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calummcdermottmmu-blog · 5 years

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Research:

Intended Areas and Processes to Explore:

The aim in working for the Greater Manchester Fringe 2019 is to promote it. One of the processes that I intend to explore is through the production and distribution of a promotional content including a trailer and interviews with festival participants. Social media platforms will be utilised to display these, as well as to attract attention through informative text-based posts, gifs and photographs. This will allow me to use and develop my skills as a practitioner that I have gained over my Film and Media degree, as well as work experience, such as at the radio station Gaydio. For instance, I plan to use my understanding of interviewing to query producers about their shows and film and edit these whilst working as a team. This will enable us to use our own knowledge of media theory and production, in conjunction, to produce publicity material desired by its leader, Zena Barrie. As a result, we will be able to work within this sector of the media industry to excel our understanding of it.

Key Discussions:

From the beginning, I realised the importance of group work and time management. Although I found it to be challenging at first, due to members being available at different times, social media made it easier for us to arrange when could produce our advertising methods. Another key discovery relates to my interest in interviewing. In Glynne’s opinion, ‘to interview well is’ achieved through ‘knowing what your approach is, what your style is, and what the narrative is’ which is determined through ‘not only knowing as much as you can about your subject, but knowing as much as possible about the subject matter’ (2012:107-108). This stresses the importance of preparation and knowing specifics. In relation to the Greater Manchester Fringe, this informed me that I should research into the individuals I intend to interview and what their shows are about beforehand. Subsequently, I anticipate to use this knowledge to plan questions during Unit X, as well as in the future in hope of achieving a career in broadcast journalism and media related events.

Additional Influential Key Figures and Processes:

Before the production of content, I sought out influential material by the established Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This festival’s highest viewed YouTube video has received 44,000 views. In comparison, the Greater Manchester Fringe has an average of 30 to 40 views per video. I thought it would be of importance to learn from their promotional methods. For example, to advertise this year’s celebration, the Edinburgh Fringe created a video titled ‘Get ready for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe!’ which contains clips from past shows. It can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbT2gpN3KMQ. The video attracted a substantial 36,000 views. I suggested to my team that we should produce something similar which led to us gathering links to YouTube videos of previous productions on Greater Manchester Fringe’s YouTube channel. Furthermore, since we had confidence in using Adobe Premiere Pro, we agreed that these could be easily edited together to produce our own trailer.

In addition, social media had been identified as a method of promotion during meetings with Zena Barrie. Consequently, Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Twitter account functioned as a source of inspiration because it has 170,000 followers, whilst Greater Manchester Fringe has 12,000. Therefore, this encouraged me to analyse how their tweets encouraged engagement. One tweet, which I found, inspired our Twitter posts and it can be viewed here: https://twitter.com/edfringe/status/1099634549464748034. It was direct and informative and indicated how potential applicants could perform at the show. Additionally, it attracted attention through emojis and a hashtag. In subsequence, I suggested that we incorporated these ideas by, for example, including the #GMFringe hashtag within tweets to make the Twitter account findable and incorporate bee emojis to coincide with the Manchester theme.

This research had a positive impact. According to the Management Association, on Twitter, ‘a “mention”…allows assessment of the extent of a user’s public interactions…followers can show engagement by favouriting a tweet…generally reflect(ing) endorsement… (and) retweeting extend(s) the reach of the tweet to the user’s own network’ (2018:291). In agreement, I created a tweets which were inspired by those of Edinburgh Festival Fringe and included the names of the places where shows were happening, the #GMFringe hashtag and bee emojis. As result, it gained five retweets and fourteen likes which is a stark increase to tweets without these features and indicates how engagement was both obtained and increased. The tweet can be found here: https://twitter.com/GMFringe/status/1103661714606878721. Likewise, the impact of their YouTube trailer, influenced us to create our own promotional trailer, which I helped to compile and edit, and can viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fz14CPX5qQ. It received 180 views demonstrating how past clips can evoke nostalgia and create excitement for the upcoming festival which creates higher viewer engagement. This use of Twitter and YouTube enabled the group to grow in confidence and also use Facebook to post informative posts that also increased public recognition of the festival. As a result, this indicates how research during the planning stages was influential and resulted in the team’s mounting awareness of how to market a festival and increase viewership of promotional content.

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imaginedisneydescendants · 6 years

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I Haven’t Been Faking

*Requested* Reader is the daughter of Anna and Kristoff. She meets the VK’s when they first come to Auradon and is really nice to them, which kind of surprises them. Mal thinks it’s a prank but it turns out to be genuine and from that point on she grows a huge crush on you.

Paring: Reader x Mal

Word count: 2,057

A/N: This is set during the first movie. Anyways, I’ve been experiencing writers blog, and this is a bit lame haha. I hope you like it!

Request | Masterlist

(Y/N) could hardly contain her joy; practically buzzing with excitement.

Today was the day that the VK’s, who Prince Ben had personally chosen, was to attend Auradon Prep. You and Ben were probably the only ones who were looking forward to having them here. The rest of the student body tried to express their displeasure by organising a protest, but as soon as it began, it was shut down by Fairy Godmother. Despite that minor setback, you didn’t let it get your spirits down. You were determined to make everyone see that the VK’s weren’t what they feared them to be. But above all, you were just excited to make some new friends.

