Cryptic hunt

Rahul2001

17:00

@StepHen Do you want login credentials?

officialaimm

@Rahul2001 you didnt ping me back after trying 'gottfried' did you?

Step Hen

i'll be fine for now, there's nothing special past the page source right?

Rahul2001

@officialaimm it isn't it... I think I pinged you?

@StepHen nope

Step Hen

@Rahul2001 try disorder

Rahul2001

@StepHen no :/

We're forgetting the shooting...

> According to two federal officials, he had dyed his hair red and called himself "the Joker", although authorities later declined to confirm this

Noah Cristino

17:04

I had an idea...

Rahul2001

Disintegration...

Noah Cristino

maybe disintegrate is a font

Step Hen

@NoahCristino dafont.com/disintegration.font not that it really matters

Noah Cristino

they are all fonts

the shooting was during a batman movie...

Step Hen

yes we know

they are hinting more at Batman/Joker somehow

but why 0.o

Business Cat

17:08

Comic Sans?

Rahul2001

@BusinessCat nope

When they said it's not jokerman they probably meant that it's not a font but something related

Step Hen

hey uh if you click page source, can you get me the plaintext of whatever <script src="/static/scripts/main.js"></script> is referencing?

and try "Batman Forever" just cuz

Noah Cristino

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, and the story with David S. Goyer. Featuring the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the final installment in Nolan's Batman film trilogy, and the sequel to Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). Christian Bale reprises the lead role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, with a returning cast of allies: Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox. The film introduces Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), and Bane ...

Step Hen

and "Andes"

satibel

@StepHen gist.github.com/rahuldottech/2db2260185dd3c2f008e5f239abe5b58

Rahul2001

17:11

@StepHen neither

Business Cat

Try Gordon maybe

Noah Cristino

"The answers have to be entered in lowercase without any spaces. Special characters and numbers are allowed."

that might be an issue

only lowercase...

Step Hen

@NoahCristino why? that many answers that aren't right :P

Rahul2001

@NoahCristino I always format properly and accordingly

Noah Cristino

oh

I didn't

Rahul2001

17:15

@NoahCristino :/

Noah Cristino

idkkkkkkkk

disintegrate

batman

joker

Step Hen

fonts

Rahul2001

this is getting frustrating

Noah Cristino

aurora shooting

Step Hen

disintegrate could be break into small pieces, but break what

Noah Cristino

17:19

"sorry guys it's not jokerman"

satibel

@NoahCristino aurora font.

Noah Cristino

"Following the success of the Joker in The Dark Knight, studio executives wished for the Riddler to be included as the primary villain"

officialaimm

@NoahCristino Haha... Legit

Rahul2001

...

Step Hen

@Rahul2001 what's the source for the /play page?

Rahul2001

17:26

@StepHen That's the index file

Step Hen

well... what gets called when you click submit

Rahul2001

@StepHen yeah, same page

Step Hen

hm, where's the validation code then?

Business Cat

Hmmm

No new hints yet?

Step Hen

it must be server-side

48 mins ago, by Rahul2001

> 2012 Aurora shooting

is the newest

Business Cat

17:28

Yeah

Step Hen

aka another batman hint :/

Business Cat

So at this point, the best we can tell is it's a Batman-related font?

Step Hen

I really dunno where this is taking us

but there's still something related to disintegration so I dunno

Business Cat

The font stuff could all be red herrings though for all we know

Yeah and disintegration has to be relevant

officialaimm

A font which has integrate symbol??

Step Hen

17:30

but it's ∫

Business Cat

I'm some Wingdings does

officialaimm

@BusinessCat and batman has wings.... kind of.. :D

Business Cat

Wingdings 1-3 don't have the symbol

At least within the printable ASCII range

Step Hen

dc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Disintegration

Business Cat

The disintegration thing could be differentiation but that doesn't seem as useful

Step Hen

17:34

@Rahul2001 no new hints?

Rahul2001

@StepHen no

Abhishek Saxena

you think the source code hint is rotten?
think again!

new hint

Business Cat

If that's true then it has nothing to do with fonts

Step Hen

?

Business Cat

rotten = rot-13'd

Abhishek Saxena

17:41

it got more confusing

Level4(#3hint)
you think the source code is rotten?
I think it is

Step Hen

well that one comment is rot'ed, dunno what that hint is trying to say though 0.o

Business Cat

Can someone pull up some other parts of the source that look garbled?

