[julieaurora]

This may be obvi, but how do you ask Lainsy?

[posse]

duke9509 wrote:

posse wrote: @ProjectRepertum posted a new tweet: Quote: CRYP: AAOIXC KEY: lzxywfdhjksmqpecvbnrtgoiua :: POINTER: oriruserku/sqlk/cry/0503 Gotta go to lunch! Someone post the solve or I'll try and do it when I get back. Well oriruserku.org/sqlk/cry/0503 displays this: WNSKLYBEAHABRYNRTYWOQMMOL It looked initially to me like the "key" is a substitution cipher, showing the new "order" of the alphabet. However, while I didn't take the time to do the whole string, I was just getting gibberish. They're obviously related, though.

Solve:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

It is a keyed Vigenere cipher. Alphabet Key: lzxywfdhjksmqpecvbnrtgoiua Passphrase: AAOIXC decodes to: FREQUENCYSIXTWOONEFIVEKHZ I ended up asking LAINSY about it, but a simple Google search of "6215 KHz" indicates it is one of the high-frequency (HF) maritime voice frequencies for long-distance distress calls. Cool, huh? I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do with it though.

[duke9509]

posse wrote:

@ProjectRepertum posted a new tweet: Quote: CRYP: AAOIXC KEY: lzxywfdhjksmqpecvbnrtgoiua :: POINTER: oriruserku/sqlk/cry/0503 Gotta go to lunch! Someone post the solve or I'll try and do it when I get back.

Well oriruserku.org/sqlk/cry/0503 displays this:
WNSKLYBEAHABRYNRTYWOQMMOL

It looked initially to me like the "key" is a substitution cipher, showing the new "order" of the alphabet. However, while I didn't take the time to do the whole string, I was just getting gibberish. They're obviously related, though.

[ramiles]

I got the same email this morning.

I signed up a long time ago..

[posse]

julieaurora wrote:

Tried to convert the calibration data as if it's hex and got: SB;EV:AA;EV:AB;IQ:48:AA;IQ:69:AB;DX? Doesn't seem like much. Anybody got an idea?

@ProjectRepertum posted a new tweet:

Quote:

CRYP: AAOIXC KEY: lzxywfdhjksmqpecvbnrtgoiua :: POINTER: oriruserku/sqlk/cry/0503

Gotta go to lunch! Someone post the solve or I'll try and do it when I get back.

[julieaurora]

Went to check out the http://oriruserku.org/ site.

------------ LINK ACTIVE -----------
====================================

----------- SYSTEM STARTUP ---------

Inbound transmission detected.

CALIBRATION DATA >>
53423b45563a41413b45563a41423b49513a
34383a41413b49513a36393a41423b445800
<<CALIBRATION>>
<<TRANSMISSION>>


----- Nro Shoreli Yat Pragako ------


Tried to convert the calibration data as if it's hex and got: SB;EV:AA;EV:AB;IQ:48:AA;IQ:69:AB;DX?

Doesn't seem like much. Anybody got an idea?

Also, when i looked at the source code for the failtech website this was at the very bottom:
<!--
TIANA_VEL:
I think we're lost.
There seems to be an anomaly with the comms.
I think we're disconnected.
We're getting there and it's all starting.
-->

[posse]

Okay that entry log posted in http://itallstarted.com/ is pretty dang long but I read it. I'll try and summarize it here.

The log is from the Repertum ship. Most of it is written by a communications officer named Tiana Vel (aka TV-A0, identity code: TV-FT-RX00A0). The last entry is written by the captain Kalvin Zior (aka KZ-00, identity code: KZ-FT-RX0000). There's a 3rd ID code listed, NC-OS-RX0001, he's referred to in the entry once as NC-01, maybe he's the first officer? Not sure.

The ship's mission is to travel to the origin of the universe. The crew was in stasis for most of the trip until they were just recently woken up since the ship was nearing their destination. They were getting their ship ready for the arrival but they detected some weird stuff going on.

Tiana Vel noticed that the ship lost comms with headquarters/mission control/whatever, despite the fact that the equipment seems to be functioning just fine. He also detected a weird ancient comm signal, and set to work decoding and finding a way to communicate on this comm signal, which came in handy in a little bit.

