Signal Effect

Signal Effect
Region:	Valley of the Sun God
Zone:	Scorched Desert
Start Location:	al-Merayah
Start Coords:	570,434
Given by:	Council laptop
Type:	Item
Reward:	314,890 Experience Experience
Repeatable:	No
Game Version:	TSW
Added in:	Update 1.0

The Council of Venice have picked up a mysterious distress signal. The temporary equipment they have set up here is not powerful enough to make out the entire message, but there might be enough clues in the parts they were able to discern.

Dialogue

• None

Journal Entries

• Tier 1: The signals and message fragments would have been saved on Amparo's computer.
  • Check the laptop for more information
  • Find and hack the first dish
  • Find and hack the second dish
  • Find and hack the third dish
  • Find and hack the fourth dish
• Tier 2: The coordinated dishes yielded more data fragments, however the signal was still encrypted. Maybe there are clues in the message that lead to the location it was transmitted from.
  • Find the source of the transmission

Rewards

• 314,890 Experience total
  • 0 XP for tier 1
  • 314,890 XP for Tier 2, upon report
• 4 Sequin of the Valley of the Sun God, upon report
• 29,170 Pax Romana, upon report

Report

Dragon

[Identical to reports from Scorched Desert missions King of the Hill and The Defence Never Rests.]

The entire world is burning. We can see it in the child's eyes. The desert is an ideal test case for the blazing horrors to come.

The thirsty visions, the symbols carved in skin, the cries of martyrs at the stake - do not shy away from any of it. They are all part of the equation.

Illuminati

[Identical to reports for Kingsmouth mission Book of the Bokor, for Savage Coast mission Stranger Than Fiction, and for Blue Mountain mission Skeleton in the Attic.]

Allow me to apologise for seeming abrupt, impersonal, and presumptuous. I simply feel it is my duty to inform you that you have exhibited great competence in the field, and, if ever you should tire of all work and the mere promise of play... Look, I'm not saying it would be easy, or even possible the way things currently stand.

Kirsten is still full of cheer and encouragement, I presume? We've met a few times at Council meetings. I find her terribly acute.

Take a stroll through London sometime. Breathe in the tradition. See how it feels. That's all I ask.

R. Sonnac

Templar

[Identical to various factions' reports for Kingsmouth mission Book of the Bokor (T), for Savage Coast mission Red's Tackle (T), for Blue Mountain missions Treasure Hunt (D&I) and (lair) The Whole Truth (D), and for City of the Sun God missions Ghoul, Well Done (D,I,T) and (lair) The Black Pharaoh's Guard (I).]

TRANSMIT - initiate disclaimer signal - RECEIVE - sweetling!

Nightmare alley is getting crowded. Look at the line! Come see the monsters claw through time. Hurry, hurry, hurry.

There will be a slight additional charge for this attraction, but it's not a dollar, it's not a dime - it's a cold smithereen minted in grime.

WITNESS - rules and regulations. No cameras, please, only notes. No one under the age of two.

Come see the world before it's through!

Don't be huffy because we hack. The show goes on! So must you.

Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Walkthrough

There are 2 tiers to this mission.

Tier 1/2

• Check the laptop for more information
  • Use the laptop on the table behind Amparo Osorio
  • Check all log entries
• Find and hack the first dish

<spoiler text="Where it is">On rooftop at (494,378)</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to get to it">Go to (516,366) and enter the building there. Go upstairs to the second floor, and then outside again and up to the roof of that building. Go to the west side of the roof, and you can jump down to an awning over the street at (500,365). From there, you can walk across to the roof of the next building, and the dish.</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Clue 1">Make sure you read the Logs in the Council laptop you got the mission from</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Solution">Set to 12.4 31.7</spoiler>

<spoiler text="What is says">

29 21 68 6f 24 28 23 23 2c 20 63 28 23 20 5f bf
23 20 68 24 21 29 20 24 23 3f 20 43 26 3d 2a 28
25 20 40 2b 72 20 29 5e 78 20 24 21 79 24 20 40
28 21 20 23 24 2a 25 6e 20 21 2a 67 23 29 23 2e
20 21 63 21 28 23 73 20 74 26 24 20 25 5e 26 40
20 6f 2a 20 24 69 2b 40 2e 20 46 5f 24 2a 21 79
2d 28 5e 75 29 20 21 65 61 23 2b 23 20 5e 26 5e
76 21 20 21 68 5f 25 20 2a 20 21 28 40 23 79 2c
20 62 40 25 20 2a 20 63 24 69 29 40 20 28 2b 20
69 40 20 5e 2a 20 23 28 65 20 5e 2a 26 21 65 20
2b 7e 20 21 65 21 5f 24 21 20 48 25 2a 40 20 6d
2a 20 5f 6f 3d 24 40 21 </spoiler>

