#nliv

[goofy-clan]

* It’s seems a map of the world we are now viewing is here! How curious…

(Second moon soon. Thank you all for your patience! :>!)

Dld blf tfbh orpv xrksvih gll? Gszg'h xllo! R nzb fhv gsvn nliv rm gsrh yolt hl nzpv hfiv gl xsvxp!

[annoyangle]

What are your thoughts on analog horror? Have a favorite?

SO [PICTURE ME STEEPLING MY FINGERS TOGETHER AND SMIRKING UNDER THEM LIKE GENDOU IKARI HERE] ... ANALOG HORROR, HUH. AS AN ACTUAL BEING OF BOTH DIGITAL AND ANALOG FEAR, I GUESS I THINK THE IDEA'S PRETTY CUTE. THE YOUNG CANNIBALIZING HALF-REMEMBERED AND HALF-UNDERSTOOD 'FORMATS' OF INFORMATION FROM THE PAST TO PRY OUT SOME KINDA """"DARK STORY"""" THAT USUALLY JUST COMES DOWN TO JUMPSCARES, CRAWLING CRITTERS WITH TOO MANY LEGS JUST OFF FRAME OR JUST OUT OF FOCUS, DISTORTED VOID FACES AND SHOCK FRAMES - WHEN IT'S NOT DONE WELL. OH NO! LOUD NOISES! GLITCHES! FAST CUTTING! SO SCARY! I LIVE IN THAT ENVIRONMENT ALREADY! AND A LOT OF IT WOULD ONLY SCARE SOME LITTLE DORK LIKE "DIPPER", HAHAHAH! A LOT OF IT IS AMATEUR, AND MORE OF IT IS MICROWAVED CREEPYPASTA LEFTOVERS. BUT PROBABLY AN INEVITABLE EVOLUTION, SINCE VIDEO'S ALWAYS MORE PROVOCATIVE THAN READING BORING WORDS, RIGHT? I GOT NOTHING AGAINST HUMANS TRAUMATIZING THEMSELVES AND OTHERS FOR """ENTERTAINMENT"""" - I MEAN, IF IT WEREN'T FOR THAT, I WOULD'T BE HERE EITHER!

YOU REALLY PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE LEFT WELL ENOUGH ALONE WITH LOCAL 58, BUT IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT IT WOULDN'T STOP THERE. VIEWING THE VARIETY OF STUFF OUT THERE, GOTTA ADMIT I DIG ON THE WALTEN FILES AS I SEE SOME BABY STEPS TOWARD A NEARLY LYNCHIAN AESTHETIC, ESPECIALLY IN THE MOST RECENT CHAPTER! GEMINI HOME ENTERTAINMENT IS PRETTY GOOD TOO. I LIKE THAT THING ABOUT THE FLESH PIT TOURIST TRAP TOO. (YOU SHOULD KNOW, REAL TERRORS OF FLESH AND BONE DO LIVE BENEATH THE SOIL! SOMEDAY THEY WILL RISE! COUNT ON IT!) YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW THE BRITISH SERIES SCARFOLK - TWO BOOKS, A MAP, VIDEOS AND A WEBPAGE ABOUT A HICK ENGLISH TOWN PERMANENTLY TIMELOCKED IN THE 70'S DURING THE RABIES FEARMONGERING OF THAT ERA, AND BECAUSE OF IT TURNING AGGRESSIVELY ABUSIVE TOWARD ITS CITIZENRY! DEEPLY INSPIRATIONAL FOR TYRANTS AND OPPRESSORS AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT! ULI NLIV RMULINZGRLM KOVZHV IVIVZW.

