New ARG!
To view the first ARG, click here.
Mysterious Video
@MrSpaceman decided to ask @FourZeroTwo where's Space Bob:
...and this was the answer:
Decoded Video
Community members after many hours on Discord trying to decode terminal messages received confirmation (green checkmark) by FourZeroTwo
First green line:
VISORCORTEX CONNECTION SEVERED - BOOTING ADMIN SAFE MODE TERA
White line:
R.AVANTI@DRCCSAPM.COM:~$
Second green line:
A 2020.B VERNE SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT - VISORCORTEX TERMINAL
Some letters appear quickly on the screen and have also been deciphered as:
CC CROWD MAWS WPM = WWW DRCCSAPM COM
R.AVANTI is the user who is logged on the machine on which this terminal appears. DRCCSAPM.COM is the domain this user belongs to, however this looks like a website which led to the website:CAD CWM CWM PROWS = WWW DRCCSAPM COM
DRCCSAPM seems to be a website where all the comics that were apparently written by Robert Avanti are cataloged.
The messages in the bottom corner of the site are in a loop (marquee effect) and say the following:
//DON'T TRUST THE VENDOR
//FEED THE EMBERS
//OUR HUMANITY LIES IN VARIANCE
//SPACEMAN STOP SEARCHING
//BLIND THE EYES
//SPACEDUST IS THE SOURCE OF AND SOLUTION TO ALL PROBLEMS
//WHEN BUILDINGS BECOME CITIES, LANDLORDS BECOME KINGS
Robert Avanti
On the site, there is a menu called Message, where it shows an email and a location unknown until now.
When searching DRCCSAPM on Google, a Linkedin and Twitter profile appears that apparently belongs to the same person who made the comics
Mysterious Phrase
Every email answered by Robert Avanti ends with the phrase:
Meht yb deruoved eb lliw nem, senihcam gnitnevni fo ecneuqesnoc ni
Meaning:
In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them
Which is a quote from Jules Verne, a writer who wrote "Paris in the Twentieth Century" published in 1994, the novel follows a young man who struggles unsuccessfully to live in a technologically advanced but culturally backward world. The work paints a grim, dystopian view of a technological civilization.
And apparently the list of who Robert Avanti follows on Twitter has to do with futurism and Artificial Intelligence.
Everything indicates that Space Bob is Robert.
- Bob is the nickname for Robert
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In the
video
posted by FourZeroTwo, the background image is Space Bob art
mixed with Robert's profile image
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Robert's header image on Linkedin profile is artwork from issue
9 DRCCSAPM, Space Bob specific
Earlier today, Robert Avanti's Twitter account posted a video that appears to be of him reading a sequence of numbers
- Numbers on Screen: 111, 167, 106, 226, 50, 402, 166
- Spoken Numbers: 97, 4, 21, 180, 181, 99, 45, -168, 252, 354, 485, 346, 170, 336, 61, 111, 167, 106, 226, 50
DEADROP community members, @December and @MrSpaceman, decided to message Avanti on Twitter:
Robert Avanti started responding to some community members:
Community member @ClicheUsername decided to try using the number present on the machine that appears in the video that Robert Avanti posted on Twitter and...
A new page appears, asking for a password. It looks like a Unix terminal, already connected to the R.AVANTI user.
After figuring out the landing page, we started asking questions to try and figure out if we were on the right track (via checkmarks):
Until that moment we were trying to decipher messages in all ways, through the morse code that was deciphered and through Jules Verne's cryptogram. Until...
...R. Avanti sends a new video to community member @eckzhall
- DRCCSAPM.com/8987528
- password: Lenore4
The page has been decrypted. It now shows a website with several menus, however, only the "Climate Wars" menu contains information, all others show an empty, black page.
The page shows a video, a title and today's date, with a description: "VisorCortex processing uploaded video file…"
In the lower right corner of the video appears a date and time:
Everything indicates that it will be one page a day, and that the next tracks of the next pages will start to be made available through the same time as the first ARG: 12:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time).
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