Transmissions

John titles his youtube videos as "transmissions" - "Hi it's John Snu, I hope this is a save channel for transmission. (...)" (From Transmission #1 Video Description)

## **Transmission #1**

* On the 31st of December 2020, John released a video on his YouTube channel
* In this video, he shows an old radio he found, testing frequencies

On the 31st of December, 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 by @Violetfyre into: **JOHN IF YOU HEAR THAT I WAS KILLED BEYOND THE WALL. STORAGE DEVICE HIDDEN IN REBELS HIDEOUT. FIND BUILDING 617. PROJECTFREEBIRD617**

At the end of the video a crawler can be seen for a few frames

## **Transmission #2**

* On January 14th, John posted another video on youtube which shows after the morse message more strange sounds are broadcast
* @violetfyre found that 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, but with spaces instead of 0’s. The numbers are used as a key for the protectedtext message from the Project Freebird Files

## **No transmission from this thing**

* On the 29th January, 2021 John posted a new video
* In this video, John shows off an old camera that he can’t get to work, throughout the video he attempts to turn it on but it fails
* He states in the description that he needs to “get a power supply”, hinting at getting the camera working

## **mkzuifmbjquau**

* On the 3rd March 2021, John posted this video
* The title of the video translates to (Swearing warning) “getthefuckout”, translated from vigenere with the key “GGGBBBHHH” - worked out by @Svanu
* The video shows someone (presumably John) walking up to a door, although the video is stuttering and continues to do so for the rest of the video
* He opens the door and strange sounds play and the video becomes dark
* He is then dragged away, out of shot at the end (and a strange noise plays again briefly)
* The description features the same text as the title and “68747470733a2f2f796f7574752e62652f6d7257684b4734616e5959”, which when decoded from hexadecimal translates to https://youtu.be/mrWhKG4anYY

## **Transmission #3**

* On March 9th, John tweeted a link to a youtube video called “Transmission #3”
* In the video, John is seen sitting in the dark with a hoodie and black facemask. He updates us on his situation, while the audio glitches out as he’s talking. He says the following: **Hey guys, just wanted to tell you I’m okay, I guess. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know who put the videos on my channel. I’m not going to the basement again. I woke up in my room again, but I’m definitely out of here. Wish me luck. I hope this makeshift mask will protect me.**
* The video then cuts to static until the end
* That same night, John tweeted he left the Rebel Compound, heading to building 617.

## **Transmission #4 - Exploring building 617**

* On March 12th, John released a new youtube video called "Transmission #4 - Explore building 617"
* The description reads "exploring building 617 and surroundings, but where the hell is L. ? Found nothing but a lot of trash and some strange papers"
* In the video John explores a ruin in the forest which is building 617, the number "617" is written on the wall (see image on the right), we see a lot of thrash and some drains that seem to interest John
* The video contains some subtitles: "I found it", "Where do I get a ladder" (When filming a hole in the ceiling), "Are you down there" (When filming a drain)
* In a tweet John mentions (like in the video description) he found some strange papers, see Building 617

## Transmission #5 - Shelter

* Also on March 12th, John released a second video called "Transmission #5 - Shelter"
* John goes to a improvised looking cabin, next to it is a lake or some kind of water
* The description reads "Could this lodge be where L. was hiding? At least I have found a place to hide for tonight."
* This lodge was John's shelter for the next days he also found the cable for the old camera (see below) and page 3 of the ideogram letter there

## Transmission # 6 - Explore Building 617 Part II

* On March 14th John released a new video called "Transmission # 6 - Explore Building 617 Part II"
* John returns to Building 617 and finds a strange package from Lawrence
* the description reads "Maybe I found something"

## Transmission #7

* On March 22th John released a video on youtube simply called "Transmission #7"
* In the video he tries to get the old camera to work (now with electricity), but still fails
* The description reads "Or: still no transmission from this thing..."

## Transmission #8 - Tape Segment

* On march 23th John managed to get a video from the old camera, it was uploaded to youtube titled "Transmission #8 - Tape Segment"
* The description reads "Something from the camera. Unfortunately a little corrupted. don’t know who filmed me there and when that was filmed"
* The Video shows John sitting in a room, in the background some clicking noise can be heard, there are 2 Datamatrix barcodes visible in the video:

* with the 2 datamatrix messages a protectedtext link can be created: https://www.protectedtext.com/goodoldtimes
* through a team effort of the discord server the clicking could be "translated" to morse. There are a few possibilities for the "right" translation, because the 2 clicks are not easy to distinguish. One of the possibilities was "LOTIPACE", which is an anagram for "**POETICAL**" which is the password for the protectedtext page
* The protectedtext page contains a long hex code that can be decoded to:

