This is Not Porn

Very difficult and interesting riddle site. (Has nothing to do with the URL).

http://www.thisisnotporn.com/

 

Ummm I am lost, what was that all about?

 

Don't worry, I got lost with you, but I think I made it to the matrix, It was in the oven

 

Okay, I'll explain a little more. This site is a riddle. In order to get to the next page, you have to find the Username/Password located somewhere within the page. For the first page (the one that says Asia Awaits), look at the source code for the riddle...I have gotten past four of the pages, but it is VERY difficult.

 

Whoa. I got stuck for awhile on the Asia Awaits page. Gave up. Not real good at that one, for sure.

 

i cant get past the first one because i have to use the ctrl and mouse wheel to see what it says thin i have to go back so i can click on Asia Awaits

 

Oooohhh... this is a good one

It helps to view the source quite a lot...

 

With some help I did get past Asia awaits. I am stuck however on the moving van picture. I think the characters at the bottom of the page have somethig to do with it, but do not know crypto to figure it out.

 

Hm.. I think I better crack open my decrypter again!

 

whats the username and pass for Asia Awaits i cant seem to get past it

 

The text when you view the source of the webpage says:

Alexander cut me
An oracle predicted me
A future king tied me
Say my name to clear your path

This refers to teh Gordian Knot (interesting story by the way)

Username: Alexander
Password: Gordian

 

i guess i better learn to use the F5 key

 

The thing is it didn't give you the username... I sorta guessed a few times and got it eventually...

The next one is trickay....

 

So far for the next puzzle the ascii text reveals the following:
By holding down ALT and typing the numbers on the keypad in notepad this can be found.

first grouping:
On the Zuiderzee
That old fishing sea,
The Faeiries stole,
The boys of Marken

Second grouping:
The old name of the site of the boy's disappearance is the name of the place you must go.

But the third makes no sense to me:
hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan
hinase hi(c) (e)nda thu
uu(at) unbida(n) (uu)e nu

Any ideas?

 

I found this in the source,

Injure sweet, helmless mirth. Is the lush merriment jewels.


whats that mean?

 

Yeah, if you guys need any hints, let me know. The van page has nothing to do with a van...You have to actually use the clues to get a name of a place, then put that name as a URL. IE change http://thisisnotporn.com/see/TimeFlows.htm to http://thisisnotporn.com/see/*name*.htm So far, I am up to the part where you click the lamps...lemme know if any of you get past that...

 

Also, Google has helped me immenesly with this!

 

ok, i am really gettin fustrated by this stuff. would be nice if we could all work together and figure it out. there must be something at the end of all this.

im the kind of person to keep tryin and tryin untill i get it, so please dont let me go insane here.

 

Do you guys want me to tell you to get past the first few pages so we can work on the other ones that I haven't cracked yet?

 

Yes!

 

yes please

 

I third that, dont know how much help I'll be

Right now I'm trying to get past the truck, but all I'm getting is page not available

 

the one with the truck put this in the address bar its the anwser http://www.thisisnotporn.com/see/IJsselmeer.htm

 

The license plate has this in the source:

The old name of the site of the boy's disappearnce is the name of the
place you must go.


what comes after we tire of chasing wild sheep?

 

Okay, N5638J was correct on the truck page. For a little background, IJsselmeer is another name for Zuiderzee, the place where the boy drowned. For the next page, there is a sign with a tree. The user/password can be found on the lower right hand area of the sign when zoomed. (A hint is that a blank javascript window comes up when you mouse over the area). The user is Edith, password Head. Then you get to a popup with a building. Click the building to get to a page with several lights. The farthest light you can click on has username Kipper, password May. (If you want a reference: on one of the pages there is an ASCII code that lists a number. Googling this number reveals it is the ISBN number of a book: Dance, Dance, Dance. One of the main character's names is Kipper May...This one took me awhile to figure out!) That's about as far as I've gotten...Let me know if you can get further.

 

Clicked around on the image... about where license plate should be on the car.

