7# Emertxe Gnidocne

Question

I think the time has came.

[ ...em pleh ot uoy deen I ]

This is going to be the last puzzle.

[ qǝɔɐnsǝ ı,ɯ ƃoıuƃ ʇo 646965˙˙˙]

Where am I... That's my question... I can't say any more...

Help me, and... Do not give up.

Hint?:

¿st_

[Recall what you've done.]

I know what it actually is, but every time I see "Emertxe" I think it's something in Basque or Albanian — question_asker, Commented Mar 21, 2016 at 16:55
It was once a working link. You could have checked the link before. — user18031, Commented Jun 15, 2016 at 12:04
@Kevin When I saw Gnidocne I thought of genocide so your comment about hunger really startled me. — Engineer Toast, Commented Jun 15, 2016 at 12:30

Ivo · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18 17:25:02Z

I'm stuck at the moment but this is what I got so far:

Rotating and flipping all texts correctly should give:

Encoding Extreme #7

I think the time has came.  
I need you to help me  
This is going to be the last puzzle.  
because I'm going to die. (646965 is hex for "die")  
Where am I.. That's my question... I can't say any more...  
Help me, and... Do not give up

Then I noticed the question was edited and checked the history. What appeared were 2 things:

Two lines were deleted:

546865206b69646e6170706572732073617920492063616e20646f2061206c617374207468696e6720492077616e742e2e2e

49206465636964656420746f206d616b652061206c6173742070757a7a6c652e2e2e20553238676557393149474e686269426f5a5778774947316c4c693475

There is Brainfuck code hidden:

+[----->+++<]>+.++++++++++++..----.[-->+<]>++.-----------..+[->++<]>+.+++++++++++.-------.[--->+<]>+.[->+++<]>+.+++++.--------.-[->+++<]>-.--[--->+<]>-.+++.

The two lines that were deleted are hex encoded for:

The kidnappers say I can do a last thing I want...

I decided to make a last puzzle... U28geW91IGNhbiBoZWxwIG1lLi4u

U28geW91IGNhbiBoZWxwIG1lLi4u is Base64 for

So you can help me...

The Brainfuck code translates to

http://alexinf.cf

On the bottom left of that website is fine printed:

-[----->+<]>...+.-...+.-...+++.---...++++++.------...+++.---...+.-...-.+...---.+++...++++.----...++++++.------...+++.---.+++.---.+++.---...++++.----...++.--...-.+...---.+++...+++.---.+++.---.-.+...+++.---.+++.---.++.--...+++.---.+++.---.+++.---...++++.----...++++.----.....+++.---.+++.---.-.+.---.+++.+.-.++++++.------.++.+.---..-.+.++++.----.+++..--.--.--.++++++.----[->++<]>-.+[-->+<]>++++.---[->++<]>.[-->+<]>+++.---.+++.-----[->++<]>.[-->+<]>+++++.-.+.--.--.[->++<]>+.-[-->+<]>.[->++<]>+.-[-->+<]>.[->++<]>+.

and

546865206b69646e6170706572732073617920492063616e20646f2061206c617374207468696e6720492077616e742e2e2e

and

49206465636964656420746f206d616b652061206c6173742070757a7a6c652e2e2e20553238676557393149474e686269426f5a5778774947316c4c693475

The brainfuck code is

3334333433363339333633343332333033373339333636363337333533323330333636323336363533363636333733373333363632303439356332373664206c6f636b65642e2e2e

That last part is hex coding again, which partially leads to new hex code twice which leads to

Did you know? I'm locked...

The other two things are the exact same hex codes that were deleted from this puzzle earlier on.

And now I'm stuck...

Eencoding Extreme #7 - there's an extra e. No idea if it's relevant to anything, though. — Dewi Morgan, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 15:24
I think the hint image is encoded as a series of greyish pixels down the lefthand column of pixels. 52 colors in the image, no metadata I can find. But got no good graphics program on this machine. If I had to guess, I'd say low byte of R, G and B will be hex values. — Dewi Morgan, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 15:52
If you mess with the levels or exposure, they're really quite colorful. I haven't found a tweak that reveals any meaningful information yet, though. — feelinferrety, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 16:24
It actually says Did you know? I'm locked... 3x. Edited. Eencoding could also be interpreted as gennocide. Also misspelled. — Z. Dailey, Commented Mar 18, 2016 at 17:22

2012rcampion · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-19 01:08:56Z

An attempt to deobfuscate the data in the image:

FromCharacterCode[
 FromDigits[#, 2] & /@ 
  Partition[
   Flatten[IntegerDigits[
     BitAnd[Import["https://i.sstatic.net/dN9p4.png", 
        "Data"][[;; 153, 1]], 3], 2, 2]], 8]]

yeilds:

98&4f#ti%dc83.61.210.48-2016-03-18T12:04:01+01:0098&4f#ti%dcxÚ3UÈ,V(ÉHUHÌ+.O-âåâåÉH,Q/V(ÏH-JUðTHÌ\.05\.00Í6\.0b.98&4f#ti%d

Of note is:

The ISO 8601 timestamp 2016-03-18T12:04:01+01:00 (about seven hours before this puzzle was first posted)
The repeating sequence 98&4f#ti%dc. It occurs at the beginning, middle, and end (but missing the c in the last occurrence).
The characters 83.61.210.48 could be an IP address. It belongs to a telecom company in Spain (which matches the +01:00 time zone).
Analysis of the remaining piece of the string suggests some kind of Base85 encoding.

codewarrior0 · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-22 17:43:33Z

3

Deep lore from the DECIPHER discord showed me that the string 98&4f#ti%dc (as shown in @2012rcampion's answer) is characteristic of this online stego tool:

https://manytools.org/hacker-tools/steganography-encode-text-into-image/go/

After uploading the attached image to this site and clicking "decode", I find... the answer?

5 is the answer

That's where I am

answered Mar 22, 2023 at 17:43

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LeppyR64 · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-15 13:45:19Z

Partial Answer: For the image, here are the RGB values of the left column.

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