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More thoughts on the QSMP 2 (?) teaser
After posting a more detailed analysis covering many different aspects of Quackity's newest teaser, I still have some thoughts about the final few messages which I just want to share here.
MESSAGE FROM THE FEDERATION. [4.30] WE SHALL BE RETURNING SHORTLY. THERE IS WORK TO COMPLETE. YOU WILL HEAR FROM US. [05,00,25]
What I find confusing here is the two... lets call them items.
I assume [4.30] is a time stamp where 4 is the month, april and 30 is the date. This means that here, it is talking about the day the message was broadcasted. The day the teaser was released. Quite obvious so far.
The second 'time stamp' is a lot more cryptic though. [05,00,25]
The easiest assumption is that it's may 2025, but here, the date is the 0th??? This would mean that we HAVE already heard from them. Or maybe the 0th of may is just april the 30th. It could hint towards something being hidden in the video, something we need to find, but I think that is somewhat of a reach. This isn't an ARG (I would guess), you can't wait for a few nerds to take the video apart until you can start with your project so I don't know, but I'll keep my eyes out.
There are even more differences between the two items than I initially thought.
[4.30] and [05,00,25]
1. And most obvious, one has two numbers while the other has three.
2. One uses a dot to divide them, the other uses commas.
3. One has a leading zero (05 and 00), the other doesn't (4).This makes me think that the second is not a date at all. If it is though, it could be the 25th of May (unconnected but it could also be the arrival date of the French streamers to the island which is also in May). But if it was a date, it would be formatted like the other one because it IS like the other one.
This leads me to believe it is something different.
1. A time stamp in the video (the fifth minute and .25 seconds), but I checked and there's nothing out of the ordinary. Just the normal screen and classical music.
2. A location where we receive their messages. Unlikely since this is probably not an ARG. If it is, I wouldn't know where to start searching.
3. A duration. 5 months (and 25 days) is unlikely, wayy too long. 5 weeks and 25 hours too, since there should be something in May. 5 days and 25 minutes, possible but why the specific minutes? Also, this would explain why the date at which the message is sent is at the top, so you know from where to count. Still, if it was a duration it would've just been formatted as [05:00:25], no?
The truth is, I have no idea.
Thanks to @monetmightexist's comment, I think I've got the full thing now. I also tried to independently check what they suggested, and was able to get something which is somewhat close.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please help, help, help SOS SOS SOS It's not real, it's not possible to have this You are meant for this You are meant for this You are meant to return to your origin. Do not go beyond that wall, it is cursed It is sacred I'm coming bac[k].
I myself only got like... orifinnotgobeyamdd but like... ahh close enough. Anyway, just thought I'd add this :D
The new QSMP teaser - deep dive (morse code!!!!)
This is a (still relatively short) deep dive into all most of the hidden messages in the new teaser Quackity posted in which we are going BACK TO THE ISLAND!
If you want a more detailed explanation of how I figured out the morse code, check out my other post!
Index: - Flashing text on the screen - The music - The spoken words (poem) - The light - The MORSE CODEEE
Flashing text
The flashing text which could be seen on the screen reads:
Return safe your journey is high not over
I thought at first it would be 'your journey is nigh,' as in close in time, BUT it actually does say high. Which is weird.
Maybe as in plane or wall?
The music
I don't know, heard it before, something classic. I doubt it has a deeper meaning though.
The spoken text
During the later part of the video, a presumably artifical voice reads a quite odd... collection of words. First, @mossybee-exe and I made some guesses about the words, since not all of them can be heard clearly, which together form:
In the desert, I saw a creature [unintelligable] whom, squatting on the ground, held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I said, 'is it good, friend?' 'It is bitter (than that?),' he answered, 'but I like it -- Interval where the texts lay over and you can't really understand SHIT -- (house and death??) but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.'
NOW
I took this and put it into a duckduckgo search because I was already suspecting that it was a poem. And I was right.
In the Desert By Stephen Crane
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”
I also found an interpretation of it (https://poemanalysis.com/stephen-crane/in-the-desert/), though I don't really see how it could be connected to anything else yet. Does match the whole creepy vibe of it though.
The light
I thought that it could be morse code, but... I don't know. The blinking seems very erractic, but I also can't put a finger on what it could mean.
