Spiral Knights - Command? (V2)

Command? (V2)

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Wed, 04/16/2014 - 18:51

Eternity-Terminal

On a console at depth 23...

Source: Drone #003

I cannot continue. Depth 29 appears to be the end of the road. I am here, dressed as one of Vaelyn's knights. The squad is bad at keeping track of its members, so no one realized that I am not one of them. I have already rewired one of their terminals to myself, since the terminal only has 4 CPUs. This is pitiful compared to my 16 CPUs.

The reason I cannot jump to the Core itself is lack of energy. Much like the eye of a storm, the vast amounts of energy that are in the atmosphere of this planet do not exist very close to the Core. The sudden flux of energy levels would fry my electronics and would slaughter a biological being. While Vaelyn's squad fiddles around with a simple pass code locking the elevator (Which I have already found, but not entered for the aforementioned reason.), I am trying to hack something much more challenging: the Core itself.

It is actually another safeguard of the Core that creates this death-field. This field prevents anything from getting in and harnessing it. The energy that floats in the air and powers devices is only a side effect of the death-field. This planet itself is a side effect.

Unfortunately, the file containing the pass code isn't in a regular file, like most security systems. It's in a shadow file. Shadow files are the opposite of a compression archive. Even though this code could be only bytes long, this code sealed in a shadow file is several yottabytes in size. I cannot decrypt this file on my own. I need help, yet my siblings aren't available this close to the Core. It shall take me a roughly a thousand years to obtain the code at this rate.

END_OF_FILE

Command?

(You are left with a command prompt. What will you type?)

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 19:12

Feline-Grenadier

FIND %COMSPEC%

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 19:13

Pipipipipi

Roses are red, murder is blue, yet they don't have a clue.

open computer

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 20:23

Ultimaknightz

lolololol

> sudo rm -rf /

P.S:
If you're wondering what 'sudo rm -rf /' does, allow me to explain. sudo is a command which allows its user to have administrative privileges. rm is a command used to remove files, directories and such from a system. r is an option following rm which removes directories, though it removes the contents of it recursively beforehand. f is an option following rm, and it forces the delete as well as overriding any confirmation. So it basically forces the deletion of every file in the database, effectively removing the core from existence.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 20:38

Feline-Grenadier

Hm...

Clever, but even if we do have "Admin Access" (not "and only if", since it might take a non-admin to do it), that only deletes the files surrounding the Core (because it wasn't stated that the Core itself was 100% data). Not very useful unless you really want to lock us for eternity, but...

edit : It isn't specified either that we're running on an Unix system (though that'd be hell to make any sense), and deleting that many bytes might take more than a few seconds / minutes...

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 22:53

Dahall

-CLS -COPY

-CLS
-COPY Spiralknights.trainer+20[3L1735].exe
-FORMAT C:\
-LABEL E:\
-D:\
-DIR D:\
-PASTE
-OPENFILES Spiralknights.trainer+20[3L1735].exe

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 23:23

Ultimaknightz

@Feline-Grenadier

The operating system isn't even specified. Because of this, and also because I use a Mac that runs on UNIX, I decided to use sudo rm -rf / , which only works on UNIX based machines. In fact, 'sudo' grants the user, and I quote: "the security privileges of another user (normally the superuser, or root)". This means that it enables "root commands only from the invoking terminal", allowing administrative commands to be used. It will thus delete the Core with administrative privileges if it is running on a system like UNIX.

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 23:24

Ultimaknightz

lol

lol double post

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 23:40

Feline-Grenadier

That makes even less sense...

If you don't know what system we're running on, you decide to use that command anyways? <.>

Well, let's see what happens...

Wed, 04/16/2014 - 23:59

Ghret

You all assume the architecture of the Core is something simple, yes? Something familiar, yes? Something which allows exploits and much happinesses, yes? You will be wrong. The Core's architecture is built so that it will simply not execute certain prompts. It will have indexed several prompts which will have results different to what you expect. And what the registry holds is not exactly what resides in memory. For some of the data will be transferred from ROM to RAM as part of the bootup process and if you crash the system, that data shall be lost forever.

This is a devious system. Only by understanding the Core may you defeat it.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 00:33

#10

Feline-Grenadier

Hehe.

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 05:09

#11

Ultimaknightz

@Feline-Grenadier

The same could be said of you. If you didn't know what programing language or operating system it was using, then why even bother using a pseudo programming language you created? The answer you give should answer what you're trying to say to me.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 08:28

#12

Eternity-Terminal

The reduce confusion, commands you type go to the computer that YOU ARE ON. As if you are actually there typing it. The only way it could go to a Core terminal is if you used rsh (remote shell) or ssh (secure shell) to access it. What you see in the OP is a log coming from a drone at the Core. You'll have to figure out how his log got up to this terminal.

