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~kyle

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.

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~pseudoriemann wrote (thread):

With newly hightened spirits from the good food I take a crack at the laptop again. Hmm, the display manager is not fully up to date? I think I remember hearing something about a possible bypass. I try pressing and holding the escape key for some while.

The iron oxide is suspicious - perhaps the pipe goes to the room upstairs? But without a key I won't be able to investigate this much. Does the pipe have any holes or loose parts?

Can I see any wires coming from the device on the ceiling? If yes I'd like to see where they go. I still don't know what it could be - if it is a smoke detector there should be one in the kitchen too, so I look at the ceiling there.

Does the plank under the bottle crate look out of place compared to the rest of the floor? I try to see if it is loose and if something is below it (would not be the worst place to hide a key after all).