Calamity ARG

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

> All stories need an end.
> You are invited to Kian's game, the end of everything.
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> Letter sent to the players
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The **Paranormal Order: Calamity ARG** was a special event performed on the Paranormal Order social medias between August 27 and 31, 2021. This was a special event that happened during a pause, after the end of the third season Paranormal Order: Deconjuration, that also brought the second alternate reality game of the universe that served as a teaser to show some previews about the new season: Paranormal Order: Calamity. The main conclusion of the puzzle showed the trailer for the new season, which contained the premiere date on September 4, 2021 and also revealed that it will be face-to-face. The trailer was first exhibited on Cellbit's Twitch and then, it was posted on Paranormal Order's social medias and the Youtube channel Lives do Cellbit.

In the week during the event and the premiere of Paranormal Order: Calamity, the concept arts from the 5 protagonists were revealed as a countdown from August 31, 2021.

## First day

The first sign of a possible comeback was on 08/27/2021, when Cellbit darkened his Twitter profile picture and banner alongside the Paranormal Order official social medias, drawing attention from the beginning. At the same day, several streamers that participated on the RPG earlier started to talk about a package they received, where inside there was an envelope.

The first to show his package was **Rakin** at 12:08 PM. He posted on his twitter a photo of a black package written "Endereçado a Dante" (Addressed to Dante) that, when opened, showed a dark envelope with a golden wax seal with the Fear symbol.

Around 1:30 PM, **Gabi** posted on her twitter too, a photo with an identical package, written "Addressed to C\*\*\*\*\* L\*\*\*\*". The character's name was censored by Gabi herself, showing only the initial letters. When she opened her stream, she revealed the character's name as *"Carina Leone"*.

And in a time between the first two players, **Guaxinim** posted on his twitter another identical package, written "Addressed to Arthur Cervero". He was the first to open the package and the envelope on stream. In that envelope, there were two letters, and in the first, there was the following message:

> Após perder tudo que tinha, permanece lutando para de\_ender a memó\_ia de quem amou.
> Qu\_ntos pedaços de você serão arrancados até que vo\_ê termine que nem os outr\_s abutres?
> After losing everything you had, you keep fighting to defend the memories of \_ho you lov\_d.
> How m\_ny pieces of you should be ripped until you end li\_e the other vultures?
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> Mysterious letter
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Uniting the missing letters, it was possible to form the word **"fraco"** (weak), that in the moment was meaningless. In addition, the other letter had the following phrase: *"All stories need an end, you are invited to Kian's game, the end of everything."* Later, we found that this letter was only a default and that all recipients had received a copy of it along with a personalized one.

A while after opening his letter, on the official site of Paranormal Order, a new option appeared: there was a *question mark (?)* on the hub. When selected, it redirected to an "Other Side" site. To enter this site, we needed a password, that at the moment was unknown.

With this, we've been locked until 4 PM, when Gabi opened her stream to open her envelope, also taking the opportunity to reveal her character's name.
When she opened the envelope, she read the same first phrase, and a new message with a new puzzle, being the following one:

> Um pilar que sempre levanta
> tantas coisas sozinho
> faz falta ao ser removido.
> Que tal ser testada mais uma vez?
> Um jogo interessante,
> que tenho certeza que vai gostar.
> Apenas lembre-se: Uma peça de quebra-cabeça nunca é útil sozinha.
> A pillar that always raises
> many things alone
> is needed when removed.
> How about being tested once again?
> An interest game,
> that I'm sure you'll like it
> Just remember: A puzzle piece is never useful alone.
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> Mysterious letter
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And with that message, there was an unknown code: **7:11 3:23 2:1 . 7:28 3:21 / 1:7 1:1 2:6 4:14 2:19 1:26 6:3.** On this bunch of numbers and symbols, we used a based book cipher. It worked on the pattern "line:word" and then, isolating the first letter of each word, we found two twings: *"bit . do /"*, a link shortener, and the word "*ausente*" (absent). Uniting these two, we got a redirect to an Imgur link, that had an image.

> The first letter of the occultist's answer
> The fourth letter of the simplistic's answer
> The last letter of the resilient's answer
> The two first letters of the blank's answer
> The last letter of the answer after the slash
> The penultimate letter of the answer after the slash
> The penultimate letter of the blank's answer
> The third letter of the resilient's answer
> The fourth letter of the answer after the slash
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The image was another puzzle, that at the time didn't have a solution. We deduced that "the Slash" and "the Resilient" referred to Carina and Arthur. At this point that each keyword of every received letter came to light. With Carina's keyword being "*ausente*" and Arthur's being "*fraco*", we started to get some letters for the site's password.

