Mystery Forum

[Furdabip]

new info on the front page:

??? Forum
00110100001100100011001000110001001101010011001000110100
00110001001100100011000100110100001100100011001000110111
00110001001100100011011100110001001110010011001000110010
00110001001101000011001000110110001100100011010000110001
00111001001100010011100000110001001100110011001000110010

Mysterious...

42215241214227127192214262419181322

[Pinmissile]

It's the new pony-related forum I've asked Black to put up. He's just putting on a show to tease you all.

[vallorn]

new info on the front page:

??? Forum
00110100001100100011001000110001001101010011001000110100
00110001001100100011000100110100001100100011001000110111
00110001001100100011011100110001001110010011001000110010
00110001001101000011001000110110001100100011010000110001
00111001001100010011100000110001001100110011001000110010

Mysterious...

42215241214227127192214262419181322

one sec let me run that through an Number to Alphabet system:

dbbaebdabadbbgabgaibbadbfbdaiahacbb

okay that didnt work...

It's the new pony-related forum I've asked Black to put up. He's just putting on a show to tease you all.

we can only hope.

[MKindy]

42215241214227127192214262419181322?

[Lord_Mountbatten]

Aww yeah, numbers.

[Jake55778]

Clearly we're dealing with either an idiot robot, too stupid to form coherent speech, or a genius human using false binary as a distraction to hide the forum's true purpose.

[Lord_Mountbatten]

Launch sequence initiated.

[vallorn]

didnt i already make a thread about this?

[SneakyPie]

I wonder what it could mean.

It's weird, you can see several columns of 1's lining up with each other. Almost like a pattern.

Almost.

[MKindy]

Ah, sorry Val, had not seen your thread.

Nevertheless, I assumed the column of 1s was just because it was an 8-bit ASCII binary sequence for the numbers I mentioned in the first post. Since the sequence "0011" repeats every 8 digits, it implies it is text, as opposed to being a 280-bit number.

I first noticed it when I was browsing on my phone, so the layout wasn't the same as on my PC, but I just noticed that in Chrome the description is composed of 5 56-digit lines, so 7 characters per line:

4221524
1214227
1271922
1426241
9181322

But I dunno if the linebreaks are intended to be nonbreaking spaces or not. Neither sequence stands out as meaning anything in particular.

[vallorn]

thanks to Sneakys post in the irrelevant thread.
00110100001100100011001000110001001101010011001000110100
00110001001100100011000100110100001100100011001000110111
00110001001100100011011100110001001110010011001000110010
00110001001101000011001000110110001100100011010000110001
00111001001100010011100000110001001100110011001000110010
translates to

mystery PNG.PNG

i think the first letter is either n or D... other than that i have no idea

[SneakyPie]

Merged threads.

[MKindy]

Looks like Val and I had the same idea, too.

42215241214227127192214262419181322.gif

Maybe I see an "e," but is it really an obfuscated image?

[MKindy]

But I dunno if the linebreaks are intended to be nonbreaking spaces or not. Neither sequence stands out as meaning anything in particular.

Silly me, I should have viewed the source. There are hard breaks after each 56-digit line, it's not simply wordwrap, so it probably is somehow an obfuscated image of text, or possibly something else with well-defined edges, like a map. Or, it could be a clever obfuscation of the 8-bit ASCII string previously posted by myself and others, which is itself a cipher for something else.

[Furdabip]

I'll just guess; it's the forum for Interra. I have no evidence to show this, however. :-p

[Iron_Fang]

Interra = v4???

[Furdabip]

Interra = v4???

Yes.

Also, it's now blue.

[MKindy]

Interra = v4???

Yes.

Also, it's now blue.

Not just blue: new number, 4 lines of 60 bits.

