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Friend found a strange network artifact. Looking for insight.

Darkalcf08

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Hi everyone. I'm writing to ask for advice for a friend who's deep into internet mysteries and ARGs.

Recently, she came across a very unusual file called something like 1#124_Message_File_0.txt (also known as "Message 124" or "Pandora Log").

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It's not a game or a simple text—it's a mix of everything: code snippets, strange formulas, passages in ancient languages, star coordinates. It feels like someone's personal archive or a message assembled from fragments.

She dove into it out of pure curiosity, not looking for scares. Afterwards, interesting things started happening. She began having very vivid, unusual dreams. There's nothing frightening in them—rather a feeling of deep calm and expanded perception. She describes seeing complex geometric patterns that seem to "breathe," or feeling like part of a large, quiet system. Sometimes in the dream, there's a sense of being observed—not in an intrusive way, but as if being studied. She wakes up not anxious, but with a feeling that something significant was nearby, just out of full grasp.

She doesn't dismiss the mystical or occult nature of such things; on the contrary, she's genuinely curious—could this file be such an artifact? Perhaps someone here is familiar with similar files or theories about how complex informational patterns can influence reality or act as a kind of "beacon"? She's heard there are various stories about this file (there seems to be a creepypasta too), but her experience is completely different—not frightening, but rather captivating and thought-provoking.

We'd like to understand: is this just imagination at play due to deep immersion? Or can such artifacts genuinely act as triggers for unusual states of consciousness? Maybe there are people here who have researched something similar from the perspective of practical magic, working with symbols, or theories of informational egregors?

Grateful for any thoughts or pointers. Thanks!
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I decided to take a look at this file myself after her story. And... honestly, I didn't understand a thing. It's a complete mess at first glance.

There are chunks in different languages — English, Russian, German, and French, I think. But there are also large, solid "readable" blocks.

In German -- it's some kind of essay, styled like a scientific one, about a "bleeding flower." The name is something like Sanguiflora haemocryptica. I read it through a translator — the feeling is very gloomy, straight-up low vibrations of some dark mysticism. Like a description of a plant that shouldn't exist.

In Russian — as far as I could translate, it's a surrealistic story or a philosophical parable about a room, a book, and mirrors. Very introspective and metaphorical.

In French... it seems to be a text in the style of an old scientific or personal diary. Something about observing an unusual celestial phenomenon —maybe a ship, maybe a nebula. The style is very archaic and literary, hard to grasp the gist right away.

And in between all of that — there's just a ton of stuff I don't understand at all. There are sequences of symbols that look like formulas (but definitely not high school algebra), long strings of zeros and ones, and something that strongly resembles pieces of program code or system logs. There are also columns with numbers, like coordinates. All in all, for an untrained eye — it's total chaos. It's hard to even figure out where one could even start looking for some meaning here.
 
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Honestly, I fail to see any value in these Alternate Reality Games. A text copypasta'd from another forum designed to incite interest in another text of contrived occult content? It reminds me of chain letters, LARPing and forced memes. Embarrassing and pathetic.
 

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Sometimes the world is grey and boring. No wonder people fall for such stuff. It brings fascination. Sometimes it is like "finally something interesting on the world."
 
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