Also, what about the other lights? Several bring up username/PW requests.

 

Yeah, this is where I'm stuck. I knew one other user/password combo, but I cant think of it right now. There are several branches from this point. I was reading on another forum (and I have been trying to not cheat) that the Audition, Death of a Salesman prompt is where it all leads, but I haven't figgered out that one yet.

 

Okay, I found something new. Since I was using Firefox, it blocked the popup that occurs upon first loading the site. The popup appears and then disappears quickly and says "The Boy is Drowning". Disabling JavaScript so it wouldn't disappear, I checked the source and got this (excerpted):

//ENTER BELOW THE DATE YOU WISH TO COUNTDOWN TO
later = new Date("Jun 6 2005 11:38:00");

104 101 098 098 097 110 032 111 108 108 097 032 118 111 103 097 108 097 032 110 101 115 116 097 115 032 104 097 103 117 110 110 097 110 032 013 010 104 105 110 097 115 101 032 104 105 040 099 041 032 040 101 041 110 100 097 032 116 104 117 032 013 010 117 117 040 097 116 041 032 117 110 098 105 100 097 040 110 041 032 040 117 117 041 101 032 110 117

There is a timer counting down to June 6, 2005 and an ASCII code that I don't have time to decode. I'm off to work! Seems eerie!

 

Never mind, I couldn't resist, It translates:

hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnan

hinase hi(c) (e)nda thu

uu(at) unbida(n) (uu)e nu

A little googling and I found that it's from a love poem, and means:

"All the birds have started their nests - except me and you. - What are we waiting for now?"

Maybe a dead end.

 

Checked out Wikipedia for Zuiderzee:

The 32 km long Afsluitdijk separates the IJsselmeer from the North Sea, protecting thousands of km² of land.

The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: Zuiderzeewerken) is a man-made system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, and the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century. The project involved the damming off of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water body by means of polders. Its main purpose was to improve flood protection and create additional land for agriculture.

...

The fifth polder does not yet exist and may never be completed. It had been the intention to start building the southwestern polder, known as the Markerwaard, at several points during the project, but other polders took precedence. Parts of it have in fact been built; in 1941 it was decided to begin work on the first section of dike, but the German occupiers stopped construction that same year. This dike originated on Marken, the last of the IJsselmeer islands, and went north for some 2 km where it ends abruptly today. After World War II, the eastern polder was chosen as the next project, but Marken was not wholly ignored; on October 17, 1957 a 3.5 km long dike was closed, running south of the now former island to the Holland mainland.

The answer is the name of the place of the boys disappearence.. I have no idea anyone disappearing, but you can guess it!

EDIT: Just realised this had been covered already. Darnit. I felt so smart until just now.

 

You are smart, you figured it out on your own unlike me

 

Ok, so on the Hide Your Sorrows page (the one after clicking on the last light and using Kipper May), I noticed a few things that I don't think have been mentioned here. In the code I found five comment tags; their contents, in order, are:

wax
A one armed skeleton
I am the answer
find me
Not smart by half

Also, the text sequence only consists of the letters A-J and is repeated several times throughout the page. That letter sequence is:

