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== Day 4 ==
 
== Day 4 ==
On 22 June 2012, 1800 EST, a mysterious [[TF2 Official Website#Blog|blog post]] was written by the [[Pyro]]. This corresponds to the text on the [[Damaged Capacitor]] which reads '6.22V1800', giving a time and date of 6/22/12 1800 EST. The post reads:
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On 22 June 2012, 1800 PST, a mysterious [[TF2 Official Website#Blog|blog post]] was written by the [[Pyro]]. This corresponds to the text on the [[Damaged Capacitor]] which reads '6.22V1500', giving a time and date of 6/22/12 1800 PST. The post reads:
  
 
:"Mmmmph mmmmph, mmmmm mmmmmp mmmmmph. Mmmmmph mpm!  
 
:"Mmmmph mmmmph, mmmmm mmmmmp mmmmmph. Mmmmmph mpm!  
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File:Saxton_Hale_Hearing_Transcript.jpg|The final stitched image from the images linked to by the QR codes
 
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== See also ==
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* [http://tf2.com/post.php?id=8256 22 June 2012 blog post ]
  
 
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Revision as of 22:29, 22 June 2012

On June 19, 2012 TF2 was updated with no patch notes. This led to the start of an Template:W (ARG).

Day 1

In the June 19, 2012 Patch the following craft items were added to the drop system - Goldfish, Pocket Lint, Cheese Wheel, Banana Peel, Barn Door Plank, Secret Diary, and Damaged Capacitor. They dropped along with any other item drop, except for crates.

Day 2

The following day, the June 20, 2012 Patch was released. With this update, any player who equipped the Eliminating The Impossible set would now see new descriptions for the previously added items. The new descriptions would have several random characters replaced by periods, resulting in slightly different strings for each player.

Item New description
Goldfish
Goldfish
'Think of the'
Pocket Lint
Pocket Lint
'...the... which...'
Cheese Wheel
Cheese Wheel
'may go on... the hidden wickedness...'
Banana Peel
Banana Peel
'...may go on...'
Barn Door Plank
Barn Door Plank
'...year in, year out...'
Secret Diary
Secret Diary
'the deeds of hellish cruelty and none the wiser'
Damaged Capacitor
Damaged Capacitor
' in such places, and ...'


Stitching these phrases together produces the following quote:

Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.
— “The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”, a Sherlock Holmes story

Day 3

The error message received when crafting two Banana Peels together.

An item schema update added new records to the Eliminating The Impossible set attribute, consisting of 8 Template:W hash strings:

Record Value
md5_388_1 9e86c9d1ba461d7c3b84ea4bac11b921
md5_388_2 f2629207217ce651f1a76ce33346d4c8
md5_388_3 5d1a66650820b260b043443137c23dc5
md5_388_4 0361ca75733f3c21f4ba4ae216e92155
md5_388_5 a0370078eaafd706e75e6a2a45b5678f
md5_388_6 0a009353adac7c721d8b4a188a9f8517
md5_388_7 6f1d22a53f398fd4404b7fc9d7b1f356
md5_388_8 eae894257e8b1502807a3a94fd2fcc1c

The June 21, 2012 Patch added the ability to craft two or more Banana Peels together. This resulted in an error message; its header detailing a "Banana Error # (1-8)". The body of the message is in Spanish followed by Finnish roughly translated as "Banana Overflow Error; Detailed Report:". A numbered code follows comprised of a string of Template:W sequences. The sequences vary from player to player even among messages with the same Banana Error number. The dismiss button is replaced with its equivalent in Welsh. Crafting the items does not result in the loss of them, and any further attempts to craft them will result in the same error message.

The community begins collecting the unique error codes and sites, such as this one, begin piecing the data together. It is discovered that the 8 error codes correspond to 8 different Template:W images, with the hexadecimal codes corresponding to data chunks of the resulting image. The MD5 hash strings served to act as Template:W for verifying the images are assembled correctly. The resulting images produce Template:W that linked to images on the TF2 Official Website; there are only seven such images as the codes produced by PNG images 7 and 8 are the same and link to the same page. The images contain sections of a transcript, divided vertically. When they are all combined, the transcript is apparently an excerpt of a U.S. Senate hearing featuring Saxton Hale over the death of Poopy Joe and Saxton Hale's involvement with it as well as the disappearance of the entire United States supply of Australium.

QR codes

Error code QR code image Output
1 ARG QR Code 1.png Link
2 ARG QR Code 2.png Link
3 ARG QR Code 3.png Link
4 ARG QR Code 4.png Link
5 ARG QR Code 5.png Link
6 ARG QR Code 6.png Link
7 ARG QR Code 7.png Link
8 ARG QR Code 8.png Link

Day 4

On 22 June 2012, 1800 PST, a mysterious blog post was written by the Pyro. This corresponds to the text on the Damaged Capacitor which reads '6.22V1500', giving a time and date of 6/22/12 1800 PST. The post reads:

"Mmmmph mmmmph, mmmmm mmmmmp mmmmmph. Mmmmmph mpm!
Mmmmmph mph mm! Hm mmmmmph, hmmmmph mm mmmmmph mmmmmph!"

Replacing the long words with dashes and the short words with dots results in Template:W that translates to 'Monday'.

Gallery

See also