Well... the hacking saga comes to an end at last (?) with our adversary, the mysterious Grendel, delivering upon us a new glyph, and a new piece of the Sri Lanka mystery.
To recap:
It began as a simple defacing. Our logo was reversed, our alignment disturbed, our posts ran blood red. Something was going on, and it wasn't good.
Vex, and Doc set out to track down an intruder, and instead found an interloper with a philosophy; the mysterious "Gee" was here to stay until his message was out. A bit of code in the template source proclaimed "I am not your enemy", while mysterious posts signed by single letters began to filter into the comments.
Soon, the hacker revealed he had finished phase one. The letters added up to seeming nonsense: S I M N O B A U D. Several were quick to solve this part of the equation using their superior brainpower, and a couple by using scripts (cheaters!) to come up with "subdomain".
Next a mysterious piece of text: GCWH PIFHGUV QVWP YSH ASDDUK. Another anagram? No! A cryptogram! Again, while his hacking skills were formidable, his encoding was no match for the sheer intelligence of the lost experience community. "THIS MONSTER GRIM WAS CALLED".
Soon, enterprising players discovered that this line was a direct reference to the name of "Grendel" from the epic "Beowulf".
Grendel himself taunted us: We had the key, but he had the lock. It turned out to be a lock of time; we waited anxiously for the mysterious hacker to show up again, and show up he did. At the time of his choosing, a new domain opened up here at www.thelostexperience.com: http://grendel.thelostexperience.com and revealed... A BLANK PAGE!
Luckily, Grendel had not left us without a clue. His fondness for the words "light" and "contrast" made since when "thelock.gif" was taken from the page and adjusted for contrast, revealing the gif above.
It began as a simple defacing. Our logo was reversed, our alignment disturbed, our posts ran blood red. Something was going on, and it wasn't good.
Vex, and Doc set out to track down an intruder, and instead found an interloper with a philosophy; the mysterious "Gee" was here to stay until his message was out. A bit of code in the template source proclaimed "I am not your enemy", while mysterious posts signed by single letters began to filter into the comments.
Soon, the hacker revealed he had finished phase one. The letters added up to seeming nonsense: S I M N O B A U D. Several were quick to solve this part of the equation using their superior brainpower, and a couple by using scripts (cheaters!) to come up with "subdomain".
Next a mysterious piece of text: GCWH PIFHGUV QVWP YSH ASDDUK. Another anagram? No! A cryptogram! Again, while his hacking skills were formidable, his encoding was no match for the sheer intelligence of the lost experience community. "THIS MONSTER GRIM WAS CALLED".
Soon, enterprising players discovered that this line was a direct reference to the name of "Grendel" from the epic "Beowulf".
Grendel himself taunted us: We had the key, but he had the lock. It turned out to be a lock of time; we waited anxiously for the mysterious hacker to show up again, and show up he did. At the time of his choosing, a new domain opened up here at www.thelostexperience.com: http://grendel.thelostexperience.com and revealed... A BLANK PAGE!
Luckily, Grendel had not left us without a clue. His fondness for the words "light" and "contrast" made since when "thelock.gif" was taken from the page and adjusted for contrast, revealing the gif above.
Posted by DocArzt August 22, 2006 7:02 PM | The Lost Experience
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