[SOLVED] "Sister" to OpAphid
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 5:40 pm
Sister sent a message to OpAphid here in the IC interaction forums:
The original message:
http://tinyurl.com/ykdcf7 it led to another code:
http://tinyurl.com/ym9cj5 and yet another code:
http://tinyurl.com/ybwpvx which when opened, led you to a pic and a lengthy code:
http://tinyurl.com/y3wkzq when entered turns out to be a music file: "Oh Sister" by Ghost Mice
Geezy, that was long!!! Tsukareteiru desu ne! ("That got me tired!")
The original message:
Chartreuse noticed an oddity in the capitalized letters after having watched Sister (as GuillotineCalamity on YouTube). He came up with:Sister wrote:Yet, these Kings are Disguised Cleverly as Fools.
[maids a milking]
Remembering the Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" Chartreuse also deduced that the second part of Sister's message [maids a milking] was also part of the code. There were seven of them.YKDCF
When tried as tinyurlYKDCF + seven = ykdcf7

It turned out that this code was double-wrapped. After first decoding in Hexidecimal, the result is:5a 56 63 77 4e 56 6b 79
62 7a 45 3d
... of course, this had to be decoded again. This time, in Base64. our findings being:ZVcwNVkybzE=
This still being unrecognizeable, and not making much sense; yet still too long to be a tinyurl, it had to be run through a second time utilizing Base64. This gave us:eW05Y2o1
which led us to:ym9cj5

Decoding this, using ASCII Character codes two more codes were revealed:121 98 119 112 118
120 13 10 13 10 121
51 119 107 122 113
andybwpvx
y3wkzq

Which when decoded (Hexidecimal) you get:49 27 6d 20 68 61 76 69 6e 67 20 74 72 6f 75 62 6c 65 20
67 65 74 74 69 6e 67 20 69 6e 20 63 6f 6e 74 61 63 74 20
77 69 74 68 20 79 6f 75 2e 20 49 27 76 65 20 62 65 65 6e
20 68 69 64 69 6e 67 20 6f 75 74 2c 20 62 75 74 20 49 20
64 6f 6e 27 74 20 6b 6e 6f 77 20 68 6f 77 20 6c 6f 6e 67 20
49 20 63 61 6e 20 68 6f 6c 64 20 75 70 20 77 69 74 68 6f
75 74 20 73 6f 6d 65 20 73 6f 72 74 20 6f 66 20 53 69 67
6e 2e 20 53 69 6d 6f 6e 20 73 61 69 64 20 68 65 20 77 61
73 20 67 6f 69 6e 67 20 74 6f 20 62 65 20 68 65 72 65 20
74 68 69 73 20 77 65 65 6b 2c 20 68 61 73 20 73 6f 6d 65
74 68 69 6e 67 20 67 6f 6e 65 20 77 72 6f 6e 67 3f 20 49
20 63 61 6e 27 74 20 6c 69 76 65 20 69 6e 20 6d 79 20 63
61 72 20 66 6f 72 65 76 65 72 2c 20 74 68 65 79 27 72 65
20 62 6f 75 6e 64 20 74 6f 20 66 69 6e 64 20 6d 65 2e
I'm having trouble getting in contact with you. I've been hiding out, but I don't know how long I can hold up without some sort of Sign. Simon said he was going to be here this week, has something gone wrong? I can't live in my car forever, they're bound to find me.

Geezy, that was long!!! Tsukareteiru desu ne! ("That got me tired!")