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[jessie1326]

[thebruce]

Yeah I wasn't sure which to take that either --

I like to stick to a predictable pattern (rather than substitute or play with the story) and let the reader find truth in the chaos

or

I like to stick to a predictable pattern (rather than substitute or play with the story and let the reader find truth in the chaos)

I favoured the first phrasing.

And to what oraclle said (good to hear from you again though, by the way! ), yeah that's the pattern I got too... but it's only a combo of 4 and 5 number repitition, the message will eventually loop anyway.
If that is the right number sequence, then it must be already revealed somewhere, if we should have been able to decode this message by now.

[cherrytree98765]

Could you transfer the two quotes to numbers. Both are the same length so it should be able to convert to cords pretty easily. Though granted there are no direct letter to number as this is what I got when I did that.

2-5-1-20-20-5-14-20-9-22-5-12-5-19-20-25-15-21-2-5-3-15-13-5-5-14-19-12-1-22-5-4
20-8-5-11-9-14-7-19-15-6-20-8-5-23-15-18-12-4-18-9-19-5-1-7-1-9-14-19-20-25-15-21

[oraclle]

[cherrytree98765]

I've tweeted Felicity again to see if we can get another clue about the "Pattern"

I take her last tweet as saying that the chart shouldn't be messed with and that we should get our message through just a straight means. And not trying to change letters or mess with them. That does eliminate quite a few ciphers I'm still stumped so hopefully our PM can clue us on what her logic train was.

[catherwood]

[thebruce]

[jessie1326]

[thebruce]

Well this is the pattern visually so far (attachment)... there is a pattern, but there's no indication of what turns to take, where to start, where to end, etc... it's not one continuous mathematically sequence either, almost as if each word is its own "pattern".

Either we need to find where these numbers are coming from, or there needs to be an indication of what "pattern(s)" we should be following

LIGHT would be the obvious next word, but following that 'pattern' next produces LIGHTH, LIGHTI, or LIGHTA (not LIGHTS which one might expect)

[jessie1326]

Yeah, the visual pattern is pretty clear. But no method I've tried of extending it past the letters we've been given makes any sense. I'm also trying to work out how we would get the other blog post involved, but no luck there either. It did strike me that "TRUTH" and "LIGH" could be non-sequential parts of the overall message, but that didn't help me work out any usable patterns.

However, given what we have, it may be that what we need to find is something that suggests the "movement"-- so instead of trying to find out where 14,4,10,6,6,8,10,10,14,12,10,4, came from, we should be trying to find something that gives us 4 up, 2 over, etc.?

[thebruce]

"the drama unfolds" - the right half seems to be a reflection of the left half, though with column 8 housing the fold, rather than between 8/9.

All the 'hint' numbers are duplicates of two, potentially indicating doubling of a source number.

Could we be looking for vector-type patterns? A starting point and angle (+x, +y), which is reflected for the 2nd half, or something like that?

[CapnZ]

I've just been lurking and am as stumped as anyone, but I was looking at the code found in the lockbox (the one with the number 4 with an arrow down) and it jumped at me that her last blog post is named "56".
56 divided by 4 is 14, which is the first number in the pattern. Also the number note from the lockbox looks similar to the pattern in the grid.
Just throwing that out there for people better at math then me..

[thebruce]

On where F is getting her "lucky numbers":

[MrToasty]

Character and symbol stick out to me but not sure where that would lead.

[jessie1326]