alright
so in this image

hidden in the corner is a mesage saying
"if you're reading this, you've found a treasure hunt of sorts"
"paste the name in the bin"
that's the first clue
the name of the image is i3XmZ9LM.png
the clue leads to a pastebin link
http://pastebin.com/i3XmZ9LM
Pastebin
FTQbiNvZqaY you ever notice how numbers and letters are quite si...

this gives  FTQbiNvZqaY
and two clues
FTQbiNvZqaY is a youtube link to toto africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
YouTube
TotoVEVO
Toto - Africa


"you ever notice how numbers and letters are quite similar"
is one of the hints in the pastebin
it's alluding to the numbers to letter cipher
if you change africa into numbers
you get 1618931
the 2nd hint says
"if you do, i'd tweet about it"
this alludes to twitter
if you search the number on twitter you get this account
https://twitter.com/1618931Africa
Twitter
now this is charles statford, in lore one of the scientists
this is basically an in character hub for the arg(edited)
the first few logs reveal another clew
LOG 3: I found some weird writing on my notepad. "tWoHn". Must be some elaborate prank.
LOG 5: I saw a bird outside today. It flew away when I walked to it. I'm mad, gurrr! I wanted to study the bird.
tWoHn is an imgur link
this is shown in I'm mad, gurr!
I'mgurr!
that leads to here
http://imgur.com/a/tWoHn
Imgur
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet

the numbers are 19-3-18-1-16 20-15-23-14 18-1-9-14
translated, using the number letter cipher makes
"SCRAP TOWN RAIN"
a previous log alludes to charles forgetting the name of a town
LOG 4: I can't remember the name of this one town! It was on the tip of my tongue. I wish something could fly by and just remind me.
dming charles "CRANE TOWN" gave the next clue
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2PpVqfUoAEErQ9.jpg:large


the code in this is s1a350d3U4y
charles then posted various images of vocaroo mascots
this led to this vocaroo
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1ci3SOd3U4y
which is morse code
the morse code translated says
"EVERY 3RD LETTER DOWN IN THE DMS"
taking the 3rd letter of each tweet posted by charles was emoaaoi
tweeting this to him gave a roblox link
https://www.roblox.com/users/215749925/profile
in his bio is binary
the binary translated says
"ROMAN LEADER BACKSTABBED +3 I GOT BANNED"
the first part is a reference to the ceaser cipher, the next ciper that will be used
I GOT BANNED alludes to the account being banned from atf
if you check the atf spreadsheet you find this

the code shown is XQFRYHU ZKDW L'P ORRNLQJ IRU Y 196 +
decoding it with a +3 ceaser cipher reveals the message
"FIND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IN V 196 +"
charles tweeted out
"LOG 8: A vat went missing today. James has no idea how it happened. I wish I could find it."
this took a while for players to figure out
but with me nudging them in the right direction
they realized they had to find a vat in d6
sorry for adding it ingame without telling you, i added a vat under the meb mineshaft
after a 4 hour long search, the players found it and dmed charles
charles sent this link back
passdropit.com/qQJUJAbXRBo
which is a password protected file(edited)
qQJUJAbXRBo
this is also a youtube video
following it leads to a very terrible tv show which is a stinky meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQJUJAbXRBo
YouTube
President Raptor
GETTING. CLOSER.


throughout the video random frames of hexadecimal code flash on the screen
this is the stage the players are at now
the hexadecimal when translated reveals the password for the locked file
"GOESDEEPER"
the file is a txt named 22-9-7-5-14-5-18-5
using the number to letter cipher reveals it spells "VIGNERE"
this is the next cipher that will be used
BtPmqgvfaYcKwhl



Ewbxvg as kgovgua
is what is in the txt file
decoding it with the vignere key, (that i've yet to give out)
will reveal the message
ImLoosingMyMind



Return to meaioao
meaioao is a scrambled version of emoaaoi
the account from before
ImLoosingMyMind will let people access a place in emoaaoi
revealing the final clue, where they will have to search deep winter for a white crate
the white crate will contain a gun with the message "SHOW CHARLES"
dming the picture to charles will make him send an image
revealing the game, and their reward
and that's the whole puzzle(edited)