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This article details Chapter 4 of ABC's alternate reality game Find 815. In line with the website description, narrative is broken down into story activity, clue hunt, and video diary elements.
January 21, 2008
Introduction
The following text appears in the "Story So Far" tab:
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Sam's attempt to outwit Talbot and pinpoint the exact position of the coordinates brings unexpected results. |
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Recap video
A video appears, briefly summarizing the story up to this point.
Video 1: setting up the hack
In the bridge area of the Christiane I, Sam looks at the numbers that he previously figured out are coordinates. While Ockham momentarily leaves, Sam quickly cuts a wire to the chart plotter, leaving it to appear damaged. When Ockham returns, he tells Sam to take a look at it. After Ockham leaves to tell Talbot, Sam reconnects the wire to the chart plotter and hooks up his hacking software.
Activity 1: hack the chart plotter
The password hacking grid
The player must attempt to break the chart plotter encryption by finding the correct password combination. Out of eight possible characters, the correct five must be found and placed in the correct position. The activity is based on Mastermind, a board game where a player attempts to break a code made up of a combination of colors.
Video: if you lose
If the player fails to find the correct password within ten attempts, Sam looks helplessly at Talbot and Ockham as they walk in, catching him in the act.
Video: if you win
If players find the correct password, Sam is able to see on the chart plotter where the coordinates are located. Ockham and Talbot return and Ockham notices that the chart plotter is working again. Sam tells him that it was just a loose display cable. Ockham is relieved, but lets Sam know that he will be on call 24/7. When Sam returns to his room, Talbot is there and accuses Sam of lying about the chart plotter. Talbot produces the piece of paper onto which Sam wrote the coordinates, and asks him what they are for. Sam doesn't respond at first, but then he divulges that they came from The Maxwell Group, Talbot's employers. Talbot warns that Sam is getting in over his head and tells him to stay away from the coordinates; he won't find what he is looking for.
Stegosaurus code
The braille in Sam's Video.
The image of number signs and arrows that led to the password being solved
The password for the OPENSTEGO stegosaurus picture from Chapter 3 was discovered. After the video where the chart plotter was successfully hacked, an image of arrows and number signs briefly appears, which can be used in conjunction with the braille message from Chapter 3. The number signs signify the braille equivalent of numbers, and the arrows can be used to determine letter case, resulting in the password X4x98adf09 (using Braille AOE Font at dafont.com). When extracting the stegosaurus file with the OpenStego software and entering the password, the following binary file results:
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00110101 00110110 00100000 00110011 00110010 00100000 00110110 00111000 00100000 00110110 01100011 00100000 00110110 00110010 00100000 00110110 00111001 00100000 00110100 00110010 00100000 00110100 01100001 00100000 00110100 00111001 00100000 00110100 00110101 00100000 00110110 00111000 00100000 00110110 01100011 00100000 00110101 00111001 00100000 00110101 00111000 00100000 00110100 01100001 00100000 00110110 01100010 00100000 00110100 00111001 00100000 00110100 00110110 00100000 00110101 00110010 00100000 00110110 01100110 00100000 00110101 01100001 00100000 00110101 00110011 00100000 00110100 00110010 00100000 00110100 01100100 00100000 00110101 01100001 00100000 00110101 00110111 00100000 00110100 00110110 00100000 00110111 00111001 00100000 00110110 00110010 00100000 00110110 00111001 00100000 00110110 00110100 00100000 00110110 01100010 00100000 00110100 00111001 00100000 00110100 00110101 00100000 00110100 00110110 00100000 00110111 01100001 00100000 00110110 00110100 00100000 00110100 00111000 00100000 00110100 01100001 00100000 00110111 00110110 00100000 00110110 00110010 00100000 00110110 01100100 00100000 00110011 00111001 00100000 00110111 00110100 00100000 00110101 01100001 00100000 00110101 00111000 00100000 00110100 00111001 00100000 00110011 01100100 |
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The binary translates to a string of hexadecimal code:
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56 32 68 6c 62 69 42 4a 49 45 68 6c 59 58 4a 6b 49 46 52 6f 5a 53 42 4d 5a 57 46 79 62 69 64 6b 49 45 46 7a 64 48 4a 76 62 6d 39 74 5a 58 49 3d |
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The hexadecimal code translates to a string of Base64 code:
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V2hlbiBJIEhlYXJkIFRoZSBMZWFybidkIEFzdHJvbm9tZXI= |
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The Base64 code translates to:
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When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer |
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It is the title of a Walt Whitman poem, When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer:
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars |
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January 22, 2008
Voice message
Richard from Randy's office left Sam a voice message letting him know that he has received an insurance payout. A box company in which he invested at Randy's suggestion has burned down.
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