BETA TOPIC: Quite a scavenger hunt hidden in the coding

[1commander]

Damn! Did I miss another Easter egg? Where is it?

In RM2K, Go into Menu room, then into Gallery. Theres two Cocoa maps, the first is a dodgeball game, the second is a secret scene were the truth about The Way is revealed. And yes, you do have to talk to the sword 100 times.

And as for the L's and W's, my guess is that somewere there are 5 events or somthing lined up like that, each with a message in them. And then use Strayed's line and word idea to get somthing that hopefully leads to somthing else. I could be completly off, but thats my best idea at the moment.

Where is the menu room? What map?

[Sage Of The Wise]

its in the map "map room dots" then "gallery", then "Cocoa".

[Victor]

Attempting to decrypt

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with pgp gives the following message:
Encrypted with ELG key, ID A3995EE1
Decryption failed: secret key not available.

Similarly, attempting to decrypt

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gives the following message:
Encrypted with ELG key, ID 98D5745E
Decryption failed: secret key not available.

Hrm, I wonder if Lun has posted his public key anywhere? Or maybe he intends for us to brute force crack the short message and use the key that's found to decrypt the larger message (since the large message might be too difficult to crack through brute force).

[Non-Sequitur]

I only know what I have recently looked up on the internet so this may be a very stupid question, but could the shorter version actually be the key?

[Victor]

I've already tried importing it as a key -- both public and private --, and it doesn't recognize it.

Actually, I haven't taken a look at pgp in years. But just in case, I did a few tests one of which was that I encrypted something, changed just one letter, and tried to decrypt it. The program did not recognize the data at all. The message was "No data."

Similarly, I checked the possibility that it was a signature -- actually, that was my first thought when I saw it in RM2k. But signatures are very short, only a line or two, at least as far as I've seen. Signatures also seem to made with respect to some text or file, since its purpose is to verify the authenticity of that content.

For the record, I used Windows Privacy Tools from Sourceforge.

P.S.: I've currently been trying to locate those keys on public key servers.

P.P.S.: I suppose I might as well give a slight intro to pgp. It uses two keys, a public and a private key. You use the public key to encrypt something which can only be decrypted with the private key -- so only the recipient and owner of the private key and read the message, but anyone with a public key can write it.

D'oh. Just realized that means we need the private key, which I doubt is available in a public key server. Maybe Lun didn't mean for it to be decrypted, and it's just one of those marks that identify The Way as his creation as fwacho has mentioned. If he had meant for it to be decrypted he would've used symmetric encryption and then left clues for us to figure out the passphrase.

[Poenaensis]

[quote="Strayed Wanderer"]
a code to reading another code... L=line W=word...
like
Line 4, Word 1
Line 1, Word 3
Line 5, Word 3
Line 2 Word 4
Line 5, Word 5
/quote]

At first I thought that Lun was using the title poem, but that's not the case. Perhaps it is something like that, or am i thinking about it WAY too much?

[Flibbo]

At first I thought that Lun was using the title poem, but that's not the case. Perhaps it is something like that, or am i thinking about it WAY too much?

That has probably been the thing that has been bugging me the most personally. I think whatever the clues lead to is probably something to do with decoding the main code in the start map. Whether it means Line/Word, Length/Width, Luke/Wacholtz or whatever, it's probably going to be blatently obvious and lead to something only more confusing. We have to assume the way it has been written with all its spaces is somehow important too.

Damn your bone's Lun!

[Jabbo]

I'm not sure if this is the right topic, but you know all those random notes Lun has in his code talking about stuff? In the event governing the beginning of the play, there appear to be some lines of notes that weren't there in beta wave 7...

I've been thinking back to the beginning of the show lately. The year 2000.
I suppose it began earlier than that, but nothing solid was laid before then.
My brother and I, driving on the open road, discussing the story.
Driving through Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado.
I remember saying to him many time, "No, that's not what happens, they'll be expecting that."
"Let's twist it more."
I remember imagining how Lide would look and how it turned out totally different.
At first, Kloe wasn't going to be a major character, but I fell in love with her as I wrote scenes for her and Rhue. Everything about her just flowed so easily.
In 2003, I began work on another story set in The Way universe.
In 2004 I finished the outline and had the majority of the scenes written out in their entirety. Some of the last parts still lay in outline form though. So it's not necessarily a "complete job."
I finished my first feature length screenplay in 2005. It took roughy 4 months to write.
The beginning of my first major show(I don't consider the Crestfallen games to be more than short stories) has led to many new beginnings.

Now I am writing again. A new beginning. I love the possibilities that exist in the beginning.
Just writing is much easier than making a game.
No graphics, no sound effects, no music, no programming, battle balancing.
Though I miss the music. It can make a scene so much more powerful. It can trigger feelings that words in themselves often cannot.
If a person doesn't feel anything listening to A Time and a Place at the end of Episode 6 as the credits roll, then maybe I have failed them.

I don't think Lun's failed anyone with A Time and Place. Yeah, so take all that for what you will.

[Impossible]

I would love to see future parts of The Way done as a visual novel sort of thing in RM2K or in any other program, kind of like Miranda only longer...

By the way, Lun said that Rhue was his favourite character, didn't he? Then why would he be rushing to leave Rhue and start a new story now, even when there's so much more to be done with Rhue? I really wonder what the focus of what Lun is doing now is...

[Zidjian]

Code:
L4 W1 L1 W3
L5 W3 L2 W4
L5 W5


As for this code, what if the W represent The Way

So W1 is way 1
w3 is way3
w4 is way5 etc

Afterall the W's only go up to 5. But I cant for the life of my think of what L would mean as its counterpart, but I'll throw it out there and see if anyone gets an idea

[Impossible]

Letter of the title?

[voodooKobra]

Just so nobody else struggles with these:
L4 W1 L1 W3
L5 W3 L2 W4
L5 W5

(Letter, Way)
LAEOY

(Letter, Word) (* implies no letter)
The Land Beneath the Sky
*BAK*
Echoes of the Past Decry
OT*AY
A Lost Love Carried On
*L*A*

And neither "Everyone Must Bleed" nor "Truth Hides Nothing" have 5 words. So, in conclusion, it's not a reference to the titles.

[Jabbo]

How many random messages were there hidden on the Game Over screen?

[Sage Of The Wise]

Doesnt seem likely. But if it was it would be:

Code: Select all

L    A
   T    O
   Y

[Non-Sequitur]

How many random messages were there hidden on the Game Over screen?

"Where is your hope?"
"Death has lost it's sting..."
"Help me. I'm afraid."