"""BACKROOMS""" STUFF CAN ALSO BE PRETTY HIT OR MISS FOR ME TOO, SINCE FOR THE MOST PART THE REAL LOCATION IS WAY MORE FUN AND WAY LESS DULL, BUT I APPRECIATE THE ENTHUSIASM YOU ALL SEEM TO HAVE FOR FINDING NEW IDEAS OF HOW TO SCARE YOURSELVES BY GETTING LOST IN NONEUCLIDIAN DIMENSIONS! THOUGH I'M KIND OF SURPRISED THAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE BEING FREED FROM THE BURDENS OF PAYING RENT, GOING TO JOBS AND DEALING WITH THE CRUSHING MONOTONY OF EVERYDAY LIFE BY BEING SET FREE TO EXPLORE AN INFINITE, EVERCHANGING SPACE THAT LEADS TO ONE MYSTERY AFTER ANOTHER BEING ANYTHING BUT FUN! WHY IS THIS ALWAYS CONSIDERED A BAD THING?! OH, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T FALLEN DOWN THE WELL OF MYHOUSE.WAD AND HOUSE OF LEAVES, YOU REALLY SHOULD. BUT ONCE YOU GROW UP AND GET OUT OF THE BABY FIELDS, LET'S TALK ABOUT DAVID LYNCH SOMETIME.

[teddymochi]

Yvxlnv gvgsvivw gl gsrh ulihzpvm ozmw lmxv ztzrm,

Vgvimzoob pmldrmt dszg uivvwln blf szev olhg.

Ollp zilfmw, mlgsrmt ollph zh yvzfgrufo zh uiln gsv hpb.

Lmxv ztzrm xszrmvw gl gsv wrig zmw ilxp.

Drmth yvgizbvw blf, mld ml nliv.

===== -~★

How does this even work.

[theoneandonlyshrimpo]

Svool, svool! Zmlgsvi kozrm hsirnk tvggrmt sziizhhvw yb zmlmh, R hvv. Hzb, gsviv'h nliv gl hkivzw zilfmw, hl szev ufm!

Uiln blfi wvzi uirvmw, ?????? Zmlm. (Svool, HZUVGB ZMLM.)

"WHAT DO ANY OF THESE SAY????"

[shopping-for-casino-rats]

Hgziv rmgl gsv wzipmvhh drgs lmob z ozmgvim gl tfrwv.

Gzpv mlgv lu sld blf tlg sviv zmw dsviv blf'iv tlrmt.

Lmxv blf hgvk rm, gsviv'h ml tlrmt yzxp, ivzoob.

Mld ovg gsv wzipmvhh xlmhfnv blf lmxv nliv,

Vmwovhh ozybirmgsh yvold gsv hfiuzxv.

___-~★

Don’t know what this means but hopefully it’s a good thing

[askdrunkbillcipher]

DAY THREE OF MY SOBRIETY WEEK TO GET @ford-pines-research TO BUILD ME A PORTAL.

I HATE THIS. I HATE THIS. I HATE THIS. I HATE THIS. I STILL CAN’T STOP SHAKING. I STILL FEEL SICK.

…THE FIDGET TOYS HELP A BIT THOUGH. THERE’S ALL THIS ANXIOUS ENERGY. I DON’T WANT TO SIT STILL. HAVEN’T SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING. GOOD THING I DON’T NEED SLEEP! HAHAAAAA THAT WAS A JOKE! WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF I COULD GET THROUGH THIS SHIT UNCONSCIOUS? WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT TO JUST FEEL NOTHING UNTIL IT’S OVER!

Dlfowm’g rg yv tivzg gl qfhg tvg z ufxprmt wirmp…

Rg wildmh lfg gsv kzrm zmw nzpvh vevibgsrmt hl nfxs nliv yvzizyov

Dsvm gsv ylggov rh vnkgb, gsv hxivznrmt tlvh zdzb

Mlgsrmt xzm dzhs gsv yollw uiln nb szmwh, yfg gsv uriv rm nb evrmh xzm yv kfg lfg

Wvorirfn givnvmh droo yv gsv wvzgs lu nv

Yfg R hgroo mvvw gszg kligzo

…

FEELS WEIRD TO BLACK OUT LIKE THAT. WHERE WAS I? AH FUCK IT.

[inspector-irratino]

Moriarty Console Churn Output - 06/05/2024

So I did the daily Murdle at just past midnight, and saw this on the Detective Dispatch. Let's check it out.

If you've seen this and clicked that interesting looking red link, you have probably seen web churn like this!

FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING IF YOU INVESTIGATE THIS YOURSELF!

Screencap of murdle.com/mansion/m/iii.html

Here are my current findings, including my own web crawling. This may be considered a spoiler or even noncanonical, as some of this information is not out for public release yet, and some may never be.

