Rebel Compound

* Also known as “Fire A-67157”

* Coordinates: 48.65747N, 11.34496E

* John started exploring the rebel compound he is being held at (known as “Fire A-67157”), posting pictures of what he found on his Instagram and Twitter. Several interesting things have come to light which can be found below.
* See the Fire Map below for a detailed floor plan of the compound.

## **The ‘Fire Map’**

* This piece of paper was found by John inside the radio in the basement. The front has a triangle symbol and the word ‘FIRE’, and the inside shows a map of the rebel compound with areas labelled ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’.
* Additionally the map shows an ideogram that was deciphered after another letter in the same ideogram was deciphered. It reads: **labs in basement** See The Tunnel for further info.

## **The Numbers**

Several photo’s posted on John’s instagram featured numbers.

* A clock (left) which pointed at ‘3’ and ‘7’ as well as containing those same numbers in the background.
* The clock image was blurred on instagram (right) with the '1' less blurred (theory)

* A wall that showed the number ‘6’

* A graffiti piece of a man in a hazmat suit that showed the number ‘7’

The numbers ‘3’ and ‘7’ on the clock image relate to the fuse box (see below), if the clock theory is correct, this could also be the first time "617" occurs

## **The Levers**

* John found a set of metal levers whose purpose is unknown as of yet.

The positioning of the levers (ltr) was disclosed by John to be:
“down, up, down, down, middle, up , up, middle”

## **The Radio**

On December 24, John posted an image of a radio he had found in the basement of the building.

The radio initially seemed to be out of order because it had no electricity

After electricity had been restored by turning on the right fuse in the fuse box the radio opened up to a crack revealing something behind.

As of yet, John has not been able to fully open the radio but has found a paper inside known as the Fire Map.

On January 1, John finally uploaded the video of him trying frequency 157 LW and 617 MW on the radio (frequency numbers suggested by the numbers found around the Rebel Complex). In it a message in morse code is audible which was translated into: **JOHN IF YOU HEAR THAT I WAS KILLED BEYOND THE WALL. STORAGE DEVICE HIDDEN IN REBELS HIDEOUT. FIND BUILDING 617. PROJECTFREEBIRD617**

On January 15, John posted another video on youtube which shows after the morse message more strange sounds are broadcast.

on a spectrogram, the strange sounds show the Project Freebird logo and the phrase **Only numbered words** and underneath the number string **1 12 1 12 1234 1 123 123 3**

The number string is the same as the barcode found on the broken TV (look below), but with spaces instead of 0’s. The numbers are used as a key for the protectedtext message

## **The Fuse Box**

* On December 27, John found a fuse box in the basement with numbered fuses 25-48
* Multiple people suggested John should try fuse 37 because the numbers 3 and 7 were displayed on the clock as well as in the background of the photo of the clock. None of the other numbers found in the photo’s of the made in the building featured numbers that corresponded to fuses.
* On December 28, John turned on fuse 37 which turned on the electricity in the basement where the radio was. This can be seen in a video he posted which was mysteriously corrupted.

## **The USB stick**

* One of the photos on Instagram shows a broken tv (look below) in which a USB stick can be seen. (First pointed out by @interestedone0
* On January 6, John tweeted that he managed to access an old notebook to plug in the USB. It turned out to be encrypted with VeraCrypt software.
* On @WhippedPistol’s suggestion, John managed to access the USB using password **projectfreebird617**
* John posted a corrupted link to the file found on the USB that when decoded using HEX lead to a mp3 file
* The mp3 file contained a series of notes played **C# A G# F# E C#**
* The name of the mp3 file “.. -. - . .-. ..- .- .-.. …” and the name of the other file on the USB were translated from shorthand morse by @WhippedPistol into **INTERUALS** and **SOME#THINGS#ARE#NOT#WHAT#THEY#SEEM** respectively.
* The mp3 file turned out not to be what it seemed indeed: when the extension is changed to “.7z” it functions as a password protected zip archive file.

The password to the zip was found by @wormhole to be the half-tone intervals between the notes played in the mp3: **0128753**. Inside the file the ProjectFreebird files are found

## **The Broken TV**

* On January 7, John posted a picture of a broken tv on Instagram.
* On the TV a barcode is visible. @wormhole managed to painstakingly translate the Code11 barcode to the numbers: **0101201012012340101230123030**

The code turned out to be the key to decoding the protectedtext message found through the msg.jpg

## **Bedroom Building C**

* On January 7, John posted a picture of a bedroom in building C (see Fire Map)
* Increasing the brightness of the image shows text along the bed saying: **Only the numbered words**
* The phrase was found to be a hint on how to use the barcode code as a key to decode the protectedtext message

## **Meeting Note**

* On January 23, John found a note in his bedroom folded in the shape of the Project Freebird logo.
* The note reads: **Sorry, couldn’t talk** **openly** **Meet me** **Building C** **3631472542000** **EMIT XINU**
* @Svanu found out that the numbers refer to the meeting time formatted as a UNIX Timestamp (EMIT XINU backwards): GMT: Saturday 27 January 2085 22:22:22
* During the meeting, Marshall gave John a box of items that the rebels found in John’s possession the day they saved him at the river. He told John “Hope I don‘t get killed for this”.