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sixsidedsquare
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 		[Trailhead] Studio Cyphers
With the IdeasFest ARG coming to a close (we never did make up a good name for that one) this email was sent out to players by the main character:
Agent Sueno 2693 wrote:
Subject: Mission Complete

Everything in its time, and IDEASFest 2006 was the time for justice!

Deputy Varin discovered enough evidence at IDEASFest 2006 to put
Director Anderson away for a long time. We were right, he did create a
time-travel vacation service. Not only that, he was the one who
brought the time machine to IDEASFest in the first place. No doubt he
wanted Silas to disrupt time so no one would notice his own
wrongdoings. You can read more about what happened at the 21st century
communication portal (www.ideasfest.org/forums), including a video of
Director Anderson getting what he deserves.

Thank you for the help, Deputies for the Duration. The duration is now
over, but time travel means that in some sense, your entry in the Time
Corps will never end.

Before I officially terminate the duration, I want to call your
attention to an email I received yesterday, with a subject of "Good
job":

"I've been watching you and your deputies fix time. You've got a very
resourceful bunch there. They're quick on their feet and eager to dig
into a mystery. I suspect that they're done helping you, but they
might be interested in helping us.

"Send them to www.studiocypher.com and we'll see if they're ready to
explore the unknown once again."


Tempus Fugit!
~ Agent Sueno 2693


www.studiocypher.com has a very nice little front page, wont spoil anything, just check it out for yourself. There's also a sign up page for people to enter names and email to join the 'Cyphers', and US people can put their address in in case there is some 'physical information' to be sent out (lucky devils).

So from the fun that was had with IdeasFest, this should be pretty good, looks more serious and mysterious too. Talk of the Philadelphia Experiment, Cyphers, Erasers and of course, liberation of the truth and saving the world Very Happy

Not too much to work on at the moment, but that front page is cool and the background image has stuff on it. EGo recognised the top writing as Rot13 and posted it in chat, but I kinda lost it.. Embarassed

Edit by Addlepated - Moved to Potentials forum, added [SC] tag.

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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		I'm glad we're seeing more connected with IDEASfest.
Ego's solve for the first part of the graphic (ROT-13) is:
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There are secrets that the world must know. The world is dangerous. The blood-dimmed tide of murder floods the streets. Desperation is thick in the air, and it's ev'ry man for himself. It is a world of catch as catch can, of eyes shining brightly with madness, of politicians with their razor-blade smiles and indifferent hearts. That is simply the face of evil. The heart lies beneath. That heart is more insidious and dangerous than the world, red in tooth and claw.

And the text for the 2nd part (Wingdings) is:
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Your soul is in jeopardy! America is more than purple mountains and amber grain. America is the home of bright minds, inventor souls, and the accidental brilliance of simply being different.

The third part looks familliar as another font and the fourth, at first glance looks like Octal (but isn't).
Have fun, and don't solve everything before I come back.
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Saevitia
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 		Wow, that frontpage really is cool. Razz

*signs up*

Does anybody know what the text in the center of the dragon is, or what language? I thought it was greek, but looking at trhe greek alphabet it dosn't match up.
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chippy
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 		the last part transcribed is:
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150 52 179 84 48 145 3 101 37 165 8 29 12 110 166 115 32 105 20 79 43 136 64 67 2 108 56 120 140 21
63 170 16 145 6 26 154 5 4 111 20 55 136 179 84 16 138 79 106 29 137 18 62 52 120 94 108 66 29 86
154 179 136 87 135 174 130 43 28 4 54 173 120 9 29 154 48 138 97 70 177 42 164 149 89 8 64 145 93
84 102 138 79 16 6 154 130 87 18 64 177 101 29 179 52 133 112 64 79 164 7 176 20 96 123 43 12 29 60
85 79 42 170 179 114 148 64 31 37 52 43 74 140 84 111 143 138 106 2 79 179 151 52 29 64 26 173 75 140
120 63 154 64 144 29 79 20 42 154 165 26 173 44 5 48 49 61 32 64 30 152 29 26 52 179 171 149 43
165 84 122 57 29 79 3 55 173 21 127 64 88 169 130 67 44 66 55 8 43 176 49 70 64 152 37 79 67
114 88 120 11 140 145 106 96 173 119 100 63 97 179 5 70 43 52 36 29 6 99 130 67 3 117 37 144 92 149
179 43 52 96 112 64 79 85 62 52 120 7 83 79 29 95 168 11 173 97 81 149 64 86 52 134 43 2 171 145 79
29 130 179 20 106 6 48 79 67 21

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 		*signs up too...

