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I still don't think it's a cipher for text since (among other things) there's no easy #1, #2, #3 clue and they're all strongly hashid related. But, for fun, I tried seeing if it was a substitution using the "Helios 1" coffee cup. As in the first letter in a substitution. Like "H is letter 1" for the cup. I tried it for H->a (I->b, etc...) and H->A (I->A). I tried it with and without including the numbers. First line (and the number on the third line) being the original and the stuff below being the shifted letters. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F G I got kinda excited because BtF6nW started to come out as "iam.UD" ("iam UD" ignoring the numbers, "iamDU3" with the numbers) but then w6Pd2u was all nonsense. Unless I've messed up the shift.

I've tried different codes using pbs.twimg.com (Twitter's media hosting) but not having any luck there. Also dug around the code on eternity.obsidian.net and didn't see anything suspicious. Twitter seems to be the primary source of a lot of this so I was hoping there would be a link there. No luck unless I'm doing it wrong. As mentioned before, t.co not working right, either. The original puzzle was hosted on www.obsidian.com/la (I think that's right, yeah? I wasn't here when that happened and didn't know about it until now) so I wonder if these codes work on the obsidian.com domain or another domain. I've tried doing a domain whois for obsidian.net to see if I could grab the registrar info and see if there are other websites owned but it's hidden via namecheap. I've also tried logging into the forums as like Imps/BtF6nW but no go. And I've tried a few obsidian.net/<code> combos with no luck. I'll keep messing around here and there, though!

I'm pretty sure they aren't ciphers. My vote is on hashids ( http://hashids.org/ ) like goo.gl and so forth use. I just don't know where they can link to since they don't work with goo.gl or the Twitter's t.co and a couple others. Just matches too well to the format. This would mean that, with a salt, they'd align to an integer value or three (depending on padding). So a database table id or comment id in a forum or a coordinate if 3 or....? I don't really have rock-solid reasoning but: 1. They're specifically 6 characters like the hashids. 2. They way they're being sent out makes it easy for them to get out-of-order. And without a solid clue that points to the order, that makes it difficult to combine them into a longer string for a sentence or combined url. This isn't quite so solid if we go off of official release dates of magazines and Tweets and such, though. 3. The better idea would be to make each 6 character code a link to an image or something that can then be combined together in some other way. I think this also makes sense from a marketing stand-point since you're solving a little at a time rather than having to wait until the very end. Keeps people going. 4. The 6 characters doesn't fit into 32/40/64/160 or other hash lengths if combined. 5. Like others, I've gone through the different ciphers to see what could possibly match and there and there just doesn't seem a solid match. That makes it less likely to be a cipher since I kinda doubt they'd invent a new one since... 6. ... the codes don't seem to be a relatively easy code. This is a video game, not Kryptos. I'm very much a beginner with this stuff but I dug around quite a lot and tried a few things and can't get a handle on what it'd be. There's no single number in each block (some have none and one has 2 numbers). And the numbers are not always at the beginning (and especially not at the beginning of the first code) so I think that rules out using numbers to shift the alphabet (plus the '25' double number in the latest code throws that off anyway) or define word length. It uses upper and lower case and numbers so we're working with an expanded alphabet. Which, again, that hashids.org uses A-Za-z0-9 as the default alphabet - more ammo in my argument that they're hashids. So, those are just my thoughts and I wanted to share.