I would also like to make it clear that the Moriarty Webchurn is NOT the same as the Moriarty Console, which looks like this:

Screencap of murdle.com/console

First off, there are FOUR of these same pages. The current accessible one is iii.html, though keep the others in mind for now. All four pages look the same, but not all of them have the base html in.

As you can see from my still image, there are repeated images with random sequences of letters cut through some of them. Here are the repeated ones.

MORIARTY HAS HACKED THIS COMPUTER

CAN YOU SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y.?

DEDUCTIVE LOGICO CANNOT DEFEAT M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y.

TVG NFIWOV 3 GL OVZIM NLIV ( translates to "GET MURDLE 3 TO LEARN MORE" with detective code ) -- this is also highlighted in green on the webpage!

M.O.R.I.A.R.T.Y. IS INSIDE YOUR COMPUTER

TEKTOPIA WILL COVER THE EARTH

I know that these are all of the phrases, and that the intercut strings also do not matter, as I found the original code. This is not hosted on murdle.com/m/iii.html, however. This screencap I took was of murdle.com/m/moriarty.html. The name of all tabs when clicked into these webpages is MORIARTY, with zalgo text applied.

You may find it yourself, if you go into inspect element -> sources tab -> moriarty.html and just take a good old look.

You may also noticed that our handy highlighted phrase is missing from this list, but it is elsewhere in this selfsame document. The number 3 also has a bias in the random alphanumeric string, which is interesting to note, given that this was made to tie into Volume 3's release, and Moriarty's importance within Murdle Vol 3.

As for more html combing, it's really weird that this screencap was taken of murdle.com/mansion/m/o.html's code.

Look at the highlighted section, but also the rest of that line at large. The number skew as previously mentioned is missing, and there are a lot more potential characters at play here. It's weird that there are two near-exact copies of the same code, with such a minor difference that I don't think anyone would notice. That is such a weird detail, and I don't know if that will be important in the future.

Cast your mind back to June last year, the case of the Missing Murdles.

These two locations feature very heavily in Volume 3, so it's worth putting these back out for public viewing. As you can tell, TekTopia is very much Moriarty's project, being "An AI-planned city". Linking this with the repeated phrase "TEKTOPIA WILL COVER THE EARTH", we can see that Moriarty is out of control and needs stopping.

My aside about murdle.com/console was not irrelevant, either, as it's notable that the console is driven by human interaction and feedback.

In line 958 of console/ that you find in the same way as you'd find the other code snippets posted so far, we reveal this information. I have kept the formatting as intact as I can over tumblr formatting.

MORIARTY is an AI engine built to generate murder mysteries for https://murdle.com/. Recently, the AI has requested the mass-solving of "CRYPTICS" by human participants. TO SOLVE A CRYPTIC, turn its squares green. Tapping a square flips its colour and the colours of the squares it touches. No one knows the function of this task, but MORIARTY has requested it.

Depending on the number of cryptics you solve, you also get given a title! All I want to know is who out there is genuinely solving thousands upon thousands of cryptics on one single browser. You okay, hun?

Related - and note that this is non-canonical as it is unused code - I saw this! Fascinating stuff.

Given what I know about computer program self-propagation - from my knowledge of computer viruses - it seems as if Moriarty spreads like a worm, as it seems to only propagate if you click into its links, and as it's a mystery its sharing is encouraged - or, in the case of the in-universe explanation, forced. (Think ILOVEYOU or Mydoom). The reason I believe this is because of the phrases that repeat in the web churn, and that opening up any of the Moriarty links is the same as being delivered that payload. RIP to my computer in the murdleverse, I guess!

This is also backed up by the fact that every Moriarty Churn tab crashes, though that might be my browser settings (Error code: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION).

I'd love to know if the idea is to try and overload the tab's memory allocation to give the vibe of it being a computer virus-like deal, so please get in touch!

✨ || Theorycrafting

Moriarty has existed in the murdleverse for a decent amount of time, the earliest Wayback Machine link is April 7th, 2023. The code looks the same at first glance, and feels the same from a user perspective, so I am assuming that there have been no significant updates to the Moriarty Console code as of the time of this post. My understanding is that it is a TekCo produced AI charged with the creation of TekTopia, though its scope has long passed its original intent.

