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[SirQuady]

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[Esteed]

Travis is on AIM again. I'm chatting with him now, I'll edit it into the post once the conversation is finished.

[jenni42ld]

Woo! Chat with Travis

[Esteed]

Okay, so here's my solo conversation with him, followed by the conversation that went down in the chat. I suck at codes, so if someone else could handle the code from the chat, that'd be great. Hopefully the spoiler tags will work.

[understress]

Hey I was in the chat with you guys. I've tried many different things with the code but I can't figure it out.

[Esteed]

The mystery name got back on for a few moments, AngBa hit it up, and all that was said was "We know". So I figure that was Synthesis just popping in to be scary and intimidating. As far as Synthesis spewing in the chat, it has to be a code, but nothing I'm trying works.

[AngBa]

You're not the only one...S1549NY5, our stranger signed on for about 2 seconds, here's what I got.

[19:49] HCON1277: hello, mystery person
[19:49] S1547NY5: We know.
[19:49] *** "S1547NY5" signed off at Sun Aug 06 19:49:46 2006.


I've tried a lot of different things, but decoding isn't my strong suit

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Ai ya, my brain is fried from trying to work on this code *bleh*

All I can come up with is it must be a substitution code, because there's a certain amount of regularity to the letters:

For instance two lines both start with 'mnpsc' and that is also found repeatedly throughout the text (must be a fairly common 5-letter word, if it IS a simple substitution cipher) Also, 'mgmg' is found alot, with various letters in front in each instance. (not sure of many words which repeat two letters twice??).

Anywho, just my crazy midnight ravings...

EDIT: Also, there's one instance of 'bbb' which, if this is subsitution, must be the result of no word spacing (likely the one word ends in whatever 'bb' is and the next word starts with 'b'...if that just made any sense)

[Esteed]

Travis signed on for a second, but I didn't get much sleep last night and had kinda...uh, well, fallen asleep at the keyboard would be a good way of putting it. I know he was online because I rarely close IM windows I decide are important, so I can tell when people log on and off even if I'm not paying attention. It was really no more than like two or three seconds, but did anybody catch him before he popped back out?

[jenni42ld]

AIM, Code

[Esteed]

Yeah, I have no idea what's up with the code. I've even tried anagraming the messages themselves. Sadly, the culprit for my sleepless night is that I made the mistake of using my Buffy season one DVD as background noise. Just a tip: When you haven't seen episodes of your favorite show in a while, they don't exactly help you fall asleep. >.>

[Jiroe]

To make it a little easier, here's the code line by line as it is in the chatlog. Seems easier than digging through the log to find it.

[Esteed]

Yeah, we thought so too, but we haven't been able to figure out what. We've tried replacing the numbers with letters and anagraming it to use as a key for a vigenerie (spelling is probably off) as well as using it unaltered as a key, both before and after replacing the numbers with letters. I've been trying to wrap my brain around it, but I can't quite figure out how it could fit. I do agree it has something to do with it, though.

[Whalewashingdolphin]

Just throwing this WAAAAAY out there (since you never know) taking numbers from the sign-in name 'S1547NY5' as a zip code gives you the zip code for 'Republic, PA'...which is vaguely interesting since 'law' is involved and 'republic' is a type of government...probably WAAAY off base though, but interesting!

[AngBa]

I was dreaming this stupid code and thought about it all day at work (unfortunately didn't have time to work on it)... Guess we're all stumped... I wonder if Travis is going to make an appearance again tonight?