The MIST2000 Treasure Hunt: Puzzle #7, explained!
ANSI, ASCII, lit, RIPscrip, tracker music… did we represent all of the computer underground scene’s art forms yet? Not quite: where are the intros and loaders? I took the liberty of minting one in an old Intro Maker application, which bit.ly/pillarsofwisdom delivered up to you after a casual UUdecoding: PLEIADES.EXE, named for the Seven Sisters asterism. I don’t know if I was running out of time or out of ideas, but this is another no-puzzle puzzle (A WAR OF ATTRITION IS STILL A WAR REGARDLESS!); all you need do is sit through a list of greets. (The list consists of all Mistigris members currently credited on Demozoo, and runs around 6 minutes long, but if you don’t have that kind of time to burn, the first completer of the puzzle challenge took a shortcut and just thumbed through the loader’s data with a hexeditor to expedite the delivery of the scrolly’s text.)
But if you’re too busy even to help yourself, know that the message revealed at the conclusion of the scrolly bar oriented you toward the next helpful URL: bit.ly/spiderlegs … and with it, we approach the last of your opportunities to solve even a single step of this treasure hunt on your own!
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