Kalvin Zior and crew detected a Class E Contaminant (E-Con) in one of the ship's engines. They isolated the E-Con, which was doing weird but innocuous things, such as generating hydrogen particles. When they thought to use the hydrogen particles for their fusion reactors, shit hit the fan. Turns out these hydrogen particles were also contaminated, and since they got all into the ship, the ship AI reacted and did what it always does in this situation: IT WENT INTO LOCKDOWN!! ::woo as usual hahaha::

So the ship is now in automated control, the crew is locked down in various areas of the ship where hopefully some of them (like Tiana Vel and Kalvin Zior) have enough supplies to last, and the last entry is that the ship has arrived at its destination but the lockdown protocol is still active. So the ship isn't moving anymore, but the crew still can't do anything. The last entry mentions they will try manual override via external access, but they're not sure if that's going to work.

One of the last entries of the log was a code dump:

Code:

64 61 79 73 20 72 65 6d 61 69 6e 69 6e 67 2e 20 54 68 65 20 7b 20 20 20 23 20 32 63 6b 64 6f 77 6e 20 61 6e 64 20 73 74 69 6c 6c 20 6e 6f 20 63 68 61 6e 63 65 20 6f 66 20 65 73 63 61 70 65 2e 20 54 68 65 20 57 65 27 76 65 20 72 75 6e 20 6f 75 5e 32 32 58 2c 20 20 21 20 20 20 20 20 20 6f 6d 61 74 65 64 20 75 6e 6c 6f 63 6b 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 73 65 63 75 72 69 74 79 20 73 79 73 74 65 6d 2e 20 52 65 6d 6f 74 65 20 63 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 20 73 68 6f 75 6c 64 20 77 6f 72 6b 2c 20 68 6f 77 65 76 65 72 20 77 69 74 68 20 6e 6f 20 63 6f 6e 74 61 63 74 20 77 69 74 68 20 63 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 20 77 65 20 63 61 6e 27 74 20 70 30 72 72 72 72 72 20 c3 85 20 20 c3 91 20 4d e2 97 99 20 2d 2d 2d 20 64 64 64 64 20 c3 9d 7a e2 95 a0

Hex translates to the following (not going to bother with spoiler, since it looks much better formatted as code):

Code:

days remaining. The {   # 2ckdown and still no chance of escape. The We've run ou^22X,  !      omated unlock of the security system. Remote command should work, however with no contact with command we can't p0rrrrr Ã�  Ã� Mâ�� --- dddd Ã�zâ�

Note the mention of "Remote command" -- I believe that means the command email is up and active. If I recall from the previous episodes, the command email is commandSPLATlainsy.net. I've sent an email just now but haven't heard anything back yet.

Has anybody tried to respond to the repertumSPLATfailtechnologies.com email address or the rion.gnuteSPLATfailtechnologies.com email address? I think I'll send a quick email just in case those provide any more info.

[julieaurora]

CRYP: $INIT$ KEY: $34567890ABCD$ :: POINTER: TEST.TEST/TEST --- SUCCESS! WAITING ON DUMP

This is also at the bottom of the main page. Not sure what it means.

Also, there is a link on the main page after dlog: <access>. If you click access, it takes you to lainsy.net/dlog From there, there is a link: 1102-3677 which leads to this:

#1102-3677 P-B7
---------------
LOG ENTRY BEGIN
---------------
COMM IDEN: S7-RX-A000A02
COMM NICK: REPERTUM
COMM AUTH: [redacted;verified]
COMM LINE: FT0EE
COMM LPIN: A02X
IDEN DESC: "Repertum Mobile Science Station II"
IDEN LEAD: "CPTN. Kalvin Zior"
IDEN COMO: "Tiana Vel"
LEAD IDEN: KZ-FT-RX0000
COMO IDEN: TV-FT-RX00A0
TRAN LANG: VEXILL
TRAN TYPE: TEXT
TRAN PRTY: ONE

** Transmission has been interpreted (VEXILL to SOL-EN)
** Transmission begin **

Greetings!

Captain Kalvin Zior reporting from the Project Repertum here. I am please to inform you
that we have reach the last leg of our voyage and will arrive to our target destination soon.
It has been a tough journey, and we have pushed through.

The Repertum Mobile Science Station has now been fully awakened. All staff and employees are
now activated from deep stasis to acclimatize and perform the necessary setup operation in
preparation to our arrival at the destination.

