There are 2 things that keep bugging me about the Salome picture:
1) why the Cortazar quote?
2) why was the Rot13 part written like that?
Cortazar is a great argentinian novelist and one of his best novels is called Hopscotch (Rayuela in original). The novel has 155 chapters and can be read in two ways, according to Cortazar himself: either read only the first 56 (just the story) or to follow the author's map and "hopscotch" through all but one of the chapters to understand everything (the reading order is something like 73 – 1 – 2 – 116 – 3 – 84 – 4 – 71 – 5 – 81 – 74 – 6). My guess is that there's more than one message and they're all superimposed making one big code (ergo, a palimpsest).
Now for the Rot13 part. I think it's worth adding each letter in the decoded vertical message from the left to the respective lines from the right code and see what we get.
So basically you read Chapter 73, 1, 2, 116, 3 , 84, 4, 71, 5, 81, 74, 6 in that order to understand the novel?
I guess this would make more sense for this code since it's smaller and the numbers aren't large. Could it mean the soliloquy can be used to position words into the code?
Edit: Then again it would be hard considering the Zero's really throw everything off.
Yes. I think Mr Wagar provided the map, either in the code, or in the soliloquy. My first guess is that the capital case letters and numbers are separate from the lower case, and the lower case are good old-fashioned anagrams. How are your Scrabble skills cmdrs?
At Phaethon's Reach, Follow the Path of Souls, DB-IB Fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)
Phaethon is a clue to which Path of soul to use. In this case the Path of Souls is Eridanus. Then use the Fibinoacci Sequence add the 10th, 7th, 5th and 3rd terms to get 46. 46 Eridani is the start location of Salome's final journey, on the date shown in the video.
The DB-IB, and T-1319 parts of this clue do not seem to be used.
A group of EM-transmission technology enthusiasts in the Tionisla system claims to have found a message in the exploration data gathered last year as part of a campaign organised by the Children of Raxxla.
A spokesperson for the group, which calls itself The Hamsters, said:
“It was inside one of the beacon modulator wave harmonics, and it seems to be some sort of rhyme. We’ve studied it but have come up with nothing, so we thought we’d share it with the galactic community.”
The message is reprinted in full below.
The river to the underworld
Gaia’s daughter all unfurled
Fourth minor bear in vain
By viper’s sting was slain
Also known as Nemesis
The doom of Chimera
She is tasked with soothing pain
Suckling Odysseus from afar
Mother of the mother of
Leader of the Titans
He transformed into a hawk
A daughter of Daedalion’s
The piercer was how he was known
Mother of Ulysses
Ruler of the winds
God of night, primordial flees
Zeus’ namesake now lies in Sol
Achilles’ favoured horse
Women of vengeance infernal
The vain queen rides not forth
A final word, a course to follow, a poor miser’s sum
If you would understand it all, seek Fibonacci’s Zephyrum
Solved by the CoR among others in the formidine rift thread.
At Phaethon's Reach, - Pantheon Asteroid? Something about Scorpio and Cancer star constellations? Follow the Path of Souls, - Native American pathway through the stars? DB-IB Fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3) = DB-IB Fi(0) (Frequency of I = 0 ????? ) T-1317 SUM(10, 7, 5, 3) = 25 Weird theory...
"A player discovered the end-event content (the Teorge logs) before the event started. Limitations on how to insert them into the universe meant they had to be there in advance. That was an interesting one to explain in the book."
April 29, 3303 Salome dies.
Some of the Group then reveals the Teorge logs. There may not be any puzzle to these (RAGAZZA is almost REBECCA with A=E, G=B, Z=C, but only one of the A's are substituted)
On 29 Apr 3303, Lady Kahina Loren—also known as Salomé—and her co-conspirators Raan Corsen, Tsu Annabelle Singh and Yuri Nakamura attempted to reach the
Anyway, when we getting the tinfoil out with regards to Premonition? Or is everyone just crazy about the 'goid thing? Let them read the book first ;) We need more tinfoil, tinfoil hats won't be enough…
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The Wordsmith's place,
A middle name.
The final message,
Or a quest, in vain?
There are no recorded instances of Thargoid penguin consumption. Yet. You look rather tasty. DREEEEEWWW! *shakes fist* You're drawing me back in... I know! WHY MUST IT HAPPEN WHILE I SLUMBER! Translates to Epione at the bottom and Asclepius at the top. Canonn is on it now so if anyone...
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On to our present mystery.
