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dmax801
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 		Clue 4 online
Eyes. and more i's.

Sheesh.

Dan

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 3:10 am
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cem
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 		Clue #4
Title: My Life

If the truth of these words


_________________________AVPNJQSBHLRDEFAYSB

You wish to see

_________________________ACDSMSKVHYSJZSWFS

You then need to find

Only the key.



End to beginning, six is the prize

__________________________QVKYLKAKVDAVLYEO

Don't forget for a 2nd--

For that's how it's reckoned--

Initially counts

___________________________CJHYHTYQAZOQKGELP

So just look for the I's.


http://www.livejournal.com/users/ourfather/day/2002/11/16

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 8:13 am
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moa-Night
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 		The part about needing a 'key' makes me think of the Vigenere cypher.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 4:51 pm
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 		Lullabye tie in and other mental junk from me...
Posting the following from Barnes and Noble's review section. I know lullabye was last weeks clue, but with all the mess I went through on todays, and given the SIDS mentions and the metaphysical touches in the Rev's Journal, I thought it might spark a few synapses elsewhere.

Lullabye, Chris Palahniuk

The latest comic outrage from Palahniuk (Choke, 2001, etc.) concerns a lethal African poem, an unwitting serial killer, a haunted-house broker, and a frozen baby. In other words, the usual Palahniuk fare. Carl Streator is a grizzled City Desk reporter whose outlook on life has a lot to do with years of interviewing grief-stricken parents, spouses, children, victims, and survivors. His latest investigation is a series of crib deaths. A very good reporter, one thing he's got is an eye for detail, and he notices that there's always a copy of the same book (Poems and Rhymes Around the World) at the scene of these deaths. In fact, more often than not, the book is open to an African nursery rhyme called a "culling chant." A deadly lullaby? It sounds crazy, but Carl discovers that simply by thinking about someone while reciting the poem he can knock him off in no time at all. First, his editor dies. Then an annoying radio host named Dr. Sara. It's too much to be a coincidence: Carl needs help-and fast, before he kills off everyone he knows. He investigates the book and finds that it was published in a small edition now mainly held in public libraries, so he begins by tracking down everyone known to have checked the book out. This brings him to the office of Helen Hoover Boyle, a realtor who makes a good living selling haunted houses-and reselling them a few months later after the owners move out. A son of Helen's died of crib death about 20 years ago, and she's reluctant to talk to Carl until he gains the confidence of her Wiccan secretary, Mona Sabbat. Together, Carl, Helen, Mona, and Mona's ecoterrorist/scam-artist boyfriend Oyster set out across the country to find and destroy every one ofthe 200-plus remaining copies of Poems and Rhymes. But can Carl (and Helen) forget the chant themselves? Pandora never did manage to get her box shut, after all. Outrageous, darkly comic fun of the sort you'd expect from Palahniuk.

The extremely questionable solve I got for the coded jumble is "wet rags her weapon" if it ends up being anything at all I'd be surprised, but there's my couple nomismii...

-m

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 7:03 pm
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drizjr
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 		clue for..
Here are some things that stand out to me.

From Selene's E-mail.......

"But the Goddess has clearly shown me this path, and I must take is as it goes."
Should'nt that be "iT as it goes"? Could it be a hint for T = S?

"For he mentions eyes over and over, and that is the window of the soul, the place where our connection to each other and Gaia is at its strongest."
(GAIA backwards=AIAG, could be a crytogram for EYES)

"readingsst of my readins"
Does that mean, regardless of my reading?

Here is the best thing I found so far...

-AVPNJQSBHLRDEFAYSB
----QVKYLKAKVDAVLYEO
--CJHYHTYQAZOQKGELP
---CDSMSKVHYSJZSWFS

The letters are lined up on the right hand margin (end to beginning)
The second line is moved to the bottom so that..
The second letters from the right, reading top to bottom, spell
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
SELF

Don't forget for a second, that the clue title is "My Life"

I'm not suggesting that this is solved Smile. Maybe just a beginning, but this is what i've been working on so far.

drizjr

PostPosted: Tue Nov 19, 2002 9:39 pm
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 		SOLVE
POST#1641

From: "k7ct9clf" <k7ct9clf@y...>
Date: Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:20 am
Subject: Clue 4 keyord, I got it.