Feline-Grenadier
No such variable. Searching for equivalent definition...found one.
echo $BASH
/bin/dlbash
Hint: dlbash is short for "DOS-like Bourne Again Shell". It can accept both DOS and UNIX commands. No, it isn't a real thing as far as I know.

Pipipipipi
-dlbash: open: cannot access computer: No such file or directory

Ultimaknightz
User torque is not in the group "sudoer". Command denied.

Dahall
-CLS
-COPY Spiralknights.trainer+20[3L1735].exe
-dlbash: COPY: connot access Spiralknights.trainer+20[3L1735].exe: No such file or directory

-FORMAT C:\
-LABEL E:\
-D:\
-DIR D:\
All of these give this message:
No such drive: (C: or D: or E:)
You must map them first in ~/.dosdrive/
Type "help drivemap" for more information

-PASTE
-dlbash: PASTE: you need to put a file name afterward
Hint: You cannot use COPY and PASTE like you expect! The usage for COPY or cp is "COPY filename newlocation", while PASTE merges lines of files.

-OPENFILES Spiralknights.trainer+20[3L1735].exe
-dlbash: OPENFILES: command not found

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 17:56

#13

Kanoka

Been a long time, Etern-Term! :)

Command: Search for all files with the source Drone #003.

Secondary Command: Find date of previously opened file.

Thu, 04/17/2014 - 23:40

#14

Ghret

help drivemap

Sat, 04/19/2014 - 08:20

#15

Eternity-Terminal

Kanoka When you say

Kanoka
When you say secondary, you mean it should be ran if the first one fails? I'm assuming that.

/home/torque/logs/3.01.txt
/home/torque/logs/3.02.txt
/home/torque/logs/3.03.txt
/home/torque/logs/3.04.txt
/home/torque/logs/3.05.txt

Ghret
drivemap [-l|-s] [-t directory] name target Maps a drive to a directory. Name is a drive name, and should be one letter, like "C", for example. Target can either be a directory or a device. drivemap will attempt to figure it out, but if it cannot, it will assume it's a directory. the -m and -l options override this behavior. -l (symbolic link) will force drivemap to act as if target is a directory while -m (mount) will force it to behave as if it were a device. Mapped drives are stored in $DOSDRIVEDIR by default, but this can be overridden by using the -t option.

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 19:25

#16

Kanoka

Ooh! Something happened!

I'd originally meant i.e two commands, but that is fine as well. :) I just wanted to see if one would lead somewhere.

Command: Open prior searched 3.02.txt file located in /home/torque/logs/

Fri, 04/18/2014 - 20:12

#17

Oroseira

I'll send one.

drivemap Z /home/torque/

Let's see if this works, or if I accidentally used the wrong arguments.

And while I'm at it...
dir /home/torque/

Sun, 04/20/2014 - 11:12

#18

Eternity-Terminal

Phantomhamachi

/home/torque was mapped to the Z drive.

Same directory as current one; Didn't change directories.

Kanoka

Processing... (This will take a little while)

Command?

Sun, 04/20/2014 - 12:30

#19

Liminori

Maybe... this will get us some information.

Command: Search: Tinkinzar

Tue, 04/22/2014 - 23:28

#20

Eternity-Terminal

Liminori

find: Tinkinzar: No such file or directory.

Kanoka

Source: Drone #003

Since I cannot do anything else, I shall record my experiences. I shall start from after I jumped off Moorcroft Manner. It is important to note that I had not yet obtained a replacement arm at this point, so I was left with only a sword arm.

I skipped a few depths before landing on a deconstruction zone at Depth 12. Gremlins flocked everywhere, busily tearing metal off of the floor and walls. These pieces were then carted away by more workers.

One of the gremlins noticed my sudden arrival and beckoned a few of his friends. After getting over their initial surprise, they began discussing what to do with me. Some of them wanted to dismantle me. Others wanted to get rid of me ASAP. Others still wanted to sell me.

I had a different idea. A mechaknight, who didn't seem to notice me, strolled by on his preprogrammed patrol route. Such primitive a robot! I butchered its shoulder as soon as it got within sword's reach. Before it could turn to me, I gave it a kick in the head, sending it sprawling. Before those gremlins could react, I already stored the arm away. Before the gremlins could pull out their axes, I started running.

Unfortunately, the gremlins raised the alarm before I could get far. It wasn't long before I was surrounded by gremlins. Sprinting as quickly as I could, I cut down any of the workmen who got in the way. They seemed to have a knack for trying to trap me, but they were very bad at doing it; there was always some way out.

