The Breengrub.com ARG

Just a blogpost showing my thoughts as I parse through this website

So I tried to deobfuscate the JS, which resulted in this.

Moving on, the 404 page has this eerie looking image, I'm currently trying to parse through it for any hidden messages. performing strings on the image reveals the following

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