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So, before we begin this....lovely Stego challenge, allow me to start by saying:

What the actual, solid-gold, jewel-encrusted, flying F#$& happened here?  You'll understand that statement in just a minute.

So, we open with a lovely png file of a simple black square.  Pretty obvious it was going there from the title right?  Open it in stegsolve and aim for the grey bits.  Now, step away from your computer, smoke an entire pack of cigarettes (if that's your thing) and down a bottle of vodka (whether that's your thing or not, do it cause you're gonna need it).

Yes, That is exactly what it looks like.  Morse code.  No worries right.  WRONG.  What should have taken maybe an hour took the better part of 5 trying to fix the gaggle-f#$& this morse is.  The closest I could get was:

-- --- .-. ... . -.-. --- -.. . .. ... .- -- . - .... --- -.. ..- ... . -.. .. -. - . .-.. . -.-. --- -- -- ..- -. .. -.-. .- - .. --- -. - --- . -. -.-. --- -.. . - . -..- - -.-. .... .- .-. .- -.-. - . .-. ... .- ... ... - .- -. -.. .- .-. -.. .. --.. . -.. ... . --.- ..- . -. -.-. . ... --- ..-. - .-- --- -.. .. ..-. ..-. . .-. . -. - ... .. --. -. .- .-.. -.. ..- .-. .- - .. --- -. ... -.-. .- .-.. .-.. . -..  <insert crazy> -.. .--- - ... ..- -. -.. -.. .- ..- .-. . ... --- .-. -.. .. - ... .- -. --.. -.. .- .... ... ..-.. .-.. .- --. .. ... .-- . ....- .-. -. -- --- .-. ..... . -.-.
--- --- --- ----- ----- -.. <and back to sanity with> ...-- -- --- .-. ... . -.-. --- -.. . .. ... -. .- -- . -.. ..-. --- .-. ... .- -- ..- . .-.. ..-. -... -- --- .-. ... . .- -. .. -. ...- . -. - --- .-. --- ..-. . - .... . - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. ....

Which, if you translate, comes out to

MORSECODEISAMETHODUSEDINTELECOMMUNICATIONTOENCODETEXTCHARACTERSASSTANDARDIZEDSEQUENCESOFTWODIFFERENTSIGNALDURATIONSCALLED

<insert crazy again>DJTSUNDDAURESORDITSANZDAHS#LAGISWE4RNMOR5ECOOO00D <back to reality> 3MORSECODEISNAMEDFORSAMUELFBMORSEANINVENTOROFETHETELEGRAPH

Long story short?  HTB{LE4RNMOR5ECOOO00D3} and then run with the speed of a drunken, nicotine induced cheetah cause this challenge was WHACKED OUT!

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