScopingL solved this puzzle:

As with some other puzzles, the first version of this difficult puzzle was unsolvable, and was replaced by Pangent. We then tried to scale the image according to the numbers provided on the image. Starting at 1111x608, then using Rawpixels to adjust to 750x900, then looking at the Blue channel, and some faint shapes might be visible, but it appears we need a more pixel-accurate placement/solving of the jigspice.

Taurtini found the original source image on Google, then redid the puzzle solve to match, trying to get a pixel accurate version:

Then resized the image according to the numbers on the jigspice.png image:

Wow! We’re getting somewhere!

Just the blue channel:

Taurtini then did further graphics-fu to get a cleaner image, using the colors from the source image to get a version without the blue marks, and then differencing the blue marks against that:

Decoding this using the Pangent Color/Emoji code gives:

6E 6E 38 7A 38 31 75 67 6A 77 68 74 38 68 70

hex: nn8z81ugjwht8hp

https://www.mediafire.com/?nn8z81ugjwht8hp

this cyberspice ZIP contains what appears to be a version of a now-defunct official Spice Girls fansite. Here is an archive from June 7, 2000:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000607054759fw_/http://c3.vmg.co.uk/spicegirls/spiceworld/bridge.html

Start with index.html. Pangent’s version seems more complete than the archived version online, although how accurate it is I don’t know. It looks like they recreated the Recreation Zone.

There’s also this Ozy and Millie comic from June 15, 1998:

and sure enough, there is a Spice Girls Screensaver file in the archive! spicesaver.exe

It was discovered that each of the main HTML files had long rows of single-letter-named PNG images inserted after the main text. These are either solid white or transparent, and not normally visible.

By changing the background of the page (as was done in the Guinea Pig Dance Page from the David Beckham’s Soccer Gameplay Solve)

-these PNG images create visible shapes.

Here they are presented in the order on the index.html page:

The Bridge: Ginger Observatory: Posh Recreation Zone: Sporty Spice Academy; Scary Teleportation: Baby

The first four are 6 rows of 29 columns.

The last one is 5 rows of 29 columns. Making a 29x29 grid if they are all clumped together. Does it look like anything?

If the bits are saved into a Portable Bit Map (PBM) file, each bit represents one pixel, so the 29x29 image can be created from the following:

P1 29 29 11011100100001010001101110001 10101110010110010001110010100 00110000100001011110101100110 10101100010011000110001010110 10001010010101011010100001000 10100001000100010101101010110 00101011110101001010001000011 10000100011011010011100010010 01100100010100001000010011000 01110110101111000000101001010 00011001010000101111000100010 10010100010001110000100101001 10100001011110001000010001100 01010011100011001010010101010 10010101011010100001001110010 01000110010000101001110101000 11110101001010001100010001010 00010001110001100010010100101 10010100001000000111100111001 11101111010100101001010001101 01010010101111000110010000100 10011000000000100101011110101 01011010001000010001000110001 00000011001010010101011010100 01011010100001000110010001101 10000101101001110101001010001 01001010001100010011010011100 11100011100110010100001000110 00001001010110000111011100101

Or I guess we could have Nearest Neighbor resized it. The 29x29 image has some diagonal elements. This suggested we could run it through Arnold’s cat map, offset=2 to get this:

enlarged a bit:

31 62 63 75 30 78 33 63 34 61 37 6E 35 71 79

hex: 1bcu0x3c4a7n5qy

https://mediafire.com/?1bcu0x3c4a7n5qy housecall.zip

Dr. Garfield HTML5 game included, along with an image calling.jpg of a Spice Girls Phone. The Sister Location created a puzzle using this phone for the Super Spice World solve, and this is solved similarly.

original image:

rgb=123 letters on the digits

6734456765 bggrbgbbbr 4746666643 brbgbbbgbb 5456773643 rrbbrgggbb

rgb OQEGIKOROJ IPINOOONIF JGLOPQENIF

Gronsfeld with key from 'original image’: 96253097 FKCBFKFKFD GKFNFHFHGA GGCHGKCIFF

FKCBFKFKFDGKFNFHFHGAGGCHGKCIFF 6A326A6A647A6D68687177387A3966

j2jjdzmhhqw8z9f

https://mediafire.com/?j2jjdzmhhqw8z9f moonbeamPGE.zip

A Super Mario Brothers X level.

It’s quite difficult- I got a few messages from the Yoshis and didn’t make it very far in the game, so I opened it up in the Platformer Game Engine (PGE) Editor. Yoshi phrases: 1 (Green) Your password is: moonbeam 2 (Blue) Your password is: startrail 3 (Red) Your key is e0d8291acb34567, in that order. 4 (Yellow) Remove every other letter and reverse. 5 (Cyan) Your password is: lifesaver 6 (Purple) Decode this string: b8h8jbjoudfwszgrdmewnzlihtrcgo 7 (Grey) Yoshis come in many interesting colors, such as green, purple, yellow and red.

Green, Purple, Yellow, Red: Your password is: moonbeam Decode this string: b8h8jbjoudfwszg rdmewnzlihtrcgo Remove every other letter and reverse. Your key is e0d8291acb34567, in that order.

your password is moonbeam, decode this string: b8h8jbjoudfwszgrdmewnzlihtrcgo

vigenere with 'moonbeam’ p8t8voikurtiemfndasizmkehhfosb

remove every other letter and reverse: bohemianmirko88 sfhkzsdfetuivtp

Your key is e0d8291acb34567, in that order. e0d8291acb34567 bohemianmirko88 sfhkzsdfetuivtp

1234567890abcde amrko88eionimhb dzuivtpksfftehs

https://mediafire.com/?amrko88eionimhb hyacinRPG.ZIP

This contains a video of what appears to be The Heart and the Crown story as an RPG rather than the story program we encountered in Spicegirls.zip way back in 2016

https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/150433706803

The video artwork appears to be enhanced versions of Eric’s artwork we’ve seen scattered about, sometimes at the end of puzzle trails, sometimes in the Heart and the Crown game (spicegirls.zip) and even hardcopies mailed to players.

The scenes in this video could very well be from the spinoff mentioned by Alyssa (as Leslie) texting with Lottie from the Kung Fu Panda text.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/178516577354907648/826974696708112424/unknown.png

During the video, the stats in the upper right change, the three values are LVL, HP, and MP and are as follows:

001 044 099 004 116 118 003 056 118 009 050 121 x1 x4 x3 x9 013 048 110 011 053 098 002 044 118 008 056 121 005 056 118 007 056 104 006 056 100 010 053 121 014 048 122 012 048 098 016 101 111 015 101 122

Sort by LVL, ignoring one set of the repeated first four.

001 044 099 002 044 118 003 056 118 004 116 118 005 056 118 006 056 100 007 056 104 008 056 121 009 050 121 010 053 121 011 053 098 012 048 098 013 048 110 014 048 122 015 101 122 016 101 111

Next, take the values only when they change

044 099 118 056 116 056 100 104 121 050 053 098 048 110 122 101 111

converting to decimal ASCII gives:

,cv8t8dhy25b0nzeo

This is 17 characters, and we’re looking for 15 for a mediafire. The comma can easily be dropped, and then with a little creative argument, the 'c’ from 099 can also be dropped and the final 15 characters work as a valid Mediafire link!

(Maybe the 44 and 99 values were intended to show as Alyssa/Entity numbers?)

https://mediafire.com/?v8t8dhy25b0nzeo

prelude.zip containing some pictures and a video.

The pictures include a cat yawning (yawn.jpg) I think this is the new cat whose name we don’t know, from the shenanigans video.

1ever.png

2ever.png

3ever.png

And a video prelude.mp4 - which shows some construction of a cubic-ish building possibly in London? some boats and bridges, street signs for 'Sugar’ and 'Spice’, a penguin encouraging us to do the wild thing, then a scene from the Atari 2600 game 'Raiders of the Lost Ark’ on timescape’s setup, before the power is turned off, with the audio going to static and the video ending at that point. The music playing appears to be Marina Diamandis “If I Left the World” (w Gryffin and Model Child)

Solving the PNG images is pretty straightforward using the Pangent Color/Emoji map as this time, they haven’t been altered.

So using the same decoder ring as above, we get (Thanks Moo!):

1: 59543E3 0534552 4A54594 F317663

2: 6D656 46961 66697 2653F 73726 F6964 62386 F6375 30613 46B69

3: 6D656 46961 66697 2653F 6F6A3 87379 33343 63564 6C6E6 46C38

Which are straight-up hex (no shenanigans) for: YT>0SERJTYO1vc mediafire?sroidb8ocu0a4ki mediafire?oj8sy3465dlndl8

Leading us to:

https://youtu.be/0SERJTYO1vc

Titled 'forever,’ this is a seventeen and a half minute conclusion to the story. Alyssa brings the 54 lockers online (or something like that), and feeds all of Lottie’s social media history into Cube Rachel, restoring some of her memories. Cube Eric and Cube Rachel then discuss what will happen now- Determining who and what they will be going forward into the future, and possibly resolving some of their issues from the past. Then it’s the end. Roll Credits, fade to black. Applause. Curtains. The End? (Forever)

Wow. I can’t believe it’s over. Such a journey. A little over five years this project/experiment/endeavor/journey has been happening, and now it’s reached its conclusion. A satisfying one I would say. Enjoy the video yourself, it’s worth it if you’ve made it this far.

https://mediafire.com/?sroidb8ocu0a4ki This is the 'forever’ video from the YouTube upload.

https://mediafire.com/?oj8sy3465dlndl8

Titled Signal and Noise Master File B, this is the second half of the story in text form, the first half of which we obtained way back in the Signal and Noise Master File Solve In August of 2017

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Garfield's A Tail of Two Kitties (Nintendo DS) Gameplay Solve (my life)

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This post links to this video:

Garfield’s A Tail of Two Kitties (Nintendo DS) Gameplay https://youtu.be/DDduDhxHkvc

from the description:

It’s Garfield, jumping around in the big city (London), and collecting food, in this boring platformer for the DS. Platforming is pretty much all you’ll be doing here. All platforms, all the time!

So watching the surprisingly agile Garfield jump from platform to platform in the video, it wasn’t immediately obvious where the come-to-be-expected ‘hidden content’ was to be found. But eventually slowing down the video around when the letter was read around 33 seconds in, revealed a cipher:

Giai Vaelmrev, K rwgdl yamm px sctqmf dfc fd x bjaceq lvarvz vz ka cslepm vg ayvil viljq. Miljk avpgvvpjn, Jifuiqlezs

This is the actual note:

Dear Garfield, I would like to invite you to a royal dinner in my castle in three hours. Yours sincerely. Prince

Using the actual note as a Vigenere key to the Ciphered note reveals:

Dear Pangents, C vimsi nsci wj kpyitb fri mp x kvcctn dinner in my castle in three hours. Yours sincerely, Sassenheim

So it seems the mayor has a coded message for us. Vigenering (is taht a word?) the ciphered line with key ‘argentina’ reveals a reduced alphabet string:

C vimsi nsci wj kpyitb fri mp x kvcctn

vig with 'argentina’ C ecifp ffci fd gcfagb fac ic e ciccch

A1-PF 3 5396F 6639 64 736172 613 93 5 393338 35 39 6F 66 39 64 73 61 72 61 39 35 39 33 38

hex: 59of9dsara95938

https://mediafire.com/?59of9dsara95938

Which is a ZIP archive titled 'unaltered images of garfield the cat’ containing two files:

RedAlgifA

RedAlgifB

At first the titles confused us, but it was eventually noted by Taurtini that they are anagrams of Garfield, just cleverly positioned to have GIF at the end. (even though they are PNG images).

They do indeed appear to be unaltered Garfield comics, so it took some thinking to figure out how they would work as a code, and it was discovered that the weekdays they were released on made an octal code, with the lone needed '0’ being indicated by the 'blank’ between the two images.

