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[danteIL]

 [SOLVED] mollyhaleisasammeeeee on flickr

[Neanderthal]

Molly Hale posted more pictures, now with a string of numbers handwritten on the pages.

I'm tired so I'll just post my (poorly and probably wrong) transcription from p94 and back

[katya2032]

Hex translated to:

[drizjr]

page 26
o q e g w h [x][m] cg p y m {looks like an A above the M} t w
d{dark block over d} a u h h[x] n i o [z] C m i b [j] i W w a

page 27
up [q] e o g g e [v] [j] e p l d [u] c W o P g r [z] e u t J w e l [z] m g i [z] t g e y m t [x] c

page 28 I'm having trouble with this one see it here. Is that a comma after Paul or a mark over the hyphen, and is that character's name Royce?
m r v [z] a g r o u t {hyphen e?} g i p n (that note says "do not use" and there is an arrow pointed to scribble lines) j p p w [j] v [y] m g t v l [z] v

page 29
d i m m o s [q] m f j m w o i d a r s n [q v] m j [v]

page 30
r i m u [c] r [z] v [vpt.]
___________________________________
Editted to removed extraneous marks and notations, but i left the question mark where there's a mark after "Paul".

o q e g w h x m c g p y m t w d a u h h x n i o z c m i b j i W w a
u p q e o g g e v j e p l d u c w o p g r z e u t j w e l z m g i z t g e y m t x c
m r v z a g r o u t ? e g i p n p p w j v y m g t v l z v
d i m m o s q m f j m w o i d a r s n q v m j v
r i m u c r z v v p t.

[enaxor]

[RedHatty]

All that work for nothing - Dante went farther than he said in chat - nevermind

[drizjr]

Cathy has left several comments on these pages. Among them, is this; on the sixth picture posted
mollyhaleisasammeeeee says:

[mapmaker]

[mapmaker]

TADA! Thanks to Driz, Nax, and Red, we're done with the decoding! Here's the plaintext:

[drizjr]

Cathy left a couple of comments here http://www.flickr.com/photos/86059682@N00/288479988/

The first; in reponse to randomeis' transcription of the cover page on the book.

[RedHatty]

Cover and Title Page

[konamouse]

Looks like I missed a fun evening!

[cat-offline]

2 quick two questions....

Where did you get the Vigenere key "Vice" from?
What was the manner of decode for the Cover/Title Page?

And great job!!! You all have more patience than I do...lol

[mapmaker]

I got the Vigenere key of "Vice" by letter frequencies and the like.

The cover and first page are Base64 - if you try it yourself, make sure to get the "VE" at the very beginning.

[Caterpillar]

Letter frequencies? Can you elaborate a bit? Is that the way you crack a vigenere when you don't have the key? I would think that somehow there would have been an indication to us re: VICE?

I did try the B64 but gave up when I decided I couldn't tell a capital I from a lowercase L....how did you manage? Trial and error, or is there some standard (I wouldn't know) that tells you what is an L and what is an I?