• A person (known as 'nutsfornuts' in the Inscryption Discord) went to the location and livestreamed his progress.
• His phone battery almost ran out, so he went back to a shop near the forest
• Daniel Mullins (the creator of the game) as well as (the actor of) Luke Carder went to a pub near the forest were they met up with him.
• All three of them went back to the spot in the forest.
• What happened next is documented here: https://clips.twitch.tv/ArbitraryHotCockroachPicoMause-w4I4hGivhsCmFXUM

...

• We now know that the 'the game creator kills people that dig up floppy' was a skit they decided upon while meeting up. Everyone is actually fine ;-)
• Nutsfornuts received the floppy (to be precise: an alternative floppy that had not been in the dirt for months, to make sure it can be read by a computer) from Daniel.
• The contents of the disk were read and (livestreamed)[https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1186211022], containing a single file called file that contained the text thisguymoaned

• The community was already aware of the 'ThisGuyMoaned' Reddit user being run by Daniel Mullins that was a major part of figuring out Clue 3.2
• It's believed that this was supposed to be a hint for Clue 3.2, and since the account is now deleted that belief is all but confirmed.

It reads: MYCOLOG1ST12|P3RH4PS??|BL00D$L3TT3R80X

So there are three 'subclues':

• MYCOLOG1ST12
• P3RH4PS??
• BL00D$L3TT3R80X

Press Ctrl + C while the white "Loading ... " lines of text are shown. This will 'interrupt' the game program, instead opening up a command-line interface. Here you have a couple of commands to look around and interact with the folders and files stored on the floppy drive.

Change directories using cd NameOfDirectory.

Check particular files using open NameOfFile (note that this only works on text files).

You can attempt decryption by typing decode log.txt followed by your current guess as to what the decryption key should be. After this, type save log.txt to 'save' the decoded text to the file again.

This is the first part of Clue 1.

The provided link for the Beeper model does not, in fact, exist. The two question marks in the link indicates that we need to replace P3RHAPS?? with the equivalent characters from the URL. So the second part of the cipher is 8339344??.

Visiting him in Act 2 will give you a key for Act 3. When going to him in Act 3, a special message will be shown if you have your screen in letterbox (4:3) format: 8043!$702D!!$666

(or: “Bone !$ Lord!!$ 666” in l33t)

First cypher: 918234489010|8339344??|8043!$702D!!$666

Entering 918234489010|8339344??|8043!$702D!!$666 when decoding the log.txt, the normal text will change into the following:

Note that the part above this is still unreadable cyphertext.

But there are new clues between the < and >s!

Putting these together gives SE:167BP:TRU|23K2F!00R|ARCHIV$NEW#GAME?

Type "167" in your completed events object:

Set "bonelordPuzzleActive" to "true":

and then go (through e.g. chapter select) to chapter 2 (Leshy's cabin post-tutorial), you can click on the Bone Lord's skull many times.

When his eyes glow red, he will show the following message: IAMLRNED2MCH. (Note that it is normal that the game will crash after this).

This is the first part of the second code.

You need to play the following cards in the order listed in the hint:

This gives us STOP, the first part of the code.

This makes the second part of the code part of the code 27341.

Making the full second part STOP27341.

This one again is split in two parts separated by the $.

The morse spells BIGEAR. This refers to Reginald/Barry. But also on its own it is part of the decoded cypher.

It spells out NOCHANCE.

The final clue turned out to be:

BIGEAR$NO#CHANCE

Second cypher: IAMLRNED2MCH|STOP27341|BIGEAR$NO#CHANCE

Note that to use this clue,

• go back to the CLI.
• decode log.txt with the first cypher
• save log.txt
• decode log.txt with the second cypher.

Resulting text:

This is Polish.

By doing this and then completing the game, it will print the message

WHTL!ESAHEAD

'What lies ahead' in l33tspeak.

Maybe something about these 'Aqua Romans' can be found elsewhere?

