The 2018 Game
Round 1
September 1: The Quest Is Revived
Quetzalcoatl 2100 announced the game has begun. Four different sheets began to appear announcing a prize to the winner.
September 3: E Solves The Davis Path
E solved the Caesar cipher, found the next, and solved the riddle at quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/davis.html. There, E found the password to quetzacoatl2100.neocities.org/continue.html and unlocked her key to Round 2.
September 5: O Solves The Davis Path
September 10: K Solves The Davis Path
September 11: J Solves The Penn Path
J solved the scrambled cipher, found the video it led to, and found the final clue in the BTB basement. There, J found the password to quetzacoatl2100.neocities.org/continue.html and unlocked his key to Round 2.
September 13: E Solves The Davis Path
September 13: T Solves The Davis Path
September 14: I Solves The Davis Path
Round 2
September 15: Teammates
Each player was chosen to select a team as per the rules of quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/start.html at the end of Round 1: Quetzalcoatl or Tezcatlipoca?
From there, each choice led to another: quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/quetzalcoatl.html led to Empathy and Faith while quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/tezcatlipoca.html led to Intellect and Perception.
Empathy: E and I
Faith: O and E
Intellect: K and T
Perception: J
September 18: K Solves Intellect
K was given a code: c30c1da2dca8badb9b79da2d7289bfc1ab5c86ab9eb2d8a89ef13c8c3edcda45d750 which translated to a YouTube video.
The title of the video led to a location in Penn with a railfence cipher.
The cipher led to a website, nonograms.relaxpuzzles.com/nonogram/11452, which held a nonogram. When solved, K found the puzzle translated to binary which spelled out a file name: esl.jpg.
From there, K found a paper telling her how to enroll in Round 3.
September 18: O Solves Faith
O was given a file name: templar.png.
O translated this to mean "romepng".
When the Roman numerals were converted, they presented an ISBN that lead to a book. Inside the book, O found a paper asking "What did Jesus build upon Peter? _ _ _ _ _.jpg"
Answering church gave O church.jpg.
From there, O found a paper telling her how to enroll in Round 3.
September 20: E Solves Faith
Round 3
October 1: The Final Round Begins Silently
Players were given a link to quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/final.html as soon as they finished Round 2. On October 1st, it changed without an announcement.
October 29: K Wins The Game
By translating the text on quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/final.html, K was able to find quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/begin.txt.
K then read begin.txt sideways to find quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/number.html.
By counting the letters in each word, K was able to find quetzalcoatl2100.neocities.org/esrever.html.
By hitting CTRL-A on PC, K highlighted the words which were reversed.
From there, K visited the Garvey Art Building and found a crossword.
By solving the crossword, K found the clues that would lead her to look under a specifc table in Edmund Stanley Library.
The table led K to find ascii.jpg.
The file directly led K to a YouTube link after being opened, mathematically manipulated, and deciphered.
From there, K was directed to a video.
K discovered the video pointed to a location underneath Davis Hall.
That location held a single piece of paper with "chicken.jpg" written on it.
By opening the image in Notepad, K was able to find what she should do with it.
K won the 2018 Quetzalcoatl Quest.
Is it over?
From there, a file name could be found. What did it mean?
