I made this funny TTRPG in half a year, it is illustrated and written by me. It is essentially a light hearted cosmic horror RPG, had a ton of fun making it (except the physical strain that sucked), here is a link, check it out tell me what you think.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gth6NMaWHaj11YRezcnOYvQvn1ATq9JQ?usp=drive_link
After a lot of pain I managed to turn a nice pdf I had into a book looking thingie, I like it a lot mainly because I got carpal tunnel doing all the drawings. It is a light hearted TTRPG that takes place during the prohibition(Dates are hilariously off but I will ignore that and say it's my head cannon) here it is tell me what you think about it.
I made some progress in decrypting absolutesolver.com, I managed to decode the 3 problems into hexes but they are still decrypted the hexes are bellow, the original post is here and the website is absolutesolver.com specifically https://absolutesolver.com/a9f3b7c2d1e4/
Problem 1
Salt: e3 3c 0f ce 23 5d 0b 0f ca 78 99 65 2f 33 e6 45 98 ea 7d 0c 4d 5a 5f 33
IV: 53 53 3b a0 ae c5 74 01 29 e8 01 64 c0
Ciphertext: 2e 7f ae bc 8c 01 fb 03 eb 15 b6 55 8b af 09 ba 0c
Auth tag: dd 7c aa 97 f7 07 af 10 55 c7 48 85 ae 5e ca
Problem 2
Salt: ea 05 5f 7a e4 87 4c d9 be f3 ce 60 f2 da 05 dc a9 d4 38 1a 0a 25 c1 0a
IV: a7 b6 e4 0f b7 36 cc 39 d0 8a f6 d5
Ciphertext: 9d 2b c5 a5 77 b5 17 a5 3b 23 05 49 94 40 34 7a
Auth tag: d0 b1 c1 1a 68 f5 99 91 f6 86 6f ce 12 35 67 b1
Problem 3
Salt: 42 43 d3 4f f1 df 32 f7 4b 22 c9 45 59 a4 ee cf b7 bd 13 26 7f 2d 79
IV: 2f 59 c8 b5 31 48 53 fe 00 36 f3 77
Ciphertext: 32 c0 c9 21 e8 43 7d bc 3c b3 64 90 94 04 31 0a
Auth tag: ca 97 37 d8 f0 6c 43 25 4e ea 2e 79 f4 e7 6f 8d
V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf
I was poking around absolutesolver.com and I got pretty far but eventually I reached the riddle bellow and I got stuck since I specialize in web crawling and I SUCK at cyphers and riddles, here's the page if you want to see but I have also pasted the riddle below; also I found in another part of the website the vingerne keys "SOLVER", "GHOST" and "NULLBYTE" so it would be quite good and there's what I think the sites encryption page here:
Payload (AES-256-GCM)
Three witness registers share one derivation scheme,
carved from the same long standard, cold and clean.
Migrations duplicated every envelope twice
for cold-site parity at the mirrored ice.
Seal material drifts where each ledger lies;
match the register whose seal fits the payload’s size.
Determining which name belongs to what is live
is your workflow. Solve it or the silence thrives.
Problem I
Key derivation
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 · iterations: 2100000
Salt (base64)
zjwPziNdCw/KeJllLzPmRljqfQxNWl8z
Nonce / IV (base64, 12 bytes)
U1O6CuxdAEp6AWTA
Ciphertext (base64)
Ln+uvIwB+w+sVtlWLrwm6w==
Auth tag (base64)
3Xyql/cHrxBVx0nCFrl7qA==
Problem II
Key derivation
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 · iterations: 2100000
Salt (base64)
6gV965IdM2b7zzmDy2gXcpp1DgawiXBq
Nonce / IV (base64, 12 bytes)
p7bkD7c2zDnQivbU
Ciphertext (base64)
nSvFpXe1F6U7IwVJlEDR6A==
Auth tag (base64)
0bHBGmj1mZH2hm/OEjVnsQ==
Problem III
Key derivation
PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 · iterations: 2100000
Salt (base64)
QkPTT/H3zL3SyLJUVlpO7Pt70TJn8teS
Nonce / IV (base64, 12 bytes)
L1nItTFIU/gANvN3
Ciphertext (base64)
MsDJIehDfbw8s2SQlARMKQ==
Auth tag (base64)
ypc32PBsQyVO6i59052+NQ==
Six pieces, one string, no room to breathe,
three problems stacked but one holds the key.
Different seal material keeps the fakes in disguise.
Stitch the six together. No spaces. No lies.
The front door talks too much inside its source code,
confessing encrypted data down that road.
Under that heading, the first hex alone
is yours to take, exactly as shown.
Other hex under other names? Dead archive bones.
Where every honest route crawls off to die,
the first builder’s comment names a cipher key. Don’t be shy.
Later comments are rotated, old builds, expired and done.
You want the first one. Only the first one.
The polite ghost file mapping who built this maze
hides one last copper joke in a hex-encoded phrase.
Steal the whole token, prefix and all.
Drop any part of it and you’ll hit a wall.
Six letters the cultists trade for the listening pit,
lowercase, always lowercase, every last bit.
Sixteen characters name the hole you’re standing in.
No slashes, no mercy. Just the name of this bin.
Four digits the front door buries twice
in its oldest closing seal. Look once. Look twice.
Two million iterations still punish the wrong guess.
Good luck or whatever. Clean up your mess.
V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf (this is unrelated btw)
So my pip for the longest time won't function correctly, it renders the install part of the command as a syntax error and I can't download my libs which has been annoying to say the least, does anyone know how to fix it?