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Cold-boot the wombat.

Stone cold and stubborn. It boots with an ID and asks for it straight back - in its own tongue. Cold silicon hums -
seven-one-three still sleeping,
speak it back in bits.

WOMBAT CTF 3.0  ::  cold boot
CORE ID .... 713   (0x2C9)
FIELD ...... 10 bits 

Untangle the chatter.

The relay's talking, but Falken ran it up and down the fence before it left. Straighten the rails, read the message, key the number it coughs up.

WOEC1IROTPRLPOS8YNAYMATCAUDI6EBNBIYEKI

Read the old wombat's runes.

Before there was Wombat OS there were wombat runes. Falken carved the unlock into the stave. Sound it out with the runic key, then read the number aloud.

Transliterate → you'll get three number-words. Read them as digits, then key that number in binary.

Let the eye focus.

The red eye's trying to scan something it can't quite lock onto. Point your own scanner at it and read what the optic array sees. Red eye can't focus -
hold the square up to the light,
the number swims clear.

Scan the QR → it reports the optic unlock. Convert to 10-bit binary.

Check the blueprints, cobba.

Every board leaves a paper trail. Falken stamped the auth unlock into the fab files and buried it in the silkscreen.

Open the Gerbers in any viewer. Convert to binary.

Trace the gates.

Ten rungs of logic, and it gets nastier the further down you go. Every rung takes fixed 1s and 0s and spits a single bit at the ?. Work each one out, stack them top to bottom - that's your 10 bits.

Crack the router's little secret.

Some sparky wired the vault to an old box and left a $9$ secret sitting in the config. That's obfuscation, not encryption - peel it and it'll tell you exactly what it wants.

set system login vault secret $9$iHm5n6AOIcjinCtuEhcyreMXaJDiHqKvWLx7dVwY2oGD3n/0BITQRhSyKv4aJZik.P5TQFGU69CA0OLx7NwY

Decode the string → it spells the flag out for you, bits and all.