The MIST2000 Treasure Hunt: Puzzle #8, explained!

OK, so you jumped through the hoops. bit.ly/spiderlegs delivered you a file, isenough.rar, which contained a very brief text file that just read “examine not the contents but the container”, plus some SAUCE metadata, fingering this file as: the contents. Finally, an actual puzzle! It’s not much of one, but it requires you to do a little more than sit, wait and watch.

In a perfect world, you scrutinize the .RAR archive itself (“the container”) for the SAUCE with which it has been invisibly enriched using SPOON – but in a pinch, you can just open it in a text editor and take a peek seeking out text strings at the end. Here, so close to the end, it sends you further along, to bit.ly/planesofHell. Could the end of our epic quest be within reach? Very nearly so, I think!