The Morse Code
The part I spent the longest on, but also my absolute favourite.
If you want to read how I decoded it in a LOT more detail, I'll put up another post on my blog! Check it out if you like that stuff :D
The morse code decoded is:
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please help, help, help SOS SOS SOS It's not real, it's not possible to have this You are meant for this You are meant for this You are meant [to] return to your (ORIEFIRLGFBEYAMMD or ORIFISLGFBEYAMMD (yes no idea either)) That wall, it is cursed It is sacred I'm coming bac[k].
brackets [ ] where, logically, there should be something but isn't.
ANDDD this is it, thank you for reading! <3
Tags from @artificialflav
Honestly, that could be true, especially the over is typical for transmissions. But then, it would be a warning of some kind.
I also kind of thought that it would be a hint towards the journey BEING high as in 'go above the wall, fly a plane' or something
The new QSMP teaser - deep dive (morse code!!!!)
This is a (still relatively short) deep dive into all most of the hidden messages in the new teaser Quackity posted in which we are going BACK TO THE ISLAND!
If you want a more detailed explanation of how I figured out the morse code, check out my other post!
Index: - Flashing text on the screen - The music - The spoken words (poem) - The light - The MORSE CODEEE
Flashing text
The flashing text which could be seen on the screen reads:
Return safe your journey is high not over
I thought at first it would be 'your journey is nigh,' as in close in time, BUT it actually does say high. Which is weird.
Maybe as in plane or wall?
The music
I don't know, heard it before, something classic. I doubt it has a deeper meaning though.
The spoken text
During the later part of the video, a presumably artifical voice reads a quite odd... collection of words. First, @mossybee-exe and I made some guesses about the words, since not all of them can be heard clearly, which together form:
In the desert, I saw a creature [unintelligable] whom, squatting on the ground, held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I said, 'is it good, friend?' 'It is bitter (than that?),' he answered, 'but I like it -- Interval where the texts lay over and you can't really understand SHIT -- (house and death??) but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.'
NOW
I took this and put it into a duckduckgo search because I was already suspecting that it was a poem. And I was right.
In the Desert By Stephen Crane
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”
I also found an interpretation of it (https://poemanalysis.com/stephen-crane/in-the-desert/), though I don't really see how it could be connected to anything else yet. Does match the whole creepy vibe of it though.
The light
I thought that it could be morse code, but... I don't know. The blinking seems very erractic, but I also can't put a finger on what it could mean.
The Morse Code
The part I spent the longest on, but also my absolute favourite.
If you want to read how I decoded it in a LOT more detail, I'll put up another post on my blog! Check it out if you like that stuff :D
The morse code decoded is:
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please help, help, help SOS SOS SOS It's not real, it's not possible to have this You are meant for this You are meant for this You are meant [to] return to your (ORIEFIRLGFBEYAMMD or ORIFISLGFBEYAMMD (yes no idea either)) That wall, it is cursed It is sacred I'm coming bac[k].
brackets [ ] where, logically, there should be something but isn't.
ANDDD this is it, thank you for reading! <3
Decrypting the morse code in the new QSMP teaser (a detailed explanation)
Quackity's new teaser for QSMP 2 (or something??) contained a long sequence of morse code which I... spent like 6 hours decrypting, and this is an explanation of how I did it (and you can, too, shall you wish to!)
I also posted a shorter analysis on my blog where I looked at all the different aspects of the video (the spoken words, the words flashing on the screen AND the morse code) in case you wanna learn more about the video in general.
The only program I used for this was audacity, which is free and which you can download quite easily.
Getting the audio ready
First, I recorded the audio by playing the video in one tab and recording it via Audacity in another using a tutorial here. Before that, I tried to use VLC, but it has a bug that makes it so it will only record the video and not the audio. Still, useful if you only want the video!
After I had the audio of the whole video, I needed to extract the morse code since in some sequences, it would be literally impossible (at least for me, dunno about you superhuman) to understand the morse code due to all the background noise. To do this, I first looked at a sequence where there was ONLY the morse code and nothing else and analyzed the spectrum of this.
This 'spectrum' is essentially just a graph of how much sound of a certain frequency (measured in Hz) is in a certain snippet that I selected.
The top is the frequency of the morse code, so the plan is to keep this frequency (469 Hz) and throw everything else out.