Mon-Sun = 1-7, blank = 0 06/20/1981 Sat 6 11/23/1981 Mon 1 11/02/1981 Mon 1 06/28/1981 Sun 7 10/27/1981 Tue 2 12/28/1981 Mon 1 09/24/1981 Thu 4 07/27/1981 Mon 1 05/04/1981 Mon 1 08/22/1981 Sat 6 03/23/1981 Mon 1 02/01/1982 Mon 1 02/19/1982 Fri 5 02/25/1982 Thu 4 02/22/1982 Mon 1 03/27/1982 Sat 6 03/17/1982 Wed 3 06/21/1982 Mon 1 06/18/1982 Fri 5 Blank xxx 0 08/02/1982 Mon 1 08/20/1982 Fri 5 08/23/1982 Mon 1 09/06/1982 Mon 1 09/10/1982 Fri 5 09/16/1982 Thu 4 09/13/1982 Mon 1 10/01/1982 Fri 5 10/07/1982 Thu 4 10/11/1982 Mon 1 10/15/1982 Fri 5 10/10/1982 Sun 7 09/04/1982 Sat 6 07/03/1982 Sat 6 08/15/1982 Sun 7 11/15/1982 Mon 1 12/27/1982 Mon 1 09/18/1982 Sat 6 09/19/1982 Sun 7 08/25/1980 Mon 1 05/22/1982 Sat 6 04/23/1982 Fri 5

61 172 141 161 154 163 150 151 154 154 157 66 71 167 165 1zaqlshillo69wu https://mediafire.com/?1zaqlshillo69wu regeneration.zip -> regeneration.mp3

reversed, mixed up audio file with attributes: artist : Orsi? title : Generation Next album : Pepsi Generation Next 1997 track : 1, 19

Moo tackled this beast, and discovered the clips appeared to be from this song: https://youtu.be/S4RSgkSWOkA The "Generation Next" song is a Pepsi jingle which was recorded in somewhat different form by The Spice Girls as "Move Over (Generation Next)." The regeneration MP3 is strung together from those clips as follows (wow! Moo did some real work here, indeed!);

122 53 67 107 103 89 107 76 84 85 89 62 89 84 10 45 121 50 45 80 87 98 119 111 117 77 62 89 84 Yes, there’s a “10” in there…

z5CkgYkLTUY>YT -y2-PWbwouM>YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5CkgYkLTUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y2-PWbwouM

Two videos of Lottie, both titled 'my life’ (one in hex), shot from two angles as has been done before with other Lottie videos. This also confirms clearly that Rachel survived the car accident, contradicating Eric's testimony in "present." The transcript:

For what it’s worth, I lived a long time. For Rachel. You’d be proud of her. She’s smarter than I am. She did everything I wasn’t able to do. I married again, but there wasn't a day where I didn’t think of Eric, and Bill. The loves of my life. I was ninety when I felt myself dying. The last thing I ever did was plug myself into the Cube. I said, Eric, if you're there, get ready. I’m coming.

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Garfield plays Super Mario Bros! Solve (shenanigans.mp4)

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This post links to this video:

https://youtu.be/k78dsKGXQMw

from the description:

Garfield the cat plays Super Mario Bros. This is a skin by “Alex Kidd” for the fangame Sonic Boll 1.9.3, for Windows. https://gamebanana.com/skins/166373

At 12:43 after defeating Bowser, the score changes

009100 115121 051108 115122 109053 099100 116117 054118 121062 014100

115 121 051 108 115 122 109 053 099 100 116 117 054 118 121 062

sy3lszm5cdtu6vy> https://mediafire.com/?sy3lszm5cdtu6vy magic.zip

This archive contains several magic-eye images with titles taken from the Mickey Mouse IV (Labyrinth) game, which reveal symbols from the Pangent Color/Emoji code and another file: snaginanehs.wav

1 - king - snail 2 - time - cat body 3 - fire - present 4 - yard - cat face 5 - bird - penguin 6 - gold - skillet 7 - song - chicken 8 - rose - guinea pig 9 - disk - lemon 0 - lock - cake snaginanehs.wav - KCS with ASCII picture of a ?new? cat, and a string at the bottom made up of words from the magic eye image titles.

YARDDISKBIRDLOCKDISKROSEKINGLOCKTIMEDISKSONGKINGLOCKYARDKINGLOCKSONG KINGKINGTIMEKINGKINGBIRDYARDROSEKINGKINGYARDBIRDYARDKINGKINGSONGDISK DISKKINGKINGKINGGOLDFIREGOLDDISKKINGKINGYARDSONGFIREKINGLOCKTIMEGOLD BIRDKINGLOCKBIRDGOLDROSEKINGLOCKKINGSONGSONG

49 50 98 102 97 104 107 112 115 48 114 54 117 99 111 63 69 114 73 102 65 105 68 101 77

decimal ASCII:

12bfahkps0r6uco?ErIfAiDeM

reversed:

MeDiAfIrE?ocu6r0spkhafb21 https://mediafire.com/?ocu6r0spkhafb21 shenanigans.zip -> shenanigans.mp4

showing the new (to us) cat from the ASCII art, along with an interesting noir/beatnik soundtrack.

Drinks and Money are involved.

Google and Shazam suggest that the soundtrack includes "A Streetcar Named Desire" (main theme) and "Big Shot" (Bonzo Dog Band)

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The Spice Girls play Super Mario Bros 3! Solve (kristi.mp4)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/644500946046648320

This post leads to this video:

https://youtu.be/HzyJ7SbtZK4

The Spice Girls play Super Mario Bros 3!

from the description:

Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario Bros 1 gameplay, with The Spice Girls. Playing Super Mario Bros X for Windows. SMB3 remake by Phil (Philars). SMB1 remake director SapphireBulletBill. Spice Girls character art and mods by Pangent Technologies. Super Mario Bros X (SMBX) is a fanmade Super Mario Maker type game (codehaus. wohlsoft. ru) Spice Girls game mod is available here: https://mediafire.com/?qw7gikrqtwk74jv You can download the Super Mario Bros X 2 game, then replace some of the graphics and config files. Then play any Super Mario Bros X game as The Spice Girls. Check the Readme file.

A marvelous piece of work, this hour-plus video showcases the level of detail Pangent Technologies puts into their projects. As usual here, we are looking for the story behind the story, so while seeing each of the Spice Girls in six or so different ‘outfits’ based on power-ups, we’re looking for hidden content, which in this case appears in the form of coins in each world played.

World 1-1 At 1:36 some coins appear that might be in Pangent Octal color code:

107 145 156 151 145 116 113 107 132 123 117

GenieNKGZSO

World 1-2 At 3:17 some more coins appear

100 44 63 61 101 104 71 72 102 70 104 65 106

@$31AD9:B8D5F

World 1-3 At 5:55 there’s some more

105 70 103 104 105 103 105 106 105 104 62 104

E8CDECEFED2D

World 1-4 At 7:49 some more:

60 104 104 101 102 103 104 106 105 106 105 106

0DDABCDFEFEF

World 1-5 At 10:08 some more:

105 104 65 104 105 103 102 104 66 104 70 103 106

ED5DECBD6D8CF

World 1-6 At 13:25 some more:

104 64 106 105 70 103 104 105 103 105 103 102 71

D4FE8CDECECB9

World 2-1 At 18:14

103 106 105 106 105 103 103 104 64 104 102 104 65

CFEFECCD4DBD5

World 2-2 At 19:08

71 101 106 105 70 103 104 105 103 105 106 105 104

9AFE8CDECEFED

World 2-3 At 24:13

62 104 60 104 104 101 102 103 104 104 103 104 105

2D0DDABCDDCDE

World 2-4 At 30:55

103 106 104 64 106 105 104 65 104 105 103 102 70 61

CFD4FED5DECB81

World 2-5 At 36:11

104 60 103 102 104 63 105 71 106 105 106 105 102 70

D0CBD3E9FEFEB8

World 2-6 At 39:08

103 67 102 105 102 71 103 60 102 102 103 70 102 62

C7BEB9C0BBC8B2

World 3-1 At 47:28

103 67 102 105 102 67 103 62 102 66 103 63 102 70

C7BEB7C2B6C3B8

World 3-2 At 51:46

103 61 102 105 102 101 102 106 102 70 103 70 103 61

C1BEBABFB8C8C1

World 3-3 At 53:53

103 66 102 103 102 67 102 105 102 101 103 67 102 64 103 71

C6BCB7BEBAC7B4C9

There are also quick flashes of code that change after Princess Toadstool’s messages: 16:47

Ccmz,

Dlxtv'a c vsm qw zwwsku xwkxk ttfcpn. Jht pwwb tkqkmedmhp Z pcfig'v twppmkovl cxc hh kpgw. M'og jcrzskvvl ayy bp rtn isnt rudsxbqea. Okcug wwt vsgivz vreg K jpqepw jrdg, lym vyiv gel op lgmmlkfv. Princess Toadstool Vigenere with key cricket: Alex, There’s a lot of rumors going around. For your protection I haven’t confirmed any of them. I’ve supported you in all your ambitions. Maybe for longer than I should have, but that was my decision. 46:46

Ccmz, s ogqn qv'c

lttu nqb chw kw gfik cuukd chw'mm okhx c dqudedg. Kpkc mlp'k mccc yqi ug ommjvz. K nsg'v emgn xh jvit dlx vicvr jkqd gqe. M ggvl uyqx vzug yr fa fep, ds mjzvm kfhwk bjsrzu. Zn K nsg'v ymcb jkqd gqe, M'en raueqx afc hoie vym ukqx yrg. Princess Toadstool Vigenere with key cricket: Alex, i know it’s hard for you to ever admit you’ve made a mistake. This isn’t easy for me either. I don’t need to hear the truth from you. I need some time on my own, to think about things. If I don’t hear from you, I’ll assume you feel the same way.

Taking all of the values decoded from the coins, and combining them together gives:

GenieNKGZSO @$31AD9: B8 D5 FE 8C DE CE FE D2 D0 DD AB CD FE FE FE D5 DE CB D6 D8 CF D4 FE 8C DE CE CB 9C FE FE CC D4 DB D5 9A FE 8C DE CE FE D2 D0 DD AB CD DC DE CF D4 FE D5 DE CB 81 D0 CB D3 E9 FE FE B8 C7 BE B9 C0 BB C8 B2 C7 BE B7 C2 B6 C3 B8 C1 BE BA BF B8 C8 C1 C6 BC B7 BE BA C7 B4 C9

Putting this Game Genie code and ROM edits into Super Mario Brothers 3 appears to show the ending with modified text.

If you can’t

forgive your- self, you can’t move forward. IXOJQLYCXOHSGTI ROKPIYRWMHOKXEZ

IXOJQLYCXOHSGTIROKPIYRWMHOKXEZ

Vig with key cricket: GGGHGHFAGGFICAGAGIFEFPFEFEGECI

A1-PF: 777878617769317179656F65657539

hex: wxxawi1qyeoeeu9

link: https://mediafire.com/?wxxawi1qyeoeeu9

gambit.zip with two files gambit.png and gambit_alternate.png

gambit:

gambit_alternate:

They appear to be chess problems, the grid is colored with Pangent colors and at the top left it says 'White to move’ while at the top right it says 'tinyurl/gambit___’

The assumption is a chess problem, and the moves will fill in the dashes on the tinyurl.

We were unable to find a 'short’ solution to gambit_alternate.png, but for gambit, we found one (using online tools, no chess masters here)

w a7c6 8-3 b d6d5 7-5 w b8b7 6-5 b d7d6 4-7 w c6d8 3-a b c5c4 9-0 w d8f7 a-2 b d6c5 7-9 w b7c7 5-1 checkmate

Take the 'landed on’ spaces’ Pangent colors to make the tinyurl

https://preview.tinyurl.com/gambit3557a0291

which leads to: http://www.mediafire.com/?ylcz73i13pcb8ng/

checkmate.jpg

18x12 grid of ?checkers? black and white pieces on a red and darker red checkered background.

Randomiser discovered that after inverting the pieces on the lighter colored squares, the resulting colors could be read as binary.

010110010101010000 111010011100010100 011101110101010001 000100011001000100 011000110011011101 011001010001110110 011101011001010101 000111000101000111 011101010100010001 000110010001000110 001100110111010110 010100011101100111

YT:qGuDFDc7YGgYTqGuDFDc7YGg Leading to: http://youtu.be/qGuDFDc7YGg kristi.mp4

Showing rotating and transitioning scenes of Kristi in different outfits, which goes a little dark at the end.

The soundtrack seems to be a modified version of the Spice Girls’ Wannabe.