BJDFI ECJHI HFFFI CGAII FBGHI FDGFI JDHGI IDDII DCCGI EEBJI JBHGI JHHII DEAHI AABII FBHGI AJIII JJBHI JAFCI HJBBI CHFCI FBCCI EGIBI FAJCI EAECI JDAEI DIECI JEEFI DAFEI HIDCI FAAFI DJHDI ECDDI FFEFI EIJEI BBIDI CCDGI JJJFI JAHEI DFIDI CJHEI BHGGI EGDGI DGAGI BHFEI JJHGI JIFFI JGFFI AJDEI BHAHI DFFHI JJDHI JECGI BHJHI FBHGI HDCFI JIGGI JFDII JAJGI BAJGI FJIGI HCEGI JEDHI DDEGI GFEHI JJHII CCBII JIHHI AAJHI FDDII HIFHI DDCII JEEII HGHII FHIII JICJI AIJHI JJJII GBEII JCHII CACA FBAA JHJII FGFJI EADJI JBAE CJJC JGAD IGJC DABE CHEJI HJHA ECCA JFHA CCBA HJIA EIGA JHEE BBDE JFHD FIGD FBGD EHHD DFBE JFBE JBDF JJIC JCCC AABF BDBD DDED BHIC JHJC JHCD CAFC JGIC IDID JJGD DHCD DHDE JJCE JDID EGFD FAAE FAIE JBAE DIAE JEHE FBDE DEDF BBBF DGGE JBDF DEGF IGJE JGBF CCAG JJHF EBFF HGGF CGCG JBBH JCEG FCCG GGGG BFDG EEHG JDGG IDIG BHBH CHCH FJCH JJAH JJFH JGEH HHHH DGFH JJFH AIAI FFAI DGBI HEEI JDEI JIDI GIGI FFJI GIA JAD CFC HEE FJE FJE JAG DCH DFH JGI JB DCI

And then it repeats 8 or 10 times.

I have tried replacing a-j with 1-0 and a-j with 0-9 and no ascii sense can be made of it. I'll keep digging...

 

You have tried 0-9 and 1-0, but maybe reversing it could make some sense, like doing 9-0, or 0-1...just an idea. I would try it, but I am waaaay too tired. maybe tomorrow...

 

Yes, I tried both combinations that you mentioned and still can't make any ascii sense out of it. It appears that the game is becoming more complex the deeper we get, so this is probably something more difficult to solve... maybe an alphanumeric cipher, which could be extremely difficult.

Maybe the comments in the source was all the information we were supposed to get from this page and we should concentrate on combining this with the previous clues.

I looked at the code for the "A moth flew in..." page and there doesn't seem to be much, but there are a lot of status bar comments throughout the page.

"Youbettergo," urged the Sheepman. "Stayhere, you'llfreeze. Butifyouneedus, we'rehere. Youknowwheretofindus."

Walls 4S TC THE POET IS DEAD

Walls 4I ST From the clay I scream my name.

Walls 9G BR This isn't kansas, anymore.

WALLS 1F DH WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN

The Walls Are Closing In

-- I think those are all of them... I am done for the night, though these sort of site are very addictive to me, so I am sure I will be back tommorrow to see if anyone has come up with anything.

--Publius

 

Well, guys, I'm here to say, you've lost me, back at the truck, anything from there is just me tagging along. You might as well be speaking greek. Greek, Geek, it's all the same to me, makes my mind go

But, I will enjoy reading how you guys work it out. It's cool to see teamwork going at this thing.

 

Just a little more insight, though I don't know how helpful this will be

what comes after we tire of chasing wild sheep -- The book Dance, Dance, Dance was written by Haruki Murakami who also wrote a book entitled Wild Sheep Chase

A one armed skeleton & Walls 4S TC THE POET IS DEAD -- In the book, the main character encounters a 1 armed poet

WALLS 1F DH WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN -- The DH might mean the Dolphin Hotel which is where the bulk of the story takes place.

Like I said, I don't know how much help this will be, just things I noticed.

 

Awesome work, Publius. I am still trying to decipher the big chunk of letters A-J...eek! Although one thing I have noticed, if you reverse the entire block, and do some number replacement, the numbers seem to get progressively bigger... I'll keep working on it...gosh, this is driving me insane!

