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~pseudoriemann

Ah, of course it is password protected! I don't suppose there are any hints written on the laptop? Otherwise there is little hope (unless I can log in with a guest account). Just to see what happens when you enter a wrong password I'll try "password".

There don't seem to be many people around but I'll try shouting for help out of the bathroom window anyway. Also, can I look through it?

I'm curious about the LED so I try inspecting it further and make my best guess to its purpose. Is it part of the motion detector that turns the light on?

Finally I'll take a break and heat my pizza in the kitchenette.

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~kyle wrote (thread):

Actually there is a yellow post-it on the laptop, but it is not the classic clear-text password as you wished. It is a TODO list. You read the following:

LibreKrsnah OS: TODO
☑ Upgrade kernel to new LTS
☐ Improve the desktop dashboard
☐ Upgrade gdm, ditch 3.18.x (🐈!)

The default user is "Isvarahparamahkrsnah". You type "password" in the password box and press enter: the password is rejected, and you get prompted again. The only other user in the list is "root".

You go back to the restroom. First off you check the LED: it is part of a small, round electronic device stuck on the ceiling. There is a little inscription on it: "do not paint".

You reach the window by stepping on the toilet. All you see from it is a small alley and a wall of bricks. A light rain falls from the sky, and the asphalt is wet, and you feel a little lost. The window pane is slightly cracked, and some sharp shards of glass are laying on the windowsill. You bring your mouth close to the crack, and scream for help. All you hear back is a dog barking, far away. While you get off the toilet, you notice there's some dust on the ground, next to the pipe: the same kind of dust that you found in much larger quantities upstairs. Now you recognize it as iron oxide.

Finally you bring the frozen pizza to the kitchenette. You see the stove, and you seek for a pan or something similar. You find one in the drawer in the kitchen cabinets, next to the empty bottles crate you saw earlier. You notice a wooden plank under the crate. You ditch the pan and the stove entirely when you see there's a microwave on the shelf behind you.

The delicious and warm pizza gives you new energies, and you feel you can escape soon.