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The hint was shared 12 June 06:00 UTC on the forum by PAC @truthseeker.
First post 12 June 06:12 UTC.
The alternative provided to hacking (going outside) was to submit the portalname as a passcode to retrieve the Tessera media.
The prediction window was 65 minutes
Puzzle
Puzzle
Observations
Snake eating itself (Ouroboros)
Nemesis runes on the snake's body
Wolf, Moose, Eagle
Stylistically drawn on a rock wall
Solution
The Nemesis runes spell: "FÄLT ÄR BLÅTT MITTEN AS SILVER VÄNSTER OCH HÖGER BÅDA AV GULD.", which is Swedish and translates to "FIELDS ARE BLUE CENTER AS SILVER LEFT AND RIGHT BOTH OF GOLD."
It's important to note that while translating, the umlaut's of the letters are visible outside the snake's body.
The translated Nemesis runes are a paraphrasing of the motto of Jämtlands landskapsvapen, which also describes the emblem - which displays a wolf, moose and eagle.
Jämtland is a historical province in the centre of Sweden, where its name is traced back to Europe's northernmost runestone, the Frösö Runestone from the 11th century.
The Frösö Runestone depicts a snake wrapped around the edge of the runestone, with an inscription on its body. The Frösö Runestone is a portal and is the correctly identified portal to retrieve the media.
The hint was shared 13 June 00:00 UTC on the forum by PAC @truthseeker.
First post 13 June 00:24 UTC.
The alternative provided to hacking (going outside) was to submit the portalname as a passcode to retrieve the Tessera media.
The prediction window was 70 minutes
Puzzle
Puzzle
Observations
Goddess
Egg
Fish pond
One white fish
Seventeen black fish
Person in the pond
EXIF data: Location: Closest portal
An egg is a symbol of fertility, the goddess in the egg is Atargatis (also known as Derceto), whom was the goddess of fertility and used fish as symbols of fertility and the life of the waters. Atargatis is sometimes seen as a mermaid-goddess.
The Mythology of Atargatis tells how Derceto fell in love with a youth and became by him the mother of a child and how in shame Derceto flung herself into a lake near Ascalon and her body was changed into the form of a fish though her head remained human. In another mythological story, an egg fell from the sky into the Euphrates, which was then rolled onto land by fish.
Due to her symbolism associated with fish, fish are considered to be sacred and cannot be eaten. There is a fishpond of fish sacred to Atargatis at Sanliurfa, the ancient Edessa.
The legendary Pool of Sacred Fish (Balikligöl) was also where Abraham was thrown into the fire by Nimrod. The pool is in the courtyard of the mosque of Halil-ur-Rahman. The courtyard is where the fishes thrive. A local legend says seeing a white fish will open the door to the heavens.
The white arrow next to the fishpond indicates what we are searching for. Therefore, looking at the location of the fishpond in Intel, we can find that the nearest portal is "Mosque at Aynzeliha Lake", which gives us the successul passcode.
The hint was shared 16 June 16:00 UTC on the forum by PAC @truthseeker.
First post 25 June 16:07 UTC.
The alternative provided to hacking (going outside) was to submit the portalname as a passcode to retrieve the Tessera media.
The prediction window was 60 minutes
Puzzle
Puzzle
The image depicts an underwater scene, with a magnified section highlighting a coin falling from the surface.
The coin has the words 'Vigo' inscribed. 'Vigo' coins were all made in 1703 and featured Queen Anne. There were five of these coins struck from bullion captured from the Spanish fleet at Vigo Bay.
On the left side of the image depth markers of 5K, 10K and 20K are visible. At the bottom of the image is a light at the 20K mark, with air bubbles flowing upwards.
There is a famous science fiction novel, by author Jules Verne, named Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. In the novel the main characters conduct expeditions across the world, using the submarine named Nautilus. Expeditions included a trip to find the sunken treasure from the Battle of Vigo Bay.
Lastly, in the centre of the image is a image representing a portal (with eight resonators) and the characters "+ V E S S E L". This indicates that the passcode should be a combination of the portal name and a 'vessel'.
Given the clues have indicated the location of Vigo Bay in Spain. It is evident that there is a portal called Julio Verne located along the water. The underwater vessel used in the Jules Vernes' book was named Nautilus. Combining these two yields the passcode.
