NOC-terminal

**NOC-terminal** is a website discovered on September 11th, 2023 through emails sent by Magnum Unionis to individuals who had responded to a Google Form posted on the company's Facebook page in November 2021. The website, which mimics an old computer terminal, contains a series of directories which contain puzzles and lore surrounding the NOC+10 project.

The site can be found here.

## Organization

Initially, the site contained just 5 "directories" which could be accessed: /page1, /page2, /page3, /page4, and /page5. A sixth directory, /page6, was added on September 23rd, 2023.

### Home page

The landing page for the website simply lists the directories, i.e. /page1 ... /page6. Each folder, and subsequent subfolder, is accessed by typing the name of the particular directory in a DOS-style text prompt at the bottom of the page.

Examining the page's source code reveals a hidden comment between the hyperlinks for /page4 and /page5, which, as of 23 September 2023, reads: "WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU IN THE HR OFFICE: COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE OLD FONT", seemingly referencing a post on the Magnum Unionis Facebook page which went up soon after the initial round of emails revealing the site. This would later prove to be an essential clue to discovering the username and password needed to access /page4.

### /page1

/page1 contains two subdirectories: /a1 and /a2.

/a1 is a case report entitled *Cerebral manifestations of ergotism. Report of a case and review of the literature*. The fulltext of the original article itself can be found here.

/a2 is an article published in 1966 in the journal *Nature*, which reviews a book on the history of hysteria. The original review can be found here and here.

### /page2

/page2 contains three subdirectories: /sectorA, /sectorB, and /sectorC.

/sectorA is a massive string of Base64-esque code stretching for 10,000 lines. Starting at line 10,001 the text becomes a private RSA key. This RSA key is the decode needed for the Based64 strings hidden in the source code of /page3.

/sectorB is a massive string of Base64-esque code, however, each line is clickable and brings you to a webpage. However, only 8 of these lines actually redirect to a valid webpage, each of which contains a picture: yKO9yIQHNZw0QunX, SFAJPfkPXQMGRVbc, qA6uOYPdwjJ3kHtJ , Es4MbXNam2IvvP8E, 0ZaOVm9CyLCf0zzo, f4DfoZx4yz2rs3cC, LfL0lOvSiezLi6ey, and JAtjil6pkDcHVXHg.

/sectorC, like /sectorB, is a long block of Base64-esque code, the lines of which are clickable. Only 8 lines actually take you to valid webpages, six of which – Dr0ghGHvNLz0myO5, YU8HApm2flXBNwTu, bioCmtGOmVgCZhVQ, EZj9k4HSs019OVXU, f25Vbgm9mzH6fzDF, and 1oIHn5DY9UtgXaMD – contain pictures, while the other two – JAtjil6pkDcHVXHg and LfL0lOvSiezLi6ey – lead to .mov files which seem to depict waterlogged corpses.

### /page3

/page3 contains ten subdirectories, the numbers 0-9. Each of these subdirectories, in turn, contain ten subdirectories of the numbers 0-9. This continues for an additional 23 layers; after the 24th layer, the website will forcefully redirect back to the main landing page. The standing assumption is that these many subdirectories represent a 23-digit code which must be entered in the correct sequence. This code, as of now, is unknown.

The source code for the initial /page3 directory contains a block of 13 Base64 strings which must be decoded using the private RSA key found within /SectorA of /page2. Once decoded, each string decodes to "Threescore men and threescore more.", a line from an 18th century version of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme.

### /page4

/page4 is locked behind a username/password interface. The username is "Futura", while the password is "3edf99" – these were found thanks to the clue hidden in the source code of the website's landing page. ("WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU IN THE HR OFFICE: COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE OLD FONT" – the "OLD FONT" is Futura, while the Hex color code of the window labelled the HR Office in the MU Facebook post is #3EDF99)

The organization of /page4 is somewhat misleading: whereas the other directories initially lead to a listing which gives all accessible subdirectories, /page4 leads directly to an open subdirectory, giving the impression that it is the only content stored in the folder. However, by entering the "ls" command in the text prompt, one can find that this subdirectory itself has subdirectories, and that the landing page is merely the subdirectory /memories1. /page4 actually contains more than a dozen subdirectories, which are listed along with their contents here. In certain subdirectories, the source code contains the formula "a\_n = n^2 - n + 2" – the significance of which is heretofore unknown.

Certain subdirectories within /page4 have an associated audio file, which will play whenever the pages are accessed. These audio files are NOAA APT sound files in .mp3 format, which can be decoded back into images using specialized software if they are converted into .wav files. Most of the images themselves are incredibly degraded, and seem to be empty radio noise, though one is immediately recognizable as a satellite image of the Mediterranean (albeit upside down due to the satellite's north-south orientation). Each of these sound files can be found with the contents of their respective subdirectories with the link above.

### /page5

/page5 is completely empty. It contains no content whatsoever, and has no subdirectories.

The source code for /page5 contains an ASCII maze, though it has no solution because it contains no entrance/exit. This was confirmed as much on 23 September 2023, when the words "NO SOLUTION" were added to the center of the maze.

### /page6

/page6 was added to the website on 23 September 2023. It contains no subdirectories.

/page6 contains a NOC+10 report dated to 1987 which predicts a number of future events – including the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The contents of this message can be found here.