The F.E.A.R. 2 viral marketing continues, and I’m officially stumped. Earlier today, I received the following email from the guy who sent me the mysterious case:
Please help me.
As you know Armacham has corrupted the FEAR 2 game module but it seems they are still determined to unveil LEVEL 3 of their testing whatever the consequences. Despite disastrous results in the initial testing they are currently looking for 13 candidates to test the module in a device called the FEAR LAB in New York City.
I fear for the safety of anyone who becomes involved in this test and I’m determined to stop it all costs.
I’ve hidden additional evidence at http://www.armacham.com/rf3437 which I’ve had to encode for my safety. Once you unlock the files you will see what I’m talking about.
After visiting the site, I found a scan of an Armacham-sponsored psychic aptitude test, and a second document made up of a bunch of random-ass letters. Presumably, this confusing message is the “code” that Mysterious Case Dude was talking about, but I have no idea how to break it.
So, I’m asking for your help. Hit the jump for more.
The only other example of confusing-ass code like the kind found in the above PDF file came in the case I opened a week or so ago. I’ve uploaded full versions of the documents below: one is an Armacham press release in plain English, while the other is a bunch of scrambled gobbledygook.
I initially thought that by comparing the two letters against one another I would be able to decipher the code, but the contents of the scrambled letter don’t work that way: certain characters in the readable letter are replaced with seemingly random other characters in the scrambledone, with seemingly no rhyme or reason. There’s a pretty good chance that the press releases are actually sort of a red herring (otherwise, they would have assumedly posted those documents on the Armacham site as well, right?), but I’m including them just for the sake of it.
That’s really all I’ve got. The gobbledygook document on the Armacham site probably translates to some code I have to type in on the regular corporate site, or a URL, or something, that will take me to the next stage of the viral-marketing-metagame-puzzle-thing, which I can then share with all of you. Beyond that, though, I dunno what the hell to do.
