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Vaporlofts Tokyo Site
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anonymouse
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 		Vaporlofts Tokyo Site
http://www.vaporlofts.com/tokyo/

is new

Bw cvzidmt um
Gwc vmml i aquxtm smg,
Vw smg bpib eia uilm
Jg twksauqbp'a pivl,
Jcb i smg bpib wvtg Q
Eqtt cvlmzabivl

in the source is this encoded text

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<!-- The Fire Keepers Must Be Stopped. -->


PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:07 pm
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y2kbozo
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 		Simple ROT...
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To unravel me
You need a simple key,
No key that was made
By locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I
Will understand


PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:31 pm
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sequoya
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Location: Land of haggis, kilts, neds and Irn-Bru

 		The answer to this riddle:

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http://www.vaporlofts.com/tokyo/cipher.html

In the source of which is:

QVTKE PUPXU TLQNJ KERPL PMVZG VSDII GEPSO ZPOPS SEIIG PZVTJ PUOYQ
ESLPZ IPIMY CNGIO IWKAW LWRTM TUNFA QCNXY GUHLP MGAXU XYGEP AIIUP
XUTLG FRSEZ OMSFS LCZTU SKCNX ZLYKA UYMVP LHHMU JWLKS PQCZU SNYPT
ALVTW GUSKV PTMMJ JMHHV VGVYV CZPOI OIDUM ACIJA WJHVV PWITI JJQCW
YJCQS OSNFW NVYBP WLALR VQSVR FVSCV AKJII ALVHQ HOIJC ZTLRA QGXUK

KJMBZ ICXMH


_________________
--seq

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 12:40 pm
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y2kbozo
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 		Cipher
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Vigeneré, key: cipher

ONE DAY SHINPU OFUDA AND A FRIEND WERE WALKING
ALONG A RIVER BANK HOW DELIGHTFULLY THE FISHES ARE
ENJOYING THEMSELVES IN THE WATER SHINPU EXCLAIMED
YOU ARE NOT A FISH HIS FRIEND SAID HOW DO YOU KNOW
WHETHER OR NOT THE FISHES ARE ENJOYING THEMSELVES
YOU ARE NOT ME SHINPU SAID HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT I
DO NOT KNOW THAT THE FISHES ARE ENJOYING THEMSELVES

Edit: Corrected re pantingpants post below.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:00 pm
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Abraxas
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 		I suspected that the Shinpu text from the London folder rather belongs here and wanted to try Shinpu as Vignere key...

Ok. Great. Nice story. And now what? Confused
That reminds me of twofish.html in the Paris folder. Wondered about the page name.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:04 pm
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pantingpants
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 		From the Wikipedia entry on Ofuda (not "of uda", y2kbozo although definitely not the first thing one would have thought of!)

The ofuda, gofu or shinpu are traditional Shinto religion items, used for protection from or banishing and sealing away evil spirits. They are most often slips of paper with mystical kanji brushed on their surface in the ancient style. An alternate and more common spelling is O-fuda.

This definitely jives with earlier references to mythological or mystical spirits... in S. Africa and in Japan (don't know where those particular posts were made...)

(edit)
Also - this is pretty significant, I didn't recognize the word "shinpu" at first, but that is the name of a man Anne has mentioned in her Livejournal (link). Excerpt:

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"I think that this other guy, who goes by the name of Shinpu (I don't really think this is his real name... but I have heard stranger names than that before), is the owner of the bar that we hang out at, but when I asked him, he just shrugged and sipped his cup of coffee."


Maybe this is a sign that Shinpu will protect Anne from evil spirits....? Confused

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pantingpants
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 		The encoded text from the Tokyo page

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<!-- The Fire Keepers Must Be Stopped. -->


Is a reference to a myth/story/parable told by Anne in the point_system livejournal (link), titled "Keepers of the Fire".

<spec>It seems that Vaporlofts would want to undo the balance of the universe that is described in the story.</spec>

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Abraxas
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 		Yes, I think we all still remember a Shinpu mentioned in Anne's journal and maybe you are right, it's a metaphoric story to tell us that he will be Anne's savior/protector/guide/whatever.

The Fire Keepers reference seems to be another story which becomes more and more reality. I just wonder why those comments are on the VaporLofts sites. Somebody hacking them? Perhaps ghosts? Laughing

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