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Bungie isn’t a stranger when it comes to easter eggs, puzzle hunts, and weapon-finding shenanigans in its other games. With Marathon coming, many were expecting Bungie’s staple puzzles to return, and guess what? They have. While the game has been quiet for a while, that’s not the case anymore. Recently, a new Discord server for Marathon appeared, and people are running to it to see if they can discover what this server hides. Could it be a release date? Is it an alpha code? No one really knows, but the race is on, and Bungie has, once again, brought the gaming community together to solve another huge brain teaser.
Marathon Players Just Discovered a Discord Server, and the Hunt for More Secrets Is On
[Credits to MrRoflWaffles for the summary on the ARG. We’ll attach their summary of the event at the end]
While the hunt for secrets isn’t that new anymore, we’ll try to do our best to summarize everything leading to the Marathon Discord server.
The first breadcrumb sent players to a site called hearoursilence.com. We’ll add the links in case you want to check them out.
As you enter the site, you’ll notice yet another URL (here’s the link for it). However, the kicker is the skull you get after selecting everything there.
Clicking on that last link would send you to yet another website asking you to log in with a Twitch account. If you did so and were streaming, you’d get a new picture showing a counter of Marathon viewers and a lot of symbols (Bastion flashbacks, am I right?).
When the view count reached 10k, the whole image filled up. Eventually, those symbols would help for something else.
Users went back to the original ARG site and discovered a console that, after inputting a few codes and other words obtained from the first website we linked, would show the following:
Many thought the image with the symbols provided the code, yet players hit a roadblock because it needed a “key.”
Not long after, an X account appeared called we_are_mida, which shared a lot of images and eventually posted this (loud audio and static warning):
The audio held other important clues. As explained by YouTuber MrRoflWaffles, each sound had a sort of sequence that was sometimes repeated. By matching the first sounds with the second ones, they got a code that they later translated from hex to text and gave them “key34769-M.”
Using the key would send players now to a hidden folder that would eventually lead them to yet another secret website with even more cryptic sounds. Said website also had an edited version of the original Marathon trailer if you scrolled your mouse through it. However, if you started clicking on the site, you’d get a box full of numbers and letters. Don’t worry. We’re getting to the Marathon Discord server part soon. Yet, things are about to get trippy.
Almost 24 Hours In and the Hunt Became Even Wilder
Returning to the first audio shared by the X account, users also discovered that by speeding up and reversing parts of the audio, they’d get parts of the Ozymandias poem. This was also a roadblock, but Bungie was not done with its clues.
Not long after, the official Marathon X account became active and shared the following:
As you can see, the post says “individuals” have been using illegal technology from the first website we all saw. And guess what it was pointing to? The symbols. However, those symbols at the end of the video gave players the word “Frontier” and the number “714.” Many discovered it lined up with Destiny 2: Heresy‘s Ending and the name Frontier leading to Codename Frontier, which is what Destiny 2 is using for its next expansion. However, the we_are_mida account asked players to stay on track and reassured them it had nothing to do with Destiny 2. Or that’s what people inferred.
Not long after, the Marathon X account shared this:
This led to an image that many put together, forming a snake of sorts. However, it was yet another roadblock, and people are still trying to figure it out.
Still, it seems that Bungie saw the efforts and posted this a few hours ago:
Which then opened the doors to the, you guessed it, the Marathon Discord server.
Sadly, it seems that the hunt is far from over. People are still trying to decode things inside the server and assigning roles to see if something happens. Some are also flooding the place with emojis, so progress seems to be slower now. Yet, if history has taught us anything, it is that players can crack whichever code Bungie throws at them, so it’s now only a matter of waiting or helping if you want to. And, as promised, you can check MrRoflWaffle’s summary of the ARG below:
