Signals from the Other Side ARG

***All the infos documented in this page are from Cellbit's Discord and Twitter community, that united to solve this ARG. This page also tells the experience of the community solving it.***

> AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU AINDA EU
> STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME STILL ME
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> Carolinga's tweet decoded
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The **Signals from the Other Side ARG** was a special event made during the season Signals from the Other Side. This alternate reality game started at the end of the 4th episode of Signals from the Other Side, after Dara Venturini's disappearance, Carolinga's character, and it ended at the end of the season. In addition of moving the community, this ARG was related to important parts of the story, that had the players' interaction during the sessions of the 6th and 7th episode of Signals from the Other Side.

## Dara's Disappearance

At the end of the fourth episode of Signals, Dara was taken by the **Outsider**, and the characters forgot that they knew her. After the end of the episode, Carol changed her profile picture, with the TV Varminho's symbol overlaid. Then, at 2:11 AM of November 20, she posted an encoded tweet: "*DIEDD EL ALNUA HU RIQDR EX AZNGA VU DIEDD EL ALNUA HU RIQDR EX AZNGA VU DIEDD EL ALNUA HU RIQDR EX AZNGA VU*".

The community volunteered to solve the code quickly, being a Vigenere cipher encoded with the key **Dara**. The decoded result was the phrase "**AINDA EU**" (STILL ME) several times repeated.

## Message Signal Remember

Two days later, in November 22, at the end of the episode's reprise, Carol posted another tweet. This time, it was a photo with an encoded caption and several signals present in the season together, looking like some kind of language.

As it was a language that had not yet been completely deciphered, the central symbols were left aside, and the community first turned to the symbols on the sides of the image.

By translating the signals, the community noticed some unidentified letters yet. But using Vigenere again with key **Dara**, the community managed to translate one word from the first line: **ORIGEM** (ORIGIN). Making the reverse engineering, we found new letters to the alphabet: K and J. And decoding, we found the word **TRANSMISSÃO** (TRANSMISSION).

Now, for the other words and phrases, the key **Dara** didn't work. That's why the community started to look for other things referring the season that could work as a key. Eventually, using the key **TVVARMINHO**, they managed to decode all the words and phrases, also getting new letters to the alphabet:

ORIGEM TRANSMISSÃO
ALHEIO LINGUAGEM
AINDA EU
XANDE LÍRIO
GUIZO CHICO
MEDO
RESGATE
ENTENDER ALHEIO
PRIMEIRO LEMBRAR DARA
ORIGIN TRANSMISSION - ALIEN LANGUAGE - STILL ME - XANDE LÍRIO - GUIZO CHICO - FEAR - RESCUE - UNDERSTAND ALIEN - FIRST REMEMBER DARA
There was only one thing remaining: the encoded caption: "*301197.fzisrsmz#01\_ldiac\_ezhbimz*". Using **TVVARMINHO** as key and translating each word separately, we had the decoded caption: "**301197.mensagem#01\_sinal\_lembrar**" (113097.message#01\_signal\_remember).

## Code Transmission, Geometry Containment

In November 23, Carol posted an image on her Instagram. It was an image from her sitting in the studio where the Paranormal Order sessions occurs, with several symbols scattered in the center of the image. Translating the easily symbols below, the community found the phrases "**Código Transmissão**" (Code Transmission) and "**Geometria Contenção**" (Geometry Containment), in addition to a sequence of unknown signals in a kind of grid.

To solve this puzzle, the community had to revisit an earlier image: the profile picture. Brightening the image with the TV Varminho's symbol overlaying Carol, there were two unidentified symbols scattered all over the image. The community deduced that the two signals were a bunch of 0s and 1s, being that a Binary Code. The entire code was a repetition of a phrase:

01000001 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000001 00100000 01000101 01010101

Decoding the code formed the message "**AINDA EU**". And even though this image didn't give us a direct information, it gave us something: numbers had their own signals. And some signals from the Instagram's photo grid were the signal from number 1. So, the community tried to think about the possibilities of what to do with the grid.

