Verum inveniri

Verum Inveniri announced themselves on 11th of January, via PAC investigation board.

Original letter from G+

Hidden Info

Messing around with the levels reveals a hidden passcode - 9ug8sculptureq8w3v

This gave the beginning to their first Access Dive.

Since then this mysterious group has sporadically showed up normally with events that either involve solving a series of puzzles, or dead drops spread world wide and even teaching us encryption techniques. While they have showed to be interested only in discovering the truth, even though their members seem to support both factions individually, a series of events starting in August 2013 began to hint at activity outside of the puzzle/dead drop events.

P. A. Chapeau went offgrid October 1, 2013, halting posts to his investigation board. On the same day, the VI posted this on their g+ feed indicating potential increased involvement in the developing storyline.

Due to the sheer amount of these puzzles each dive has it's own page. These so far have begun with 2 puzzles that the solution leads to the next puzzle and normally involves a metapuzzle at the end of the 2 chains.

• Acess Dive 01 - The original
• Acess Dive 02 - The Klue schism
• Acess Dive 03

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During the day they posted several photos of locations where agents could collect an unseen storyboard (a different one in each location that contained invite codes). You can see those storyboards in here.
They also posted at the end a video where we can see the different cities used, accompanied by the the text :

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These ended up being coordinates for librairies over the globe. They were all assembled in this map by Enrique Zanardi.

The location of each activation code was given via the comms of ingress, giving a different book for each faction in each location

The collection of images from drops can be found here

All assembled we can see a order made to 855 to take care of Hubert Farlowe (the version on the bottom is an attempt of full reconstruction )

Hidden Info

Using the page numbers from each side, plus the title of the book that does not have a page number we can do following

Resistance
54 113 104 53 Essential Quantum Physics 112 50 122 55 112

Enlightened
51 113 104 56 On Tycho's Island 122 57 119 56 121

Doing Decimal to ASCII conversion with the numbers , and using the keywords in the titles we can get 6qh5quantump2z7p and 3qh8tychoz9w8y

Hidden Info 2

There are some numbers in the order form. Is this another puzzle?

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The images were for dead drops in New Orleans.
Portal 1 portal 2

What was found in the portal is seen here.

Hidden Info

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Hidden Info

In the envelop there is a message that with a bit of reordering reads (Xs were removed but they were meant as separators)

Package reported at hard rock hotel stop held for pick up under name hank johnson stop mention dice conference to verify credentials EOM

Agents recovered a package that contained passcodes

In the envelope there is also a barcode. Reading it gives 7QRD3VOXQ663U

Replace vox with clamantis. 7qrd3clamantisq663u

On the 6th of March 2014 VI posted

A few hours later they would announce the beginning of the #nominus deaddrops.

A detailed page of all is here

Dead drops at Interitus 02

Detailed Dossier

Original post

This is fairly easy to solve and it was meant as a lesson from Verum Inveniri so the solution will not be displayed here. Just use the teaching they give you. You can still find the rewards it gives in the passcode list

Extra Info

A previous version contained a different passcode 4qf3enlighteny5w2r

Original post

Hidden Info

On the image you can see 8tsin9y3rnpstoupyeaoi2
Using a railfence of 3 we get 8ye3transpositionu2p9y
At the time something was wrong with the code and it was giving an error when validating, but the rewards were given.
Later Verum Inveniri added this comment

\ +1: Sgd zrrds qdcdloshnm bncd vnqjr, ats hs’r rhcdbgzhmdc hm sn zunhc MHZ cdsdbshnm. Sgdx gzudm’s bztfgs nm xds, ats sghr gzr sgd rhcd-deedbs sgzs sgd rbzmmdq cndr mns oqnodqkx qdonqs sgd zrrds zbpthrhshnm. Sgd knmfdq sghr rszxr nee sgdhq qzczq, sgd cddodq vd bzm chud.

Using a caeser shift of 1 we get
The asset redemption code works, but it’s sidechained in to avoid NIA detection. They haven’t caught on yet, but this has the side-effect that the scanner does not properly report the asset acquisition. The longer this stays off their radar, the deeper we can dive.
The code now shows as invalid

Original post

This is fairly easy to solve and it was meant as a lesson from Verum Inveniri so the solution will not be displayed here. Just use the teaching they give you. You can still find the rewards it gives in the passcode list

Extra Info

There are several puzzles in there but they seem to solve to the same code. This seemed to be part of Verum Inveniri's April Fools joke

Original post

This is fairly easy to solve and it was meant as a lesson from Verum Inveniri so the solution will not be displayed here. Just use the teaching they give you. You can still find the rewards it gives in the passcode list

Original post

This is fairly easy to solve and it was meant as a lesson from Verum Inveniri so the solution will not be displayed here. Just use the teaching they give you. You can still find the rewards it gives in the passcode list

In addition to communication via deaddrops and their g+ account, the VI use an IRC channel. They have posted screencaps of a number of IRC chat sessions. While most of the posts contain puzzles to be decoded, there is also a developing storyline running through the chat screens (see each chat below for decoding and storyline)

On the 10th of May Theresa Chic (an anagram for Cheshire Cat) had a conversation with Verum Inveniri on their channel.

