Someone has left a cipher lying around…

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January 30, 2016 at 8:30 am #152151
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If anyone hasn’t realized yet, the funny passages on PGE 7, 17 & 131 are a substitution cipher. Not gobbeldygook to be filled in for the print book.
February 4, 2016 at 11:29 pm #271390
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Solved them $\":)\"$
February 4, 2016 at 11:36 pm #271394
drafit
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Solved them $\":)\"$
Excellent.
Out of curiosity, did you use the clue on that page(s) to help or just wrangled it “old school”?
February 5, 2016 at 8:23 am #271416
frootsnax
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::in a shadowed room somewhere in the First City Tukufu starts talking::
“Kelb we’ve got to put some people into researching obsidian masks. And all that other stuff. Top people…people we can trust to be discrete!”
He pauses a moment.
“Wait a minute. Weren’t there eyes carved into the “dungeon walls” when we did that favor for the Tomal Khan and the Golden Court? You remember? That bit with the Khans Forso and Daxio?”
February 6, 2016 at 11:18 pm #271443
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Solved them $\":)\"$
Excellent.
Out of curiosity, did you use the clue on that page(s) to help or just wrangled it “old school”?
I wrangled it old school $\":)\"$
February 6, 2016 at 11:19 pm #271444
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Solved them $\":)\"$
Excellent.
Out of curiosity, did you use the clue on that page(s) to help or just wrangled it “old school”?
By the way, the presence of the ciphers was brilliant!
February 6, 2016 at 11:20 pm #271445
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“Tukufu….I believe you are right…however, I seem to remember eyes somewhere else too…were there not some in the Larissan Vault?”
February 7, 2016 at 3:25 pm #271454
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The cyphers were great! I wonder how many people will put in the effort to decode them. I finished it last night by brute force. Now I need to figure out what clues Henry left to supposedly make it easier. $\":)\"$ Look for the clues for clues. Very fun. Earth shattering stuff. Really amazing. My only question is, are these supposed to be cyphers found around the first city (in character knowledge after you break them) or are they more hidden than that? From the reaction I’m seeing, I’m assuming my character has now read them, is that fair?
And if they are from around the city, where? I was really hoping one would be the cypher from around the trade gate that no one has been able to figure out. After all, my character could use 1,000 gp. (though I’m sure I would never be first in such a race)
February 8, 2016 at 7:15 am #271463
frootsnax
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Honestly I don’t know if they are meant to be IC or OOC. There’s an argument to be made for both. I assume by the end of Arcaniscon (at the latest) most serious players of the campaign will know about the ciphers and will have deciphered them. That makes me think that conspiracy minded PCs might reasonably be able to discretely claim knowledge of what’s been written.
I.C. (and maybe out of character) there is also no reason to assume that what was written is completely accurate. It is a trio of assertions, from someone’s personal perspective, w/o any hard evidence. But yeah…its provocative and refocused my attention on why I love the val’Holryn family. I’m pulling all my judging certs together to field Sir Szymon.
Henry had to tell me what the clue on the pages were. To try and figure that out you need to compare the pages with the ciphers to pages w/o ciphers. There is a subtle difference but I think its harder looking in a kindle/e-reader format.
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