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Operation "Break" Trendys code....

jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
edited June 2015 in Ten Forward
Soooooo

If any of you follow the Wizardy one on Twitter twitter.com/LaughingTrendy you'll know she has set us a challenge of sorts to find the hidden message(s) hidden within the Blogs she has posted since joining STO/PWE.

After some very big teases she has suggested we help each other try to break her code...

I have spent the best part of 3 hours going through the blogs and I hate to admit it she has me stumped so can any of you find her Cryptic Clues to decipher her secret message(s)?!?!?

:confused: :cool: :D
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    capnmanxcapnmanx Member Posts: 1,452 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    I had a rummage through some of her old blogs last night and found nothing.

    She could just be trolling us. This is Trendy after all. :P
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    jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    capnmanx wrote: »
    I had a rummage through some of her old blogs last night and found nothing.

    She could just be trolling us. This is Trendy after all. :P

    Nah. . . although I would die if she was. .
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    capnmanx wrote: »
    I had a rummage through some of her old blogs last night and found nothing.

    She could just be trolling us. This is Trendy after all. :P

    Naw, this actually was a thing I built over the course of many months. I'm the kind of person who loved ze?t afterall
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    icegavelicegavel Member Posts: 991 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    http://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/38m0gx/i_call_upon_thee_reddit_fleets/

    All I have found - little as it is - i have compiled there.
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    jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    icegavel wrote: »
    http://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/38m0gx/i_call_upon_thee_reddit_fleets/

    All I have found - little as it is - i have compiled there.

    This is getting interesting. . . . .
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    khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited June 2015
    icegavel wrote: »
    http://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/38m0gx/i_call_upon_thee_reddit_fleets/

    All I have found - little as it is - i have compiled there.

    The fact the image it linked to is the one used for patch note dev blogs, I'm now sifting through the html for all recent patch notes.

    Should probably be going to bed though really considering it's 4AM. Damn you Trendy!
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    Go to sleep. I'll give you hints later tomorrow.
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    khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited June 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    Go to sleep. I'll give you hints later tomorrow.

    Ok, since you insist.

    I'm really intrigued as to what you're up to here. :cool:
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    repetitiveepic wrote: »
    Something else I noticed but have not yet been able to put together, is that some blogs contain
    100-1000 110-1001 in the ovals.

    This is binary for "Hi," capital H, lowercase i. This may be an indication that the blog is relevant to the code, or it may not. Answer to that question would be a nice hint!
    Not part of it.

    repetitiveepic wrote: »
    The photo with the borg cube may be a reference to Borg Disconnected, a dev blog from 2 Septermber 2014. This is after the secret agent man blog, so it may or may not be the beginning of the trail.

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7003293-borg-disconnected

    The elements in this blog are VMN-921 and 423-112B and 192-41C8

    It's unclear if we're just supposed to look at the letters, or if perhaps the numbers are meant to stand in for letters, or what.
    Actually.. I'll be damned, you found part of it. Granted it's in the middle and part of a sequence. So realistically it would show up as jibberish. Whether or not you found it by pure accident, it's notable.

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    repetitiveepic wrote: »
    Unfortunately the links to graphics on some of the old blogs are broken. If the code is contained in the graphics, this could hinder the search.
    I'll double check tomorrow but when the CDN crashed and ate a lot of the images, I am almost positive none of the easter eggs involved in the long chain were in there. Only a couple single instance ones.
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    repetitiveepic wrote: »
    I've been trying to get all the letter prefix things in chronological order.
    Naw, that's not how this one works. Good thought though; props to the creative variable construction mentality. The problem is it lacks the direction of the first instance -> second instance -> third instance -> etc. Without following that it, it reasonably won't make a lot of sense.
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    Naw, that's not how this one works. Good thought though; props to the creative variable construction mentality. The problem is it lacks the direction of the first instance -> second instance -> third instance -> etc. Without following that it, it reasonably won't make a lot of sense.
    Also, let me clarify another point. I meant for this to be really really hard. Like, hard enough that I kinda expected it to not be solved for a long time (or at all). I have fun building these, I've done it a lot, and I've gotten good at it. This may be a challenge to you, but for me it wasn't meant to be easily solved in one quick go.

    I guess what I'm saying is goodluck. You'll need it.
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    mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    i usually try to avoid social trollworking sites like a plague, after scrolling through the endless amount of "tweets", any chance of linking the clues?

    its more likely to fry the remainer of my brain cells trying but what the hey :P.
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    edited June 2015
    You didn't need those brain cells anyways. :D
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    pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    i usually try to avoid social trollworking sites like a plague, after scrolling through the endless amount of "tweets", any chance of linking the clues?

    its more likely to fry the remainer of my brain cells trying but what the hey :P.
    This was a generous hint on my part. :P
    https://twitter.com/LaughingTrendy/status/606613169155543042
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    jbmaverickjbmaverick Member Posts: 935 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    I'm terrible at finding these kinds of hints, and like mirrorchaos I tend to avoid the big social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook. Figured I'd look at that image of the Bat'Leth Trendy posted a few days ago, maybe something would show up. Unfortunately, nothing popped out at me other than the fact that there was a Bat'Leth and a pair of allegedly dead Tribbles (also a Nerf gun).
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    questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,320 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    Isn't it pretty easy to break trendy? Just lobby to get coffee listed as a forbidden substance.
    If America could do that for alcohol... :P
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    rtk142rtk142 Member Posts: 613 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    repetitiveepic wrote: »

