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[SOLVED][PUZZLE] morgan's site ouijay

[Flidget Jerome]

Someone in the chat's probably got this already, but I can't get in there, so.

[Obes]

http://www.freewebs.com/morganparanormal/fromschool.htm


BIG... coded thing.
Great.

Obes.

Edit - Is that the bible in Spanish in the picture?

[Flidget Jerome]

[Obes]

What's worse is this is not a simple code.

I see both

A, B, P, T and Z as single capital words. And there's only so many of those, we have too many.

Best guess is that each paragraph needs translating separately.

I really wish I could get on chat.


Obes.

[Merago]

It's a Vignere, with the key as thevampirelestat. I'll post the whole text as soon as I've got it all translated.

Edit: Here it is:

[Obes]

Yeah, as soon as I actually started looking into it, I realised it was probably a Vin-code.

However, I've got no way of translating a vin-code easily.... is there a website you can do it on or something?


So... that I can actually decode some of these things occassionally?


Obes.

EDIT - Can't see anything in that paragraph pointing towards the next puzzle. Tried all the 21... dec.. 21dec, dec21, 22, dec22, 22dec, christmas (basically the obvious ones). Now I'm stuck.

[Flidget Jerome]

Obes, try here.

Unfiction has a whole link list of tools for figuring stuff like this out.

[Merago]

There are a lot of useful tools here:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=9&sid=96dfeac3a9ccd55116852160770d8ba1

Here is the Vignere code-breaker I used:

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97roli/project/krypto/

[Obes]

Thanks all!


Obes.

[Ursos]

Good job, guys! I hate that I can't go online at all at work, but oh well. What can ya do?

Anyway, does anyone get the significance of the "silver ribbon" bit? How Eric's glad it's a leather thong instead of a silver ribbon? It just seemed random to me, and maybe I'm forgetting something. *shrugs*

[Arbitrary_Moss]

... maybe he's homophobic? No, I think that he's just suprised that Richard has changed so much... I mean, how would it be if you hadn't seen your brother, your twin, your... reflection, shall wel say (bringing in what the Tall Man said, over here)... almost your other self, sent away when you were 12, and now, four years later, he's back... Changed. Your last memories of him (ie the most recent ones) are from when you were a kid. Now you're both teenagers (*gasp* yeesh), and... Wow, he grew his hair out, and he's all in his uniform... He looks so different... and you aren't used to it yet. Maybe you don't like change. Well, at least it isn't a shiny bow in his hair. Yeah, I just thought of it as a sorta offhand comment. But who knows, maybe it is important after all.
~Mossy, who attempts to enlighten

[Ursos]

Well silver is the awareness ribbon for being anti-elder abuse and for a cure for Parkinson's disease. Maybe Eric likes beating up old people with Parkinson's...

Okay not really, but I didn't see any real relevance of silver ribbons in the global sense so either A) it's like Mossy said, and just shows that Richard has changed but thankfully not TOO much or B) it's nothing at all. Or C) it's a key element that will solve this entire mystery in one fell swoop!

[Obes]

Note - this is 1896 we're talking about.

I believe a leather thong was considered an 'old style' about then (What is it... end of Edwardian time?) But men would still have pony tails.

His reference to 'at least it's not a silver ribbon' would be replaced by the modern phrase 'You've got girl's hair' or even 'your hair looks like a horses bum' (If you watch TV.. and like Hovis).

Obes.

[CharlieB]

what about the book?
it looks to me more like portuguese than spanish

anybody remember any important portuguese documents from the time period?

I'm racking my brains.