I completely ignored this as I had a harder puzzle to solve in Survivor abridged.
I don't think I'm going to care about this round.
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.
Well As I said this was a bit harder than first challenge but still it's main purpose was showing the tools you must use for solving the game more than starting the main story and challenge seri you shall see. the treasure haunt Caesar introduced in this session was not concluded In this session - and that's fine! The hints we got during this session (which will be told again in future related sessions) must be all putted together like peaces of a larger puzzle to make sense.
Anyway to solve this session:
Spoiler: part 1
Lets start with treasure haunting as we need the clues we find there for main passage of session.
The treasure is in the road - in the way back to Rome. The newbie thread is called "The Road To Rome".
Spoiler: part 2
The letter legend is giving us a key for encrypting decrypting texts.
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
They will be seen similar both ways = 0 _ 10. "
Using this two line and by knowing we can understand that we have 11 letters which will be seen similar both ways we can say:
A:0 H:1 I:2 M:3 O:4 T:5 U:6 V:8 W:8 X:9 Y:10
and it seems in this code the rest of letters will be replaced with '?' question mark character.
that means "TEN = 5??" and "Y='10'" so for Y we use '10' instead of 10 which means "HA"
Spoiler: part 3
Decoding the letter we get :
c
: 1545
f
: 50
t
: 59502
p
: 6349555
Spoiler: part 4
Ok this is an address obviously. With the previous hint we can deduce its pointing to a newbie topic. Pay attention to site url's. (f=50) is for "Completed Newbie Games". Newbie Game number "1545" is the "59502"'th topic of site which was modded by Baezu. So we can use all these stuff to see if we're in right track or not! translating the game title (assuming all letters are captalized)
"THECAMPINGTRIP" = "51??03?2??5?2?" which without question marks is 5103252
post 5103252 of mafia scum is in here which is a simple In and can be translated to "2?"
Spoiler: part 5
using the last number in the letter "
p
: 6349555" we can reach this post in the same game, which is a flip post from mod - flipping a town cop in there.
Now we need to extract the data we want from this post and Fix the weird riddle to finish this session
Spoiler: part 6
Lets go and solve the main questions of this session. There are 4 lies that we don't know their order. Obviously the ? letter is E making that word "External" seems like the first is pointing at the first letters of "External" , "Ugly" , "Undefeatable" and "Trivial" and we know the current order of them is a lie. Obviously we need to use the other text for fixing the order.
Spoiler: part 7
If you focus on the image of this session you can see some numbers : 1-3 5-3 2-31 . using this numbers you can find the 3 blanks in the post we found in the treasure haunt section.
You are Uneasy
Maybe Tonight
This is Easy
Spoiler: part 7
Ok now we need to figure out the order. The first tells the order! means the first letter of the blanks you just filled. UX2 , T , E means the order is E T U U so the "Evil is External" must be the first one
You just needed to report back "Evil is External" as a lie to me.
The most dangerous kind of Evil is inside me and you ourselves!
Happy Halloween!
Spoiler: Bonus 1
The treasure is "The Gold of Tolosa" which was plundered from Apollo Temple in City of Delphi by Gallic invaders of the Volcae.
I didn't use the clue from the image. I just take the first occurrence.
"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
Wagering $500 that the next puzzle has something to do with baby.
"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