**Today are the good old times we will remember when we're older.**

**Sorry for the video, I know you don't like being filmed but Keziahs Camera is just too funny with the nightvision. And after all it was your 25th birthday, so you could at least pretend that you enjoy yourself. No just kidding, we love you the way you are John, please never change. Happy Birthday**

**Law and Keziah - 2080-6-17**

**19 16 15 20 9 6 25 1O7oz3f9EuSeeX0J7t5z6J?si=6c257edb0f334773 2:05**

* the last line contains another puzzle, the numbers translated with A1Z26 cipher form "spotify", so when putting the rest (without the timestamp) in a spotify link we get: https://open.spotify.com/track/1O7oz3f9EuSeeX0J7t5z6J?si=6c257edb0f334773
* 2:05 marks the "bridge" of the song "Architects" by Rise Against, lyrics:

**Don't you remember when you were young And you wanted to set the world on fire? Somewhere deep down, I know you do And don't you remember when we were young And we wanted to set the world on fire? 'Cause I still am, and I still do Make no mistake, we are not afraid To bear the burden of repeating What they're thinking anyway Let's raise the stakes On the bet we made Let's decide to be the architects The masters of our fate (...)**

## Transmission #9 - Another Part from Tape

* On March 30th John uploaded a video to youtube that was titled "Transmission #9 - Another Part from Tape"
* The video shows the exploration of the surroundings of an abandoned building, John assumes it's a school. There seem to be people talking but the audio is very distorted. The audio also contains strange sounds that can be displayed in spectrograph
* the description reads: "Another Part from the Camera Tape, sorry it's very distorted, but it's a wonder the cam is still playing at all.. This is definitely the school or whatever from my dream"
* A crawler can be seen in a window of the building (see image on the right), the next pan it is gone
* Throughout the video some circle symbols can be seen for few frames, @cookiiookii found out they are binary encoded words read from the middle out where black dots represent 0 and white dots 1
* combining all the binary codes several imgbb links can be formed:

NUMBER ONE: https://ibb.co/vJZHykH

NUMBER TWO: https://ibb.co/SxkgcwD

NUMBER THREE: https://ibb.co/BgRs93j

NUMBER FOUR: https://ibb.co/bzsh9wY

NUMBER FIVE: https://ibb.co/qJWPr6B

NUMBER SIX: https://ibb.co/YT0QsZf

NUMBER SEVEN: https://ibb.co/nj0jy2Z

NUMBER EIGHT - NOT A LINK: GERNOT HASSELBROT

* the imgbb images show maps of the tilly barracks from different years
* when viewed in spectrograph pictures of the tilly barracks can be seen (see Tilly Barracks)

the Transmission continue with Hex numbers

## Transmission #A - Factory Exploration 1

* On May 5th John uploaded another "transmission" to Youtube that was titled "Transmission #A - Factory Exploration 1"
* the description is "I finally uploaded the first part of the factory exploration. At least "factory" seems to be what law called it. What did you look for? As I already mentioned I gotta get back there during daytime"
* the video shows John's perspective of exploring "The Factory" at evening
* the audio is distorted
* throughout the video some texts are hidden: "uxohjoz", "g lgdupyf? vx g isjnl hngottu ibthtozz?", "eua dbcyva qorm xiha fua jje ova jxkguf", "znk dbmt illuxf uil zauxs"
* they can be translated with crag's usual vigenere code "gggbbbhhh" to: "origins", "a factory? or a crime against humanity?", "you cannot kill what you did not create", "the calm before the storm"

## Transmission #B - Factory Exploration Part II

* On May 7th John uploaded another Youtube Video about the Factory that was titled "Transmission #B - Factory Exploration Part II"
* the description is "Back to the "factory" Found nothing really helpful, but this place always feels strange..."
* Crag commented on the video "cngu bsl fva rupljun mux epvub il dlbuislleluasPXZJv", this can be decoded with his usual vigenere key to "what are you looking for youtu be xfvthreexfourOWSCo"
* after exchanging the written numbers with the corresponding numbers a youtube link can be combined: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfv3x4OWSCo

## Transmission #C - Tape Segment 3

* On May 18th John uploaded a video to his Youtube channel, it was another part from the tape of the camera found with Johns Personal Stuff titled Transmission #C - Tape Segment 3
* the description is "Found something interesting on the old camcorder. Seems like Law or me or both already have been to 617 some time ago"
* Like in the previous tape segment, there are some circle structures with black and white dots hidden in some frames, that represent binary code

* @Violeiolet translated them to: ibb, co and W3Y15N1
* those can be combined to an ibb link: https://ibb.co/W3Y15N1