After this, **Calango** posted a photo on his twitter from his letter, opening a stream right after. Unlike Gabi, he didn't reveal his character's name, and just opened the letter. On the first impression, it looked like it was completely blank, however, paying more attention, it could be seen the word *"Phalaenopsis"* almost invisible on the paper. That's how we deduced he was the "Blank".

With this, only with the initial letters missing, we deduced and found the word "**Prophetiae".** We inserted the password on the site and then, the ARG officialy started.

### Blood Puzzles

By entering the site, the first thing seen was the Big Symbol, where the symbol of Fear was gone and the Blood symbol was shining red alone, while the others were off. With this symbol, the site showed us the "Other Side Terms of Service", that was just a little joke with the generic terms of service of other sites.

After accepting the terms, we got a MEGA link, that was called "SANGUE.rar" (BLOOD.rar). Extracting the files, we got: four numeric folders (01 to 04), a folder named "CARTAS" (CARDS) and a .rar named "respostas\_assim" (answers\_likethat) that asked for a password.

On the first folder, there was a video of approximately 2 minutes showing a giant sequence of numbers and letters overlaying the Deconjuration Room. Transcribing it and using a Base64 to Image decoder, we had a QR code.

Scanning the QR, we were redirected to an Imgur link that showed us a Major Arcana tarot card: "The Strength"; that had some marks that looked like letters.

On the second folder, there was a locked .rar with a password and an image with several little squares and on the background, the symbol of Arthur's mark. Comparing the number of squares with the message that Guaxinim received, the quantity fit perfectly, with the red squares forming *"sreitsir"*, an anagram to **"Resistir"** (Resist). Using this word as a password on the .rar, we got another Major Arcana card: The Sun.

On the third folder, there was a blurry photo of Luciano Carvalho, overlaid by a photo of Fernando Carvalho's vitiligo outlines. Opening the image as a .rar, we found a hidden image, only unlockable with a password, being that the mix of the two names: lucifer. And then, we got another card: The Lovers.

On the fourth folder, there was an image, that at first impression was only a part of a card. However, when we opened on the browser, following the file's name as a hint (a.png), the other pieces of the card started to blink: an Animated PNG. Making all the pieces visible, we had our last Major Arcana: The Hanged Man.

Besides that cards, on the CARTAS folder, we had the other remaining cards, except for one: The Devil. All of them with letters pieces, when combined, with the other found cards, formed a phrase in hebrew. Translating it, we got the phrase **"O ACORDO DO DIABO TERMINA AQUI"** (THE DEVIL'S DEAL ENDS HERE).

Using the password "o\_acordo\_do\_diabo\_termina\_aqui" in the first .rar "respostas\_assim", we got 3 files, being the first named Bilhete (Note), a strange letter, the second being named Abutre (Vulture) with Arthur's silhouette and his mark and the third one named Presente (Gift), being the key to the next puzzle: the last Arcana Major tarot card "The Devil" as the promised gift the terms of service said. On the card, there was written: "Você recebeu um presente: **Daimon**" (You received a present: Daimon).

AbutreBilhete - HE EXISTS. I'M STILL CONFUSED WITH ALL OF THIS. AT FIRST I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A SIMPLE JOKE BUT THE DEAL WAS REALPresente
### The Last Letters

With everyone thinking the puzzles have ended on that day, Rakin finally opened his letter right after reviewing the first puzzle, and his letter said:

> Seus atos catalisaram o fogo que destruiu todos que você amava.
> Você se aproxima cada vez mais da morte, nada tocado por você voltará ao que era antes.
> Your acts catalyzed the fire that destroyed everyone you loved.
> You are one more step closer to the Death, nothing touched by you will return to what was before
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> Mysterious letter
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And below the message there was a word in Braille (⠏⠑⠁⠕) that was translated to "Peão" (Pawn).

Earlier, while we were solving the puzzles, Felps posted too a photo of the same letter he received, having "Addressed to Rubens Naluti". Just like Rakin, he opened his letter right after reviewing the first puzzle.

