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Lucavex

On a side note, Abby has posted that there are possibilities to get into Survivor Command, but I'm not sure I want in.

Reason being there may be roles that people outside the survivor command need to play to advance the plot. For instance ChildrenofZ might be more willing to speak with someone who's not in survivor command, etc.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:07 pm

MotaHed

I tweeted at Sotpyrk that I wanted to know ... he replied:

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:20 pm

scotgaz · Decorated Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 188

think we can take that as meaning it's KJ on the card and not XJ ?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:28 pm

catgirl789

K= Kryptos?

ETA: Maybe the KJ tells us that the alphabet for the keyed vinegre is backwards?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:28 pm

dangermonkey · Boot Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Posts: 51 Location: Ohiiiio

Is K a person we're overlooking maybe? "Someone's past"? K = someone?

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:41 pm

catgirl789

quick, someone ask Abby if she knows someone who's name has a K in it.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:42 pm

Lucavex

My brain is fried. All I can think about now is the inevitability that somehow, a grilled cheese sandwich will eventually be a major plot point.

Why does everything taste purple?

EDIT: Could "K" refer to "KRF"? Sotpyrk has implied he has access to them, and they must not know something, if he's able to move about them freely.

H(e)x · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 84

I have to go to a party. Damnit! (Mind is going: Cipher . . . party . . . cipher . . . party . . . knowing it'll probably be cracked when I get back.)

Anyway: my two cents is that I think it may be a simple substitution, rather than Vigenere. The frequency analysis looks good for a shor substituted English text, and there are a number of repeated letter combinations.

So try using standard cryptanalysis. Try out a few cribs -- guesses at words. The first sentence is three words, so to be a sentence the second word is likely to be "is". One of the three leter words is likely to be "the" (though not OXM - it would produce an unlikely HT combination later on.)

Good luck!

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:45 pm

catherwood-offline · Guest

i have a solution to your cipher (sorry, i can't help myself when a thread goes on too long with something being unsolved, even when I'm not playing the game itself)

Vig key:

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:53 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

???????????

amandel

Thanks, all-knowing-offline-one. If you aren't on the IG forum shall I post your solve there for all?

Ditto on the ????????'s. Laughing

Sweet Yams find

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 4:58 pm

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How the hell did you figure that one out???

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:07 pm

dangermonkey · Boot Joined: 18 Jul 2009 Posts: 51 Location: Ohiiiio

Holycripes. How the HECK? Thanks...that was awesome!

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:07 pm

Lucavex

Dastardly!

It was easily reverse-engineered with a standard Vigenere cipher if we had assumed the first sentence was "Freedom is coming"

I guess we went too deeply into it.

Thanks for solve, Mysterious posterperson.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:08 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Bless us catherwood, for we are slow witted. How do you come up with these wonderful solves.

Did anyone know of that KJ prior to this???

amandel- sure

**Posted:** Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:10 pm