All of the investment put into this project will now bear fruit and we can finally answer an
age old question that has been with humanity since the 21th century. A question that has
started and ended wars. A question that brough a civilization up, and destroyed many others.
A question that only we could possibly answer.

But before we could answer that, let us

** Transmission end **
** Transmission ended prematurely
** Cause of transmission termination: remote connection weak

-------------
LOG ENTRY END
-------------

[duke9509]

I got the same thing.

I'll read it later, but it does seem that they at least expect someone on board with this to have played the original, as IT ALL STARTED is a hint at one of the old sites. It was from after the point at which everything started to fall apart, so I don't really remember what it used to be, but now it seems to be a log from the Repertum.

Look at itallstarted.com

EDIT: Read the thing. It was a little hard to read at times, but it was a log detailing what seemed to be a catastrophic failure of their mission resulting from a mysterious engine contaminant.

This is also accessible from FAILTECH's site: http://lainsy.net/dlog/1102-3677/P-B7/

This has new content, as well: http://oriruserku.org/

[mochiinvasion]

Received an email today:

Quote:

SOL 0503-3678 Hello! Rion Gnute here reporting in from FAILTECH, your leading organization in scientific ventures and enriching human quality of living. I am proud to announce that Project: Repertum has reached it's final stages and the Repertum Mobile Science Station has safely arrived at the Origin to answer the greatest question that has dawn on humanity since the War for Afyg through the Pioneer Rebellion, the Dual Earth Apocalypse, and the Orsikian War. What question you ask? Well, it's probably the biggest question we have to answer, and maybe the last. It is the question that has haunted FAILTECH and humanity for several cycles. Today marks the day that humanity faces the greatest fear in the universe. "The End of the Universe" Actually, the question is "What is the Great Apocalypse?" Humanity has faced several adversities, faced numerous enemies all of our own cause and some due to nature's twisted path laid in front of us. We've survived. Having proven to be the greatest explorers and innovators, we now face the fear that no other being in the universe has faced and defeated. We are now facing the enemy of the universe that our ancestors have ran away from hoping to find the answer from. What lies ahead? We will find out. Project: Repertum is the first card we will deal against the Great Apocalypse. We, humanity, are t----------------- ## 53 71 75 69 72 65 4C 69 6E 6B 20 49 6E 74 65 72 72 75 70 74 ## Do not believe these lies. We are doomed to fail. We need to go back to where IT ALL STARTED. KZ-FT-RX0000 awaits. They need your help. ## 52 55 35 45 ## ---------------ities. We shall be the victors! Rion Gnute, Department Head rion.gnuteSPLATfailtechnologies.com Deep Space Sciences Department

Hex leads to: 'SquireLink Interrupt' and 'RU5E' respectively.

(also hello everyone)

[Cagliostro3301]

duke9509 wrote:

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and change the title, as I haven't heard back from anyone.

I haven't heard anything either, unfortunately..

[posse]

Whoaaaaa it's been a while since I visited the unforums and what do I find when I log in! Nice work duke, I'll keep an eye out once in a while (not too frequently though) and I'll be watching here.

[duke9509]

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and change the title, as I haven't heard back from anyone.

[duke9509]

Alright.

Yeah, it doesn't look like any of the fiction was quite finished. I'm not even sure if the story ever really did "auto-resolve." It may have just disappeared.

I think I'll wait to see if I hear back from that email address before I do anything (as it will hopefully settle whether this is a full reboot or not), but by and far I agree with the idea of adjusting the thread title. If I don't hear back at all in a couple days, I'll go ahead and do that.

[catherwood]

duke9509 wrote:

Hey catherwood! You played the original too, right?

nope, didn't play this one. I poked around the old sites just now, and found the people behind it, and the book they publised from the FAILtech universe. Its possible they will bring some of the old websites back for use in a new promotion for something else? I don't plan on going back thru 160 pages of old game discussion to get caught up at this point.

btw, perhaps this thread should be called "Project Repertum" if you want to treat this as a new (future, potential) trailhead and not get bogged down by a previous storyline.

Here's the stuff behind the scenes and where I found it:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

From the old story links on wattpad, I tracked "failtechwriter" back to his real name and websites. http://ijlapis.com/blog/ <--hasn't mentioned the book in over a year. http://www.seventhbookseries.com <--not sure if this was ever finished. There is also an OOG website which is about to lose its domain registration, so grab any info from this soon if you want it. http://failtech.info/