Web Game: Deception
 

You may or may not be familiar with Greg Marra, a member of 177 who posts on here. Greg has developed a new web game for all of our enjoyment, called deception. Leave comments for Greg or help each other figure out what to do. I haven't quite had the time to finish it yet...it looks like it might be tough.

The Game

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pretty interesting, a great display of web skills. Very well done, atleast what i have seen so far, i'll have to play more when i have time!

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Hmm, i'm at the DOS prompt but all the normal file access stuff doesn't work...

EDIT: Somethings weird... there's no ACTION reference in that form tag :confused:

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I'm assuming the lack of action is due to the fact its not an html document but rather a php scripting that you interact with.

explore the prompt further, some stuff is there, its just weird.

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Yeah, somehow he's hiding it in the source. When I click Display Form Details in the web developer toolbar it spits out
<form id="" name="cprompt" method="" action="">

It's using javascript to submit itself. The fact that its a PHP document doesn't matter, all form data is handled client side (html or javascript) and then processed server side (PHP). There's no way PHP can detect if I entered something into the forum without some kind of client side code submitting that form.

EDIT: Somethings weird about that AUTOCOMPLETE="off" code...
EDIT 2: Has anybody gotten past this part yet? Just wanting to know if its at all possible.

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i have not gotten past the dos part. the fsck command is taking forever to run,
it has been running since last night...i dont know what happens when its done, but i'll see soon. did u find /dir?

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Yeah I got there
SPOILER
I just ran a fsck and i'm pretty sure your not supposed to just let it run, but it might be a gateway to something
/SPOILER

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Hmm, did anyone notice when fsck had negative thirty thousands seconds left? :ahh:hehe.

The form is a regular old form that posts information using GET, rather than POST. A bit of javascript autofocuses it when you load, and then hitting enter submits the form. PHP can pull the information out of the GET (it would be able to out of a POST to, but I wasn't sure how that all worked when I started making this and I like to keep things simple). I'm not sure if it's using javascript to submit itself, but I think it's just normal HTML form submission. Autocomplete is off because it destroys the illusion.

And duh fsck takes forever, it's a PII 200mhz... :p

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Here's my progress so far:

Got to fsck, couldn't figure out what to do.

Got to oracle, found that nothing could be found due to a corrupted hard drive. Any ideas?

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Yeah fsck started up again, I don't think thats how you fix it...

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Hmm....civmsg seems to be something that we have all ignored, but I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I have found a list of handles to log in, but no passwords...I have already tried a bunch of Greg's inside jokes, but none of them seem to work. Any hints elsewhere where we could grab this password?

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There are several things i have found inside the oracle. You can type clue and you get a message about mp3's. you can type lemonade as the help file suggests and you get a story about lemonade. then there is the paint picture which also relates to the game clue. and did anyone else notice the numa numa program. freaking hillarious, but i dont see why its there other then its funny.

the hard drive is still corrupt after fsck. and yah i dunno about that.
civmsg has some stuff available, there are some commands you can type that do not return the invalid string or whatever message but i dont know how to use them yet, nor have i figured out a password.

I haven't had time to play with this since last night, but yah, thats some of my notes so far.

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Are you guys having fun yet? :D

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Yeah...I found the paint picture and numa numa, as well as lemonade, but I didn't find "clue" yet. I view the paint picture and numa numa as just easter eggs, as Mr. White is our chemistry teacher, but I'll have to look further to get anything conclusive. And yes Greg, we are having fun (but not as much fun as you are having in Hawaii :mad: )

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has anyone found the passwords for civmsg?

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Interesting...I found the implication of the clue...spoiler:

It means: application installed: mp3 version 5. The command "mp3" runs an mp3 player.

Implications of this? What do all of these things mean?

ANOTHER BREAKTHROUGH (W/ SPOILERS)

By searching the name of every one of his buddies in the address book of civmsg, I was able to find a password for a log (itisraininginalberta). To get to this, just type /logs itisraininginalberta in the civmsg screen. The actual conversation doesn't seem to have any immediate meaning, but now we know the user's handle.

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spoiler:

We got to his email, from using the /logs itisraininginalberta
(from the log w/ kathryn)
it's called fastmail
"C:\ fastmail"
interesting stuff in his inbox, all the rest are corrupted
password needed to send email - is not "itisraininginalberta"
does anyone know what the "\r" is after "itisraininginalberta" in the query for allykat218?