With a grin and a spring in your step, you ran down the dorm room corridor, not even caring if there was anyone standing in your way. If you did accidentally knock someone over, you’d just blame it on your clumsiness; as you often did. Before long, you reached the edge of stairs before you jumped onto the staircase rail and slid down to the bottom, just like you always did back home in Arendelle. Jumping off the rail and landing on the ground, you stumbled a bit before you gained your footing and bounded for the doors of the main entrance.

Bursting through the doors, your gaze locked onto the future king of Auradon just outside, with Audrey who was hanging off his left arm.

"Hey, guys!” You ran over to them before you greeted them both with a smile.

Ben turned around to see you before he gave you a grin. "Hey (Y/N), I knew you’d be here on time."

“Are you kidding? I wouldn’t miss this for the world!” You exaggerated, throwing your hands up with enthusiasm.

As Ben was about to answer you, he was cut off by Audrey, "Hang on, you're not actually supporting this insane proclamation, are you (Y/N)?”

“Why not?” You questioned with a snort, staring at her incredulously, "Its defiantly time for a change, Audrey!"

Ben smiled brightly at you, he knew he could always count on you to back him up with your infectious optimism. However, Audrey just rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"You cannot be serious," Audrey scoffed rolling her eyes, "Well, I, for one think it's a terrible idea."

"Come on Audrey, just give them a chance," Ben pleaded as he stared into his girlfriend's eyes.

After a while Audrey sighed, indicating to Ben that he had won this fight, "Oh alright, anything for my Benny Boo, but I still think it's a terrible idea.”

(Y/N) simply ignored her blatant display of distaste. You had no time for that kind of negativity in your life.

Suddenly, the sound of heels suddenly caught the three teens attention, they all turned around to see Fairy Godmother rushing out from the entrance of the school towards them with a marching band in tow.

'Is a marching band really that necessary? We don't want to scare them off with the bands horrible playing,’ (Y/N) thought as the marching band began to set up beside them. Students stood on the grass, with blue and gold flags in hand, preparing to welcome the new students.

"How wonderful, you three are already out here to welcome the new students!" Fairy Godmother beamed with delight. "Would you three be able to show the new students around for me after introductions?" Fairy Godmother asked kindly, clasping her hands together.

Audrey was about to protest when you elbowed her in the rib, and smiled sweetly, "Of course Fairy Godmother, we would love to show them around!”

Audrey glared at you, in which you gave her a cheery grin back. Fairy Godmother then gasped excitedly, "Oh! Here they come, everybody look alive!”

On cue, the marching band started to play a loud cheery tune and the students started waving their flags with enthusiasm. You could feel your heart speed up, you couldn't believe that you were going to meet the descendants of villains from the Isle of the Lost. You began fixing up your (h/c) hair and smoothed out your (f/c) coloured dress, before you clasped your hands in front of you, putting on your best smile.

The limo came to a stop and the driver immediately stepped out of the car. The driver then made his way to the back of the car before he stopped at the last door and opened it.

A boy that was as young as fourteen that had black and white hair, white at the tips and black at the roots, fair skin that was covered in light freckles, and had red, black and white clothing came tumbling out of the limo while kicking, yelling and screaming. He was followed by another boy, who looked about eighteen. He had long dark hair, a red beanie on his head, dark olive skin, muscular build and his clothes had a colour palette of dark browns, reds and yellows. They were both fighting and arguing over some type of scarf. Not exactly the kind of entrance you were expecting, but it sure was funny.

Two girls that both looked about sixteen, also emerged from the limo, manoeuvring around the two fighting boys. The first one had beautiful long ocean blue hair but her fringe was pulled back into a V-braid. She perfect fair skin and her clothes were a mix of blue, black and white. Around her neck was a ruby red necklace that was shaped like a heart.

However, the second one made your heart skip a beat and caused your cheeks to burn. She had curly purple hair that reached just a little bit over her shoulders, piercing green eyes, fair skin and her outfit consisted of the colours of green, magenta, black and dark purple. You couldn’t keep your eyes off her, nor did you want to.

The marching band came to a stop and the students ceased cheering and waving their flags. The marching band parted way, as Fairy Godmother walked over to them with a smile and her arms open wide as if she was going to hug them, Ben, Audrey and (Y/N) followed closely behind Fairy Godmother.

"Guys, guys, we have an audience," The girl with the purple hair hissed. The two boys immediately stopped quarrelling, while the blue haired girl twirled in delight, taking in the scenery.

"Just cleaning up!" The boy with the long dark hair let out a chuckle while smiling at Fairy Godmother. "Get up," He hissed at the younger boy who he then pulled up roughly, chocolate was evident all around his mouth.

"Leave it like you found it ~" Fairy Godmother sang cheerfully, "And by that, I mean just leave it.”

The older boy threw the items that he had into the back of the limo hesitantly. The purple haired girl then locked eyes with you and you could’ve of sworn that her eyes flashed. She flashed a slight smirk in your direction which made a pleasurable shiver run down your back. The others started to notice that you and the purple haired girl were staring intensely at each other for far too long.

