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Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

[PUZZLE] Error Pages

RobMagus

Error numbers corresponding to each page:

conspiratoria: 901
emile: 902
nisha: MjAwNA== (decodes to 2004)
demise: 905
kingofcode: ��: (decodes to 1986)
hideko: 241
cheat: ��; (decodes to 1987)
grief: MTk5Mw== (decodes to 1993)
forger: 844
muddle: 845

infatuation: 727
expediency: 894

Is this an ordering principle? A numberical code itself? All the numbers (other than the base64 encoded years) seem to be three digits - perhaps this is an ASCII substitution? Rampant SPEC.

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BottomlessPitMan

I'm telling you... the more I read these, the more these seem to lead me in the direction of Gollum from Lord of the Rings... a person who has a spilt personality: one that is a psychopath that puts down the good personality and subdues it at times... It could be he got it after Naoko died... then learned to control it... but now that he is heavly stressed it is re-emerging... and he will soon turn on everyone for his 'precious' eNisha...

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:02 pm

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nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

EDIT: nevermind

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:23 pm

rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:37 pm

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BottomlessPitMan

I said psychopath.... so what... is that today secret word... and now everyone who hears somebody else say it has to scream??? like PeeWee's playhouse???

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:45 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:31 pm

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nhansard · Decorated Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 159

I was thinking that the random ascii chars in the error message of \cheat\ might have been a simple ROT based on the full ascii char set (as most of them are in the extended range). I did some quick and dirty code to print out all the permutations of the text and it's just a bunch of garbage. But i'll post it anyway.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:56 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

more information

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:15 pm

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missphinx · Unfettered Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 395

never mind, I just noticed the wiki has been updated (yay!) - http://www.deaddrop.us/wiki/index.php/ErrorCodes

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:52 pm

Cookster

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:14 pm

addlepated

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:42 pm

SuperJerms

The error strings in /nisha and /grief also decode in base64.

"bmV3IGJlZ2lubmluZ3M" (new beginnings)
"cnVzdGVkIGxvc3M=" (rusted loss)

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:27 pm

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vector

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CHEAT (��; base64 1987) (~�ݙ騮'��j� �w� base64 to fondmemorlxcXCesofyearsgoneb) fond memories of years gone by

KINGOFCODE (��: base64 1986) (~��u�b�z �� base64 to foundationogyear) Foundation Year

**Posted:** Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:37 pm

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jlandgr

**Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2005 6:55 am