The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[GhylTarvoke]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_%...ography%29 ?

Great post! I'm optimistic.

According to that page, the output is usually in hexadecimal. But the only thing in hexadecimal that I can remember is qWxx.txt, which was already decrypted using the Blowfish algorithm (with the contents of XXwQ.txt as the key):

Spoiler below!

The WAU has started to grow physically and begun to occupy a larger part of the room. All over the station structure gel is bursting pipes and bleeding through walls. It’s consolidating power, appropriating anything it can connect to. The heart has claimed such a large part of the room that there can no longer be any question to its heightened awareness. Not only does its expansion suggest an unexpected understanding of space, but also it's own physical manifestation within the world. I will admit that the expansion is worrying. I suspect we will be having an "interesting" period of time ahead of us as the WAU tries to test its limits, both at Alpha and across all sites through the connectivity of the structure gel.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

Maybe we're supposed to encrypt something using Whirlpool. But there's so many possibilities for what to encrypt...