 

whats with the one page where the letters make out a man that looks to be fishing after the page where the turck is going away from you

 

Wow. I spent awhile with that code and was closer to the answer than I realized on my last post. Here's what I did: I replaced the letters with numbers, trying four combinations (a-1 thru j-0, a-0 thru j-9, j-1 thru a-0, and j-0 thru a-9). Once I had these four sets of numbers, I messed with them. I ended up reversing them completely, and the numbers seemed to get larger. I finally discovered that if you take each chunk of numbers and divide it by its position in the group, you come up with the answer. I don't know, it's kinda hard to explain. (I also discovered that the chunk "DCI" at the end didn't seem to belong...it didn't fit with my solution...??? no idea). Only the chunk of numbers with j-0 thru a-9 worked in ascii. Here's what I got for a translation:

PARENTHESESWeshallextendtheempireofPersiasuchthatitsboundarieswillbeGodAPOSTRPHEsownskyCOMMAsothesunwillnotlookdownuponanylandbeyondtheboundariesofwhatisourown
PERIODPARENTHESES

In other words,

(We shall extend the empire of Persia such that its boundaries will be God's own sky, so the sun will not look down upon any land beyond the boundaries of what is our own.)

Haven't had time to Google it yet...

EDIT: N5638J, that is the page I'm describing here.

 

i am thinking its one of them pages where you put the anwser in the address bar but right now i am at a loss with it lol

 

the person who made this site is nuts and wants others to go insane as well!

I dont know how u guys figure these out!


I'm STUCK at the "A moth flew in the room when I di4d" page. It's the page with the line of lights.

i entered "Kipper May". doesn't work for me. what am i doing wrong???

 

click on the next to the last light lol

 

i gone back to the page where the truck is going away from you why does a little window pop up when you move your mouse over the truck thats comming at you the message says "A Life Half Lived..." what does that mean?

 

AAARRRGH!! I still cant get past the lights!

http://www.thisisnotporn.com/see/IJsselmeer.htm
(the link is just to easily go back to the license page then the lights page)

i cant find that. where is it?

 

you guys AMAZE me!

 

Hithere, click on the last light that you can click on. It should say it needs a password for "CuriousityKilledTheCat". That's when you put in Kipper for the user and May for the password.

N5638J, I saw that popup alert as well...I really have no idea what "A life half lived" has to do with anything, but it may be of some use in the future...

 

Okay, I googled that phrase that I decoded and came up with a book: "Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography." In it, a couple names and places are brought up: Greece, Persia, Xerxes, and Demaratus. I tried using these in different combinations as usernames and passwords, and I got a new user/pass. For the next light up (the second to last that's clickable), the username is Xerxes and the password is Demaratus. I have yet to explore the next page in detail...

 

Impressive work with the sorrows page, corndog... it seems I missed a lot by not being here last night. Thanks for the new UN/PW, I will get started on the new page today.

 

Ok, a few things, If you click on the right "eye" of the face on the "DONT STRAY FROM THE PATH" page (as you look at it, not the face's right eye) you go to the Philip K. Dick's Fortune Cookie page. By moving your mouse up and down you get 5 lines of a poem:

Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread
And, having once turned round, walks on
And turns no more his head,
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread

A little googling (I am no poetry scholar) revealed that this is an excerpt from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", however it is also interesting to note that the poem is in Chapter 5 of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Philip K. Dick is a science fiction writer that has had several of his stories adapted to film. The most recent, and the only one I could find with any referece to a fortune cookie was Paycheck with Ben Afleck and Uma Thurman. I didn't find it right away, so if anyone has seen the movie, ya think you could post the contents of the lead character's fortune cookie?

There is also some text somewhat hidden in the DONT STRAY... page that I don't have time to enhance right now -- gotta go into the lab for a few hours (working on Sat sucks ), but I will be back at it later.

 

I noticed that if you hold your mouse over the last line of the poem on the Philip K Dick... page a message pops up briefly that states:

YOU ARE NOT OF THE PATH.

So maybe this is a dead end... we should look elsewhere. Especially considering the fact that the page that let me here was entitled DON'T STRAY FROM THE PATH.

Also, I enhanced the text on the DONT STRAY... page. It reads: HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF SOMEONE CAME ALONG AND PICKED SOMETHING OFF OF YOU? -- an obvious reference to the movie The Wizard of Oz.

Philip K Dick's forture cookie = Deeds done in secret have a way of being found out

On a side note, I got a character list from Dance Dance Dance and am trying combinations for more UN/PWs, but nothing so far.