User:Notaflyingpig/Legatus 505 alternate reality game

The Legatus 505 alternate reality game is an alternate reality game (ARG) run by Fulgur Ovid that relates to the lore/story of his roleplay character, Fulgur Ovid, Legatus of Division 505. Fulgur first announced the existence of the ARG in his introduction 2.0 stream on 27 February 2022. This article aims to document lore and clues pertaining to the ARG.

Entries in the Legatus 505 story can be found in the Legatus 505 YouTube playlist with the corresponding text later uploaded to the Legatus505 Blogger.

Clues
With the exception of Fulgur's debut stream Morse code, clues (e.g., images, video, sound, text, website properties) are constrained to Fulgur's Legatus505 Blogger and his Legatus 505 YouTube streams. Thus, consulting Fulgur's content outside of those just mentioned is not required to solve the ARG.

Debut stream Morse code
A Morse code sequence can be heard near the end of Fulgur's debut stream:

.--. .-. --- ..-. . ... ... --- .-. / -.-. .- -. .. ...

This sequence decodes to PROFESSOR CANIS. Notable connections from the Legatus 505 lore to this phrase (prior to the first Legatus 505 stream) are as follows:


 * The mention of a professor in the "Here I Am, Stuck In The Abyss" blogpost
 * The Legati's wolf insignia, as seen on Fulgur's jacket

ProfessorCanis was later used by Fulgur to unlock two password-protected files in,   and   respectively. The binary sequence in the WinRAR archive's filename also decodes to F.

The professor is briefly mentioned in Chapter 2, "Min Headroom", but Interim 1, "An Echo", is where he is formally introduced by title and name.

ARG stage 2
On 9 March 2022, Fulgur commenced stage 2 of the ARG after updating his Blogger with Chapters 1–2 and Interim 1 of the Legatus 505 story.

These entries on Fulgur's Blogger include story-related fanart made after the first Legatus 505 stream. Some of these images have particular filenames/titles that can be viewed by opening an image in a new tab (e.g., by right-clicking on the image and selecting Open Image in New Tab in Firefox). The relevant filenames/titles (with no suffix and on desktop) are as follows:

All together, the binary sequence decodes to DeusExachinA [sic], which refers to deus ex machina. (An image of Park Ferrum being blocked in Chapter 2 also has a deliberate filename of ; this may be a reference to 404 not found.)

On 18 March 2022, Fulgur uploaded "Tears in the Rain" to his Blogger. The accompanying Tweet alludes to clues hidden in blogpost images as previously done above. Fulgur also hinted at this blogpost's relevance to the ARG.

Following the same procedure as above, the filename of the sole image in "Tears in the Rain" is as follows:

01000001 01101110 01101001 01101101 01110101 01110011 00100000 01000101 01111000 00100000 01001101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100001

This sequence decodes to Animus Ex Machina, a phrase similar to deus ex machina but with animus (soul) instead of deus (god).