# Survey Writeup: Houseplant 2020 Ah… a survey challenge, usually a glorified sanity check, but not this time. First question: How would you rate your experience with the CTF platform? I gave this a 4. But first, I didn’t have a mouse to click the answer with. I searched up and around my house, but to no avail, I couldn’t find a mouse. I then had to do the unthinkable: walk over to Argos to buy a mouse. I started by looking in the pets section, but there was no mouse to be picked up there. This made me extremely sad. So I stood 2 meters away from a member of staff(safe social distancing kids!) and asked them where to pick up a mouse. I picked up a mouse, scanned it with the smart shop app, and walked out the store, happy I have my mouse. I then got home and clicked the number 4 button. Question 2: What changes could be made to improve the overall CTF experience? I pondered this question for a while. I decided on the lack of a brainfuck challenge really pissed me off. However, just as I was typing this, my mum walked in and saw that I had a naughty word on my screen. She decided on cleaning out my PC with soap, to cleanse it of its sins. As she left the room, I cried, not having a laptop to finish this survey would make me a shame to my team, and I would never live this down. So sneakily, I walked into my sister’s room, yoinked her laptop and logged back into the survey again. Now time for Question 3: Which challenge did you like the most/was your favourite? Easy. Beginner 1, the only challenge me and my team were able to solve. Question 4: Who was my favourite challenge dev? Easy again. William, her challenges were fun and enjoyable(she didn’t hold me at gun point to say this btw). Question 5: Any other opinions? Easy question again, to give will a raise for being the best challenge dev. Question 6: My experience in Cyber Security. I gave this a 5 because I am pro hax0r, I hacked roblox and gave myself 69420 robux once, I felt amazingly good about myself. Question 7: My gender, I put other, as I sexually identify as an apache attack helicopter. Question 8: my age: I put 13-18, as I am 14 years old(and 3 months and 1 day) Question 9: How did you here about Houseplant CTF? Easy Question. I was hand delivered a message by my team about a new Capture The Flag Competition called Houseplant made by the RiceTeaCatPanda devs. This CTF also was bringing even crazier and innovative challenges to our community, with 100% same funny stories and (at least) 60% reduced guessing :3. Question 10: Right or left? This question stumpted me very hard, so I had to close my eyes and do a blind pick. I chose down, in the end. Question 11: One discord member was non human, who was it? Easy, willwam845#9584. Question 12: Stickers or plushies, easy again, plushies (uwu) Question 13: Which is cuter: Wumpus or Jubie. Very easy answer again, I picked Jubie, as I saw her and UnbeliveaBoat out on a date before this whole quarantine started. Hurrah! I had finished the survey! I leapt out of my seat with excitement! However, this was then spewed on me: `F(K6"+A-'QAKWC8DBNV(EZdbEF"&5>EbT#p?Z]jf?XmMd?Z9FkA78j` I immediately thought this was encoded in some way, so I tried all the bases. I eventually found out that this was b85 encoded, and the decoded message led to this: send Jade (in her DMs) `rice_tea_cat_panda` Who was jade? What was jade? I eventually realised that Jade was a girls name, so I was doing the unthinkable, DMing a girl. I mustered up all the courage I could get, and messaged her the sacred phrase: `rice_tea_cat_panda`. She immediately got back to me and replied with this: You're such a great friend! Here, have a flag! `rtcp{awaken_winged_sun_dragon_of_ra}`. Although sad I was friendzoned, I was happy I got the flag, so I submitted it, only to find out that my teammate already submitted the flag. Fuck you teammate. ## rtcp{awaken\_winged\_sun\_dragon\_of\_ra} -Jammy#0402 --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://the-winrars.gitbook.io/writeups/2020-writeups/houseplant/survey-writeup-houseplant-2020.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.