Whatever the chains placed upon me
Whatever the prison, my soul has the key
No money can buy, no power can still
No burden can break the unshakeable strength of my will
"The debate on whether short multi postings or a long wall of post is good or not is like a debate on gun control--we would never understand each other and we have to make peace with it." -Realeo
Whatever the chains placed upon me
Whatever the prison, my soul has the key
No money can buy, no power can still
No burden can break the unshakeable strength of my will
"You are the Joker of mafia players" - Oversoul
"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.
His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
In the name of undergraduate students, is there partial credit?
"The debate on whether short multi postings or a long wall of post is good or not is like a debate on gun control--we would never understand each other and we have to make peace with it." -Realeo
all the hints we should need are public anyway, or so I shall believe unless stuff happens to change my mind.
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
In post 39, Frozen Angel wrote:If you can find no connection between the "Lololol-type" info and other facts - if you can search clues elsewhere too - if you're quite sure about the thing you must do - ignore the peculiar bit of information. If nothing works, reconsider it in a different way.
Easier said than done.
"The debate on whether short multi postings or a long wall of post is good or not is like a debate on gun control--we would never understand each other and we have to make peace with it." -Realeo
ok well done everyone. Congratulations to the ones who solved this session and the ones who find the bonus point! For the ones who didn't don't be sad! you can use the part part guide I put here to try finding the answers on your own. Just don't look at them at once; this way you can try to work on your skills and make yourself ready for our next sessions -which are definitely more challenging.
Just a note : there was no reason for you to solve these stuff in the order I'm writing this guide here. The only thing you needed to find was the final answer so its totally fine even if you didn't notice a part of riddle
Spoiler: part 1
The first clue was in the image itself. There are ...(3 dots) ..... (5 dots) in right right bottom corner of the image. As I told you in the text below that image you should examine everything even the image. even the image name! The image name is "GAMS-Morse" which solves the dots riddle. ... ..... means "S5" or you could read it vise versa "5S" doesn't matter though!
Note : using web Morse translators were totally fine. I don't expect you guys to know what is Morse code. Using google and any source is definitely fine. Just don't consult with each other or other people
Spoiler: part 2
Clicking on the image or exploring randomly on MS you could find an extra page related to game - for Julius Caesar. This game is going to have some extra pages which might be useful for you during the next sessions. anyway you can see the rest of that Morse code under Caesar's image.
".... .. ..-. -" will be translated to "hift" so how can we put the Morse we got from image and this together? easy! "Shift 5" or "5 Shift" now we need to find out what is referring to!
Spoiler: part 3
Lets decode the cipher in first post! using the above hints "Julius Caesar" and "Shift 5" and a simple web search you would realize the cipher is a 5 shifted Caesar cipher or Shift cipher where each letter in the original message (called the plaintext) is replaced with a letter corresponding to a certain number of letters up or down in the alphabet (In this case 5). so A is replaced with F , B is replaced with G and so on!
will be translated to "The key is in a wiki page. The page is in Username/Password. Username is this session. The Password is in User Control Panel. To write go right To read come down"
which is certainly interesting!
You could try and decode this simply by finding out the pattern as well. The word "f" could be simply deduced to be "a" for solving it directly without the Morse code and stuff.
Spoiler: part 4
Finding the username is really easy! As I said the username is this session - hence the session title. I will categorize all new wiki pages I make after that session finishes cause those are the rules of wiki. Special thanks to CC and wg for letting me use these this stuff
Spoiler: part 5
To find password you definitely need more clues than where you can find it. I gave you an address though. right after the sentence I invited
you all to see the bigger picture. yeah found the little text? it says "The Password is in 3-1-8-1." huh
that is an address. go to user control panel. open the third tab "Board Preferences"; from the navigation menu stay in first tab "Edit Global Setting". then go to the 8th thing there "My board style:" and the first thing in that is your password which is "MafBlack"
ATTENTION : I warned you that the pass is all with not capital letters
There you can find the key you need to end this session!
Spoiler: part 7
The answers to those riddles in wiki page are:
1. default //see the first line in wiki page?
2. gun //there is a gun in those themes but not in the other two. I really tried to find something else with 3 letters but I couldn't If there is then I'm sorry
3. Indonesia //Google is your friend
4. A mob has formed //seriously this one was easy ...
5. Truth
6. Love
7. Valentine
8. Life //ehem maybe it wasn't to obvious; sorry
Spoiler: part 8
Assembling the key shouldn't be hard. The first letter was in the first thing you saw "the image of the session" - look at that ' after g ; isn't it beautiful?
so putting all the letters before ' make this the key "geagiimhhvveife"
Spoiler: Bonus
The bonus was for the ones who could find the difference. For finding difference you need to have two similar things don't you?
The text I gave you in extra page about Julius was a copy from wikipedia
My version "Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, general, and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as Populares were opposed by the Optimates within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the second invasion of Britain."
The wiki version "Gaius Julius Caesar, known as Julius Caesar, was a Roman politician, general, and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey formed a political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as Populares were opposed by the Optimates within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar's victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, extended Rome's territory to the English Channel and the Rhine. Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain."
well The difference is in the last sentence. Julius was the
first
roman general who invade Britannia and it was guessable from the context.
Results coming soon!
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