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[Spoiler] Main discussion thread. Sticky

A topic by Call Me Tess created Mar 28, 2021 Views: 471 Replies: 10
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Discuss your findings & theories here.

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After getting all the cubes on the plates, I found this (when translated) in the cylinder:

          peiyx://ehl.vnzz.vp/riitn

          vigenere 

Still looking for the code. Tell me if I got my translation wrong.

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UPDATE:

Found that standing on the tree under the starting platform will play a noise.

Upon putting this in a spectrogram we get:

          ilpjf

Plugging this into our encrypted link we get this link:

          https://www.miro.gg/maxee

Don't know what this is yet, will keep you posted.

It's not peiyx://ehl.vnzz.vp/riitn but rather peiyx://ehl.vnzz.vp/riitns

This is the result of the decryption https://www.miro.gg/maxeen. It leads to this video.

Oh shoot, didn't realize that last thing was an s. Thank you!

I used this tool https://github.com/bruvzg/gdsdecomp

I have some Godot Engine background so it allowed me to make sense out of the output. The only thing I had trouble with were the STEX files which I didn't even try to convert to readable formats due to the lack of time. I doubt that there's anything worth looking for anyway so I'm going to leave it as it is.

I've also had some troubles with a couple of the stex files, but since the game is so small it's pretty easy to figure out what the textures are and if there are any textures we haven't seen.

Bark003_1K_Color.jpg

Bark003_1K_Color.png -- these 2 are the tree bark textures, I think one of them is just unused.

cracks.png -- the cracks that appear on your screen when you die

Ebar.png -- energy bar (full)

Ebarbottom.png -- energy bar (empty)

Finale.png -- most likely the text that gets revealed after pushing all 5 buttons

Ground.png -- the ground texture for the trees

icon.png -- just the godot logo

Instructions.png -- I assume it's the thing that shows you the controls

Leaves.png -- tree leaves

Noise.png -- the texture that is used for concrete

Pain.png -- probably gets used when you get hit, this one actually converts to png and its an outwards white gradient  fading into read around the edges of the screen

Purchase goods.png -- should be pretty obvious

Rosetta.png -- probably the text that says 'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'

Saggitarius.png -- the enemy black hole thing

soft noise.png -- the texture that is used for benches

Very soft noise.png -- the texture that is used for the gem things that light up when you push the buttons (unless I read the file wrong)


these are all the textures in the pck

Hey, throwaway, A1S1 came out.

I've taken measures to reverse engineer the project. I imagine the author expects someone to do so because of the message you get once you die. (If this is in fact not the case then please delete this reply or notify me so I will do it myself. I'm not sure how itch.io goes about editing/deleting posts like mine.)
Anyway... Line 98 of link.gd happens to contain the body of the establish_link() function which looks like this

func establish_link():

    if 1 == 0:

        print("If Earth's crust rings like a bell")

        print("And the forest does not wish you well")

        print("And if time flows another way")

        print("Then the Chatae has been here today")

As far as my knowledge goes, this method is not called anywhere although I may be wrong considering some of the scripts are built-in onto world objects which I have not looked into yet. The function itself doesn't do anything as the only code is executed under a conditional statement that never will return true (this reinforces my belief that the author expects someone to reverse engineer the project).

I'm really not sure what to make of the messages contained inside the function. Personally, I consider it a part of some puzzle that someone may stumble upon in the future.

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We don't have to go any further, this right here is the end as of 3/29/2021, 12:15 P.M., EST.

And by that I also mean that the poem you found is not connected to anything yet.

Also, how did you reverse engineer it exactly?

Updated translation page.