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[tom_in_bristol]

The three-sided character idea would of course give 8 permutations... would this be useful? Frequency analyses on this basis sheds no light on the matter...

Another line of attack: would it be worth considering the pattern as rows of horizontal lines followed by rows of vertical lines.. in a binary on/off pattern?



[certainly was a night on the tiles..]

[Lesser Atuin]

Does the thing that looks like a "]" on the lower right strike anybody else as being an introduction? It's way out of frame with the rest of the message. Whatever this is decoded as, I think we need to turn this thing backwards.

[tom_in_bristol]

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[tom_in_bristol]

Binary? Morse? Pigpen?

[crouchosarus]

binary foundation does anyone else think, while missing actual connections, maybe that is what the white lines are???, the greay areas beween white lines look kind of like building hallways and layouts, maybe that is the foundation part

[Dr. Oid]

After substituting the symbols to letters, I got:
AB CDEFCGH
IJKHLFCB
LC DK AHMKN
ADCJL LOK
KPABNFB
JBFEKQHK FH

[Dionysus]

I dont think focusing on "binary foundation" is the right path. So far, in each and every puzzle the website address simply reflected back to the puzzle before it, but did not relate to the current puzzle.

ie warmandcozy.html - Quilt
poorfolk - Dostoevsky (the solve for alien gibberish)
etc

Nevermind

[crouchosarus]

yay a new puzzle unfortunately it is not an extrmely easy solution that isee, there are only like 5 letters over and over also... none of them are vowels there is one u

[Dionysus]

Here's what the team in IRC (I still think we neeed a name.. Lockjaw had Jawbreakers... ilovebees had beekeepers... TheBeast had Cloudmakers..) has so far:

The text Aveinan Cencgb Ouhlng rot-13s to Nirvana Prapto Bhuyat (thanks Dr. Oid!)

This is from the foreward to Arthur C Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise... a tale about a space elevater no less!

Thats abotu where we are now.. tryign to use that to somehow decipher the rest...

[crouchosarus]

i just emailed fountainsofparadiseSPLATmaefamily.info to see if it would work reading the post below this one i agree, i dont like to blindly guess, but you never know,

[Dionysus]

I cant imagine it would, Crouch.. we still have ALL that ciphertext below Aveinan Cencgb Ouhlng

[drizjr]

"Updated on the 21st"
Does that refer to the 21st chapter: 'Judgement', or would the number 21 need to be rot-13 as well? (Although, I don't even know if one could rot numbers. )

[Dionysus]

Read through entire 21st chapter... nothing jumped out at me.. and for the hell of it, I tried Judgment as a Vigenere key. No joy

[Abraxas]

My observations on this new one:

For most of the code there are only "even" letters (even position in the alphabet), with the exception of V which does not appear at all.
But there is a small section of the code which contains "odd" letters separated by a Z, it's this one:
KUKSZUWKMW

So perhaps this becomes KUKS UWKMW.
Since there is no V, this might signify that X and Z are not letters. My guess would be that Z is a space and X is a period or something like that.
The even letters from B to T (that's 10 letters) would make up the letters used here, but I don't know how.
And the odd-letter words might be the key to that or work with the same technique which is used here.

The connection to The Fountains of Paradise escapes me. Probably just a little nudge towards inspiration for this ARG?

[crouchosarus]

i don't quite understand even letters