/spoiler

any help appreciated!
~Stephanie and friends
Team 1351

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Ka-spoiler warnings~
I'm guessing that the password to the email will be one of the last things that you recieve. However, a quick search of canada in the oracle yielded some tourist information. Dont know what its use is just yet, but I'll find out >.>

*edit*
Dumped some of the city phrases into log passwords and I got some results, including a program called gallery. nifteh.
/Endspoilers

Great puzzle, fun fun ^^

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reference to spoiler:
city phrases? what city phrases? besides itisraininginalberta? please share!!!! where did you get them, the oracle? what did you query? :ahh: thanks!!
/reference to spoiler

~Stephanie

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<spoiler>
I believe the city references are these:
/logs quebecisquitenicethistimeofyear
and
/logs torontoisapopularattraction

Although there may be more.
References to Fiji in the emails and the IM logs, as well as references to the trueman show, not sure of the significance.
</spoiler>

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RbtGal1351 -
*major spoilors?!*
quebecisquitenicethistimeofyear and torontoisapopularattraction, both fround from the Canada File mentioned in my last post.

Cant seem to find a way to get past gallery, but I'll work on it some more tonight, maybe I'll think of something...

btw, oracle-ing the truman show gives you the quebecisquitenice password

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obviously, the passwords involve either the Truman show or Canada and some major cities in Canada, so maybe we need to read those files completely
BTW anybody tried the fsck command? it now just repairs three sectors

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As a non-programmer, DOS-inept player of this, lets just say it's taking em some time. Something I'd like to point out though, not sure if it's important, is that you might want to take a look at the drive root before and after you guess the correct number in numbers (C:\> becomes G:\>). As for the rest of the whole thing, if someone had the time to explain how they're finding this stuff, I'd be much appreciative.

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<spoler>
how did u find the numbers program?
where was the reference to it?
I guessed the number right:
C:\> numbers

You Guessed Correctly!
The Number was 6!

You should be a professional number guesser or someth2#5dE
r&g@fsdFE?aE3AbY Re: BixYTHday PargYGA4$%we3
SRy5Y6 it is not going to work unless we can get at least twelve more people to sign on, we have to have enough people to cover the cost of actually renting the restaurant. Greg, did you try calling Casa de Zorros? I think they have a party rate we cA#5#aE4AgBt6

Do you want to play again? Guess a new number, or type /exit to exit.
yes it does change to the g drive and there is also a new set of programs you get to choose from.
hmmmm
Edit:
Okay now we have access to new file system options after getting the number.
/cd [drive] changes working drive
/ver displays version and system information - DISABLED ON SECONDARY
/dir displays directory information
as well as some other stuff i haven't explored yet.

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Fsck has opened some new information so far...
*ka-spoilorz
including some new fastmail emails and some of the gallery pics are displaying now. Also a new app called numbers and the G:/ drive. Nice.

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anyone tried to download a file using /civftp? or upload one for that matter?

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Silly Joe, the fun of such a game is trying it yourself :p
But alas, no you cant download a file [hard disk corrupted] and you require an upload password.
*ka-theory!?~*
I'm guessing it will make us zip the file with civzip and upload it with civftp before we can send the file to elvis...could be wrong though *shrug*

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sound theory, and one i wish i could try, but i don't know what the file is
my theory:
me thinks that the file is an eznote, but since the hard drive is corrupt, we probably will need find a way to fix it so we can check them.
/end theory

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Well, I leave for the weekend and am suddenly a couple of hours behind :rolleyes: . I'll have to try some of this stuff on my own time.

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don't leave for the weekend when people are trying to figure it out, or you will be behind

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I wonder if anyone is going to win before nats!

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depends on if someone clears your g drive thing

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At the risk of reviving a totaly dead thread. I just remembered this game tonight while watching tv, and i wonder if anyone ever solved the puzzle. I'd love to see some sort of a walkthrough if anyone did, and i know the source was promised after the puzzle was solved.

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This is definately enjoyable, and the hints dropped by previous players have helped, but a renewed effort needs to be made. It has yet to be solved, and the challenge has changed some, as you cannot still get to the G drive through numbers (that was a bug). If anyone wants to help work on it try to get me at aim: Splinztz