000011010000101000110101001100010011011000110001001100110011
010100100000001100100011000000110001001101010011000100110100
001000000011000100110010001100010011001000111001001100100011
001100100000001100100011000100110001001101010011001000110101

516135 /* First 16 bits ignored, codes for Carriage Return and Line Feed, respectively */
201514 /* For the record, 00001101 is ASCII character 13, corresponding to a carriage return. */
1212923 /* Additionally, these new lines are 60 digits long, which doesn't work for */
211525 /* 8-bit or 7-bit ASCII, unless characters are being split between lines */

516135 201514 1212923 211525.gif

[vallorn]

hmm... what happens if we overly the blue image over the black one?

[MrWhales]

hmm... what happens if we overly the blue image over the black one?

I'm trying that now, but my image editer isn't letting my make one less opaque.. it's like some conspiracy against finding out the answer..

EDIT: It doesnt work out. Theres alot of overlapping blocks. and theres many ways that they can line up thanks to one being longer than the other and not as tall. Of course, i may be wrong.

EDIT 2: I just noticed on the black image, every 6 blocks there is a 2x4 black area, at the beginning there is a 2-bit long white area, and the end there is a 4-bit one. coincidence?

[MKindy]

EDIT 2: I just noticed on the black image, every 6 blocks there is a 2x4 black area, at the beginning there is a 2-bit long white area, and the end there is a 4-bit one. coincidence?

I thought it might be barcode, however the blue one looks less like a barcode. It could be a QR code simply scrambled and arranged in a linear fashion but I have no idea where to even begin to unscramble it.

Perhaps we are merely being trolled.

[Zehydra]

EDIT 2: I just noticed on the black image, every 6 blocks there is a 2x4 black area, at the beginning there is a 2-bit long white area, and the end there is a 4-bit one. coincidence?

I thought it might be barcode, however the blue one looks less like a barcode. It could be a QR code simply scrambled and arranged in a linear fashion but I have no idea where to even begin to unscramble it.

Perhaps we are merely being trolled.

I'd say you're being trolled.

This doesn't look like it's anything more than someone randomly entering one's and zeros.

[SneakyPie]

One of you were on the right track a few days ago, but then abandoned it.

There is a solution.

[Jake55778]

Meh, I'm not a fan of riddles. If it's important I'm sure we'll find out eventually.

[StevK44]

Might just be me, but I see the word "Dubstep" in Vall first connecting. I can only pray for an escapecraft dubstep forum

[MrWhales]

000011010000101000110101001100010011011000110001001100110011
010100100000001100100011000000110001001101010011000100110100
001000000011000100110010001100010011001000111001001100100011
001100100000001100100011000100110001001101010011001000110101

516135 201514 1212923 211525 comes out of a binary converter.

[MKindy]

I now rather suspect, after thinking about it some more, that the code is in the conversion of the binary to their ASCII equivalents. This is bolstered by the inclusion of a carriage return character and a line feed character in the second batch of binary. What we get, then, is thus:

42215241214227127192214262419181322

5161352015141212923211525

As a wise man once said, "What does it meeeaaan?!"

[Skunk_Giant]

I actually saw the first part of 'creeper' in the black image.

[MKindy]

I don't think it's a simple substitution cipher. It gets far too messy straight away when I try.

Code: Select all

D                 G    G
4 2215 24 1214 22 7 12 7 19 2214 26 24 19 18 13 22


E       E T             I
5 16 13 5 20 15 14 1212 9 23 2115 25

This is after sorting to isolate individual letters that couldn't be anything else. Moving on past the initial D, we get the possibilities of...

Code: Select all

B B A E
2 2 1 5
B B O
2 2 15
B U  E
2 21 5
V  A E
22 1 5
V  O
22 15


B D
2 4
X
24

...making our first phrase begin with either DBBAE, DBBO, DBUE, DVAE, or DVO. Unless it's an old NES Game Genie code, I don't think any of that means anything.

[aflycon]

Look at the blue code, now back at the black, now back at the blue, now back at the black. The black code is now "creeper".