In order to do this, I used the menus which you can find in audacity under 'effects -> Dominic Mazzoni,' reduced the volume of everything above 480 Hz by 48 Db (there is an option for how much you want to reduce it, but seeing as we don't need it at all we might as well reduce it as much as possible) and same for everything below 460.
After cutting it, I was left with a recording of (mostly) only the morse code.
Decoding the morse code
Of course, I tried to do it the lazy way and punched the thing into a software which is supposed to be able to get morse code from recordings, CwGet. Did not work though, the thing is like REALLY old so I'd recommend searching another one. The only thing it DID grab correctly was 'is sacred im coming' but besides that it was just... bs.
SO, I had to do it myself.
(the best flowchart for morse code I was able to find)
Now, I won't bore you with all of the stuff where I wasn't sure about something and had to go over it over and over again, but one thing I do want to mention is that, in a very specific part, I did the filtering thing again, this time with 465 and 475 Hz though, and got an even cleaner result out of that. BUT, the more you do that the quieter the whole thing gets so I had to crank up the volume everywhere all the way. You hear it more clearly but it's quieter.
The following is, of course, not completely guaranteed to be true, but it sounds like the most logical one to me. IMSORRY .. -- ... --- .-. .-. -.-- IMSORRY .. -- ... --- .-. .-. -.-- IMSORRY .. -- ... --- .-. .-. -.-- PLEASEHELP .--. .-.. . .- ... . .... . .-.. .--. HELPHELP .... . .-.. .--. .... . .-.. .--. SOSSOSSOS ... --- ... ... --- ... ... --- ... ITSNOTREAL .. - ... -. --- - .-. . .- .-.. ITSNOTPOSSIBLE .. - ... -. --- - .--. --- ... ... .. -... .-.. . TOHAVETHIS - --- .... .- ...- . - .... .. ... YOUAREMEANT -.-- --- .-- .- .-. . -- . .- -. - FORTHISYOU ..-. --- .-. - .... .. ... -.-- --- ..- AREMEANT .- .-. . -- . .- -. - FORTHISYOU ..-. --- .-. - .... .- ... -.-- --- ..- AREMEANT .- .-. . -- . .- -. -
1:27 in the recording RETURNTOYOUR .-. . - ..- .-. -. - --- -.-- --- ..- .-. Still unresolved what the following could mean (different versions): ORIEFIRL --- .-. .. . ..-. .. .-. .-.. ORIFISL --- .-. .. ..-. .. ... .-..
And also still unresolved but I only have one version for this: GFBEYAMMD --. ..-. -... . -.-- .- -- -- -..
THATWALL - .... .- - .-- .- .-.. .-.. ITISCURSED .. ... -.-. ..- ..-. ... . -.. ITISSACRED .. - .. ... ... .- -.-. .-. . -.. IMCOMING .. -- -.-. --- -- .. -. --. BAC -... .- -.-. I still haven't been able to find the missing k 'back' technically has, it is possible it comes WAYYYY later and so I don't have it in my recording, but I think the message is clear enough.
There are still passages where I am completely unsure what they mean. It could be me not understanding it correctly, but the rest has been fairly easy so I don't know about that. It could also be encrypted or just complete bullshit. Either way, if you want to give it a try and see if you can make something of it, please feel free to give it a listen!
The complete text reads as:
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please help, help, help SOS SOS SOS It's not real, it's not possible to have this You are meant for this You are meant for this You are meant [to] return to your (ORIEFIRLGFBEYAMMD/ORIFISLGFBEYAMMD (yes no idea either)) That wall, it is cursed It is sacred I'm coming bac[k].
brackets [ ] where there should be something in order for it to make sense but there isn't.
The new QSMP teaser - deep dive (morse code!!!!)
This is a (still relatively short) deep dive into all most of the hidden messages in the new teaser Quackity posted in which we are going BACK TO THE ISLAND!
If you want a more detailed explanation of how I figured out the morse code, check out my other post!
Index: - Flashing text on the screen - The music - The spoken words (poem) - The light - The MORSE CODEEE
Flashing text
The flashing text which could be seen on the screen reads:
Return safe your journey is high not over
I thought at first it would be 'your journey is nigh,' as in close in time, BUT it actually does say high. Which is weird.