It's so simple it's stupid. The key is hollywood and this is what you
get:

THE CLUE NEEDS THE KEY TO SHOW WHERE YOU ARE NOW NAME WHAT HANGS OVER TINSEL AND STAR

Wow, this is the first time I have figured something out.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 3:52 pm
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 		Okay Unfiction Helpers,

I was actually working with Hollywood as the Keyword around the time of Leigh's post and thought I was on to something because I got this part:

"THE CLUE NEEDS THE KEY"

My knowledge of how to work the CipherClerk's tool listed in the "Tools" section was limited, but the rest of the code was garbled. Only the line above came out in English, the rest didn't look much different from the input.

I used the word "Hollywood" singularily (among many,many
others...lol) because of the "Initially counts" line in the Clue Poem
and the initials "h&v" (Hollywood and Vine)in the Journal Passage.

Can someone explain how the CipherClerk only got the first line?

Not being knowledgeable about these things I left the setting at "Uniliteral Sub." and put it to "Vigenere Cipher". I then typed the keyword "Hollywood", "26Letters A-Z", "Repetitive Key".

I really want to know what I did wrong in order to avoid doing the same in the future.

thx in advance
~cem

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 4:03 pm
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sapagoo
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cemgate2002 wrote:
Okay Unfiction Helpers,

My knowledge of how to work the CipherClerk's tool listed in the "Tools" section was limited, but the rest of the code was garbled. Only the line above came out in English, the rest didn't look much different from the input.

to test your theory, I went to http://sharkysoft.com/webapps/vigenere/
sharky's.

and put in the 4 lines of code
Quote:
AVPNJQSBHLRDEFAYSB
ACDSMSKVHYSJZSWFS
QVKYLKAKVDAVLYEO
CJHYHTYQAZOQKGELP

and "hollywood" as the key, and hit decode.
And it worked...
Quote:
THECLUENEEDSTHEKEY
TOSHOWWHEREYOUARE
NOWNAMEWHATHANGS
OVERTINSELANDSTAR


I'll try to test cipherclerks interface...

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 4:22 pm
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sapagoo
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 		So onto the next question....

What hangs over tinsel and star?

anyone? anyone?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 20, 2002 4:27 pm
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 		My thinking (for the moment) is going along the lines of GARLAND

Tinsel/Star references:
Tinseltown/Stars (Hollywood)
Christmas (decorations)

GARLAND (as in Garland, Judy) ties in with both Hollywood and Xmas decs.

There's also a newspaper called The Kansas City Star

And again, the Broadway and Musical references to the movie/play (ala The Sound Of Music)

....and didn't The Lady Selene refer to Noah Boddy as a Wizard?

Anyway those are my thoughts for the time being, must go attend to real life...lol.

~cem

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 		Mistletoe??
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sapagoo wrote:

I'll try to test cipherclerks interface...


No need, thanks. I use drizjr's post to copy the code into cipherclerk instead of the original (and it had been rearranged in that post). That's why I could only get the first line....lol.

Thx again, my bad! (And inattention to detail)

~cem

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 		Another thought on the Puzzle solution from Yahoo:

POST#1665

From: "jgfama" <jgfamp@f...>

Angels on Christmas trees are above tinsel and above the stars in the heavens above...just another idea.

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 		Why did everyone jump to Hollywood? Just the H&V mention?

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 		Another Clue #4 Hint from NoahBoddy's Journal

Date: 2002-11-20 22:41
Subject: Clue #4 continued...
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The Missing Clue

http://www.theladyselene.com

PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2002 4:41 pm
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