Seems to be a continuation of 'dressing room’ from 2017 https://youtu.be/jZdLHCqxnMM

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

Where's My Egg? (Penguin Land) Gameplay (Android) Solve (postage)

This post:

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/643299756800606208

links to this video:

https://youtu.be/_gkN_G3wcrk

Where’s My Egg? (Penguin Land) Gameplay (Android)

from the description:

Great free Android/iOS mobile game by Sander Voorn (Voorn Multimedia). Similar to Sega’s Penguin Land, but has its own quirks and differences. I used to be good at this but it’s been awhile. Help Mr. Penguin by guiding him with his egg to Ms. Penguin. Each level is a challenging puzzle with amazing enemies and problems. Cut through ice and guide your precious egg through increasingly challenging scenarios! And don’t let your egg drop too hard! Ms. Penguin lives in a secret home under the ice of the South Pole while Mr. Penguin brings surprise eggs to his Missus. But there’s trouble. Enemies try to grab your egg and the ice is slippery. Mr. Penguin needs your help getting his eggs and presents to Ms. Penguin.

As with all Pangent publicly posted videos, we’re looking for hidden content, and in this one, at around 10:50, some Pangent colors start to appear in the little TV at the bottom of the screen.

4D 65 44 69 41 66 49 72 45 20 41 6E 33 63 52 74 46 39 36 76 52 69 31 68 36

Which decode as hex into:

MeDiAfIrE An3cRtF96vRi1h6

Leading to a mediafire link

https://mediafire.com/?An3cRtF96vRi1h6

containing an image: dieecrlheitd.tif

This is an interesting effect. It appears to be CMYK images overlayed and shifted. But since CMY is just inverted RGB, it’s easier to see (at least for this editor who uses GIMP) if it’s decomposed into RGB. But this decision may need to be remembered later. /spoiler.

This is using Pangent’s version of the ‘Penguin Land’ code from the instruction booklet for Penguin land. The decoder ring we determined a while back:

Using that code and the RGB decompositions, hex codes can be obtained for each component.

Red:

54 48 45 20 49 43 45 20 52 49 44 44 4c 45 21 69 31 31 44 6e 30 53 66 49 7a 64 36 37 54 31 Green:

54 48 45 20 49 43 45 20 52 49 44 44 4c 45 21 6a 5a 30 55 78 6d 50 7a 37 6d 34 4d 6f 37 6e Blue:

54 48 45 20 49 43 45 20 52 49 44 44 4c 45 21 68 35 79 57 33 33 50 35 38 66 7a 35 66 32 74

decoding each as hex gives:

Red: THE ICE RIDDLE! i11Dn0SfIzd67T1 Green: THE ICE RIDDLE! jZ0UxmPz7m4Mo7n Blue: THE ICE RIDDLE! h5yW33P58fz5f2t

here we got stuck for a while. Noticing the name of the TIF file was an anagram for THE ICE RIDDLE and we had three sets of 15 alphanumerics, we were thinking mediafire, but as-is they don’t work, but it wouldn’t be much of a riddle if they did, now would it?

A lot of efforts were made to rearrange these 15-character strings in different ways, using the anagrammed picture title, among other things, but it seemed we were getting lost in the weeds. or is it the ice?

The Ice Riddle was remembered as the name of a level in P.P. Hammer and His Pneumatic Weapon, which was shown at the end of the Garfield Labyrinth video, here: https://youtu.be/OhWsMjTyJlI?t=3480

In that stage, P.P. Hammer had to use three keys in the proper order to progress. That order was Blue, Red, Yellow. So if we assume RGB = CMY, we do have Blue, Green, Yellow.

Turns out, taking the rows of each composite in 'CMY (RGB)’ order, and only taking five characters from each, the first five from the first set, the middle five from the middle set, and the last five from the last set worked!

i11DnmPz7mz5f2t https://mediafire.com/?i11DnmPz7mz5f2t

Leads to stairway_to.jpg

Which is an image of the stairway from the Spice Girls’ Wannabe video at the St. Pancras Hotel, which was visited by Lottie, according to the Kungfupanda text conversation, and we got a mediafire archive of pictures from the hotel as well:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/u3myihgmrzxdb4b/stairway.zip/file

In there, the file named StPancrasHotel13.HEIC matches the stairway_to.jpg, at least on the surface.

Differencing the two images leads to some blocks (Thanks Taurtini)

And the 'forgotten/random’ image of the Penguin book (mgame.jpg) from the 'fenda’ mediafire can be used to overlay with the blocks, highlighting letters.

Reading off the highlighted letters gives: eda ete oh oh hh eda eet ne no os eee ete eer hh oh

Using the letter frequency code ETAONRISHD gives: 103 121 49 49 99 103 112 51 54 48 111 121 116 99 49

interpreting as decimal ASCII gives: gy11cgp360oytc1

Which leads to:

https://mediafire.com/?gy11cgp360oytc1

An image 'EyesonNature_back.jpg’ showing the backs of two penguin books which I think were mailed to players as part of the Pangent Spice Club Snail Mail solve.

There is a Pangent color code under the logo on the left: F065454467661676554541F0F65756F34755405647F5

Hmmm… that looks like the 'pure binary octal RGB’ code using 1,3-7,0,F so try decomposing into RGB as those will be either white or black.

Several incorrect attempts were made to interpret these blocks, until Randomiser noticed:

seeing as the top row is almost entirely filled, this actually looks good for braille It can be divided into 2x3 blocks Yep LFMXHGTJCMZLQEDVOCKDOP vig w/ guineapix: FLEKDGEBFGFDDADGGFEJGC A1PF: 6B5A475267644147765073 hex: kZGRgdAGvPs -> http://youtu.be/kZGRgdAGvPs

This short video titled 'p o s t a g e’ shows Sharon receiving a package, presumably from Lottie, who is in hiding after the traumatic events of previous videos as it contains the toy penguin Sharon and Leslie used to attempt to reunite Eric and Lottie, and which also performed very admirably in the Adelescense music video.

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

Spice Girls on Tour Dolls Unboxing Solve (okay)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/643295988024508416

This post links to this video: https://youtu.be/VgO_VNYdt8s Spice Girls On Tour Dolls [Galoob 1998] Unboxing / Mood Table Around 1:07 when the scene changes, there is spectrogram content in the audio.

Which can be decoded using the Gravity Falls Author Cipher

OFETTAGSUJSOJXRYGBQAXIXUGUNJOU

vigenere with ‘mayorsassenheim’: CFGFCIGACFFHFPFMGDCJFIFCCHGFGI

A1-PF: 3676397136686F6C74306963387679

hex: 6v9q6holt0ic8vy

mediafire: https://mediafire.com/?6v9q6holt0ic8vy fantastic.zip

Containing several pictures from 'The Fantastic Funnies’ (1980) with Loni Anderson, which was Garfield’s first animated appearance.

See this Pangent Blog post for some of the artwork and a link to the Signal and Noise version of the video: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/643024207533522944

In addition to stills, there are some possibly re-inked Art from the show, and a flyer and what looks to be a word-search titled searching.png

Finding each of the characters listed on the flyer, then reading off the shaded letters from each one gives what appears to be a letter frequency code:

1 CHARLIE BROWN (E) 2 NIPPER (E) 3 DENNIS THE MENACE (EEE) 4 TUMBLEWEEDS (TEDS) 5 BLONDIE (E) 6 BC (-) 7 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE (EHE) 8 BARNEY GOOGLE (EOE) 9 DRABBLE (E) 10 FRED BASSET (REE) 11 MISS PEACH (-) 12 PRINCE VALIANT (RNI) 13 DOONESBURY (E) 14 DICK TRACY (D) 15 NANCY (N) 16 SLUGGO (-) 17 BEETLE BAILEY (EE) 18 SNOOPY (N) 19 BROOM HILDA (OH) 20 POGO (O) 21 MARMADUKE (-) 22 HAGAR THE HORRIBLE (HEE) 23 DAISY (S) 24 ALLEY OOP (E) 25 DAGWOOD (D) 26 GARFIELD (RED) 27 CATHY (T)

ETAONRISHD 1234567890

EEEEETEDSEEHEEOEEREERNIEDNEENOHOHEESEDREDT 111112108119114116116571051154949118106102

111 112 108 119 114 116 116 57 105 115 49 49 118 106 102 oplwrtt9is11vjf

https://mediafire.com/?oplwrtt9is11vjf orukak.png

A kakuro puzzle.

ScopingL solved it and said:

And done. That was rather hard. Red cells are 72 87 79 89 80 113 69 83 45 48 111 32, which is HWOYPqES-0o

Which leads to an unlisted Signal and Noise YouTube video of Leslie giving a message to Lottie, with the state of things at Pangent:

https://youtu.be/HWOYPqES-0o titled 'o k a y’ here is the transcript:

Hello Lottie. If you ever see this, I want you to know that things are okay. At least for now. Nobody’s heard from Alex. It’s like he fell off the face of the Earth. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Pangent’s still running. I mean it still exists, sort of. We’re all just, we’re all just trying to pick up the pieces. They promoted me, I mean can you believe that? I’m actually kind of in charge now. Kristi’s there too. Or Baby Spice. She's Baby Spice now. There are some things I’ll never forgive her for, but yeah, she’s a Spice Girl now, and it’s, uh, it’s a big improvement. We have a Scary Spice too. My girlfriend. You haven’t met her, but she’s. She’s nice. I miss you. It’s just past midnight now, so, happy birthday Rachel, wherever you are. I hope you know that your daddy loved you. I hope you know I love you too. I love you both. Happy birthday, from your auntie Leslie.

So again, it appears we are getting indications that Rachel survived the accident, so perhaps the timeline has changed from that which Cube Eric had/is/was/could be experienc(ed)(ing)?

Hopefully we are working towards that more happy ending so long hoped for.

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Garfield Konami LCD Gameplay Solve (messages)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/643027950685536256/

This post links to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6AUHt-hjo

Garfield (Konami LCD Handheld 1991) MAME Gameplay Complete

from description:

Konami’s LCD handheld games were better than those by Tiger Electronics, although that’s a very low bar. They do at least have their own unique gamefeel, even compared to those by Nintendo and Bandai. Here’s a complete playthrough of “Garfield.”

At the end of the video, the score does interesting changes:

7300 1161 1199 1005 2107 1061 0210 7108 1084 8113 1061 1420 7300 7310 7320 116 111 99 100 52 107 106 102 107 108 108 48 113 106 114 20

decimal ASCII:

tocd4kjfkll0qjr

https://www.mediafire.com/file/tocd4kjfkll0qjr

freeparking.zip

This archive includes several pictures from the Garfield Board Game, including a slightly modified game board, and a sequence of dice rolls.

Board:

Dice:

Composite, with spaces numbered:

Some assumptions and false starts were made at ‘playing the game’ and using the landed upon squares’ Pangent colors to create a decimal ASCII code.

A sequence was arrived at which led to a valid mediafire, so we think we found the ‘right path’ through the Game.

Assume single player who always has Lasagna if needed, start with no Garfield Cards in play. Roll 01: 7 => #7 Red (1) For a Slice of Lasagna Roll again Roll 02: 2 => #9 Red (1) Take 2 player cards Roll 03: 4 => #13 Blue (6) Roll 04: 3 => #16 Cyan (5) Garfield does a number on you - backwards seven Backwards 7 => #9 Red (1) Take 2 player cards Roll 05: 6 => #15 Dark Green (9) Take a player card Roll 06: 6 => #21 Purple (8) Roll 07: 8 => #29 Red (1) For Lasagna Roll Again Roll 08: 3 => #32 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Add 2 to rolls Roll 09: 7+2 = 9 => #41 Cyan (5) Roll 10: 9+2 = 11 => #10 Cyan (5) Roll 11: 7+2 = 9 => #19 Orange (2) Take 2 player cards Roll 12: 6+2 = 8 => #27 Red (1) For Lasagna Roll again Roll 13: 5+2 = 7 => #34 Red (1) Roll 14: 5+2 = 7 => #41 Cyan (5) Roll 15: 9+2 = 11 => #10 Cyan (5) Roll 16: 8+2 = 10 => #20 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Don’t move unless odd Roll 17: 2 => not odd Roll 18: 6 => not odd Roll 19: 4 => not odd Roll 20: 8 => not odd Roll 21: 7 => #27 Red (1) For Lasagna Roll Again Roll 22: 4 => not odd Roll 23: 2 => not odd Roll 24: 8 => not odd Roll 25: 6 => not odd Roll 26: 5 => #32 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Advance 7 for Lasagna Advance 7 => #39 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Discard this and next Garfield Card: Add 3 to rolls Roll 27: 10+3 = 13 => #10 Cyan (5) Roll 28: 10+3 = 13 => #23 Magenta (7) Roll 29: 2+3 = 5 => #28 Red (1) For Lasagna Roll Again Roll 30: 2+3 = 5 => #33 Orange (2) Take 2 Player Cards Roll 31: 3+3 = 5 => #39 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Roll 1 die and move backward Roll 32: 5 => #34 Red (1) Roll 33: 6 => #28 Red (1) For Lasagna Roll Again Roll 34: 3 => #25 Blue (6) Take a player Card Roll 35: Nap 9 => #34 Red (1) Roll 36: 6 => #28 Red (1) For Lasagna Roll Again Roll 37: Nap 3 => #31 Yellow (3) Roll 38: 5 => #26 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Closes eyes and roll twice (assume roll twice is 'meaningless’ in one player game) Roll 39: 9 => #35 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Add 2 to rolls Roll 40: 4+2 = 6 => #41 Cyan (5) Roll 41: 3+2 = 5 => #4 Green (4) Roll 42: 3+2 = 5 => #9 Red (1) Take Player Card Roll 43: 6+2 = 8 => #17 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Move 3 don’t roll Turn 43.1: 3 => #20 Garfield Changes White (0) Garfield Card: Don’t move unless odd Roll 44: 6 => not odd Roll 45: 8 => not odd Roll 46: 4 => not odd Roll 47: 2 => not odd Roll 48: 9 => #29 Red (1) Roll again for Lasagna Roll 49: 8 => not odd Roll 50: 4 => not odd Roll 51: 6 => not odd Roll 52: 2 => not odd Roll 53: 3 => #32 Change Garfield (0) Garfield Card: Add 3 to rolls Roll 54: 8+3 = 11 => Purple (8)