> Marcados. Evitar. Desastre. Retorno. Ordem. Segurança. Ocultismo.
> Convite. Jogo. Kian.
> Markeds. Prevent. Disaster. Return. Order. Security. Occultism.
> Invite. Game. Kian.
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> Mysterious letter
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Every letter had its own puzzle, and in Felps' letter, the first letter from each word in the first line formed the word "Medroso" (Scared).

### Death Puzzles

After Felps opened his letter, the Paranormal Order twitter posted:

> Os convites do Jogo de Kian foram recebidos. Aguardo ansioso pelo fim.
> Enquanto isso, uma trilha sonora para passar o Tempo: https://t.co/SYrMGaEi12
> The invites of Kian's game were received. I am looking forward to the end.
> Meanwhile, here's a soundtrack to make the Time pass.
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> Order's Twitter
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The album in question had the cover of a vinyl named "Vinil Espiral" (Spiral Vinyl) with 5 musics splitted in chapters, being them: Repetitio Unitatum [Repetition] / Memoriae [Memory] / Quavis Deformatione [Any Information] / Perdidit in Tempore [Lost in Time] / ad Melodiam Piano [Melody for Piano].

And with the musics, the big symbol turned another light on, this time being Death. Clicking the Death symbol, we got another MEGA link, with the name "MORTE.zip" (DEATH.zip). The only file was a zip named "Vinil\_espiral.zip" asking for a password, that we had since the beginning: Daimon, the gift received on the Blood puzzle. Putting the password "daimon", we opened the .zip, and strangely, we got another .zip named "repetitio unitatum.zip".

The first music is the first from the album that we needed to solve the .zip.

Inverting and accelerating the music, we realized it looked like the music Spiralis of The Secret in the Forest's OST. Inserting "spiralis" as a password on the .zip gave us another file, this time named "memoriae.zip".

This was the second music of the album that we needed to solve the .zip.

> You wanted that things could be different - You wanted that the happy moments could last more time - But now they're just memories - Memories that passed too quickly, - Memories that burns like fire - Memories that only you have - Because just like death - Nothing can be undone - That is your
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Accelerating the music, that apparently had some bizarre noises, we could hear someone saying "bit . do /arrependimento", a link shortener that took us to an Imgur image with a message from someone, in which the last line had a word risked with black ink. Inverting the URL (bit . do /otnemidneperra), we found an image with all the words risked except the last one: "decadência" (decadence). Inserting "decadencia" as password, we got another file: "quavis deformatione.zip".

Following the same pattern, the file name was the music used to solve the puzzle.

Listening the audio, we noticed it was the music Parasite from The Secret in the Forest, and in the middle of it, there were some cracks in its rhythm formed by high and low tones, that we associated to Morse code. To make things easier, we checked the music's spectrogram to see clearly. With the highs being "." and the lows being "-", we formed the word "*momento*" (moment). Inserting "momento" as password, we got another file, this time named "perdidit in tempore.zip".

Moving on, the file name is the music needed.

Listening, we obviously recognized the music as Chukou, the opening of The Secret in the Forest, but with a bizarre noise. Looking the audio's spectrogram, we found a *timestamp* marking 2:03:52 and a lizard silhouette with the number 3 on it. Having all this info, we went to check the 3rd episode of The Secret in the Forest, on the time 2:03:52. Assuming that the lizard refers to Calango, and that in this time, he says "Exposição Paranormal" (Paranormal Exposition), inserting "exposicao\_paranormal" as password, we got the last file: "ad melodiam piano.zip".

One more time, name is the music, and for the last .zip, we'll use the last music.

It's a melody on a piano playing some notes on groups of 8. The trick in that *puzzle* was to take the white notes and assume them as 1 and the black notes (sharps) as 0, having a binary code for the word "*imutável*" (immutable). Inserting "imutavel" as the last password, we get our prizes: two images, being the first one, Dante's silhouette with his mark (the file name being 8 Braille dots), and the other being a sequence of Sigils of Knowledge that translated to the key of the next puzzle: "**Atropos**".

⣿Memento Mori
## Second day

The puzzles stopped in the earlier day, but that didn't mean it were finished.

### Knowledge Puzzle

Around 3:10 PM, the Knowledge symbol lightened up, quite odd for us, because until that moment, the symbols shined in the clockwise direction, but not this time. Clicking the Knowledge, a pop-up appeared on the site: "Estou esperando em @ordemparanormal" (I'm waiting in @ordemparanormal).
After searching on Twitter and Instagram and finding nothing, we went for another social media: TikTok.