Step Hen

CSRF token: ImQwYzRlOGE0N2VhM2E3ZTM3ZjQyYWEyOTJiNzVlNWM2ZDVjMTY1NDgi.DFzwlQ.KVR2r4lo40m1l7t‌zYXSpM53RYf4

satibel

@StepHen welp, that has nothing to do with the challenge.

Step Hen

@satibel unless it's fake

satibel

17:46

@StepHen rot ing it does nothing.

Business Cat

I think I might have found something

Noah Cristino

what? @BusinessCat

Business Cat

@StepHen The part of that up to the first . decodes to a hex number

d0c4e8a47ea3a7e37f42aa292b75e5c6d5c16548

Noah Cristino

ya it's a csrf token

ofc

Business Cat

Oh.

Not familiar with those

I mean maybe just try google at this point

youknowhowigotthesefonts they came from Google

Noah Cristino

17:51

I found this

"Darkseid shoots an Omega Beam through Batman’s skull and chest. The Dark Knight instantly succumbs to his wounds, his flesh disintegrating off his body as he dies."

yikes

satibel

IIRC google has been tried.

Step Hen

@AbhishekSaxena what's the exact text of that clue?

Abhishek Saxena

they posted two of them

Level4(#3hint)
you think the source code is rotten?
I think it is

Rahul2001

Guys I'm sorry

Abhishek Saxena

Level 4 (#hint 3)
you think the source code hint is rotten?
think again!

Rahul2001

17:58

Mum called, she's angry

I'll be back in a bit

officialaimm

Joker says 'you know how I got these scars', right?

Business Cat

Yes

Step Hen

@officialaimm yeah, this is s/scars/fonts/

Poke

maybe it's a villain with an ability to disintegrate things

Step Hen

@Poke who's name is a font...? maybe

Poke

18:06

dc.wikia.com/wiki/Disintegration

Business Cat

Thing is, Batman doesn't tend to have that magical stuff in it

Poke

but the DC universe might

Business Cat

Well DC as a whole would problably

Abhishek Saxena

dc.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Disintegration

officialaimm

Wait gotham city.... gothic is a font...

Business Cat

18:07

^

Step Hen

@officialaimm oohhh

Abhishek Saxena

tried

level 4(#hint)
MURDER me if you don't get this

i think we are thinking a bit too hard on this

Step Hen

Try "raygun"

Rahul2001

I'm so sorry guys

Idk my mum completely lost it

I probably won't be online for the next 7 or 8 hours

See you tomorrow

Abhishek Saxena

@StepHen no not that

tried the rot 10 version too

Rahul2001

18:19

@AbhishekSaxena take over for now, I'll call you later at night if I can

Abhishek Saxena

okay

Riley

In The Dark Knight Strikes Again Dick Grayson is disintegrated in lava. Grayson is also the name of a font.

Step Hen

that has to be it

Abhishek Saxena

um no it isnt

Step Hen

what did you try?

try grayson, greyson

Abhishek Saxena

18:25

Grayson

Qbkicyx

Step Hen

oh, try robin or nightwing

or john, blake, or johnblake

Abhishek Saxena

i'll just post every hint again for clarity

Level 4 hint- sorry guys its not jokerman

level 4(hint #giveaway)
2012 Aurora shooting

Level 4 (#hint 3)
you think the source code hint is rotten?
think again!

Level4(#3hint)
you think the source code is rotten?
I think it is

level 4(#hint)
MURDER me if you don't get this

most teams figured it out when the aurora hint came out which is also a giveaway

Poke

Did you try "The Dark Knight Rises"

Noah Cristino

I did

Step Hen

no spaces @Poke

Rahul2001

18:34

No caps either

Step Hen

@Rahul2001 I certainly hope their program does a .toLower on it 0.o

Noah Cristino

I think nightwing is a good lead

Business Cat

That's so many extra bytes though

Input validation is wasted bytes, we all know this

Poke

that film has bane as the villain

wonder why they reference joker

unless it's just to get you on the batman trail

Step Hen

@Poke twice

Noah Cristino

18:37

"Right after the last mission, Robin was called by Batgirl and they started searching for a cure to the virus that caused Batwoman to disintegrate and was highly contagious."

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