Collect the landed upon numbers (in parentheses above):

11651981055211550100571201161130054100108

space: 116 51 98 105 52 115 50 100 57 120 116 113 0054 100 108

t3bi4s2d9xtq6dl

https://mediafire.com/?t3bi4s2d9xtq6dl sundial.zip

an archive containing two images.

One a Garfield comic featuring Odie and Jon

and the second a grid of Soduku puzzles divided up into quadrants, three of which have shaded cells distributed.

With help from Fergit, ScopingL, and Moo on the Game Detectives discord, the shaded squares were filled in:

Read each puzzle from left to right, top to bottom. Add a '0’ between each puzzle:

77 84 48 50 53 49 78 107 108 110 111 62 089 84 0 111 120 77 69 67 099 74 082 112 56 85 062 089 84

decimal ASCII:

MT0251Nklno>YT oxMECcJRp8U>YT

Two unlisted YouTube Signal and Noise Videos! Much like 'crawl’ these show the same video of Lottie from two angles. She is leaving messages.

https://youtu.be/MT0251Nklno - m e s s a g e s https://youtu.be/oxMECcJRp8U - 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 73 -> messages

transcript:

This is a message for Sharon. You’re right. I have to go. I have to run and never come back. He killed my husband and he could kill us too. Anytime, anywhere. You’ve been my best friend and it’s hard to imagine life without you. I want you to know you mean the world to me. And I promise I’ll see you again. Someday, when the heat dies down. When I don’t have to be afraid anymore. Wherever you are, I’ll find you. We'll meet up for coffee or something and it'll be like no time has passed at all. So this isn’t goodbye. It’s just, see you later. This is a message for Leslie. I haven’t been a friend to you. Not like you deserve. You are such a ray of light. You give me hope. You are kind and caring, and everything that’s good in this world and honestly, I don’t deserve to have you as a friend. I’m sorry I ever doubted you. I'm sorry I didn’t trust you. I hope you forgive me. I don’t know what happens from this day on. Maybe you’ll never see me again. I hope that’s not true. I hope we’ll meet up again, all of us. The Spice Girls, back together, having a good time. But whatever happens, I will always be your friend. This is a message for the man who killed my husband. No, you know what? I have nothing to say to you. This is a message for my husband. Eric. I love you and I miss you. I believe in heaven and I believe I’ll see you again. Someday. But for now I’m gonna keep on living. For you, and for this miracle we created together. I’ll think of you every day. And someday it’ll stop hurting. I went into science because I wanted to build something that would outlive me. That would make a difference in the world We’ve done that. Her name is Rachel.

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Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island Gameplay Solve (damocles)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/642843013758992384/

This post links to this video:

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rTjO8B3No8

presenting Gameplay of the Game Boy Advance game Go! Go! Beckham! Adventure on Soccer Island

from the description:

UK footballer David Beckham stars in this Yoshi’s Island-inspired platformer game, with mandatory soccer-ball mechanics. And it’s pretty fun, though not the most intuitive mechanic in the world. Also there’s a penguin.

At the beginning of the game, kicking the ball into the question mark blocks brings up advice/instructions and some of the letters are underlined. (spaces added between blocks)

saeearhedniseenseeei nreenih ososnnsr

nine distinct letters, with frequency:

a 2 d 1 e 10 h 2 i 3 n 6 o 2 r 3 s 6

With e being the most frequent, and the letters taken from regular english, this possibly suggests the ‘English Letter Frequency’ encoding Pangent has used a few times, where ETAONRISHD = 1234567890 respacing and substituting we get:

sa eea rh edn is een se eei nr een ih os os nn sr 83 113 69 105 78 115 81 117 56 115 79 48 48 55 86

decimal ASCII: SqEiNsQu8sO007V

https://mediafire.com/?SqEiNsQu8sO007V photoposh.png This cleverly named image features a 9x13 grid of blocks, colored either Blue, Yellow, Red, or Cyan. With the outline of Posh spice, inside of which all the colors appear to have been inverted.

By 'photoposhing’ the image and inverting the colors inside of Posh Spice’s outline, we get blocks of three colors:

With three symbols, Morse was suspected, or (used very rarely) ternary ASCII, but it took us a little bit to see that the grid needed to be read vertically instead of horizontally, putting the yellow blocks as separators.

Trying to read it starting in each corner, and both possibilities for Red/Blue, turns out starting in the bottom left with Blue = dash and Red = dot gives:

– -.– -. .- -.- -… ..- .– -.-. — .- -.- - –. ..-. ..- — -.. .. …- -.- … –. ..-. .-. -.- -.. .–. .- –

MYNAKBUWCOAKTGFUODIVKSGFRKDPAM

Vigenere with guineapix: GEFNGBFOFIGCGCFFGGCBCFCFCCGJGE

A1-PF: 756D726E6973736677323636337075

hex: umrnissfw2663pu

https://mediafire.com/?umrnissfw2663pu fenda.zip containing: fenda.png

(fenda was the name of one of the monsters in the Go! Go! Beckham! game. There’s also the front and back (in German) covers for the game, A page from a book on Penguins beginning with a 'Mating Game’ section. (mgame.jpg) This may be one of the same penguin books used way back in the Spice Girls Snail Mail Solve which involved mailings to players.

And a short guinea pig video unlockpigs1064.mp4

Fixing the fenda.png using the 'hint’ from the pigs video, gives this 1064x664 image:

Working with the monsters in order they’re met in the game (maybe swapping 5 & 6) gives:

154 127 131 142 162 55 55 107 106 163 60 76 131 124

octal for: lWYbr–GFs0>YT

Linking to: https://youtu.be/lWYbr–GFs0

This unlisted video with title ’d a m o c l e s’ shows Sharon on the phone with Lottie in a (possibly?) new room/location than we’ve seen before.

from the transcript:

God, everything’s so messed up. We’ll always have this hanging over our heads, like at any time the phone could ring and … You’re right. You should go. Run away. Argentina’s nice. I don’t want Rachel to grow up without a mother. Just go, lose my number. I don’t want him coming at you through me. I’ll deal with him if I can. If I don’t see you, I don’t see you. I love you, I’ll miss you, but you gotta go. Be safe. For me. For her. For Eric. I’ll see you in another life sometime.

So this is continuing the story after crawl. Which does appear to possibly contradict the story as presented by Cube Eric in present where it appeared it was presented that Rachel had died the same night as Eric. Possibly we are working towards that Happier Ending that Eric has been able to dream up, and we’ve been able to assist with?

We’ll see. We’ll see.

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

Nancy Gameplay Solve (runaway)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/642139598098776064/

This post links to this video:

https://youtu.be/JQBzY4VR1so

Nancy (NES/Famicom) [Mickey Mousecapade] Gameplay

from description:

Join Nancy and Sluggo (from the comic strip by Ernie Bushmiller) in an exciting game adventure! Be ready for falling spiders, giant snakes, flying fish, hidden treasures, pirates, alligators, cats, dogs, bears, rabbits, witches, bullies, bouncing blue things and more. You’ll have ‘em seeing stars! Team up with Nancy and Sluggo in their first game for Nintendo. Race with them as they rescue Aunt Fritzi from herself. But watch out- don’t let Sluggo get kidnapped! Are you fast and clever enough to win? From Pangent Technologies. After the first level, gameplay shown is by Maxwell Yezpitelok for NintendoDuo (using FPGA hardware), with many thanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63r45kFjXR8 This is a graphics hack of Hudson Soft’s Mickey Mousecapade (USA), released in Japan as Mickey Mouse: Adventures in Wonderland. IPS patch here: https://mediafire.com/?x9bwt7jvbh4xyj6

Another impressive ROM hack by Pangent Technologies. And as usual here, we are searching for hidden content as it is a publicly visible video on the Signal and Noise channel. So, what can we find?

At 24:50, when ‘Boss Fritzi’ is defeated, the score changes…

115145 104151 101146 111162 105127 142101 145111 153127 066102 163105 070067 070116

Treating each score as two octal triplets and decoding as ASCII gives:

MeDiAfIrEWbAeIkW6BsE878N

Leading to:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/wbaeikw6bse878n artifaction.zip

contains: artifaction.wav defraction.png The WAV is a KCS file that decodes to ASCII art of Lottie and a 20x20 grid of letters:

HSRFOVUCFSFSYVPVRQWZ XVHNHTMELEZAJJKXWMQX GKLGTORPJCVUCRYKPUQN YUWHMGCEEUEFHTXDZXIA FHXJKHBVRAPZDMSUISDR VBXTCCKAPPODQRIXTYRP KCPVYOWHXSILUVOOHZOO HMBQYWFHPKPSJWERGPMH LMKIHWDLVFDZFCQKZUJC NENSLRQIZAGSIJCXIQUE COGJLBSWWYCMKWXSEVUR ZTJSKUSIRFASXHLSXPVX MSDRZTMYVMXNRSFDGQZR PLJFGEILBNSCQMXVTPAW DIESNGVCMYLFONYWKFQY IRACEYFCVIDCDYFKYVFA FDEWPUAAVBQMTWHNGSZZ KRLZNBOEQZONRJEGIGQS HGNSEKSDZUZLDPDHBQVU DBPEHMQXDSZFGJBVPWEW

defraction.png is an Arnold’s cat map image 400x400

Using this site: https://www.jasondavies.com/catmap/

and setting the iteration to negative 10 (or positive 290) appears to give pangent hex color codes.

Pangent color code:

decodes to:

8151919A609156901E9E E3634A26556494145458 6C40343E104E17C63120 45F92514E78476469831 8B6A5696933629FE7394 1235E4520784E734D2E2 9E705C7C454873739798 51637675167981457253 953239568F8C57385697 68235869B72838638756 12892526282475242317 49351218463935361898 21516951375186216412 83948164532848121A3D D4F41D56409451AB0816 2B47843CB73675B3197A F1B7D6D4219B3167E621 15385C17131776E96298 C3C161E284C8B3283567 5A979808936D8C627A19

This had us stumped for a while. We tried reading the original 20x20 grid in the order of Pangent colors from the other 20x20 grid, but couldn’t seem to get anywhere with that. Then, Taurtini noticed that the original 20x20 grid of letters when Vigenere’d with key 'argentina’ revealed Sharon’s password 'Guineapix’ in the fifth row. So we knew something was amiss.

But it took some more time, and another assist by Randomiser before we discovered there were actually three passwords in that Vigenere’d grid, forming a word-search.

Overlaying the highlighted letters on the color grid gives:

7569693362756F786730717131776E

hex: uii3buoxg0qq1wn

http://mediafire.com/?uii3buoxg0qq1wn sundown.png

Which is a very unique image puzzle that can be rearranged to get three different images, which can be combined as RGB channels to create a composite image, using the revealed Emoji/Color blocks as guides.

