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Zhirgoyt · Kl00 Joined: 10 Jan 2011 Posts: 42

[trailhead] Mr Kat is Dead

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:50 pm

amandel

Overview of Missing Wallace P.I. sequel

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Zobot257

...? Isn't this OOG? What's this private investigator thingy?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:11 pm

amandel

Hi Zobot257, Missing Wallace P.I. was an ARG. The links I just posted are the IG sites to it's sequel just beginning. OK?

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:23 pm

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ReygaPrax

Will be jumping in on this round. Just reviewing the info from the previous one.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:54 pm

distilled

Ok, I'll try to keep up this time Very Happy

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:34 pm

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amandel

Hi ReygaPrax, this looks fresh start 'tho here's the Missing Wallace Wiki for background & b/c I'm a fangirl the Mr. Kat info

Cool

@ distilled. If the file header "2.1891" means February 1891, the Whitechapel murders (JacktheRipper) took place then.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:47 pm

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Arveza · Greenhorn Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 9

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:38 pm

ReygaPrax

**Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 9:19 pm

aterribleoldman · Greenhorn Joined: 08 Mar 2011 Posts: 7

could "Two seconds in the past was once two seconds in the future" be a decrypt clue? If it was encrypt two points one way and then two the other? I don't know anything about encryption/decryption but this strikes me as oddly important since it was the only plaintext amid a file of encrypted text...

**Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 2:35 am

Zobot257

**Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:54 am

ReygaPrax

Can't find any record of the quote through a Google search but am convinced the name "Serca ye Deke" is a fabrication.

Have been playing around with various decryption methods on various lines of the text but so far to no avail. Have even gotten to the point of using the good old-fashioned method of manually trying to crack the substitutions. Did come up with something for the 4th line through that method but hestitant to share it at the moment for fear of muddying the waters.

In short I think I've gotten a little close to it. Will be back in a few hours with a fresh pair of eyes.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:13 am

enaxor · I Have No Life Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 2395

**Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:40 am

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aterribleoldman · Greenhorn Joined: 08 Mar 2011 Posts: 7

o (encrypted) = a (plaintext)
Assuming the capitalised encrypted text corresponds to capitalised plaintext (as the only 1 letter words in English are I and a).

However, last possible victim doesn't seem to be a clue to the key, as I couldn't find ANY possible victims starting with O.
Any suggestions?

**Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:22 pm

ReygaPrax

I have been treating "Last Possible Victim" as the clue to the next keyword needed for the next Keyed Caesar Cipher in which case it wouldn't have to begin with O.

**Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:29 pm