Somehow, they managed to corner me. Although no one would get behind me, it didn't matter. I figured that being overwhelmed would be inevitable. Sheathing my sword, I pulled out a Big Angry Bomb. I threw the lit bomb at my feet before anyone else could react. My foes shrieked and backed away. Some started tossing their hammers at me, but I wasn't worried about that.

The fuse grew short. I jumped and curled up. The blast flung threw me into the air, over the heads of the flock of gremlins and out of the complex. Thanks to the angle which I had chosen, flew out of the deconstruction zone. My trajectory sent me to a terminal not far below. Landing feet-first, I crashed on the floor.

My legs ceased functioning. All my attempts to stand were useless. Although I have been built my masterful hands, nothing could take so much abuse.

I pulled myself to a wall. With just one arm and no legs, it took a while before I reached my destination. When I finally got to the wall, I pulled myself up against it and began attaching the mechaknight's arm from earlier. Fortunately, I got the shield arm. Unfortunately, some thick-headed gremlin decided that all mechaknights should live with a wrench for a left arm, so it wasn't nearly as useful as my right one. However, it was better than nothing.

Unlike knights of the Spiral Order, I lack means to contact help. I cannot let the Order know I am here simply because I am not connected to their network. No matter how hard I try, the elevators of the clockworks always seem to freeze up whenever I set foot on them, so I can't use the one in this terminal. My siblings haven't responded for weeks now, so they cannot help either. I shall enter standby mode until something interesting happens.

