Unsorted ARG Assets

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This page exists to temporarily contain unsorted assets from the ARG. Please add any interesting assets you find here so they can be investigated.

INFRA

The Red Book

This red book appears in interesting locations throughout the game. But the meaning of the book is still a mystery. it was implied by one of the developers (Oskutin) that the book might have some importance. However, it is likely that the cover is not important, as the texture comes from Textures.com, as pointed out by Willisika. As it has a bird on the cover and is red, it may be related to mentions of 'red raven' in special/mask_sound_001.wav (see ARG audio files)

Red Book.png

Book Locations

Description Screenshot
Hammer valley, in the cave next to the garage keys. Reserve3 Book Location.png
Stalburg Steel Offices, In the blocked room next to the tape recorder. Tower Book Location.png
The Sewers, In the control room, on top of the control console. Sewer2 Book Location.png
The Minitrain Tunnels, In the hideout behind the steampipes.
The location is likely a hideout of one of the escaped scientists from the bunker.
Minitrian Book Location.png
The Skyscraper, In the library room, on the floor. Skyscraper Book Location.png
The Bunker, Science Lab, two books on the tables. Bunker Book Location.png
The Stormdrain, Next to Ugu in the hidden cave. Stormdrain Book Location.png
Castle Rock, In the secret room with Xander and Eric Isle2 Book Location.png
Wasteland, Right next to Mark's feet when he arrives in wasteland. Wasteland Book Location.png
Tenements, On the border control station's roof. 20200423173907 1.jpg
Rosenthal Villa, On top of the dresser in the smaller cottage next to the villa. Villa Book Location.png
NPP, In the Control room. On the top shelf above the couch next to the door. Npp Book Location.png
Other locations
Good Ending, In a bookshelf in Mark's bedroom Ending2 Book Location.png
Horrible Ending, On a dresser in the hallway. Ending3 Book Location.png

Historical Dates

While exploring the world of INFRA player can come across dates which are references to historical events.

Image Date Event
April 27 1986.png April 27th 1986 The town of Pripyat was evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
Leaving behind the famous Pripyat Nuclear Wasteland.
Feb 25 1980.png February 25th 1980 The "Sergeants' Coup" took place in Suriname, South Africa.
Feb 12 1945.png February 12th 1945 The Treaty of Varkiza was signed.

Murals

Image Location
MorkoMural.png

plasterwall_026b.vtf

Found in Bergmann tunnels in a ruined building.
RichardArt1.png

bunker_room_005.vtf

Found In Richard's room in The Bunker. It has the words "Underground God is Dead! We need an Answer! Live!" written on it.
RichardArt2.png

bunker_room_002.vtf

Found In Richard's room in The Bunker.
StalburgUndergroundMural.png

oldconcrete_065_graffiti.vtf

Found in the underground hall at the end of the Metroride. The train cars the fist is punching heavily resemble those from the metro accident found in the bunker,

being a similar shade of green

WaterTreesMural.png

cave_painting_001.vtf

Found in Hammer valley within a cave with a geocache.

Other

Tunnel of water trees

TunnelOfWaterTreesBook.png
bookset_skin1.vtf

This book is made by Silvia H. Raven. and it has some kind of code E.1 S.9 H.8 C.2 on the back cover.
The book is referred in the Hammer valley mural aka. "the water trees mural". Could be worth looking into.

Villa Cane

INFRA - Villa Cane Top.jpg INTRA - Villa Cane Upper Side.jpg Villa Cane Lower Side.jpg INTRA - Villa Cane Bottom.jpg
There is a cane found lying on the floor of the Villa in the same room as the defaced paintings.
Presumably it belonged to Jeff Walter (as shown in his portrait found elsewhere in the Villa).
The patterns visible on the metalwork of the cane are reminiscent of those seen in "Elo's Hideout" in the Isle2 map.
Possibly related to the ARG?

New Screenshots

ARG T01 S2778 E1 INFRA.png

text_random_07.vtf

T01 S2778 E1 INFRA

Found after the train station in the city after all hell breaks loose. Commented by Oskutin with E1 Under?


ARG FM.png

FM

Found on its own with nothing near or next to it probably just some random letters. In the Bergmann tunnels, just across the two controllable bridges, above a table. The letters are also briefly visible on the wall of the elevator shaft when exiting the Bergmann tunnels.

Other locations for these letters include Point Elias, in a corner in a parking garage and in Turnip Hill on a wall near O-market.

Table 32DGFR

Table32dgfr.png
scientific_table_001_skin6.vtf
A table containing elements which start with a single letter, followed by a 3-digit number. The top row is labeled from GD1 to GD15.
Commented on by Oskutin in the ARG discord channel on June 5, 2020: "this seems that it can fit a lot of information", "if you figure out what GD means then it gets easier"


Obscured Language/Chinese Characters on Bridge

Bridge Girder - Chapter 2 Railway Bridge - Unedited Screenshot.png

On the support beams/girder of the Railway Bridge in Chapter 2, very faint Chinese characters are visible. The same characters appear on every beam, and the characters do not appear to be present on the texture file when the source textures are inspected.

Bridge Girder - Chapter 2 Railway Bridge - Characters Visible.png

Adjusting the contrast, brightness and colour saturation of the image we can improve the clarity of the characters. The identified characters are as follows:

  • 報 - Bào -English Translation - "newspaper"
  • 官 - Guān - English Translation - "official"
  • 治 - Zhì - English Translation - "rule"
  • 理 - Lǐ - English Translation - "reason"

However, the characters may take on a different meaning when merged together. All characters when written together, may translate to:

報官治理 - Bào guān zhìlǐ - "Reporting to officials for governance" or alternatively "Newspaper governance".




Obenseuer

OsRat Chalk board

Osrat-chalkboard.png

in the apartment where the OsRat is found, there is a chalk board seemingly showing its workings and development.

the two symbols on the far sides of the ---><--- are also found in the wasteland notes, and the spiral one in Elo's hideout in INFRA.

the last symbol in the set of 5 symbols on the right of the board (not counting the infinity sign) also appears in the wasteland notes

the small writing in the bottom right says 'who is AH? red raven signals'

this seems to connect to special/mask_sound_001.wav which also mentions a 'red raven'

The large text on the right side gives a usage guide:

  • <-- AA BATTERIES
  • GREEN LIGHT / READY TO CONNECT
  • NO LIGHT / REPLACE THE BATTERIES
  • PRESS THE BUTTON WHEN THE LIGHT IS GREEN

Below this is an infinity symbol. in INFRA, on the box that controls isle3's drawbridge lights, there is graffiti of a raven and an infinity symbol.


The large text on the left says

  • METER ARROW / SIGNAL STRENGTH [????]
  • METER LIGHT / CONNECTION STRENGTH
  • [????] / [????]
  • STRONG SIGNAL USUALLY NEAR SMV BODIES
  • how to make it stringer? [????] RR signals [????]?

RR may stand for 'red raven' or 'raven research'

on the far left, there is a numbered list

  1. BLACK NOISE
  2. RED NOISE
  3. WASTE
  4. ??? (x'd out)
  5. OUT

This list seems to correlate to the top left diagram, which also shows five stages. stage 3 has a radiation symbol over it, and is directly under where the two ---><--- lines meet.