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Badge Guide (to avoid spoilers, encoded with rot13¹): * Cannonball!: Tb ba gur qvivat obneq va gur cbby. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba. * Treasure Hunt

• why_at 6mo ago
  Is there anything to the weird book in the treehouse or is it just for flavor? It seems to be alluding to something but I can't figure it out.
  • krackers 6mo ago
    There's mention of the cave and a "convergence point". I tried looking all around the cave, but there doesn't seem to be anything there (although you can find the drawings on the walls) Edit: I looked at the source though and I don't see anything else clickable in the cave... No hidden secret badge either, maybe it is just for ambiance.
    • notsylver 6mo ago
      There's also a locked door in one of the buildings, but I couldn't figure out what either mean if anything. It would be cool if the radio was used for something though
      • krackers 6mo ago
        Yeah I saw that too, but the list of all accessible rooms is also in the code and the only scenes I see are default sauna tent cave treehouse house-main house-cafeteria house-bedroom house-trophey boat telescope It would be really cool if there were some secrets, but alas it appears not (unless it's obfuscated in the source as well)
      • latexr 6mo ago
        The radio in the treehouse might be relevant. See my sibling comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961275
    • latexr 6mo ago
      Turning the antenna in the treehouse gives different messages of about two minutes each. It’s a bit hard to listen to the whole thing without someone else interrupting by changing the antenna, so here are the audio files: https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/sounds/harold-1.mp3 https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/sounds/harold-1.mp3 https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/sounds/harold-2.mp3 https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/sounds/harold-2.mp3 There’s talk of the tent near the beach, the gong, and gathering at the big fire once you hear the call. There’s also talk of the cave, the star map, trusting the bats, and reading the right side of the book carefully. Though it seems to me the audio may be outdated and that the star map was initially in the book and was since moved to the telescope. The right side of the book mentions the time 8:47. If we look at the star map, only two of them are pointing inwards. If we consider that a “convergence point”, it should be around the area of the big fire and tent. That’s as far as I’ve got with this.
      • why_at 6mo ago
        Hmm this is interesting. I was playing on mute so I didn't notice the radio messages. I was thinking the "convergence point" was the center of camp with the sign since that's where all the paths meet up and the book mentions something about that. The radio also says "I just put a sign on it". >it seems to me the audio may be outdated and that the star map was initially in the book and was since moved to the telescope He also mentions he wrote it in 1967 but the book says 1987
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      • krackers 6mo ago
        >look at the star map, here's the star map fwiw https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/optimized/maps/telescope.webp https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/optimized/maps/telescope.webp, there's a convergence point already labeled. And for reference here's the map of the camp: https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/optimized/maps/treehouse.webp https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/optimized/maps/treehouse.webp Why do you say the point corresponds with the fire, to me it seems closer to the dance studio
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• nickvec 6mo ago
  Why not encode the badge names as well in rot13?
  • mh- 6mo ago
    They've been encoded twice for extra protection.
    • mmahd7456 6mo ago
      Nice!
  • latexr 6mo ago
    Because then you’d need to decode the full message and might read something you didn’t mean to. This way you can decode just the individual ones you want. The badge names aren’t secret, they’re available in the book in the house even before you unlock them.
    • lgas 6mo ago
      Could just include the badge names both unencoded and encoded to get the best of both worlds.
• steve_adams_86 6mo ago
  The encoding is too advanced