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amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Super Booba, as usual!. Have the first bit b/c the filler V as well as your O filler was a good hint.
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Playfair cipher with keyword 'crone' gives:
clotho lachesis atropos
urd verdandi skuld
alecto megaera tisiphone
aglaia euphrosyne thalia
They seem to be the names of sister goddesses (fates/furies/graces) throughout civilizations. LINK
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:52 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Yeah, amandel I was a bit slow on that
I finally realized some of that "code" looks like Latin, and found you had already taken care of business.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:15 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Naha, Booba, All our bases are belong to you Was eating a late lunch burrito & rechecking the coded letters when I finally noticed the V & O. When I checked the thread just thought you were in a morning rush & had left that for my dessert. OT--like that devil joke goes: lunchtime is over; back on your heads.
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:28 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
The most recent QOAAD entry fills the page with I believe 2 or 3 different encryptions. Below is the solve for the uber-long letter & number string along the bottom:
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The letters/numbers are base64 which resolve into a long series of numbers. These numbers are Octal code which finally reveal the A. E. Housman poem.
HER STRONG ENCHANTMENTS FAILING,
HER TOWERS OF FEAR IN WRECK,
HER LIMBECKS DRIED OF POISONS
AND THE KNIFE AT HER NECK,
THE QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS
BEGINS TO SHRILL AND CRY,
'O YOUNG MAN, O MY SLAYER,
TO-MORROW YOU SHALL DIE.'
O QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS,
I THINK 'TIS TRUTH YOU SAY,
AND I SHALL DIE TO-MORROW;
BUT YOU SHALL DIE TODAY.
EDIT: Managed to decrypt the last 4 lines of the top cipher. The middle part of the remainder is reversed text. Is the rest a keyed letter substitution reversed?
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These solve as a Cryptogram: WE'RE ALMOST READY. WE'RE ALMOST THERE. ON THE ILL-MADE NIGHT, YOU MUST BE AT THE TOWER. YOU MUST PERFORM THE RITUAL. YOU MUST SAY THESE WORDS: (which are the solved poem lines above-my note)
The reversed text
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RACE IS THE MAIDEN. THE IDEALIST. THE ONE WHO SPINS THE THREAD OF LIFE. (Believe a reffy to Clotho of the 3 Moerae.)
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:48 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Excellent! Octal always gives me a hard time. Glad you left some for us slower peeps
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First seven lines are all SKIP, each line with a different skip factor. 5,7,11,71,15,17,18
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/skip.php
YOU CAN SLEEP WCAN SLEEP WHENHEN THIS IS OV YOU ARE DEAD.ER, KAREN. YOU
YOU ARE THE MOTHER. THE PROTECTOR. THE ONE WHO SHELTERS THE THREAD OF LIFE
GRACE IS THE MAIDEN. THE IDEALIST. THE ONE WHO SPINS THE THREAD OF LIFE
GRACE IS THE MAIDEN. THE IDEALIST. THE ONE WHO SPINS THE THREAD OF LIFE.
YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING, KAREN. YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT TO THE TOWER BY THE SILENT SEA.
YOU HAVE TO LET JUDITH KILL THE QUEEN. YOU HAVE TO LET JUDITH CUT HER STRINGS.
THE TIME IS ALMOST HERE, KAREN
Don't know yet what happened to that first line...
EDit: Add one extra space on the end gives:
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YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN THIS IS OVER, KAREN. YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOU ARE DEAD
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:25 am
Last edited by booba on Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:38 am; edited 1 time in total
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Thank ZEUS for Booba & Rumkin for having Skip 'tho I sure didn't see it thru the reversed text. Shall I send Karen the Reader's Digest version of all this?
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:35 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Absolutely. I'm really not good at that kind of stuff. Where are we headed anyway? To kill the Queen may bode ill for Karen?