The sizes needed are: Red: 1280x555 Green: 555x1280 Blue: 711x999

Note 555 and 999 have been common Pangent Themed numbers. Including 444 in the mix, we have the Cube’s project number (555) and the numbers associated with the AI Alyssa/Entity (444/999)

Taurtini investigated another option involving 4 images/sizes and uses CMYK instead of RGB.

Cyan: 1280x555 Magenta: 555x1280 Yellow: 711x999 Black: 999x711

In both cases, the emoji/color code appears sufficiently readable.

Using the same standard Pangent color/emoji code from above, we can read off the values as:

Emojis: 44A914E 0738CB5 833E71A 908D654

Colors: 4646564 7465647 5756464 6564746

Color+Emoji: 44644A6951644E704763586C4B755873536E47614A6950684D764564

hex: DdJiQdNpGcXlKuXsSnGaJiPhMvEd

Vigenere with key 'argentina’: DmDeDkFcGcGfGhEkFnGjDeCoEiEd

A1PF: 4C454A637376785A6D70453E5954

hex: LEJcsvxZmpE>YT

YouTube: https://youtu.be/LEJcsvxZmpE

with title 'runaway’, this video (like ’screen saver’) uses footage from the very first Lottie Videos (February 2016). However the footage has been re-edited to use audio from ’crawl’ and possibly some other enhancements/effects as well. It only matches the originals at certain points.

Captions:

(“I ran away. I had to …”) Life and death. It changes everything and I can never tell anyone about it. The truth is, we’re all built to die. Thank you for contacting Pangent Technologies. We’ll keep your application on file and contact you should our needs change in the future. I thought about Lancelot. How he died. How he hooked himself up. My hands were already moving before my brain even caught up. Eric. My husband. Father of my child. I kissed his head and it came right off. I attached him, to the Cube. With blood on my hands I plugged him in. I’ll never even know if it worked.

Here’s some of the earlier videos, some public, some unlisted, showing some of what appears to be the original source for this edited video. (Were these edits where the whole ’I have tried to simulate you. It turned your mouth into a rainbow’ thing came from?)

https://youtu.be/BnGBSR0z-gU - ichangedthegame

https://youtu.be/duZCmbt2Av0 - burial

https://youtu.be/cX5So4MT8J8 - thanks

https://youtu.be/seP62EyThs8 - watchingme

https://youtu.be/G7h2zeHZ7ZE - already

https://youtu.be/kVVrJNCoIXk - we fuck with the formula

https://youtu.be/uk_JsefKzCU - titleofvideo

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

Garfield Labyrinth Solve (crawl)

This post: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641868742834405376/

Links to this Video: https://youtu.be/OhWsMjTyJlI

Garfield Labyrinth (Mickey Mouse IV, Real Ghostbusters, PP Hammer and His Pneumatic Weapon) Gameplay

from the description:

Kemco’s Game Boy game Garfield Labyrinth, which asserts (in its ending) that Garfield and Odie are a couple in romantic love. Confusingly released in other regions as Mickey Mouse IV, and The Real Ghostbusters.

It was also an unreleased (and unavailable) Kid Klown game. The romantic Garfield/Odie ending is copied from the Mickey Mouse version (or was it Kid Klown?).

It’s actually an unauthorized clone of PP Hammer and His Pneumatic Weapon (by Traveling Bits Production for Amiga and Commodore 64). A lot was lost in translation- the design, atmosphere, commentary, and what passes for adult humor in the original.

But the Game Boy game is much more forgiving and controls a lot better, at least without a good joystick. It has less “gotcha” moments than PP Hammer, where it’s easy to get stuck.

We’ve also got Garfield Labyrinth for Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom, for some reason.

7:20 - The Real Ghostbusters 13:51 - Mickey Mouse IV 20:41 - Mickey Mouse IV Ending 23:36 - Garfield Labyrinth Ending (!) 26:39 - The Real Ghostbusters Ending 28:25 - Garfield Labyrinth NES/Famicom 43:32 - PP Hammer and His Pneumatic Weapon Amiga 1:05:28 - PP Hammer and His Pneumatic Weapon Commodore 64

The passwords which appear during the Game Boy parts of the video appear to be a code:

From Fanboy Gamer: I added extra spaces when it switched to Ghostbusters, and again when it switched to Mickey codes: LLTI KLRH MFWN NPQR IFXF ONRG MHTJ NJMM

Vigenere with ‘Garfield’: FLCD CHGE GFFI FLFO CFGA GJGD GHCE FFBJ

A1-PF: 6B34 3875 7669 6B6E 3671 7074 7835 6620

hex: k48uvikn6qptx5f

https://mediafire.com/?k48uvikn6qptx5f

donothing.zip

Containing five files:

donothing.wav Garfield Labyrinth A.jpg Garfield Labyrinth B.jpg Garfield Labyrinth C.jpg Garfield Labyrinth D.jpg

The Garfield Labyrinth images appear to be different versions of the Game Boy Game and/or packaging and/or advertisements, possibly pieced together from multiple sources, as Taurtini noted artifacts in the colorization (alas, not a code that we could tell)

donothing.wav is a Kansas City Standard (KCS) encoded text file, which decodes to ASCII art of Alyssa (Donothing) and a 25x25 grid of text.

Which Taurtini performed some graphix-magic on:

25x25 grid of text:

MKFCVPMATRQGXIEAARQXKYWFU ZRAITRKEDTBNRZTZAAFIIGENB URZYLNQGNAGAHAMFVALNWPVIZ DTVJWIYAPVDGHNBPFILTYZYIP OAHCFGMANKRRGTREWTDRXLHNJ URRNTRMAXHIPOTUUGTUARINNO KDCOBDWEQEDGOEJAVRCJYFKCK AEIAEAAGRPDCEOIDENENGANNT HWCKOTHBQJEPANYINOADRPIJA CNLBKEIDUTXAYNZTBDCVONANP VNATNDUXGIVNGWDAFYVQIIEAE TRNQIGASEAATDYTNCERPQKEHT NTCRGWYGNUCAUTVNACARAGWZW CGRKJURBAJGRGLNIQNKNQAQHR MANUTOXXINDZMEANNJSKWGNAY KRAUCEIGDXPUGTEIITNKRIHEZ SINMALWIRICKRGAGCLHCXCJBE GNTTANNAZHUTXOEJSAIAJLAAE POJBXMBNPMCTNVMBYNWIWGIRJ JINRNRLGGMCESFNBVANADINBE PEWDLIUNYJWECTQAQJXYBDZZA ZRBSPGYAWNXAAGAARORUDWNNJ JGCWYEFNLEYDWNANARKTYSVTQ XRNARRBAUYAVENSLGDEPJAQRE VHSLFPWASNTHTENNYJNPOATAS

We were stuck on this for a bit, until Randomiser returned to help us out. They discovered:

The big letter block being a 25x25 square was suspicious. If you replace the letters found in ARGENTINA with white, and the rest with black, you get a QR code

AEGINRT = 0 BCDFHJKLMOPQSUVWXYZ = 1 1111111000101000001111111 1000001010100101001000001 1011101000001011101011101 1011101011101011101011101 1011101001000000101011101 1000001011011011001000001 1111111010101010101111111 0000000001110101000000000 1111101111010010010101010 1011100110101010111110001 1000011100100110111100000 0001000100001100100111010 0010011001101010010000111 1001110101000100101010110 1001011100111000011110001 1001100011110000000100101 1001011000110000111111110 0000000011101101100011000 1111111011100111101010001 1000001001101101100010010 1011101011101010111111110 1011101010100000010111001 1011101010111000001011101 1000001011010011010110100 1111111010010000110110001

The QR decodes to: FWLHSBNXGFWSJUVQSGFYLESYNOCAWI

vig decoded with argentina is: FFFDFIFKGFFMFHCIFGFHFAFFFBCAFC

converted to hex: 6664696A766C683967686166623163 = fdijvlh9ghafb1c

https://mediafire.com/?fdijvlh9ghafb1c

NESMini.zip which contains two files, an IPS file called Labyrinth (Garf) which may just be the NES game shown in the video. There is also NESMini, an NES ROM which …. just seems to display this image:

Moo, our resident ROM hacker extraordinaire, took a shot at this one and discovered that if the bytes at 0x410 in the .NES file are changed from 02 00 02 00 to 02 04 0F 00 to get this:

The block of text reads:

QUIZYARDTIME QUIZYARDFUSE OPALNAMEQUIZ WORDSONGTRAD LOCKNAMELAMP RAINYARDWORD NOSEQUIZTRAD KINGYARDZERO NAMENEWSQUIZ QUIZSONGOPAL

There’s also an Alyssa face in the ROM, which is what the garbled original screen is made up from.

Which Moo cleaned up to look better:

We had trouble with the 16 unique words in that grid, not sure what connected them, or how they related, and how they could be ordered if they were hex because the arrangement didn’t appear to be any sort of hex pattern we could reverse-brute-force (and we tried several options ;)

FUSE KING LAMP LOCK NAME NEWS NOSE OPAL QUIZ RAIN SONG TIME TRAD WORD YARD ZERO

Then we got this unsolicited hint from Pangent:

It m4y, occasionally, be helpful to take a quick look at the games we’ve been playing on the ch4nnel, whether via other Youtube videos or game ROMs. A level or two may show what is changed in our videos, or provide some necess4ry context.

Using this hint, and Fanboy Gamer’s wish that PP Hammer would be used more, Moo discovered that the passwords for the Mickey Mouse IV version of the game are where this set of words came from. See here for details:

https://ghostbusters.fandom.com/wiki/The_Real_Ghostbusters_Video_Game_(Gameboy)#Game_Passwords

Using the level number as the alphabet index (A=01, B=02, etc…) we get:

05 ZERO e 06 NOSE f 07 QUIZ g 08 KING h 09 TRAD i 10 LOCK j 11 WORD k 12 TIME l 13 RAIN m 14 NAME n 15 OPAL o 19 YARD s 20 SONG t 22 LAMP v 24 FUSE x 26 NEWS z

QUIZ YARD TIME QUIZ YARD FUSE OPAL NAME QUIZ WORD SONG TRAD LOCK NAME LAMP RAIN YARD WORD NOSE QUIZ TRAD KING YARD ZERO NAME NEWS QUIZ QUIZ SONG OPAL

gslgsxongktijnvmskfgihsenzggto

Vigenere with key ‘argentina’ gbfcfegagkccfacefkfpcdflfmggci

A1-PF: 726365717A3361356A6F346B6C7739

hex: rceqz3a5jo4klw9

https://mediafire.com/?rceqz3a5jo4klw9 memory.zip -> memory.png

49 rows x 11 columns with Pangent colors in some of the squares. Maybe the 49 YouTube video IDs from Previously on Signal and Noise?

Reading off the highlighted letters in Pangent code order gives (spaces added when a color shifts):

fWLEQhmpGbvk gVXRRgcslGPhMV Ed eRJTTCoOcdstj YVQSGGBlGphMv ED

The first half of which seemed to decrypt into a reduced alphabet using Vigenere with key ‘Argentina’, but the second half broke down. So… each half was treated separately, and it worked!

fWLEQhmpGbvk gVXRRgcslGPhMV Ed argentinaarg entinaargentin aa fFFADoecGbee cIEJEgcbfCCoEI Ed A1-PF 66614E537255 39505732633E59 54 faNSrU9PW2c>YT

https://youtu.be/faNSrU9PW2c

eRJTTCoOcdstj YVQSGGBlGphMv ED argentinaarge ntinaargentin aa eADPGJgBcdbnf LCIFGGKfCcoEi ED A1-PF 514F7072342D6 B39677A633E59 54 QOpr4-k9gzc>YT

https://youtu.be/QOpr4-k9gzc

Both of these are unlisted videos (one titled 'c r a w l’ and the other hex for 'crawl’) and present Lottie telling the story of some of the aftermath, and details following Speed Limit, and p i e c e s, revealed recently.

