Keys
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Players are started off with an image and a YouTube video, which leads to the first episode of Game Theory. Using the video (or using some efficient Google searches), one can find the answers to the questions in the image. Specifically, the answers are Lucca, Pendant, Novikov, and Morris-Thorne. Each of those answers appears in the maze, and they each have at least one yellow highlighted letter. Putting those highlighted letters together gives the word Lavos (aka the final boss of Chrono Trigger). This goes in the incomplete link at the bottom-right, which gives unturnnostone.com/lavos. The link explicitly states that the first key is Marle.
Additionally on the Lavos page, there are two download links. They lead to:
There are 3 layers to GATE-6-MASTER.PSD: ChronoTrigger, HIDDEN | | DON’T LOOK, and Background. The second layer, called "HIDDEN | | DON’T LOOK", tells players that they have to set each layer of the .PSD file to the ‘multiply’ setting in Photopea.
Red symbols can be seen on the ChronoTrigger layer, similar to those on the Background layer. This indicates that the player must move the ChronoTrigger image to align with the Background symbols. Finally, Missing Piece A.png can be placed in the bottom-left hexagon, since the faded details on the hexagon lines up with the rest of the journal at that spot.
Key 2 starts off similarly to Key 1, with a maze and a YouTube video. The video turned out to be the first ever episode of Film Theory, one talking about the Harry Potter series. Players can open up the image above in a text editor like Notepad, with the bottom having some text.
In the text editor, the text at the bottom has some mistakes. The important part is what's first: "THE UNCHOSEN ONE". The rest of the text was already dealt with for the first key, and is now irrelevant.
According to the video, Neville Longbottom is the ‘unchosen one’ in the Harry Potter Universe. The correct answers turned out to correspond to Neville. They are July 30, Alice, Trevor, Nagini, Phoenix, and Snape (see video for explanations). Each of these answers has a red highlighted letter like in the first key, and putting them all together results in the word Leviosa. Players can then navigate to unturnnostone.com/leviosa using the incomplete link at the bottom.
Like with the first key, there was a missing piece and part of the journal. These files are:
Like before, players had to line these pieces up with the master journal, using the red symbols and the fine background details as reference. Lining up the journal pages completed alien glyphs reading "Everett", which was the password for the second key.
For key three, it start off with a single image saying www.unturnnostone.com/gate6key3.psd, leading to a .PSD file.
Following the link and opening it in Photopea, there's a jumbled up file containing a YouTube thumbnail for a Bendy and The Ink Machine theory. Taking a closer look at the .psd file, there are 4 pieces (layers) of an overall image, with a 5th layer (Background) showing the complete version. Players had to shift the layers of the picture in a way so that the thumbnail is messed up, but other details can come together.
For example, alien glyphs can be seen to be split between the bottom two corners. Rotating the bottom left completes the string, which translates to 'unturnnostone.com'. The image above also shows the timestamps 0:27 - 0:40 when the top two corners are rotated, as well as an incomplete phrase. Going to that timestamp in the Bendy video, and turning on the closed captions (hinted by the center CC symbol), MatPat talks about the “mindless ink monster”. The phrase 'mindless ink monster' fits into the blanks of the image above, so the complete link is www.unturnnostone.com/mindlessinkmonster.
Going there, there's another .PSD file, WF1MDMVU46HmUFPF8qc1.psd. Opening it shows ink blots on a page.
Each ink blot is a part of their own layer that can be removed, which reveals three circles. Placing these circles within each other and changing the brightness uncovers alien glyphs, but not in the correct orientation. Rotating the circles gives the site unturnnostone.com/sbgnl.
Following this page gives another journal page and a missing piece.
In the accompanying “H_ LI_D” image, there are symbols underneath the blanks. Those symbols are also in the new missing piece from this key puzzle. Connecting the dots with those symbols in the order shown in the image creates the number three, making the answer to key three h3 li3d.
The new journal and puzzle piece can be added to the master journal.
The fourth key starts out with the image below.
On the right side of the image in the back, it gives the link www.unturnnostone.com/h6ck3d, which leads to a similar image as the one shown.
To ‘hack’ into this image, players had to view the source code of the website (Can be done through Ctrl + U on PC, or Option + Command + U on Mac). This image is helloworld.jpg (line 22), but the next step is the link below it: dlrowolleh.jpg (line 24).
