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On the back is written "GOD IS SPIRIT", a reference to John 4:24. At the bottom is a seven-digit phone number with the last three digits torn off.
Nirvanaguy007's brother went to the hinted location on November 13 and found a Missing poster resembling the one from in the game. Ed and Tyrone continued to drop hints via their Twitter feeds throughout the ARG.
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Combined with some cryptic hints from Ed McMillen's twitter, the community figured out that it was supposed to be a reference to the movie "The Lost Boys", and the next clue was out in the real world, on the Santa Cruz boardwalk.
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Using this code as a URL reveals a new image, sized 109x109 pixels, with a picture of the secret character The Lost, eight human figures, a map icon, and a quote from Genesis 30:35.
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That series when converted to ASCII code becomes lERBeIL. Taking the number of pixels in each line (with a double space meaning 0), the image translates to the number series 108 69 82 66 101 73 76. Once enough people achieved Generosity somewhere around November 12, the Steam achievement icon was updated to display a piece of paper with black lines and dots on it. On November 10th Ed McMillen made a blog post with the first letter of each paragraph spelling out "u r so close", indicating the community was getting close to the next step. Most notably, Money = Power displays the message "where are you". The number 109 also popped up in various places in messages from Tyrone and Ed.ĭuring this time there were several other mysterious clues in the game, including graphical anomalies when the Quarter, the Dollar, and Money = Power were hovered over in the Item Collection. The community continued to obsess over the number 109, with such theories as "the Greed machine was fixed 109 hours after release", "the Lost character was datamined 109 hours after Rebirth's release", and "the item Money = Power is item number 109 in the game code". A new achievement, Generosity, was added for reaching the new cap, 999 coins. This was fixed several days after release, allowing the machine to store beyond 109 coins. However, this donation machine "broke" at 109 coins donated, rather than the expected 999. Like the shop donation machine from Rebirth, reaching donation milestones unlocks new items and game features for future runs. When Ultra Greed is defeated, a donation machine appears that any leftover money can be inserted into. On each floor facing waves of enemies rewards the player with money, which can be used to buy upgrades. The new game mode in the expansion, Greed Mode, is a seven-floor challenge with a boss fight against Ultra Greed at the end.
This sort of out-of-game puzzle is more generally known as an Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. The final reward (The Keeper) was not patched into the game until the community solved the puzzle, and many puzzle elements were not in the game at all, requiring Twitter, voice mail, and even two real-world expeditions to solve. With the release of the Afterbirth expansion, there was a new secret, but this one was not so easily discovered. However, dataminers quickly discovered his existence by looking at the game code and he became common knowledge within a few days, to the disappointment of the game creators. When The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth released last year, a super-secret character called The Lost was included, with a complex unlocking mechanism that was designed to be a community scavenger hunt. Since the ARG seems to be officially over and Ed's post-mortem will be coming soon, it seems my work here is done.
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There are a couple other writeups out there, by KevCar518, piraka12, and PC Gamer, but I wanted to make one of my own so I could keep it updated as new information surfaced. Here I'm going to try to document as thoroughly as possible what exactly happened, from the release of Afterbirth to the addition of the Keeper. Though the ARG has only recently concluded (assuming it has in fact been completed!), many people have been asking for more info on what's been going on.