August

Tweet by John on August 7: "Still on the run. This is tougher than I thought this area is really dangerous. Found an old greenhouse. This will be my hideout for tonight. Maybe I can find interesting things here" https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1424037695085584390?s=20 showing two images of a greenhouse

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* in one of the images the text "file io" is hidden, in the other "5ySVQ2FVgpq9"
* this can be combined to a link http://file.io/5ySVQ2FVgpq9
* the link lead to a file that could be downloaded once, so did @Cookiiookii , it was a text-file titled "encoded-20210806135542.txt"
* the text file contained cryptic text, it could be decoded by @PotatoKing with base64 to a jpg image
* "prepare" and "the time has almost come" can be read in the image

Tweet from August 8: "In the Tower of the greenhouse is a part where the walls are made of bare bricks. There is an opening that’s blocked with chipboard. I saw that logo before" https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1424456691282808836?s=20

followed by a small video looking through a hole above the door "There is a small hole on top of it. Trying to see what’s in there but I barely can see a thing" https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1424462199024758787?s=20

On August 14th SNUMEN tweeted: "Want to hear a demo of a brand new song „2084“ from our upcoming album?" with a poll: Yes!! / No thanks; Yes won with 85.7% votes https://twitter.com/SNUMeN/status/1426578595091263492?s=20

Tweet from August 15 by SNUMEN: "Looks like a clear result! Stay curious!" https://twitter.com/SNUMeN/status/1426985720271486980?s=20

Tweet from John on August 16 "Sorry for the silence.. I was busy exploring the surroundings and trying to watch the last part of the camera tape.. which finally succeeded:" with link to a new youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V16Fx4IV\_M ,see Transmissions https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1427212130550439937?s=20

Tweet by SNUMEN on August 17th: "You decided! Here is the exclusive demo of our song #2084 from our upcoming album:" with a video of a demo recording of the song 2084

* the video shows a distorted test image in the background. it displays the band name "SNUMEN" and the title "2084 (demo)"
* the lyrics are written beneath the title
* the video and the sound stops (sounds like vinyl stopping)
* after some glitches and text can be read and is also read by a woman's voice (same as in Socience Inc. Image Film?):
* This content was blocked, because it does not comply with legal requirements of theRing and Socience Incorporated For more information please visit www.socience-inc.com
* @PotatoKingTheVII found there is a datamatrix (image on the right) and 2 texts hidden in single frames: *>:75 E96 42?G2D*, *:E 368:?D H:E9 b*
* the texts can be rot47 decoded to: "`mind the canvas"` and `"it begins with 3"`
* the datamatrix is a spotify link: `open.spotify.com/track/5B0Gd9Q5uyUygC6fzgV6EZ?si=a1e509c758ec46b`
* @Sorcerer Orcerer found out that "mind the canvas" hints to the "spotify canvas", the short video that is playing on some songs (just in mobile app)
* the canvas of the song "I'm still waiting" contains some characters that are shown for one frame. Combining these and decoding from rot47 gives a bitly link: bit.ly/2084-demo
* this leads to a full demo of the song including written lyrics

On August 17th Socience Inc also tweeted: "If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of John Snu, contact us: info@socience-inc.com. Any help will be rewarded! http://whereisjohnsnu.socience-inc.com" https://twitter.com/Socience2/status/1427527962937765900?s=20

* This tweet got pinned
* The wanted poster that is linked has a new hex code, this leads to the twitter account of John Snu (propably a new rabbit hole?)
* Discord user @ChaosDubdest Cube sent Socience a tip about John's whereabouts (an old location -> Rebel Base) to find out what the reward would be, see Socience Inc passage about the intranet

Tweet by John from August 18 "I removed the chipboard from the wall and found: bricks, many bricks" with some images of brick walls https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1427971701833404425?s=20

Another tweet from August 18: "4a6f696e20746865204a6f686e20536e7520416c6c69616e636521" showing an image of a qr code. https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1428077927057567749?s=20

* The Text is hex code that can be decoded to "Join the John Snu Alliance!"
* The QR Code leads to the inofficial Discord channel
* The tweet got pinned

Tweet from August 19th: "Found this between bricks and the pipe." https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1428307629525422080?s=20 with images of a folded paper with Zion symbols on it.

* there are some Ideogram Letter symbols written on it that can be translated to "John"

Followed by a tweet: "Detailed images of the papers 68747470733a2f2f7777772e696e7374

616772616d2e636f6d2f702f435377515a42796a3459692f3f75746d5f6d656469756d3d636f70795f6c696e6b"

* the last part can be hex decoded to an instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSwQZByj4Yi/?utm\_medium=copy\_link
* the instagram post shows detailed images of the papers see Zion

Another tweet from the same day: "Sorry this one got cropped 68747470733a2f2f7777772e696e7374616772616d2e636f6d2f702f4353775165494a6a546f642f3f75746d5f6d656469756d3d636f70795f6c696e6b" https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1428330054518456324?s=20

* the last part can again be hex decoded to an instagram link: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSwQeIJjTod/?utm\_medium=copy\_link

Tweets from John on August 24: "After all I’ve learned or remembered about this world so far, there’s one question that bothers me: after humans almost faced extinction why are they still fighting each other? Why are they dissimulating the fact that there are evil forces threatening humankind? (continued)" + "Why are there other ones that even help them somehow? Why are they building their parties and fighting each other who will control this world if they should unite and fight against a greater enemy.. I hope the people at Zion will be different.." https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1430240122587525120?s=20

* John getting really thoughtful
* Fun fact: this was first tweeted from the SNUMEN account, it's not known if that was a mistake or on purpose (But it was deleted, so probably a mistake)

On August 27th Socience Inc. tweeted: "Starting a recon mission to find John Snu, thank you for the tip about his whereabouts. We will keep you updated. Scouts for a safe future of theRing." https://twitter.com/Socience2/status/1431242577370562560?s=20

Tweet from August 30 by John: "And into the woods again. This path seems to be a endless.." https://twitter.com/name\_subject/status/1432446281595633666?s=20

* some figure (a crawler?) and a hand shape can be seen when looking closely
* Players warned John on twitter: "Please keep your eyes open and watch your back, there seem to be crawlers in this forest. Stay safe John" and "Don't die", John answered "thank you! Yeah that was close it chased me but I managed to outdistance it.."