Fairy Godmother then stuck her head in between the two of you, to break up the staring contest you two were appearing to be having.

"Welcome to Auradon Prep. I'm Fairy Godmother," Fairy Godmother introduced before doing a little curtsy, "Headmistress."

The purple haired girl eyes widened, "The Fairy Godmother? As in bippity-boppity-boo?"

"Bippity-boppity-you know it," Fairy Godmother nodded. You snorted at the pun.

"Yeah, I always wondered what it felt like for Cinderella, when you just appeared out of nowhere." The purple haired girl chuckled with a smile, "With that sparkly wand and warm smile, and that sparkly wand!"

"That was a long time ago, and as I always say, don't focus on the past or you'll miss the future!" Fairy Godmother smiled, waving her hands in front of her as she quoted her saying.

The four villain kids just stood there, looking at the Fairy Godmother like she was loopy. 'Well, I can't blame them...she sorta is loopy,’ You thought, as your mind wandered.

"It's so good to finally meet you all," Ben stepped forward, along with Audrey and (Y/N), "I'm Ben."

"Prince Benjamin!" Audrey corrected quickly with a grin, "Soon to be king!"

The dark blue haired girl suddenly lit up and walked towards Ben, "You had me at prince. My mum's a queen which makes me a princess."

"The Evil Queen has no royal status here, and neither do you." Audrey glared at the girl. The dark blue haired girls smile flattered and she backed away. Audrey’s nasty comment made you feel sad for the poor girl.

"This is Audrey," Ben introduced with an awkward chuckle.

"Pleased to meet you all!" You smiled brightly.

Bouncing up and down, you proceeded to hug each of the villain kids. When you reached the purple haired girl, you wrapped your arms around her tightly and held onto her for longer than it was necessary. She didn’t seem to mind it nor fighting it, so you continued to hold her.

“Okay, (Y/N), I think that’s enough hugging,” Ben suggested with an awkward chuckle, prying you off the purple haired girl. "Sorry, she’s a little friendly when it comes to meeting new people,” Ben apologised, patting your shoulder softly.

You let out a chuckle as you felt the heat rising to your cheeks. The girl whose name you needed to know, was clearly flustered as well.

After you had shortly introduced yourself, you had gotten to learn the VK’s names. The boy with black and white hair was Carlos, son of Cruella de Vil. The purple haired girl was Mal, daughter of Maleficent, Mistress of all Evil. Jay was obviously the son of Jafar, and the dark blue haired girl was Evie, daughter of the Evil Queen.

Ben had just started the tour of Auradon Prep but was soon called to attend to his princely duties. You were then instructed by Audrey to give the four Isle kids a tour of Auradon Prep — not that you didn’t mind.

You had shown them every possible place you could think of, even the gardens, but everywhere you went, the unlikely group received a lot of stares throughout the day. But for most of the tour, you didn't seem to notice their stares as you were too busy focusing on Mal. You'd be lying if you said that you hadn’t flirted with her on a number of occasions during the tour. You loved the reactions you got out of her when you'd say flirting pick up lines here and there. Her cheeks were a brighter red than Peter Pan’s feather!

The whole time (Y/N) was flirting, Mal couldn’t help but think to herself, this has got to be a joke. She eyed the girl suspiciously. She was way too perfect. No way was she potentially flirting with her — she had to be faking it somehow. As if someone like her, a princess, would be interested in a villain like her.

As (Y/N) was about to use yet another pickup line or flirty joke on her, Mal let out a frustrated sigh before she let out a low hiss, “Quit doing that.”

You turned to her, raising an eyebrow in question, “Beg your pardon?"

“That — flirting with me. Stop acting like you’re really interested in me,” Mal muttered under her breath so that her friends wouldn’t hear.

"Act? Whatever do you mean?” You whispered in confusion. You had no idea what she was talking about.

“You’re not really into to me, are you? You and I both know that your happiness and interest in me is fake. Admit it — you hate us and would rather be off doing something else instead of showing us around."

You were surprised at her words. “But Mal, that’s where you’re wrong,” You told her with a soft smile “You see, I haven’t been faking anything. Especially not my interest in you. I don’t hate, not at all. The flirting is purely and completely on purpose."

Mal shut her mouth and stayed silent; her cheeks still red. It suddenly dawned on her that she had a massive crush on you — Mal was head over heels for you and you were head over heels for her.

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councilof9 · 4 years

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DEFCON 28 Badge Challenge

If you are still working on the Badge challenge, be warned! Spoilers below!

If you’d like to play along, you can grab all of the required materials for free at:

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2028/DEF%20CON%20Safe%20Mode%20Badge.rar

Exposition:

Before getting into the badge challenge write-up, we would first like to take a moment to thank all those who helped make this possible. First and foremost, a big shout out to 1o57 for putting together these amazing puzzles every year, and the sacrifices required to make it happen. Also a big thanks to the DEFCON organizers as a whole, who allow people like us to engage in these puzzle-solving shenanigans, and giving 1o57 a place to create and foster the hacker mindset.