Hidden Info

The Original string was in the Verum Inveniri IRC channel. It was ODUgPH5DTHFkPDBKUDgjQkpEMXFAPDZPNUZDZkRHMGVkUSQwZW1qIn4+
Convert base 64 to ascii and then take the ascii string to convert from base 85. Convert the binary to numbers and the kw is an anagram for statue. 

2ph5statuep6p7v.

On the 30th of July VI posted an image of a terminal with some info on it and a link to their IRC channel

Hidden Info

By doing !help in the channel you would get this reply U{ ;5$A214501T9)5D534%E25$A214525$A21458 }

On the 3r of August VI posted an image of a terminal with some info on it and a link to their IRC channel

Storyline

Mention of Field Station on radio C-100. This field station is mentioned in later posts bu the VI.

Hidden Info

By doing !help in the channel you would get this reply GAQQBBcWFgQQBBUEFxYEGAQQBAYEFxY=

On the 7th of August VI posted an image of a terminal with some info on it and a link to their IRC channel


Storyline

Introduced to the Operator and Technician. In a post made by the VI on Oct. 1, 2013
(https://plus.google.com/u/0/109846653838501599116/posts/jBayN7nUWHA), the VI reveal three 
names: Titan ( ), Kryptos (Technician) and Voynich (Operator)

There is a mention of receiving a message from the field station on radio C-100 and after that line the 
Operator mentions they hope this one is not corrupted   

Hidden Info

By doing !help in the channel you would get this reply

(the spaces were not in the original, they are here to avoid a wiki style) R0lGODlhRQAFAIAAAAAAAP/ / / yH5BAAAAAAALAAAAABFAAUAAAI9DBCWe6i8zHnMWTllatZtj3jPVX3QGW7nKo5VCKrylWozRn45diuwjppNfjRbw8WjHTORJs4JjUpNUKajAAA7

Decoding as a base64 you would get a string that started as GIF hinting this was actually a GIF file.
Putting the hex equivalent
47 49 46 38 39 61 45 00 05 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff 21 f9 04 00 00 00 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 45 00 05 00 00 02 3d 0c 10 96 7b a8 bc cc 79 cc 59 39 65 6a d6 6d 8f 78 cf 55 7d d0 19 6e e7 2a 8e 55 08 aa f2 95 6a 33 46 7e 39 76 2b b0 8e 9a 4d 7e 34 5b c3 c5 a3 1d 33 91 26 ce 09 8d 4a 4d 50 a6 a3 00 00 3b
Into a Hex editor and saving the file as a .gif, you would get this

flip it and you get 9ra7verums9s9t

On the 1st of October VI posted an image of a terminal with some info on it and a link to their IRC channel

Hidden Info

By doing !help in the channel you would get this reply

R0lGODlh4wADAIAAAP/ / /wAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAADjAA MAAAJghH8BmovvoJzUMKduxLxpmFVXSCIhdXKfVHpuinbW NgX2neGWjjP30vsBe8PgLkccFpNEJk+nDDp/U9vSekVCm1 KfUXq0dksrEc2kQqfINVnl7QadX/EHDE7H69P7WakAADs=

Decoding as a b64 to file, view as gif. transcription: ddd1uu2uu1dd2u1dddd2ddd1dddd2u1bbb2u1uuuu2uu1dd2uu1dd2u1bbbbb2uu1dd2uu1uuu2ddd1uuu2uu1uuuu2ddd1uuu2uu1dddd (d=down, u=up, b=both, 1/2=pixel gaps) pairing up (using 2 as character separator), you'll notice old passcode pattern in the 1st digits, with “ddd” for numbers, “uu” for [p-z] positions, and an “u” in [a-h] position. with ddd=3, this reeks of hex. for hex we need 6's and 7's. the longest streak of marks is 5 (in bbbbb), so let's try d..ddddd=[1-5], u..uuuuu=[6-a], b..bbbbb=[b-f]: 37 72 64 34 6d 69 72 72 6f 72 78 38 79 38 74 7rd4mirrorx8y8t

On the 22nd of October a different VI account shared this image

Hidden Info

It's title was a hint to this WotD which in turn was a hint to the this part_6_-_klue_-_epiphanyold puzzle that used the same font .

Translated it reads

to 622 6e8nti w8d6r8
ty8 6e8nvh si on to ui
to 6cosb
b8t8vtson
d8 r8mu8it 622 voqqi to
w8 8nvrhpt8b kroq
nod on to pr8c8nt
ys96v4i
8oq

Using a logic replacement on the letters that are wrong you end up getting

To all agents beware
The agency is on to us
to avoid
detection
we request all comms to
be encrypted from
now to prevent
hijacks
EOM


also putting the swapped characters in order like this
abcdefghijklm
you get
6wvb8keys942q

Key is a hint to replace with the lonely word in a line - detection
6wvb8detections942q

On the 5th of March 2014 they posted

We've got something. Stand by.

Original file

Hidden Info

The audio is a SSTV transmission. Doing it as robot at 24 B/W you get the following image

s8iv5
z.M7e
nord4

Starting on the 11th of April VI did a series of posts that seem to be related to the begining of the anomalies of Interitus

Detailed info

A dead drop containing a roll of film was found by an agent. When developed it contained images of a document. See here for information on the images. Nemesis posted about the dead drop using the VI account actually created the dead drop. See also this post