NUMBER THIRTEEN WIKI
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The Goal of the website
Sharing information and clues about the number13 ARG (Alternate Reality Game) played at the University of Pretoria Hatfield Campus.
Go to this Wikipedia page to read more about an ARG.
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Current State of the ARG:
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13 April 2010
The start of the game
Posters about the mm.up.ac.za website were posted on the University of Pretoria campus. These posters said not to use the website as it has been hacked. There was also a phone number attached.
Multimedia Website
Upon opening the mm.up.ac.za website the site started minimizing and maximizing also images and text started appearing. The images look like the all seeing eye found on the one dollar bill. The text on the website then changed to the words "Lies". There was only a phone number visible 076 515 2338. (The same number as on the posters). All the words linked to the page http://www.number13.co.za.
Number 13 Website
Opening this page only revealed a countdown timer for 13:00 14 April. Doing research on the number 13 it is revealed to be a significant number connected underground societies like the Free Masons. Highlighting all the text on the web page revealed hidden text. On the website were question marks. Clicking on the question marks it opened a send to dialog with the email address kael@number13.co.za.
Email Address
After sending an email to kael@number13.co.za one received a reply email.
Hidden text
The text formed an image that looked like the all seeing eye. In this text there was the text "13.php".
13.php
This url http://www.number13.co.za/13.php had the following text: "Find out how deep the rabbit hole goes. What is your n@me seer?". Entering an email address here revealed a the button "Enter the rabbit hole". Clicking on the button a popup box appeared with the text "Welcome Alice...". The page then refreshed and revealed nothing further.
Kael reply
The first seers (this is what Kael calls the ARG players) received images with hidden text inside.
One of the seers got this email to tell players to open there images in notepad. Inside notepad the message was: "IF YOU TRULY WISH TO KNOW THE TRUTH. TEACH THE OTHER SEERS HOW TO FIND THIS TEXT AND TELL THEM TO REPLY TO THEIR MESSAGE WITH THE PHRASE: "I WANT TO SEE"."
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14 April 2010
Countdown Timer
The first countdown timer was for 14 April 2010 13:00. When this time was reached a date and map was revealed. The date and time was 15 April 12:00. The location was the Monastery building on the University of Pretoria campus.
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15 April 2010
Monastery
At the time indicated on the map there was a poster at the Monastery that said to go to the Chapel on the University of Pretoria campus.
Chapel
At the chapel there was a poster and spray cans inside. The poster said to spray the http://www.number13.co.za website on the wall on campus. (There is a graffiti wall on campus where people can spray event etc.) before 13:33.
The graffiti wall
At the wall there was someone that handed out dvd's. The dvd's had an image and a video clip on it. Also the name of the dvd's was Caesar cyphering that spelled "Reward".
13:33
The http://www.number13.co.za website updated revealing a new countdown timer. Also there is a link flood.html and said.html.
Flood
Flood.html is an encrypted message that can be deciphered using the Caesar cypher and shifting the letters according to the article number.
Said
This link opened the poster that was found in the chapel, the map (that indicated the objective is complete) and also the video found on the dvd that was handed out at the graffiti wall.
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17 April 2010
Website Update
The http://www.number13.co.za website was updated with a "icu" link. That link to an image.
Opening 4 images that connects to the icu.png image with 7-zip reveals Stenography Java file inside these 4 images. Compiling the files opens a program that is used to decode the icu.png image.
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21 April 2010
Countdown Timer
The countdown timer for 21 April 13:00 revealed a new video and map location.
Map
The map indicates the sundial on the Aula grass at the University of Pretoria. The date and time is 22 April 2010 13:33.
Flood
The flood.html link also has new clues. The new encrypted message on the page reveals the following pages:
http://www.number13.co.za/ocularreinstantiation.php
http://www.number13.co.za/codefoundation.php
http://www.number13.co.za/auditorydeviation.php
http://www.number13.co.za/shortestorientation.php
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28 April 2010
25 Posters
At the Old Merensky, where the map on the Number 13 webiste indicated to be, there was instructions to find 25 posters on campus. These posters were number from 1 to 25 and also had puzzle pieces on them.
The link observation update, indicating which the posters as they were found. The images can be open used the Steganography program from the ICU image to reveal hidden messages inside the images.
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6 May 2010
On the Number 13 website the map indicated the Piazza at 6 May 18:00 at the University of Pretoria. Some of the seers received an email that told them that the location has been compromised and that they should go to the public phones near the Piazza. There was then a call to one of the phone's telling the seers to go to the Law building entrance on campus and to bring their fellow seers. The other seers at the Piazza also received an envelope.
After a while a person approached the seers and told them to meet him outside the Law building. The person said that he is Kael and that the game is over his sister has been found. After questions from the seers this person was revealed to be a fake Kael.
The video that is now on the website was then screened on the Law building wall.
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The Final Event
All of the seers received an email on the 12 May 2010 announcing the 3 leaders of observation, intelligence and force. The leaders were then instructed to meet at the Piazza on 13 May 2010. Further instructions included following fake Kael to find the were True Light is hiding Kael's sister.
Following Kael led to the basement of the IT Building on the UP campus. Upon entering the building chanting could be heard, following the chanting to the basement the seers saw a group of men in black robes forming a semi circle around a symbol drawn on the ground and in the middle of the circle what looks like a body under a piece of fabric.
Removing the fabric revealed snacks and drinks. The men were then revealed to be an honours group of students along with their lecturer. This was their project for the honours subject.
Thanks to all the people involved.
Comments (1)
LouD said
at 7:36 pm on May 13, 2010
Well played everyone (:
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