Finally, a big thank you and congratulations goes out to Co9’s newest members, and four complete DEFCON newbies (congrats on your first con!):

Cr0wn_Gh0ul (@Cr0wn_Gh0ul)

JTobCat (@jtobcat)

LeFevre (@Lefevre)

motive (@leemsparks)

With that, let’s get into it.

The DEFCON 28 Badge

The Council of 9, undaunted by the irregular startup routine of DEFCON Safe Mode, prepared to scuffle and rumpus against the bewildering puzzles of 1o57 once again. After purchasing our DC28 badges, the fun began.

As 1o57 puzzles go, you never have an official starting place. You have to find it. So as we found answers or interesting information, we would record it for possible future use, and move on to the next thing we could find. Eventually, the breadcrumbs resolve into a path to follow.

This years badge consisted of three physical items:

A traditional printed cassette tape insert booklet

An old school audio cassette tape

The Lanyard

Booklet

The cassette tape insert booklet had several codes printed across it.

First, looking at the track listing:

Taking the first letter of each song on the side A tracklist spells out “LOSTINTIME”. For the uninitiated, 1o57 is the longtime Defcon badge designer and puzzlemaster. These track names also contain hints for later - Keywords like Lissajous.

Color Block Sub Cipher

Written, the color boxes read

Orange White Pink

Purple White/Green Orange/Green

Blue/Green Green Pink White

Purple/Green White/Green Orange White

and

Orange Blue Yellow/Yellow Green/White Purple

Green/White Green/White Yellow

By substituting the letters directly below for colors the first image, decodes to DEF CON SAFE MODE. It's basically a key.

So the second is

Skull Text

This string of text wasn’t nearly as simple to decipher. This skull artwork was a throwback to DC21, which had us scurrying to find notes and write-ups on the Badge puzzles from that year. Ultimately, however, we found the solution by taking the text string and pasting it into a 6x6 route transposition cipher, yielding:

tIstFCOnRFoofFioumYrgureoohrDOuntlon

Which is read Come on four dot four is right in front of you

We didn’t yet know what to do with this, so we put it aside for later.

Cipher Text Page

Xbaw maek wzme pgty zvxy izwk iwhk lnhy

agrl rrlp fsis xadh uflx dsqh rzrg qegu

itwb wveq aslo moii xmzx mvea rtil yekd

lvks jrbo arvy nmjz wodi gcxe tkrr cyir

xbsu rwyf slwr ixyk lrwz sbzr zbpg rrrw

hjsi alXX 1o57

The solution to this text really came from the fact that we were paying attention to 1o57 dropping random hints in various locations - not from anything in the booklet itself. 1o57 had played a video on his Twitch channel from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. Most notably, Buckaroo is famous for using the phrase: “No matter where you go there you are”

Using this as an OTP key...

nomatterwhereyougothereyouarenomatterwhereyougothereyouarenomatterwhereyougothereyouarenomatterwhereyougothereyouarenomatterwhereyougothereyouarenomatterwhereyougothere

...you get another Buckaroo quote (actually written by Greek philosopher Odysseas Elytis) :

Know that as in life there is much that many have looked up on but few have seen because as my father told me and his father told him you will come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth

Cassette Tape

With the booklet sorted, we turned our attention to the DC28 cassette tape. Upon listening to the tape, there are some immediate … features… that stick out.

Tones

One of the first things anyone listening to the tape will notice is the odd tones that sound at different times, and seem to repeat. These were halves of a DTMF (Dual-tone Multi-Frequency) tone, known better by many as “touchtones”, and appeared in two (2) groups of fourteen (14) tones that repeated three (3) times. By combining these single frequency pairs back together, we restored the dual frequencies and, by examining the peak frequency of the tones, we were able to identify the keypresses that generated the given tones. The flow of tones came out as:

DTMF Numbers: 2 6 3 3 9 6 7 3 7 9 9 9 4 9

We’re not done yet, though! Not yielding any immediate plaintext, we continued checking for a second-stage decipherment. As we’ve learned from other puzzles, any phone-related cipher should be checked for T9 coding, which turned out to be exactly what we have here.

By looking at a phone keypad,

Reading those indices onto the available letters, we get: CODEWORDSYZYGY

Oscilloscope

It’s not just the obvious side of the audio that we need to examine - the audio on the cassettes had much more than meets the … ears. Based on some hints that 1o57 dropped, and our experience with past puzzles, we decided to examine the audio for any hidden waveforms or other hidden data. Using a software oscilloscope, we examined the tape audio and discovered plenty of hidden text, as well as Lissajous patterns (remember that word from the Tracklist? Ya, that was the hint to get us here). The patterns we saw included a spaceship, a heptagon, a butterfly, and some very interesting text. The text we needed was:

The full text that shows up in the oscilloscope reads:

FIND A KEY AT LOSTBOY.NET SLASH PALEBLUEDOT

These two lead us to http://lostboy.net/PaleBlueDot

When we found this, though, the site was not yet active (since DEFCON hadn’t officially started). Oh well, better solve the Lanyard while we wait.

The Lanyard

This year’s lanyard proved to be quite tricky. We went through several iterations of attempts to make sense out of it. Pictured below is the lanyard with our attempts at dividing up and delineating each shape.

