New posting: May.12, 2002 - Code

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Yup thanks again, fixed now.

Maybe the code is Moebius with this cipher?

I’m really hung up on this Moebius idea aren’t I? :joy:

@the_architect

Moebius...

hvcibuk...

Emailed this code to The Architect too.

Oh wait I got that backwarda eh?

Finding it hard to use that cipher again with the J/C edits making it not line up in @pr1sm 's post, can someone help me out? I got to AW before tbe edit

Edit:

MOEBIUS
AWHIJUR

Thanks for the below cipher @vector_cmdr , outta hearts <3

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“Each entity is unique, together they are one” is a reference to the Travellers, isn’t it?

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I would think so but is also

An entity in DBMS represents a real-world object or concept that can be uniquely identified and stored in a database. It forms the foundation of data modeling in an Entity-Relationship (ER) model

An entity set is a collection of similar types of entities that share the same attributes in a database. Each entity in the set represents a real-world object or concept.

So yeah. That is the Travellers

and I will point out that the current expedition called me by my user name. Something that has never happened in NMS before. Like my unique entity is now in the database…

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So this will be the key to deciphering later emails?
Or other messages between Null and @the_architect

Explainer:

It is a monoalphabetic position based cipher using the key MINDFAGEBJRLHCVPQSKYUWOXTZ:

  1. For each ciphertext letter, use its A=0…Z=25 value as an index into the
    key text. The key letter at that position is the plaintext.
Position:  0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Key text:  M  I  N  D  F  A  G  E  B  J  R  L  H  C  V  P  Q  S  K  Y  U  W  O  X  T  Z
Plain:     A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z

Walkthrough

Cipher:   L  H  W  C  F  K  D     D  H     O  B  C  N  B
Value:   11  7 22  2  5 10  3     3  7    14  1  2 13  1
          ↓  ↓  ↓  ↓  ↓  ↓  ↓     ↓  ↓     ↓  ↓  ↓  ↓  ↓
Key[pos]: L  E  O  N  A  R  D     D  E     V  I  N  C  I
Plain:    L  E  O  N  A  R  D     D  E     V  I  N  C  I

       =  LÉONARD DE VINCI

(excuse the markdown roughness)
@the_architect

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It’s rapidly moving up the thread so bumping here, but @pr1sm worked it out:

So we need to keep that handy and refine the unknown letters as we go.

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Thoughts on the new Security Log? Any relation to this? puzzle?

Let me know.

all outta hearts :heart:

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Don’t worry, I am obsessed with Moebius too :heart:.

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Unknown.jpg from the code page has a Byline Title = Ghost tag in the exif, so this may be intended to be Ghost.

Also, that image is a cropped version of this:

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Seems like Unsplash is popular?

Here’s a link to the decipher and reverse setup for input.

EDIT: Fixed the second I to be J

EDIT2: Replaced second C with an F. It’s a guess, but it seems more likely than the other.

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Fixed the double C too?

A link to Tower core reminds me of the earlier log, “They can see the tower… but not the one inside.”

In the emails, Null is asking the Architect if the tower is connected.

In the cipher page “Each entity is unique, together they are one” seems to be referencing the Travellers.

I don’t know how to do proper spoiler text, here, but NMS spoilers inbound:

In NMS, the Travellers are fragments of a copied soul of the Atlas’s creator. Null is the first Traveller, and every player is another fragmented iteration of this same soul.

Null is working with the Void Mother (she is credited with the invention of Mind Arcs), to attempt to re-unite the Traveller’s soul. “In the form of Null, the Void Mother declares a means of escape.”

My guess is that the core of this tower is important to Null’s plan to escape, and likely involves the Travellers.

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I think CAGE is actually FAGE, which would complete the alphabet. There’s a weird ghosted green F between the C and A. I’m not sure, though.

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Seems the best choice between the 2 Cs

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if you zoom in some of the static are letters or atleast intensely letter shaped

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So if I am correct, this is the current result we go with:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
MINDFAGEBJRLHCVPQSKYUWOXTZ

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