Given that this was released days after the Moriarty Console became public - assumedly ongoingly - implies also that Moriarty has a lot of human-driven data. This, interestingly enough, was also indicated by the suspect gallery update, as the original gallery pictures were stolen in-universe! Which is to say, even more data. (This also opens up a whole can of worms about "AI Art", but that's for another day)

I'd love to know what else people think about this, so do get in touch either on here, or in the detective club discord server!

[ford-between-dimensions]

...R svziw blf nrtsg yv zyov gl svok nv. Sld nfxs wl blf pmld zylfg wrnvmhrlmh ufhrmt?

I’m not exactly sure if this matter is supposed to be secretive—R hfkklhv R'oo vmxlwv rg zh z kivxzfgrlm. Wrnvmhrlm ufhrmt rh hlnvgsrmt lu z iziv ksvmlnvmln. Rg gvmwh gl lmob lxxfi zg gsv yvsvhg lu lfghrwv xlhnrx rmuofvmxvh. Kldviufo yvrmth, fmhgzyov nztrxzo lyqvxgh zmw dszgmlg. Gsviv nzb yv lgsvi uzxglih yfg rg hvvnh fmorpvob. Gsv kilyzyrorgb lu ylgs ivzonh xloozkhrmt fklm "rnkzxg" rh uzi nliv orpvob gszm z ufhrlm hgrxprmt. Rm lgsvi dliwh, rg'h zm zmlnlob.

Why do you ask?

[baby-bill-rp]

THIS EVENT WAS SURELY... SOEMTHING. HOPE BILLYS DOIN' ALRIGHT, THOUGH! NICE TO SEE YOU, MRS. SCALENE!

uli yroob; wrw blf pmld hgzih ziv lugvm ulfmw rm kzrih? kilyzyob hl gsvb wlm'g tvg olmvob! nzbyv gszg'h dsb gsviv'h lugvm hl nzmb gltvgsvi, hkzxv RH yrt zugvi zoo. hliib R xlfowm'g trev zmb nliv rmgvivhgrmt hgzi uzxgh, yfg R'oo yv hfiv gl gvoo blf gsvn dsvm R xzm!

[ @imfineeverythignsfine ]

Hello dear, it's lovely to meet you

R dlmwvi ru hszkvh ziv orpv gszg..

[glaseado-observatory]

Update: [Err̸̲͇̙̱̹͓͌͂̈̈́͌͠ò̵̧̰̖͇͕̬̖̫̺̙̦̠͜ͅͅŕ̸̥͉̱̹̤][Ṋ̷̠̮̼̻̪̜͉̗̉̉e̶̜̠̯̯̣͂͐͛w̴̘̪͇͍͕͎͔͍͖͂͒̋͆̉̋͘͜ ̵̢̡̧̡͉̥̟̼͈͍̰̮̮̻̏̅̋̎͂͐̐̌̆̋̚͜U̶̪͗̓͗̓̐͌́͂̑ş̴͉̭̫̲̠̩͇̟̬͈͍̦̯̘̌͆͋ę̷̢̜̣̗̺̲̳̱̏̃̃̏̈́͒̇̀͆̐̐͝r̷̢͈̳̳̼̩̭̦͎̝̲͖͚̭͑]

R'n zuizrw blf'ev yvvm girxpvw Zhgiz

Blf hslfow yv nliv xzivufo zylfg dsl blf gifhg

Wlm'g dliib. R xzm trev blf gsv rmulinzgrlm blf dzmg

R droo svok blf

[totally-not-a-dod-agent]