1o57 offered quite a few hints about the symbols on the lanyard - and with good reason. Finding the appropriate reading for the text was pretty difficult. Here are some of the most important hints that came out:

...now excuse me while I go read more about French aristocrats fleeing a post 1789 revolution.

More hints will start flowing from the font of knowledge tomorrow after DEFCON officially starts....

These sorts of hints eventually point towards the Crackly font, hosted on emigre.com (https://www.emigre.com/PDF/Crackly.pdf). Using this font, we were able to extract the following values from the lanyard segments:

Note first those mad MSPaint skills. Note second that all of those numbers are below 26, we immediately changed them into letters, giving us:

Q X U N

E K K E

V I O Q

Q G C O

Throwing this through a ROT, because you should always ROT everything, discovered that it was ROT-24’d. (Side note: Why ROT-24? Because ROT-24 is a negative ROT-28. Tricksy)

O V S L

C I I C

T G M O

O E A M

While not immediately obvious, one observant council member noted the presence of the C-O-M series of letters when reading in the vertical 4x4 pattern. Reading it in this way gave us what we were after:

OCTOVIGESIMALCOM → http://octovigesimal.com

Octovigesimal.com

This new page contained quite a bit of new content that we needed to sort through, and any answers were certainly not obvious.

Image filename: besidenequals2.jpg

The summation equation written at the bottom of the Goonies skull key implied that we need something that follows the pattern 1.1 + 2.2 + 3.3 + 4.4. The banner of the website implies that we need to look at the album “The Great 28” by Chuck Berry. This is further hinted at by the text “Record your answer~”, as in a record. We even think the tilde, from the latin for ‘title’ was probably part of the hint.

Upon looking at the Track list of “The Great 28” we saw that there is a track called Come On, which is right before a track called “Nadine (Is it You)”. This seems to link back to the text that we extract from the cipher text on the cassette tape insert “Come On Four Dot Four is right in front of you” Come On happens to be Section 4 track 4 of the album (4.4) and is “right in front of” (before) “Is it You”.

Going with that train of thought, and concatenating the titles of tracks 1.1, 2.2, 3.3, and 4.4:

Chuck Berry - The Great 28:

we get: MaybelleneRockandRollMusicMemphisComeOn

However, we don’t know what to do with this yet. Note it and move on.

Last on this site, but certainly not least, is another URL. Hidden right in plain sight underneath the logo is a pointer to the URL “Base-28.com”.

Alright, time to move on.

base-28.com

The first thing to look at here is the ciphertext in the top center of the page. We have a few strings to play with from previous solves. With the earth, moon and sun being in a line on the page, we figured it was a good opportunity to try the key that we found previously (from the audio DTMF codes): SYZYGY. This ciphertext is Vigenere encoded with SYZYGY as the key, and decodes to Who are you going to call? Definitely sounds like Ghostbusters to us.

Also of note here, is that the image on the arcade cabinet was identified as being the Temple of Gozer - a Ghostbusters scene. This scene is actually Chapter 28 on the GhostBusters DVD, and is titled “Crossing Streams”. This reinforces the Ghostbusters clue that the vigenere text gives us, and will prove critical to the next step.

On either side of the website we see pictures of members of the band The Commodores. 64 of them, in fact. These two clues combined tell us that we need to look at the Ghostbusters Commodore 64 game. What specifically about it? We don’t know yet.

Visually, it looks like this...

Pale Blue Dot

The Lissajous from the audio on the cassette tape pointed us to lostboy.net/PaleBlueDot. Upon accessing this page, we were greeted with… a wall of numbers. A giant freaking wall of numbers. Oh, and a joke.

How many Sagans does it take to change a lightbulb?

A quick google search will reveal the hilarious answer: “Billions and billions”

How it’s supposed to be solved

The numbers in the image are divided by the decimal, with a number of seemingly arbitrary length on the left, and eight (8) digits to the right of the decimal.

Left-Hand Numbers

Noticing that the numbers, with appending a few leading 0s, can be paired into values all less than 26.

Separating them out, and converting them via Letter-Numbers

Then, Vigenere decode using the key “billionsandbillions” (from the Sagan riddle) to get the plaintext:

ChineseTakeout

CrunchBar

Eggs

Twinkie

Marshmallows

Popcorn

Pizza

PotatoChips

Gum

Cheezits

Beer

These resulting words are the Game Franchise Username for the Ghostbusters c64 game, save bankroll amount. This consists of the Username (left side decoded) + 8 digit account number (right side number), with the decimal separating the two.

Right-Hand Numbers

The numbers on the right of the decimal, being 8 digits, are the account numbers for the Ghostbusters game. These can be plugged into the game (via an emulator) to discover the corresponding amount of money that is ‘saved’.

Emulator Franchise Username and account number screen:

Account Amount after validation of Username screen:

The Final Step

Realizing that these account balances all have trailing ‘00’s, remove the 0’s and convert the remaining numbers into letters to reveal the next destination.

