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Hello, CodeHunters!
The hunt started back up today with Discord user Marciblook meeting up with Fait at Grand Park in Los Angeles! After crossing the park from one end to the other, they eventually found the clue in a plastic egg tucked inside in a water pipe. The clue was a piece of paper with some pictures of bears and a coded link.
Periscope streams:
https://www.periscope.tv/Bloobloods/1MYGNqDQYqPKw
https://www.periscope.tv/Bloobloods/1gqGvXDWqblxB
ixtgk://xaw.pgvxusw.dsm/gdbclzku?pijl=QPy0TBuAaBiObnq1plypILkDu4Ofp4_OhG
The link was decoded from vigenere using the key “Bears” and led to a youtube playlist:
Hunters then found that they had to take the first letter from the title of each video (except in cases when the titles were “dot” or “colon” or “backslash” or “equal” since those ones corresponded to symbols instead).
Eventually, our intrepid hunters spelled out a new link: tnlxu://iqo.ltajtwz.oie/a/yx8eb2g7a1w81p7/JmeapwzgpXsbc.bhy?ln=0
They decoded this from vigenere using the key “Music” and discovered that it lead to a dropbox file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wl8kj2y7y1k81v7/RecoveredData.png?dl=0
The file inside appeared to be a corrupted image:
User DizzyDwarf discovered that the image was actually a disguised .rar file that had been hidden inside a. png image. After unzipping the file, they discovered that it contained two files: flskhuvduhixq.zip and iloohuqdph.txt (these titles were decoded to ciphersarefun.zip and fillername.txt).
The .zip was password protected, and the .txt file contained the hint to finding the password: “a picture is worth a thousand words but sometimes you only need to find one.”
After a lot of trial and error, hunters eventually discovered the word “peekaboo” hidden in the image, just a shade different than the rest of the surrounding color.
Using the password “Peekaboo” hunters were able to open the other file, finding a stream of numbers:
“123151170040155151154145163040146162157155040164150145040150157155145040157146040164150145040127151162145012116145170164040164157040164150145040147165151144151156147040154151147150164040157146040153156157167154145144147145012111156040164150145040164157167156040167150145162145040164150145040143162157167156040152145167145154163047040164150151145146040157156143145040154151166145144012131157165040155151147150164040167141156156141040164141153145040141040163145141164040146157162040164150151163040157156145”
The code ended up being Octal and said:
Six miles from the home of the Wire
Next to the guiding light of knowledge
In the town where the crown jewels’ thief once lived
You might wanna take a seat for this one
After much debate and scanning, hunters eventually deduced that the next clue was at Culcheth Library, located in Warrington in the UK! Due to the annoying presence of time slices, our hunt is once again on hold until that part of the world wakes up.
In the meantime, make sure you all get some well-deserved rest!
Happy Hunting! x
Codemageddon 
