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[TRAILHEAD] Intimation
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Nyst
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 		Keep it up, we're almost through.

danteIL wrote:

I don't understand how to interpret this output. How can you tell what's new and what's been found or not?

These are the ones we still need:
RNEWCCMUNAHJFNKZTI
OPGAYVRLATIDSOONRKSK
CQCPNIQLWSVSZVZCTUHA

Here's a map if you get lost.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:01 pm
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danteIL
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Nyst wrote:
Keep it up, we're almost through.

danteIL wrote:

I don't understand how to interpret this output. How can you tell what's new and what's been found or not?

These are the ones we still need:
RNEWCCMUNAHJFNKZTI
OPGAYVRLATIDSOONRKSK
CQCPNIQLWSVSZVZCTUHA

Here's a map if you get lost.


Thanks, although I still don't see how you know those are the ones that are still needed.

Anyway:
Code:
>NODE:DATA/SWP:CLSFD/PATHLOCK:RNEWCCMUNAHJFNKZTI//GRP:
20090615/[SmVjZ0I0cmFyeSBkZWdyZWUgZnJvSTRGNkdIbml2ZXJzaXR5L
CBtZW05cG5ab3JlIGxpa2UgaGlzIFUyQWN1RmYgb2YgTWFua2luZDsgQ29M
RU1vMHBCcjogSXJpcyBLYXRyWGNyNnQgZGVhcmx5IGxvdmVQdFZseGUxd
GlmaWMgRXhjZWw3ZGpIZXJlbWlhaCBBbmRyZXcgSGk4bTM]


Decode:
Quote:
JecgB4rary degree froI4F6GHniversity, mem9pnZore like his U2AcuFf of Mankind; CoLEMo0pBr: Iris KatrXcr6t dearly lovePtVlxe1tific Excel7djHeremiah Andrew Hi8m3



Code:
>NODE:DATA/SWP:CLSFD/PATHLOCK:OPGAYVRLATIDSOONRKSK//GRP:
20090615/[YzZtIFFpa29zdCBVbml2ZXI3WUVWZ1lPcmVudC9GYXRoZXI6IE
x0LiBKN1FxSG1ZVGVzIGhlIHdhcyBtR1FPM21hIE9jdGFudXMgTXVzZTdpYm
VKTXl4IE1lbW9yaWRNWTUzIEVhcnRoIFN0YW5kYXJkLCBMdURzcnI2MEROU
0MgZmF0aGVyLCBidTR0UUlmZWNobm9sb2d5IHNwZWNpYWxBRw]


Decode:
Quote:
c6m Qikost Univer7YEVgYOrent/Father: Lt. J7QqHmYTes he was mGQO3ma Octanus Muse7ibeJMyx MemoridMY53 Earth Standard, LuDsrr60DNSC father, bu4tQIfechnology specialAG


PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:11 pm
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Shad0
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 		Re: [TRAILHEAD] Intimation
Re: pathlocks
DanteIL found CQCPNIQLWSVSZVZCTUHA, too, so that's all three.

Edit: Just found RJSSGUXIOBBFLMKDRXIG, at PKRDQPXKSTJKUHCWYT. Following it now.

Further edit:
>NODE:DATA//NULL
>NODE:DATA/SWP:CLSFD/PATHLOCK:RJSSGUXIOBBFLMKDRXIG//GRP:20090615/[Base64 redacted]

Decoded:

Quote:
hl6od. Quite capabSy7xnt.; AchievemePv4arent/MotheBUvDation for Scien6hi6es were dropped.Zdmoicy1vRName: IsaaW0uXist; AwardXfOansportation accideR1v2lence on Behal3x


Further further edit: Which I now see has already been found. *sigh*
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:13 pm
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Nyst
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 		Wow you're fast.

Well I looked at the first set of data, and there are 29 entires. There were 20 before.
His program can scan for data but it can't follow the pathlocks automatically, so that's what we're doing. What I did was check in the data further down the page, and removed all the things we had already found, then I was left with 9 locks, and you had already found 6 of those.