    The elements in this blog are VMN-921 and 423-112B and 192-41C8

    It's unclear if we're just supposed to look at the letters, or if perhaps the numbers are meant to stand in for letters, or what.

    actually some of that looks like hexadecimal. Ignoring the VMN-921, the rest becomes 1059-4395 402-16840 when converted to decimal. I don't know if it's helpful or not, just an observation
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    khamseenairkhamseenair Member Posts: 2,640 Bug Hunter
    edited June 2015
    rtk142 wrote: »
    actually some of that looks like hexadecimal. Ignoring the VMN-921, the rest becomes 1059-4395 402-16840 when converted to decimal. I don't know if it's helpful or not, just an observation

    If you look at those as maths equations;

    1059 - 4395 = -3336
    402 - 16840 = -16438

    Then free balling if you subtract them from each other they give you 13102, could that be a date? Using American date style it'd be the 31st January 2002. Star Trek Voyager episode 'Future's End Part 1' first aired on that date.

    Related, or massive coincidence?
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    dabelgravedabelgrave Member Posts: 979 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    The blog mentioned in https://twitter.com/LaughingTrendy/status/606613169155543042 is a redirect page to youtube, after showing a brief message that says, "Really? Not THAT simple.."

    However, stopping the browser before it redirects gives me a chance to look at the source code. This shows a second paragraph that was initially not noticed:
    <p><img alt="Now you're starting to really think this through. Where did it start though?" src="http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/arc/2d/a5/2da56a5be94b119377142bc3d45d33d11433463316.jpg&quot; style="height:1px; width:1px" /></p>
    The image is the one previously mentioned with the console. Perhaps we should find all the blogs with a 1px image.
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    jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,365 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    repetitiveepic wrote: »
    I have already made progress. Figure I'll share.

    The picture she hid there may be meant to indicate that you should look in the LCARS interface.

    The letter prefix at the top and the text in the two ovals varies between blogs

    For example, from this dev blog on Intel Officers

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7004643-intelligence-officers

    http://i.imgur.com/R6pVL4g.png

    We get SCRT AGNT MAN. Trendy said this was just a fun easter egg though, and not part of the secret trail.

    ---

    Something else I noticed but have not yet been able to put together, is that some blogs contain
    100-1000 110-1001 in the ovals.

    This is binary for "Hi," capital H, lowercase i. This may be an indication that the blog is relevant to the code, or it may not. Answer to that question would be a nice hint!

    The photo with the borg cube may be a reference to Borg Disconnected, a dev blog from 2 Septermber 2014. This is after the secret agent man blog, so it may or may not be the beginning of the trail.


    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7003293-borg-disconnected

    The elements in this blog are VMN-921 and 423-112B and 192-41C8

    It's unclear if we're just supposed to look at the letters, or if perhaps the numbers are meant to stand in for letters, or what.

    --

    Unfortunately the links to graphics on some of the old blogs are broken. If the code is contained in the graphics, this could hinder the search.
    This is all starting to remind me of the logs regarding the concealed codes emanating from SCP-270, the Secluded Telephone, at the SCP Foundation site. If you uncover information that prevents an XK-class End-of-World scenario, I think I might scream.
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    cheesebasketcheesebasket Member Posts: 1,099 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    ....Missing Hakeev yet lol

    be funny if the iconians had legions of hakeev clones stashed away somewhere, because we all want a notorious storyline villan for cannon fodder later in STO...

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    galattgalatt Member Posts: 707 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    Don't know if this is important, but if you look at this blog http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9309633-star-trek-online%3A-risa-rewards-galore! the word "Many" in the second paragraph highlights like a hypertext link, but if you look at the code, it just says <a id="Shorts" name="Shorts">Many</a>
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    jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    Hey Guys...

    So not had chance to look at anything today and just wanted to see if we had any new developments?!?

    Or if the Wizard has dropped any more hints :p
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    rtk142rtk142 Member Posts: 613 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    I think I'm on to something with the hex stuff, but I think I should have went to binary. When translated to binary, it becomes

    100 0010 0011 0001 0001 0010 1011

    and 1 1001 0010 0100 0001 1100 1000


    I'm just not sure how to go about translating that into ascii because once you get past 100 0010 = B it gets more and more shaky and I don't know what to group together. Anyone have any thoughts?
    khamseenair wrote: »
    Then free balling if you subtract them from each other they give you 13102, could that be a date? Using American date style it'd be the 31st January 2002. Star Trek Voyager episode 'Future's End Part 1' first aired on that date.


    Though I do like the date connection to Future's End.
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    jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    rtk142 wrote: »
    I think I'm on to something with the hex stuff, but I think I should have went to binary. When translated to binary, it becomes

    100 0010 0011 0001 0001 0010 1011

    and 1 1001 0010 0100 0001 1100 1000


    I'm just not sure how to go about translating that into ascii because once you get past 100 0010 = B it gets more and more shaky and I don't know what to group together. Anyone have any thoughts?




    Though I do like the date connection to Future's End.


    temporal blogs???

    delta recruit blog....
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    rtk142rtk142 Member Posts: 613 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    jam3s1701 wrote: »
    temporal blogs???

    delta recruit blog....

    I could go and look through them I suppose. What's the earliest appearance of the code we know of?
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