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Hazman

New tweet,

**Posted:** Wed May 01, 2013 7:07 am

MC_Loki · Decorated Joined: 26 Oct 2012 Posts: 166

This *might* be some sort of additive cipher.

Going off of my previous suppositions, though: if this is indeed all of the code and not a segment, the first S sticks out as already mentioned, but the PQUFF at the end is also the odd man out because there isn't a checksum number at the end.

Also, assume the lowercase letters are already solved or are another form of checksum variable.

**Posted:** Thu May 02, 2013 8:15 pm

Hazman

New Tweet

**Posted:** Sun May 05, 2013 5:26 am

Perilous · Boot Joined: 05 Mar 2013 Posts: 28

New Video! More questions... I suck with codes. What do you guys got?

**Posted:** Sun May 12, 2013 6:32 pm

maddielyne

I've been trying with that coordinate but I can't seem to place it. The N would indicate the following number is latitude, which would have to be between 0 and 90 degrees. So if we cut off the 40 as being that, then we have 20.1225 as the longitude, though we don't have a direction as before. This ambiguity is throwing me off.

However, if you just put in 40 for lat and 20.1225 for long, you end up in Albania. Could that possibly be related to the Iliad?

**Posted:** Sun May 12, 2013 9:30 pm

maddielyne

Okay, so after looking into this location it's possible this is it. The N could have simply been to indicate it was a coordinate. The location is exactly--and I mean exactly--on the border of Gjirokaster and Vlore in Albania. In the time of the Iliad, Albania was known as Epirus, for the most part. The borders were slightly different but the majority fell under that title.

Now how it connects to the Iliad is still sketchy. I can't find any mention of any of these locations in the text itself. I've looked into any possible ancient/alternative names or related happenings, but I can't relate them to anything substantial.

The only connection I could find was that "Helenus was part of the Trojan forces led by his brother Hector that beat the Greeks back from the plains west of Troy, and attacked their camp in the Iliad" (Wikipedia page on Helenus). Helenus is the twin sister of Cassandra, who was cursed with knowing the future but having no one ever believe her, a character we connected with Story earlier.

**Posted:** Sun May 12, 2013 10:14 pm

MC_Loki · Decorated Joined: 26 Oct 2012 Posts: 166

Nearest landmark at that coordinate is the Sopoti Telecommunications Base.

**Posted:** Sun May 12, 2013 11:53 pm

TallulahBelle · Entrenched Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 779 Location: Sweden

I think the new code is supposed to help us solve the old code, and I think we need to solve the old code in order for the story to move on.
New code shouldn't be a key, since we prolly should have been able to solve the old one without this new one. So if it isn't a key, what could it be?

**Posted:** Mon May 13, 2013 4:21 am

MC_Loki · Decorated Joined: 26 Oct 2012 Posts: 166

Just a thought...

The way she zooms in on the graffiti: the squiggly line under the cursive loki by the nautical star, and with the way the road looks on the map, maybe this is showing us that the code might be a sort of route cipher.

**Posted:** Mon May 13, 2013 8:02 pm

TallulahBelle · Entrenched Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 779 Location: Sweden

New tweet:

**Posted:** Tue May 14, 2013 2:48 am

zbeeblebrox · Unfettered Joined: 10 Nov 2010 Posts: 420

This is a grasping at straws now, but maybe the code is an encryption of the East-West coordinates?

**Posted:** Wed May 15, 2013 3:35 am

foxgreen · Decorated Joined: 04 May 2011 Posts: 152

Okay, I'm going to come out of lurking to give my input, because this code is seriously bugging me.

From what I've gathered so far, I'm reasonably sure that the code
-Isn't an anagram
-Isn't base 64 or anything similar, at least not as is. I've run it through a rot13 and rot64 cypher and tried that as base 64, no good.
-May need to be decoded twice. But Story's as clueless as we are, so her tweets may or may not actually have any relevance to the code.
-May be related to the new coordinate. If the new one's the cypher for the old, I haven't found any evidence of it yet.

I know that the new coordinate is a latitude, but I have no way of finding out where line N20 40.1225 crosses in the US. It would be nice to look at, but ultimately useless until we have the other point.

Someone mentioned that the graffiti on the wall may be related, but I doubt that's the case for several reasons. You'd be surprised how many jerks are willing to tag new or abandoned construction sites.

I'm going to play around with a decrypter for awhile, but I may scratchpad here if I find something interesting/potentially relevant.

**Posted:** Wed May 15, 2013 4:06 pm

Lithp · I Have No Life Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 2058

I'm still playing catchup, but I wanted to note, it's odd that Story seems to assume that Slenderman & the black dog are the same entity.

I was going to ask her about it, but Twitter trapped me in one of those endless "this name is taken" cycles, so I gave up on that shit.

**Posted:** Wed May 15, 2013 9:49 pm

TallulahBelle · Entrenched Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 779 Location: Sweden

New tweet:

**Posted:** Thu May 16, 2013 1:50 am