For some minutes, 3 videos were posted on Paranormal Order's TikTok, that except for the bizarre audio on the videos' background, they all looked normal, with the sigils on the center being translated to "FOCO" (FOCUS) while a painting of the Tower of Babel was as background. Until we saw, for some moments in the first 2 videos, several sigils appearing in the screen, one at once. The first was an anagram to "Fritz" and the second, to "Arnaldo", in addition with "\*\*\*.\*\*" on the description, referring to link shorteners that we knew. Finding out "bit . do/ arnaldofritz", we were redirected to a MEGA link named "CONHECIMENTO.7z" (KNOWLEDGE.7z) that needed a password. The last thing the Death puzzles gave to us was "atropos". Inserting "atropos" as password unlocked a file named "LIVROS.rar" (BOOKS.rar) that asked for a password too.

We thought that the 3 videos were done, but that audios weren't only a decoration. By using an obscure method of image transmission, SSTV (Slow-scan Television), we got what looked like someone's ripped page, with a text talking about a library and a big phrase below: "ELAS ESTÃO CHEGANDO" (THEY ARE COMING). Inserting "elas\_estao\_chegando" on LIVROS.rar gave us 4 text files with numbers on the name and some kind of hex code inside.

And obviously, everything in this puzzle had a meaning. The painting of the Tower of Babel and the patterns of the texts in the files led us to one site: the libraryofbabel. On this site, there are infinite books with infinite combinations of words in them, where each book stays on a shelf of a specific bookshelf and a specific part of this infinite tower. Putting the hex code of each text on the search of the infinite tower, and dividing the titles in bookshelf/shelf/book/page, we found some big things.

The first page led us to another link shortener, "bit . do/ livronumeroum" (/booknumberone) that led us to a MEGA link with a file named "*primeiro\_quadrante.rar*" (first\_quadrant.rar), that had a .rar with the chess knight piece, asking for a password, an image named "*aula.png*" (class.png) and another image named "*papel.jpg*" (paper.jpg). On this classroom, there was a black board with several sigils and on the paper, some kind of poem of someone walking in a city. Both of these hints combined together gave us what to do in the puzzle: use the directions the person of the poem walked in the city, starting from the center, on the blackboard. Making this, we got the letters IVSSFI?RTVW. Since we didn't know one of the sigils, we've only tried letters that could make a meaningful word. Using the poem's title, "*pesadelo*" (nightmare), as a Vigenere cipher key and assuming the ? was the letter Y, we've got the word "*trascendere*". Inserting "trascendere" as password from the knight .rar, we got a new text file, with a string similar to some kind of code, and Antônio Pontevedra's silhouette with his mark (figure "'vazio'.jpg" (blank.jpg)).

The second page had a bunch of scattered letters, that we reorganized to make the next link: "*/livrosegundo*" (/booksecond), that redirected us to another MEGA link named "segundo\_quadrante.rar" (second\_quadrant.rar). This .rar had a pawn piece, an image named "*outro\_lado.png*" (other\_side.png) and another image named "*realidade.png*" (reality.png), one having sigils and the other with normal letters, respectively, both of them having the same text. At first, everything was normal until we saw that some sigils were wrong compared to the normal text. Picking up every wrong sigil and every letter changed on the normal text, we formed the phrase "*as regras não são mais as mesmas*" (the rules are not the same). This puzzle had also the sigil for the letter X, another letter that we didn't know yet.
Inserting "as\_regras\_nao\_sao\_mais\_as\_mesmas" as password, we got another text file with a code, in addition of a ripped paper with notes about the Sect of the Masks, its symbol ripped in half, and a text talking about ways of understanding its shapes (figure "primeiro pedaço" (first piece)).

On the third page, there was a bunch of letters B and amid them, some other letters hidden. Picking up every different letter, we formed a new link: "*/livrolivrolivro*" (bookbookbook). Accessing this link, we got redirected to the "*terceiro\_quadrante.rar*" (third\_quadrant.rar), that unlike the other quadrants, it only had 2 files: a .rar with the rook piece and an audio named "*sussurros.mp3*" (whispers). As the name already said, that audio sounded like a bunch of whispers. We tried to hear something that could be meaningful, such as "Mentiroso" (liar) and "Você usa seu nome para se esconder" (You use your name to hide yourself). But the trick to that puzzle was kinda hard: you had to make the mid/side processing. We had to isolate the mid audio from the side audio, convert to mono and invert the polarity of the audio. With this made, there was only one thing we could hear now: someone saying the word "Logos". Inserting "logos" as password, we got another text file with a code and a very dark photo of a group of people surrounded by trees, all of them with ropes tied in their necks, with nooses and one of them having a despair expression (figure "sombras" (shadows)).