Numbers: 13 25 19 20 5 18 25 19 3 9 5 14 3 5 20 8 5 1 20 5 18

Letters: M Y S T E R Y S C I E N C E T H E A T E R

Also, noting that each segment in the graphic is separated by the text ‘PaleBlueDot’, place a dot between the words, to arrive at a web address.

https://mysteryscience.theater

How we actually solved it (the narrative of pain)

One of our immediate observations was that the numbers always had eight digits on the right of the decimal. From the base-28.com site we knew about the c64 Ghostbusters game, and had the Crossing Streams chapter title as a potential hint that we needed to use clues across websites. In our reading about the c64 game, we learned that it was one of the first that allowed players to ‘save’ their game. Researching how this ‘save’ feature worked, we noted that it always used 8-digit account numbers, which curiously lined up with our 8-digit numbers to the right of the decimal. This felt like a crazy idea at the time, but we were frustrated enough to try it. Given the account numbers, we needed to find a way to reverse out the Names and Balances that would give those account numbers.

This video explains how the ‘save’ feature works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cpbCCfK5A

Rather than digging into the algorithm, like we should have done, we discovered a Chrome extension that generated Ghostbusters accounts.

We tempted fate and downloaded the extension, only to rip out the code in order to reverse the algorithm. With that, we wrote the below brute forcer which, after inputting a Name, would try all possible account balances and then check if any of the resulting account numbers matched any of the account numbers from the image.

We immediately set out trying names that came from 1o57’s Twitch streams or other areas of the puzzle so far - and we found a few that worked:

'REAGAN,RONALD',

'POLLY,SKATING'

'SOTER,STEVEN',

'MORANIS, RICK',

'BROLIN,JOSH',

'HOUSE,BRICK'

But note that we said ‘a few’. We couldn’t find hits for every account balance. Fortunately, these were enough to assure us that we weren’t crazy, and we began attempting to interpret our output. While working through this, we realized that we didn’t even need the names. Using the information from the aforementioned YouTube video, we learned how to derive the information we needed. Take the account number for 1o57 which is 27710104. Reverse the number by pairs to get 04017127. Then convert from octal to hex, you get 101E57. The middle byte, 1E, is the hash of the name. The account balance is the first and third byte, so 1057. We filled in the remaining few accounts to come up with a full dataset. As it turns out, the whole page could have been solved like this on a calculator.

Examining the resulting balances, and knowing that the game’s algorithm divided the balance by 100, we dropped the trailing ‘00’ and then converted the remaining numbers into letters, revealing the string mysterysciencetheater. After trying this on a few of the known sites with no luck, we discovered that this was pointing us to mysteryscience.theater The PaleBlueDot in the middle of the numbers was also a hint to look for a domain.

While we had discovered some new information, it was not a complete solution. We still hadn’t used the left-hand side numbers from the PBD image, so we now shifted our focus to those numbers. After realizing that the numbers seemed to be relatively low when split into their component digits, we tried Letter-Number conversion again. We then Vigenere’d that output with the riddle answer ‘billionsandbillions’, and came up with a list of delicious food from the Ghostbusters movie. As it turns out, these were the names we were supposed to use to get the balances via a Ghostbusters c64 emulator. oops.

The complete output was:

Mysteryscience.theater

This page was kind of interesting in that there wasn’t really much to do with it… at least not immediately. From time to time, 1o57 will time-gate an area of his puzzles, and this is exactly what we ran into here. So, fast forwarding something like 24 hours, let’s begin examining the final puzzle-filled state of the page.

The top of the page now contained ciphertext. After a few attempts at deciphering it, we tried one of our old unused pieces of data (the concatenated list of Chuck Berry song titles) as a key and were greeted with a successful decipherment:

An y QewpFyyvRqd,

WehjhwpIclpVtme:

Ioqfig oloage.

Using OTP key: MaybelleneRockandRollMusicMemphisComeOn

On a PaleBlueDot,

WrestleWithThis:

Things change.

The meaning from this was clear! Head on over to http://lostboy.net/PaleBlueDot/WrestleWithThis

WrestleWithThis

Not much to see on this page, just the text “It’s only a tiny problem” and a YouTube video.

In the page source was the following comment:

<!- bFNhZ2FuQExv ->

And the title of the page was:

Wrestle With This y6nk3z9y

The comment Base64 decodes to lSagan@Lo

Additionally, the hint on the page about a ‘tiny’ problem, combined with the page title, resulted in a tinyurl link for our next destination:

tinyurl.com/y6nk3z9y → http://lostboy.net/PaleBlueDot/EverythingWasFineWithOurSystem.jpg

EverythingWasFineWithOurSystem

The image on this page immediately presents us with two sets of ciphertext, and a curious little man yelling at us from the corner.

As seen lightly overlaid into the blue of the car:

U2VuZCBDb3Nt =base64=> Send Cosm

And in the rear light:

TG9zdGJvWSBkb3Qgc2xhc2ggSEhI =base64=> LostboY dot slash HHH

Navigating to http://lostboy.net/HHH, we were greeted with two more youtube videos. The first one was titled “Close but no Cigar”. Immediately realizing that this meant we hadn’t interpreted the clue correctly, we Nope’d right the heck out of there. Luckily, we also knew what HHH was referencing from watching 1o57’s Twitch stream on 8/7. so we wasted no time in discovering the correct endpoint.

lostboy.net/HappyHarryHardOn

Here we go, a YouTube video and some encoded text. This feels right. The video was of RayParker Jr. performing the GhostBusters theme song, and below it was the text “What a singer! LostboY.net/PaleBlueDot/?” Also on the page was the text “F1LZuQ9E4JQ”.