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lpilker
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 		ok... found out 2 things:

1. if you translate the "symbol" text in the center of the dragon, it spells

eimen te kai ouk eimen

could it be a ROT? or another language?

2. there is at least one other page in the site...did you find it, too?
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type the word "cypher" after the slash in the address bar on the home page


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chippy
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 		"eimen te kai ouk eimen" seems to be ancient greek -
"for we are, and are not"

also, the snake, it moves! i wonder if its a countdown or clock?
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Thenre
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 		waving the mouse over the words that aren't hidden in the back reveals 6 red letters which spell out "cypher" giving us
http://www.studiocypher.com/cypher


...TV Dinners my ass! This Shunyata guy doesn't know what he's talking about. It seems they've got quite an organization though...

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Saevitia
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also, the snake, it moves!


I KNEW I saw it move! But then I accidentally closed my browser and I thought I was imagining things.
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 		The third script looks a bit like symbol, but not an exact match, I suspect it might just be a substitution.
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Rogi Ocnorb
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 		It does appear to be a simple substitution, but with punctuation, spaces and capital letters.
I fear we'll need to know the font to figure it out.
Here's a clearer representation of the graphic:

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I've signed up.
We'll see what comes of this.
I'll get on the stuff you guys haven't solved yet.
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sixsidedsquare
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 		Well gee, looking at that third block of text today with fresh eyes I can't believe we didn't catch onto what the 'font' was. It looks to be Mary Queen of Scots cipher, you of all people should have picked that Rogi Razz
If anyone has a copy of 'The Code Book' they could quickly do a tranlation (I couldn't find a nice copy of the cipher online)

And random stab at the last one looking at the number ranges, could be a Beal cipher (letter count) of the other text already deciphered.

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sixsidedsquare wrote:
Well gee, looking at that third block of text today with fresh eyes I can't believe we didn't catch onto what the 'font' was. It looks to be Mary Queen of Scots cipher, you of all people should have picked that Rogi Razz
If anyone has a copy of 'The Code Book' they could quickly do a tranlation (I couldn't find a nice copy of the cipher online)

I don't have 'The Code Book' but I do have 'Codes Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication' that has the Mary Queen of Scots Cipher in it - but, unless there is another version, it's not that cipher. I didn't see anything else in my book that looked promising either. However, if it is a simple cipher, it should be able to be figured out via frequency analysis which I'm not going to do right now as it's time for bed.
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 		I actually thought about the Mary, Queen of Scots Cipher, but discounted it as the font layout was so clean. Either somebody found it as a usable font, or they are VERY good at graphical layout. Was just too lazy to do the comparison. Grrr!

Working on it, now.

EDIT: Got it. It was Mary, Queen of Scots

Here is the Raw translation:
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there-a-r-e-t-h-o-s-e-w-h-o-d-e-t-e-s-t-o-u-r-m-o-s-t-p-r-e-c-i-o-u-s
b-o-u-n-t-y-t-h-e-s-e-m-e-n-and-w-o-m-e-n-w-i-s-h-t-o-l-e-v-e-l-the-m
o-u-n-t-a-i-n-and-f-i-ll-the-v-a-ll-e-y-l-e-a-v-i-n-g-u-s-w-i-t-h-n-o
t-h-i-n-g-t-o-d-o-but-p-l-o-d-u-p-w-a-r-d-t-o-a-b-l-e-a-k-h-o-r-i-z
o-n-a-f-e-a-t-u-r-e-l-e-ss-w-o-r-l-d-is-not-e-n-o-u-g-h-for-t-h-e-m-i
t-m-u-s-t-b-e-p-o-p-u-l-a-t-e-d-by-fe-a-t-u-r-e-l-e-ss-s-o-u-l-s
c-a-n-t-y-o-u-f-e-e-l-t-h-e-m-in-y-o-u-r-t-e-l-e-v-i-s-i-o-n-s-and-n-e
w-s-p-a-p-e-r-s-b-u-r-y-i-n-g-y-o-u-u-n-d-e-r-t-h-e-i-r-b-a-n-a-l-e-x
c-r-e-t-i-o-n-s

Cleaned-up a bit, it comes out to:
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there are those who detest our most precious bounty these men and women wish to level the mountain and fill the valley leaving us with nothing to do but plod upward to a bleak horizon a featureless world is not enough for them it must be populated by featureless souls cant you feel them in your televisions and newspapers burying you under their banal excretions


END EDIT

I'm having zero luck coming away with anything on the last part as a Beale, Six. But I think you're on to something with that as the number of words fits the range of numbers almost exactly.
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