Maybe as in plane or wall?
The music
I don't know, heard it before, something classic. I doubt it has a deeper meaning though.
The spoken text
During the later part of the video, a presumably artifical voice reads a quite odd... collection of words. First, @mossybee-exe and I made some guesses about the words, since not all of them can be heard clearly, which together form:
In the desert, I saw a creature [unintelligable] whom, squatting on the ground, held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I said, 'is it good, friend?' 'It is bitter (than that?),' he answered, 'but I like it -- Interval where the texts lay over and you can't really understand SHIT -- (house and death??) but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.'
NOW
I took this and put it into a duckduckgo search because I was already suspecting that it was a poem. And I was right.
In the Desert By Stephen Crane
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, “Is it good, friend?” “It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it “Because it is bitter, “And because it is my heart.”
I also found an interpretation of it (https://poemanalysis.com/stephen-crane/in-the-desert/), though I don't really see how it could be connected to anything else yet. Does match the whole creepy vibe of it though.
The light
I thought that it could be morse code, but... I don't know. The blinking seems very erractic, but I also can't put a finger on what it could mean.
The Morse Code
The part I spent the longest on, but also my absolute favourite.
If you want to read how I decoded it in a LOT more detail, I'll put up another post on my blog! Check it out if you like that stuff :D
The morse code decoded is:
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry please help, help, help SOS SOS SOS It's not real, it's not possible to have this You are meant for this You are meant for this You are meant [to] return to your (ORIEFIRLGFBEYAMMD or ORIFISLGFBEYAMMD (yes no idea either)) That wall, it is cursed It is sacred I'm coming bac[k].
brackets [ ] where, logically, there should be something but isn't.
ANDDD this is it, thank you for reading! <3
A letter for my mutual @vrioloki!
Hey! I've been playing some chess recently, and well, I'm still a bit confused about the rules but I think I'm getting there. So far I've just been playing against myself, but playing against other people would give me important information!
(this is 4:20, I'm sorry lmao)
Anyway! Have fun with this!
This is a riddle. Anyone can try to do it if this comes up on one's dash. Good luck! And please if you're stuck ask for clues
Then maybe the one mister Holmes should brush up on his cryptography.
What am I even talking about, this was a mere lucky guess.
Since upon closer inspection, it depicted some inner sense, especially the singular M and the Mw't, the only combination of letters for that would be 'it's' which makes sense for M = I since I is the only capitalized standalone word in English, I thought it would be a homoalphabetic chiffre (a chiffre where one letter always translates to an encrypted counterpart) and after a lot of trial and error... no it wasn't. The thing above still was true, but it was actually a polyalphabetic chiffre, one where one letter, for example A, can translate to different encrypted letters.
How I found this out? After being very somewhat frustrated at not finding an answer, I just input the message into a Vigenère decryption program and, just on a whim, chose Sherlock as a password. This produced this output which left me... surprised, to say the least.
Then, of course, I knew I was on the right track so I put in Redbeard as a password, which gave me the following message:
Sherlock, is mummy hosting christmas this year? Am I invited?
It's been such a long time. I have gifts for everyone.
Only four days to go, time is ticking.
Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah you might wanna do something about this. Good thing I was in dire need of a riddle since this message seems quite... urgent. Good luck figuring this one out, but that's more your area of expertise, Mister Holmes.
I have some 8th grade school notes, should Mister Holmes be interested in expanding his very limited knowledge of cryptography.
Sincerely, the local cryptography nerd,
LL
Jlhspotn, zw pvqmp kfwwjrg Tkimvuqaj wymv ziai? Dd M lozikhu? Mw’t fevq jyfi e lfqx xlni. I ydmi jjjtj ifv hwirprei. Ropy wrlv gbcs kr xs, wjqe zv kmflmnx. Wzgn, uscb. Wzgn, uscb.
Another code? The structure suggests it's not random gibberish. But without the cipher, even I can't make sense of it.
SH
@vrioloki ?
Are you bored lately? Do you have case at the moment ? Are you aroace ? Do you want a riddle?
Those are many questions for one ask. I am working on a case, but I couldn't solve it yet. It's irritating. I'm waiting for more information about the case from the police and the labs. It's tedious, I've a case but I'm bored with waiting.
I'm always ready for a riddle.
-SH