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[[File:Central_video_1.png|alt=|thumb|300x300px|This texture extracted from effects/central_video_1.vtf. This version is not animated.]] | |||
This page is about the projector in [[Central]], in the control room. | This page is about the projector in [[Central]], in the control room. | ||
When the VHS tape is inserted into the projector and turned on, this animated texture appears on the screen and a faint morse message plays in the background. | When the VHS tape is inserted into the projector and turned on, this animated texture appears on the screen and a faint morse message plays in the background. | ||
The video is of the shadow of a fan projected onto a concrete wall, and what may either be two written L characters, or two doors with light projected through them in the background. | The video is of the shadow of a fan projected onto a concrete wall, and what may either be two written L characters, or two doors with light projected through them in the background. | ||
==Cracking the code== | |||
== Cracking the code == | |||
Note that the morse code is audible in game and the spectrogram is only used here to help decode, and not required to discover the code. | |||
[[File:Central_spectogram.png|alt=|thumb|316x316px|Spectrogram of the audio used for decoding the Morse Signal, as the signal is clearly audible in the audio.]] | |||
This is the raw morse, transcribed manually: | This is the raw morse, transcribed manually: | ||
<code>-.-- --- ..- -.-. .- -. -. --- - ..-. .. -. -.. .-. .. --. .... - .- -. ... .-- . .-. --- .-. - .... . --.- ..- . ... - .. --- -. -... ..- - .. ..-. -.-- --- ..- -.-. .- -. ..-. .. -. -.. .... .. -- -.-- --- ..- -.-. .- -. .- ... -.- -- .- -.-- -... . .... . --. .. ...- . ... -.-- --- ..- - .... .. ... .--. .-.. .- -.-. . .. ... -.-- --- ..- -.-. .- -. ... . . .- ....</code> | |||
Including long and short pauses (with short pause considered as simple spaces between words), the transcription is | |||
YOU CAN NOT FIND RIGHT ANSWEROR THE QUESTIONBUT IF YOU CAN FIND HIMYOU CAN ASK | |||
[long pause] | |||
MAYBE HE GIVES YOU | |||
[long pause] | |||
THIS PLACE ISYOU CAN SEE AH | |||
Taking the missing spaces between words as line breaks, this becomes | |||
YOU CAN NOT FIND RIGHT ANSWER | |||
OR THE QUESTION | |||
BUT IF YOU CAN FIND HIM | |||
YOU CAN ASK | |||
[long pause] | |||
MAYBE HE GIVES YOU | |||
[long pause] | |||
THIS PLACE IS | |||
YOU CAN SEE AH | |||
==What does it mean?== | |||
This seems to link in with the "right answer, right question, right person" problem. | |||
*{{Needs-investigation}} Who is "him?" It could be [[Andrew Herts]]; another possibility of mentioning not finding the "question" or the "answer" but maybe "him" (a person) might connect this to the [[Wasteland notes]], of which the "right person" is [[Albert Hartman]]. | |||
*{{Encryption-key}} Is it possibly used as an encryption key? | |||
*{{Needs-investigation}} AH could mean [[Andrew Herts]], [[Albert Hartman]] or [[Alex Hartman]]. | |||
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