PCGamesN recalled a 2021 tweet from original Diablo co-creator David Brevik asking if "the special code for the chat gem still be in Resurrected?" The obvious implication is that some sort of hidden funkiness was also present in the original Diablo 2, which was released in June 2000-more than 20 years ago. Interestingly, this doesn't appear to be entirely new.
A large part of the message has already been decoded, and it's filled with passages like "It drives east, east to be released by the other two dark stones," and "The shadow of a past light carrying within it the spark of evil brothers." The verbiage is difficult to parse because it's incomplete and possibly out of order, but it's definitely very Diablo. These words are being shared in threads on the Diablo, Diablo 2, and Diablo 2: Resurrected subreddits, as well as a couple of Discord servers, and from there into a large Google Docs spreadsheet, where a detailed record of work progress is being tracked and a (somewhat) coherent secret message is beginning to coalesce. So in my case, for instance, 558 13 06 15 translates to the word "new."
The first three numbers in the strung represent where the word will be in the hidden message the next two are the page number in the manual the next two are the line number and the final two are the number of the word. Like old book-based DRM, those numbers-and again, this is entirely Reddit figuring it out, I am terrible at ARGs and can claim no credit-translate to specific words in the Diablo 2 instruction manual. It took me a solid three minutes of clicking like a fiend before that number popped more industrious fans have put together macros that auto-click multiple times per second, saving wear and tear on both mouse and finger.
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