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[Trailhead] Felicity's Legacy
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jessie1326
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CXF714 wrote:
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"Be attentive lest you become enslaved[.] The kings of the world rise against you[.]"


Could this maybe reference the small errors found throughout the blog posts and documents? (Spelling errors, missing row 20, etc.)


I'll go you one further...since it was found on the same PDF as the grid, maybe it specifically means that the missing row 20 is deliberate? Maybe it's row 20 we should be looking at? In the second post, if you "pour" the letters in top to bottom, left to right, the 20th line would be "BRLVBROISNRBFRES". Plugging that into cipher solvers of various kinds produces nothing I could see, but hopefully it will mean something to one of you! Smile

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thebruce
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Well, "kings of the world" is mentioned along with Virgil in this entry
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/2322/
"Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde"

but they are in two different stories, and it's a very long single collection. hm.
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booba
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Co-incidence?

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Also:
WHAT WAS THE DEAL WITH THAT GRID?

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jessie1326
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Quote:

Also:
WHAT WAS THE DEAL WITH THAT GRID?

I assume we haven't yet solved the grid part. But maybe I'm wrong?

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cherrytree98765
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Well I've been lurking on this one for the most part, but I think I've solved our grid.

I'll see if anything works out and report back.

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catherwood
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cherrytree98765 wrote:
Well I've been lurking on this one for the most part, but I think I've solved our grid!

I'm currently transcribing the messages, but it's going to take about 30 mins-1 hour more? (This decoding process is a bitch. Trust me)

I'll edit this post as soon as I can.


wheee!!!
Give us a hint to your methods, and we can all share the transcript work.

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cherrytree98765
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@Catherwood: Sorry that post was a little pre-emptive. I was actually being a (tired) fool. I'll spolier what I've done so far though I think it's right, but it's probably wrong. C'est la vie.

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I thought of how we could "place" the letters and I decided to go with the bottom right hand corner clue and started placing them in order of 3 spaces per letter. They've all fit into the gird (with the missing row 20. But now I've got gibberish. So yeah there might be a specific way of "reading' it also. Or I went on a wild goose chase.


Well even with that I got nothing. Guess it was just a false alarm. Sigh.

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thebruce
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Wait, so did you actually find a new message but it became gibberish later in the process, or were you just trying out an idea to see if it would pan out, but had no indication you were on the right track?

Is this a solve process we should continue to pursue? Confused
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cherrytree98765
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@thebruce: I'm sorry for confusing you.

Let me explain my (tired) brain. When I was trying to decode I actually found by placing three letters you could read a chunk of the post without the rest making it seem like a good message XD For example "Is project soexpect at least one update per week." etc. I first thought that might have been the message just broken into a chunk, but I was wrong as it makes no sense. Just my muddled brain going crazy since I've gone cross eyed trying to place those letters every third spot in a spreadsheet.

So I suggest you don't follow it.

Sorry for getting anyone's hopes up Sad

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UnifiedField
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Felicity threw us another clue a few minutes ago. I'll leave it here while I pass out in my scotch induced haze.

From Twitter: "I got my powerball numbers wish me luck! I could use some Wink 14 4 10 6 6 8"

See you all (fresh brained) in the morning.

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catherwood
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I'm going to unspoiler a bit of your previous post here.
cherrytree98765 wrote:
I thought of how we could "place" the letters and I decided to go with the bottom right hand corner clue and started placing them in order of 3 spaces per letter. ... I actually found by placing three letters you could read a chunk of the post without the rest making it seem like a good message

I might have missed a clue, so I want to know more about what directed you to the bottom-right corner. It's plausible. After that, I don't understand what the "3 spaces per letter" means, or "placing three letters", is this taking only every third letter, or putting triplets into each cell of the grid?

I'm a whiz at Excel. You'd be surprised how easy it is to automate repetitive tasks, rather than working it all out by hand. Feel free to post just the beginning of a pattern. Even if it doesn't pan out, it might spark more experimentation by someone else.

Felicity wrote:
14 4 10 6 6 8

The heck? "N D J F F H" is probably keyed to that grid somehow, but i'm not seeing it.

also, while i'm here, i wanted to repost this earlier hint.
Felicity wrote:
"The message is in my first two blog posts. See how they look when you use the table letter for letter."

I'm unsure whether this means there is a single message which *requires* both posts, or is *repeated* in each post, or *spans* the two posts. And that "letter for letter" phrase feels like substitution should be involved, or a shift cipher. Man, I'm going to feel like a klunkerhead when this mechanism is revealed.

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cherrytree98765
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@catherwood: The reason I was drawn to the corner was because of the hint "use the table letter by letter" which pushed me to thinking we've got to mix the letters somehow. So when I saw the 3 down there I thought you might need to place each letter every 3 spaces so the 3rd space is "W" the 6th space is "E" and the 9th space is "L" etc. You eventually fill up the grid this way. Though you have to include the missing row 20. I haven't gotten anything from this method though.

I've also tried to use it like a frequency anylasis chart. Going left to right and placing it according to it's number in the alphabet just in case the spaces or letters made the outline of something, but nothing there either.

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booba
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Interesting-

one of the things N D J F F H cryptograms to is T H R E E S

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jessie1326
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Just chiming in that I tried CherryTree's method on the first blog post, but I put the first letter in the first (1,1) box and went from there. It accomplished nothing but making my eyes cross. Confused

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CXF714
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"updateperweekasw
ableontheituness"

This is line 20 from both grids. I feel like maybe the grids are almost a red herring and what needs to be looked for is what is missing from them. A 20th line, so maybe these 32 letters contain a message. Unfortunately, most online descramblers do not allow 32 letters at a time. Sad

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