"But the most important Doll is the Princess of Puppets. She is a young girl who is chosen by the Wooden Girl as her most esteemed Doll, though the Princess cannot command other Dolls, she has their respect, and the Willing Dolls wouldn't dare do anything to upset her. The purpose of the Princess is to be a back-up body for the Wooden Girl in case something happens to her current one. Charlotte from Hidden in the Trees would be an example, and of course Jester tried to recruit Karen to be a Princess as part of The Puppets Game's backstory."
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:54 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
OK. This is a new ring of HELL. Tumblr won't accept it, not even in parts AND there's a new cipher. If you work it, I'll try again after my dinner when we have all the info. Mega Schazbat!!
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:23 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
So we've moved to
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RAILFENCE -3
JUDITH IS THE CRONE. SHE WAS BORN AT THE MOMENT OF MURDER, THE DEATH OF DEREK. SHE KILLS WHEN YOU CANNOT.
http://clayliesstillbutbloodsarover.tumblr.com/
http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/railfence.php
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:59 am
LatentMoths
Unfettered
Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas
I'll jump in if that's ok...
Decoded
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Atbash cipher and insert some spaces we get "SHE HAS THEM, KAREN,THE ONES YOU SAVED. THEY ARE TRAPPED IN HER TOWER. KILL HER AND YOU CAN SET THEM FREE. YOU CAN SAVE THEM ALL."
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81 117 105 116 32 108 111 111 107 105 110 103 32 97 116 32 109 121 32 65 83 67 73 73 33
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:34 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Booba wrote:
Where are we headed anyway? To kill the Queen may bode ill for Karen?
A good point which I also mentioned. Oddly only my most recent message to Karen is atm on QOOAD with some 'ex parte' additions below it. Should her instructions and the poem stanzas not appear within 18hrs. I'll retry it. And really nice to see you again, LM.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:15 pm
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Quote:
I'll jump in if that's ok...
Hells yes!
Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:50 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Karen's instructions & the stanzas are on QOAAD along with two updates containing code which 'tho not as tough as those Skip phrases provides a twisty turn
The 3 long number strings solve
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They're HEX via DEC to text and read:
YOU MUST FIND THE SHEARS TO CUT THE STRINGS.
THE SHEARS ARE IN THE QUESTION MARK ROOM.
AND THEN YOU MUST GO TO THE TOWER
Latest Interesting Code on the most recent, intriguing QOAAD UPDATE. Plse double check me before it's posted to Karen
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It's a number to alphabet substitution. (uif vqr iorru xli bmnyz xuus aol bwemz rb bokv)
At various ROTs that reads: "the top floor the white room the tower is real". Am getting 'whitu' (rot21) for white so maybe a typo by me or the PM?
THX a bunch for double checking.
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"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:12 am
LatentMoths
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Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas
amandel wrote:
And really nice to see you again, LM.
If you include the eyeroll with the last statement it takes on a whole new meaning...or maybe that's how you originally intended it?
I wish I could be seen on a more consistent basis around here but life is weird right now.
Anyway I double-checked your work on the recent number string and I'm getting the same thing...so there ya go.
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81 117 105 116 32 108 111 111 107 105 110 103 32 97 116 32 109 121 32 65 83 67 73 73 33
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:07 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Bwahaha LM & THX. My was at my numerous attempts to navigate Tumblr's format 'tho will use it that way if I develop a passive-aggressive 'alter ego' like Judith.
New Code. Quelle Surprise! (deserving an eyeroll ).
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A cryptogram reading: All attempts to mold the 'Judith' personality have proven a failure. Our objective was to make our own assassin, someone sweet and docile whom we could turn into a killer at the snap of a finger. However, it appears we were beaten to the punch: 'Judith' appears to have come preprogrammed as a killer (or 'crone' as she states) and thus our attempts have been circumvented.
EDIT 14 July: THE SCREAMING TOWER update has the twist before Karen's final move. Waiting until y'all weigh in here. My heart says noble R.Z. is now a puppet.
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"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:21 am
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