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)

Book Locations

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

Historical Dates

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

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

Murals

Image	Location
plasterwall_026b.vtf	Found in Bergmann tunnels in a ruined building.
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.
bunker_room_002.vtf	Found In Richard's room in The Bunker.
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
cave_painting_001.vtf	Found in Hammer valley within a cave with a geocache. Words on the mural starting from the top and going clockwise are: Stalburg Underground, Ah?, Water Trees, Osmo Olut, Open Sewer, (Beer/Body), Erik, Robin, (???), PS worker (power station worker), Mask, Machine, Legend of the Underground, Green Mushroom, and Tunnel Monster.

Other

Tunnel of water trees

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

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

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?

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.

Note: FM/FM Studios was a precursor name to the Loiste Interactive and any presence of these two in the game are most likely an easter egg to that name.

Table 32DGFR

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

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.

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", "Reporting to the police", "Report to the authorities" or "Report to the government"

Obenseuer

OsRat Chalk board

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.