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[Slacker]

With the announcement of the 5th Edition of Shadowrun, there seems to be a hidden game to the Shadowrun Tabletop webpage.
Figured we could work together towards unlocking more parts to it.

Spoilers:

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The hidden stories start with pressing the diamond shape in the middle of the "O" in the Shadowrun logo.

That takes you to page 1 of the first story thread, Eye of the Hurricane: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...he-hurricane-1/
The code to enter at the bottom consists of the first letter of each paragraph in the story. That will take you to page 2 of this story: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...he-hurricane-2/
Editing the URL shows that there are at least 8 pages to this story, but the rest are all password protected.

Additionally, there is a click point to the right of the last line on page 2 of Eye of the Hurricane which unlocks a button for "Next Line". That button actually takes you to a new story thread called Sleeping with the Enemy: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...th-the-enemy-1/
Again, editing the URL reveals at least 5 pages to this storyline, thought they too are password protected.

The code at the bottom of Sleeping with the Enemy page 1 is based off adding up the numbers in the story that are in a slightly lighter grey font and it takes you to yet another new storyline called Fractures: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-soon/fractures-1/
There seems to be an obvious code with the word "move" in the different colored font and later in the story there is a square of blank text that "move" would fit in, but I see no was to enter the text into that box or any other place to enter it yet.

Somebody else was able to notice the open image directory: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/wp-conten...untabletop/img/
This reveals that the image fragments on each story page are parts of the cover for Storm Front.

Anybody else working on this and finding more stuff?

[bannockburn]

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There seems to be an obvious code with the word "move" in the different colored font and later in the story there is a square of blank text that "move" would fit in, but I see no was to enter the text into that box or any other place to enter it yet.

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drag & drop

[Slacker]

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drag & drop

Thanks for the tip, hadn't even thought to try that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Prime Mover]

Not working on ipad,had to borrow sons laptop to even find it. Now have to wait for after worrk to steal it back lol.

[Slacker]

Another new storyline:

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So, dragging and dropping the word move on page one of Fractures unlocks the Next Line button that takes you to page 2 of Sleeping with the Enemy: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...th-the-enemy-2/

The secret to this page is dividing 2070 in half (the two items in the different color font). This code unlocks page 1 of the Pulling the Trigger storyline: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...-the-trigger-1/

[Jhaiisiin]

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Pulling the trigger: Click on each of the grey names.
Takes you to Eye of the Hurricane 3: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...he-hurricane-3/

[Sengir]

Square-root-256...what could that mean (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Slacker]

Square-root-256...what could that mean (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Opens up Princes page 2 and there doesn't appear to be a page 1 on the server.

[Jhaiisiin]

Thank you Sengir

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For the Eye of a hurricane 3, the code is the Square root of 256. Do the math your self, chum.
Leads to Princes 2: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-soon/princes-2/

[Blade]

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Eye of The Hurricane 3: Square - root - 256
Enter 16 in the box (if it doesn't show reload the page) and you arrive at
Princes 2 http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-soon/princes-2/

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Princes 2 : Click on /dev/grrl
The link to The Artful Dodger 2 : http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...rtful-dodger-1/

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The Artful Dodger 2 : Matrix20XX are bolded.
The passcode is 2029. It leads to
Fracture 3 : http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-soon/fractures-3/

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Fracture 3 : Click on the bolded words
Next stop: Little Birdie 1 http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/coming-so...ittle-birdie-1/

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Little Birdie 1 : My guess is that it has something to do with twitter, and possibly the new twitter account https://twitter.com/Jackpoint2075
But I'm not joining Twitter for a treasure hunt.

[Slacker]

Little Birdie 1 possible Twitter connection: https://twitter.com/Jackpoint2075
So far the only tweet on this account has been: "When will someone really take care of all these issues? #trogbasher http://www.shadowrun.com/forums/discussion...a-constant-ache … "
With a few comments and a couple retweets

[Sengir]

I know I read the phrase "little birdie" somewhere in relation to SR 5...damn you, brain!

[ggodo]

I know that someone in-universe referenced a little birdie, but it isn't coming to me.

[hermit]

Anyone got past the little birdie yet?

[hermit]

Anyone got past the little birdie yet?

[ggodo]

Nope, I'm thinking about searching my PDF books for the reference, but I'm lazy and it's lunchtime here. I have pretty much confirmed that it has nothing to do with the only twitter post on the Jackpoint one. Shadowland I lost the link to somewhere.

[Blade]

I think it's a plan to get people to "follow" the twitter account to receive the password. I hope I'm wrong.

[ggodo]

Yeah, me to, but I hope not. If anyone does, post it here for the twitterless among us.

[Prime Mover]

Still can't even click the diamon on ipad and no PC in house now. Curious where'd link to pics come from is it art of the riddle?

[Halinn]

There's also a Shadowland twitter account, but I can't work that into anything important either.

[ggodo]

Link to shadowland Twitter? It's not on their facebook. Thanks.

[Halinn]

Link to shadowland Twitter? It's not on their facebook. Thanks.

I did include a link in my previous post...

[bannockburn]

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So, I've tried a lot of stuff with the birdie thing.
1.) Subscribed to the Twitter feed https://twitter.com/Jackpoint2075
2.) Read the linked article on shadowrun.com http://www.shadowrun.com/forums/discussion...a-constant-ache
3.) tried the hashtag #trogbasher as code
4.) tried to enter the missing letters in the article, but those just seem to be typos
5.) tried to enter the twitter accounts with and without @
6.) tried fastjack and aufheben
7.) tried twitter, tweet and variations thereof
8.) tried the names given in the article
9.) looked at the page sourcecode, nothing out of the ordinary there.

So, has anyone tried anything else? Any luck at all?

addendum: the previously mentioned directory is now 403 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Sengir]

addendum: the previously mentioned directory is now 403 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Predictable, so I saved the full cover image upon finding it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

A search through my PDFs only turned up Nicholas Whitebird and T-birds, tried both without success. Also tried various dragon names, no success either

PS: The directory itself is no longer public, but the image itself is still there: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/wp-conten...front-cover.jpg

[Slacker]

Predictable, so I saved the full cover image upon finding it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

A search through my PDFs only turned up Nicholas Whitebird and T-birds, tried both without success. Also tried various dragon names, no success either

PS: The directory itself is no longer public, but the image itself is still there: http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/wp-conten...front-cover.jpg

Nope, they've closed that down too now.