I'm not sure where I screwed up but I have:

Name: Isaac Tycho Higgins;
Age: 32 Earth Standard Years;
Born: March 14, 2753 Earth Standard, Luna;
Appearance: 5'6", 144 lbs.;
Hair/Eyes: blond/brown;
Parent/Mother: Iris Katrina Higgins. Still living.;
Parent/Father: Lt. Jeremiah Andrew Higgins. Died 2780, transportation accident.;
Conditions: No known prescriptions.;


Achievements: Phd in Physics at Luna University, member of UNSC Has: Cortana Award fo

lo Project for Scientific Research, honorary degree from Qikost University, UNSC Commendation for Scientific Excellence on Behalf of Mankind;

chair at Onyx Memorial Orbital Academy, Forerunner technology specialist; Award 5 years


Latest psychoanalysis: A classic workaholic on the surface, but still retains the boyhood swashbuckling dreams of his childhood. Quite capable of wild flights of fancy, or being taken in by stories that appeal to his imagination. Wishes he was more like his UNSC father, but dearly loves his work. Avid collector, was arrested for petty theft at Sigma Octanus Museum of Ancient Arts and Technology. Charges were dropped.

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anaerin
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danteIL wrote:
EDIT:
anaerin wrote:
Latest program run (to 7 levels + Pathlock following) is up.

http://sites.google.com/site/anaerin/results-1


I don't understand how to interpret this output. How can you tell what's new and what's been found or not?


Generally, you go by the Group number.

The new stuff is all in the "Pathlocked Data".

Essentially, as I spider the maze, I note down each new unique entry under a classification.

Abberant Data
This is the indicator that there is a pathlock here, and gives details about what that pathlock is.

Research Data
This is where the research that Intimation has been doing is stored.

Maintenance Data
These are the various log entries found on the frontpage.

Pathlocked Data
This is the result of finding, and decoding, the pathlocks mentioned above as "Abberant Data". If the pathlock doesn't start within the depth limit of the program, it can't find and follow it, which is why there are fewer pathlocked data chunks than abberant data chunks.

Story Items
These are items that S hid, and have been reclassified by Intimation. They, too, are behind the pathlocks above.

Surface Damage
These are the dark pages made by the "hostile" tentacle.

Data Visualisations
These are videos that have been captured by Intimation and stored.

Other Data
Anything else found by the spider as it crawls the maze. If I've coded things right, this should always read 0 items.[/list]

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anaerin
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Nyst wrote:
Here's a map if you get lost.


Picks up jaw from floor...

And that helps you?! Shocked Silly

PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:04 pm
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Shad0
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 		Re: [TRAILHEAD] Intimation
Re: Higgins
Nyst wrote:
I'm not sure where I screwed up

There are two different places where the word "for" is broken up between FO and R. Try this:

Name: Isaac Tycho Higgins;
Age: 32 Earth Standard Years;
Born: March 14, 2753 Earth Standard, Luna;
Appearance: 5'6", 144 lbs.;
Hair/Eyes: blond/brown;
Parent/Mother: Iris Katrina Higgins. Still living.;
Parent/Father: Lt. Jeremiah Andrew Higgins. Died 2780, transportation accident.;
Achievements: Phd in Physics at Luna University, member of UNSC Halo Project for 5 years, chair at Onyx Memorial Orbital Academy, Forerunner technology specialist;
Awards: Cortana Award for Scientific Research, honorary degree from Qikost University, UNSC Commendation for Scientific Excellence on Behalf of Mankind;
Conditions: No known prescriptions.;
Latest psychoanalysis: A classic workaholic on the surface, but still retains the boyhood swashbuckling dreams of his childhood. Quite capable of wild flights of fancy, or being taken in by stories that appeal to his imagination. Wishes he was more like his UNSC father, but dearly loves his work. Avid collector, was arrested for petty theft at Sigma Octanus Museum of Ancient Arts and Technology. Charges were dropped.
_________________
These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

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anaerin
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Nyst wrote:
His program can scan for data but it can't follow the pathlocks automatically, so that's what we're doing.


