Forum:29th August Announcement ARG

Starting on 29/8/11 a cryptic message was seen on the main menu screen of Deus Ex: Human Revolution saying: 'Human Revolution – Special Message Incoming / Be Ready / 2200 GMT 29 Aug -- okM8-+Ds4Dui?lMh$Mzvm14SBqe7;G.I6=u74b?mkh-45Ki6Od+98XBpCku7'

At the alloted time this message changed to: '5-/!f/fq/xc/qy/d3/?x/t$/j#' and the ARG was born.

Further cryptic clues were released throughout the day, across different websites and services:

r5/ie/yp - Twitter from David Anfossi (http://twitter.com/#!/DavidAnfossi) DX: HR producer

bo/zv/3n/4h/9b/$=/=8/st/-9 - Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/DeusEx)

ad/uk/w0 - Twitter from Stephane D'Astous (http://twitter.com/#!/sdastous) EM manager

72/m1/.4 - Twitter from Jean-François Dugas (http://twitter.com/#!/Jeffachoo) DX:HR director

cm/n7/pg/gw/+j/#s/2a/8z/o! - Found in a picture uploaded by Jonathan Jacques-Belletete DX:HR Art Director http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqqsmscoQF1qer56zo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1314810953&Signature=lWF13WMiqJP161ugJdbJrFVINNo%3D

o./ll/e;/6u/;6/h+/v?/kr/1i - Found on frontpage of the community website http://community.eidosmontreal.com/

These clues were eventually solved by:

- taking the capital letters from the original announcement 'MDDMMSBGIKOXBC' and then substituting the letters with the pairings given in the later clues to give: '13311tower.com'

Following that link takes you to a picture full of snippets of info related to DX:HR. http://13311tower.com/images/13311tower.jpg If you then clicked on the Illuminati eye, on a post-it note in the image then a username/password box appeared.

The log-in details for this were cracked from clues hidden in the source code of the page.

User: Uluru - found from GPS coordinates and referencing them on google maps to what was known as Ayers Rock (Uluru is its original Aboriginal and now official name).

Pass: 11m13clinic - found by reversing the playback of some Morse code found in a wav file that was referenced in the source code. http://cdn2.netops.eidosinteractive.com/files/deusex/BdW9RxMRr/13311tower.wav

When entered, a new image is displayed showing Adam in a coffin(?) with the text 'WHAT IS THE MISSING LINK?' http://i.imgur.com/SPZN6.jpg

NB: Confirmation from David Anfossi that this is the end of the ARG on twitter http://twitter.com/#!/DavidAnfossi/status/108649283082911744

PoLLeNSKi 21:44, August 30, 2011 (UTC)


 * Great job for the first =). Itachou [~talk~] 21:26, August 30, 2011 (UTC)