Two Cans & String

{ "thread_id": "10780", "posts": [ { "id": "1079003", "time": "1591624800", "html": "Kylljoy, a fairly active user, has set up Different alt accounts, with the bio being partially or fully a code. This is a quest that spans the site, and I wouldn\u2019t mind a little help.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079004", "time": "1591625194", "html": "This is the first alt account, and alfanewmerik already decided it. Here\u2019s the <a href=\"https://twocansandstring.com/forum/games/gotopost/1075439/#post1075439\">Post</a>. This led me to another alt account, <a href=\"https://twocansandstring.com/users/armageddon\">Armageddon</a>. That\u2019s as far as I\u2019ve gotten.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079007", "time": "1591632352", "html": "I think someone found that the text was a caesar cipher and got this:<br /><br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/armageddon\">Armageddon</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><br />Well, well, well. Look who finally managed to discover my alt. I've been hiding this account for, what? Six months now. Armageddon and Kylljoy being the same person, who saw that coming? I'd say good luck, but we both know you probably don't need it. We all have evil clones hiding in the shadows, I suggest you look for the book of disgrace to find your next clue. The next key is GABbCDEbFG<br /></div></div>", "user": "aprzn123" }, { "id": "1079009", "time": "1591634695", "html": "Ah.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079010", "time": "1591637565", "html": "If you're looking for a few more alts, here's a few:<br /><br /><a href=\"https://twocansandstring.com/users/mrkldrky\">Mrkldrky</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://twocansandstring.com/users/spineiessspinach\">spineless_spinach</a>", "user": "mathmaniac125" }, { "id": "1079014", "time": "1591643607", "html": "God, I just realized that the hunt might be a little unfair towards newer users, since this step references a link I had on my main account a while ago (like twelve to sixteen months ago). And older users, since the original address of the website has changed. I'll try to find <a href=\"https://pastebin.com/eaEqYKz0\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">another way</span></a> to get the link to the site hidden, but I'd suggest you try to figure out <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">what</span> the site I linked was first, before you actually get the link.<br /><br /><span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">If you want to start somewhere, I think Poods might still remember since he registered there, especially if fed the hint from the previous step. As for how this relates to the actual link, think Swedish Fish.</span>", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1079215", "time": "1591830345", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/armageddon\">Armageddon</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><br /> GABbCDEbFG<br /></div></div><br />G minor scale.", "user": "alfanewmerik" }, { "id": "1079217", "time": "1591831838", "html": "Rearranging the scale also gives you A locrian, Bb major, C dorian, D phrygian, Eb lydian, and F mixolydian.", "user": "aprzn123" }, { "id": "1079226", "time": "1591851421", "html": "however, as kylljoy said, this is a reference to a link, and I'm not sure how we can get that. Internet archive, maybe?", "user": "alfanewmerik" }, { "id": "1079229", "time": "1591853638", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/alfanewmerik\">alfanewmerik</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">Internet archive, maybe?</div></div><br />Internet archive unfortunately (or fortunately, for me) doesn't go that far forward. Last archive is 2014.<br /><br />Lucky for you, though, I've made a branching path that allows you to re-discover the link (which exists in a post somewhere on the forum). Though it's likely you won't stumble upon it on accident, there's some hints I've already scattered including two I've already put in this thread. Hopefully this (admittedly short) detour will allow the rediscovery of the link.", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1079231", "time": "1591856729", "html": "I can't seem to figure out the one-time-pad either. The 12 seems to reference an old one-time-pad book, but I don't know where to search for that.", "user": "mathmaniac125" }, { "id": "1079240", "time": "1591857891", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/mathmaniac125\">Mathmaniac125</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">I can't seem to figure out the one-time-pad either. The 12 seems to reference an old one-time-pad book, but I don't know where to search for that.</div></div><br /><br />Oh, no, they already figured out that segment. To bring you up to speed<br /><br /><ul><li> IWKTP/12 - "I Will Kill The President, Page 12"</li><li> Which gives a key used in one of the IWKTP puzzles - "to look for clues where there aren't any, even when it seems like it's a dead end"</li><li> Which, when decoding the cipher on Mrkldrky, gives the clue "the next clue lies at the end of the world, in the hands of a devil"</li><li> Which points to Armageddon (a secret alt account I've used before), on whose bio the quote '"Et Tu, Zi?" - Ceaser, I guess' is written.</li><li> Which suggests "E To Z", an E->Z Caeser Cipher, which deciphers the next clue, below it.</li><li> Which says the next clue lies "with the evil clones lying in the shadows', that they consult "the book of disgrace", and that the next key is "GABbCDEbFG"</li><li> Which is the g-minor key signature</li></ul><br />Meaning they still need to find the evil clone and the book of disgrace to progress. Something which I've said references an earlier link I had on my profile a while ago, but I've hidden an alternate route to finding it, of which there are two clues already hidden in this thread to start down that route.", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1079261", "time": "1591888124", "html": "Not sure if any of you realized it, but kylljoys first post here had some hidden text. It reads as follows: <br /><br />If you want to start somewhere, I think Poods might still remember since he registered there, especially if fed the hint from the previous step. As for how this relates to the actual link, think Swedish Fish.