#irisar

[astartus]

IRIS ARG POST

So, I think I figured something out. The new audio post spells -..- -..- -..- in the morse section, which everyone thought spells XXX, which IRIS has been using a lot. They are wrong.

-. spells N.

.- spells A.

Repeat the sequence and you get 

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

BATMAAAAAAN!

Or, possibly

KATAMARI DAMACY

So, my new theory is that IRIS really runs on a supercomputer in the batcave and 11 looks like THIS.

Discuss.

[thisambiguation]

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[astartus]

Headcanon for ZDK10

Alright, so as you probably guessed, I followed this IRIS ARG for a while now. And I just-

You know how there is this pre-version of zdk12, Zodiak11, who thinks he's the shit, he kinda reminds me of Dave Strider a bit.  All cool and everything, but then he tries to modify his blog outfit by typing color instructions in the headline, and then goes on about hes so cool, and then fucks up opening his blog to the public and then fakes asks praising his awesomeness

And he has still a previous version, Zodiak10 or ZDK10 we found on ebay

Just a page with favs of items like Isopods, since 10 is all about Isopods, and Blackbirds (which are kinda 12's thing) and a Dell computer (which 12 is running on), and now he's selling an Isopod SOMETHING SOMETHING

And I just can't shake this headcanon like, you know. 11 is technologically doofus enough to think he can change a blog by just typing shit in the headline. And I think 10 THINKS IT MADE A BLOG TOO

But because it's even more technologically impaired than 11, it went to make a tumblr account and somehow managed to end up on ebay

And made an ebay account and thinks it has the coolest blog ever

And now it favs Isopods all over the place thinking it has a theme blog and all those pretty pictures are reblogs, and all the Isopod auctions are just tagged wish "YES", "OOOOO", "Man Oh Man", "Ohhhh Yes", "Good" and stuff and its so excited about this stuff

and when it favs Blackbird stuff its like "Look at this, big sis IRIS" "I know you like Blackbirds" "Look at this, I reblogged it just for you!"

And then I imagined 10 finding the auction of a Dell computer and being like "LOOK IRIS LOOK I FOUND A PICTURE OF YOU HOW COOL IS THAT I CANT EVEN" and then I noticed the Dell computer is just tagged "Wow" and now I cant even

I mean, IRIS and 11 are cool as shit and everything, but they're nothing compared to 10, its like the cutest little AI shit ever

I want my 10 now

[iantimony]

first connections noted by glancing at the IRIS debriefing page without any real background information:

13 Blackbirds (poem) & 13 zodiac signs (if you count Ophiuchus which many people do)

bird things in general ("sir christopher wren", in this post "she is one of the blackbirds", bye bye blackbird the lou gold song)

the audio as transcribed in this post, btw, came from this video of winston churchill's funeral, starting approximately 2:40 in.

6 "originals", six mountains and blackbirds in the spectrogram of the 11th audio post

yeah thats all i have for now woo

[milk-tootheddd]

Also just attempted to turn those image files into openable archives, but with no success. Seems like they aren't hiding archives perhaps?

I managed to get both to open as .zips, which just gave me .cpgz files. They opened but gave me only a folder with the same initial .zip in. It's basically just a never ending loop of empty archives which go from .zip to .cpgz to .zip to .cpgz endlessly, but I don't know enough about steganography to be 100% confident in those findings, so if anyone else wants to take a shot at getting something from them be my guest!

[voyageviolet]

I've been reading through a bunch of Iris/ZDK12's posts, and I think it's interesting how many of their posts are obviously taken from various sources around the internet. There's a quote from a book called Invisible Monsters (quote source, ZDK12 post - "combined effort" and "mirror, mirror" are listed as separate quotes on Wikiquote); information about kintsukuroi (quote source, ZDK12 post); an excerpt from a book on Luciferian witchcraft (quote source, ZDK12 post); information on Huna (quote source, ZDK12 post - this website also talks about 3 selves); the Wikipedia page on heartbreak (quote source, ZDK12 post); a two-years-old post about a childhood experience (quote source; ZDK12 post - IRIS may be quoting more things here, but I couldn't find anything); a 3-years-old Psychology Today article (quote source; ZDK12 post); some text from the bottom of an e-card website (quote source; ZDK12 post); and probably a bunch of other quotes that I haven't picked up on. And then of course there are all of the references to "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."

Obviously these quotes can't all be important references. It seems that IRIS tends to pick up on random things from all sorts of places, and that may apply to anything: text posts, images, that audio post that references Winston Churchill, or anything else that may come up. SO I think that anyone who's interested in working out this ARG should be careful where they focus their efforts; something that sounds important could just be a reference plucked off of the internet somewhere.

[milk-tootheddd]

I'm unsure if anyone's as interested as me in this, but opening the two .png files I could find in IRIS'/ZDK-12's text posts, (this and this one respectively - the first has the same image posted twice,) in a plain text editor gave me this:

First image:

âPNG IHDRO≈πgAMA±è¸a pHYs√√«o®dIDATWc¯è hÀˇˇ‚¬hò…≤¸OIENDÆB`Ç

Second image:

âPNG IHDRoÆxgAMA±è¸a pHYs√√«o®dIDATWc¯èh*Ùˇ?ıøkïYcLòIENDÆB`Ç

Not sure if it's useful or meaningful in any way but I haven't seen anyone else open the .pngs as plain text yet so

[charaznablescanontoyota]

reminder to please update the unforum thread in addition to the tumblr tags whenever new IRIS developments happen!