See

• https://imgur.com/a/2FCuD
• https://www.reddit.com/r/smashup/comments/7gb5c7/id_like_to_share_my_first_custom_faction_the_aqua/
• https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1892657/article/27571251#27571251

The solution is ANTONY###, referring to the 'Manatee Antony' card.

The Birchkin is shown in the first of Luke's videos

Try looking also for the Birchkin in the extended Daniel Mullins universe.

PACIFISM is thus the first clue.

56-57M refers to another game which Daniel Mullins made (free to play).

The game is Beneath the Surface

OjiiJz2XaVLh3KW/Kt9KDUzqamfn6nfo7pGnxOv7VRL/VN7V7

How to decrypt it?

This game looks for a cipher.cipher file to be placed in the same directory as the game itself. (We know this from other Daniel Mullins games which do the same)

Which cypher to use?

Using the first cypher, 918234489010|8339344??|8043!$702D!!$666, the message seen when fishing up the old disk is decrypted. it is shown as:

Wh0 kn0ws wh4t secrets 4re inscr!b3d upon it?

How can we put this in the final cipher?

We need the non-letters from the answer to ensure the cipher has the proper length.
Thus
Wh0 kn0ws wh4t secrets 4re inscr!b3d upon it?
turns into
0044!3

Third cypher: WHTL!ESAHEAD|ANTONY###|PACIFISM$$0044!3

Adding this into log.txt decrypts the final part:

[1a] This is it. This transcribed journal page reveals the very location of Herr Hitler's rotting corpse and, more importantly, the precisely ordered deck of cards in his jacket pocket (The Karnoffel Code). I cracked the encryption last night. My situation here in the USSR is delicate, but I believe this intelligence warrants an action that may blow my cover. [1c] I am now prepared to smuggle the disk out of Moscow to West Berlin, then on <DATA CORRUPTED. FOR ANY QUALITY CONCERNS PLEASE CONTACT KAMINSKI DATA STORAGE MFG. https://www.|kaminskim|fg.com/orderform> Boston. The disk is carefully concealed among many blank ones. [2b] [2c] I believe his plan will work. And if it does not? Better to lose this old data than allow the Soviets an opportunity to use it.

[2a] How fitting. [3c]

To read everything in chronological order, use the text snippets with the right numbering between the [..] at the appropriate places.

But there is a new clue between the < and >! It seems to be an URL!

You can go to https://www.kaminskimfg.com/orderform

NOTE: This used to show a form. But after many people entered it, it was replaced by a 'wait for your orders' page.

Presumably entering your mailing address was the answer to this clue, though I'm not sure if that's confirmed. Either way, multiple people received something in the mail and those items will be discussed below, using DaBigKahuna's Big Ol' Catch-Me-Up Inscryption Guide(Secret Ending Hunt) as reference.

Kaminski Backup Disks were received by multiple individuals, presumably people that entered their information in the form of the Kaminski site. They are listed below in the order they were received in the mail.

The first Kaminski disk arrived and progress opening it was livestreamed.

The floppy disk contained a single file, with the filename backup_#2#.txt

Contents:

####QZ6h###


|PLAYING##|


##e E##

Due to the filename and contents replaced with # signs, it was assumed that there were two other floppy disks with the remaining contents.

It was also assumed that the first line might refer to a YouTube video ID, the second line is the middle part of another three part cypher due to the pipes, and the last line stands for `the End

Even though this was only a third of the answer, people were able to put together the fourth and final cypher by coming up with possible solutions that would fit with both |PLAYING##| and the assumed the End. The answer is shown below.

The floppy disk contained a single file, with the filename backup_##3.txt

Contents:

########TS0


|NSCRYPTIONFRIEND


### #nd

The package was addressed to Luke Carder.

The floppy disk contained a single file, with the filename backup_1##.txt

Contents:

e-Fu#######


THANKYOUFOR#||


Th# ###

The complete contents of all three disks:

e-FuQZ6hTS0

THANKYOUFOR#|PLAYING##|NSCRYPTIONFRIEND

The End

And the final line, The End, signifies the ARG is now over.