Spice and Ken set up a meeting with Soleia to see what information she had that could help, but they learned that she was unable to remember anything from the time in question. Spice and Ken were determined to not give up and took Soleia to see Intoxicating the Average, a Gene Editor, in hopes that she could help restore the memories that Soleia had lost.
They learned a Memory Dam had been implanted in Soleia to block her memories, and they tried to erode the dam to get a small portion of her memories back. The procedure was a success, and Soleia remembered being locked up in a cold place and that the Hubur Key (one of Asherah’s 7 key relics) was needed to get her in and out. They realized that ShaDAO must have taken Ken to the same place, and that they would need the Hubur Key to rescue him. Luckily, Soleia remembered exactly who held the multi-sig wallet that contained it. But they would have to execute a difficult coordinated d-mezz of all 3 of them at the same time in order to burn the multi-sig wallet and drop the unburnable relic.
With the knowledge that Soleia provided – that the 3 ShaDAO members are Stanton, Luther Radioactive, and Fay from Acidic – questers turned to The Moderator for help. The Moderator was able to provide questers with some information about the ShaDAO members, but it was up to the questers to determine in what order to carry out the attacks for each. After discovering the locations of their targets, questers engaged in a targeted ad campaign to carry out the attack by luring the targets to each location by block 7200. This led to the successful claim of the Hubur Key by Soleia.
Quest Puzzle Solutions
Summary
Quest #4 introduced The Moderator as an interactive character in Discord as players worked to discover what it would take to save Ken.
During the Quest, participants did the following:
Followed the breadcrumbs left in the ShaDAO documents The Moderator provided, which led them to Exploit from Rosey in Discord. Exploit from Rosey then gave questers a new role and access to the DarkNet channel.
Questers helped The Moderator decrypt a profile ShaDAO had on a CyberBroker named Soleia.
Questers learned that in order to rescue Ken they needed the Hubur Key, which is held by ShaDAO agents in a 3 person multi-sig wallet.
Players split into teams of Mind, Body, and Soul to solve a puzzle, track down popular locations that each target frequents, and send targeted ads out on Twitter in an effort to lure the targets to their locations prior to the coordinated attack at block 7200.
Puzzle Walkthrough
Finding The Moderator
Questers began by receiving a message from Spice wondering if a breadcrumb trail was left by The Moderator on how to find them, as they may be the only one who can help find Ken.
Then, questers took a closer look at the 5 ShaDAO documents previously uncovered in Quest #3:
- https://etherealnode.com/
shadao/ - https://pandapandapanda.org/
shadao/ - https://vdreamscapes.com/
shadao/ - https://polymetalab.com/
shadao/ - https://power-eleven.net/
shadao/
Questers found a unique string found within the keywords of the meta-data of the documents. There were 5 strings total to be found – each listed below.
- 801d210c626e79886d41a63316c4c9
f3756a293dbbc6f29f2b99ac0c7fea 9493239de99b806335e996fd87d140 b5953bedf0eb7ff017043623798d84 166913cc5d7cc02905a1488a241e65 cdb0dc18f3cedd292aee1b4cc6cc98 766d13f9254bdc2dbf05cb0fb5c20f f0408491011d07e7d586eb0056fe34 0a7dedf512b8b97feb3 - 80265b13d4e8a4de7428ecddb2fd05
9f1a895c57a55bacbd7381300775c8 97974c114cc5c5eb8a1c733bc784b6 617c2c97f24a5f0337b06417c96350 d10c06b0908cfc184da182d1d304b8 6dcf575fdce9dffc1f86edc87e637e ba6518838de817fd48e5b49cfacc87 3409ad86e06393db2cd34bc216fec8 134e9b399a1de60b51c - 80357e1f52658110b8cad6df18607d
55d27e746edb3803cb51380472d056 fcad28a8e7d208a67298c6185a6c6a e604cd07cafad95bfb8f3d4c3503ff 6c5ed2ac6d097db706e15dfc5e627c f296f300751add794d18a1caeec0b6 b5a0213eaddd7f774316edc0696930 c37a649bd14c8425a6c709ab1bf6c3 4e67e63382d93e78d81 - 80442bae56d60c525bf119af982c2e
4aeeba5b3ac43049944fcba243d654 34732d352dfc90a3c278da7c507713 56c0c2b3b90045bf153bb5dd6d8d93 ffbfcf67de805edf2b7b1d42723f2f 7e2aa0f9bf5e89733dfb46b4ca9d27 d47b72c0e2f5ac7907214b0c55582a a8ada89805d9896be525936102c238 004218c8c0b33b36cd7 - 805ea3707f239ffc2379d49924af31
1e451dd40c23e884ef10e16d1936e5 5285fdb09b6d3da5db7c2466197148 ed1ab6016a716dff9ae6b37f699d7c 510c2d9841d96bf27b3f35d84370fd 5ddf2f13724f16309444bfae48c1fe 85a4dec0194a7a44c3d23d99211a50 7b93b2aea46a8ee8426ead55be695c 4af5491c784167e3cb4
These 5 strings were the 5 pieces to a Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme that was used to split secrets among many people (such is wallet seeds) and was recombined here: https://iancoleman.io/shamir/