Challenge page : http://www.ancientsocieties.com/balcony/
The challenge text says Happy Birthday to me… and this is an important information to solve it.
We know Stella’s birthdate from a document revealed on November 19th :
There is also a picture of the CAESAR Palace.
On the picture, we can see windows with curtains and others without :
This is a binary code :
01010111
01000010
01010010
01010111
01010110
01000110
01000011
01000110
This binary code hides some ASCII code for the letters (https://www.branah.com/ascii-converter):
W
B
R
W
V
F
C
F
We can use these letters with Stella’s birth date as suggested by the intro text :
WBRWVFCF
03081990
We can shift the letters using the number value for each :
W : no shift, stays W
B, shifted 3 gives us a E
R stays R
W gives us a E
V gives us a W
F gives us a O
C gives us a L
F gives us a F
The solution is werewolf
The solution page is http://stl.la/werewolf, this page is redirected to http://www.ancientsocieties.com/piano-recital/