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booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Ok I got a start (Keyes is plural, one at the start one at the end)
Using reverse alphabet and splitting
21 3 13 23 9 14 22
12 12 14
23 26 26 25 3 4 7 22
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Gives
qv fxndrme oom daabxwte
Using Playfair -
Keyword WARPOET
Gives up my:
my husband was tortured
Very slow and tedious stuff! Fortunately I gotta run. Enjoy!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:14 pm
Zobot257
Entrenched
Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Posts: 805 Location: Wandering...
Clever, Booba! I never would have thought of that!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:28 pm
r.m
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 719
booba!
I was just about to quit - but I see now that I'm actually on the right track!! Way behind you - but used warpoet for the key and had the my figured out and then a little jibberish. Now I'm gonna skip to the part where you left off.
By the time I post this you'll probably already have it solved but....I'm gonna try to finish it on my own anyhow.
Thanks for posting that!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:47 pm
Araenna
Decorated
Joined: 19 Dec 2011 Posts: 195
Whoo! I'm just going to cheer from the sidelines, because this is a bit heavy for my first puzzle, and I have work today and tomorrow, and by Saturday, you guys'll probably have it figured out. >.>
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:16 pm
LeHommeSuspendu
Veteran
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 90
So, I was actually on the right track. I had figured that warpoet was the keyword, but hadn't gotten everything broken down correctly yet.
Thanks for the leg-up r.m.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:20 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
Decoded message Edited to include the 1st paragraph too.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
My husband was tortured and killed through MergX testing. I used to help them. I realized the truth.
MergX holds a history of death. Sick experiments have lasted decades and it looks like they're starting again.
I barely had time to send this to you. Help me get what I need from them. Are you willing?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:39 pm
Last edited by GuestUser17 on Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:15 pm; edited 1 time in total
Araenna
Decorated
Joined: 19 Dec 2011 Posts: 195
Re: 2nd & 3rd paragraph
GuestUser17 wrote:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
MergX holds a history of death. Sick experiments have lasted decades and it looks like they're starting again.
I barely had time to send this to you. Help me get what I need from them. Are you willing?
Awesome!
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:09 pm
Tharol
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 02 Oct 2011 Posts: 4805 Location: Muncie, Indiana
Faster code break there people.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:11 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
Re: 2nd & 3rd paragraph
Araenna wrote:
GuestUser17 wrote:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
My husband was tortured and killed through MergX testing. I used to help them. I realized the truth.
MergX holds a history of death. Sick experiments have lasted decades and it looks like they're starting again.
I barely had time to send this to you. Help me get what I need from them. Are you willing?
Awesome!
It was all obvious once I had the right key (thanks booba!). Look above for the complete decryption in my previous post.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:16 pm
r.m
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 719
I can't figure what I'm entering wrong. For instance for mergx - the closest I can get is mexzgx using 15 7 2 6 19 5 - which gets me lt yu hv. This happened to me all the way through with partial words.
Did you translate J to I when you deciphered?
So much for finishing it on my own.
Oh well, thanks GuestUser17 and booba. Maybe my brain cells will come in handy later.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:33 pm
GuestUser17
Entrenched
Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 812
r.m wrote:
I can't figure what I'm entering wrong. For instance for mergx - the closest I can get is mexzgx using 15 7 2 6 19 5 - which gets me lt yu hv. This happened to me all the way through with partial words.
Did you translate J to I when you deciphered?
Yes I translated I to J but I still had a couple letters that were off so I guessed. If you want to see what it looks like you can always take those phrases and encrypt them to get the letters and then convert those to numbers. Playfair works off pairs of letters so it's hard to say exactly what you would use to get MergX but it should look like - 'ltahv b' or 15 7 26 19 5 25. The vb (19 5) combination gives you the xt when decoded - the last letter of MergX and the first of testing.
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 11:47 pm
r.m
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Sep 2010 Posts: 719
GuestUser17
Glad to hear you guessed when it was close. That makes me feel a little better. I did do the reverse encoding of the correct translation just to compare. For and the encoding resulted in rm bz. The closest I could get to this with the numbers was rm zu, which got me anyz . So it's not an exact science - at least not when I do it.
Also - I'm wondering if this is connected to Resident Evil since we have the Xbox icon at Trilon and the evil pharmaceutical company thing going on.
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 12:20 am
Zobot257
Entrenched
Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Posts: 805 Location: Wandering...
I hope it's not connected to X-Box stuff. I don't own one...
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 2:00 pm
Adm_BlackCat
Unfettered
Joined: 18 May 2010 Posts: 666 Location: Spokane, WA
Great solve everyone. Way to go team work!
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Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:03 pm
Zobot257
Entrenched
Joined: 21 Feb 2011 Posts: 805 Location: Wandering...
Adm_BlackCat wrote:
Great solve everyone. Way to go team work!
Indeed!
Just to see if I'd get a response, I emailed Genesis to tell her(him?) I'd help out. And as it so happens I got a response!
It has another coded message in it, but I can't copy/paste on my phone so I will have to put it up tonight. Sorry!
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:20 pm
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