Controlled Crack p2 - April 16

Before hibernation, Sys also logged something it found in S's tentacle when analyzing it. A datastream it can't quite understand. It came in two parts, but each looks broken into 8 parts:

gpKKCQkNDQ0 H+AfeODC7Pg CQkPB2Ji5KQ QUFCgoOCgIA 5AQIECDAAAA AAADBAgQICA +AcABAYDAQE AADAIBAIBIQ

HX39+fn6+vI AAMe+IAAB/g gICAgIBDR0Q c39/fnzwAAA gAA8yJgwMDA AIDA4T8A4B8 qDAhAQMDAwE JicTCQQDAAA


What does it mean?

New info!

S updated her hiding place at READY-OR-NOT while waiting for the location to be reported to Sys.

I sure hope the rest of my hidden pieces are found soon!
Boxes, boxes, boxes. That was a fun puzzle! I think I'll make a harder one sometime.


It really is quiet here...
When I yawn, I do this: 001111000011101001001111

I wonder what's taking so long this time for sis to find me.
Maybe this will get her attention!

00000000 00111100 00110000
00011000 01000010 00011000
00011000 10011001 00001100
00000000 10100101 00000100
00000000 10100101 00000100
00011000 10011110 00001100
00011000 01000000 00011000
00000000 00111110 00110000

hee hee!

If you get rid of the 0's and just look at the ones, it's a Pignose! :@)

The main puzzle isn't solved yet, but people have been playing around with converting the parts. If those updates are hints, and they are base64 parts, then converted to binary, they look like this:

10000010
10010010
10001010
00001001
00001001
00001101
00001101
00001101

00011111
11100000
00011111
01111000
11100000
11000010
11101100
11111000

00001001
00001001
00001111
00000111
01100010
01100010
11100100
10100100

01000001
01000001
01000010
10000010
10000011
10000010
10000000
10000000

11100100
00000100
00001000
00010000
00100000
11000000
00000000
00000000

00000000
00000000
00000011
00000100
00001000
00010000
00100000
00100000

11111000
00000111
00000000
00000100
00000110
00000011
00000001
00000001

00000000
00000000
11000000
00100000
00010000
00001000
00000100
10000100

00011101
01111101
11111101
11111001
11111001
11111010
11111010
11110010

00000000
00000011
00011110
11111000
10000000
00000000
00000111
11111000

10000000
10000000
10000000
10000000
10000000
01000011
01000111
01000100

01110011
01111111
01111111
01111110
01111100
11110000
00000000
00000000

10000000
00000000
00111100
11001000
10011000
00110000
00110000
00110000

00000000
10000000
11000000
11100001
00111111
00000000
11100000
00011111

10101000
00110000
00100001
00000001
00000011
00000011
00000011
00000001

00100110
00100111
00010011
00001001
00000100
00000011
00000000
00000000

Other theories are that it's actually a mixed up matrix of values, or it's one big encrypted string, or something else, but it doesn't look like anyone's figured it out yet.

New info!

The binary blocks were actually parts of a binary image!  Put them together the right way, and once again we see:

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-----#---####--------#----#-----
----#---###----------##----#----
---#----##----#-------##----#---
--#-----###-##---------#-----#--
--#-----#####----------##----#--
-#-----##-----------#--##-----#-
-#-----#------------#--##--#--#-
-#----#---####------#####---#-#-
#-----#-##--#--------###----#--#
#-----###--##----##---#-----#--#
#-----#---##-----##---#-----##-#
#---------##----###--#------##-#
#---------##----#-#--#------##-#
#--------###--###-#-#------###-#
#--------#######--##-----#####-#
#--------#######--#----#######-#
#--------######--------######--#
#--------#####--------#######--#
-#----######----------#######-#-
-#---###--------------#######-#-
-#---#-----------------#####--#-
--#--##-----------------###--#--
--#--####-------------##-----#--
---#--####---------####-----#---
----#--####----######------#----
-----#----#######---------#-----
------##----------------##------
--------###----------###--------
-----------##########-----------