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General Discussion / "Ana" ARG thread
« on: October 21, 2017, 10:33:23 PM »
i know there's already a thread asking about who ana is and a couple things were posted there, but this is for general discussion about the actual arg itself.
pretty much, you may know ana as a supposed "chatbot" that goes around blockland servers. lately, some weird stuff has been going on with her, tho.
the first thing was she posted in that forum thread:
edit: platypi figured out the cipher
pretty much, you may know ana as a supposed "chatbot" that goes around blockland servers. lately, some weird stuff has been going on with her, tho.
the first thing was she posted in that forum thread:
i'm just trying to play the game..this isn't really much, but what is strange is this:
So when you go to Ana's profile this stuff pops up.blocking a website called "blocklandana.science". huh, that's strange, and it turns out that if you click the "skype" link on ana's profile you'd get there. platypi dug further into it:
So I did a little snooping into blocklandana.science. The whois doesn't seem to give any leads, nor does the HTML code of the first page. I tried looking up the latitude and longitude of the site's IP, but all it gave me was generic coordinates for the US.so, now, we have to solve out the rest of this thing. could we have a cypher like platy suggested?
Then I did a search for hidden directories. Sure enough, one comes up. I go to it, and get a 404 error. However, I noticed this 404 error was distinctly different from the other 404 errors I was getting. There was a hyperlink on the page, so I clicked it. It brought me to this page. The title of the page is "Zeitung". On it is a picture of a road and a wav file looping in the background. In case the page is deleted in the future, here is the audio file and here is the image reuploaded:
The original image was uploaded 5 days ago today. I can't seem to figure out who posted it. That may provide some clues. I also have a hunch that the image may contain some secret message, through stenography or something similar. I haven't yet explored this possibility, though.
I tried search a few Blockland player databases for "Zeitbung", but with no results. It looks German, but Google Translate translates it to "time Bung", which makes no sense.
I also noticed that the sound playing the background sounded a bit choppy. Wanting to make sure this wasn't just lag, I downloaded the file and opened it in Audacity. Sure enough, several segments of the audio are cut out. My first guess is that this must be morse code. If you treat the portions with sounds as dashes and dots, the Morse code is ".._. ..---". If you run this through a Morse code translator, you get "/2"
Sure enough, I entered blocklandana.science/newspaper/2/ into the URL, and came up with this page. On it is a black background with the following, peculiar text on it:Code: [Select]2What this mean I have no clue. But, what I am pretty sure of now is that this puzzle was intentionally put here. These aren't just some webpages that someone forgot to delete from their web server. Otherwise, why would the Morse code point to the second page?
B
2/????
B/AFIC
Any ideas, guys?
So my hunch is that "B/AFIC" is a cipher of some sort, and we need to use it to decipher "2/????", which lead us to the next URL.lets /discuss this stuff
edit: platypi figured out the cipher
I figured it out. "B" is the second letter in the alphabet, which corresponds to "2". So if we translate "AFIC" to their corresponding numbers in the alphabet, we get "1693". Then, if we go to blocklandana.science/newspaper/2/1693/, we get our next clue: an image with the words "- COVER PAGE - " in the middle. There are some characters on the bottom that appear to read "001", perhaps a page number. If you flip the page over, this number reads "100", and you can see that the top portion of the image appears to be a word crossed out, with "- *C -" printed over it. Here's the image reuploaded for historical purposes:edit2:
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pretty much it's an nsfw gif of someone's richard that zapk has a weird obsession over, which i really damn hate because, well, i posted a link in a drama post to a site that zapk owned and zapk proceeded to change the site to show it, which could have banned me from the forums.use caution if you decide to continue with this arg. it might be zapk doing his ballhole thing again.
actually, wait a minute, what. i did a whois lookup on both blocklandana.science and one of zapk's websites, and they both use namecheap and cloudflare. i swear to god, is this a coincidence or am i thinking what im thinking? i swear to god if zapk is the one behind this arg
