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UberTaco · Decorated Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 160

Did we ever decode that INTERCAL?

I'ma see if I can grab a compiler or interpreter for it and run the code, see if it outputs anything.

Wikipedia article on INTERCAL seems to suggest to me that this app might just output some text (see the Hello World example.)

I'll report back with my findings.

I'm thinking that perhaps we're supposed to understand the INTERCAL in light of the fact that we know we're dealing with CADIE.

That is, we found the CADIE page too early -- maybe we weren't supposed to know that this is CADIE yet, and so we didn't understand all that. Maybe now that we "know" this is CADIE, we know the code is INTERCAL, and we know to run it for its output.

At any rate, let me get cracking on that.

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EDIT: Argh, this is generating syntax errors. I do not intend to learn a language built to be arcane unless absolutely necessary.

Okay, so maybe my curiosity might lead me to do so....

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EDIT2: Okay guys, I got it. The INTERCAL, when run (or at least when converted to C, compiled, then run) outputs "I do not feel like sharing."

I knew you wouldn't like it either. I did some Googling and came up with this. It's a project page on Google Code, apparently owned by cadie herself. Or, so it seems. This page, however, is a legit Google page -- probably not directly related to the game. At least, we prolly won't get any updates or changes there that relate to this ARG, since I gather it's not "Google Official."

tl;dr: The INTERCAL is not the "second message," and is probably inconsequential. INTERCAL as a language is a nightmare, however.

Chance

**Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 10:44 pm

UberTaco · Decorated Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 160

I got it. There's a nifty app called "ick" that converts INTERCAL to C, then compiles. It's in the Ubuntu repositories.

See my above update (I didn't want to double-post at the time.)

**Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 10:49 pm

Chance

Alright, so we can count that out.

So we have CADIE for the first message.

Caps are important, and the second message is largely overlooked. Right?

**Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 10:52 pm

UberTaco · Decorated Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 160

Actually, the first message was largely overlooked. The first message was "I AM," which lead to us "finding out" that Scipio26 is CADIE. I use quotes there because I think most of us already knew.

We supposedly have "discovered" the second message (CADIE's word, not mine.) Now then, what is the second message? The most obvious solution seems to suggest that it would be the logfile we were given, but I don't know how that helps us in any way from knowing who CADIE is.

Next question from a restless mind: have we decoded http://argensoft.netau.net/code.html yet? I skimmed over and didn't see that we had.

**Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 11:07 pm

Chance

**Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 11:13 pm

Caterpillar

**Posted:** Sun May 03, 2009 11:38 pm

Chance

Got a direct message from Scipio,

**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 12:22 am

Tenchizard · Decorated Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Posts: 254

The way I see it...

CADIE was looking for a new server to... live, or do whatever it does. But when it found one, it had a virus in it, so CADIE is sick because it's infected?

but then... What do we do with that information? maybe it is the virus what we have to find?

**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 2:32 am

AUZ505

**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 3:07 am

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UberTaco · Decorated Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 160

Okay, then, what do we know about Tesla CTX, which seems to be the virus CADIE found when trying to propagate? A quick Google reveals nothing substantial.

**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 5:16 am

amandel

....only that Tesla was a spyware virus which hit Windows awhile back and CTX is a tech acronym for "clear to transmit"

Good catch Jain (above) and Scipio26 twittered anew in base64:

**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 6:58 am

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**Posted:** Mon May 04, 2009 7:59 am

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