MWHS ARG v2.5?

Important info that should be known about the game (Metaware High School (Demo)):

 

It has five main characters: Chris (She/Her), Aspen (They/Them), Isadora(She/Her), Nari (She/Her) and Hope (She/Her).

Each character has a twitter account, but most of them are run by fans. The Hope one isn't. The Hope twitter account ( https://twitter.com/metamochigurl ) is run by the creator of the game, Ahmaykmewsic ( https://twitter.com/Ahmaykmewsik )

The game is a free visual novel (available in Steam and itch) made in Ren'py. It's about you interacting with girls who know they are in a game, but don't know everything about it. Like for example, what happens after the ending arrives. The files were meant to be unencrypted and looked through. We were following a different set of hints before, but on a new series of tweets (which will be linked below) it is mentioned that the ARG has "RESET", which may mean that the previous hints/clues are to be ignored.

 

The deets:

 

--25/11/2020--

(Aspen's birthday)

 

Hope has made three new tweets:

https://twitter.com/metamochigurl/status/1331613624813711363?s=20 - 1

https://twitter.com/metamochigurl/status/1331613745035030530?s=20 - 2

https://twitter.com/metamochigurl/status/1331615676868530176?s=20 - 3

They have new codes:

 

VGhlIG1hZ2ljIG9mIHRoZSBpbnRlcm5ldA==

L2EvcGRZZ29yUw==

VEhFQVJHSEFTQkVFTlJFU0VUIFBSSVpFOk1PQ0hJPT1SRUFM

 

They're coded using Base64, so when decoded they look like this:

 

The magic of the internet

/a/pdYgorS

THEARGHASBEENRESET PRIZE:MOCHI==REAL

 

"THEARGHASBEENRESET", its not clear if that means we should discard previous tweets (see https://pastebin.com/mdkYdMev )

 

"The magic of the internet" is Imgur's motto, and "/a/pdYgorS" is the link to an imgur album:

https://imgur.com/a/pdYgorS

On this image we can see:

- Pastebin's logo in the background

- Aspen's hair

- A bunch of dots

- Two octagons, one inside the other

 

Judging by the pastebin logo, we can deduce that we're looking for a pastebin URL.

The dots can be translated as binary, with 0 being the small dots and 1 being the big ones. If we do that, we get

 

cWtMWmRGTDk=

 

Which is base64, when decoded it gives us:

 

qkLZdFL9

 

Which leads us to a Pastebin URL:

 

https://pastebin.com/qkLZdFL9

 

On this document we can see a list of characters, and what mochi is their favorite.

 

 

Junko Enoshima's favorite mochi is Espresso mochi.

 

Toko Fukawa's favorite mochi is Kusa mochi.

 

Yasuhiro Hagakure's favorite mochi is Isobeyaki mochi.

 

Kyoko Kirigiri's favorite mochi is Thai tea mochi.

 

Celestia Ludenberg's favorite mochi is Kagami mochi.

 

Monokuma's favorite mochi is Apple miso caramel mochi.

 

Makoto Naegi's favorite mochi is Sakura mochi.

 

Sakura Ogami's favorite mochi is Uiro mochi.

 

Hifumi Yamada's favorite mochi is Neapolitan mochi.

 

 

The characters are all Danganronpa 1 characters, but apart from that they have nothing else in common.

Danganronpa 1's release date is Aspen's birthday, so there might be a connection to Aspen. Also of note is that the names of each kind of mochi might be spelling "EKITKASUN", but what that means is unknown