=== PHASE 0 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/weekly.htm Click the portal. === PHASE 1 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/grand/schematics.htm The title of the page is "The Artist". To find the artist of the song playing in encapsulated.mp3, use your favorite song identifier such as Shazam, AHA Music, Soundhound, etc. The song is The Whole World and You by Tally Hall. Enter "tallyhall" into the url. === PHASE 1.1 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/grand/tallyhall.htm The name of the imagea is album.jpg. Repeat the method in PHASE 1. The song in darkerterors.mp3 is Murders, in the album Hawaii Part II. enter "hawaiipartii" in the url. === PHASE 1.1 EGG == https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/grand/hawaiipartii.htm The source code contains two comments. We'll ignore the first one for now. The second one hint that something was wrong in PHASE 1.1. This refers to the typo in the audio filename. Fixing the typo, we get the file darkerterrors.mp3. The new audio conatins short clips from various songs in Hawaii Part II. We'll use the second comment to extract letters from the songs. The pair of numbers represent word-letter. ┌──────────────────────────┬──────┬────────┬─────┐ │ Song Title │ Word │ Letter │ Res │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┤ │ Introduction to the Snow │ 01 │ 08 │ C │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┤ │ Isle Unto Thyself │ 03 │ 05 │ E │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┤ │ Black Rainbows │ 02 │ 04 │ N │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┤ │ The Mind Electric │ 01 │ 01 │ T │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┤ │ Labyrinth │ 01 │ 05 │ R │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────┤ │ Time Machine │ 02 │ 02 │ A │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────┼────────┼─────│ │ Stranded Lullaby │ 02 │ 01 │ L │ └──────────────────────────┴──────┴────────┴─────┘ Enter "central" into the url. === PHASE 2 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/grand/lethargic/decentralization.htm The source code contains a comment mentioning a certain "zone improvement plan". The first letters spell out "ZIP". The file mountainclimber.zip exists. The ZIP contains a single text file. The top sections contains a Sudoku puzzle. Under it we have a series of questions, and blow that, an incomplete link. We can easily answer the questions by just looking them up. Here are their solutions: A: Eight B: Chapter 2 C: Four masks D: LV 1 E: 6 F: Chapter 9 G: 3 H: 07 I: 5 leaves We can now substitute the letters in the Sudoku with their correct values. Here is the solved puzzle: +-----+-----+-----+ +-----+-----+-----+ |? |A B |C | |7 9 1|8 2 3|4 6 5| | ? | D| | |3 8 6|5 4 1|2 9 7| | ?|E F |G A | |5 2 4|6 9 7|3 8 1| +-----+-----+-----+ +-----+-----+-----+ | D |? H |A B| |9 1 5|3 7 6|8 4 2| |E B|C ? A|F G| |6 7 2|4 5 8|9 1 3| |A G| D ?| H | |8 4 3|2 1 9|5 7 6| +-----+-----+-----+ +-----+-----+-----+ | I H| A B|? | |1 5 7|9 8 2|6 3 4| | |D | ? | |2 3 8|1 6 4|7 5 9| | F| G I| ?| |4 6 9|7 3 5|1 2 8| +-----+-----+-----+ +-----+-----+-----+ Reading out the diagonal gives us the number 784359658. This fits the missing part of the url. Visiting the link sends us to an image displaying the text "bit.ly/dissolvedcapsulepill". Visiting that link will send us to the next phase. === PHASE 3 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/grand/lethargic/annihilation/unfortunate.htm Reverse image searching wonder.jpg reveals that it originates from the game Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2. Together with the word "wonder", one can land on WonderMail. A decoder is available at https://syphist.com/pmd/rt/wondermail.php. This spits out the following data: Deliver one No-Stick Cap. No-Stick Cap makes me strong. Please trade me one! Client: Blissey Objective: Deliver No-Stick Cap. Place: Unown Relic B1F Difficulty: B Reward: Silver Spike + ? Using the comment "[CLIENT][PLACE][OBJECTIVE ITEM][REWARD], Take only the first letters", we can extract the letters: [B]lissey [U]nown Relic B1F [N]o-Stick Cap [S]ilver Spike + ? Enter buns into the url. === PHASE 4 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/structure/tidy.htm Combining the source comment "uni" with the image name "code" gives us "unicode". Navigating to unicode.htm tells us that the unicode characters are hidden. To see