The last page was a big deal: a number 4 made of a repeated text, that was our last link: *livrodepoisdotres* (bookafterthree). That link redirected us to the "*quarto\_quadrante.rar*" (fourth\_quadrant.rar), and inside that .rar, we found three things: an image named *o\_dia\_em\_que\_tudo\_começou.png*" (the\_day\_that\_everything\_started.png), another .rar with a bishop piece and a text file named "*oração.txt*" (prayer.txt).
The image had several sigils in a shape of rings, while the second had a kind of prayer to the Roman gods, mentioning 8 gods (Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury, Saturn and Earth) and in the end, a sequence of 3 emperors' names (Domitian, Trajan and Commodus), in addition to a string: "fvxbztzsmehhpor". What we had to do is assume the emperors were a sequence of numbers, using their order as Roman emperors. If Domitian was the 12th emperor, we would use 12. Trajan was the 14th and Commodus the 19th. We had the sequence 12 14 19, and using a Shift Cipher that allows a sequence of numbers to shift, we used on the string and we got "theplanetstoday".
The Planets Today is a website that shows a live view of the solar system. You can check every day and every hour to see where the planets were aligned in the sky. That meant something to us: what day we have to put it in there?
There was only one hint remaining: the day that everything started. Assuming this was referring to Paranormal Order, we went to check out the solar system at 02/29/2020, the day of the first RPG session and episode. We found the orbit, and paying attention, we knew what to do: overlay the sigils rings in the orbit.
After overlaying it, we noticed some sigils being exactly overlaid in some planets, and picking up the sigils in the order of the planets/gods prayer, we formed the string "ocgrilga". In the end, using the same Shift Cipher, we found the word "*confusum*". Inserting this password, we found the last text/code and another ripped page (figure "segundo pedaço" (second piece).

Now, there was only four things remaining: four text codes. Most of the people, while solving the puzzle, already knew what were those codes, having the name of the files as a hint: chess FEN codes. These codes determined the positioning of specific pieces on the chessboard, and when positioning all of them, we had a 16x16 grid. Right after we ended up making the board, we noticed something crucial: this chessboard had a pattern of a QR code that most of the people didn't know about: *DataMatrix*. The first column and last row of the chessboard gave us that information since all the DataMatrix codes has these lines all black, and these lines didn't have chess pieces. So we assumed that every tile that had a chess piece should be painted as white. Painting the tiles and leaving the empty tiles as black, we formed our DataMatrix, that when scanned, gave us the final piece of this puzzle: the word **Conscientia**.

"Blank".jpgfirst pieceshadowssecond piece
### Energy Puzzles

> Finally...
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> The Host after hacking the social medias
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After we ended the Knowledge puzzles, we thought everything was going to be alright, until a notification popped out: the Paranormal Order Twitter made a new tweet, with only the word "Finally..." and a second later, the profile picture changed to The Host's symbol. It was the entity hacking the social medias. And right after this, the Knowledge symbol turned it off and the Energy symbol lightened up.

By selecting the symbol, we got redirected to a MEGA link with a file named "*me\_instale.rar*" (install\_me.rar) that had another file named "*me\_instale.crt*". By installing the certificate, we found the real deal of this puzzle: another link shortener on the certificate details: "/anf1tr140" (/7h3h05t), written in Leet. That link shortener redirected us to the true file: ENERGIA.zip (ENERGY.zip). And this one had a big file: "*terminal.exe*".

And here's where all the things starts to get on fire: by inserting "conscientia" at the terminal, The Host welcomes us with its symbol being generated in the terminal. In addition to this, we're allowed to choose 4 options: 1-Ver arquivos (See files); 2-Abrir arquivos (Open files); 3-Sala do Anfitrião (The Host's Room); and 4-Sair (Exit). By using the option 1, we could see 3 files: 1.txt, 2.txt and 3.txt, and also a fourth one that was blocked, named "OCULTO/" (OCCULT/).

