Office monitor code

Revision as of 19:49, 18 August 2022 by Unknown user (talk) (add notes about irregularities)

This code was discovered by taking a closer look at the animated binary code that is seen on a monitor at the NCG office in office. The code can also be found in the Hacker's Den in sewer.

The "matrix effect" on the monitor. The in-game version is animated.
Column Binary code Decoded text Rearranged
1 01100101 01111000 01100100 00101110 01110100 exd.t d.tex
2 00101110 01110010 01100101 01101110 01110100 .rent nt.re
3 01100011 01100011 01101001 01100100 01100101 ccide ccide
4 00101110 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101111 .atro tro.a
5 01100101 01101001 01101110 00101110 01101101 ein.m in.me
6 01100010 01100101 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100100 behind behind
7 01100101 01111001 00101110 01101100 ey.l ley.
8 01101100 00101110 01110110 01100001 l.va .val
9 01110010 01101101 01100101 rme mer
10 01100001 01101101 01101000 amh ham
11 01110011 00101110 01101001 01110010 01100100 s.ird irds.
12 01100010 01110010 01110101 01100101 00101110 brue rue.b
13 01110011 01100101 00101110 01110100 se.t se.t
14 01101100 00101110 01100110 01100001 l.fa .fal
15 01100101 01110011 01100011 01101111 01100100 escod codes
16 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101110 nary. nary.
17 00101110 01100010 01101001 01110100 .bit t.bi

Writing down the rearranged snippets in reverse order starting from column 5, you get the following text: in.metro.accident.red.text.binary.codes.false.true.birds.hammer.valley.behind.

Although the columns repeat 4 times, the last part consists of columns 1-5, 16-17 and 1-10.

Sometimes, the binary encoding for c has its first 2 bits separated from the other bits.

Trivia

The code was initially decoded 11/04/2017 by user lavatube.