The F1… text was another YouTube video; Chuck Berry and Tina Turner performing Rock n Roll Music. In an interesting twist, we discovered that by sorting the video comments by Newest first, there was a comment from NEW SOUND AGENCY with the text “b3MgdG8gQ2Fy”.

Also, if we look at the NEW SOUND AGENCY channel on YouTube, it has just one video of 1o57 playing around with a MiniMoog. Yep, this is a clue. This text of the comment base64 decodes to “os to Car”....hmmm.. That seems to fit with the other ciphertext we’ve found so far.

As for the URL, the team immediately recalled that Ray Parker Jr. may have, probably, almost certainly, likely, stolen the Ghost Busters theme music from Huey Lewis and the News’ “I Want A New Drug”. The next URL, then, was pretty simple to guess:

http://lostboy.net/PaleBlueDot/HueyLewis/

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This page was pretty simple. A single ciphertext was present on the image and gave us the following:

c3Rib1kubmV0 =base64=> stboY.net

And finally, putting together all of the fragments that had been discovered:

U2VuZCBDb3Ntb3MgdG8gQ2FybFNhZ2FuQExvc3Rib1kubmV0

Base64 decodes to => Send Cosmos to [email protected]

We shot off an e-mail (several e-mails?) as directed, and got replies letting us know that Defcon 28 Badge Challenge: Complete … phew. The e-mail also linked to another video and requested that we watch it as a team.

We immediately shared a screen as a team and viewed the video together.

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Can religion be logical 6

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Religious Miracles: Claims v/s reality

People have been living in the forests for thousands of years. In Africa, the forests of Amazon even today tribes have been surviving for thousands of years, far away from the civilised world. Imagine how?

Neither did they get any book, nor did they have any doctor or scientist around but still they know everything about diet and regimen. They know what herb is to be taken if you fall sick. They have been living with this knowledge for centuries. Now if one of them comes to this outer civilized world and after looking at the things here, claims that ‘you became aware of these things now which we had been told by our ancestors centuries ago’. So would you believe that his forefathers were miraculous, scientists etc.?

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Let’s talk about present. How are stories, folk stories written? What is the plot of them? One is that it contains the knowledge available till date and secondly fantasies linked with it. These fantasies can be associated with the present and also with the past or future.

Look at Hollywood movies, for example ‘Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind‘, filled with the knowledge available till date and the imagination of the future, where the hero and heroine are getting those memories erased from their mind that is associated with each other. ‘After Earth‘ which fantasises life after the end of life on Earth. There are ‘Day After Tomorrow’ and ‘2012‘ which points to the future issues that could end human civilization on Earth. There are ‘Star Wars‘, and ‘Avatar‘ which take us out of the Earth to a different world.

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These are all things within the capability of the human mind, but if something happens in the future that is shown in these films and assumes that with this memory you are also shifted in the same future, then would you believe that Charlie Kaufman, Will Smith, Roland Emmerich, George Lucas, or James Cameron, who made/acted in these films were divine and knew the future? Or if a virus infection like ‘World War Z‘, ‘Resident Evil‘, ‘I am the Legend‘ kills human civilization tomorrow, will you believe that the people who made these films knew about the future.

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You will never believe. But religious books created with the help of available knowledge and future imaginations similarly, are easily considered to be miraculous. We claim that what science has proved today, had already been mentioned in them fourteen hundred / thousands of years ago.

The Muslims do the publicity of scientists and celebrities that how they started believing such things after seeing miracle. They converted to Islam. Well if those people get overwhelmed by your miracles and start believing you then why don’t you impress your self with the miracles of others? There are some miracles even in Hinduism. Ayurveda is thousands of years old, doesn’t science provide it? Was not the technique of first test-tube baby Louise Joy Brown inspired by the birth of the Kauravas?

If God is there then how can it be from the point of view of science

Today we know that the calculation of time is different on different planets and if you spend one year on Neptune, 164 years pass on Earth. One day of Mercury is equal to ninety days of Earth but there is a story in Padmapuran and Bhagwat Purana that Indra had called king Muchukand to fight against the Asuras (demons). Thousands of years had passed on Earth in this almost one-year battle on heaven.

Or Manusmriti – 1/67 दैवे रात्र्यहनी वर्षं प्रविभागस्तयोः पुनः। अहस्तत्रोदगयनं रात्रिः स्याद्दक्षिणायनम् ।।

That is, one year of human beings is equivalent to Ahoratra (night and day) of the gods. Uttarayan (transition of sun from Capricorn to Gemini) is the day and Dakshinayan (transition of sun from Cancer to Sagittarius) is the night of the gods. The poles were discovered in the eighteenth-nineteenth century and it is not too old to know that poles have days at night of six months each but it was written in Manusmriti thousands of years ago.

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Means they already knew all these things, which scientists have come to know now. So did your faith stagger after hearing these miracles as a Muslim? Could you convert to Hinduism by believing in these miracles? No. And it is interesting that with the help of such miracles they convert others into Islam.

