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[ColOfNature]

And I thought I was overthinking it...

[celtickender]

Gametrailers.com - Dead Space - Animated Comic: Issue 4

It's the 4th animated comic. Towards the end one of the female character says she's decoded the dna message. You need to watch it to get the idea.

She doesn't come right out and say what the decoded message was, but the answer HAS to be hidden there.

I tried "recombinant DNA" but it didn't work

Maybe "Necrotic flesh" or "Dead Bodies" or something like that, give it a look I think that's the key

[behemoth1979]

Hello, I am also scratching my head until there are traces of blood

I would have thought that the creators would not make the code super hard, just hard.

Personally, I was looking at the base-5 binary system which seems to be a dead end.

I would agree that ORF are Organ Replacement Files and the red fingers are pretty obvious so hence the code.

They have four states up-left, up-right, down-left, down-right and are always in sets of five. The human hand has five fingers (well four plus a thumb) which would be more along the lines of a hard code but not really hard.

Basically the code appears to be a phrase, the first file is the simpliest. I would have thought that the phrase would start with I or A thereby the first finger set relates to I or A. If we are looking at a text to numbers conversion the first set must equal 1 or 9 to produce an A or I.

Personally, I am not sure the comics have yet revealed the key to this puzzle, but I hope someone breaks it and posts their working

[Astrates]

You know we've all been trying these codes, well maybe we've been entering it wrong.

Look at Gauthiers file at the end the digits are along the bottom so each time I have down it I have read from left to right, but maybe on the one we are meant to read from right to left and possible presume they are upside down. I'm just thinking this becuase as you go along, they start at the top and go along to the side then down to the bottoms, so maybe you are meant to follow them round, kinda thing.

Any thoughts?

[Astrates]

How have people got scores like 64?

I only get 14 for correct answers

Except for the code part lol

[AaronX24]

People i'm sure the 'ORF' stands for Open reading frame, a DNA sequence starting with a start codon and ending with a stop codon, and therefore potentially signals a coding sequence that is translated into a functional product RNA or polypeptide. So don't get hooked up on Organ replacement facility becuase it just doesn't add up to anything useful.
I do believe that those red things on the organ replacement forms are chromosomes not fingers. But it asks you to decipher the message so ***?!! I can't work this out!!!!

[AaronX24]

As for my chromosome idea, I have found that there are 20 sets of 5 chromosomes, which is common in plant DNA. The sets are laid out as follows:1x5,4x5,4x5,4x5,2x5,5x5. But i just can't see how it gives an answer to despher the ORF message. Anyone else with any ideas?

[Padfoot240]

It's not recombinant either

[jakethefake]

I've figured out what the ORF code is. First off, when you initially begin the computer tells you to check your request forms. This obviously means Organ Request Forms, which are the stack of papers by the monitors. Any way if you look where the red fingers connect it makes out letters.

The letters on the first page say: IN

Do you see it now?

I'm working on the other ones, I'll let you know what I get. You guys are overthinking this like crazy.

[carlos83194]

"Organ Request forms" the answer might be the organs they need on the papers like it could either be 6 or 18. 6 if its just the major organs or 18 if your count the stuff in the parenthesis. I havent tried it yet but about to.

[carlos83194]

i tried 6 didn't work 18 is open for someone to try im gonna watch the comics again

[AaronX24]

Originally Posted by jakethefake

I've figured out what the ORF code is. First off, when you initially begin the computer tells you to check your request forms. This obviously means Organ Request Forms, which are the stack of papers by the monitors. Any way if you look where the red fingers connect it makes out letters.

The letters on the first page say: IN

Do you see it now?

I'm working on the other ones, I'll let you know what I get. You guys are overthinking this like crazy.

Sorry mate but I think that you are more wrong than we are, just becuase the first is sort of pointing out an 'IN' it doesn't make any sense at all with any of the other forms.

[behemoth1979]

Just watched the 4th comic vid, cannot see anything on screen that may give a clue to the red finger puzzle. I also think the solution to the puzzle is nothing to do with DNA that just seems to be the marker symbols which are different.

Anyone tried to snapshot the fingers and move them around on a photoshop prog?

[Kharrn]

So..just arrived at this forum. First thing...dont mind any spelling mistakes, i'm german and my english is not that good. Plz excuse

just watched the comics again...and for number 8 i really dont know what they could mean, but here some phrases/thoughts i wanna share:

- The marker will set us free (i think someone tested that already)
- Death is the answer -> Husband of wife saying in EP3
- dead bodies (tested..wrong)
- recombinend (wrong)
- Cancer / Virus -> says Marla in EP4

For what i can see the signs on the marker really look like DNA code someone postet earlier (a friend of mine is biologist but he couldnt tell me anything worthy).

Sooo..the code must be in the ORF which i believe are the organ request forms like jakethefake said, but i dont think the code is like the red fingers putting together.... IN....ahh definately not.

Soo just my 2 cents. I will go over it again and again...not for winning...but for getting this damn answer.

[AaronX24]

Well lets roll back a bit instead of wasting our goes at answering the question, does anyone have any clues to what the passwords are for either the Large monitor on the wall above the three other screens or the one which you need to access the 'social interaction analysis report' becuase maybe those hold some clues. Where could there be clues to what Greggs password could be?

