Keziah

Keziah sent hidden message to John (and us) through various medias from Socience Inc. It seems she has been caught by Socience Scouts and held prisoner inside Capitol City. After some power supply problems in capitol city she was transferred to a prison in the inner ring. The Players managed to free her (see "Keziah's Escape" below)

## Keziah's Diary

Through some hidden links in John's Transmission Videos from the old camera tapes, some pages of Keziah's diary could be found.

### First Entry

2075-05-18

ZION

Those 4 letters stood for hope, for a better place to live, a place to survive. But somehow my father wasted our chance to live there. I don’t know the real reasons behind this, but I’m afraid to ask him about them. Something about a riot, but that’s the only thing I know. He doesn’t want to talk about it and I’m afraid to ask. Only about 60 km to paradise but seems like infinite far away. Now it’s just the two of us.

It’s been 2 days since he left our shelter. I’m always afraid something happened to him when it takes longer than a few hours for him to return. He is scanning the nearby ruins of old cities and towns for supplies and equipment but it’s getting more and more difficult to find something useful. He has to move further away from our hideout every time. And it’s getting more dangerous each day. Not only the radiation from the close-by atomic power plant that was left behind by the engineers many years ago and is now decaying and becoming leaky. But there’s also other dangers: predators (not all “wildlings” are friendly, like the ones in Zion), wild animals that take back cities from humankind and other strange creatures (wherever the hell they came from)

### Second Entry

2075-05-19

I like to distract myself from troubling too much by reading books. I love to get lost in those stories about the old world. Sometimes my father brings new books from his exploration trips. Many of them are from other continents and from countries that seem to stopped existing. This seems so crazy and difficult to imagine for me. How big this world is. And that there are no others left then us. Except for thering and zion and some wildlings straying around in the zone. My father said if there were people left in America or Australia, we would have heard of them. We would have seen anyone. They would have helped us. I don’t want to believe that there is no one left. There has to be more of civilization left then just this evil capitol city with his ring.

0\|/OdP\|/O8811dI1b1//d8oIpIoqqIoqpdI\\Oq

2075-05-20

On day 4 he finally returned. He said he got attacked by bandits in a small town. He got injured by one of them but fortunately it was only a grazing shot at his side. He eventually hid in an abandoned house where they couldn’t track him. I’m just so happy he is alive and I hope he is getting well.

2075-05-22

The health condition of my father is getting worse. He has a temperature and is sweating like crazy. The wound doesn’t look very good. Infected. I tried to clean it with some alcoholic beverages but we would need real medicine. I think I have to leave and look for something or someone who can help us.  Someone who can help him.

* the strange codes with the zeros and slashes got the discord users stumped, but after asking on reddit, user @Nostradivarius found a solution: When I noticed that all of the symbols were composed of loops and straight lines, it occurred to me that this also describes binary code, so I did a find and replace of each character with its closest visual approximation possible using the 1 and 0 characters. 1, I and | all become '1', d and q become 01, % becomes 010 etc. So '0|/OdP|/O8811dI1b1//d8oIpIoqqIoqpdI\Oq' from earlier in the transcript becomes 01110011011100000110111101110100011010010110011001111001, which then translates as 'Spotify' in ASCII, and the rest of the cipher text translates as 0heufLGCARpOYKH2v8IMsj?si=b4c4726c4c9e4565. Combine those into the spotify track link https://open.spotify.com/track/0heufLGCARpOYKH2v8IMsj?si=b4c4726c4c9e4565 and it takes you to 'Other Worlds Than These' by Starset.

## Keziah's Escape

* Through the Socience Inc Newsletters and Intranet (see Socience Inc.) a video of Keziah in her prison cell could be found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uiu8UYaSyko
* throughout the video some flashing letters can be seen, they can be combined to: Y2FwdGl2ZTUxNA==
* this can be base64 decoded to: captive514
* in another frame bm9pc2UK is flashing, this can be base64 decoded to noise
* this is a hint to look at the spectro of the video. There some lines can be seen. At first it was assumed this is morse code, but morse didn't give useful results
* The same image was sent with better resolution via Socience's Newsletter 7:

* unfortunately the bits are not equally long, but @wormhole managed to decode it to 01110000011100100110111101110100011001010110001101110100011001010110010001110100011001010111100001110100 which can be ascii decoded to "protectedtext"
* combined with the result of the video this gives the link: https://www.protectedtext.com/captive514
* the password for the protectedtext was found to be "destruendum" from the Socience Intranet page Facilities -> Recreational
* the protectedtext page contains a long base64 string that can be decoded to: "Now the time has come, we need to rescue K. I think I found a way. Now that she was brought to the prison facility in the inner ring. Some things need to be prepared though and I need your help. The inner ring and therefore the prison facility get their power supply from a hydroelectric power station near the outer wall. I know that it is within the reach of drone64. Would be a shame if this drone went crazy and accidentally destroyed the power station. I found out that the prison then goes into emergency supply. In this mode all operations like opening doors and cells can only be accessed by a emergency terminal. This terminal can be accessed through the intranet if the prison is in emergency supply mode. However, a 32-digit hex code separated by - needs to be entered to get access to the emergency terminal. There seem to be several of those codes around, but I didn't manage to find one yet...  When K leaves the prison I will try to send her something to communicate with us. I hope that the gates of the inner ring will stay open during the power outage or she won't get to the tunnel in fortress city...  ibb co XZs3s0x"
* the last part leads to an ibb image with written coordinates (right)
* the title of the ibb image is "bWlzc2lvbg==" which can be decoded to "mission"
* the description is "cG93ZXIgcGxhbnQ=", this can be decoded to "power plant"
* when going to the coordinates in the drone game there actually was a plant that could be destroyed.
* After destroying the power plant with the drone the prison page changed to a terminal:

* when inputting one of the found GUIDs from several ibb images the user is logged in as admin
* after that doors and cell 514 can be opened
* doing both of these things reveal a youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1oHTmNTqo
* this shows a woman (assumably Keziah) running away, so it seems she is free