END_OF_FILE

~~~~~

Command?

(Sorry it took so long! I've had internet troubles. This post may receive minor revisions in the future.)

Thu, 04/24/2014 - 03:49

#21

Kanoka

Hm...the story of the drone continues!

Command: Search for exterior connections to current terminal. If unable to find connections, open prior searched 3.03.txt file located in /home/torque/logs/

(If only I actually knew how to write conditionals in computer form...I need to use Excel more often. :P Hope this doesn't become too much writing for you, Etern - I'm thinking right now that there are clues in these somewhere for where to move next, and they've been a nice read.)

Fri, 04/25/2014 - 10:50

#22

Oroseira

What I mean by directory of home/torque

Open 3.01.txt.

Fri, 04/25/2014 - 10:59

#23

Eternity-Terminal

I can't make more logs for a

I can't make more logs for a little while. IRL things have cropped up.

No connections found.

EDIT: Phantom ninja'd me. Since it's technically chronologically correct, I'll do Phantom's command first.

Sat, 04/26/2014 - 18:51

#24

Oroseira

Ah.

Okay, hopefully it's here soon.

Tue, 04/29/2014 - 12:56

#25

Eternity-Terminal

Aaaand...we're back! Or...I'm back? I dunno. I'll get to writing more logs later today! Until then...

Command?

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 05:18

#26

Oroseira

Command.

Search for all .txt files.

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 13:02

#27

Eternity-Terminal

I would respond to that but then I'd be getting a bunch of requests to open ALL the...wait.

You guys would do this.

Anyway, I'm sorry to say this, but I haven't been writing lately. My time has been taken up. I'll give an explanation soon enough, but I cannot yet. For reasons I cannot say. Yet. I hope you understand.

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 03:31

#28

Kanoka

Do whatever it is you need to do, Etern.

We shall still be here afterwards! :)

Sat, 05/10/2014 - 20:02

#29

Oroseira

Not really.

I just want to know how many .txt files there are.
Afterwards I'll search for .jpeg files.

Wed, 05/14/2014 - 07:13

#30

Eternity-Terminal

Continuing to open text

Continuing to open text files...

@Phantom: Well...okay. I guess. I'm not really sure...what text files there are. I really don't like to just run through everything like that. I guess, but that'll take time. Time which I don't have right now.

EDIT: However, I can post a list of all the files and folders in the current folder, which happens to be the user's home folder.

Received file from 198.169.125.33 WARNING: Sending host cannot be connected to. You cannot send replies back, get more information, etc. Sent information looks human readable. If it's binary, it is highly recommended that you do NOT run it. Displaying:

Apocorean Reaper began stalking Argent Avenger AR: Greetings AR: It's been too long. AR: I wish I could have made contact with you a long time ago. AA: what? AA: who are you? AR: A good friend from another age. AA: i don't think i'm friends with anyone who's name sounds so grim AR: Don't be like that. AR: Like I said, it's been too long. You don't trust me anymore. AA: ... AA: you're creepy. i'm leaving AR: Hold on! AA: no AR: Consider me a scholar. I need to ask you somethings. AA: fine. as long as it's nothing creepy >:( AR: Your threatening text face looks so scary that I promise to not ask anything of the sort. AR: I understand that you hold 3 special things under your possession. Is this correct? AA: i can't tell you AR: Don't be so tight-lipped. AA: i'll leave if you act like that AR: The ancient texts never said you would be so rude. Are you really the Arbiter? AA: don't question my position. i don't trust you so i can't answer that question AR: Then I'll answer my questions for you. AR: You are located very near the core. So near, in fact, that your the time in your location has been halted. Because of this, you haven't aged for centuries. AR: In addition, all 3 of your associates also haven't aged. AA: O_O AR: I assume this wide-eyed face proves me right, does it not? AA: yes, i guess so AR: So, I already know a lot. I need to fill in the gaps of my knowledge. AR: Shall I dazzle you with more info? AR: Or will you tell me what I want to know? AA: i suppose AR: You must have the 3 items I mentioned previously, since you're the Arbiter. AR: Does the owner inherit the kingdom? AA: i think so AA: but why would anyone want to do that? the kingdom is full of zombies! AR: I'm not interested in such a thing. I do not wish to disturb such an artifact as the kingdom. AA: :I <-- skeptical face AR: I am genuinely curious. If you have to know, I'm just writing a book on this topic. AA: what!? such a book could ruin everything! AR: Rest assured that I won't publish the book. AA: i forbid you from writing such a book! don't even write a single letter of that book! AR: I have already written 6 chapters. AA: burn it! AR: ... AA: BURN IT NOW! >:C AR: How threatened I feel by your big text face. I am quivering in fear. AR: I am now stoking a fire using my sarcasm. AR: How nice it smells. AR: It's wonderful smell shall spread throughout the clockworks. AA: i am not kidding you, buster. burn the book AA: burn it or face the circumstances! AR: You cannot tell me what to do. You cannot even threaten me. If you left your abode, your age would catch up to you. AA: shut up AR: Like I said, you're more rude that I expected. AA: if i ever see your face, i'll rip it off and use it as a pillow case AR: Idle threats. You're useless to me right now. Apocorean Reaper ceased stalking Argent Avenger

Okay, it's really Homestuck-like. I like how it's done there. As a little heads up, I plan on keeping commands relevant, unlike in the old version of "Command?" However, I want to have characters which you guys can communicate with. Until then, I'll finish the text logs and post 'em.

Command?

Wed, 05/21/2014 - 19:41

#31

Oroseira

Command!

Post a list of all files and folders in the current folder.

Sat, 05/24/2014 - 19:14

#32

Eternity-Terminal

Eternity-Terminal (the writer) sees thread hasn't been updated for a long time.
ET looks over unwritten logs.

Incoming message from UID: A Opening with RIC (RIC -A "message" sends a reply.)
Sending user identifies itself as SM

SM: Hello. SM: I was told to contact you...whoever you are. SM: So...who are you? You were supposed to be expecting me, if I understood right.

Command?

Wed, 06/11/2014 - 18:03

#33

Oroseira

Command.

RIC -A Hi. I'm just a guy who's just pouring through this data on this machine. I...never heard anything about expecting you.

Wed, 06/11/2014 - 18:30

#34

Ironic-Biscuit

Herp my derp.

RIC- I know who you are. Better confess now. (bluff)

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 16:17

#35

Eternity-Terminal

I'm always watching...

SM: Oh. Maybe I got the wrong person? SM: Or maybe someone's pulling a prank on me SM: I think I know who... >.>

SM: !!! SM: Confess...what? SM: What are you driving at?

Command?

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 17:01

#36

Ironic-Biscuit

Silly Drone! The thingy, obviously!

RIC - You damn drone. You are not authorized to access Spiral HQ files, nor are you authorized to disguise yourself as one of Valen's men. So I say again. Confess.

Thu, 06/12/2014 - 17:22

#37

Liminori

Continuation of agressive bluff!

「RIC: You know what I'm talking about. Out with it.」 (bluff)
(Gagh! Ninja'd!)

Sat, 06/14/2014 - 01:00

#38

Oroseira

Command.

RIC -A Oh good, they're trying to derail and belittle you. Just ignore them.

Mon, 06/16/2014 - 17:59

#39

Eternity-Terminal

(All typos are intentional)

SM: Ooh, I thought you were talking about the cookies... SM: Drone? What are you trying to say? SM: And I I know no Valen and I confess nothing!

SM: This has got to be the worst prank that I've ever since... SM: ever since the Shankle in the mattress! SM: Anyhow, back off before I punch my monitor.

SM: Orly? SM: And who is this 'they'? SM: you mean to say that there are a lot of you? SM: Are you all short and round and fat? SM: Waitno don't answer that last question.

Command?

Tue, 06/17/2014 - 08:05

#40

Liminori

Ehehe...

RIC - Don't worry, There's just multiple of us due to a multiple personality disorder. Don't let it bug ya.