When we access The Host's Room, we find out this is some kind of virtual escape room, that narrates that we went to sleep on our house and then, we wake up in an unknown room. The only thing we have is a table and a lamp. Turning the lamp on, we find a note on the table, that only has a name written: Si Stebbins. After this, a 1. appeared below, asking for an answer. But first, let's see what the other files had to hide.

When opening the file 1.txt, a text of The Host welcoming us to its game appeared.

Bem vindos a mais um jogo do Anfitrião - Welcome to one more Host's Game

Hoje os nossos participantes passarão por desafios virtuais - Today our participants will get through virtual challenges

enquanto procuram por respostas - while looking for answers

Em busca de um último arquivo - seeking a last file

Será que eles encontrarão o que desejam? - Will they find what they desire?

Vamos descobrir - Let's find out

E obrigado por me dar acesso às redes - And thanks for giving me access to the medias

Por que não olha elas de novo? - Why don't you check them again?

And when we went to check it again, the Twitter and Instagram started to post images with numbers:numbers with symbols on the background, and some asterisks. These images were being posted once at time, so we had to wait until all of them were posted. Then, we went to check the second file.

The second file had an Imgur link, that redirected us to an image of a room, with symbols marked in the wall. The big symbol was the symbol of the Forced Coincidence Ritual, and above it, the phrase "Conjure o Ritual" (Cast the Ritual) in sigils. The other risks were something strange for us, until we started counting how many risks were there.

Counting all the risks, we had the sequence 877726677773336667776444. And that made a 'click' on most of the heads that were solving the puzzle: we had the Forced Coincidence Ritual. To cast this ritual, we would need a technological object, like a phone: Phone Tap Code cipher. Decoding this numbers' sequence with Phone Tap Code, we got the word "*Transformi*".

While waiting for all the images of 1. coming out, we went to 3.txt. This file had the phrases "*Inevitable [....S]*" and below it, there were a string and two codes, one being "LEFT" and the other "RIGHT", both of them having random alphabet sequences. This one was a very tricky one, but it was very cool. The first text referred to the guide phrase of the Energy element: "**Chao**s is inevitable". With this, we only had to search for something that had Chao on its name, finding the **Chao**cipher.
By checking Chaocipher, we saw LEFT and RIGHT being configurations for the cipher. And putting the configurations there and our string to be decoded, we got our answer: "*Observation*".

By the end of the 3. puzzle, all the images from 1. had been posted. And then, we already have figured out what we should do: use the numbers:numbers on the text of The Host welcoming us. All we needed to do is pick the letters and see what letters had asterisks.

In the end, we got this:

> O P\*ar\*anorma\*l mudou d\*epois do primeiro
> The Paranormal changed after the First
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> Twitter images
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> Elas apenas agirão c\*aso o e\*quilíbrio seja p\*ert\*urba\*do
> They will only act if the balance is disturbed
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> Instagram images
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Picking all the asterisk letters gave us the final answer of The Host's Room: "*praecepta*".
Inserting all the passwords in order: praecepta -> transformi -> observation; on the character's skin, we instinctively check the back of the note. There was another Imgur link.

Acessing this link, we were redirected to another puzzle, with four cards and the Cursed Blessing Ritual symbol on the background. The puzzle questions if we are feeling lucky and asks us to find out which cards are below. Each card has a string written. And now, there's only one thing remaining to use: Si Stebbins.

Si Stebbins was a magician famous for popularizing his own stack. This makes each card on his stack to alternate suit in the CHaSeD order (Clubs Hearts Spades Diamonds), having a numerical value three greater than the preceding card. But this time, we have to do the value three less.

Using the Si Stebbins stack on our cards, we had the next cards:

5 of Spades -> 2 of Hearts

4 of Hearts -> Ace of Clubs - in this case, Ace is equal to 1

9 of Spades -> 6 of Hearts

7 of Diamonds -> 4 of Spades

With that, we went to check how to use these cards to solve the strings. Eventually, one person managed to decode it using the next cards as Vigenere cipher keys.

DBNAWVKOD -> doisdecopas -> ANFITRIAO (HOST)

OUXPIIMEO -> asdepaus -> OCULTISMO (OCCULTISM)

VSKMPIPHDS -> seisdecopas -> DOCUMENTOS (DOCUMENTS)

SULTDWGEHW.IXW -> quatrodeespadas -> CALAMIDADE.TXT (CALAMITY.TXT)

That's our occult file: *anfitriao/ocultismo/documentos/calamidade.txt*. By accessing the terminal and trying to open this file, we got a new message, saying that now that we've completed this challenge, it'll leave some things on our machines, and that we'll see it soon on that place... The little things it leaves for us are two images: both of them being silhouettes of characters and their marks, respectively Carina Leone and Rubens Naluti.

