The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[DICKJONES]

Guy who runs the pastebin here. Just letting you guys know that I'm watching this thread for progress while 4chan is down. I also put the link to this thread at the top of the bin so that people who are using it know where to go.

[BahamutPT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%...ography%29 ?

Great find!

[Fake]

What if we're not looking for a login? I mean we're able to access everything at the moment right? Don't we need to solve a task just like the piping and the zork game? We can't list the pk5 folder so we donøt know what to run, what if the maelstrom name is actually an executable that needs to be run.

Tried to run/play/read maelstrom.txt .exe .vid and .snd (and also moskstraumen) to no avail.

Tried running descend.exe too, twitter is hinting more and more towards the maelstrom as the center of something. My mind keeps telling me they want to tell us the location of something thats relevant on earth, but the game is in space right?

The game isn't in space, unless we've been mislead.

It's set on sub-aquatic stations

I was thinking an underwater station on a planet in space, but then I remembered the whales. It's probably on earth then.

[Assorted]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%...ography%29 ?

Great find!

https://twitter.com/PathosII/status/604238548385034240

Maybe this means they ran something through the whirlpool encryption or something like that? I think its worth looking into.

[Kein]

That qWx**.txt cannot bed encoded with any whirpool basic (tried different methods here: https://md5hashing.net/hash/whirlpool). May be there is a key or something.

[BahamutPT]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%...ography%29 ?

Great find!

https://twitter.com/PathosII/status/604238548385034240

Maybe this means they ran something through the whirlpool encryption or something like that? I think its worth looking into.

Problem is we don't have a text that can be decrypted this way... qWxx has already been done with blowfish and there's no other file with hex IIRC.

Edit: Read it wrong.

[GhylTarvoke]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%...ography%29 ?

Great post! I'm optimistic.

According to that page, the output is usually in hexadecimal. But the only thing in hexadecimal that I can remember is qWxx.txt, which was already decrypted using the Blowfish algorithm (with the contents of XXwQ.txt as the key):

Spoiler below!

The WAU has started to grow physically and begun to occupy a larger part of the room. All over the station structure gel is bursting pipes and bleeding through walls. It’s consolidating power, appropriating anything it can connect to. The heart has claimed such a large part of the room that there can no longer be any question to its heightened awareness. Not only does its expansion suggest an unexpected understanding of space, but also it's own physical manifestation within the world. I will admit that the expansion is worrying. I suspect we will be having an "interesting" period of time ahead of us as the WAU tries to test its limits, both at Alpha and across all sites through the connectivity of the structure gel.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

[Hanmik]

Something like that or should I try to be smarter than that?

maybe it has to do with the greek godess Io..?
If I remember correctly a group of 7 islands are named after her.

[GhylTarvoke]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%...ography%29 ?

Great post! I'm optimistic.

According to that page, the output is usually in hexadecimal. But the only thing in hexadecimal that I can remember is qWxx.txt, which was already decrypted using the Blowfish algorithm (with the contents of XXwQ.txt as the key):

Spoiler below!

The WAU has started to grow physically and begun to occupy a larger part of the room. All over the station structure gel is bursting pipes and bleeding through walls. It’s consolidating power, appropriating anything it can connect to. The heart has claimed such a large part of the room that there can no longer be any question to its heightened awareness. Not only does its expansion suggest an unexpected understanding of space, but also it's own physical manifestation within the world. I will admit that the expansion is worrying. I suspect we will be having an "interesting" period of time ahead of us as the WAU tries to test its limits, both at Alpha and across all sites through the connectivity of the structure gel.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

Maybe we're supposed to encrypt something using Whirlpool. But there's so many possibilities for what to encrypt...

[daflesh]

> searching public data
...
/TWHVkMIP1b8/
/oC9x6Ri8jQk/
...
> leak not detected
> security status: unbroken

Theres something at the end of the teaser : Cogito ergo sum