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Abyssian Knights

**Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2016 12:27 pm

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booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Sure. Its kinda fun so far.
You were right there:

**Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:28 pm

themightymooker

**Posted:** Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:28 pm

_Burgundy · Boot Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 18

The CAESAR page translates to ""THE FRENCH REVOLUTION WAS KEY IN THE SUCCESS OF OUR FOREFATHERS" when Caesar shifted up 13 characters. I don't know if it's relevant, but shifting it up 66, as the arrow behind the picture suggests, gives you "Sgd eqdmbg qdunktshnm vzr jdx hm sgd rtbbdrr ne ntq enqdezsgdqr". Sure enough,

CrashRocks1419

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:32 am

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

_Burgundy
~~Compare your translation closely to the original (spellcheck gets it) Also capitalization counts.~~

EDIT:
Oops, was explained whilst I was typing.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:45 am

Regula123 · Boot Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19

I know I just joined this site but, hear me out a minute. It's a Cesarean shift

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:17 am

CrashRocks1419

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:46 am

CrashRocks1419

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:48 am

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Regula123
What matters is that you got it! Welcome to UF.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:59 am

themightymooker

Tried Vigenere with both "hello" and "bonjour" as the key, and got nothing as a result. Tried doing a ROT-66 AFTER and BEFORE the fact and also failed there. Thought I'd cross off a couple of options.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:17 am

Regula123 · Boot Joined: 05 Oct 2016 Posts: 19

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 11:35 am

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Playing with the colors, there may be writing in the upper right of the seal?
Could be "alo" which is Vietnamese for "hello"????
Or it could be just a smudge......

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 12:36 pm

themightymooker

**Posted:** Wed Oct 05, 2016 1:05 pm

_Burgundy · Boot Joined: 23 Apr 2015 Posts: 18

If we assume that the message is plaintext which has been encrypted (I.e. the message will come out to words of the same length as they are in the cryptogram), then I don't think it can be a substitution like a Vigenere. There are 3-letter words which appear five times, and none of them share the same combination of letters (which you would expect with a Vigenere or a Polybius cipher if it were words like "the" etc, although I guess they could all be different). I tried using the "hello" keyword as a one-time pad by repeating it above the message, and th same with "Annuit coeptis", which didn't work.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 06, 2016 6:53 am