Humans can imagine the future

Humans have always had amazing fantasies about the future. Recently fictions of J. K. Rowling‘s ‘Harry Potter‘ and James Cameron‘s ‘Avatar‘ brought great excitement amongst people. Although J. K. Rowling’s imagination was amazing but it was still bound by the rule to which 99.99 people are bound. That is, your mind can just imagine the things that you have seen, heard and are related to this world and which your God has already created.

Whereas in ‘Avatar‘ (there are many more movies), things were created that did not exist, which were never seen and heard, that is, to stand equivalent to God and create new things, which are out of the human mind. Suppose, after two to three thousand years, if we find similar things on another planet then? It can only be called a coincidence or would people like James Cameron be declared a Prophet? So such a unique talent exists in the humans of this planet, but it does not make them divine or supernatural.

See, whatever discoveries or inventions are made, are inspired by something. As it was written in your religious book five thousand years ago that Harry Potter used to fly with a broom because human interest has always been in flying. And after great efforts, he finally succeeded in paragliding or making an aircraft. So it is the success of that person or those people, you cannot attribute this to your childish Harry Potter tale that they learned to fly today but we had flown Harry Potter five thousand years ago.

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The discovery and invention have a mere connection with these religious texts that inspiration can be taken from anywhere. Ramayana, Mahabharata, Quran and also from the stories of Munshi Premchand or J. K. Rowling. If knowledge books had this much of scientific knowledge, then their experts’ maulana or pandits would have made every discovery and invention themselves rather shamelessly giving this credit to their religious books instead of praising others for their hard work.

Islam and miracles

Among the miracles that are much talked about in religion, one is the Quranic verses 12-14 of Surah Muminun, which contains the process of formation of embryo. Keith Moore, a Canadian scientist who believed the process to be a miracle converted to Islam. He was warmly welcomed by the whole Muslim world and he was recognized by the whole world. Think, if he had not done this, what would have been his identity?Thousands of anonymous scientists are there in the world. He too would have been one of them.

Most people (scientists too) are basically believers who believe in an unseen God, even if their profession is related to science. They never apply science or modern education to themselves. It can be understood very well from the statements of ex-commissioner in India Mr Satyapal or Dr Harshavardhan.

We also have believer scientists like Dr Kalam who used to read the Gita and if were alive, it is possible that he would have converted to Hinduism. Scientists of ISRO are also theists. If they see a miracle somewhere else tomorrow, then they can convert to Buddhism, Christianity or Islam.

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In such a situation, it is clear that leaving one religion and moving to another is not an achievement or a rare event. Being a scientist does not mean that the person recognizes science and logic in his job or business as well as personal life.

Can mentioning embriology in Quran be a miracle

Now let’s look at this miracle from the perspective of Moore. According to him, the Quran revealed these things in the seventh century, while science did much later. Now as Moore himself believes, the inhabitants of Arabia and the surrounding areas (to which they were connected) were absolutely muddled before the seventh century. They knew nothing. They might also have been eating food through their nose.

That means they were naive that to the extent that the Quran explained to them that they were born via semen, otherwise they also perceived it as a child whether the children come from the hospital or from an angel brings them from heaven. What would they have thought about coitus and would definitely have considered the semen released after the climax to be worst stage of urine?

And they were so much unaware that they didn’t even know about the surroundings. In India itself, the significance of semen was written thousands of years ago, where the sages were born from the semen of gods dripping here and there. Sages like Dronacharya, Kripacharya were born like this. Sadly, Moore could not see Indian miracles, otherwise he would have converted to Hinduism.

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About Lauren Blakely:

A #1 New York Times Bestselling author, Lauren Blakely is known for her contemporary romance style that's hot, sweet and sexy. She lives in California with her family and has plotted entire novels while walking her dogs. With fourteen New York Times bestsellers, her titles have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller Lists more than 85 times, and she's sold more than 2 million books. In December she'll release THE V CARD, a sinfully sexy standalone romantic comedy co-written with Lili Valente. To receive an email when Lauren releases a new book, sign up for her newsletter! laurenblakely.com/newsletter

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About Liliana Hart:

Liliana Hart is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author in both the mystery and romance genres. After starting her first novel her freshman year of college, she immediately became addicted to writing and knew she’d found what she was meant to do with her life. She has no idea why she majored in music. Liliana is an avid reader and a believer in all things romance. Her books are filled with witty dialogue, steamy sex, and the all-important happily-ever-afters her romantic soul craves. Since self-publishing in June of 2011, she’s sold more than 1.2 million ebooks all over the world.

About Molly E. Lee:

Molly E. Lee is an author best known for her Love on the Edge series which puts characters to the test with life or death situations that are as intense as the romance that keeps them alive. She's also known as a veteran mentor at Pitch Wars - a program which connects promising writers to established authors in the community. Molly writes New Adult and Young Adult Contemporary featuring strong female heroines who are unafraid to challenge their male counterparts, yet still vulnerable enough to have love sneak up on them. In addition to being a military spouse and mother of two, plus one stubborn English Bulldog, Molly loves watching storms from her back porch at her Midwest home, and digging for treasures in antique stores.

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