Y’know, if anyone’s still playing this, and you’re waiting on a response from someone who’s not getting back to you, let me know via Tubmail. Send me your results and who you’re trying to contact, and if you’re right, I’ll send you the next clue.

I’m still on Stage 9. Vuron, any luck yet?

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markchd Posted:

So. I’m not sure what the status of this contest is. I see that it is still stickied. Is anybody still running it?

PANTS is still running it. Only question is, is anyone still playing it?

Vuron Posted:

I’m done with everything but the final stage which pants needs to send me if he’s ever unbanned.

CONFIRMED, SENDING STAGE 10 NOW

Vuron Posted:

Stage 10 Solved

I CAN CONFIRM

2 DAY COUNTDOWN FOR ANYONE ELSE TO COMPLETE THE RIDDLE AND RECEIEVE BPs – AS IT STANDS VURON IS SET TO RECEIVE THE FULL 25BP PRIZE

Congratulations Vuron, did you get the bp?

Looks like Vuron is the winner, congratulations! Hope you got the secret before PANTS was banned.

Markchd, will you take care of your payment? I’ll ask ET to handle PANTS’s part.

pants = myspace tom = escher = dante kinkade

So what are the answers?

stage 7 solution:

the RGB values for the 6 colors from left to right are
1. R=1 G=48 B=33
2. R=4 G=30 B=82
3. R=9 G=63 B=21
4. R=3 G=46 B=23
5. R=0 G=67 B=72
6. R=7 G=38 B=33

The hint’s values are R=5 G=43 B=21



So that should let you know that the RGB values are important and should be reversed. At any rate, that was my intention.

First step in decoding:
The RGB values for each color, when joined and reversed, represent a character ID number in ForumWarz. For example: R=1 G=48 B=33 joined is 14833 and reverses to 33841.

Finding the hidden message:

I don’t know of many ways to find a character by ID in this game, but one is to add the ID number to this url http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/ EX. 1: http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/33841 opens a new tubmail to Maladjusted Pike, one of my many multis.

The six characters can be found by visiting
1. http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/33841
2. http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/28034
3. http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/12369
4. http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/32643
5. http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/27760
6. http://www.forumwarz.com/inbox/send_tubmail/33837

The message is contained in the bio section of these character’s profiles.

To view the profile for each character, simply add the name from the “Send Tubmail to” line to the end of the URL: http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/

1. http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/Maladjusted%20Pike
2. http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/Marktroll
3. http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/markchd
4. http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/trial
5. http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/markchild
6. http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/Cheatz0r

In the bio section of those pages:
1.yvnzohg
2.ganvvuc
3.gfvcbeu
4.qebjffnc
5.tavgyrz
6.nqahgbe

It’s a simple cipher(ROT13), but the words are reversed.

Simple solution: plug each word into http://www.rot13.com/ and get:
1.liambut
2.tnaiihp
3.tsiporh
4.drowssap
5.gnitlem
6.adnutor

A little logic later, you’ll see the answer: “tubmail phiianthropist pbumword melting rotunda”

If you tubmailed the phrase “melting rotunda” to phiianthropist ( http://www.forumwarz.com/profiles/phiianthropist ) he would send you Stage 8

I wouldn’t expect any answer now, as his account was disabled shortly after Vuron won.