The video has captions, so a transcription is easy:

I’d stolen the Cube. Had it in the back seat. My husband in the front seat. My daughter in the baby seat. I’d come back to get them. I knew we had to disappear for awhile. How long, I wasn’t sure. I didn’t have much of a plan worked out, except to try to find a motel that’d take cash. My phone kept ringing. Alex. Texting me ten times a minute. I made the mistake of looking at my phone. I didn’t black out. Things got hazy but I kept awake. I know what the Cube can do. Just looking at a picture of it, you lose your mind a little. But I didn’t. I felt like I was gonna throw up but I stayed awake. There was a drunk driver. Swerving and hitting the caution strips on the side of the road. I was trying to get out of his way. My phone rang. The Cube flickered. I blinked my eyes. I must have blacked out for just a few seconds. I remember spinning and spinning, like I was never going to stop. The crash of a concussion, like you’re hitting a wall. It was raining. We hit a dozen guard rails and went off the side of the road into a ditch. I remember thinking, I don’t mind if I die. As long as Rachel lives. As long as my husband lives. There was smoke. The airbag went off and it smelled like gunpowder. I couldn’t see straight. Couldn’t get the door open. I was covered in blood. Then I realize it isn’t mine. There was a piece of jagged metal. Two feet long through Eric’s neck. He must have been dead already. I saved my daughter. Got her out of the wreck. She was crying. I was crying too. The whole world was spinning in my mind. I couldn’t walk, couldn’t stand up straight. But I could crawl. Then I saw the Cube. Flickering in the backseat. An interface I’d half-designed still attached to it. I thought about Lancelot. How he died. How he hooked himself up. My hands were already moving before my brain even caught up. Eric. My husband. Father of my child. I kissed his head and it came right off. I attached him, to the Cube. With blood on my hands I plugged him in. I’ll never even know if it worked.

This is the 'full story’ coming around to some things we unearthed way back in 2016/2017.

Previous solutions, first to the 'personality’ video are here: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/159026304863

And more are here: and here: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/159094957483

Also, the Pangent Facebook page has some images from the “crawl” video, posted in 2017:

https://www.facebook.com/Pangent-Technologies-766649166834828/photos/

And Taurtini found this from January 2017. A throwaway video with the same setup as “Crawl” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3ZdXXN3bM

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

David Beckham Soccer (Playstation 1 Gameplay) Solve (pieces)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641774706651021312/

This post includes pictures from, and a link to, a Signal and Noise video for David Beckham Soccer (Playstation 1 Gameplay)

https://youtu.be/I496aMJDE4I

According to Pangent:

David Beckham Soccer is a football video game for PlayStation 1, developed and published by Rage Software in the UK in 2001. I could have saved myself some trouble if I’d learned beforehand which button did which action.

As with all publicly viewable Signal and Noise videos, we’re looking for hidden content. There’s several glitching effects in this game, but they didn’t appear to be ‘intentional’ so much as possible artifacts of an emulator or some such. But then, at 10:14, this was discovered:

An undoubtedly edited-in Pangent-esque screen. Now, what does it mean?

It seemed similar to the Heathcliff comics Solve from a while ago, where text was highlighted by the Pangent colors (see here: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641162064462757888/ ) so now we were looking for text in the video.

Lo and behold, the video ends with sections from The Beckham Story, a part of the game which puts text on the screen. We think we’re onto something!

After further investigation it was found that six screens corresponded to the six Pangent colors shown on the 10:14 screen.

Red: https://imgur.com/qJO6R7R

Orange: https://imgur.com/asUo5Zy

Yellow: https://imgur.com/WOeNgL7

Green: https://imgur.com/Ae8wf7G

Cyan: https://imgur.com/82RH54H

Blue: https://imgur.com/TphqynT

The letters highlighted by each, and the times associated with each screen:

R - 18:59 - IdnBkirm O - 19:06 - dkanskcuoy Y - 19:11 - meot G - 19:16 - j C - 19:20 - krmcna B - 19:28 - lon

IdnBkirmdkanskcuoymeotjkrmcnalon

Vigenere with key ‘guineapix’ CjfOgicegegffgcfgbgkggfkcefhgdbj

A1-PF 306E793575766736727A776A35687420

hex: 0ny5uvg6rzwj5ht

link: https://mediafire.com/?0ny5uvg6rzwj5ht kangarro.zip -> kangarro.jpg

https://imgur.com/Gze6Wkt

This grid appears similar to the Fleetword image from one of the recent reblogs, only this time with ‘POSH’ as the word in light and dark, making for an octal code.

P - 1 - light O - 2 S - 3 H - 4 P - 5 - dark O - 6 S - 7 H - 0

KANGARRO 36112171 10646214 16130106 11264662 x1262204

Hmmm… Not seeming to get anything valid from that arrangement. But that pesky ‘misspelled’ KANGARRO at the top seems suspicious. What if we rearrange the columns?

https://imgur.com/3wcRyTJ

RAGNAROK 12116713 26460141 10316061 64621621 2262104x

Aha! now it works: 121 167 132 64 60 141 103 160 61 64 62 162 122 62 104

octal: QwZ40aCp142rR2D

link: https://mediafire.com/?QwZ40aCp142rR2D GuineaPigDance.zip

An updated version of the Hamster Dance page, complete with a pretty well done remix of the original clip.

https://imgur.com/MJUCWaY

The top reads:

you have unlocked The Guinea Pig Dance

It is assumed that this phrasing refers to the completion of the 54 locker reservations/puzzles. A project which started in 2017 and only completed at the end of 2020. See here for details on the lockers and links to each Locker Reservation’s Solution post on this blog:

https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Human_Souls/Lockers

This Guinea Pig Dance page is impressive enough as is, but we’re suspicious that Pangent isn’t done with us yet, so we investigate further.

Looking at the HTML source code, some interesting things are found.

First, a comment at the top offers options for the background color:

<!– options bgcolor=“#3f7fff” bgcolor=“#030044” bgcolor=“#aec9ff” bgcolor=“#aee7ff”–>

Then, there are sequences of single-letter images, all of which are only 5 pixels high. Some transparent, some shaded with the original #aee7ff hex color (effectively hiding them from first glance)

There are 6 of these images. Here is their name, frequency, size, and coloration:

G - 218 - 5x5 - transparent H - 14 - 10x5 - transparent I - 107 - 15x5 - transparent P - 220 - 5x5 - #aee7ff Q - 2 - 10x5 - #aee7ff R - 106 - 15x5 - #aee7ff

If we change the background color to match that of the spotlight GIFs, as suggestted in the options comment in the HTML code, these lines become visible:

https://imgur.com/WjdfrmB

This was interesting, obviously intentional, confusing, and stumped the team for a little bit. Was it Morse, was it a three-character code? What was going on? Well, we eventually figured it out.

With a few more edits to the HTML, we discovered that by putting the five ‘curious’ transparent and solid lines together into a paragraph and setting the line-height to 0.1 to collapse them together with this markup:

led to an interesting result to a very cleverly done puzzle:

https://imgur.com/QooXUXu

49 64 4e 73 49 66 56 6b 41 67 58 73 51 70 44 78 4f 65 4b 77 4e 75 47 6f 54 6c 42 6f

hex: IdNsIfVkAgXsQpDxOeKwNuGoTlBo

vigenere with guineapix: CjFfEfGcDaDkDlDiGhEcFhCoEdEi

A1-PF: 30665673414A4B497853683E5459

hex: 0fVsAJKIxSh>TY

reverse: YT>hSxIKJAsVf0

https://youtu.be/hSxIKJAsVf0

This unlisted/hidden video, titled ‘p i e c e s’, shows Sharon leaving messages for Leslie and Alex. This is apparently showing the aftermath of the 'speed limit’ video, and now it’s officially stated: there was a car accident and Eric is dead and Lottie is in the hospital.

Yikes!

Quite the mood shift from the Guinea Pig Dance.

(the remixed song on the Guinea Pig Dance page is about the same length as the video. Not a Cipher - I’m pretty sure of it.)

Apparently this remix of the HamsterDance song is by Hampton the Hampster: https://youtu.be/H9K8-3PHZOU

Sharon is not happy with Alex, and definitely threatens him. She has knowledge of Lottie’s phone and noticed a text message from Alex corresponding to the time of the accident, with an attachment. She theorizes it could have been a picture of the Cube, the viewing of which would have definitely affected Lottie.

The Endgame is definitely afoot.

The video includes subtitles, so it’s easy to transcribe here:

Um, there’s been an accident. Eric’s dead.

Lottie’s in the hospital, I’m going to get see her now.

I shouldn’t be leaving this on your voicemail. I’m sorry. I …

will you call me back, please Leslie? I could really use a friend right now.

Alex, um, Eric and Lottie were in a car accident. God,

I don’t know how to say this. I'm … I’m going to the hospital now.

I hacked Lottie’s phone. There was a message to her from you. The timing matches the accident.

I’m not gonna click on it. I don’t want to know. I’m giving you the benefit of

the doubt here. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you had nothing to do with it. I really hope so.

Eric’s dead. Lottie’s in the hospital, they don’t know if she’s gonna wake up.

Now, maybe that’s an accident, or maybe that’s murder.

I’m calling you to give you a running start, because I don’t trust you, Alex, I never did.

I never want to see you again. And if you had anything to do with this,

you don’t ever want to see me again either. Because the next time I see you,

I will cut you into pieces. Slowly. I will introduce you to a thousand kinds of pain you

never thought possible, and I promise, they will never find what’s left of your body.

See, there was an attachment on that message, and maybe it’s a picture of the Cube. Maybe

she was driving and you sent her a picture of the Cube. Wouldn’t that be something?

Well, if that’s the case, here’s some free advice. Change your name. Hide your face. Move

to a corner of the world where nobody knows you. Pangent Technologies is dead already. Let it die.

Vanish without a trace. Make yourself impossible to find. Because otherwise,

I promise I will find you. Have a good night.

Here’s some imgur albums used to collect images for this post:

https://imgur.com/a/mSmIHsr - mostly Beckham game videos and overlays

https://imgur.com/a/zAIOLDg - mostly mediafires: Kangarro Ragnarok and Guinea Pig Dance

#video #unlisted video #puzzle #puzzle solution #human souls arg #submission

January 2021 Reblog/Fixes + New Stuff Solves

On January 28, 2021 (our time) a handful of reblogs appeared on Pangent’s tumblr, with slightly changed content from old puzzles that had been unsolved or incompletely solved due to imgur deleting images from a long time ago.

Here’s the journey through those solves:

—– Cryptocube Reblog: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641577527326949376/

This post includes images from a DesignWare game CryptoCube from 1983.

Two of the images show 10x10 grids

If the full grid is combined with the crossword grid, we get what looks to be a reduced alphabet of ‘visible’ letters:

Reading off the letters in normal English fashion gives:

GFCGGCCFCIGJFBGCCJCGFNGAFPFBFO

Which can be converted to hex using A1-PF: 763773363970627330376D716F626E

hex: v7s69pbs07mqobn

which is a 15-character alphanumeric, which usually means a mediafire ID

https://mediafire.com/?v7s69pbs07mqobn from_CryptoCube.zip which contains two images:

AlyssaLay5.jpg https://imgur.com/lJpB6pg

A scene of Alyssa relaxing in her world

SSpiceWX1_Section_1.png https://imgur.com/zqUsWYL

A different world, this time that of Super Spice World X, the solving and finding of which, at the intended time (December 2018) would have helped with the Super Spice World X Solve which we eventually got 'the hard way’ see here:

https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/183174645898/

—–

Fleetwood Mac Penguins Reblog:

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641580777134522368/

After Moo performed the Herculean feat of pulling all the hidden content from the Fleetwood Mac Penguin posts, and solving them (see here: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641143663504785408/ ) it was discovered that one of the images had a broken imgur link.

This reblog appears to correct that.

It’s the final image, showing the Concert announcement for May 16, 1980 in Market Square Arena.

A QR code can be extracted from the blue channel, after some graphix-fu:

leading to:

http://mediafire.com/view/itc1peh4zo8i3a8

Fleetword.png https://imgur.com/2n7ynjE

This grid of letters appears to be made up of the letters from 'TUSK’ so that’s the word, and they are presented as light or dark, so we might have an octal code going on.

T 1 - light U 2 S 3 K 4 T 5 - dark U 6 S 7 K 0

141161 351761 512516 512511 410665 165136 127105 177541 261151 641141 151441 541551

reverse and space: 155 145 144 151 141 146 151 162 145 77 150 172 163 156 156 60 141 152 156 152 151 67 153 161 141

decode as octal: mediafire?hzsnn0ajnji7kqa

https://mediafire.com/?hzsnn0ajnji7kqa from_fleetwoodtusk.zip

Which contains 2 images: Alyssa Stand3A.jpg https://imgur.com/a2Qu0Ez

A picture of Alyssa mid-dance or yoga-pose or something in her world.

fleet-miller-big.png https://imgur.com/kXzpohW

A concert announcement for Fleetwood Mac and the Steve Miller Band, featuring a bowing penguin logo. Which is likely the intended final picture from the original set of Fleetwood Mac penguin images.

