Rainbow Factory Condemned

by LordCarn

Chapter 28

Author's Note:

READ ME EVEN IF YOU DON'T CARE WHAT I THINK!!!!! what you are about to do is something I haven't seen done before on a fanfiction. I have been working on this for awhile and I do hope you enjoy this. READ THE CHAPTER AND THEN READ THE REST OF THIS. The following is a link to my Google docs. Within, you will find a program called CWC. There are indeed two names within this program that i have written. The following will most definitely help you to breaking into the accounts. Both parts of both their names are capitalized. ex: Twilight Sparkle/ incorrect ex: Twilight sparkle, twilight sparkle, tWiLiGhT SpArKle. both passwords are ONE WORD and the first letter IS CAPITALIZED ex: Apples, Butterfly, Flowers (none of these are the actual passwords) Once you have successfully gotten in, you will be able to read the journals and a few extra things. If the wrong username or password is imputed, the program will shut down and you will have to run it again. You will have to run it at a MINIMUM of two times to get everything. The journals are different for both users. Good luck and... yeah pretty much just good luck.
Here's the Link, copy and paste it into your address bar:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9CCA6wjsILfNWtZMkRHcndYV0k/edit?usp=sharing

You calmly stand, walk over the the table, place a hoof on the small chair, pick it up, and throw it across the room at the projector. The chair collides with the projector, breaking it open and sprawling its contents onto the ground.

"My, my my, so much anger stored in such a little form. I believe we have a program for releasing such pent up rage, it however mainly focuses that anger upon another." The voice echoed all around you. "It unfortunately only worked best in the short run. ponies started to complain that it was turning them into sadistic monsters when they released their anger upon the failures, or it was perhaps because they were no longer usable to the machine after the 'therapy' sessions." wires from the projector began to entwine themselves together, snaking their way toward the ceiling. "Oh what does it matter now, we need a solution for YOU. perhaps instead of running around more, you take a seat and relax." The wires reached the ceiling and attached themselves to it. A griffon's claw, and lion's paw reach through the wires and spread them apart. Discord steps through the open hole.

"Why heeello again, its been awhile since I've seen you, I’d just thought I’d stop by and check in on you." You glare at him. "Oh here I am trying to be nice and all you can do is glare... Well I've noticed that you're such a bookworm that you've been reading just about everything you can and I just thought, maybe, You'd like to take a breather to read a little more hmmm?" He gestures to a computer behind him. "Stored within are two small journal entries written by employees of this factory, one alive, and the other dead. You will however have to gain access to their user accounts." he begins to mumble to himself. "yes well she's the antagonist... but uh.... OH! Have you ever heard of the book called the curious case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Yes well its a marvelous book about a pony who loses their mind and transforms into an abomination. Kind of like the kind of thing you'd see in a horror movie when thunder strikes on a dreary lane." He smiles to himself. "Yes well that is all the information i'm going to give you, now if you'll excuse me, I have a few other fillies to visit." He steps back through the hole in the wires and disappears. You walk over to the computer and sit down in one of the chairs. you look at the screen and it asks you for the username.

Comments

[Arkan3x]

Feel like a fallout hacker :3
Meanwhile in my mind: (....well, this is going to take a LONG while)

[LordCarn]

4492624 Good luck! tell me if you succeed!

[Arkan3x]

4492981 well I Think I discovered one of the users but the passwords, those are the real A-holes (In my mind: where are they?!?! Shendkengskwljkdkbejdldh * has mental brake down*)

[LordCarn]

4493164 Well dont tell everyone!
I do commend you though

[Tim_Lee7]

Having trouble here with the usernames and passwords.

[V952]

Lol, took me 2 minutes to decode it via IDA 5 xD Next time try not to use const char * cmp, but instead create an array of bytes like BYTE login[13] = {'R', 'a', 'i', 'n', 'b', 'o', 'w', ' ', 'D', 'a', 's', 'h', NULL}; and then use some kind of bit shift aka <<. That would be really hard to hack) And why does it use GL while in console mode?

[Tim_Lee7]

4511830
You figured both out already? What is IDA 5 and what does it do?

[V952]

4512085 IDA is an Interactive Disassembler tool designed for processing binary files like *.exe or *.dll into ASM x86 Machine Language. It looks like this:
IDA Screenshot

[Tim_Lee7]

4512155
So I download the software, run the program through it and look for what exactly?

[Tim_Lee7]

Never mind I figured it out.

[V952]

4512170
This is not as easy as it seems to be) I'm C++ programmer and my favourite part is reverse engineering. But it doesn't mean you can't do the same) Try looking for "Strings". You will see many external function definitions there, but if you're lucky, you'd quickly find something like login/password. If you want real hardcore, you'd probably perform stack analyze and catch the entry point of the scanf function (or whatever is used there). There you'll see:
mov XXX, YYY
cmp YYY, ZZZ;
Where XXX is your actual function return value register, YYY - is your inputed string and ZZZ - is the hardcoded Login/Password.
If you want me to tell you the answer - email me.
Good luck)

[Tim_Lee7]

4512237
I already figured out both of them. Man I feel dumb for not figuring out one of them without it.

[V952]

4512265 Yay!)

[LordCarn]

4511830 Wow, I didnt know I had C++ programmer reading my story... anyway, I'm no expert but I an accomplish simple tasks with what I know. The program wasnt really meant to be all that intuitive, I just wanted the reader to have something else to do seeing as this is a second person story. The program was created with Qbasic (64) and when I say I'm no expert... yeah... I can't claim I have any special knowledge. But you unlocked the program your way, and other people do it their way, either way it doesnt really matter how it happens to me, just as long as the same task is accomplished. I was also using this as a test. I wanted to see how well this went over and so far... everyone seems alright with it. It was in my original intention to create a game off of this story. Instead, Ive written this fanfiction.

[V952]

4514160 Yay) Great fiction though! Love it. Just like the original Rainbow Factory and Pegasus Device. Waiting for new chapters to be released)
P.S.: If you're running Windows OS I'd suggest you using a Visual C++ (Visual Studio 2008/2010) and 'd not recommend everithing > 2010 cause I've found they buggy. Within VS2010 I'd suggest you to install VS10sp1-KB983509 update (just google for it) to improve stability and get some speedup (yup, even micro$oft do some nice updates). My first app was Win32 Console Application that said "Hello Vlad!". Try it)
P.S.S.: If you wanna contact me - add me on Steam.

[Sleepy Panda]

Hehe only took me 4 tries to guess one of them

[LordCarn]

4545983 Great!!! Now do the other one...

[Sleepy Panda]

4551885 I am never going to guess this one...

[AdamAperture]

Ohhh crap.... you gotta guess it.... never gonna get it, need a hint or somethingplzomg

[AdamAperture]

4565722
I GUESSED MY FIRST ONE ON THE FIRST TRY!!! OMMGGGG!!!!!! SO AWESOME!!!!
It was pretty obvious for the one I got correct first.
Time for the next one....

[Green Bird]

Oh, y u so unfair. I can't run that program!