Shield (⠀)

*Shield (⠀)* is the twenty-eighth public video to be uploaded to the Komplot Group Band's YouTube channel.

## Shield

### Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05QFQpiPfzU

### Description

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### Tags

kgb, shield, exit, transmission, data, object

## Transcription

[0:00]: Pic 1

[13:07]: End.

## Details

*Shield (⠀)* is a strange video uploaded in what seemed to be the response of the surfacing of *Midnight Travels* and Midnite’s passage concerning the failures of the solver community. This passage was reinforced by Gordon who confirmed the KGB community was underperforming.

Considering the *Midnight* is called “the milestone”, and 3301 in a quote stated the solvers had not passed *SET 41* with SETs being Forge Protection Shield firewalls, it is possible the *Shield (⠀)* is a firewall being imposed on the solver community. This comes as the OMEGA writing on the gate’s front page changed to a red countdown.

The countdown begun on July 6th, counting down a weeks time until what was suggested to be destruction of the Omega Gate and perhaps the end of the KGB network. The *Shield (⠀)* event chain begun on the 101th day following the uploading of *Dawn of the KGB*, meaning the countdown terminates on the 108th day. Interestingly, 108 is the exact number of lines in Edgar Allen Poe’s poem *The Raven*, whose passages are a recurring theme on the Gateway.

The countdown ended on July 13th 2020 without incident. The countdown never hit zero but stopped at “**1**” before a refresh brought back the original OMEGA logo. Sometime later the gatehash changed and the cookie emoji acting as the link to the *Junkyard* begun to cycle through various fruits, vegetables, and sweets.

Gordon spoke once more and stated “verification” was approaching prior to the end. **3** days after the countdown ended, the Tavern was locked with a glyph sequence identical in nature to those of the Snake Tables from the cookie.html. Users would no longer be able to enter unless they could first solve the Snake Tables.

## Verification of the Pilgrims

Attempting to access the Tavern was met with a passcode lock identical in nature to the cookie glyphs in cookie.html:

Solving the Tavern lock begins with taking a close look at the pattern. At first glance, the pattern seems to have included some new glyphs as these shapes are not in the alphabet that was constructed for the cookie.html. The other glyphs are part of the alphabet. This particular cryptogram can be solved one of two ways:

* Each Snake Table up until this point was written in English using mono-substitution, so the answer must be in English. By analyzing the substitutions of the first set of tables it becomes clear that the letters being substituted for each glyph change for each message. The only thing common between each and every table thus is the process used to decipher them. Each unique glyph needs to be given a letter, with the exception of the **dot at the centre**. Knowing the tablets are read in a spiral, a series of different spirals can be attempted to create the encrypted string. Because this lock is only **3x3** there are only **8** different possible spiral patterns. Plugging them into a cryptogram solver will yield results. One of these is the key.
* The second way comes with knowing the alphabet from the first set of pixels already includes glyphs for **A - Z** and **1 - 7**. Not all cryptogram decoders can work with numbers, so these glyphs **cannot** be unique. The image is actually thus mirrored horizontally. With the orientation and string in the right position, the cryptogram can now be broken.