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I run a small IRC network called MansionNET (irc.inthemansion.com) which is a self-hosted community with its own web services, radio stream, the whole deal. Recently we started building an ARG layer on top of it called Cipher Station.

The concept is that there's a (partly) numbers station themed landing page at cipher.inthemansion.com with a CRT terminal aesthetic. Hidden in the page are puzzle clues. Each puzzle solved "opens a room" in a fictional decaying mansion built by a telegraph operator named Elias Voss in 1887, who believed he was receiving transmissions from... something.

Puzzle 001 "The Gatekeeper's Key" is live right now. It's a multi-step chain that'll take you across the landing page and the IRC server (no more spoilers). Everything you need is on the page if you look carefully enough.

There's more coming, as we've got ideas involving steganography, audio ciphers, and puzzles that require multiple people to solve together.

If you're into cryptography puzzles, weird lore, and IRC (yes, IRC, as we are old), come poke around.

https://cipher.inthemansion.com

The Mansion is listening.

I run a small IRC network called MansionNET (irc.inthemansion.com) which is a self-hosted community with its own web services, radio stream, the whole deal. Recently we started building an ARG layer on top of it called Cipher Station.

The concept is that there's a (partly) numbers station themed landing page at cipher.inthemansion.com with a CRT terminal aesthetic. Hidden in the page are puzzle clues. Each puzzle solved "opens a room" in a fictional decaying mansion built by a telegraph operator named Elias Voss in 1887, who believed he was receiving transmissions from... something.

Puzzle 001 "The Gatekeeper's Key" is live right now. It's a multi-step chain that'll take you across the landing page and the IRC server (no more spoilers). Everything you need is on the page if you look carefully enough.

There's more coming, as we've got ideas involving steganography, audio ciphers, and puzzles that require multiple people to solve together.

If you're into cryptography puzzles, weird lore, and IRC (yes, IRC, as we are old), come poke around.

https://cipher.inthemansion.com

The Mansion is listening.

I run a small IRC network called MansionNET (irc.inthemansion.com) which is a self-hosted community with its own web services, radio stream, the whole deal. Recently we started building an ARG layer on top of it called Cipher Station.

The concept is that there's a (partly) numbers station themed landing page at cipher.inthemansion.com with a CRT terminal aesthetic. Hidden in the page are puzzle clues. Each puzzle solved "opens a room" in a fictional decaying mansion built by a telegraph operator named Elias Voss in 1887, who believed he was receiving transmissions from... something.

Puzzle 001 "The Gatekeeper's Key" is live right now. It's a multi-step chain that'll take you across the landing page and the IRC server (no more spoilers). Everything you need is on the page if you look carefully enough.

There's more coming, as we've got ideas involving steganography, audio ciphers, and puzzles that require multiple people to solve together.

If you're into cryptography puzzles, weird lore, and IRC (yes, IRC, as we are old), come poke around.

https://cipher.inthemansion.com

The Mansion is listening.

Playable Link: https://cipher.inthemansion.com

Platform: Web / IRC

Description:

I run a small IRC network called MansionNET (irc.inthemansion.com) which is a self-hosted community with its own web services, radio stream, the whole deal. Recently we started building an ARG layer on top of it called Cipher Station.

The concept is that there's a (partly) numbers station themed landing page at cipher.inthemansion.com with a CRT terminal aesthetic. Hidden in the page are puzzle clues. Each puzzle solved "opens a room" in a fictional decaying mansion built by a telegraph operator named Elias Voss in 1887, who believed he was receiving transmissions from... something.

Puzzle 001 "The Gatekeeper's Key" is live right now. It's a multi-step chain that'll take you across the landing page and the IRC server (no more spoilers). Everything you need is on the page if you look carefully enough.

There's more coming, as we've got ideas involving steganography, audio ciphers, and puzzles that require multiple people to solve together.

If you're into cryptography puzzles, weird lore, and IRC (yes, IRC, as we are old), come poke around.

The Mansion is listening.

Free to Play Status:

• [x] Free to play
• [ ] Demo/Key available
• [ ] Paid (Allowed only on Tuesdays with [TT] in the title)

Involvement: I run the MansionNET IRC network and built Cipher Station - the landing page, the puzzles, the lore, and the IRC infrastructure behind it.

I run a small IRC network called MansionNET (irc.inthemansion.com) which is a self-hosted community with its own web services, radio stream, the whole deal. Recently we started building an ARG layer on top of it called Cipher Station.

The concept is that there's a (partly) numbers station themed landing page at cipher.inthemansion.com with a CRT terminal aesthetic. Hidden in the page are puzzle clues. Each puzzle solved "opens a room" in a fictional decaying mansion built by a telegraph operator named Elias Voss in 1887, who believed he was receiving transmissions from... something.

Puzzle 001 "The Gatekeeper's Key" is live right now. It's a multi-step chain that'll take you across the landing page and the IRC server (no more spoilers). Everything you need is on the page if you look carefully enough.

There's more coming, as we've got ideas involving steganography, audio ciphers, and puzzles that require multiple people to solve together.

If you're into cryptography puzzles, weird lore, and IRC (yes, IRC, as we are old), come poke around.

https://cipher.inthemansion.com

The Mansion is listening.

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