Scanning the QR code leads to unturnnostone.com/youarevulnerable. In this image, there is a link to unturnnostone.com/securelogin (zoomed in version of computer text can be found by clicking on the image), which gives yet another .psd file shown here:
Rotating the circles in the .psd file using the different layers, the alien text becomes translatable. Putting them in order according to the number near each glyph, it tells players to go to unturnnostone.com/h4ck1n9is4cr1m3.
This link gets the player two more missing pieces and a journal page.
Players are also given an image similar to the previous Bendy fill-in-the-blank, with more symbols under lines (along with their respective pieces this time).
These symbols, just like in Key 3, appear in the new missing pieces that were from the website. Connecting the dots reveals alien text, which translate to 1 and L respectively.
These characters fill in the blanks above. Therefore the final answer to this key is P1V0TLNG.
The new journal and puzzle pieces can be added to the master journal.
Players start with the image shown here:
Adjusting the brightness of this image reveals the latter part of the link, which turned out to be www.unturnnostone.com/notyouraveragepoem.
The image on this site is a gif with flashing letters and lines.
The blinking letters spell 'aspy', and so the next link is unturnnostone.com/aspy. The gif on this new page has four different frames:
The first thing to note is that the letters at the bottom, when all combined, spell 'a1z26 cipher'. Also, for each of the frames above, there are two numbers hidden within the game theory logo. In clockwise order, starting from red, those numbers are 3-20-9-20-8-16-2-4. Applying the a1z26 cipher gives 'ctithpbd', which leads to unturnnostone.com/ctithpbd, where there’s a .psd file accompanied by the letters _R_N_G_V.
The .psd file contains 8 layers. The only layers that really matter are the four layers that spell out “DOUBLE CLICK ME!” For each layer, double clicking it opens up a .psd tab of its own. Those 4 .psd tabs each contain a hexagon and a series of words. Those words correspond to the symbols on their accompanying hexagon. Connecting those symbols as before, these 4 hexagons show alien text.
The DOUB and LEC folders seem to be switched when you double-click them. The LEC acts as the first letter, and the DOUB acts as the third letter. Make sure you know what piece is for what letter!
They translate to E, E, E, and I. Filling these vowels in the blanks above gives the key of erenegiv.
The new puzzle pieces can be added to the now complete master journal (with missing piece letters in this picture).
The starting image for this key uses the second glyph alphabet hinted at from the Gate 6 teaser video. It can be deduced, from familiarity and by the updated glyph translations, that it decodes to 'unturnnostone.com'.
Underneath the image, there’s a provided pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once) that looks like this:
Plugging in the the known letters from the teaser video, as well as deducing the leftover letters through process of elimination, gets the whole sentence: “The zesty girl loved a joyful boy who quickly fixed her many problems.” The phrase itself doesn’t really matter, its usefulness is that it gives a translation for the entire new glyph alphabet. On the main starting image, each letter refers to a hexagon piece on the full journal pages, and the symbol next to the letter represents that same symbol within the corresponding hexagon. As done with previous solutions in this gate, the solution is to connect the dots as done before. This time though, it is connecting symbols across hexagons on the entire page spread.
Doing this results in six updated alien glyphs, decoded as "MADPAT". This leads to the website unturnnostone.com/madpat.
Brightening this image reveals a series of updated alien glyphs to decode.
Translating the updated alien glyphs gives a seemingly random string of letters: “Tiodt gwfeco h hiav m gezznk stttjv u wphh u hhfcd gwfeco a hiav l tosn dwphce a kiqs l " Applying a Vigenère cipher (recall how the last key was "erenegiv", which is "vigenere" reversed) to each word using the key ‘Madpat,’ this comes up as a result: “First Switch H With P Second Switch X With J Third Switch A With O Then Switch A With E"
This refers to the hexagons on the full image of the journal spread. Switching those hexagons around as given in the instructions above gets this:
Now, the final piece of this gate. On the main image for this key, there are four symbols in a particular order: Chrono Trigger, Bendy, Watch Dogs, and Harry Potter. These correspond to the four different pages on the journal spread. Each page of the Journal also contains three ‘coordinates’ in red text, labeled 001, 002, and 003. Example is shown below:
Solving the coordinates the same way the code was solved on the main page to get ‘Madpat' (except this time with the swapped hexagons), and with the specified order (001-003 for all of them), the final key can be figured out. For letters, both alien glyphs and updated alien glyphs are used.
This is an example given by Chrono Trigger 002, which turned out to be the updated alien glyph for the letter R. When the characters are in the correct order, (Chrono 001, Chrono 002, Chrono 003, Bendy 001, Bendy 002, Bendy 003, etc.) the final key given is prep4re4hel1.