Actually, it does scan for pathlocks. But if the lock doesn't start within it's limit (So, for example, if it has a pathlock of XYBBDDUS, and in checking to 7 levels it doesn't find XY) it won't follow it. If, however, it does find the start of a pathlock, it will keep following that path, even if it's over it's limit.

However, telling it to search at deeper levels is... problematic. The number of nodes checked rises exponentially, and fast. Given the average number of entries is 5, to check to 7 levels deep is 5 7 nodes, or 78,125 nodes. To check 8 levels deep is 390,625 nodes, and 9 levels is 1,953,125 nodes. This is a guesstimate, but from what I've seen, it seems to be a close one.

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Nyst
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 		There ya go. I got it all in the right order but still messed up what you said. I had "Cortana award for 5 years" heh

anaerin wrote:

And that helps you?! Shocked Silly


Well, its easy to find specific letters, but hard to follow paths.

Next post will be the thousandth.

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krystyn
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anaerin wrote:
Nyst wrote:
Here's a map if you get lost.


Picks up jaw from floor...

And that helps you?! Shocked Silly

Holy moley!
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Stories and dreams, crossing my palm like silver.

xbl gamertag: krystyn

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anaerin
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krystyn wrote:
Holy moley!


(Snagging post 1001)

That was my reaction, too.

Another minor code rewrite, to clean up and stop leaking memory (Really? 1GB ram needed? Are you sure?) and we're running again. Hopefully with this latest change, we're running deeper than ever...

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drizjr
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 		Sys's hidden story pieces
on TOSSED-ROUND-ABOUT
Great job, everyone!


During the last active period (for new followers of the game.. this is when Sys comes out of hibernation and tweets. All of her past tweets are logged at http://thewaytheirworldended.com/SYS/LOG/ except the most recent session, which one could scroll back to read at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=intimation ) Sys wrote
Quote:
>>Sys:Log//I have hidden the pieces and set them and their clues to become available automatically at set times during hibernation.

Our current task is to find the story pieces (gifs and mp3), that when put together, advance the story of the lost girl, Dreaming Eyes.
When these pieces are found, they automatically appear on http://thewaytheirworldended.com/TOSSED-ROUND-ABOUT/
Click the link... I found 3 of them by adding the hidden text to the end of the url with "clip" in front. Smile

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/clip-like-a-dance
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/clip-in-the-dark
http://thewaytheirworldended.com/clip-be-free-again

After a few gifs are found, an mp3 goes up on the page. There's no mp3 there yet.

So I'd expect (and hope) that more hidden text will be gradually released at TOSSED-ROUND-ABOUT until we get the next part of Dreaming Eyes' story.

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anaerin
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 		Latest run through is now up.

http://sites.google.com/site/anaerin/results-1

And (As you may see at the bottom), the spider visited 104905 nodes to find all those pieces. (That's with 4 retries, so the real number is 104901, and spidering to 8 levels deep).

You won't see, however, that it decided to eat a half-gig of RAM to spider that deep, too. And that's with (quite a lot of) optimisation going on in the background.

There's still more I can do to make this leaner, but not much more I can do to make it faster.

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Vanfisa
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 		ram/speed issues
im not sure how this would work out, but i have 2gb ram on my system, and i leave it running all day, if you can send a copy of the program or something, i might be able to help you out, your program, your call, ill be checkin the board later before i go to work, so let me know

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danteIL
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 		Re: [TRAILHEAD] Intimation
Re: Higgins
Shad0 wrote:
Nyst wrote:
I'm not sure where I screwed up

There are two different places where the word "for" is broken up between FO and R. Try this:

Name: Isaac Tycho Higgins;
Age: 32 Earth Standard Years;
Born: March 14, 2753 Earth Standard, Luna;
Appearance: 5'6", 144 lbs.;
Hair/Eyes: blond/brown;


etc.


So a quick question: Is there anything to be done with the random characters that surround the plaintext in each of these decoded strings? E.g., could they be another base64 string?

And thanks for the explanation drizjr. I don't know where to look for these other pieces, though.

EDIT: another question - can someone explain what S1, S2, S3, S4 and S5 refer to?

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