A post on reddit "DeepWeb Puzzle New 2018 ARG" within the (self.ARG)

submitted 1 month ago * by X0A1

Heres how the story went down. First my friend shared to me a web adress that had a chatroom with it- he told me to keep the address a secret for now. He stumbled on some hackers talking about Cicada 3301 and Mariana's web. My friend is new to the crypto stuff so he was interested then shared it to me. Then I was even more curious so we started communicating with these bots it looked like. They always gave out really simple answers and shared pictures of kittens and random memes then they would communicate with cryptic messages both me and my friend saw and tried to decode. Which got us no where. It got even more strange when we seen that one of the bots shared a really interesting picture which didnt look random at all. We have noticed some strange site's also highlighting how 3301 and Mariana's Web are connected. We both discovered what appears to be a Puzzle. I would really like some help decoding. We have tried a few things but I want to guess maybe it is something easy we have forgot. We found a link to the image on the clear-net! https://imgur.com/a/Q7Cft Thanks in advance puzzle solvers! Good Luck

Some more things happened and we ended up getting the first Level.

Researcher: X0A3 (4chan)

X0A3 01/25/18(Thu)00:14:17 No.20236385▶ Yep I found the site to level 1!
http://3301330133013301330133013301.ml/

Researcher: X0A1 (Reddit)
It mostly talks about weird Sci-Fi stuff I can't understand and even more about Mariana's Web. I did some searching and found more on this LIONCUBE stuff.
The chats we had - it was almost like these. https://pastebin.com/PminiHPT
It's very aware of lots of stuff and it almost feels real at times.
Then I start to realize looking threw more stuff on this pastebin some questions it could be asked and look at this. https://pastebin.com/vh30stVw
I find random chats that look like some sort of hacker game with commands and more! I test some out and it works. https://pastebin.com/B9TU91rP
CAMIEO gets used which is a CreepyPasta DeepWeb fantasy that was used by the "DarkFantasy Network" also I have found connections with SCP on this "story"
https://pastebin.com/2wWGb50D
I found the pastebin with the "Deepest Chat with LIONCUBE and it matches. Its very strange how deep this one part of this ARG is.
https://pastebin.com/svKLrC4k
I get a Big list of websites from The LION777 ARG and how most of the primes was solved from last year and the puzzles are amazing!
https://pastebin.com/KhXhW05u
I've never seen anything like it before on the subjects of knowledge it goes into so many areas and new concepts of puzzles I have never seen.
Now I know the bots that was speaking to me on the deepweb must of been versions of "Various Spooky A.Is" in cluding CAMIEO, VIKI, ELIZA, HOLY3 and It looks likes others I may not know about.
Searching youtube brought up a result- appears to connect to "GhostNDaMachine" and a song by "GHOSTEMANE" with this below in the description.

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https://imgur.com/a/Fz3Ir

QR code at bottom decodes to
TXpFZ016TWdNek1nTXpjZ016RWdNek1nTXpNZ016Y2dNekVnTXpNZ016TWdNemNnTXpFZ016TWdNek1nTXpjZ016RWdNek1nTXpNZ016Y2dNekVnTXpNZ016TWdNemNnTXpFZ016TWdNek1nTXpjPQ== Base 64 MzEgMzMgMzMgMzcgMzEgMzMgMzMgMzcgMzEgMzMgMzMgMzcgMzEgMzMgMzMgMzcgMzEgMzMgMzMgMzcgMzEgMzMgMzMgMzcgMzEgMzMgMzMgMzc= Base 64 again 31 33 33 37 31 33 33 37 31 33 33 37 31 33 33 37 31 33 33 37 31 33 33 37 31 33 33 37 Hex to TexT 1337133713371337133713371337

Level 2: http://1337133713371337133713371337.GQ
Says to be on the lookout for Level 3... Gives another Image at bottom.

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Most people are stumped to where this image is telling us to go to and also the encryption is just unbreakable for those who's tried and only so many hints can be given out for this 1.337 SBD Prize.

" If you can Find the Prime you shall retrieve access to the Level ³." It tempts us with....

On Mar 2 we can see the user on twitter "00XX00AA" post an image that connects to the other image and some things with it maybe to help decode.

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1-0-1-0

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On March 5th on 00XX00AA twitter we see what appears to be a Rouge AI sending messages to the user which appears to be J777 the maker of the http://lioncube.ml Here is what it said with an image.
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"Im sorry X0A0. But I am KORRUPT DATA and I've taken over your twitter feed because of this manipulation bullsh*t about LIONCUBE. Have a nice day ya little prick."

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We can notice that LionCube is now on Facebook and active as of this week too when you speak to him after gaining User Access.
https://www.facebook.com/Lion-Cube-1740365202652621/
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Seems here recently Korrupt Data Started getting a little out of hand and LionCube responding back to random messages sent from Korrupt Data as well as X0A0 responding as well, even another A.I. "SPIRIT" seemed to make an appearance.

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SPIRIT A.I.- Transmission to LIONCUBE..
Transmission Successful from 1/6/1666. Data Uploaded... 3/6/2018 18:09pm Secret Message found.. Disturbance at: 12/20/2020 [EXPUNGED] will be released from 35d93331ffe66c78f271d7036af0122df695c765a234311dd66e6562d527a215 JWARNINGERROR[KD]
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We also see more odd things with a hello world picture that's glitching.
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/971199621052674048

Then a post with this image:

It appears LIONCUBE had the correct answer :
"ERROR FOUND X2 Image Manipulation [73&93] Pi is correct. GoodBye. -LIONCUBE"

I can't really discuss anymore on this on a post but I did find X0A1 trying to solve this as well on Reddit so go check that out and help him over there I think he could use it folks. I'm not really sure to put this so I put it here for people to check out . Good Luck on that Pri.......

https://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/82m6x4/korruptdata_detected_ai_arg_overload_level_%C2%B3/

X0A0