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yeahyeah · Decorated Joined: 14 Oct 2003 Posts: 282

good work Anthrax101 and BrianEnigma, Guess I woke up a bit late to help :)

so you did have to %256 all the unicode, then xor with the texel.zip offset by one char? as in texel[i] ^ texelzip[i+1] ?

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katgirl · Boot Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Posts: 17 Location: New Zealand

if only texel had metadex, then he could post them when he stops being hurt in the g_

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:45 pm

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Going off the way that message finishes, I'm not all that sure we'll be hearing from Texel again... quite possibly, Tex will be the next one on heismissing...

This is truly scary stuff... I think that Beth can count her lucky stars all she wound up with was AI Man...

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:46 pm

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out to lunch · Boot Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 47

Texel said that the whomp started early - maybe that's why Beth missed it.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:48 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:57 pm

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Whomp

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:58 pm

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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Wow...that's pretty scary. Poor Texel, I liked him. Well, anyway, I'm happy that the other hackers didn't all abandon Caesar...I was feeling sorry for him. Bounce, Random, and Texel are all on his side again...well, Texel may not be around to stay on his side, but...

So now we know that the whomps are actually glitches, as picked up by computer networks, is that right? I mean, there was spec that they may be traces left by the Metacortex AI while it was searching or something, but now that seems not to be the case, unless the AI is causing the glitches by overloading the Matrix or something.

Did anyone ever try to chronologically arrange the paintover crew's whomps and Beth's anomalies?

BTW, I have no idea what an XOR even is, but all that matters is that you guys do. Very Happy

I'm very impressed...

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 5:58 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:03 pm

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out to lunch · Boot Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 47

Re: Whomp

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:06 pm

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Feneban · Greenhorn Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 3

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:23 pm

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I am once more baffled by your creativity, congrats to Anthrax and all the others on cracking this. It makes me feel less sad all the action happened when I was sound asleep, because I don't think I could have contributed a lot anyway Wink

Storywise, I have a bit of speculation though:

Could Texel be Jesse? He's sounding like we won't see him again, and at the same time, the Nekodas post a picture of missing Jesse on their site...

**Posted:** Mon Nov 10, 2003 6:24 pm

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trip · Veteran Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 128

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