[Solution: Warera Puzzle 3] The winners

WARNING: this post contains spoilers! If you want to try and solve the puzzle yourselves please check out this article first: https://app.warera.io/article/6a81e1077860bfb56b1de415

This edition of the WarEra puzzle was solved within a whopping 1 hour and 20 minutes by: https://app.warera.io/user/69a9f4967516aabe321de56e! Congratulations. A little more than 1 hour later https://app.warera.io/user/699b3734ae620c13fe045fda was the one to solve it next, and a couple of minutes later https://app.warera.io/user/69c064ed09b0640f2da342d0 was the 3rd person to solve the puzzle! Congratulations!

Grats to https://app.warera.io/user/69a062e3bf1835cf619d840f, who solved it just after Tona did in 4th place! And https://app.warera.io/user/69f8888640681783ddcaa7f2 who solved it 5th! Special mention to https://app.warera.io/user/69df725fa42e300f963542f4, https://app.warera.io/user/6a5dd21259b8c0dfa0c049b9 and https://app.warera.io/user/6a04e8e8628ce44b5786caf7, who were very close to finishing it! Thanks all for playing, and I will make another one soon! Subscribe for more!!

Now the moment you have all been waiting for...

THE ANSWERS!!

The original article (https://app.warera.io/article/6a81e1077860bfb56b1de415) had an image with a key, which was the first part, and step 1 of this puzzle:

Step 1:

2-wkh-sxccoh.sdjhv.ghy

A shift (of 3) in letters will lead you to the following website, where our puzzle starts: 2-the-puzzle.pages.dev.

Step 2:

The link will lead you to a static website... or not so static? Some of the letters light up when you click on them...

Clicking the famous pattern of '2-s-a' will open a new portal, where you need to fill in a password:

The password was hidden in the image! A few of you asked AI to scrape it from the web-page. Another way was 'saving' the image and looking at the name of the saved file:

Panzerhamster13 was the password for this step! Let's go!

Step 3:

The 'ref' is a code to an article, from our beloved https://app.warera.io/user/6813b758efecdf9bab195068! Each number-pair is a coordinate into that article's text: word number – letter number. Word 8 is "the", letter 1 is "t". Solvable with AI if you steer it the right direction I guess, but that's okay! Something about a riding hamster.

Step 4: Time to get personal...

3 answers, right in plain view. I changed my profile picture ('portrait'), my description ('record'), and 'asset 07', which was obviously my 7th company name.

Portrait: I changed my well-beloved 'Dom' with the 'Eiffel'-tower. In my profile picture, just as i made this puzzle.

Record: my description was changed to "stand and load, volley on". First letters of these words are: Salvo

Asset 07: https://app.warera.io/company/698ec46dfffb3268e99aed06 - Zarya it is!

Congrats to the winners! See you next time <3