The hint was shared 25 June 05:30 UTC on the forum by PAC @truthseeker.
First post 25 June 05:38 UTC.
The alternative provided to hacking (going outside) was to submit the portalname as a passcode to retrieve the Tessera media.
The prediction window was 55 minutes
Puzzle
Puzzle
The shadow on the left depicts a zoomorphic incarnation of Vishnu, known as Matsya, whom is holding a Sudarshan Chakra, Sword, Lotus and Seashell.
The Hindu solar deity, Surya, is depicted on the right, representing the sun. Emitting from the sun are three beams of light, denoted in Devanagari script as 3,2,1 (from top to bottom).
There are very few temples dedicated to worship Matsya, one of which is the Vedanarayana Temple, Nagalapuram. The Temple is famous for Surya Pooja Utsavam, considered as an astronomical marvel. During this festival the sunrays will directly fall on the presiding deity Vedanarayaana in the Garbhagriha for three days of a year. The Sunrays travel a distance of 360 feet starting from Temple Tower (Goupuram) towards Garbha griha in the evening. On the first day the rays will stop at foot of the Deity, on the second day on the Navel and the third day on the Crown.
In this instance, the passcode was this temple.
The hint was shared 25 June 09:00 UTC on the forum by PAC @truthseeker.
First post 25 June 10:28 UTC.
CLUE:
Being trapped in Exile gives time for reflection.
Lightman found this polaroid in his personal effects.
Before the Recursion Coins could be used to transfer memories from one Simulacrum to the next, Lightman had only been able to leave himself notes.
This postcard had been one of those. Containing a message he received through the XM. He hadn't thought about it in years. He has access to all of his old memories now, but - like any memory - he had to see the postcard to trigger it.
He deciphered it at the time, but, like many old memories, the specifics of the solution have been lost to time. Could you help him?
_____ ________________
(If you choose to use shortcuts, look out for red herrings.)
亡命中には色々考える時間を与えられる。
Lightmanはこのポラロイドを私物の中に見つけた。 リカージョン・コインを用いてシミュラクラの記憶を転送できる前まで彼は自分の記憶をメモを残すことしかできなかった。
このハガキはそのひとつだ。XMを通して受け取ったメッセージが込められている。彼は何年も思いにもしなかった。今は過去の記憶に全てアクセスできるが、他の記憶と同様、ハガキを目にしたことで蘇った。
当時の彼は解読できたが、今は古い記憶となり答えの細かな部分は時を経て失われた。彼を助けてくれないか？
(近道を取る場合、燻製ニシンの虚偽に要注意。)
Puzzle
Puzzle
Layout of the Puzzle
Layout of the Puzzle
At the established time of the challenge, the Truthseeker revealed the passcode protected page of the puzzle, which was unlocked in a few seconds when the challenge began.
This page contents:
Background introduction in both English and Japanese.
A warning message "If you choose to use shortcuts, look out for red herrings."
A snapshot of a Polaroid photo which should be the main part of the clue.
A general suggestion of the passcode format: 2 strings, first with 5 letters, second with 16 letters.
Observations
Observations
From the Polaroid photo we can see:
a) On upper left corner, we saw 9 squares. The first square separated from the others with an arrow to a line and a comment "Translate. But which one?"
This hint could be a intermediate data for the final passcode, and we assume that the first square could be mapping to the first string (5 letters) and the other 8 squares could be mapped to the second string (16 letters).
b) Up in the middle, "郵便はがき" which means "Postcard" in Japanese.
c) Upper right corner, 2 Japanese stamps.
The first one published in 1972, 20 yen, named as "松" https://stampmatumoto.ocnk.net/product/852
The second one published in 1994, 50 yen, named as "日本乡土-东京都-彩虹桥梦之桥"
70 yen is the international postage from Japan to any oversea destination.
The publish time of both stamps fits the time window of the background lore and provide a general hint to a decoding method used later.
d) “To: Simon L. Tein” in the addressee.
Simon L. Tein is an scrambled name of "Stein Limon"
This was not related to the solving process
e) Lower right corner, "Carte postale""means "Postcard" in French.
