Voice; UN: Oracle

[codeoracle]

[Oracle is on your airwaves, using a voice distortion to make a call on all imPorts.]

Seeing the posts here, we have all received some form of message. A cipher. I want to decode it. We need to.

What message have you received?

[OOC EDIT: Per the recent OOC Mod Post, and a response to my question to them on plurk, the thread that previously held the solution and discussion about it has been deleted. I apologize to those that had commented in these threads, but this post's aim is to begin the IC discussion process. I look forward to future posts that will reflect the solution in game!]

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[112ounces]

Here, have at it.

V

s-e•-:-g-r
o-g•-s•
w-f•-h-a
o•-h-o
t-a-’-t-e
g-c-o-s-r•-r-a
c-h-h-h-m
c-o

[text + voice, private]

[viciousmaukery]

[Just this, copy-pasted.]

I—really have no idea what it's saying. [If a shrug could be heard over audio...] I'm not much of a reader, I'm afraid. I know it's a code of some kind, but that's it.

[voice, private]

[codeoracle]

Another piece helps. It doesn't matter if you're a reader or not...If you could figure out how they might work together, or if there are any other clues, that could be helpful. Other people can worry about the words and message.

[voice, private]

[viciousmaukery]

I have no clues besides this one. And the fact that I showed it to a local and she thought I was fucking with her, so it’s limited to us.

What I’m more worried about is that someone knew where to drop all this shite. And it wasn’t just to Aegis, I’ve never even set foot in their headquarters. It was to all of us. Why, and what for?

[hellosirs]

This is what I got, sir or ma'am:

/

u-s-t-s•-d•
n•-s-t
o•-s-e-m
s-o-s
h-t-s•-h-r
a-h-i-e-o-l-y
e•-e•-r-t•-e•
a-l

[codeoracle]

Good. Thank you.

Do you have any ideas what these might mean? The more ideas, the better.

[hellosirs]

Well, the dots look like they might be breaks between words? The / and ^ marks seem to indicate direction... I'm not sure what kind of cipher they're using for the text itself, yet. That'll take a little more figuring out.

[codeoracle]

Breaks between words. That makes more sense than sentences with the number of dots seen...The cipher is the challenging part to be sure. It's not one I'm familiar with.

[hellosirs]

Me neither, I haven't seen this one before! It'll take some digging, for sure. Have you done a lot of ciphers, sir-or-ma'am-or-otherwise-unspecified?

[codeoracle]

I've solved some and made others. This one is very complex...You sound like you have experience.

[hellosirs]

I do! I'm a consulting detective back home, and I used to write my journal entries in code so that nobody could snoop on 'em.

[cognitivism]

I have compiled a list of ciphers shared on this post. Perhaps that will make it easier to figure out the message they are trying to convey. If there are more than this, please let me know.

[The List is in no particular order, seeing that, at this moment, they are still puzzling that order out. It is placed as an attachment to this comment for all that wish to look at it.]

UN: Copper (just because)

[sleight_of_hand]

👍

text | un: NOIR

[girlybruiser]

V

s-e•-:-g-r
o-g•-s•
w-f•-h-a
o•-h-o
t-a-’-t-e
g-c-o-s-r•-r-a
c-h-h-h-m
c-o

I also received this one. How very mysterious!

text;

[cantgetanyworse]

//

n•-e-r
l•-l-e-l
e-m-r-u
e•-n
e-b-d-a-i-e
r-s-r-o-e•-s
h-l•-l•-l-f
i-h-m


But I think a few others have the same one!

[Text]

[prophesiedone]

I might as well share if we're going to get anywhere with this...

/

u-s-t-s•-d•
n•-s-t
o•-s-e-m
s-o-s
h-t-s•-h-r
a-h-i-e-o-l-y
e•-e•-r-t•-e•
a-l

text

[harvesthoney]

I thought it was a butt dialed text.

/

u-s-t-s•-d•
n•-s-t
o•-s-e-m
s-o-s
h-t-s•-h-r
a-h-i-e-o-l-y
e•-e•-r-t•-e•
a-l

text; (Holy shit I'm late replying to this. Sorry)

[pidgewidgeon]

I got this:

V

s-e•-:-g-r
o-g•-s•
w-f•-h-a
o•-h-o
t-a-’-t-e
g-c-o-s-r•-r-a
c-h-h-h-m
c-o

Any ideas so far?

text; (Fashionable lateness)

[codeoracle]

I received the same.

...Some clues. Ideas of where to start. A word or two. The starting symbols could be a clock or a compass direction--those are the guesses we have.

If you have anything to contribute beyond your message, it would be welcome.

text

[pidgewidgeon]

I'm not really the best at this kind of cipher unfortunately, I'm much better at programming or deciphering a standard language.

What words did you figure out?

text

[codeoracle]

It's all about figuring out the pattern and code. I can manage once I get going but...having it in parts makes it harder. Complicated.

Summon, spider, goddess. I'm pretty sure we're on the path to cracking it, but we keep running into walls, so I'm concerned we may have it wrong anyway.

text

[pidgewidgeon]

'Spider'? I'm putting $10 on Jeopardy right now. Whatever's happening is that city's fault.

text

[codeoracle]

Honestly? I wouldn't be surprised, considering how it showed up in the first place. It's always been kinda sketchy.

text

[pidgewidgeon]

Yeeeeah. Something really should have been done about that city instead of us just going along with it.

[drivesadesk]

This is what I got:

1st letter

V

s-e•-:-g-r
o-g•-s•
w-f•-h-a
o•-h-o
t-a-’-t-e
g-c-o-s-r•-r-a
c-h-h-h-m
c-o