Portal: ApertureScience.com (Possible Spoilers)

[kacation_man]

maybe so... i think they " some one from valve" said, or i guess more of "implyed" you'd meat them in ep3... but i dont remember... maybe it was e2...

 

[cojawfee]

Hi all...new here.

I've read thru and didn't notice if anyone already noticed, but...

The list of animals is incomplete. It has a gap. Numbers 2144 thru 2184 are missing. There are 41 numbers absent yet 63 per page. The letters of the alphabet not represented are U and V.

Ya think it means anything?

:thumbs:

Vivindi Universal

DarkDamo: I believe it was said in an interview that this character is not in Episode 2. Probably in the next series.

 

[PG-23]

I don't know if this has been mention but the program was made before the incident of Black Mesa. 1982? Thats wierd. Hmmm, this center has been around for a while and it seems Breen may be involved with some shit even during his administration at black mesa. hmmm


Anyways, anything new guys?

EDIT: BTW, in another thread, the reason why "cake" is mentioned and the secret access is "thecakeisalie" is because the cake is what 'they' used to poison or sedate the players.

EDIT2: "Half-Life near the beginning of the game, as Gordon Freeman is about to go into the test chamber, the two scientists briefing him say that the Administrator "went through great lengths to get it [the sample]." This statement lies dormant through most of the game until the player goes to Xen, and sees crystals similar to the one that Freeman pushes into the teleporter. Next to these crystals on Xen are corpses in HEV suits like Freeman's, perhaps explaining the "great lengths" mentioned in the beginning of the game."

 

[DarkDamo]

is it just me or does the video screen not show up anymore [i know someone posted about it but they said it was back up]

 

[Ðasani]

is it just me or does the video screen not show up anymore [i know someone posted about it but they said it was back up]

Yeah, it doesn't show up anymore, I just tried it out myself a second ago.

 

[PG-23]

The screen still comes up for me. Anyways

American Heritage® Dictionary: Description of regicide
NOUN: 1. The killing of a king. regicidal (-sdl)

Does this refer to breen at the king or maybe the combine's mother or fat creature? >_<

 

[kamikazeCow]

EDIT: BTW, in another thread, the reason why "cake" is mentioned and the secret access is "thecakeisalie" is because the cake is what 'they' used to poison or sedate the players.

huh? do u know if that is legit? link If so, why cake? :O and for regicide... hmm, new SAT word for me to remeber, heh. i think it would prolly be a test of obiediance. Would you kill you king?

 

[PG-23]

http://hl2world.com/bbs/portals-arg-vt45930.html

I'm conducting the investigation. I'm running everything I got, I'm doing some dangerous shit trying to crack this.

Another thing, people have said the filename was ApertureScience16.swf, now its ApertureScience17.swf. weird.

 

[Demon Wraith]

The screen still comes up for me. Anyways

American Heritage® Dictionary: Description of regicide
NOUN: 1. The killing of a king. regicidal (-sdl)

Does this refer to breen at the king or maybe the combine's mother or fat creature? >_<

No, it refers to regicide. Like the rest of the questionnaire, it's meant to be silly.

 

[Demon Wraith]

is it just me or does the video screen not show up anymore [i know someone posted about it but they said it was back up]

The video screen is meant to be the ultimate secret of the flash, obtained via the secret code. They just screwed up and accidentally gave it to people anyway for a while.

 

[PG-23]

No, it refers to regicide. Like the rest of the questionnaire, it's meant to be silly.

Of course it refers to regicide, the killing of the king.

Are you exact its just to be silly? Its weird that they put a world like that in the program, something out of the ordinary.

 

[Seagull]

lol @ the "If a supervisor walks by, press return!" so if someone walks by it looks like you're doing something innocently, haha.

 

[Demon Wraith]

Of course it refers to regicide, the killing of the king.

Are you exact its just to be silly? Its weird that they put a world like that in the program, something out of the ordinary.

The entire thing is out of the ordinary. Large Egret? What is Franklin's favorite letter? What is your favorite color... twice.

I'm fairly confident the only reason they asked you about regicide is so they'd have excuse to call you a liar.

 

[cojawfee]

lol @ the "If a supervisor walks by, press return!" so if someone walks by it looks like you're doing something innocently, haha.

Yes, no one will think it is odd that you are working on a monochrome green screen. Ordering lots of flour and tubs no doubt.

 

[PG-23]

The entire thing is out of the ordinary. Large Egret? What is Franklin's favorite letter? What is your favorite color... twice.

I'm fairly confident the only reason they asked you about regicide is so they'd have excuse to call you a liar.

True, I'd have to agree with that. hmmm....

 

[Demon Wraith]

Yes, no one will think it is odd that you are working on a monochrome green screen. Ordering lots of flour and tubs no doubt.

Judging by the pricing, it's a US government job. Eh, they don't pay attention.

 

[kamikazeCow]

Judging by the pricing, it's a US government job. Eh, they don't pay attention.

lol,nice one. most of the cost of iraq was for that damn cake...

also, do you guys think we will get anything out of this?

 

[Xanderstrike]

1986: (20 years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%281986_computer_game%29
Portal was made for the Commadore 64 in 1986, which is now 20 years ago.

The first PC Virus, BRIAN spreads.

Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes.

Not sure what this all means, but it might be relevant somehow

[*edit*] Also found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_Software Company called Portal Software was founded in 1985, 21 years ago.

 

[Xanderstrike]

Found a better link for the 1986 game Portal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28interactive_novel%29

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

The HL story is really evolving and branching out.

 

[capteeni]

GUYS whats the point of the questiong?
What if yeah number you type is doing something?`i get some feeling, that when you combine your answer numbers you may get something ìn the end:
for example 1. 0050
10050 and type your ID: 10050
connecting.... im on it.

