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aklreaxmer
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There is another occurrence of the Rosencrantz page on page 61 and 62 later in the document, so I think he pulled it directly from this site/guide.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:01 pm
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Friedlemar
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Here is a transcript of the time travellers' dialogue from the video:

Quote:
Top Hat Guy: Alright, enough of this! James Crawford!
Jim: Not again!
Top Hat Guy: In the name of his majesty, for your time-crimes against the chrono-imperium, for your distribution and production of bug porn, for your association with agents of Bug Mars, for your fraternizing with frogs, and for your other crimes, you must be held accountable!
Jim: Wait, what's going on?
Top Hat Guy: Come on.
Time Traveller 1: There's no time!
Time Traveller 2: Stay back! Do not interfere with the timeline!
Jim: Save yourselves…
Top Hat Guy: Do not interfere with the timeline!
Time Traveller 2: They're coming! Go, go! Stay back!
Opposing Time Traveller: Wait, the disks, the disks!

Moterbike Time Traveller: You guys aren't chasing Jim Crawford, are you? Well don't look for him now. That's not the real Jim Crawford, or at least not yet. I come from a dreadfully dark timeline, and we're trying to prevent that. I'm just here to tell you that now, and I have to go myself. You guys have a wonderful day.


Some thoughts and questions:

-The gun that the top hat guy is holding had a cable attached to it, as if it was pulled off of an arcade shooter. Several of the other guns appear to be like this as well.
-What is the music that's played in the car as it speeds off?
-Are any of the time travellers (7 in all, not counting Jim) the same as the ones in the video?
-The motorbike guy identifies himself as being from a different timeline. Are the two warring factions from the same timeline, or different ones?
-The costumes that the time travellers are wearing are pretty distinctive... can we glean any clues from that? (E.g., what time period each faction is from)

I'll take a look at the floppy disks tomorrow morning!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:17 pm
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MD1500
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aklreaxmer wrote:
There is another occurrence of the Rosencrantz page on page 61 and 62 later in the document, so I think he pulled it directly from this site/guide.


Good spot! Each character sheet is featured in the guide twice. (The first one is for the Director / Dungeon Master and the second one is for the player.) So, the Berkeley Rosencrantz character sheet is from the "Player Materials" section which starts from Page 49 in the PDF.

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francinum
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Anyone find anything in the KS game? or is it just a carp.

turns out BEAR-DS4 is the Twinbreard Hotline.
http://twinbeard.com/573_twinbeard-hotline

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MD1500
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The GDC talk on Preserving Mystery in an Age of Spoilers has been uploaded.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2/posts/802609?ref=email

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Friedlemar
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OK, so I had a heck of a time tracking down a floppy drive and getting the data off of the disks (floppy disks are super slow!). But here is most of it. The numberings correspond with my post from yesterday, so you can see which stickers go with which disk if you want:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0n11js9e1vx6cja/Frog.Fractions.2.Floppies.zip

Some bad news: I was unable to get the file "stinky.a01" off of Disk 6, as well as "stinky.arj" off of Disk 1. I can see the files in the filesystem, but if I try to view its contents or copy it, I get an error about how the disk is improperly formatted. I have included the fragments of these files that I was able to copy in the zipfile above.

However, it may not matter. I diff'd all of the duplicate filenames that we do have, and it looks like files with the same name are identical (and the fragments are identical to the start of their corresponding non-broken versions). So we have enough redundancy that the lost data doesn't seem to matter.

I have imaged all of the disks except the bad ones:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rb3i74tsgvxkt1f/Frog.Fractions.2.Images.zip

There are no hidden files that I can see. (Note that my OS created a few, so check the timestamps if you go looking.)

Here are things organized in a sane way (instead of by disk):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hygdhim9npxyita/Frog.Fractions.2.Bug.Porn.zip

I'm unable to expand the archive; hopefully someone can figure that out.

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MD1500
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Thanks!