Not related to the solving process.
f) Block of numbers and date/times on the left half of the postcard.
There are 10 rows of data. Row 9 and 10 are connected with a line.
We can separate each row into the left column and right column.
Left column contains 17 digits numbers between 32 to 34.
Right column contains date and time between 1994.7.28 to 1994.8.28.
Each row in a similar format as [17 digits number] minus [date and time] equal
If we consider the left column as latitude (in North hemisphere) and consider the background hints about Japan, the area generally overlap Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan.
g) In the middle of the postcard just beside the date/times block, there's an arrow turning 90 degree right and pointing to "millis".
We read it as "turn to millis". Millis means milliseconds in unix timestamp and can be calculated using https://www.epochconverter.com/
h) "Where am I?" at the bottom of the data block, suggesting the data block will lead to a location.
i) In the background there are 2 grided papers full of words.
The top one (paper in black and words in white) is the Gojuon table in Japanese, basically the Japanese alphabet.
The lower one (paper in white and words in black) is full of Kanji that pronounced "し"(shi). It's related to hint a) "Translate, but which one?", suggests we need to find the correct Kanji to translate it.
j) "What were your missions?" on the blank space below, suggests we are looking for "missions".
Decoding
Decoding
The following sheet is based on the data block on the left half of the postcard, and processed from left to right.
Considering the background was set in Japan, the time in right column should be read as in UTC+9 timezone. Transfer those date/times into GMT, then unix milliseconds.
As Observation-f suggests, calculate [left column] minus [right column], and separate the results in half as latitudes and longtitudes.
Each of the coordinates lead to a particular location in Shikoku. Import those location with the following drawtools items on IITC:
[{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":34.159803,"lng":134.502592},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":34.266706,"lng":134.17172},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":34.104378,"lng":134.333816},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":34.303139,"lng":133.944168},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":32.726028,"lng":133.018556},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":34.225111,"lng":133.77414},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":34.10775,"lng":134.30428},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":33.847861,"lng":132.796472},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":33.546611,"lng":133.577472},"color":"#a24ac3"},{"type":"marker","latLng":{"lat":33.557078,"lng":133.57264},"color":"#a24ac3"}]
"At each location we found a mission that stood out with the oscillating wave pattern as the mission logos
Not every mission started at the exact portal at those coordinates but very close to them.
Each mission route draws a Kana (Japanese alphabet letters) on map.
On Observation-f row 9 and 10 are connected together, which suggests that mission I and I" should be considered as one Kana. And the drawing of I" is ", which is a phonetic symbol in Japanses.
Thus we got 9 Kana.
Be advised, all those missions were submitted by 3 agents:
If we check their missions on IngressMosaic website we can found 13 missions in total, with duplication of missions A, B and I.
Those duplicated missions are not located at any of those coordinates. And as Layout-b suggests they are red herrings. Just ignore them.
With that order we can see that Lightman's missions took him in a clockwise travel direction around Shikoku.
Now sort all those 9 Kana in time sequence (sort by column "Millis") and we get a meaningful sentence in Japanese:
しはただのはじまり
This translates to "The beginning is just the beginning"
According to Observation-a, we should translate the first Kana, but only with the correct Kanji. In Japanese a Kana ( pronunciation based alphabet) can be mapped to multiple Kanji (meaning based words).
Observation-i provide a set of Kanji that related to the Kana "し". Google translation automatically selected "始" (the left one in the photo, which means "the beginning") for it.
But based on Ingress lore the accurate Kanji should be "死" (the right one in the photo, which means "death"). Thus the correct sentence is:
死はただのはじまり
Which translates to "Death is just the beginning "
Now we can map the 9 squares from Observation-a to the final passcode format from Layout-d.
□(translate) = _ _ _ _ _
□□□□□□□□ = _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Use English translation of the first word and Romanization of the remaining eight and we get:
死 = Death
はただのはじまり = H A T A D A N O H A J I M A R I
While as a particle "は" should be pronounced as "wa" instead of "ha" in this sentence, for which Google translation gave a correct result, so we got:
死 = Death
はただのはじまり = W A T A D A N O H A J I M A R I
Combine the two to discover the passcode:
deathwatadanohajimari
Thanks to @naruh0d0 for the write-up.
