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vector
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 		I used http://makcoder.sourceforge.net/demo/base64.php sometimes you had to encode and others you decode.
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jlandgr
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vector wrote:
I used http://makcoder.sourceforge.net/demo/base64.php sometimes you had to encode and others you decode.

Ah, thank you, but beware of this page, it adds multiple backslashes to the clear text if you use it multiple times without reentering the clear text. I used this site too and, yes, in this case you seem to have to encode but nevertheless I had a slightly different result.
How did you arrive at your "fond memories" decode exactly?
The letters that don't match might form yet another code, who knows, but of course, we'd have to be sure which letters are incorrect ...

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ShadowRuleZ
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 		Sort of seems like a timeline, of either life events or of game releases.

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jlandgr
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 		Yes, the 1986 might be "Transporters", its "babybandits" are also in the puzzle, 1987 might be "memory effect", also in the puzzle and of course a former password. And there are of course other "game related" words in the cube, from "Benito strawson" to "brainscan", "morass", "gameoftheyear" etc. And 2004 might either be "nisha chronicles" or "ouroboros". I couldn't find 1993 in the gameography, though ( http://www.virgilkingofcode.com/gameography.html ) but it is of course the year of Naoko's car crash.

Also, it might be nothing, but I noticed that one of the error numbers was a palindrome, an ouroboros (727), as well as the "212" that is associated with Rabelais in one of the rants.

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jlandgr wrote:

Ah, thank you, but beware of this page, it adds multiple backslashes to the clear text if you use it multiple times without reentering the clear text. I used this site too and, yes, in this case you seem to have to encode but nevertheless I had a slightly different result.
How did you arrive at your "fond memories" decode exactly?
The letters that don't match might form yet another code, who knows, but of course, we'd have to be sure which letters are incorrect ...


Yes I had some troubles with the encoder, it took quite a few times running it to end up with the "fond memories" clue. As for the not quite compleate answers I was thinking that either the encoder is a bit off or it is another clue, but I think that the encoder was off.
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 		As far as figuring out what to do with these pages...

I know it is most likely that they will lead to a new page, but I have a question. Is it possible from an HTML standpoint to have a different page load if a different login/password is used?
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SuperJerms wrote:
As far as figuring out what to do with these pages...

I know it is most likely that they will lead to a new page, but I have a question. Is it possible from an HTML standpoint to have a different page load if a different login/password is used?

I don't think so, but I've been wrong once or twice. Smile

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 		[quote="vector"]
jlandgr wrote:

Yes I had some troubles with the encoder, it took quite a few times running it to end up with the "fond memories" clue. As for the not quite compleate answers I was thinking that either the encoder is a bit off or it is another clue, but I think that the encoder was off.


Ditto. It seems like base64 encoding uses multiple standards. I used the encoder available from unfiction online tools. I put in the fondmemories quote and got the correct ASCII output. The foundation year I could only get to work for "foundationogyear".


Concerning the error messages overall:

It seems like they may be messages to Virgil:

  • Conspiratoria: Everyone keeps secrets from you
    (He's paranoid now about Nisha/Emile/etc.)
  • Emile: Everyone suspects you're guilty anyway
    (Even his best friend thinks he's guilty)
  • Demise: Everyone plotting against you.
    (To insure your downfall)
  • Hideko: Your access is entirely inappropriate
    obvious.
  • Forger: People see right through you
    (everyone knows about his infatuation (or is it his oroborous art heist?))
  • Muddle: No one is impressed by your efforts
    N:TCv1 is utterly unimpressive
  • Grief:
    literal
  • KingofCode
    He's not anymore
  • Cheat
    literal
  • Console
    He can't produce the game any quicker
  • Infatuation
    Nisha isn't as enamored with you as you think
  • Expediency
    literal


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 		what about....
maybe only one or two of these user/pass actually lead to a real working page? perhaps the error codes are clues for that page?

When Virgil says 'keep you eyes on the future" maybe he means the future page the "forthcoming" automatically forwards to? This is the directory that xnbomb found a while ago... the first time we thought the cube was almost solved.

We have tried pretty much everything on the cube, though not systematically. What we have done so far:

1. Solved the wordsearch part itself of each 2D page

2. Found the common word

3. Used the common word to ROT the page and find Virgil's hidden word.

4. ROT for all the other values and find the same word repeatedly on the page, the word referrred to as the Common ROT for each page.

5. For many pages, found the left over letters... which I think Virgil told us was the wrong direction to go in for the solution ( see his this isn't working post)

6. Found, by the magic of 3D by xnbomb, words and directions to follow:

forthcoming
expediency
infatuation?

7. Found other common words in 3d but not 2d in the grid...(is that correct, didn't helper do that for us?)

---Anything else?

So the question I have is did we do the things for the 3d planes that we did for the 2D? I suspect the answer is yes, and there is no common ROT word for those planes, but just checking....
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