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booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
HOLD THE PHONE!
I don't know when, but http://aby551an.xyz/FrenchRevolution/ has changed
Looks like the first single letter was dropped from the encoding, which changed everything after that. That means that everything I tried and looked at must be tossed and redone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i73jQtwzsMQ
Remember CYPAP Check Your Puzzles As Published things can and do happen.
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:04 am
_Burgundy
Boot
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 18
I don't understand- what was dropped from the page? The version you quoted yesterday is the same one as we can see on the page today.
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 9:16 am
Regula123
Boot
Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19
... It looks the same to me too. Yesterday you uploaded a reversed colors image, and the sentence hasn't changed since then, at least.
I can agree that it doesn't look like a cryptogram. There aren't that many 1 letter words in the English alphabet, although they could be random letters: A, B, C.
Now, to add to the things tried, I tried to use salut instead of hello in Vigenere and keyed Caesar.
The sentence I see is:
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XVSI R QDH F BCCMMS PJH UOA N MUWMFR KVB NKT ZBNAT64
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 10:30 am
booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
It had changed by that post and I didn't notice, or i just plain effed it up some how
I was still using the one as I posted early yesterday.
hello
XVSK QHA I FGGNNS PLA UDE O NUWNIR MVF OMT ZFOET64
My fault for not noticing, by then I was working on the seal
EDIT: Thought I better strike thru that one so no one copy/pastes it by accident.
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:25 am
fingerlickin'
Boot
Joined: 30 Sep 2016 Posts: 15
I downloaded the level2 Genesis image, brightened it an editor, but i don't see the /InGodWeTrust anywhere. I've tried turning the brightness all the way up, all the way down, played with the contrast and shading and still I don't see it. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:28 pm
Regula123
Boot
Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19
fingerlickin' wrote:
I downloaded the level2 Genesis image, brightened it an editor, but i don't see the /InGodWeTrust anywhere. I've tried turning the brightness all the way up, all the way down, played with the contrast and shading and still I don't see it. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
This is what I did to get the /InGodWeTrust. I was originally playing with brightness and contrast and I couldn't see it either, but as soon as I switched to curves, there it was.
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Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:46 pm
fingerlickin'
Boot
Joined: 30 Sep 2016 Posts: 15
Regula123 wrote:
fingerlickin' wrote:
I downloaded the level2 Genesis image, brightened it an editor, but i don't see the /InGodWeTrust anywhere. I've tried turning the brightness all the way up, all the way down, played with the contrast and shading and still I don't see it. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
This is what I did to get the /InGodWeTrust. I was originally playing with brightness and contrast and I couldn't see it either, but as soon as I switched to curves, there it was.
Ah! Thanks so much. I'm going to try that.
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:27 pm
Regula123
Boot
Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19
At this point I'm wondering if they have another mistake. If they changed it once, there might be more mistakes in there. I've tried many things related to the Great Seal and even from the Declaration of Independence. (It really reminds me of the movie National treasure.)
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:15 pm
catherwood
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 4109 Location: Silicon Valley, CA
I can never resist a cipher, even when I'm not playing the game. With the new string, I have a solve:
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XVSI R QDH F BCCMMS PJH UOA N MUWMFR KVB NKT ZBNAT64
with Vig key = boovjudpfqujt
it becomes:
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY ALL I WANTED WAS THE ULTRA64
The explanation for the key, as far as I can tell is
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with a ROT it becomes annuitcoeptis
-- so maybe their Vigenere tool was shifted somehow or they're using a variant.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:28 pm
_Burgundy
Boot
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 18
catherwood wrote:
I can never resist a cipher, even when I'm not playing the game. With the new string, I have a solve:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
XVSI R QDH F BCCMMS PJH UOA N MUWMFR KVB NKT ZBNAT64
with Vig key = boovjudpfqujt
it becomes:
WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY ALL I WANTED WAS THE ULTRA64
The explanation for the key, as far as I can tell is
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
with a ROT it becomes annuitcoeptis
-- so maybe their Vigenere tool was shifted somehow or they're using a variant.
Ha, we were all almost on the right lines.
Visiting
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aby551an.xyz/ULTRA64
gives us a fake 451 error, with the following text:
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ERROR 451 UNAVAILABLE
HTTP/1.1 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons Content-Type: text/html
Access to this domain has been restricted in the Kingdom of Abyssia due to Court Order.
If you believe that this domain has been incorrectly blocked, please contact the appropriate legal authority of the realm.
SEVMTE8gQU5EIENPTkdSQVRVTEFUSU9OUyBGT1IgTUFLSU5HIElUIFRISVMgRkFSLiBJVCBPTkx ZIEdFVFMgSEFSREVSIEZST00gSEVSRS4gSSBIT1BFIFlPVSdSRSBSRUFEWS4gL09ubHlUaGVTdH JvbmcvIC02Ni4=
Decoded from base64, the text reads:
HELLO AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR MAKING IT THIS FAR. IT ONLY GETS HARDER FROM HERE. I HOPE YOU'RE READY. /OnlyTheStrong/ -66.
I guess 66 is our PM.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 3:45 pm
Regula123
Boot
Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19
Great catch! It's as obvious as it looks, now.
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/OnlyTheStrong/ is the next url
Which brings us to a page with a single image, with the message
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"The answer is within" surrounding something that looks like the masonic square and compass and a skull in the middle. I hope it's that, I'm just trusting google images here.
Edit: I just hope there is no steganography. My computer doesn't like camouflage.
Edit2: There seems to be noise in the image.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 3:57 pm
themightymooker
Veteran
Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Posts: 109 Location: Not Quite Lincoln, NE
It's also worth pointing out that on the U64 page, you can click on the "available" part of "unavailable." It takes you to /level1, which so far just seems like flavor text.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 4:30 pm
booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Great solves everyone! Catherwood you're the best!
I must apologize to everyone, especially the PM's for my tantrum a piece back. It was my own screw up. Not my first, unfortunately.
Next up is the old verbatim, I got a piece of it:
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:14 am
Regula123
Boot
Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19
The illusion is something they grabbed off the internet. Also, on the bottom text it says it is the last challenge? That's a shame.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 2:10 pm
_Burgundy
Boot
Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 18
Regula123 wrote:
The illusion is something they grabbed off the internet. Also, on the bottom text it says it is the last challenge? That's a shame.
I think by "last challenge " 66 just meant the most recent challenge, hopefully.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:10 am
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