On April 29, 3304, Drew Wagar posted an analysis of his experience of the previous event. He also posted a picture to either his twitter, or his blog, possibly both. A year later, April 28, 3305, he posts a picture to his twitter and states that the final clue is in the picture, and that he had posted the picture a year earlier and no one seems to have found it. The picture on the twitter is a jpeg, with a lot of compression artifiacts, but an orgional on his blog is a png, with little to no compression. On his blog on April 29, 3305 he posted a poem:
This tapestry holds a secret.
Palimpsests and blueprints
While a universe unfolds.
An axis of dying light
That spins in the black.
But alas I can see
Its stars are locked.
For me, Dyhia,
I fear my script is lost.
“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.” — Julio Cortázar
As others have stated the text on the Left side is a ROT13: "My last request is that you always... Remember." This is the last line in Salome's requiem.
The characters on the right side are still unsolved, for now.
eyketsoa
icineccans
rhT7aamtC7
oloRqExal
aAnonVt
1ieso
iypuloe
tnlhboRClar
H17nE
anlI7CDsD
typrrhSu
utlnsi
RcemoiecL8H
iein i
seedteMA
rleEes
aR2rCeha
CiieMls
eAti
xstfGu
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9baEaaata
WltQui
IrFseRa
irFna
0rrnoLT
iRtealaae
ohrierH4isi
Ctord
Vmiema
oaEufnxZrP
4h6iim
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yGwTsD
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Mbsuoib
alt
PmeiT4
oPoiO0nar
iuui
itScatsai6
Sumsnkpe
munVitiDo
diou
paI6K4r
nua
P5lytPe
Things to note: There are 48 line, 52 "words", and 4 spaces. There are 61 uppercase characters, and 22 numbers. The longest word and line is 11 characters. The shortest word is 1 character, and the shortest line is 3 characters counting the space. There are no j's or 3's. The frequency is very far from an flat distribution that would indicate a substitution cipher.
Other things to note, The poem by my count is 48 words long. The left hand phrase is 48 characters long. (This is incorrect. The left hand phrase is 47 characters long including punctuation and spaces. )
That is everything that is certain. Finally on to attempting to solve this mess.
As previously stated it is not likely to be any mono alphabetic substitution cipher such as rot13 or Ceasar. The distribution of characters are not even enough unless the substitution is vowel for vowel and consonant for consonant, which completely rules out any poly-alphabetic substitution cipher such as a Vigenere or Autokey cipher.
Converting everything to UTF-8 numbers and then those into Binary leaves us with this:
Taking the letters that are not covered we get: koaiansrhC7oxalan1ioloeRClarH1an7CDsDtyrhSuutsiRciecL8HeAraRaMlseA a u 9baaatauiIreRair0rTiRoh4isiCtmao4himw yeambuoaltPmoaritatsai6kpemuitiDodipa4rnuP5ytPe
or
koa
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rhC7
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an
1io
loe
RClar
H1
an7CDsD
tyhSu
utsi
RciecL8H
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A
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aRa
Mls
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u cH1
9baaata
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IreRa
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0rT
iRae
oh4isi
Ctd
ma
ofnxZrp
4him
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Mbuo
alt
Pm
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muitiDo
di
pa4r
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P5ytPe
Since this method is subject to some interpretation as to whether the letter is covered or not, I do not think that this is correct.
Finally to use the method implied by Djidjel. We can take the numbers out of the cipher, using line breaks as spaces like so:
77 1 17 7 8 2 9 1 9 0 4 46 1 4 0 6 64 5
This can be used multiple ways.
Selecting the nth character from the encrypted text with 0 as a space and counting newlines:
Recsoyaea eaee spt
As above without counting newlines:
Ieasoyaea eiee sRt
Using a similar method only selecting words on the requiem:
Prism If Welcome I am you're dead if dead _ this that if this _ because Kahina it's
PIWIaydid ttit bki
Without Contractions (it's to it is, you're to you are):
of If tribulations is because you I if I _ scanning the if scanning _ it others this
oItibyIiI stis iot
And finally selecting by sentence:
77 They have the history - not the sanitised version from the public records, but the truth.
1 If you're scanning this, it's because I am dead.
17 Many people assisted me, sometimes altruistically and sometimes to further their own agendas.
7 I was branded a murderer and a terrorist, and there is truth in these accusations.
8 I have made poor decisions.
2 Frankly, after all of my tribulations, I welcome the oblivion of the void.
9 I killed, or caused the death, of thousands.
1 If you're scanning this, it's because I am dead.
9 I killed, or caused the death, of thousands.
0
4 Perhaps I will find peace as I return to the stardust that made me.
46 We showed them what true loyalty was.
1 If you're scanning this, it's because I am dead.
4 Perhaps I will find peace as I return to the stardust that made me.
0
6 Some of you knew me as Salomé, others as Kahina Tijani Loren, a Lady of the empire and former senator of the Prism system.