—– Merideth Brooks Reblog: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641584057234423808/

In this solve: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641135167921160192/

We discovered a 'Bitch code’ based on the Meredith Brooks song of the same name, using emojis, however one of them appeared to lead to a dead imgur link.

This time, the hidden content in the images is now QR codes instead of barcodes. The first leading to:

http://mediafire.com/view/d820g7awee5swr1

mbcodeA.png https://imgur.com/nM7MHHE

The second:

http://mediafire.com/view/26mjuqldvz7lovd

mbcodeB.png https://imgur.com/Wm2I5pV

The decoder ring was found to be: (I’m) Woman 1 (a bitch) Dog 2 (a lover) Heart 3 (a child) Kid 4 (a mother) Breastfeeding 5 (a sinner) Devil 6 (a saint) Halo 7 (I do not feel ashamed) Crossed Arms 0

The first image then becomes: 5626107461 5511625155 1761263517 6667616517 7501221111 6011011114 01501511??

reverse and space: (ignore babies) 115 105 104 111 101 106 111 122 105 77 156 167 66 67 153 62 167 155 152 61 155 164 70 162 65

decode as octal: MEDIAFIRE?nw67k2wmj1mt8r5

link: https://mediafire.com/?nw67k2wmj1mt8r5 from_merbrooks.zip

which contains Alyssa StandB.jpg https://imgur.com/dZv33D3

Showing Alyssa perhaps in a martial arts stance?

The second picture can be decoded the same way: 7416412611 4156176561 5515513627 1341761172 6775412611 5164114115 1441541551

reverse and space: 155 145 144 151 141 146 151 162 145 77 62 71 167 143 172 63 155 155 165 67 165 141 162 146 147

decode as octal: mediafire?29wcz3mmu7uarfg

link: https://mediafire.com/?29wcz3mmu7uarfg aweekofwalsh.zip

This time from 11-23-2018, this file contains a Kansas City Standard (KCS) WAV file, which decodes into ASCII art of Garfield and Leslie.

This would have been really nice to have found back when it was intended, as we didn’t discover the key to the Garfcode until it was expanded from Octal to Decimal in the Dr. Garfield Video.

See here: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641141614990983168/ and here: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641164038311657472/

for solutions which used the Garfcode

Here’s an image of the ASCII art:

And one where Taurtini did some magic:

—– Create with Garfield Reblog: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641588808039661568/

There’s a GIF with interesting blue bars that appear at the bottom in this post:

Moo pulled the bars out of the bottom of the GIF in order and stacked them:

counting down from the top in regular Pangent order: 1-9,0,A-F 4D 64 54 68 4E 67 4E 6D 49 6A 57 73 4E 6B 4E 6C 4C 6E 58 6E 4B 6E 4E 68 4C 70 58 69 4E 6A

interpreting as hex: MdThNgNmIjWsNkNlLnXnKnNhLpXiNj

Vigenere with key Garfield GdCcFcCjCjFnFgCiFnGiCjCeFpGdFf

A1-PF 74336330306D67396D7930356F7466

hex t3c00mg9my05otf

https://mediafire.com/?t3c00mg9my05otf from_createwgarfield.zip

AlyssaStand9B.jpg https://imgur.com/XNzGXeH

Another image of Alyssa standing/dancing in her world

SSpiceWX3underwater_Section_1.png https://imgur.com/X2NwXcV

Another world image from Super Spice World X, this time a world I’m not sure was actually used in any of the puzzles/solves, it was still a cool underwater world to play through.

The rest are Garfield and Heathcliff art, including a Dr. Garfield advertisement.

DrGarfield_Advert3.jpg https://imgur.com/Qg1Eqc1

garfdab1-editC.png https://imgur.com/qwxPzeS

garfdab2-editC.png https://imgur.com/y8418ht

garfieldPipes_4XRB2.png https://imgur.com/XSGdGub

Garfield_CowboyC.png https://imgur.com/JeaiJ2i

Garfield_CowboyCCT.png https://imgur.com/WdxBnud

heathcliffupscale2.png https://imgur.com/t17jFoj

mondaysBW.png https://imgur.com/yuZaj21

—– Melanie Brown vs Piers Morgan Reblog: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641590103946428416/

This post was previously solved as part of this one: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641159188147486720/

but there was a dead imgur link in it, so we got a reblog/correction

The colors at the bottom of each image can be inverted, and then decoded using the Standard Pangent Color Code:

The resulting digits can be decoded as hex to get letters: The first image (showing Mel B) becomes: RTQFPPGKTOCRSNQNPKGEWQCUSONAPI

Vigenere those with key: Melanie Brown FPFFCHCJCAGEGJFNCCCDFCGHGKCACA

A1-PF 6F6638303175706D333463787A3131

hex of801upm34cxz11

https://mediafire.com/?of801upm34cxz11 from_MelBPiers.zip Containing

Alyssa Stand2B.jpg https://imgur.com/8nQ88qF

Alyssa on one leg with arms lifted. Is she dancing? Is she posing? Is she human?

The second image (showing Mel C) becomes: OKQOSNJHXWYTRLQMSVGBWPBPSERISS

Vigenere with key: Melanie Brown CGFOFFFGGICGFHFMFNCAFBFCGAGIFK

A1-PF 376E66677937686C6D31626371796A

hex: 7nfgy7hlm1bcqyj

https://mediafire.com/?7nfgy7hlm1bcqyj from_MelBPiers2.zip

AlyssaStand10B.jpg https://imgur.com/TmLVxOD

More Alyssa wonderfully occupying her world

fiVUBJg.jpg https://imgur.com/fiVUBJg

A picture of Geri Halliwell’s Elvis Costume.

Interestingly, this was the imgur link that still worked on the previous solve, So not sure what the broken link was meant to lead to?

Oh well, probably something relevant to 2018, not so much to 2021. (our time)

With that, we think we’ve flushed the cache so to speak from old, unsolved, and/or broken stuff. It’s been a wild ride, but we’re nearing the end. Please stow your tray tables and return your seats to their full upright position as we prepare for landing!

(imgur album of medifire contents) https://imgur.com/a/4fDnTgK

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December 2018 Previously Unsolved Posts (now Solved)

After the flurry of posts that we put on this blog in January 2021, which included some old puzzles which appeared to lead to no-dead IMGUR links, Pangent reached out to Taurtine via DM to let us know some plans:

4We’re planning to rework “Mel B vs Piers Morgan,” “Crypto Cube,” “Design with Garfield,” and “Meredith Brooks” [due to Imgur issues]. I think that’s it, unless you’re having other troubles. This is going to delay things a little.

Look at December 2018 in the Pangent archive, and March 2019 in the HumanSoulsARG archive.

At this point Timescape was very understandably burnt out from carrying the project almost alone for so long, and said so privately to me.

A lot of content went unsolved around the same time, none of it especially important.

My notes from Dec 2018 state that we did six puzzles at once, including Crypto Cube, which were simply the raw level layouts for Super Spice World X.

None of those were important really, and I don’t think any of them got solved

My notes say: (crypto cube?) [penney] ** (sleigh ride?) ** (pepsi spice can) ** (Garfield Design) ** (Spice cards Goodbye) ** so that’s what those were.

We’ve now solved all of them, finding 4 Super Spice World X levels (one had already been found as intended to help with solving the Super Spice World X video), and 2 of them are now broken imgur links, as mentioned by Pangent.

The ‘broken’ puzzles were reworked into reblogs, which will be posted in a separate Solves post, so this post deals with the ones which didn’t have any problems.

JC Penny Catalog (Spice Dolls)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/181125791847/

This post is about wanting a set of specific Spice Girls dolls:

Hello Santa. I have attached a clipping of what I want this year, from the 1997 JC Penney catalog. I have been good all year by my own personal standards, the finer details of which are confidential..

Interestingly, these dolls turned up in person at Pangent, years later:

https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641163432932065280/

It’s the same dolls. Even with the little stuff, Pangent is playing the long game here.

The little notebook in the corner of the ad has a punch-card-looking design.

The bars at the top were a little confusing as they didn’t appear to line up to punch-card formats we were familiar with, but assuming the top bar means 'numbers’ and the lower bar means 'letters’ we can map the dots:

69 6D 67 75 72 48 44 73 77 67 65 56

which is hex for:

imgurHDswgeV

leading to the imgur link https://imgur.com/HDswgeV

Providing this image for one of the levels of Super Spice World X.

This one already had 75 views when we 'rediscovered’ it so we likely solved it before (and we had faint memories of solving it before, but couldn’t seem to find the records.) But we eventually did find the solution, and confirmed that this image (or a reupload of it to imgur) was used in the Super Spice World X solve:

https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/183174645898/

fore the others, since we didn’t solve the related puzzles at the time, we had to patch together screenshots from YouTube like a crazed animal. It appears now, in retrospect, that these posts were intended by Pangent to provide assistance and/or clarification of possibly ambiguous or difficult to recreate scenes from the Supuer Spice World X gameplay video. Would have been really nice to have had them back then!

Sleigh Ride:

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/181126002502

The “Sleigh Ride” picture contains a small barcode at top in the blue channel only

BGBLBECCCZEZDZDFCFEGEABM

If we try A1-PF, we get very bad hex due to the 'Z’s in there… 272B25333Z5Z4Z463657512C

very bad hex for:'+%30P@F6WQ,

IMGUR in hex is 696d677572 or 494d475552, I’m trying to kind of reverse engineer it and see what a solve would look like

looks a little like the second one if you add 2 to each?

barcode: BGBLBECCCZEZDZDFCFEGEABM Caesar by 2 (Vig with 'Y') DIDNDGEEEBGBFBFHEHGIGCDO A1-PF 494D4755527262685879734E Hex IMGURrbhXysN

https://imgur.com/rbhXysN

Another Super Spice World X 'clean’ image.

Cryptocube and Garfield Design were mentioned as needing to be reworked, so we’ll skip those in this post.

Trees (Spice Card Goodbye) https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/181168056852

On the trees, the 'almost red’ ornaments looked suspicious, so after a somewhat roundabout set of efforts by the team, we ended up with a solution.

Trees hex color of the ornaments transcript in a Z pattern. Your guess is as good as mine though d64071 d64144 d64067 d65065 d65062 d66143 d63070 d65141 d66064 d63061 d66141 d63062

take the last three of each:

071 144 067 065 062 143 070 141 064 061 141 062 9d752c8a41a2 as octal, and there's progress?

Okay, this is dumb and I officially hate this puzzle now, but add the third digit of each, in front of the octal decode, and you get:

49 4d 47 55 52 6c 38 5a 64 31 6a 32

which is hex for

IMGURl8Zd1j2

that is NOT a sensible way to encode this information

I would NOT have gotten that if I didn’t know it was an IMGUR

what’s not sensible about 'skip two characters, pull one character as hex, pull last three, decode as octal, then interpret as second hex character, then decode the hex byte as ASCII’?

So all that to say we were helped by looking for IMGUR, and managed to find the link to this image:

https://imgur.com/l8Zd1j2

Whew! made it. Another Super Spice World X Level.

Pepsi Holiday Spice

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/181168262157

Colors along the bottom, decode to: imgurJQp0om6

https://imgur.com/JQp0om6

All right, another Super Spice World X level.

And the December 2018 Forgotten posts are in the books. Except for the reblogged stuff. Coming soon to a Solves blog near you.

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Kangaroo Gameplay Solve (speed limit)

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641770935765090304/

This post references this video:

https://youtu.be/xSltZUUuIzo

From the description:

Guest reviewer Timescape plays Kangaroo for the Atari 2600. The 1982 arcade game about a mother kangaroo rescuing her child from menacing monkeys was Sunsoft’s answer to Donkey Kong.

This video compares the Arcade version of Kangaroo to the Atari 2600 port, played by Timescape, along with some other things including Atari play of ET, Adventure, Donkey Kong Jr. and Yars Revenge, and some clips of the Nickelodeon/QIBE TV Show Pinwheel (involving some snails) and some Atari commercials.

See here: https://youtu.be/Vy8wAT7tqJM for one of the actual Atari Commercials

(Pangent refers to Timescape as a “Guest Reviewer” even though the video is not technically a review. This was also true of this “review” of Ginger Ale and Lemonade: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/174508870193/ginger-ale-and-lemonade-review-solve )

There is also reversed audio of Timescape in the video.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/178516577354907648/803423562932813844/kangaroo_reversed.mp3

Timescape is referring to a previous video, “Kangaroo” with Alyssa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qajqEu8uMVo

Kris found a color code during the gameplay:

This was not the usual Pangent color code. The numbers used suggested hexadecimal, but the structure suggested decimal or octal much more clearly.

