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Uberg33k
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 		Hell, I solved this little bugger, but now I have to figure out what to do with it.

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Mokey Fraggle
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 		Just got through the gargoyle and am probably going to call it a night so I won't be asleep at work tomorrow. Very Happy This is super fun!

Just a quick question: did I copy something wrong, or was there a misspelling of a homonym in the first part of the gargoyle decryption? (just to be uber nerdy, while I'm at it). Cool

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Paulzilla
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 		Is that the one which starts
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
"your right..."?


Yeah, that's what I got too. Got quite irritated at that, because I'm an enormous pedant Twisted Evil

... maybe he did it on purpose to torment pedants like me Shocked
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stormseeker
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Paulzilla wrote:
Uberg33k wrote:
The water is now running red. This is not a good thing...


I quite enjoyed that one. Its a beautiful script. I might learn to write in it, just for kicks Very Happy


I'm sure you did enjoy it, waiting for me to solve it.
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Paulzilla
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 		I was plodding through it...

Just taking the time to enjoy the scenery, as it were. Besides, I think you'll remember it was me who got the key phrase first Razz
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Paulzilla wrote:
I was plodding through it...

Just taking the time to enjoy the scenery, as it were. Besides, I think you'll remember it was me who got the key phrase first Razz


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Uberg33k
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Mokey Fraggle wrote:
Just a quick question: did I copy something wrong, or was there a misspelling of a homonym in the first part of the gargoyle decryption? (just to be uber nerdy, while I'm at it). Cool

Yes, he did and that annoys me. Not quite as much as the misuse of there/their/they're, but a close second.

Paulzilla wrote:
I was plodding through it...

Just taking the time to enjoy the scenery, as it were. Besides, I think you'll remember it was me who got the key phrase first Razz
Yes, this is where I'm working now. I found a phrase that gives me deja vu, but nothing that moves me forward. No hints yet though, I'm still trying to get it.

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Uberg33k
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 		Ok, that whole thing was a load of crap. I just got extremely lucky and pressed on and whadda know ... a new page. If I hadn't been writing a guide describing my progress, I probably would never have figured that out. Mr Gecko is truly a meaniehead.

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Paulzilla
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 		Yay you are pretty much on the puzzle of evil with the circles Very Happy

I am hating it. Worse even than the roaches. Still not got anything that looks remotely legible.
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Uberg33k
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Paulzilla wrote:
Yay you are pretty much on the puzzle of evil with the circles Very Happy

I am hating it. Worse even than the roaches. Still not got anything that looks remotely legible.
That's where I am.

I had a thought though ... do you know of any online tools that transpose rows and columns of text?

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Paulzilla
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 		Off the top of my head, no

But I did do this, should have posted it sooner. Because I like dealing with letters rather than strange squiggles Smile

Code:

ABCDEFGHAJKLMNFOPCCDQE
RSCTUDVWVCWXUCVCYSCJFA
HSFXCXHBHHMHCYIZTL*UBU
BCRDBZD*OQEEDSNADSWUKX
CGS#CTDVAXWWVG@CJMDSCG


That's the symbols transposed to letters. Rather annoyingly, there's 29 of them. I tried doing a frequency analysis on them but nothing really looks like any words.
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Uberg33k
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Paulzilla wrote:
Off the top of my head, no

But I did do this, should have posted it sooner. Because I like dealing with letters rather than strange squiggles Smile

Code:

ABCDEFGHAJKLMNFOPCCDQE
RSCTUDVWVCWXUCVCYSCJFA
HSFXCXHBHHMHCYIZTL*UBU
BCRDBZD*OQEEDSNADSWUKX
CGS#CTDVAXWWVG@CJMDSCG


That's the symbols transposed to letters. Rather annoyingly, there's 29 of them. I tried doing a frequency analysis on them but nothing really looks like any words.
That's because frequency anaylsis doesn't account for the three most common punctuations . , and ?/!

A-Z , . and !/? are our 29 characters I'd bet.

Edit : unless the spaces between words are encoded with a character. That would be bastardly.

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Paulzilla
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 		Even so, E and T should outstrip them in frequency terms, surely. They're generally the only two I start with and then go from intuition Smile

Although I am with you about the punctuation, it makes sense.

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unless the spaces between words are encoded with a character. That would be bastardly.


Yes, yes it would. I really wouldn't put it past him after Deja Vu though
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gott_sei_dank
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 		Will this help?
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/coltrans.php

I don't know if this is the sort of thing your for, but I'm slacking at the mo, got get my viking hat on.

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Uberg33k
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 		#$%&ing circles

Anyone having any luck yet?

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