What hides between Shadow and Light?

[kenji.nanashi]

I noticed that if you submit "fibonacci" you get a different message:


The moon casts a dark shadow upon the earth

Uh... No, I better not make another attempt until the light embraces me



dunno how that's supposed to work, though....

[Tommy Gun]

I noticed that if you submit "fibonacci" you get a different message:


The moon casts a dark shadow upon the earth

Uh... No, I better not make another attempt until the light embraces me



dunno how that's supposed to work, though....

is this for the first or second section of letters?

[kenji.nanashi]

I was just trying random words in the submit box, and when I input fibonacci, that's what came up..

Also, "Silently evil emerged darkness", take the initials, it spells SEED... might not mean a thing, I'm quite confused as of now...

[Tommy Gun]

hey man, nice going! i thought fibonacci was a clue, not a key. (Dohhh)

[dreadi]

I noticed that if you submit "fibonacci" you get a different message:


The moon casts a dark shadow upon the earth

Uh... No, I better not make another attempt until the light embraces me



dunno how that's supposed to work, though....

Nope. You can get that message with any random word.

This is one cryptic puzzle though. I can't seem to be getting anywhere with it. Too many seemingly unrelated parts to it.

[Krzysiek K.]

Too many seemingly unrelated parts to it.

Well, putting it all together, it makes some sense:

These hole digging critters have a population that increase rapidly.
There must be some way to track this development and make the infestation come to an end.

Being programmer myself, I guess they just refer to bugs in the code (in case you didn't know: in programmer slang we call errors in code "bugs"). Their population usually does increase rapidly and the infestation should come to an end before product is released.

T -> B
C -> C
Q -> H

Probably a hint for some letters of substitution cipher. I guess the text may be encoded with more than one method (you take text, pass it through one cipher, than pass the result through another, etc).

Also, "Silently evil emerged darkness", take the initials, it spells SEED... might not mean a thing, I'm quite confused as of now...

I think that's quite a good guess, considering the numbers follow right after this. Again, "seed" in programmer slang is used to refer to initial setting of some random number generating machine - you put some numbers to the algorithm and it can generate infinite sequence of numbers from it, which you can use for example in one-time pad cipher method.

SEED is also a name for Korean cipher algorithm, but for its complexity I doubt it was used here.


Anyway, has anybody tried to google for "Fibonacci cryptography" yet?
Still, I've got no idea on how to break this code so far.

[Kedjane]

Being programmer myself, I guess they just refer to bugs in the code (in case you didn't know: in programmer slang we call errors in code "bugs"). Their population usually does increase rapidly and the infestation should come to an end before product is released.

The "hole digging creatures" refers to the hole digging creatures in the games most likely, the rock worms that is. Referencing bugs in a teasing puzzle would be handing themselves their heads on a silver plate.

[Krzysiek K.]

The "hole digging creatures" refers to the hole digging creatures in the games most likely, the rock worms that is.

Considering that the new game will be most likely in entirely new setting and separate from Penumbra series, I wouldn't expect rock worms there, nor in any puzzle about the game. Also I don't see any problem with referencing bugs, as bugs are natural during development of every appliaction and they are going to stop the infestation.

[dreadi]

The "hole digging creatures" refers to the hole digging creatures in the games most likely, the rock worms that is.

Considering that the new game will be most likely in entirely new setting and separate from Penumbra series, I wouldn't expect rock worms there, nor in any puzzle about the game. Also I don't see any problem with referencing bugs, as bugs are natural during development of every appliaction and they are going to stop the infestation.

Since it seems I would have to study cryptology in order to solve that puzzle it could very well be meant for the more adept people in computer science rather than for the average retarded gamer. Still it's a bit over the top for a gamesite teaser in my opinion.

[Kedjane]

The "hole digging creatures" refers to the hole digging creatures in the games most likely, the rock worms that is.

Considering that the new game will be most likely in entirely new setting and separate from Penumbra series, I wouldn't expect rock worms there, nor in any puzzle about the game. Also I don't see any problem with referencing bugs, as bugs are natural during development of every appliaction and they are going to stop the infestation.

Hole digging hardly is a common way to reference bugs in any matter. Referencing code bugs when you want to get players anxious for your next game isn't a very good strategy either. It's like saying "Hey, our new game has lots of bugs that we'll try to fix" instead of "Our game will contain mysterious hole digging monsters, buy it!".