<br /><br />edit: poods said that it might have to do with a sight called DisgraceBook. might've belonged to kylljoy.<br /><br />whoops. i got ninja'd.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079264", "time": "1591889304", "html": "First thing that came to mind was someone's hobby project of an "anti-social media" and it was called DisgraceBook. Could've belonged to Kylljoy. I'm aware that I registered there, I'm just not sure if i could access it again since it's been so long", "user": "poodonkus913" }, { "id": "1079266", "time": "1591896115", "html": "swedish fish might be important here", "user": "alfanewmerik" }, { "id": "1079268", "time": "1591901152", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/kylljoy\">Kylljoy</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"> book of disgrace </div></div><br />I think this is definitive proof disgrace book is what we\u2019re looking for.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079276", "time": "1591910813", "html": "anyone know how to access it?", "user": "alfanewmerik" }, { "id": "1079278", "time": "1591911618", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/alfanewmerik\">alfanewmerik</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">anyone know how to access it?</div></div><br />As far as I know, it's inaccessible to the general public (unless you can guess the link, which would be.....hard, given it's no longer linked to a public domain and is now just running on a separate server). Hence why I've added '<span style=\"color:#000000;\">another way</span>' to find it.", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1079280", "time": "1591915509", "html": "By the way, does the alt spineless_spinach have anything to do with this? Given that it\u2019s bio is only 65, I would guess so, but I don\u2019t know.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079281", "time": "1591919904", "html": "Nah, pretty sure that's Jaded's alt. So, no, it has nothing to do with the quest", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1079282", "time": "1591921097", "html": "Alright. Good to know.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079287", "time": "1591928070", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/kylljoy\">Kylljoy</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/alfanewmerik\">alfanewmerik</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">anyone know how to access it?</div></div><br />As far as I know, it's inaccessible to the general public (unless you can guess the link, which would be.....hard, given it's no longer linked to a public domain and is now just running on a separate server). Hence why I've added '<span style=\"color:#000000;\">another way</span>' to find it.</div></div><br /><br />interesting. why is '<span style=\"color:#000000;\">another way</span>' colored?", "user": "alfanewmerik" }, { "id": "1079290", "time": "1591935786", "html": "Why indeed...", "user": "kylljoy" }, { "id": "1079292", "time": "1591941392", "html": "KYLLJOY IF I DONT MURDER YOU YOU CRYPTIC SON OF GUN ITLL BE A MIRACLE.", "user": "adsfjlk" }, { "id": "1079295", "time": "1591943433", "html": "<div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/kylljoy\">Kylljoy</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\"> I've hidden an alternate route to finding it, of which there are <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">two</span> clues <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">already</span></span> hidden in this thread to start down that route.</div></div><br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/asdfjkl\">asdfjkl;</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">If you want to start somewhere, I think Poods might still remember since he registered there, especially if fed the hint from the previous step. As for how this relates to the actual link, think Swedish Fish.<br /></div></div><br /><div style=\"margin:20px; background-image:url(/images/light.png);\"><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:5px;\"><a href=\"/users/alfanewmerik\">alfanewmerik</a> said:</div><div style=\"border:1px solid #888; padding:20px;\">interesting. why is '<span style=\"color:#000000;\">another way</span>' colored?</div></div>", "user": "kylljoy" } ], "users": { "adsfjlk": { "name": "adsfjlk;", "key": "adsfjlk", "url": "/users/adsfjlk", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/15699.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "964" }, "aprzn123": { "name": "aprzn123", "key": "aprzn123", "url": "/users/aprzn123", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/15940.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1020" }, "mathmaniac125": { "name": "Mathmaniac125", "key": "mathmaniac125", "url": "/users/mathmaniac125", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/15914.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2220" }, "kylljoy": { "name": "Kylljoy", "key": "kylljoy", "url": "/users/kylljoy", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/15906.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "2741" }, "alfanewmerik": { "name": "alfanewmerik", "key": "alfanewmerik", "url": "/users/alfanewmerik", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/15759.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "3869" }, "poodonkus913": { "name": "Poodonkus913", "key": "poodonkus913", "url": "/users/poodonkus913", "avatar": "/uploads/drawn/15762.png", "rankClass": "civilian", "rankText": "", "posts": "1596" } }, "page_num": 1, "locked": 0, "total_pages": 3 }

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