Sourcebox

Extended footage seen in SourceboxVod

  • Discovery
  • Provenance
    • The Red Room console output lists connecting to socket.fsky.org:27015 ... connected to sourceBox, implying Sourcebox is hosted on FSKY
  • Activation
    • Opening Sourcebox shows Anomidae as present in the TF2. Inputs to sourcebox move an anomi player in coneconeconecone.
    • After walking the scout through the new torus portal in the invisible maze, Anomi is sent to Kulcs Ouija > subroutine_hello
    • Sourcebox running in black screen "auth mode" allows server config to run for Anomi, allowing him to run subroutine_hello in HL2VR and use the Key
    • Physically moving the Key activates Sourcebox ( ILE )
      - Window title becomes sourcebox [REGISTERED]
  • Passive effects
    • Allows Ordinance connections which unlocks the ordinance maps
    • Allows Kulcs Ouija server configuration files to run locally (and in other games)
    • Causes void anomalies (metal barrel noises) in running source games
    • Since Sourcebox, white cubes spawn in all source games

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  • Interface
    • Cursor
    • Cube
      • When clicked, turns blue and activates an "active state" where it's blue and rotates
      • No visible effect within sourcebox
      • Spawns a second White Cube in running source games
    • Sphere
    • Cone
      • Activates the Tracker, Source Void locator
      • Tracking something called "interlope" inside the void
      • Shows #coordinates in decimal
      • Interloper teleports around
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  • Other functions
    • Has an aimbot labeled "PICKER", showing "PICKER ON" text on screen
    • Locks onto cubes and players and things
  • Mechanics/Cube Capture
  • Pull
    • When the interloper command is run to generate a demo, it switches to the "PULL" state. ILF 43:30
    • Pull seems to last slightly longer than demo playback.
  • Portal trap incident
    • After a long pull a White Cube comes into view and Drownings the tracked dme
    • The large cube in sourcebox is revealed to be a clickable UI element, but it blinks red with no effect or spin several times. (Maybe this is a hover effect?)
    • Eventually the cube activates, filling the entire screen with the blue "active" sourcebox color

#todo https://interloper.miraheze.org/wiki/SourceBox

Connected to by the Red Room during IL4Vod

Highlighted in ILE as the prize of Kulcs Ouija

Shows "Located WFA3Y-A" (a Namegen name?) as INTERLOPE.DME. DME is a kind of SFM container.

Cut message VALIDATORS HAVE NOT BEEN VERIFIED. PLEASE
Shows very large XYZ coordinates in decimal notation. #coordinates

METAL_REG loops through a series of states

A red CONE blinks pointing to the focal point

View tracks a point through coordinate space. Point occasionally "lags".

Occasionally the text "PULL" appears. METAL_REG continues cycling, but music and movement pause during "pull"

At the end of the video a cube with a Gizmo collides with the focused point, causing a Drowning. The cube intersects with a blue volume.

Interesting moments:

  • 58:08, cursor visible

Present in the void are:

  • Orange and red coordinate lines
  • Large blue volumes
  • Gizmos

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#TODO plot points

Causes metal barrel noises in the void in source games in ILF

#todo important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVnbeVAqheM

"all contextual evidence implies that sourceBox is the ontological source of the Interloper mystery"