The II ARG is underway!!! Oh boy ok. All info I have so far under the cut
Disclaimer that I’m not the first person to discover this, I was only made aware that the codes existed, and you all saw my tumblr feed after TBOB came out. I went straight to work.
Alright so, within the description of every episode of ii, there is one letter. Together they create “cpuygtuctgkpuvqtg” and when put into a Caesar cipher translator (two letters forward) you get “answers are in store”
Head to the ii store. In the description of each piece of merch is yet another code! To decipher these you must use the vigenere cipher, the key is “COBS”
KT ZGW KBFV - IF YOU WANT
KBGGTABLKCO JGUBJFWOY - INFORMATION REGARDING
KBBFKABLG WOKCBJLA - INANIMATE INSANITY
VVF LTIUZ EOO TG TPMPR - THE TRUTH CAN BE FOUND
QB UZG VPJKNPF - ON THE HORIZON
VC GAPR JL ACV EWGU YQ - TO FIND IT YOU MUST GO
UHSSKUIL VC UZG GPMTQF - STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE
HCS LJS OWZH DDWS - FOR THE NEXT CLUE
From here, you go back to the inanimate insanity store, just the front page! If you’re on computer, press ctrl+u to open the source code (aka: straight to the source). Scroll to line 2013 (note the number. 2013 is when the first episode of s2 released. The message ends on 2024, which means we’ll likely get ep18 before the new year since then it’ll align with the year ii2 ends) there you will find this: (description in alt text)
The key word is likely going to be used as a passcode or possibly a key for a cipher later in the hunt.
This is where the trail leads us to Cabby. I’ve found nothing in the source material of her website but… “you may want to take a page out of their playbook”
Cabby used her files, and recently on Adam’s Twitter, he posted this just yesterday:
This countdown gave us about 2 days. One day is up already, but tomorrow lies ahead. He’s uploading files. Like Cabby’s files
There isn’t anything us to do further from here, since he hasn’t alluded to what these files can be. It’s likely that there’s going to be something hidden within them on a certain page, and we’ll probably have to use the highlighter tool to find some kind of hidden text.