64 They consider themselves the true elites.
5 Know that this was my choice.
first letters: TIMIIFIII PWIP STK
I don't see anything in any of these.
Edit: fixed the binary which had missing lines, and the gal net article.
Forget the letters that are not covered!!!! That cursive font forms a "path to follow" through the message. Cursive is written by hand, typically with one continuous line, without lifting the pen off the paper.
Get the letters that are covered, in the order that they're covered in!
I was previously thinking along the lines of the text being a Palimpsest, so having to extract 2 sets of text from the original 48 lines... one which is "superimposed" on the other... but I never had the spare time to sit down and start to write anything down to see if anything began to make sense.
Whether that superimposition is on a very simple "alternate/every second letter" basis, or on a more complex rule that is defined by the numbers and/or the capitalised letters. Or more complicated still - the superimposition is 'hiding' a letter underneath that has to be re-inserted in terms of context, the initial possibilities are legion.
^^^ This on the right track, or just a red herring?
I did what I could to be able to read the cipher more better hopefully this helps. Got any suggestions left let me know. Best to Save Image as and zoom in.
I did what I could to be able to read the cipher more better hopefully this helps. Got any suggestions left let me know. Best to Save Image as and zoom in.
Thanks for the effort but we do have a better quality picture available already on the first page of the thread and the cursive writing on top of the text on the right does not solve the cypher as mach10 mentioned already. Well hopefully see the whole cypher on thursday.
Thanks for the effort but we do have a better quality picture available already on the first page of the thread and the cursive writing on top of the text on the right does not solve the cypher as mach10 mentioned already. Well hopefully see the whole cypher on thursday.
Now for the Rot13 part. I think it's worth adding each letter in the decoded vertical message from the left to the respective lines from the right code and see what we get.
I didn't bother with that because I figured it would be easy enough to see if each line had a letter missing. or xample e re ery ood t iguring ut artial ext. Absent letters don't affect the decoding of a transposition cipher like Caesarian shift (ROT). However, they would affect a Vigenere encoding.
I was previously thinking along the lines of the text being a Palimpsest, so having to extract 2 sets of text from the original 48 lines... one which is "superimposed" on the other... but I never had the spare time to sit down and start to write anything down to see if anything began to make sense.
Whether that superimposition is on a very simple "alternate/every second letter" basis, or on a more complex rule that is defined by the numbers and/or the capitalized letters.
^^^ This on the right track, or just a red herring?
Mach10 talked about palimpsests and blueprints like in the Iron Man movie, so my guess would be 3D (several layers stacked vertically) instead of alternating rows on a piece of paper. Numbers that appear in the text are 012 456789, so I'd guess 8 layers on top of the base.
Well I finally got time to listen to Drew’s creative writing livestream from last week. Drew talked of the puzzle involving Salomé’s image between 8:00 to 11:30 minutes in. He posted the image a year ago on the anniversary of her demise but nobody noticed it, so he thought he’d repeat the reveal on the second anniversary. Summarising:
It is nothing to do with Raxxla, it is intended to finish off and clarify the Salomé storyline sequence. It is intended to provide a list...a direction...to get from the beginning to the end. It won’t uncover anything new. He’s surprised nobody has figured it out, It’s intended to resist brute force attempts but people have dived too deep, his puzzles aren’t that complicated.
This clarification is a thing that was requested during the Formidine Rift hunt; he had implied/said we had missed clues in galnet and local news etc, and someone requested a clarification of what the clues were and what they were meant to convey. Hence, I suspect the solution of the cryptogram puzzle on the right hand side of the image will be a sequence that will relate, as likely keywords, to: Rebecca, Prism, Kahina, Salomé, Zurara, Club, Tionisla.
He did not say anything about the image itself. So I think my hypothesis about possible steganography still stands. If you zoom deeply into the picture there is curious texture, particularly on her left cheek and under the nose/mouth areas. It might be just pixel texturing or it may be additional “colour” to the puzzle; to me it looks like extracts from one or more blueprints. That would fit in with the “palimpsest and blueprints” quote.
