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[META] Kick Start?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:11 pm

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Worker · Decorated Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 233

Seems like the only time there's any interest, is when there's obvious puzzles to solve. There's only so much [SPEC]ing you can do before you need to [PUZZLE].

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:27 pm

Sunny du Pree

Re: Kick Start?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:36 pm

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zwingle · Greenhorn Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:44 pm

joebrent

Well, alright then, let's set our minds to cracking some of those Metacortex logins while we wait for the next big plot development. Oughta give us something to do instead of poring over minutiae and the ritual flogging of the newbies. I've been working on Beth's Little Boxes and Metacortex passwords since back before we started the hunt for MLO's password. Why did we stop with MLO? Keep at it, crackers!

[edit] And by crackers, I'm by no means referring to any one ethnic group.

Sunny du Pree

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 2:03 pm

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niobexrev

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:44 pm

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Giskard

Niobexrev: They are not-yet-in-game sites and we are not meant to go password hunting for them because "officially" we do not know of them (they are not pointed to by any in-game sites, they were found by searching for more domains on the same IP as thenekodas.com).

This was the same for leiphe.net and wongmo.org, these were also discovered BEFORE they were active and they also had password protection, just to keep us from 'peeking' before they were meant to be peeked at.

They will probably come into the game soon... hopefully with the next update...

**Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 6:02 pm

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yanka

Well, it seems that we are in the in-between-puzzles period again - today looks to have been rather slow...

So, if certain special people, whom I'm sure we all hold very dear in our hearts and whom we are not supposed to call PMs, would give us something to do on such days, I - and hopefully there will be others to back me up on that - would very much appreciate it.

I propose beginning with Random. Even a wink in his direction would surely put an end to the nightmares I've been having since the first time I attempted to link "gravity's borsch-poo" with Schroedinger's kittie. Any clue to figure out what he's saying, or that he's not saying anything (as seems to be the case with "ignominious") plz!!

**Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:39 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Yanka...goodness, yes. Our friend Random has come close to almost giving me nightmares as well. His file extension refers to an encryption software...hah. Someone has a very twisted sense of humor, I guess. If his comments don't mean anything, the, er, people deserve some painful...er, yeah, I'll stop. Anyway, I second the motion. Very Happy

But at least we have the cheering knowledge that the bang o' hackers don't like him either! Hah, "Shut up already, Random!" Hee!

**Posted:** Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:46 pm

Ehsan · Entrenched Joined: 09 May 2003 Posts: 992

Re: Kick Start?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:41 am

yanka

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:51 am

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stavro510 · Greenhorn Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

OK, about Random and his posts.

From back in my days as a l337 newsgroup person (yeah, right), I recall seeing similar patterns of words, things that may grammatically make sense but really are just random assortments of words. There is some kind of code here that has a decoder, and I used to have it, but now I cannot seem to find it anywhere on the web.

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:54 am

Marl64

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:52 am

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Azathoth666

Well, I'll admit to being one of the shmos that was stuck for a couple days, torn between trying to learn Tarot and letting someone else do it before we realised that one was just a stock picture in the public domain... So obviously Random worries me.

What worries me about Random is that we could literally spend days, weeks even of solid effort tearing her posts apart (I've decided Random has to be a woman, simply because we men arent that devious... <----- JOKE!!! No flames, please! Wink

) and still not make any sense of anything because we don't know the cypher... and like Yanka said, even that could well be... well... Random. Which is the joy of even simple cypher systems with word/letter substitution or hiding.

Yes, someone could forseeably write a bit of code to do this for us. Not me. I hate programming (it's the smell...). Yes, we could take whole Random messages and dump them into Anagram engines... and spend years reading through the results.

Again, we can't really just say "oh, too hard, not doing this one"... but ohhh, the pain.

I do quite like quiet days though. It's like high summer on a really hot day, when you can almost taste the electricity in the air before a thunderstorm just blows in outta nowhere. But without the summer. Or the heat. No thunderstorm either... Wink

**Posted:** Tue Oct 28, 2003 1:55 am

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