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[aseameba]

[Maevrim]

Oh nice on the 16 candles

We hadn't mentioned it because until at least when I went to bed last night, the video linked was still the thunder/lightning that was playing also on Qadhos.com. I kept having to turn my speakers off because I couldn't tell what was the computer and what was the hurricane.

The nanna gate status keeps changing. With that and the login strings being returned, anyone know the significance of the characters the base64 decodes to?

[aseameba]

[aseameba]

Confirmed that the Nanna gate status is a countdown.

The status number is an amount of seconds in hexadecimal.

I tried the status command three times in a row, exactly 30 seconds apart. Here are the results and conversions to decimal numbers:

3818e --> 229774
38170 --> 229744
38152 --> 229714

That gives us about 2 days, 15 hours and 30 mins at the time of this post, give or take a few minutes.

If I recall correct, earlier there was a mention about next update being 31st October? (that was when the comm site had a space view and no thunder, before the second e-mail)

[snorkle256]

Good work all! Unfortunately for me, qadhos.com is block at work as a placeholder website. I will have to work hard from home in the evenings.

[aseameba]

That countdown ends at midnight, at the change of October/November, Montreal time. (UTC -4)

[AnamCara]

Erm...new here

[barbarossa]

[aseameba]

"That is not dead, which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die" is a Cthulhu mythos reference.

H.P. Lovecraft still seems to be the theme of this ARG, since references to his texts are abundant, especially to Randolph Carter books. In the beginning the Qadhos comm system asks for a password for Dream-Quest, a direct reference to "Dream-Quest for Unknown Kadath"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath

References to this particular book are all over the place. Username and password for the comm site; text quote you get if you enter "kadath" at the prompt (beginning passage of the book)

The quote in the trailhead beginning image with the pastebin url is from another Randolph Carter book by H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Key

This is the final chapter of "Behind The Yellow Curtain" ARG and it might have something to do with opening gates for the Great Old Ones to pass through to make the end of the world happen.. December 2012 is said to be the time for the awakening of the Great Cthulhu and it's the end of the Maya calendar.

Just some random thoughts considering the Mythos aspect of the game.

[barbarossa]

disregard this post. I'm a idiot.

[bambusar]

hi
This is my first episode of btyc

I was pulling my hair on how to convert those base64 strings into working jpgs

converting them with http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/ and pastinf to any text editor didnt work, since all the editors (even notepad++) hanged NULL sign to ? or �

I was looking for previous BTYC threads but dind find the answer

finally i found online solution

http://www.mobilefish.com/services/base64/base64.php

after you put base64 string in you gate error message:

The output contains control characters and can not be shown in the textbox.
Instead the decoded data is saved into a file.

Download Download file

Click the Download and rename the file afterwards to name.jpg
DONE!

[aseameba]

Have you noticed the date in front of each text block that appears when a name of a gate is typed in the console?

I removed the spoiler tags, since the topic of these images/text blocks is discussed openly. Also edited the base64 picture file text blocks out for more clarity:

[aseameba]

Have any of you made any progress about the Qadhos datastore?

The file hint was "86. Monster of Florence" Which gave us Il Mostro, and his 16 victims and the song "16 candles" gave us the file ID 16.

What does that "86." in the hint mean? Do you have any ideas about the background image of the datastore? (the TV-screen looking thing) This is my first time with BTYC, so I don't know if it's the same as before. Is it?

The distorted city image appears to be Montreal by night (lucky guess)

http://www.globalphotos.org/montreal/20050521/IMG_0418.jpg

I have no idea what the orange thing in the upper part of the screen is. Maybe a part of a picture of a planet, like Mars or Jupiter? Maybe something completely different. Maybe it's totally irrelevant.

[aseameba]

[Maevrim]