• Find and hack the second dish

<spoiler text="Where it is">On rooftop at (540,419)</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to get to it">Go in the doorway located at (551,407). Go upstairs to the second floor, and then outside again, and up to the roof of that building. From there, face west, and jump over to the rooftop of the building with a billboard on it. From (552,413) to (545,412)</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Clue 1">Make sure you read the Logs in the Council laptop you got the mission from</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Solution">Set to 12.4 31.7</spoiler>

<spoiler text="What is says">

83 33 61 42 108 97 35 35 44 32 33 40 110 32 95
61 35 32 64 101 33 41 32 109 35 63 32 64 104 61
42 40 100 32 102 43 37 32 41 94 40 32 100 33 42
36 32 97 40 33 32 115 101 42 37 35 32 110 105 36
35 41 35 46 32 65 41 33 40 35 61 32 64 104 36 32
37 94 38 115 32 33 42 32 36 94 114 64 46 32 64
45 117 114 33 42 45 40 94 40 114 32 98 38 42 35
43 35 32 94 38 94 64 101 32 33 64 97 37 32 42 32
99 40 64 114 94 44 32 42 117 37 32 42 32 33 36
37 110 64 32 40 111 32 36 64 32 94 110 32 35 40
36 32 104 42 38 33 42 32 43 102 32 33 42 97 95
36 33 32 40 37 42 100 32 36 42 32 119 33 61 36
64 33 </spoiler>

• Find and hack the third dish

<spoiler text="Where it is">On rooftop at (590,384) </spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to get to it">Go to (593,363). Jump up on the low section of wall, turn left, and make your way up the wall. Go around the corner and then you can jump up onto the roof of the building at (602,384). If any of the cultists below aggro on you, they will leave you alone once you get on the roof.</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Clue 1">Make sure you read the Logs in the Council laptop you got the mission from</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Solution">Set to 12.4 31.7</spoiler>

<spoiler text="What is says">

KWM9KiQociMsICFhIyBfPXUqQcQhciAkIz8gQCthKiglIEArJ
SBzXiggJCEqcyBAbiEgIyR2JSMgISokaCkjLiAhKSEoczDgQC
tlICVedEAgIWYgJF4rZS4gQG8kKiEqLWZeKCkgISYqI3RzIF4
mYUAhIHdAXyUgSSAhYUAjXiwgKkBOICogIWwlKWcgKCsgJEAg
aSogdCgkIF5vdSEqICt+IGQqIXQkISAoJWVAICR5IF8hciRzIQ== </spoiler>

• Find and hack the fourth dish

<spoiler text="Where it is">On rooftop at (573,460)</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to get to it">Go to (573,461) and jump up on a crate near a door. From there, jump onto the awning over the door, and then onto a broken section of wall. From there you can go up the remainder of the wall until you are able to jump on top of the building roof.</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Clue 1">Make sure you read the Logs in the Council laptop you got the mission from</spoiler>

<spoiler text="How to hack it - Solution">Set to 12.4 31.7</spoiler>

<spoiler text="What it says">

00101001 00100001 00111101 00101010 01101100 00101000 00100011 01110011 00101100 00100000 00100001 00101000 00100011 00100000 01111001 00111101 00100011 00100000 01000000 00100100 01100001 00101001 00100000 00100100 01100101 00111111 00100000 01000000 00101011 00111101 01110011 01100101 00100101 00100000 01000000 01101111 00100101 00100000 00101001 01101001 00101000 00100000 00100100 01100001 00101010 00100100 00100000 01000000 00101000 01100100 00100000 00100011 00100100 00101010 01100101 00100011 00100000 00100001 00101010 00100100 00100011 01110100 01110011 00101110 00100000 00100001 00101001 01110010 01101111 00100011 00111101 00100000 01000000 00101011 00100100 00100000 01110000 01101001 00100110 01000000 00100000 00100001 00101010 00100000 01100110 01011110 00101011 01000000 00101110 00100000 01000000 01011111 00100100 00101010 01110100 00101010 00101101 00100001 01101111 00101000 00101001 00100000 00100001

00100110 00101010 01110011 00101011 00100011 00100000 01100011 01110010 01011110 01000000 00100001 00100000 00100001 01000000 01011111 01110100 00100000 00101010 00100000 00101100 00100000 00101010 01000000 00100101 00100000 01001001 00100000 00100001 00100100 00100101 00101001 01000000 00100000 01110100 00101011 00100000 00100100 01110100 00100000 01011110 00101010 00100000 00100011 01101000 00100100 00100000 01011110 00101010 00100110 01110011 00101010 00100000 01101111 01111110 00100000 00100001 00101010 00100001 01011111 01101000 00100001 00100000 00101000 01100101 00101010 01000000 00100000 00100100 00101010 00100000 01011111 00100001 00111101 01100100 01000000 00100001 </spoiler>

Tier 2/2

• Find the source of the transmission

<spoiler text="Clue 1">Each of the fragments is in a different code</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 2">First, you'll need to decode each of them</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 3">The first one is in hexidecimal, the second one in ascii, the third in base64, and the last in binary</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 4">Translating them all to text give you:

