Down the Rabbit Hole

The answer is not nothing, as I said FALLACES SUNTRERUM SPECIE translates to 'The appearances of things are deceptive', there must be something hidden in the word nothing, got any ideas anyone? I have tried everything.

How I was just about to say that, those words can't be there with out importance

If the image is 512x512, if you get the fifth letter of nothing, which is 'i' the first is 'n' the second is 'o'?

ino?

I know?

However, the image is far to big for .png, it is 2.3 megabytes...

2nd letter of Nothing is 'O' 3rd is 'T'.

NEW LEAD

Since the image is to big for a png file, it HAS to contain a secret message/image. Try open it with another software you would not normally associate with .png, I am decompressing the image as I am typing this...

Opened it up with a text edit program, and holy, I was impressed...it came up with a MASSES of lines of code, here was a sample of it, does anyone know what it is? No wonder the file was so big. I opened up another png image and the code was not nearly as long, it is at least 20,000 characters, if not, a lot more...it starts with: âPNG

This was the first 'paragraph of it' and it seemed to be the only paragraph in the entire code:


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Originally Posted by HowlGraal

If the image is 512x512, if you get the fifth letter of nothing, which is 'i' the first is 'n' the second is 'o'?

ino?

I know?

However, the image is far to big for .png, it is 2.3 megabytes...

2nd letter of Nothing is 'O' 3rd is 'T'.

NEW LEAD

Since the image is to big for a png file, it HAS to contain a secret message/image. Try open it with another software you would not normally associate with .png, I am decompressing the image as I am typing this...

Opened it up with a text edit program, and holy, I was impressed...it came up with a MASSES of lines of code, here was a sample of it, does anyone know what it is? No wonder the file was so big. I opened up another png image and the code was not nearly as long, it is at least 20,000 characters, if not, a lot more...it starts with: âPNG

This was the first 'paragraph of it' and it seemed to be the only paragraph in the entire code:


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Try looking for things in the data that indicate a new file type. It could be a clue about how to life info from the file.

I'll see @Reno

I am narrowing it down, I found 9,000+ dots when I searched for it, trying to find a file extension I could possibly turn that image into.

Yeah thats a big translation to text from hexadecimal coding, if you can find another file format in their make sure to let us know.

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Originally Posted by HowlGraal

I'll see @Reno

I am narrowing it down, I found 9,000+ dots when I searched for it, trying to find a file extension I could possibly turn that image into.

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It may not be a dot, the data-header for the image is %PNG

Could someone try these extensions on this website? I am seeing what I can do with this code for now.

http://www.youneeditall.com/web-desi...xtensions.html

I've set up an IRC channel for us to all work together.

ip: irc.callan.ninja
channel: #Salient

You can use https://kiwiirc.com/client for a client in your browser if you need, just make sure you change the ip in "network settings".

Connected

We are way ahead xP

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Originally Posted by Toshihiro Kijima

Connected

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make sure you join the channel #Salient. You're not in our channel currently.

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Originally Posted by Jatz

make sure you join the channel #Salient. You're not in our channel currently.

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Oh let me see

Just to update you guys in case you're wondering,We have gotten ourselves to stage 3.
Hey stranger ns1020470124,more hints?:o

Yeah, we got up to the 2 images and the txt with the Zelda Quote, we are stumped about the binary on the tree image...? We tried using Sterno on the image of the UFO, we actually found a copy of the stamp WITH text. Hints please.

Good job :D

52 45 44 20 48 45 52 52 49 4e 47 53 20 41 42 4f 55 4e 44

RED HERRINGS ABOUND for anyone that might not know a red herring is a clue that is fake, used to divert attention from a real clue
-R

We were led to his twitter, LOL! Guess he wants us to wait for further instructions...

Forreals lmfao...guess nothing comes from nothing looooooool 4:40 am x.x

'Nothing comes from nothing' oh

- - - Updated - - -

The 5 actually 6 legends solve it

Vendhin, Reno, Banshee, Jatz, Jay and myself have gotten pretty far. We are working as a team to solve this together over Skype and IRC. We actually did some pretty impressive stuff, really proud of you guys, some of it was REALLY complicated, but our combined thinking got us to this point, everyone has contributed <3. Going to bed now to wake up a bit earlier to see if NS has added new stuff, right now he said to be patient *cries*.

Gosh, we were stumped on those last two images for a bit weren't we?

Never thought we could get past that crossword but we did it! We are not providing any hints for now, it's better if you try do it yourself. Just think of the various codes on the internet, like Hex and Binary, your welcome!

:D Legends

#Squad

I think i wanna join for the next stage, this is getting interesting. I'm still really young though and i almost got lost about the binary thing, but things like this take away my boredom.

What part are you up to...? Our group is not online right now, we should be back in around 12 hours to possibly finish this.

This is pretty similar to Cicada.

01000111010010100010000001010011010100010101010101 00000101000100001000000010001101010110010100100100 1000010010100100001001001010

Props to you if you figure out what that means...

I also search Cicada, but its too hard for me alone so i didnt bother getting started. i just read the previous replies in the thread and followed you guys. i saw you were waiting for NS to post another image. i'll try to see what i can do with the image. i can wait for 12hours.

What image are you on? We just finished decoding the UFO and trees over looking the lake which led us to a twitter page, it got pretty complicated.

the last image i saw was the crossword and i know you guys already solved it so i just saw how you solved it. I dont know about that UFO and trees overlooking the lake. I just read the previous post in this threads so im not sure where we are in this puzzle

'Nothing comes from nothing'

Whats that? the next clue?

That has not helped us whatsoever so far Tosh, LOL.

Thats the next clue isnt it? i'll get working on it sometime, its our exams right now, maybe same time tom, or maybe i wont understand anything at all. I'll just see where's the end to all this.

No lol, that has been there since the start. It has been on every hint we have gotten.

xD yeah

XD, i'll just wait for the next image, i'll be on tomorrow, i gotta go now since im lowbat. I'll just share my findings here.

yay, finished, Down the Rabbit Hole have a carrot :') what is the prize ? i found the carrot

Aw you guys ain't posting the pics and clues here any more. ?

I think we shouldnt give all of it away, would ruin the fun

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Originally Posted by Banshee

I think we shouldnt give all of it away, would ruin the fun

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That's actually quite true.
Can't post the pics but you can talk about your progress.