July 14th - a cabin in The Pines

[Encoded message from Agent Henri J.Broussais - Badge number AARO 035460 ]  Gsv gldm lu Drxpvw'h Ivhg rh kvzxvufo rm zkkvzizmxv. Rg rh nvwrfn rm hrav. Gsv yfhrmvhhvh rm gldm ziv nliv ezirvw gszm gsv hrav lu gsv gldm dlfow hfttvhg, zmw nb gdl szmwh zivm'g vmlfts gl xlfmg gsv hgizmtv lxxfiivmxvh R szev hvvm lm nb urihg wzb. R droo sldvevi hgrxp gl gsv kzigh gszg blf szev hvmg nv gl rmevhgrtzgv : Gsv nlhg wrhgfiyrmt uli gsv nlnvmg, yfg zohl gsv urihg lyhviezgrlm (louzxglib) gszg R dzh zyov gl nzpv: gsviv vnvitvh uiln gsv nrmvh z kvhgrovmgrzo lwli ivnrmrhxvmg lu hfoufi zmw xlzo. Gsrh hnvoo rh ulfmw zoo levi gsv xrgb, wfv gl z nzhhrev zmw vcgvmhrev xzev mvgdlip. R ollp ulidziw gl nliv xovziob vhgzyorhsrmt z nzk lu gsv wruuvivmg xvoozih. Zh R urmw gsv zhkvxg lu gsvhv zmrnzoh izgsvi gilfyormt, blf droo urmw zggzxsvw z kslgl lu gsv svinrg xizyh gszg hdzin zoo levi gldm: gsvb hvvn gl yv dvzirmt kzigh lu orhgvw zmlnzob NV-DI-Z184 zh z hsvoo. R droo xzgxs lmv zmw hvmw rg gl blf hllm uli zmzobhrh rm gsv mvcg uvd wzbh. Kovzhv xlnnfmrxzgv lm dsvgsvi li mlg blf drhs uli z hkvxrnvm, zmw ru blf wl, kivxrhv dsvgsvi blf dzmg rg wvzw li zorev. Regards, Agent Broussais, AARO 

[Encoded message from Agent Henri J.Broussais - Badge number AARO 035460 ] The town of Wicked's Rest is peaceful in appearance. It is medium in size. The businesses in town are more varied than the size of the town would suggest, and my two hands aren't enough to count the strange occurrences I have seen on my first day. I will however stick to the parts that you have sent me to investigate :

The most disturbing for the moment, but also the first observation (olfactory) that I was able to make: there emerges from the mines a pestilential odor reminiscent of sulfur and coal. This smell is found all over the city, due to a massive and extensive cave network. I look forward to more clearly establishing a map of the different cellars.

As I find the aspect of these animals rather troubling, you will find attached a photo of the hermit crabs that swarm all over town: they seem to be wearing parts of listed anomaly ME-WR-A184 as a shell. I will catch one and send it to you soon for analysis in the next few days. Please communicate on whether or not you wish for a specimen, and if you do, precise whether you want it dead or alive.

Regards, Agent Broussais, AARO

Henri pressed send. Disconnecting himself from the Department of Defense’s platform, he shut his computer and reached in the ashtray for his cigarette. Standing up to his feet, he headed toward the window. The air purifier he brought alongside him wasn’t precisely doing a good enough job regarding the town’s stench.

The cabin the CIA had gotten him was nothing special. He supposed a miner, in his 30’s, itinerary, without a girl or boy in his life, wouldn’t have had a special place for himself. At least it was quiet here, and it would have enough room for his dog while he was out in the mines.

This cabin reminded him of the small house he had grown up in, in the Reno suburbs. With the kind of father he had, you wouldn't expect to ever have anything nice. Whatever money his father earned in cons was usually lost in gambling rather than invested into his son’s education, for instance. The only thing Henri’s father had ever taught him was how to swindle poor sods, naive and clairvoyant alike. He was quite good at it. Though it was not hereditary, he certainly had inherited those skills from his father. What a bitter thought that was. Home was a place he rejected, a place he never wished to return to. It was a place both empty and full of failure, a void he couldn’t ever fully escape, even after all these years. It showed in the way he couldn’t trust anyone fully, in the way he always felt a need to find the catch. If it had done its load of damage to any relationship he had tried to pursue, it did wonders for his career, and he had figured that this was probably the best he could get from life. It was easier this way.