[Astrates]

I don't have a clue, I have tried obvious things like Gauthier etc but no luck. I love the idea of this site, but goddamn is it irratating lol

[EAUK_Phenom]

Originally Posted by ColOfNature

1 letter word is probably either I or A
=>
I / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _/ I _ / _ I _ _ _
or
A / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ / A _ / _ A _ _ _

given this, there are 2 more repeated strings:
1 / _ _ _ 2 / _ _ _ _ / _ _ 3 1 / 1 3 / _ 1 3 _ 2

1=A|I
=> 3=(N|S|T|)|(F|N|S|T)

Assuming above, then statistically 2(probably)=E:
_ / _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ E / _ _ / _ _ _ _ E

bleh. i'm drunk. my brain hurts. help?

I have no idea what the solution is, nor do I know the correct method to obtain it, but I liked your method (in spite of the drunken mistakes!) so I developed it further.

The 'phrase' we are working on has ONLY 3 repeated characters (based on our method), in this order;

1 / _ _ _ 2 / _ _ _ _ / _ _ 3 2 / 1 3 / _ 1 3 _ 2

If this is a 'phrase' or sentence, then '1' must be an 'a' or an 'i'.

If '1' is an 'a', '3' must be an 's' or a 't'.
If '1' is an 'a', and '3' is an 's', then '2' must be an 'e'.

A / _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ / _ _ S E / A S / _ A S _ E

If '1' is an 'a', and '3' is a 't', then '2' must be an 'h' or an 's'.

A / _ _ _ H / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T H / A T / _ A T _ H
A / _ _ _ S / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T S / A T / _ A T _ S

If '1' is an 'i', '3' must be a 't'.
If '1' is an 'i', and '3' is a 't', then '2' must be an 'e', 'h', or 'y'.

I / _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T E / I T / _ I T _ E
I / _ _ _ H / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T H / I T / _ I T _ H
I / _ _ _ Y / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T Y / I T / _ I T _ Y

So, if our method is correct, there are only six possibilites;

A / _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ / _ _ S E / A S / _ A S _ E
A / _ _ _ H / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T H / A T / _ A T _ H
A / _ _ _ S / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T S / A T / _ A T _ S
I / _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T E / I T / _ I T _ E
I / _ _ _ H / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T H / I T / _ I T _ H
I / _ _ _ Y / _ _ _ _ / _ _ T Y / I T / _ I T _ Y

I'll look into it further, later, if I get the time...
This is too difficult!

Phenom

[Riprie]

OK I may have something but I'm totally not sure. You see there is the file of Staley R. right? You see in the notes the is something written in grey what spells "OPEN YOUR" or "UP ON YOUR". This may be coincident but maybe there is some sort of sentence hidden in the files?

[lastexileluciola]

Originally Posted by Riprie

OK I may have something but I'm totally not sure. You see there is the file of Staley R. right? You see in the notes the is something written in grey what spells "OPEN YOUR" or "UP ON YOUR". This may be coincident but maybe there is some sort of sentence hidden in the files?

I saw this too, you can find it directly under the word "mishandled" in the sentence "incident in canteen kitchen area involving mishandled line cutter..."
It's between the first and second line on the right hand side of the paragraph.

Although this is quite suspicious, I went over the other pages obsessively and could not find any other gray or hidden words between the lines that make any sense.

On Billings, R.'s form you can find some gray barely readable letters or perhaps numbers above and below "Current Medications"

On Bishop D.R. You can find the word "wait" under his file photo and another illegible word above the word "wait".

As previously stated, although intriguing, I'm far pressed to find anything constructive from the fragments that are visible. I would much sooner pass these fragments off as leftovers from the original pages that the artist scanned to create the photo manipulations that were used as the backgrounds for the forms.

Nothing useful there.

On another note, I strongly agree with AaronX24 about dropping the fingers for a moment and focusing our attention on the passwords for the computer and the black screen considering, as he stated, there's a good chance that there may be clues hidden within those sections that may lead us to more easily decode the ORF.

or alternatively, the ORF code may actually BE the password for both those venues... Nonetheless, we should not put all our eggs in one basket.

If anyone has any headway on the passwords, please let us know.

[craftymexican]

The answer to the ORF message is "I hold your hand in mine d". I found the solution here:
View topic - No Known Survivors website
Lol, even though it's pretty simple in the end, whoever came up with the solution is a hell of a lot smarter than me. I tried it already and it worked.

[Vjeszczi]

Answer to number 8 has bee found, confirmed it myself

I HOLD YOUR HAND IN MINE D

Side note it does not work as a password for the monitor or the terminal.

As for the reasoning behind it, it was worked out here

View topic - No Known Survivors website

Already posted, sorry for the double post.

[ColOfNature]

Yeah, okay, that's annoying... If I'd been soberer I'd probably have got there the other night. Oh well

[KhaosAngel]

ok so i was playing around on the first on and noticed the url ended with 1-1, just like the episode on the homepage. so i wandered up to the space bar and replaced the 1 on the end with a 2. and a new episode loaded... kinda. i couldn't move my vision around, i had a stationary picture showing the desk. the body model was on the floor broken with a body next to it. and at the top it looked like something came in through the ceiling. gave me the chills. Try it yourself.

Heres the full url: [EA] Dead Space

[Riprie]

BTW a new mutated body part is open. Damn it! I was able to click it a minute ago.

[PJthePlayer]

Originally Posted by Riprie

BTW a new mutated body part is open. Damn it! I was able to click it a minute ago.

Same here, maybe it wasn't functioning properly as all I got was a still image with no sound when I was able to activate it.