So, looking at the images, it seems we have 5 months from a "Bug Porn" calendar: Miss February, Miss April, Miss June, Miss October, Miss December.

I'm guessing we need to find the missing months to make a full calendar or something? Laughing

The stinky.arj, stinky.a01, stinky.a02, stinky.a03, stinky.a04 files all form an archive of stinky.mp4. However, it appears to be encrypted / compressed in some weird way. I've tried to extract it with WinRAR, WinZip and UnZiplite, all with no luck. (It might be password protected?)

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aklreaxmer
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I seem to have found a way to specify a password to try to open these files using the following command in the ARJ32 compression program:
Code:

ARJ32 x -g? stinky.arj


I have tried 'butts' and 'hamlet' and 'rosencrantz' as password, anyone have any other ideas?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:25 pm
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Friedlemar
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aklreaxmer wrote:
I seem to have found a way to specify a password to try to open these files using the following command in the ARJ32 compression program:
Code:

ARJ32 x -g? stinky.arj


I have tried 'butts' and 'hamlet' and 'rosencrantz' as password, anyone have any other ideas?


0451, of course!

Edit: Well, that didn't work. Sad

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:33 pm
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Oniune
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I hosted an album of all the bug porn images on Imgur in case somebody's unable/too lazy to access them via the .zips:

http://imgur.com/a/ufbrQ

I wonder if it's a coincidence that the numbers of these months (2,4,6,10,12) are all even, and/or if they are somehow related to the stinky.mp4 password?

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:23 pm
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dvorak42
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EXIF Data

Interestingly, all the images have EXIF Descriptions that seem relevant:


02.jpg: x"83968686858540A689A3884081409781A340968640
04.jpg: 82A4A3A385996B409694859385A340A689A388408388
06.jpg: 8585A285408195844082818396956B408881A2884082
10.jpg: 9996A695A26B40A39681A2A340A689A3884082A4A3A3
12.jpg: 85994081958440A2A381A682859999A840918194"

Converting it to psuedo-base-8, you get:

Quote:
COFFEE WITH A PAT OF BUTTER; OMELET WITH CHEESE AND BACON; HASH BROWNS; TOAST WITH BUTTER AND STAWBERRY JAM


The translation is done by taking two characters at a time, XY, using 'A" as 10 and 'B' as 11. You then take 8*X+Y and convert that to an ASCII character. However, if X is above 8, you instead use 8*X+Y+1.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:35 pm
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aklreaxmer
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Nice! Now how does this relate to the password...?
Sounds like a list of breakfast items, tried "breakfast", nada.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:19 pm
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p1start
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Well, I quickly coded up a bash script that would run a brute-force dictionary attack (testing every word in the dictionary as a password) on one of the archives (stinky.a01). Didn't find anything, but there's a high chance that my script was broken in some way (although I did test it on an archive which I created & knew the password of).

Here's the (terribly-coded) script for anyone who's interested:
Code:
for j in `cat /usr/share/dict/words|grep -v \'s$`; do (i=${j};echo $i; mkdir $i; cd $i; unar -p $i ../stinky.a01; if [ ! -n "$(cat stinky.mp4)" ]; then rm stinky.mp4; cd ..; rmdir $i; else cd ..; fi) & done


I also tried a variant of the script that would test for CAPITALISED WORDS; it was just as unsuccessful as the original.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:54 am
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francinum
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was the rozencratz sheet blank?

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Friedlemar
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OK, I haven't figured things out yet, but here is something odd. When I try to guess the password, I normally get the following:

Code:
unar -f -p RandomPasswordGuess stinky.arj

stinky.arj: ARJ
  stinky.mp4  (1239830 B)... Failed! (Unknown error)
Extraction to current directory failed! (1 file failed.)


But when I try with the password "bugmars", I get:

Code:
unar -f -p bugmars stinky.arj

stinky.arj: ARJ
  stinky.mp4  (1239830 B)... Segmentation fault: 11


Is this something? I really don't know much about password-protected archives...

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