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LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

Help cracking a local ARG Cipher

**Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 12:30 am

Thunderwolf

well the geoloc is here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/33�29'44.0"S+150�09'07.2"E

Not sure about the rest - possibly grid coordinates?

Was this found in an email or a geocache?

**Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 5:04 am

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LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

**Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 6:39 am

Thunderwolf

Well if that location is anywhere near you, you might want to go check it out.

**Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 7:27 am

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

**Posted:** Wed May 07, 2014 9:07 am

Thunderwolf

The "slender young man" thing appears to be from Idoru by William Gibson:

"Chia had programmed her Music Master to have an affinity for bridges. He appeared in her virtual Venice whenever she crossed one at moderate speed: a slender young man with pale blue eyes and a penchant for long, flowing coats."

I have a copy of Idoru at home. I might look into it when I get back.

**Posted:** Thu May 08, 2014 2:19 am

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

So it is a book cipher, based on an electronic version of the novel. The struggle is I have no idea which version of it

**Posted:** Thu May 08, 2014 2:54 pm

LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

**Posted:** Thu May 08, 2014 3:37 pm

Thunderwolf

Well, it's not like a normal book cipher. Ordinarily the book cipher would be a string of numbers, indicating the order of the words in the book. I've not seen one quite like this before. I tried using the number as a page reference and the letter as a word indicator, but that produced gibberish. How do you know it's the "look inside" version?

**Posted:** Thu May 08, 2014 4:22 pm

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

I used in character money to purchase the info. Did you try using alpha numeric for a letter translation? A=1 and such

**Posted:** Thu May 08, 2014 6:51 pm

Thunderwolf

I did, but again that didn't yield anything useful. I'm curious as to why some of the entries have points (or periods) in them and others do not.

**Posted:** Fri May 09, 2014 1:39 am

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Thunderwolf

out of interest, did you ever crack this?

**Posted:** Mon May 12, 2014 1:43 pm

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

LadyPrincePyro · Greenhorn Joined: 07 May 2014 Posts: 7

No, I still have not been successful

**Posted:** Tue May 13, 2014 4:31 pm

arthurdent11389 · Decorated Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 184

Well, if you still need an answer for your local ARG, I'll include it here:

since the book is now known, the second method I tried worked out:

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:57 pm