Moo found a screen at the beginning of the video (arcade Kangaroo section) for decoding the colors:

Timescape did it a slightly different way, showing why that color code makes sense:

RGB 'binary' (255=1): 001 110 110 001 111 001 001 111 000 001 101 100 001 101 001 001 110 001 001 110 011 001 100 101 001 100 101 001 100 011 001 100 001 001 111 010 001 100 110 000 110 001 001 111 000 Decimal values of each RGB 'binary' triple: 1 6 6 1 7 1 1 7 0 1 5 4 1 5 1 1 6 1 1 6 3 1 4 5 1 4 5 1 4 3 1 4 1 1 7 2 1 4 6 0 6 1 1 7 0 Group in 3s: 166 171 170 154 151 161 163 145 145 143 141 172 146 061 170 Octal: vyxliqseecazf1x

All of that led us to Kungfupanda mediafire

Mediafire: https://mediafire.com/?vyxliqseecazf1x

This mediafire contains some cat memes, 2 apparent puzzles (FleetwoodOSX_A.png and FleetwoodOSX_B.png), and 6 images of a text conversation, included here for easier reading:

The conversation is between a version of Lottie, and Alyssa, posing as Leslie. “Leslie’s” personality here switches back and forth between that of Leslie and that of Alyssa. Alyssa suggests that it’s a repeat of an old conversation, and that Lottie and Leslie had this conversation at the time, but not with each other. “Kung Fu Panda” refers to Dan Harmon, an uncredited writer on that film, who was frustrated that he could only make small changes to scenes he was writing, like changing the contents of a bucket. Alyssa is frustrated that she can’t save Lottie, and wants Lottie to forgive her for the things she can’t change.

One photo in the conversation, from the Spice Girls Wannabe video, includes a barcode which decodes as:

mediafire?u3myihgmrzxdb4b

Leading to a mediafire link:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/u3myihgmrzxdb4b/stairway.zip/file

Stairway.zip includes a video and photoset showing the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, which Lottie visited (apparently). There’s also Google Earth shots of London and the Hotel, as well as California and Lot 5550 where the Cube was collected/found/left? The audio in the video is a cover of Wannabe by Why Mona.

This is the 5550 vacant lot in Long Beach, CA which Leslie visited in the video “testame”. Lottie claims she is buried there?

Leslie went to investigate the “Transmitter at Pops” which is allegedly where the Cube was found/collected.

testame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzmEL6VNfTA

Related Solve: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/147116077843/glitchy-fireplace-pics-solve

Lot5550 North Paramount Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90805, United States 33.857187 -118.159609 https://goo.gl/CREg7N

FleetwoodOSX_A and FleetwoodOSX_B (Thanks Kris for clarifying that OSX here is a nod to ‘Mac’) show 11 penguin logos as row labels on the left side, and 14 columns, with various Pangent colors filling in some of the cells. The penguin logos were all recently discovered by Moo from old Pangent posts related to Fleetwood Mac. See here for the solve post:

https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/641143663504785408/fleetwood-mac-penguin-images-solves-thanks-moo

Here are the FleetwoodOSX images:

Since all 11 of these penguin logos were found on imgur, each with the 7-character imgur ID, and there are 14 columns, it was theorized, and proved correct, that the hex values of each imgur ID could be used to fill in the cells, then they could be read off in Pangent color code order.

1XhJQ62 t0EEeHu 3nW1QwV rsEkdcJ 97eonm5 z01W7U6 pRGsAO2 SzyY8jZ MuP9Yoe ncaDVcL jfaUUnO

Convert these to hexadecimal: 31 58 68 4A 51 36 32 74 30 45 45 65 48 75 33 6E 57 31 51 77 56 72 73 45 6B 64 63 4A 39 37 65 6F 6E 6D 35 7A 30 31 57 37 55 36 70 52 47 73 41 4F 32 53 7A 79 59 38 6A 5A 4D 75 50 39 59 6F 65 6E 63 61 44 56 63 4C 6A 66 61 55 55 6E 4F

CSV for the fun of it (making a spreadsheet):

1XhJQ62,3,1,5,8,6,8,4,A,5,1,3,6,3,2, t0EEeHu,7,4,3,0,4,5,4,5,6,5,4,8,7,5, 3nW1QwV,3,3,6,E,5,7,3,1,5,1,7,7,5,6, rsEkdcJ,7,2,7,3,4,5,6,B,6,4,6,3,4,A, 97eonm5,3,9,3,7,6,5,6,F,6,E,6,D,3,5, z01W7U6,7,A,3,0,3,1,5,7,3,7,5,5,3,6, pRGsAO2,7,0,5,2,4,7,7,3,4,1,4,F,3,2, SzyY8jZ,5,3,7,A,7,9,5,9,3,8,6,A,5,A, MuP9Yoe,4,D,7,5,5,0,3,9,5,9,6,F,6,5, ncaDVcL,6,E,6,3,6,1,4,4,5,6,6,3,4,C, jfaUUnO,6,A,6,6,6,1,5,5,5,5,6,E,4,F,

Here’s the resulting grids, filled in and shaded:

A: 59 54 20 4C 4A 5A 4E 70 33 58 79 36 75 30 YT LJZNp3Xy6u0

https://youtu.be/LJZNp3Xy6u0 speed limit

B Grid - Note the ‘extra 8’ at the top, in the actual image the cell is shaded with both green and cyan.

B: 58 32 48 61 58 7A 5A 7A 4B 64 53 68 41 78 43 X2HaXzZzKdShAxC

http://mediafire.com/?X2HaXzZzKdShAxC speed_limit.zip -> speed_limit.mp4

The ‘speed limit’ video warns about flashing images, and depicts Lottie walking outside in a glitched world. The scene is similar to older videos “weirdo” and ‘hurricane"

weirdo http://www.mediafire.com/file/3x4b64pucph6xdy/weirdo.zip

hurricane http://www.mediafire.com/file/7l837d1jjqntoxs/687572726963616e65.zip

We also see a cube-like tunnel, and hear “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” by the Traveling Wilburys (a song associated with Lancelot - Dean Schryer)

Alyssa then appears, narrating a conversation between Alex Schryer and Lottie. As in ‘Kangaroo’ and ‘mountain’, Alyssa appears as a computer-animated woman with blue hair and a blue raincoat, and her usual dual voice. Alyssa also has a male voice for Alex’s lines. This is subtitled on YouTube as follows:

Are you sleeping?

It’s 6 o'clock in the morning already.

Get up, we’ve dropped everything.

Kangaroo.

Message begins.

Text message from username Galahad. Quote.

Hey, so I hear you stole the Cube. You know Lottie, I’m not a science guy. Everything

you did at Pangent, I never understood it. So I was never sure if you’re a genius or an idiot.

It was pretty clearly one or the other. But I talked to a lot of people, who know science a lot

better than I do. And they weren’t sure either. Isn’t that funny? Half of ‘em think you’re nuts.

Well, you’re not a genius. You’re an idiot. You're proving that right now. It’s nice to finally know.

You know we can track you right? Dad had a thing attached to your car a long time ago.

And, I mean, we know where you live. Where your daughter lives. If you take my meaning.

According to this you’re on the move. Hope you’re staying under the speed limit.

Drive safe. Don’t text and drive.

Response from Argentina. Quote.

I won’t.

Text message from Galahad. Quote.

Funny. Hey, you’re reading this. We’re finally in sync.

Okay. This is for killing my dad.

(The cube then flashes, breaking the video as everything goes to white and a single 1KHz tone persists.)

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Mark Trail Pitfall Solve

This post: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641767198334009344/ references this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4mYqUyI3M

From the description:

Mark Trail is a newspaper comic strip created by Ed Dodd, which debuted April 15, 1946. It was later drawn by Tom Hill and Jack Elrod.

This is from an offhand request by current Mark Trail artist Jules Rivera. Here, the nature-loving adventurer makes his way through Pitfall!, a game designed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and released by Activision in 1982.

This uses a 2012 NES port by Neverware. It is an HDpack mod for the Mesen emulator. The artwork pack is downloadable here:

https://mediafire..com/?0kyi0r3l1sk3t87/

There doesn’t seem to be much of interest in terms of the hidden/ARG concepts of Pangent’s work in the download. And upon first watch, our Pangent team wasn’t finding anything particularly suspicious.

But we got a hint from Pangent:

In general, with the new videos, pay attention to when one scene switches to another. When an edit might have snuck in.

The screens and whatnot. And text. Some videos will be long but it should be possible to skim them

Armed with this knormation, and noting that the title screen appeared at the beginning and end of the gameplay, we discovered something!

The score changes rapidly right before the end:

005750

06107 052101 071050 121089 089099 111

Grouping by 3s and decoding as decimal ASCII gives: k4eG2yYYco

Leading to an unlisted YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4eG2yYYco

“screen saver” appears to be an updated (to 4K! and with a scene of Eric added to the end) version of an older video of the same name, which shows a Mac desktop, some files, and various clips of Lottie telling some of her story. These were all early revealed videos.

(This goes along with the recent theme of “last call for unfinished business”)

The visible desktop has files which might appear to be a code (Icons as Wingdings) but we couldn’t get anything out of that approach, and the files appear to be in alphabetical order, and the same desktop appeared in the original video, and we never found a solution then either, so we don’t think so.

The earlier version of ‘screen saver’ was discovered as part of this (impressive) solve: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/166800052533/shatter-and-c10h14o-penguinone-solve

and can be found here: http://youtu.be/qYSfRZIrtnY

There was a previous post in similar style which WAS a code ( http://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/143915737789 ) but those images were not in alphabetical order.

Solved here: http://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/144865930293

These posts tested our knowledge of 2016-2018 Pangent, and that’s okay.

Video ‘rescue’ shows the same Mac interface, but also without any icon codes. On the Tumblr, Pangent blamed some technical issues on a Mac to PC conversion issue. And yes, Lottie was using a Mac at that time.

r e s c u e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWu28kWRVhc

solved: https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/176387866393/rescue-solve

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/641344229280530432/everything-happens-so-much

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Garchive & Sassenheim Q&A Solves

During the Summer 2020 Q&A, here’s a few answers that weren’t marked #not-a-cipher: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/624908632479416320/

The coded text does in fact appear to deliver on the request: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hu-YFKJ_ZPgmctOEfv7ZHqmw4k5v0AGU/view

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/624912359552614400/

This response string can be split into two YouTube IDs, both concerning Mayor Sassenheim - who is refreshingly no longer lost.

https://youtu.be/vPG8vFEU79w - Found Cat https://youtu.be/2GQERj7crhA - m a y o r

Here's the original context for the Lost Cat:https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/164644903963/

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Catchall/Punt/Unsolved/Unknown/Old Stuff Post

This is a catch-all of all the miscelaneous unsolved or otherwise incomplete stuff that was left on our internal Cryptpad as of January 2021 where we keep track of the solves. The goal here is to flush the cache before the big push to the finale. If you find anything about any of this, feel free to shoot us a message here or on Discord.

—————————–

I’d tsg lcee wygx gaqf mertw. Phcyd yfa gbfm bff fl Eahvlmoly eaw jr moik wcxkvfit? Solve by Kris: Vigenere - Argentina “i m not sure what this means could you come off of anonymous and be more specific” ———— DSVIV DLFOW BLF ORPV BLFI NRMW GL YV? WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR MIND TO BE (Gravity Falls runes?) The Tumblr one: HUMANSOULSARG SOLIVES FOR THE The rest is cut off (Gravity Falls runes?) Kris solves ^^ ———————– Pangent reblogged this: https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/189988804722/90smovies-spice-girls-24qzqqagx3rgi3d a spice girls new year’s celebration, to which they added a mediafire ID: http://mediafire.com/?24qzqqagx3rgi3d SpiceGirls0101Eve.zip -> SpiceGIrls0101Eve.mp4 Clip of Spice Girls’ Wannabe from 1998 Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve concert. ——————————–

Unsolved/Unknown (?) “Spice World 2019”

https://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/185253203757/spice-girls-at-manchester-etihad-stadium-29-may

we solved the code in the background of the umbrella picture, is there more?

https://humansoulsarg.tumblr.com/post/187398130318/

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