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[Incitatus]

in a google search I found gaj to have indian meaning:

[enaxor]

I took the letters Incitatus got "FTQGXITQYUEFES(Variable#)V" replacing the varible 47 with G, and got:

[talusren]

Since Deanna who I guess is in trouble used GreatestJournal.com to host the picture that we are decrypting I did a search there for thealchemist and got this. http://www.greatestjournal.com/users/thealchemists/ Not usre if it means anything or just someone else going off on something completely different. Internet is flaky here so most times I get errors when trying to surf. Will have to wait till I get home to do further research. Anyways thealchemist has some puzzle he is working on linked to his site. Something about an old book translated centuries ago to english.

[j5]

Yeah, that looks like it. Same template anyway.
Notice ARGS in User Interests?

[j5]

That story sounds like the DNS lookup process.

[CoffeeJedi]

from the journal:

"Anyway I thought I should give some background on this journal. see, my friends and I are interested in the occult. We recently found this book which seems really old. And it's about magic, of course! The problem is that some of it's in code. and the rest is really obscure. I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but Ive heard the internet has solutions to all problems, so..."
emphasis mine

so i think you guys did it

[HappyFunNorm]

[j5]

Throwing out ideas here, because I can't be in chat, and don't have much time.
Pi is a Grecian letter and may represent circular coding, as in wrap the text, or rot the text or ...??

[CoffeeJedi]

[strifey|NLI]

The A didnt have a number with it like I noted, so it can be safely ignored I guess. It was wrong spec on my part.

[enaxor]

The moon symbol was probably telling us it is "the alchemists" symbol for silver.

[marco0009]

His user profile

[johnny5]

See, here's the thing.
The original decode from Hex to ASCII yields:
fTQGXITQYUefeSGV

Throw that into ROT-It to get
Rot-14: tHEULWHEMIstsGUJ

Hey! Almost there, but A and C don't ROT, so where are they?

Rot-20: zNKARCNKSOyzyMAP
tHEULWHEMIstsGUJ
zNKARCNKSOyzyMAP
So the letters that ROT-20 and not 14 could be UWGUJ (ACMAP)

What does this all mean? Probably nothing since the site has been found, but still...there it is.

Jeebus, my ass and call me Judy. Enaxor posted the same info on this very page.
Sorry. I'll step away from the post button for a while
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[strifey|NLI]

J5, no rot was ever needed. The hex just almost works due to the way numbers work IRL. (See my previous post where I had the clean solve, no rots).

Basically, to explain better, we had digits in a range less than 26. Lowest was 47, so I assumed 47 = A, and just subracted 46 from everything. Then it was a simple A=1, B=2...Z=26. The Hex came out correctly with a proper rot because of the way numbers naturally work. the AC in our code was 47,49...in decimal, its still only 2 numbers apart, just like hex...but when you got from 49 to 50...its now 6 numbers apart in Hex, not 1, explaining the difference between the ROT-14 and ROT-20. Make sense?

No Rot was ever needed, and the MAP at the end is a red herring AFAIC.

[j5]

Yeah, I figured you did something along those lines to get your solve.

Carry on.
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