the hidden characters, paste the source code into https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=To_Charcode('Space',16). We have three different invisible characters. U+200C, U+200B, and U+2060. Here I have substituted U+200C with a 1, U+200B with a 0, and U+2060 with a newline: 1100010 1101111 1110010 1101110 1100001 1101110 1100100 1110010 1100001 1101001 1110011 1100101 1100100 This is 7-bit binary for the solution, bornandraised. === PHASE 5 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/structure/stigma/unturned.htm The level mentions logic and gates. Go to logicgates.htm. The logic symbols are: ∨ = OR ∧ = AND ⊻ = XOR ↑ = NAND ↓ = NOR ↔ = XNOR ⇒ = IMPLY The source code tells us that colors are either 1 or 0, and that two groups exist. We are also given two useful lines: The two groups in question are primary and secondary colors. Red, Green, and Blue are all ones, while Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan are all zeros. Solving each line, and subsituting 1, 4, 2, 5, 4, 6, 7, 1, 3, 1, 6 with their respective lines, gives us 1738 once converted to decimal. Go to 1738.htm. We are given song lyrics, enter the name of the song into the url. trapqueen.htm. === PHASE 6 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/structure/stigma/blasters/rocketship.htm We are told to "Look inside the mind...". This is a hint for checking the metadata. The artist of the image is listed as "bit.ly/thelogicalmind". Visiting the page leads us to a Google Docs sheet. The title contains the word "Adjacent". For each cell, note down how many adjacent black lines exist. Here is the full grid: 1112111 2100021 1111011 1200012 1101321 2201221 1101121 1100011 If you look at the 0s, they draw the number 2. Enter 2.htm or two.htm in the url. === PHASE 7 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/ennui/trapped.htm The note mentions flying, and we are given three letter codes. This is about airports. The title's initials are also IATA, which is the type of code we need. For each airport, take its IATA code, and then take the letter in the same position as the red square. DD[I] B[N]P EX[T] MI[R] [A]YW This spells the prefix "intra". Go to intra.htm. === PHASE 8 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/ennui/anticipation/sounds.htm Looking at information.txt, we are given a set of instructions, and then the resulting string. Jumping represents printing a letter, while the rest of the instructions are simply how to move around. You will be able to fill in enough letters by using the examples to figure out the resulting string from the last one. The solution is APATHY. === PHASE 9 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/ennui/anticipation/chimera/crazy.htm The level mentions a star, and north. This is about the northern star. Go to polaris.htm === PHASE 9.1 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/ennui/anticipation/chimera/polaris.htm The coordinates lead to Glass Beach. This will be useful shortly. The source code lets us find the file traffic.log. The "To IP" column contains song lyrics encoded in ASCII. These songs are from an album called Glass Beach. The "ASCII" column tells us how to index into the song titles to extract letters. We will use "[Word][Letter]". run yourself out of words to say you're hopelessly lonely yoshi's island [2][4] = a before the sky falls down and the earth goes up in flames neon glow [2][1] = g dead cacti hang limply in old valley apartment hallways bone skull [1][3] = n she writes emo songs she's so depressed bedroom community [1][2] = e how could i ever sleep at night classic j dies and goes to hell part 1 [2][1] = j Anagram the letters to get the word "jenga". === PHASE 9.2 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/ennui/anticipation/chimera/jenga.htm The source code tells us the first few seconds of the video are missing. Yes they are actually missing, this is a mistake. Therefore we'll ignore the first letter for now. We can notice cuts in the video whenever the player reaches a checkpoint. Checkpoints have a flag icon on them, and the player performs two dashes in various directions next to each checkpoint. This is semaphore, and the solution is cranberries. === PHASE 9.3 === https://encapsulated-world.surge.sh/ennui/anticipation/chimera/cranberries.htm Go to home/okay.htm. === END === Enter happybirthdaywafflesmeowmeowthisweeklywasnotmemorableatall into the weeklies site.