Ok Ath3na has told me she was doing the challenge, but I guess she ran into some problems here are her pms she sent me:
PM1:
Dear Tbone, Orien, and the Furious Angels,
Let me clear something up: I did not write any scripts or use any computer algorithms to solve the riddles, ie “no brute force.”
To tell you the truth, once I got up to “access denied” with my path and I heard you guys were trying to make it more challenging for new potentials, I thought your idea of thinking outside the box was the hope that a potential would be persistent enough to begin a new iteration of the path. I took it once you had solved all the possible paths, your complete set of would allow you to proceed. [Say p_1, p_2, …, p_n are type Bools with value 0 if that path is not complete, and value 1 if the path is complete. If p_1 = = p_2 = = … = = p_n = = 1, then goto next step past the inevitable access denied that end each path.]
This seemed like the path, especially after seeing a forum post that seemed to suggest that starting again and continuing on the path was the way to go.
I decided to try to contact the angel this past week, I think I made an forum account last week finally, and since and click those your hieroglyphs in the next day or so to eventually arrive at the announcement with attachment.
The next steps didn’t take too long
Icon of Angel - > ZMF login, created an account.
Used Orien for Worm right off the bat.
The positive and negative charge of their current.
Battery (tried Coppertop too I think)
HTH: Aaron Burr was a modern Caesar.
Hamilton by word association, verbal Rorschach ink blot test. Ironically, even though I knew about the famous duel, I only tried this after mis-discovering the Ceasar Cypher and that Aaron Burr was a fan and a victim (Spanish espionage) of cryptography.
http://all.net/books/ip/Chap2-1.htmlCoincidence? I think so.
I tend to think of SERAPH as sentient security so it wasn’t a stretch to venture from “I protect that which matters most”: “I protect those who see beyond their own choices.”
PM2:
Concerning Username/password: I quickly reasoned from a forum post about username saying “You only know a couple of FA names” that Orien was the only option.
Actually made a post about this riddle but deleted it (I think within the hour) after I scoured Hampton Green, and inevitably ran into the sign: Sentinel – watching over everyone and everything
57686974655061776e74616b6573526564517565656e2e
Split into two digit hexadecimal numbers and interpret as ASCII chars (case sensitive). The letters only appearing in the even digits gave it away.
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/faq/ascitabl.htmlThere was one about tomorrow too, but google gave me the answer to this charming calendar favorite.
(same with the one about nothing I think from a different path, though)
Key to Pandora’s box: curiosity was my first guess of course, but relating it allegorically to the matrix, and thanks to ket’s hints of the blue pill reminded me of Slumberil. I knew it had something to do with returning to consciousness or waking up. I admired the Metacortex or Slumberil ARGs (although they ended before I knew they existed) and a straight forward google turned up:
http://www.matrix-explained.com/php/post-59069.html&sid=c16a2ddb3f6a416a99992850b6201361User name: Pandora
Password: w4k3up
If I missed a riddle I’m a.) surprised I didn’t make a copy of it and it’s answer b.) probably didn’t dwell on that riddle for more than a couple minutes.
When I reached the dead end (access denied), I tried two approaches and posted them bluepill forums for luck and reassurance. When it was clear these two paths weren’t the answer I sat on my hands and got banned later that night.
Well thats it I have no clue what happened lol.
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