Using the "**GEOMETRY**" and "**CONTAINMENT**" hint, the community thought of using a cipher that uses a square on its basis: the Polybius Square. This cipher is used to take positions in a matrix and convert to letters. In this cipher, you usually use the letters I/J in the same square to have a 5x5 square. Because we only had information about 0 and 1, we had to test several possibilities until we get a meaningful phrase. The signals grid was 6x5, with 6 horizontal signals and 5 on vertical. Since it was an even number, we decided to group the numbers in pairs.

Using the Polybius Square with one of the possibilities to each signal gave us the numbers 3, 4 and 5 signals, in addition with the phrase "**TODOS CONECTADOS**" (ALL CONNECTED). Later, it was confirmed by Cellbit that we really should solve by bruteforce, because there was no other way of finding which numbers were those.

Since then, Carol stopped posting puzzles. Until Episode 6 arrived.

## Signals from the Other Side - Episode 6

### Dara, Morato, Jerson and Vicente

While the episode was happening, Chico accessed the TV Varminho cameras' system. He found himself in front of a terminal that asked for a password, being any phrase or word. On this moment, Cellbit gave a notebook to LJoga and said that he could see the Twitch chat to be helped by the community. After inserting the wrong password, Luis was helped by the community and inserted the password "**TODOS CONECTADOS**". Inside the universe, Chico saw an image of Dara inside a capsule, with cables connected to her and some signals on the image's center, that now could be translated, thanks to the informations that Calisto gave to the group and the community. But outside the universe, Carol posted again, being this tweet the same image of Dara with the symbols.

As the episode continued, when the characters pressed the B key on one of the computers of the TV Varminho's building, designated as transmission points, images of characters with overlapping signs appeared on the computer screen. The first was Morato Vertaler, overlaid on Dara's image.
Translating all the signals from Morato's image, we had the following phrases:

O MEU MAIOR ERRO
MALDITO ESGOTO
DEVIA TER SIDO EU
DEVIA TER SIDO MELHOR
VIVER COM A CULPA
MY BIGGEST MISTAKE - THAT DAMN SEWER - IT SHOULD BE ME - IT SHOULD BE BETTER - TO LIVE WITH THE GUILT

The second was Jerson da Silva, the farmer that went missing and that was known by having made the home movie. Translating his image, we got the following phrases:

A FESTA JUNINA
UM ANO FELIZ
FITA - QUAL MINHA FITA - FITA
FILME DE MEDO NÃO PODE
THE JUNE PARTY - A HAPPY YEAR - TAPE - WHAT IS MY TAPE - TAPE - CAN'T BE HORROR MOVIE

Although not explored during the episode, after the ending, Carol also posted Vicente Santos' image, one of the Café's Pizzaria employees, that also had been kidnapped.

This was the translation of the images' symbols:

98 DESSE
1 DE OUTRO
TECNICAMENTE 4
05 DE OUTRO
05 DE OUTRO
98 OF THIS - 1 OF ANOTHER - TECHNICALLY 4 - 05 OF OTHER - 05 OF OTHER

During the episode, only one of the images was necessary to save one of the characters. On this moment, Luis could interact again with the Twitch chat, that using the infos of Morato's image, deduced that it was a charade talking about Voytek Nowak, a member of The Five that ended up dying in a mission on a sewer, and that Morato felt very guilty that Voytek died. After Chico sent in a computer the name **Voytek**, directed with the capsule related to Morato's code, the capsule began to transform and Morato managed to get out of it.

## Signals from the Other Side - Episode 7

During the last episode of Signals from the Other Side, the Twitch chat managed to help Luis to save Jerson and Vicente, with the answers **1992** and **GORGONZOLA** respectively. Later on, they had the chance to open the capsules from the TV Varminho's Tower 6th floor from four terminals with symbols.

In order, the translations' context were:

* 1: The name of the most important person of the place of origin of the transmission.
* 2: The name of someone chosen.
* 3: Object of containing someone - open?
* 4: What do we seek?

The chat helped the group to answer three questions, being them numbers 1, 2 and 4.

* 1: Diego Granteros, general director of TV Varminho
* 2: Dara
* 4: Object + Negation + Place + Possible (Object of impossible place)

With this, the group opened three capsules, where only three of the group managed to enter: Chico, Lírio and Guizo. After this, the episode continued normally and the ARG was finished.

## Gallery

Original image from the puzzle Code Transmission, Geometry ContainmentMorato's image translationJerson's image translationVicente's image translation