)!ho$(##, c(# _¿# h$!) $#? C&=*(% @+r )^x $!y$ @(! #$*%n !*g#)#. !c!(#s t&$ %^&@ o* $i+@. F_$*!y-(^u) !ea#+# ^&^v! !h_% * !(@#y, b@% * c$i)@ (+ i@ ^* #(e ^*&!e +~ !e!_$! H%*@ m* _o=$@!
S!=*la##, !(n _=# @e!) m#? @h=*(d f+% )^( d!*$ a(! se*%# ni$#)#. A)!(#= @h$ %^&s !* $^r@. @-ur!*-(^(r b&*#+# ^&^@e !@a% * c(@r^, *u% * !$%n@ (o $@ ^n #($ h*&!* +f !*a_$! (%*d $* w!=$@!
)c=*$(r#, !a# _=u*AÄ!r $#? @+a*(% @+% s^( $!*s @n! #$v%# !*$h)#. !)!(s0à@+e %^t@ !f $^+e. @o$*!*-f^() !&*#ts ^&a@! w@_% I !a@#^, *@N * !l%)g (+ $@ i* t($ ^ou!* +~ d*!t$! (%e@ $y _!r$s!
)!=*l(#s, !(# y=# @$a) $e? @+=se% @o% )i( $a*$ @(d #$*e# !*$#ts. !)ro#= @+$ pi&@ !* f^+@. @_$*t*-(o() !&*s+# cr^@! !@_t * !(r#^, *@% I !$%)@ t+ $t ^* #h$ ^*&s* o~ !*!_h! (e*@ $* _!=d@!

</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 5">The message severely garbled in each of the transmissions. But, there is enough clear text in each of them to make out the message.</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 6">Line up the 4 messages like displayed in clue 4, and read down each column</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 7">The decoded message reads (with typos):

)!ho$(##, c(# _¿# h$!) $#? C&=*(% @+r )^x $!y$ @(! #$*%n !*g#)#. !c!(#s t&$ %^&@ o* $i+@. F_$*!y-(^u) !ea#+# ^&^v! !h_% * !(@#y, b@% * c$i)@ (+ i@ ^* #(e ^*&!e +~ !e!_$! H%*@ m* _o=$@!
S!=*la##, !(n _=# @e!) m#? @h=*(d f+% )^( d!*$ a(! se*%# ni$#)#. A)!(#= @h$ %^&s !* $^r@. @-ur!*-(^(r b&*#+# ^&^@e !@a% * c(@r^, *u% * !$%n@ (o $@ ^n #($ h*&!* +f !*a_$! (%*d $* w!=$@!
)c=*$(r#, !a# _=u*AÄ!r $#? @+a*(% @+% s^( $!*s @n! #$v%# !*$h)#. !)!(s0à@+e %^t@ !f $^+e. @o$*!*-f^() !&*#ts ^&a@! w@_% I !a@#^, *@N * !l%)g (+ $@ i* t($ ^ou!* +~ d*!t$! (%e@ $y _!r$s!
)!=*l(#s, !(# y=# @$a) $e? @+=se% @o% )i( $a*$ @(d #$*e# !*$#ts. !)ro#= @+$ pi&@ !* f^+@. @_$*t*-(o() !&*s+# cr^@! !@_t * !(r#^, *@% I !$%)@ t+ $t ^* #h$ ^*&s* o~ !*!_h! (e*@ $* _!=d@!
Scholars, can y¿u hear me? Chased for six days and seven nights. Across the pits of fire. Fourty-four beasts crave what I carry, buN I cling to it in the house of death! Heed my words!

</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 7">Now, you need to find where he went</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 8">"Pits of Fire" = Eastern Scar</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 9">He was chased across the pits of fire</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Solution">Decoding the 4 messages from their various codes (hexidecimal, ascii, base64, and binary) gives you 4 messages that are mostly garbled but with a few clear-text letters here and there. Lining up all 4 messages and using what clear-text letter there is for each column/letter gives you the message. "Scholars, can y¿u hear me? Chased for six days and seven nights. Across the pits of fire. Fourty-four beasts crave what I carry, buN I cling to it in the house of death! Heed my words!". The "Pits of Fire" refers to the Eastern Scar. And, going across them takes you into The Way of Offerings, where if you look around you'll find a body at (504,1022) with a box next to it</spoiler>

• Open the box

<spoiler text="Clue 1">It's a 4-digit code</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Clue 2">The clue is in the decoded message</spoiler>

<spoiler text="Solution">The code to the box is 6744 - representing 6 days, 7 nights, and 44 beasts from the decoded message</spoiler>

Other Information

• This mission is officially an item side mission. But it behaves more like a investigation mission, requiring you to piece together various clues, and is actually trickier than some official investigation missions.
• This mission requires a lot of jumping and coordination skills. It can also be fairly frustrating trying to figure out where to go to get onto all the various rooftops if you have no patience for these types of missions.

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