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danteIL
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I've solved the code on the image at http://www.freewebs.com/13crystalskulls/thechosen.htm

The method:
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It's a simple subsitution code that uses uppercase A-M and lowercase a-m to substitute for a-z:

I noticed that the e in the first word was in bold, which suggest that the first word is the, and the rest follows from there.


The solve:
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cie jDdIc imI lBBf AiGIBf cG iBge IBmdAi jGd JI.
the first has been chosen to help search for us.

CG cG iBd lBjGdB Dc DI cG gmcB.
go to her before it is to late.

ciB AiGIBf FJIc lB iBgeBk, jGd IiB imI MBc cG dBmgDLB cimc
the chosen must be helped, for she has yet to realize that

KB mdB AmggDfC iBd.
we are calling her.

IBBE GJc ciB AiGIBf, jGd ciB cDFB DI fBmd.
seek out the chosen, for the time is near.

jGdImE MGJd cmIE mfk MGJ jGdImE mgg.
forsak your task and you forsak all.

GfgM ciGIB KiG mdB KGdciM KDgg edGABBk.
only those who are worthy will proceed.

KB mdB AmggDfC, MGJ FJIc gDIcBf.
we are calling, you must listen.

(/pedantic: 'forsak' should have been 'forsake')



This still doesn't explain the meaning of the 1-8, 1-18, 1-27, 2-1, 2-4, 2-20, 3-14, 3-36, 3-37, 4-11, 5-1, 5-24, 6-1, 6-8, 6-14, 6-25, 7-21, 7-23, 8-16 code at the bottom (the letters they correspond to in the decoded message don't make sense), or the red letters.

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blackhawk127
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y is it that every single substitution code is always a "simple" one Shocked

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Rekidk
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Yeah, simple substitution ciphers are 'simple' my ass.

Anyways, I'm truthfully not much for ciphers (sorry! useless!), but did anyone else notice that there are 13 shadowed skulls on the Index page (entitled The Gathering)--12 around the outside with one in the middle (the chosen, perhaps?). It's a similar image to the image in the upper-left hand corner, with one skull shining in the middle.

Also, not sure if this has been mentioned, but...

Quote:
το ε είναι το κλειδί


is at the bottom of 'The First Chosen' page.

Not sure what language that is, but I think it might help us figure out something else.

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danteIL
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Rekidk wrote:
Also, not sure if this has been mentioned, but...

Quote:
?? ? ????? ?? ??????


is at the bottom of 'The First Chosen' page.

Not sure what language that is, but I think it might help us figure out something else.


Well it's Greek, mostly, and it wasn't there before.

Quote:

tau omicron / epsilon / epsilon ?? nu alpha iota / tau omicron / kappa lambda iota delta ??

(that one character (HTML code #943) doesn't seem to be Greek)

perhaps: TO E E?NAI TO KLID? NM, smarty RedHatty figured it out.

And, I was using 'simple substitution' in the sense that there is a straightforward one-to-one mapping between each character in the plaintext and the ciphertext. I didn't mean 'simple' in the sense that it is easy to figure out...

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RedHatty
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Rekidk wrote:

Quote:
το ε είναι το κλειδί


Not sure what language that is, but I think it might help us figure out something else.


It's Greek and it translates to

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the E is the key

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More interesting stuff with the red letters. First off, I missed it the first dozen-or-so times I looked at it, but there's a red period in the third line.

If you take this into account, and use the same cipher Dante used to decode "thefirstchosen," pulling only the red letters, you're given some very interesting data:

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tops
gol
b.re
h
si
fss
i
m

Reversed, you get missfisher.blogspot. This leads to an actual blog: missfisher.blogspot.com


It doesn't seem very useful at all, at the moment, but it certainly seems like it's worth a gander. Do any of those names mean anything to anybody?

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good work guys.

There is http://larahardy.blogspot.com/ but it looks out of game to me (Lara Hardy is in the title on the blog above).

There's also a reply to the comment in the blog above with a nudge.
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RedHatty
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following the 'nudge,' I found http://missyfisher.blogspot.com/

The star? a gal who hears strange voices! in her head no less. Could this be the place we need to be?
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ALISDAIRPARK
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It looks like it Red, good chance the voices are the skulls. So do we ask her to try communicating with the voices?

[TIAG] blog created in Dec, gmail addy [/TIAG]

EDIT: just noticed the main page http://www.freewebs.com/13crystalskulls/ has been updated with what we've got so far, so we're on the right path, and the skulls are aware of what we are doing!

EDIT2: maybe if they are monitoring they will fix the Help Us page.
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Rekidk
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danteIL wrote:

Well it's Greek, mostly, and it wasn't there before.


Ah, I should've recognized the lambda from Chem! Gah!

danteIL wrote:

And, I was using 'simple substitution' in the sense that there is a straightforward one-to-one mapping between each character in the plaintext and the ciphertext. I didn't mean 'simple' in the sense that it is easy to figure out...


Yes, I know--it's just been an inside joke with a couple online friends and I ever since it took two of us six hours to figure out a simple substitution cipher--and all the riddlemakers would say to us as a hint was, "I assure you, it's quite simple." :p

ALISDAIRPARK wrote:

EDIT2: maybe if they are monitoring they will fix the Help Us page.


The Help Us page worked for me just fine.

---

Also, yes, the comments appear to be leading us to Missy Fisher's page. However, they also reveal a blogger profile--and a blog. Now, if they just needed to use that account to post hints, they wouldn't have created a blog to go along with it, methinks. So I think we should keep an eye on the 13-skulls blog, too.

http://13skulls.blogspot.com/

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blackhawk127
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missy is the right way to go im thinking it has something to do with that missing e in forsake.


she has an email to ms.fishySPLATgmail.com

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It appears that we don't really need to speculate any longer- the First Chosen Page has changed considerably- it now shows Dante's translation of the code, with the selected letters in italics, confirming that Missy Fisher is the first chosen.

Her first post back seemed unhelpful, but at least we know where to watch now.

Also, when I looked at her profile, I found that her avatar was being kept at http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i164/indianahick/. And that's the thing- there are references to Missy, and at least two pictures of the Adam dude she mentioned in her new post. But I haven't really seen much of anything that's relevant, and I can't help but feel like I've gone a couple steps behind the curtain.

Has anybody tried emailing our dear friend Missy yet?

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danteIL
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Great find on the blogspot! I had those letters in front of me (even the red dot!) and never put that together.

At the http://missfisher.blogspot.com/ blogspot, "13skulls" left a snarky little comment that says
Quote:
"e" is the key, We can spell.


So I guess the missing 'e' was supposed to lead us to missYfisher, but dudes, if you're going to rely upon a spelling clue, then doublecheck the rest of your message, because other mistakes like "before it is to late" led me to think that it was carelessness.

Anyway, "13skulls" has a blogspot too: http://13skulls.blogspot.com/
(it's empty for now, though) [EDIT: just saw that this was already posted, above]

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blackhawk127 wrote:
missy is the right way to go im thinking it has something to do with that missing e in forsake.


I completely agree. Missy=Missing E.

As for Strikethrough and the photobucket thing, I agree--I think that's beyond the game. It looks like mostly personal pics, and I doubt they were all taken for in-game purposes.

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So, i'm confused...it could be my cold talking, my tiredness, or just the fact that I'm not reading carefully thru this thread....but if we weren't supposed to be looking for Miss Fisher...why is there a blog there and why are the 13 skulls leaving comments for us there?

In other words...who the bleep is Lewis Harrison?
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