* the red letters can be combined to a protectedtext link: https://www.protectedtext.com/Keziah1
* there are several base64 codes in the description and metadata of the ibb image dHJhY2s=, NVNEY2tzUDhFbjFsNlJ0VFkxd3pIYw==, P3NpPTc0NzdiZDU2ZWE1MjQ0YjU=, b3Blbg==, c3BvdGlmeQ== they can be decoded and combined to a spotify link "Oceans, where feet may fail" by "Hillsong United" https://open.spotify.com/track/5SDcksP8En1l6RtTY1wzHc?si=Fq4SfAVJS0eNM0Lp7I35bA
* the album of the song is called "zion" which is also the password to the protectedtext page. The protectedtext contains base64 code that can be decoded to a diary entry by Keziah, see Keziah

## Transmission #D - Tape Segment 4

* On June 15th John uploaded another video to YouTube titled Transmission #D - Tape Segment 4
* this was again from the old camera tape
* the description is "Next Part frome Tape. Seems like this is not in order, because we're at the military base again."
* weird distorted music is playing in the background of the video
* Like in the previous tape segment, there are some circle structures with black and white dots hidden in some frames, that represent binary code, also a red triangle symbol with rot47 text
* @Violeiolet translated them to: ibb and Ykdxtnj and the rot47 to zion
* the first two hint to an ibb link: https://ibb.co/Ykdxtnj

* the first letters can be combined to PROTECTEDTEXT K 2, hinting to https://www.protectedtext.com/K2 or https://www.protectedtext.com/keziah2
* the spectrograph shows some letters emlvbg== that can be base64 decoded to "zion"
* emlvbg== is also the password for the protectedtext page
* the protectedtext page when decoded from base64 contains another diary entry from Keziah, see Keziah

## Transmission #E - Trains

* On June 29th John uploaded a new Youtube Video where he is going to the trains titled Transmission #E - Trains (see Trains)
* The description is "This was crazy. Finally found this trainstation from L's letter and found something strange beneath the stairs"
* John finds a suitcase "beneath the stairs" (after this 3 words were found by ?)

## Transmission #F - First Tape

* On 30th June, John released a new video titled Transmission #F - First Tape
* the description reads "This is from the tape that was in the cassette deck"
* In this video, he showcases the tape he got from the Zion suitcase
* He presses the button and the cassette player starts playing morse code
* When decoded, it says “UANSASCITYSTANDARDMINDTHEFREQUENCY” decoded by @Devald on discord (Kansas City Standard Mind the Frequency)
* @sorcerersyltherin posted a link: https://hackaday.com/tag/kansas-city-standard/ explaining that kansas city standard is an encoding technique for data
* After the morse plays, the sound stops and the video ends

## Transmission #10 - Second Tape

* On 30th June, John released another video on his YouTube channel, titled "Transmission #10 - Second Tape" as well as putting the same video on Twitter
* the description is "Seems there is just noise.. it continues like that for about 20 minutes.."
* The cassette is played and random sounds are produced, which several people linked back to the idea of the kansas city standard encryption method (notably @PotatoKingTheVII)
* Later on, John posted a tweet linking to the rest of the audio
* The link is encoded by hexadecimal, when decoded, linking to a Google drive (VOLUME WARNING)
* Based off of the above morse results, @PotatoKingTheVII used this link https://github.com/privatezero/KCS and “ended up working with the -B2 -V arguments so 1200 baud and CUTS mode” Giving him a file, see Zion Suitcase section Kansas File

## Transmission #11 - Tape Segment 5

* On August 16th John uploaded a new Youtube Video titled Transmission #11 - Tape Segment 5
* The description reads "The Last Part of Tape from the Old Camera. Don't know what's happening here.."
* The video contains some hidden datamatrix barcodes. They can be read with some QR Reader apps
* @Devald did so: we got 1. https 2. cragwinkler 3. .1337 4. .pictures
* Those can be combined to form a link: https://cragwinkler.1337.pictures/
* this seems to be Crag's homepage

## Transmission #12 - Quick Update

* On September 9th John uploaded a Youtube Video called "Transmission #12 - Quick Update"
* John is now at zion and thanks the "players"
* auto generated youtube transcription:

> hello my friends i just wanted to give
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> you a quick update
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> i'm here at zion
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> learning new stuff
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> uh
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> with some people i never thought of that
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> they're here
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> i can't tell you by now
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> who
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> no it's not lawrence
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> unfortunately i still don't know
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> where he is
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> um
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> yeah so i'm
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> taking some time off um
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> learning new things uh recovering
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> rethinking things and
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> then
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> after that
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> we will have to find
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> lawrence and
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> i will meet with kay
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> so
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> i hope she will find a way to
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> communicate with us with me or you
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> and so
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> yeah
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> what else um
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> thank you for
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> for his amazing things
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> with the rebels um i think
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> i warned them
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> i think some of them escaped i really
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> don't know for sure
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> we'll see but that was crazy and thanks
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> for
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> helping k escape
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> um
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> yeah i think it's all for now
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> as i said i'm taking some time off but
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> be sure
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> you're gonna hear from me
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> jon snow
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