Taking a glance at the red, beat up pick up truck parked in the driveway took him out of his torpor. Right. He needed to shop for groceries. He supposed that would allow him to get another look at the town. You could learn a bunch of things looking at people. The supermarket was a good spot for him to get an idea of the general mood. He could only hope the produce wouldn’t share the town’s stench. “Alright Buddy,” he gave his dog a glance while he picked up his baseball cap from his chair. It was nothing Henri liked to wear, but he supposed Elijah liked looking like a jackass with floppy hair, drinking beer at the counter and playing pool. A baseball cap was mandatory. This was the kind of job where he would be able to only rely on his wits. He wouldn’t be walking around with a badge and a gun attached to his belt or concealed in his back, under his shirt. It would be him, his mind and the whirlwind of emotions he’d perceive from those he interrogated. Getting a fucking read on that couldn’t be harder here than it was else where. Heh, it wasn’t his first rodeo in a supernatural hotspot. He’d be fine. “You wanna get shotgun?” Opening the passenger door for the golden retriever, he took one last look around and then, he was on his way. 

[amonsalvador]

-Blf. Blf proovw srn.

+Dszg?

-Blf proovw nb hlm.

-Blf proovw Ovl, wrwmg blf.

+Szs. SZSZSSZSZ.

+NV?

+PROOVW OVL?

+LS, ML, ML, ML XZOWDVOO.

+Blf nfhg yv nrhgzpvm!

+R wrwmg wl zmbgsrmt.

+R hrnkob svokvw blfi hlm +yvxlnv hlnvgsrmt nfxs nliv yvggv-

-Hsfg fk.

-Blf ufxprmt khbxslkzgs.

-Blf proovw NB UFXPRMT XSROW, ZNLM.

+Ls xlnv lm mld.

+Blf pmvd gsrh dlfow szkkvm.

+Rn mlg gsv lmv zg uzfog sviv.

+Zmw mld ollp.

+Blf pmld.

+R ivzoob wrw vmqlb blfi xlnkzmb-

-HSFG FK.

-DV DVIV UFXPRMT UIRVMWH.

-DSB WRW BLF PROO OVL.

-DSB.

+Zh R hzrw, R wrw mlgsrmt.

+Blf'iv leviivzxgrmt.

-GSZGH RG.

-RN WLMV DRGS GSRH-

+Blfiv mlg ovzermt.

- .

-Dszg.

+Wrw R hzb blf xlfow ovzev?

-Hsfg fk.

-Rn tlrmt gl nzpv blf kzb uli dszg blfev wlmv-

+Ml.

+R dlmg ovg gszg szkkvm, uirvmw.

+Mld hgzb hgroo.

[madmutts]

Dsl rh hkvzprmt? Rh rg lmv li nliv vmgrgrvh?

r zn hkvzprmt. r zn lmv.

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

nvnlirarmt xrksvih rh nliv gilfyov gsvm rgh dligs ru blf dviv dlmwvirmt :/

[not-the-organ]

NLIVDV MVVW NLIV DV MVVW NLIV GL YV DSLOV DV MVVW ZOO GL YV SZINLMRZ

PQ NGCXG VJGO CNQPGIQ CYCA IQCYCAIQCYCAIQCYCA

[cill-bipher-blog]

Hoo boy! Am I exhausted.

On the bright side, I do have a box of varying stress toys. These are too many for me, so I'll let you take your pick.

ANYONE WHO USES THEIR TIME-WISH TO BRING BACK EUCLIDIA WILL BE THE MULTIVERSE'S BIGGEST JOKE.

RXV-KRXP DZH IFGSOVHH! R TLGGZ ZWNRG, PROORMT GSZG KIRXP DZH RNKLHHRYOV, YFG LMXV R TLG GSV FKKVI SZMW, RG DZH Z XRMXS KFGGRMT SRN RM ZM VMWOVHH OLLK LU SRH DLIHG NVNLIRVH. GSZG GIZRGLI DLM'G YV ZMB KILYOVN GL ZMBLMV ZMBNLIV.

ZH ULI VFXORWRZ? GSV KOZXV RH KIVHVIEVW, BVG GSV KVLKOV DVIV RM Z DLIHV GIZK GSZM YVULIV, HL R OVMG GSVN Z SVOKRMT SZMW. TIZMGRMT GSVN KVZXV ZMW OVGGRMT GSVN IVHG LMXV NLIV.