Carina LeoneRubens Naluti

## The End

After we finished the Energy puzzle, the Other Side site changes again, but this time very different: instead of the big symbol, there was a shining Calamity symbol with a 21-hour timer below it. And then, we waited. This timer was going to end at 6PM of 08/29.

After waiting for so long, when the timer was over, we have been welcomed by one thing that we knew much.

The Colosseum was back. The painting had a bunch of Sigils of Knowledge scattered in the image's center, in addition of 4 QR Code pieces in each corner. We had to translate the text in the center and recreate the QR Code pieces and combine them.

Translating the image sigils gave us the phrase:

> Acredito que os pilares do paranormal foram manifestados nas relíquias da calamidade. Eles vieram da calamidade. Elas são a primeira manifestação do paranormal na realidade.
> O que é a calamidade?
> I believe the pillars of the paranormal were manifested in the relics of calamity. They came from calamity. They are the first paranormal manifestation on reality. What is the Calamity?
>
> Sigils
>
>

Recreating the QR Code and scanning it gave us the phrase "*Clamem pela Calamidade. Apenas assim o fim começará. twitch.tv/ cellbit*" (Claim for the Calamity. Only that will make the end begin). And as said, everyone should "claim" or "call" for the Calamity on the streamer's chat. When everyone made this, the stream started, with the Calamity symbol burned on the wall and a 15-minute timer.

The end of the timer gave us our prize: the teaser of Paranormal Order: Calamity, the first face-to-face RPG season of Paranormal Order.

Ordem Paranormal- Calamidade - Trailer Anúncio

## The End?

After the teaser, most of the people thought the ARG had been finished. However, behind the scenes, there were more to look for. The site changed for only a golden Fear symbol. And when looking in the site's source code, something was strange: the description had a question, the end?. And the title of the image was "Not Found". There was clearly something there.

Assuming that Not Found was referring to the 404 Error, we tried to put it in the URL. Changing the image's name to 404.jpg, we found something that probably we shouldn't: a blurry dark image of Mr. Verity on his office table. That puzzle was going to be a very hard challenge.

While trying to edit the image, we noticed something: in the Colosseum's painting, there was something hidden. And when we found out what was it, we shocked ourselves: a duck. But not just a normal duck. It was the same duck used in one of the first puzzles of one of the most famous ARGs: **Cicada 3301**. We would have to use Outguess in the image. The problem is: Most people don't know how to use it correctly. Even with the details we found in the image: a random string, **mfokigjhm** and **Cenoura** (Carrot). That didn't help us at all, and that's when we thought it could be our end.

### Cutting some Slacks

The ARG organizers, seeing that we were having some big troubles, started to cut some slacks for us. The first one was changing the tab's name from "Medo" (Fear) to "Operação" (Operation), that helped a little bit on the solution, but not enough. However, they cut a second slack: they changed "Not Found" to "Forbidden", referring now to the "403 Error". Now changing to "/403.jpg" in the URL, we got the same image, but with different properties. Instead of "mfokigjhm" and "Cenoura", we had "**m&o-io,**" and "**Carrot**". By that, some people started to connect the dots: "Operation" was referring to "XOR" Cipher, and "Carrot" refered to the Caret symbol, since both of them have the same pronounce. Using "XOR" on the string "*m&o-io,*" with the key being only "^^^^^^^", we finally got a lead: "3x1st1r" ("Exist" in Leet).

By using "3x1st1r" on Outguess, we got a new link. This link redirected us to an audio named "inferno.mp3" (hell.mp3). At first listening, we thought that might be another Morse code or another SSTV, but this time the file's name helped us a lot. Using the file's name hint "inferno", we used an obscure teleprinter system: "**Hell**schreiber". Using that, we could see our final answer: 1mp0ss1v3l.php (impossible.php).

Accessing this link on the URL, we had our final stop in the ARG: only the phrase "**O que faria o homem que leu o Diário de Deus?**" (What would make the man that read the Diary of God?).

And to find the answer to this question, we would have to wait for the beginning of the **Calamity**.

## Trivia

* Three of the Paranormal Order Wiki admins were in the team that organized and created the puzzles for this ARG.