Thanks to @YichaoHou and @edoced for their summary which are solid and reliable sketches for this write up.
@hubertz did the calculation and drawtools item on iitc.
Some data from R12 Lightman team solving sheet organized by @mrsspectrum.
The hint was shared 26 June 18:00 UTC on the forum by PAC @truthseeker.
First post 25 June 18:06 UTC.
CLUE:
https://www.januslaboratorium.com/kurezeolw
Can you decode the 2 messages Victoria Kureze and Oliver-Lynton-Wolfe intercepted from the Portal Network?
1. 1 string: Binary --> 11 [strings]: Multiple
--> Msg #1: ISO9995-8
--> Msg #2: a variant
2. What has 11 points?
3. Connect the points.
The prediction window was 55 minutes
Puzzle
Puzzle
The image EXIF data shows a large amount of binary in the 'Text Layer Text' field.
Converting this binary gives eleven separately encoded strings. The solution to each string is given directly below it, along with the format.
[313a496e6361516f6c716173]
Format: HEX
Decoded: 1:IncaQolqas
[505884104101831051131051108010111611497]
Format: ASCII
Decoded: 2:TheSiqinPetra
[biv@36<=:%6A6z2J2%2A:?28:]
Format: ROT47
Decoded: 3:GobekliTepeKayaTapinagi
[4ilo:tlealrsCsldsoaaaoCd]
Format: Railfence (Key: 4; Offset: 6)
Decoded: 4:CastillodelasColoradas
[GU5FI33SOJS6G33EN5IGC3HBMNUW6===]
Format: Base32
Decoded: 5:TorreãodoPalácio��
[sexa:artinvarudolfudolflofudolfigurdaesarrbanudvigetterorerbanudolfrik]
Format: List of Swedish names with the first letter of each missing. The missing letters form the answer. Sexa in Swedish translates to six in English
Decoded: Mirror Sculpture
[sexa:
[M]artin
[I]var
[R]udolf
[R]udolf
[O]lof
[R]udolf
[S]igurd
[C]aesar
[U]rban
[L]udvig
[P]etter
[T]ore
[U]rban
[R]udolf
[E]rik
]
[7:NzilkvmtXizwovluSfnzmprmw]
Format: Atbash
Decoded: 7:MaropengCradleofHumankind
[ODpLaWxsaWFuQ291cnQ=]
Format: Base64
Decoded: 8:KillianCourt
[9:Ebghaqn(PuhepubsFg.Znel)]
Format: ROT13
Decoded: 9:Rotunda(ChurchofSt.Mary)
[607212214115514156125142165144]
Format: Octal = 60 72 122 141 155 141 56 125 142 165 144
Decoded: 0:Rama.Ubud
[.QUL:E,]`9DffQ2AR]@q`Jj]
Format: ASCII85
Decoded: *:Sapporoterebitō
Now that all the strings are decoded, they reveal portal names. Identifying the location of the portals on a map resembles the Glyph Channel interface (hinted by the Tethered Hand as What has 11 points?), with each point numbered as per the EXIF data above.
Convert the four sets of letters from Message #1 to numbers using ISO/IEC 9995-8 keyboard format:
MIRA = 6472
FOKZARHYE = 365927493
IWSA = 4972
OLIRADN = 6547236
Then use the marked Glyph Channel interface to draw the four glyphs:
Begin
Harmony
Modify
Shield
Joined together, these form the passcode to the first Message: BeginHarmonyModifyShield
The Media from Message #1 reveals Message #2:
Convert letters from Message #2 to numbers using ISO/IEC 9995-4 keyboard:
D52 C52 C53 B53 = 8563
C53 D53 C51 B51 = 6941
B52 C51 D51 B52 = 2472
D52 C52 C51 B52 A52 = 85420
When the numbers are matched to the glyph interface, the passcode is revealed as: PursuePathAcceptConsequence
As per the rules of the puzzle: "The first Agent from Faction(B) to submit the in-Scanner screenshot of Tessera Kureze will be given the code for Tessera OLW", the third passcode was given:
13tseretniflesdenethgilne31
Message 1:
BeginHarmonyModifyShield
Kureze:
PursuePathAcceptConsequence
OLW:
13tseretniflesdenethgilne31
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