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[UNSOLVED] Controls To The Gun -puzzle

[Wainamoinen]

Holy crap!

We have 4 days till... bo00om...

http://www.aresstation.com//severthelifeline.php

-Wainamoinen

[ItWasntMeISwear]

THe code

[fabs_uk]

from the source:

[Russell]

I think it prudent to read the whole of revelations as :

1:8 I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Plus now we know why we have the exact coordinates of the asteroid!

[chippy]

yes! of course! Kill two birds with one stone...but what about poor old Jacob?

as for clouds - all i can think of is Monkey riding on his cloud

[Wandering_Angela]

Anyone had any brilliant ideas?

I just wanted to point out something. If you're trying (as I am) to decode this as a vigenere, remember that previous vigeneres in this game came out rotated one degree.

For those of you who might not have paid attention to those puzzles, what I mean is that even after decoding they were one letter off (B instead of A). So try a ROT-1 on whatever output you get from the Vigenere. Or is it ROT-25? I can never remember the lingo. But in the job application cipher, at least, you had to go back one letter from the vigenere solution. So you'd get "dpohsbuvmbujpot" which turns into "congratulations".

Hope this helps... I've been trying but getting nowhere so far.

[ellipses]

Ah Ha! Thanks Wandering_Angela.

It is Vignere with ROT -1 applied afterwards.

I'll edit this post with the results as I get them - done it now

[Russell]

I was just about to post the third seal! Good solves your on fire!!

Finally,

The Poem by William Butler Yeats:

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all around it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Could be the number of words in the first eight lines? Nope not that.
I have also tried his date of birth and death.

[JoeUser]

Nice work! I had forgotten about having to ROT-25 after Vig.

It seems like the second seal part is made of up words from the poem.

[ellipses]

All that in a lunchbreak!

As for the second one - surely the repeated "Turning" at the beginning is important. You might be right about it not being numbers though.

Hmm. Just for the record I've tried the word number of all the words as the code (and variations on it depending on how you count). Nothing.

[Center Lot]

David

[Russell]

Quite a good sight to explore:

http://www.yeatsvision.com/SecondNotes.html

[Center Lot]

Good God!

[ellipses]

The countdown clock say for me (right now) 03:00:07:31:422.

I'm on UK time - what does it say for anyone else?