 

[ziofu]

there are thousands of thousands combinations...


for me they're tracking our "form" responses for fun...

 

[Mr. Ed]

I think the questions were just to distract us from the fading letters. So far they're the only thing that really does anything on the site.

 

[ziofu]

I think the questions were just to distract us from the fading letters. So far they're the only thing that really does anything on the site.

the fading letters are a "puzzle" too easy to solve.. there must be something else

 

[Operational]

GUYS whats the point of the questiong?
What if yeah number you type is doing something?`i get some feeling, that when you combine your answer numbers you may get something ìn the end:
for example 1. 0050
10050 and type your ID: 10050
connecting.... im on it.

No, as another poster said the ONLY secret so far is "thecakeisalie" which you get from the flashing letters.

Trust us. We've looked at the code for the website.

The real question is where do we go from here?

 

[Tamer17]

One thing though , in the second fav. color question , you can't be right. The color you choose in the first fav. color question is not in the list in the second question.

That , or i'm blind.

 

[kupocake]

One thing though , in the second fav. color question , you can't be right. The color you choose in the first fav. color question is not in the list in the second question.

That , or i'm blind.

This is true, and the test doesn't allow approximations either (for instance, you can't select a type of blue and then say "blue"). It also forces you into saying you're a liar even when you actually know what Regicide is!

 

[Operational]

One thing though , in the second fav. color question , you can't be right. The color you choose in the first fav. color question is not in the list in the second question.

That , or i'm blind.

Thats true, you cant choose the same colour twice, so that they can say you have lied for the next question. Its just one of the cool psychological questions one there, like when they ask which of the following does not apply to you and list all sorts of bad aliments - you can only choose one that doesn't apply to you therefore the rest must .

 

[Mess]

what is Franklin's favourite letter?

 

[radders]

A couple of things.

1) The test, no matter what you answer, gets you to the same place,the relaxation room page, typeing 'thecakeisalie' gets you to the same place, without doing the test, I think it is a command for skipping the test and moving on to the 'next stage'.

2) The codes at the beginning, i believe mean something.
I believe that if you use a hexidecimal to 'base 36' converter, it may give you words, or even sentances. To those who don't know, 'base 36' is like hexidecimal (base 16), but instead of using only a, b, c, d, e, f. It uses every letter of the alphebet, meaning you can write anything, and it is still a 'number'. So you can convert it to other formats, such as hexidecimal. and no one can read it.
I think if you can coveret the codes to base 36 it will make words, and as already mentioned, the code keeps changing every couple of flashes, i think if you put the words in order it makes a sentace.

Edit: NM, it is already in base 36, so, if you convert it to base 36, you get the same

 

[capteeni]

1.franklins favourite letter is G. it is very simple puzzle. They all love G...

2. it doesnt matter.

3. Thecakeisalie looks like to be ASCII/HEX decryption key to me, but for what encyption?

4. +L means Lambda.

5. The code you have to remember, is ?encrypting? itself every ?20 seconds?
because when it changes, it feels like it gets encrypted.
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Few notices i made....but it looks like there is no bigger mystery than thecakeisalie.
It can be the beginning of the portal game. And look at this Crisis Responce Team at "The Console".
It says, that they are sending 'CRT' to/for you.

Game Elements?

 

[A Big Fat CoW]

4. +L means Lambda.

it means plus letters

UIN(+L) = Unique Identification Number (+ Letters)

says so at the top of the page

 

[capteeni]

oui. in one language it meant lambda, odnt just remeber which.

 

[Darg]

They made another change. You no longer get the 'relaxation chamber' upon completion of the application.

I was thinking that I was going crazy. No matter how many times I pressed enter at the end I couldn't get it to load until I tried thecakeisalie.

 

[Kn1ghtmare]

One thing to keep in mind is that we don't know if this is a Viral Marketting campaign (simple gimmick to get lots of attention) or a full blow ARG like ilovebees or The Beast. If it's the former, we've probably tapped this pony for all it's worth, but if it's the latter, we're just scratching the surface.

One thing people aren't taking into account is that while the swf file has been decrypted and analyzed, the php file it's interfacing with hasn't. It could be looking for a certain set of responses to different questions or even manual input to questions that we don't even see, or answers that aren't even available to the questions. We already know the address structure for submitting answers to questions, and even though the UID generator in the apply.exe changes, the UID you get from typing IP at the main console screen doesn't. One avenue to look down is manually answering questions using your correct case sensitive UID+L in the address bar to see if we get any type of response.

The real trick is spending enough time on it to make sure it's the former and not the latter, without wasting too much time on it.

 

[tehsolace]

The security camera/message is the secret of the flash! Thats ALL there is to it (for now). You were only supposed to see it once you noticed the flashing letters and figured out the secret hint "thecakeisalie" and typed it in.

What confused us is the fact that they typo'ed and the message ended up showing up at the end of the application process... making us think there was more to see since they simply gave us the secret in the end anyways.

 

[Operational]

The security camera/message is the secret of the flash! Thats ALL there is to it (for now). You were only supposed to see it once you noticed the flashing letters and figured out the secret hint "thecakeisalie" and typed it in.

What confused us is the fact that they typo'ed and the message ended up showing up at the end of the application process... making us think there was more to see since they simply gave us the secret in the end anyways.

Q.F.T.

 

[Dancinguy]

Did anyone else hear a incredibly faint voice while logging in? I could hear it in the right headphone while my sound being pretty loud. I'm probably wrong, but it sounded like a laugh...

 

[zukeft]

Logging in? I thought it was only when logging out...

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

That "would anyone miss you" question is quite disturbing...