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MensVenatus

Cool; can't believe I solved it...

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:09 pm

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MensVenatus

and while we're at it...

The fortune telling about 'devices that allow speaking across the ocean without using their mouths' put me in mind of the telegraph, so from

http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/telegraph.htm

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 2:52 pm

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Icefly ruined my teeth
Aguatero Industries was fun
So was I was Charlotte Bronte
Wondering what happened to what happened to Sarah

yellowmazine · Boot Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 65 Location: Toronto, ON

So, you used the first word in the phrase as a key and then put that resulting text through using the second word as a key? Or are both words the key? I just tried the first approach and it did not work the same way for me.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:43 pm

Thunderwolf

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:19 pm

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

The only way I could get it to work was to go here, click decrypt, copy and paste the cipher text into the "your message" field. Then click show keymaker, enter the word "minor" into the "key words" field, click 'apply to key". Next, type "arcana" into the "passphrase" field. You should then see the deciphered text. Not sure how this works or why it's called a "keyed vigenere". I thought all vigeneres were keyed. Dunno

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:47 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:57 pm

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"OK, now what you gotta do is go down the road past the old Johnson place. You're gonna find two roads, one parallel and one perpendicular. Now keep going until you come to a highway that bisects it at a 45-degree angle. Solve for x."

amandel

In Letter #1 (7 Feb.) David says he is "going into hiding" and Saranna already posted it on her blog as "bens-letter.html".....

Am thinking not too much gets past Saranna's tarot gifts and that this is an intriguing story. Cool

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:53 pm

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OmegaLimit · Boot Joined: 02 Feb 2011 Posts: 56 Location: Maysville, KY

I'm going to borrow a page from Thunderwolf's playbook and send her a message with encrypted text using the same cipher that she just used.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:01 pm

MensVenatus

Yeah Enaxor, that's the one I used. Just dumb luck; first thing and site I tried...

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:35 pm

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Icefly ruined my teeth
Aguatero Industries was fun
So was I was Charlotte Bronte
Wondering what happened to what happened to Sarah

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

**Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:47 pm

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Seadevil4

Well out goes the Cryptool in goes your link to the Keyed Vigenere Cipher.

Funny it was first key I tried since it was the most obvious even before she posted an hint. Annoying the Cryptool didn't do the right way.

Thats me relying on complex tools that I don't how works.

Cheers enaxor.

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:24 am

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mysterymum · Greenhorn Joined: 10 Feb 2011 Posts: 5

Think I might try and get on this.
Haven't ARG'd for a looooong time (formerly miseryofpain) and now I've got some extra time on my hands, thought I'd come back.
Anywho, I've emailed for a reading so we'll see what reply I get.

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:02 pm

MensVenatus

new blog post...

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:31 pm

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Icefly ruined my teeth
Aguatero Industries was fun
So was I was Charlotte Bronte
Wondering what happened to what happened to Sarah

amandel

MensVenatus, not as clevah as your Cool

solve. Just a lucky guess that fit with the date 'tho wonder if the 5 images lead there.

**Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:36 pm

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"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."

lighter · Boot Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 47

The 5 pictures have corresponding tarot cards.
Le fol (the Fool #0)
Moon (the Moon #18, also #ed 19)
Abstain (Temperance #14)
Holy (Hierophant? #5)
Chariot (Chariot #7)

**Posted:** Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:43 am