Thursday, 30 July 2015

visual - Don't clear your terminal history 2


Previously, on terminal use...


The door accepted your input and slid open! Unfortunately, so did a trap door under your feet. You slide down and end up in another room. The only apparent exit is a ladder leading up to a locked hatch. Across the hatch in large, friendly letters are the words Don't Panic Gab Hero. Next to the ladder, you see another terminal that reads:


> emmrme arrate
Access granted. Door opened.
> higLss geeLeg
Access granted. Door opened.

> gnninn iiinaa
Access granted. Door opened.
> suMsma uuouoo
Access granted. Door opened.
> pfreTT mfpOlA
Access granted. Door opened.
ERROR: ENTRY MISSING! CONTINUING TO NEXT ENTRY
>

Looks like it is waiting for your input again...



Hint 1:



On the wall across from the terminal exists the following poem:
Wonder, wonder where they are? For wondrous things, you'll travel far.
Where, oh where could they be at? Their position, you know exact.



Hint 2:



In an attempt to gather more information from the terminal, you enter the following:
> sudo help

As if in response, the wall next to you slides up, revealing the following image:
Wall Image




Answer



I think I know the method.


Since the picture is



Statue of Zeus at Olympia



and that is




one of the ancient wonders of the world



all of which together



have locations that spell gab hero:
Giza
Alexandria
Babylon
Halicarnassus

Ephesus
Rhodes
Olympia



And I'm pretty sure the ones that have been entered already correspond to



the first six in order, except Rhodes is skipped



Finally, the passwords are six letters followed by a space, followed by six more letters.




I wanted this to have to do with longitude and latitude, since Hint 1 tells us we know the "position exact". But I can't make those numbers correspond with the letters in the title of the Wonder, in order to make a password. I think I can now, although it makes little sense.



Here's an example:



#1 is the Great Pyramid of Giza
Its longitude and latitude is 29°58′45.03″N 31°08′03.69″E
If I translate this to decimal instead, but ignore the decimal part of the seconds, and then round, the longitude and latitude are 29.9792 N and 31.1342 E
2, 9, 9, 7, 9, 2 would be wrong, but add 1 to all of them (I guess we are supposed to skip the starting letter)
(That is 3, 10, 10, 8, 10, 3)
The 3rd letter of "Great Pyramid of Giza" is e

The 10th letter is m
The 8th letter is r
So 3, 10, 10, 8, 10, 3 --> e, m, m, r, m, e
and you get emmrme (the first half of the password)
same with 3, 1, 1, 3, 4, 2 -- add 1 and you get arrate (the second half of the password)



So for the one you actually need:



Statue of Zeus at Olympia longitude/latitude is 37°38′16.3″N 21°37′48″E
Decimalized as described above is 37.6378 N, 21.63 E

Per comment from OP, we need 13 letters, so I'll pad out with zeroes
I'm going to guess it's tfotfZ atotSS



So I'm (no longer) stuck.


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