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So the image is called: ITSWHATSINSIDETHATCOUNTS.jpeg

And the description is: How many ways can you traverse a traversal?
 
Judging by the WHOIS info, it's unrelated to the ARG. Different registrar and registration dates.
Yeah, the ARG ones seem to be MARKMONITOR, INC. and registered this week

If you resize the @ page as large as you can, one of the @'s lands on Malaysia, the rest aren't on Qatar or Yemen or any other letters that are in that four digit code though.
 
With there being 65 @ signs with no proper way of knowing which one is 1-65 I imagine it has to be overlayed ontop of something else.

Edit: I have a feeling it's something to do with the image up there.
 
Yeah, the ARG ones seem to be MARKMONITOR, INC. and registered this week

If you resize the @ page as large as you can, one of the @'s lands on Malaysia, the rest aren't on Qatar or Yemen or any other letters that are in that four digit code though.

The @ page is based on your location. My map disappears when I disable location.
 
Welp, I'm out of ideas.

EDIT: the fuck I am, found this in the source code of an xbox page

Code:
This time you're actually in the right place.



 ___   ______  _    _  ____                 _____ __     __ ___  ______  __     _  _      __   __ _____
|__ \ |  ____|| |  | ||___ \               / ____|\ \   / // _ \|____  |/ _|   | || |     \ \ / /|  __ \
   ) || |__   | |__| |  __) | _   _   ___ | |  __  \ \_/ /| (_) |   / /| |_  __| || |      \ V / | |  | |
  / / |  __|  |  __  | |__ < | | | | / __|| | |_ |  \   /  > _ <   / / |  _|/ _` || |       > <  | |  | |
 / /_ | |     | |  | | ___) || |_| || (__ | |__| |   | |  | (_) | / /  | | | (_| || |____  / . \ | |__| |
|____||_|     |_|  |_||____/  \__,_| \___| \_____|   |_|   \___/ /_/   |_|  \__,_||______|/_/ \_\|_____/ 

                            



                            I wonder what secrets this might reveal
 
Lucky number 7 has caught my attention, there's a 7 everywhere I look:

mq4y: a "4" + 3 characters = 7.
Fizzco Van is number 7.
7 max characters to submit.

There's a great chance I'm just obssesed, but there isn't any other clue yet.
 
Lucky number 7 has caught my attention, there's a 7 everywhere I look:

mq4y: a "4" + 3 characters = 7.
Fizzco Van is number 7.
7 max characters to submit.

There's a great chance I'm just obssesed, but there isn't any other clue yet.

Bungie confirmed involved? Haha
 
That version of the site has linkedin in the bottom right and a link to MS T&Cs, I don't think the first one had either of those.

I just checked my normal 404 tab, refreshing the page added the LinkedIn link. Maybe they are trying to give us a hand to solve this stuff? Haha.
 
I just checked my normal 404 tab, refreshing the page added the LinkedIn link. Maybe they are trying to give us a hand to solve this stuff? Haha.
lol probably, I saved the gif every time it changed, it looks like anytime we find something they are updating the page.
 
Hi couple of ideas to try - but I don't have the skills.

1. Is it possible to run the mq4y code back through the book cipher to see what happens?

2. Is it possible to overlay the @'s against the overdrive 900p picture? It says "its whats inside that counts" so maybe only 7 of the @'s are inside the diner or something like that?
 
Hi couple of ideas to try - but I don't have the skills.

1. Is it possible to run the mq4y code back through the book cipher to see what happens?

2. Is it possible to overlay the @'s against the overdrive 900p picture? It says "its whats inside that counts" so maybe only 7 of the @'s are inside the diner or something like that?
2 does nothing. :|
 
I just checked my normal 404 tab, refreshing the page added the LinkedIn link. Maybe they are trying to give us a hand to solve this stuff? Haha.

lol probably, I saved the gif every time it changed, it looks like anytime we find something they are updating the page.

I saw the links the first time, I don't think it's an update. BUT, why would they put a linkedin profile there? I can't find any Rupert Kane.
 
Might be nothing but is there writing in the middle of the 2nd picture, 'ITEH' or something?
 
I've gotta say, the Titanfall one was tricky and collapsed in on itself at the end with an awful final step, but at least it flowed up to that point.
 
For the @'s page, I tried a couple things, all ended up in failure. I tried using only the @'s that had a 4 in them (1,14,24 etc.), then I tried using the mq4y as a base, using the alphabet and it's respective number M = 13 and so on, but for the "4" I just repeated the above 4 times and so on.

Looking at the source, I couldn't find a difference between any of the @'s or anything so there has to be a clue or really good guessing skills to solve it.

Also, for that creepy image, it looks like it's one image pasted and enlarge/shrunk in multiple areas over and over. I think the left ear/head is the image and everything else is just a copy or something.
 
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