Bump! Thank you for the next part of the story! <3
I feel like I'm stuck on the wrong wiki page trying to match the picture with what I already found, maybe some enlightenment will come soon 😀
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I've just checked the English wikipedia. If you search for that thing you get only two pages in the "xxxxxxxx (random number of x's) generally refers to:" list, with the second one clearly not relevant. Do not even consider the "xxxxxxxx may also refer to:" list.
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Hah! Judging by your description seems like I found the right wiki, but... either it's just coincidence, or I have missed something or just still haven't noticed any connection. Well, there is still some time so I'll try figure out something later 😁
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I'm a little confused about when the wiki page comes into play. I solved the first part just fine without using a wiki page, but do I need it for the second or third part? I feel like the second part probably doesn't need it, but I'm not sure
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The wiki page isn't strictly necessary. I pointed you to the 1st picture on it just to give you a standard you can use, because I've seen that on the internet there are really a lot of different representations of that thing.
The wiki page is most useful to see the answer to the 2nd question. For the 1st question you have to make sense of the code first. For the 3rd you just need one specific intuition.
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I must have been way overthinking the 3rd as I was trying to use things from the wiki to solve it.. hopefully the answer hits me soon
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Well, generally speaking, I think you can say there's a recurring theme, both in the story and the puzzles.
Enough hints! ;P
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Got it, I made a silly small error that made me skip over it. Thanks for the puzzle!
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Oh okay, I haven't even found the wiki page yet. Good puzzle though
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Both parts had Libra+Beta Librae as theme.
Hint you had in italics.
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1st Part
Only what's underlined is important.
I told someone to work line by line. You have:- The night sky → stars/constellations
- A sign of balance → Libra
- The brightest light → (of Libra) Beta Librae
- Its traditional name → Zubeneschamali - that's your password.
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2nd Part
- Open the Map image as if it was an archive; you get a .txt file titled "The Earth is the night sky" -> you have to consider the Earth map as if it was the night sky.
There's a reference to this hiding method in Zelgh's guide - This file contains a code. It's a plus code (or Open Location Code):
It's a geolocation code. You can paste it directly in Google Maps (the satellite map is taken from there btw) and pinpoint the six locations. Being the Earth the sky, locations are stars.
There’s a code here. You’re not familiar with it. There’s that “+” there which doesn’t add up, it could be important. - Connect the locations and form the Libra constellation.
What he finds out seems to recall the previous riddle in a way. Maybe it’s connected in some way? Most likely. -> It refers to the title of the .txt file (see point 1.) + it tells you the 1st riddle is still relevant in a way.
Lost, you look around yourself in the room. Your eyes fall on something and you finally enlighten and manage to connect the dots. -> I'm referring to the star chart (=constellations) hanging in the office here. Plus you have to connect the dots, literally. - The location corresponding to Beta Librae in the constellation is the important one.
ITH answers:- airstrips/landing strips/airports (if you zoom in, you'll notice)
- Libra/Libra Constellation/Constellation of Libra/other variants
- Kulusuk/Kulusuk Island/Kulusuk Airport
- Open the Map image as if it was an archive; you get a .txt file titled "The Earth is the night sky" -> you have to consider the Earth map as if it was the night sky.
Other elements in the story that hinted at Libra or Beta Librae:
- The name of the house of pleasure: Cuba Librae instead of Cuba Libre.
- Its broken neon sign: you could read only "B LIBRAE".
- The underlined omega on the chest plate of Harmony's Access Guards: it is the symbol of Libra in astrology ♎️.
- The codes on the 83 rooms of the corridor:
- Libra has 83 stars (according to its wikipedia page).
- HD141937, HD13313 are names of some of those stars who have their own wikipedia page.
- I said that at the end of the corridor the codes were all one symbol + the last part of the name of the brothel. I'm referring to the "greek letter+genitive latin" nomenclature which brighest stars within a constellation often have. i.e. Beta Librae
- "Is that a B?" while entering the last door was pointing you at the Beta letter.
- The star chart hanging in the office.
- The password of the terminal being the name of the Beta Librae.
In the OP when I was talking about a wikipedia page, I was referring to this page and the 1st picture on it.
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i knew i was looking for the wrong wikipedia, hahah. i failed to notice the zip file in the image anyway, so i'm stuck on that. thanks for the solution (and puzzles, of course, that was very clever)!
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When someone makes you download a picture from sites like dropbox and similar, so that you have a direct copy of the original file, It's always a good idea to check if it's a zip file (and other things).
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Ooh, so close! I tried to open it with winRAR but it didn't work so I gave that idea up and based only on the phrase "The Earth is the night sky" which I found checking the map in notepad. I tried really hard to match it somehow with the constellation and the previous puzzle. 🤣
But at least I answered the second question, and now I know that is good to try ZIP as well, haha. 😁
I'm looking forward to the next episode!
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Hi!
You can start HERE.
For the 1st puzzle let me know if you can't read my sh*tty handwriting, I’ll change the picture if that’s the case.
For the 2nd puzzle I used the 1st picture on its English wikipedia page as a reference (I'm not talking about the map).
I’ll give hints based on the number of solvers.
I’ll post the solution at the end.
Vane, Retimed, Size Matters, Fury Unleashed, Morkredd, Family Man, Darksiders Genesis (it doesn't activate in ASIA, LATAM, CN, IN, RU, TR).
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!, Hellpoint, World of Horror, The Pedestrian.
Good luck!
>>>>> SOLUTIONS <<<<<
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