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DontHaveAClue · Devoted Fan Joined: 19 Sep 2006 Posts: 873

I've tried different cyphers. These things can get awfully complex. I don't know to which level of complexity CiW would go into this. So far I got nothing!

For what it's worth, here is the numerical value of each letter:

6-7-14-17-2-15-26-21-13-26-2-24-16-8-20-2-3-22-4-7-6-11-17-5-7-11-3-17-21-20-23-10-4-1-19-4-13-6-14-4-14-7-26-7-4-24-25

in

FGNQBOZUMZBXPHTBCVDGFKQEGKCQUTWJDASDMFNDNGZGDXY

(Frank might have been banging his head on the keyword, which is exactly what I'm doing right now Evil or Very Mad

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jetblack · Casual Observer Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 29

This is probably a Caesar cipher with a keyword.

Ex: Keyword HOLE gives H=A, O=B, L=C, E=D, A=E, B=F, C=G, D=H, F=I, G=J etc.

We just need to try out different keywords until we get it right!

Or it could be a Vigenère cipher which is a bit trickier. But as long as we guess the right keyword and use the tabula recta this shouldn't be too hard.

LesterG · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject:

jetblack · Casual Observer Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 29

chixor1 · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

It would appear that the post in his private thoughts was him passing away at the computer.
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jetblack · Casual Observer Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 29

I think I'm on to something.

It appears part of the message codes into "estate" which seems to be a term used in Second Life.

Danielle · Thor's Hammer Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 1248

Good a tie with second life, maybe Frank knows who she has taken...

jetblack · Casual Observer Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 29

Don't know if this is correct or if I've jumbled a few letters, but this is what I have so far:

itsorOaUhardPHTrygetinoutnyoUTWJeASehisestatedY

Faylestar · Suspiciously Absent Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 16

So, I don't know if anyone posted this or not yet, and I am too lazy to go back and read.

Cassie's new video has a description of " It's the emptiness that follows you down", so it looks like the Hole song was a damn good find.

Cassie's new video is also tagged "Frank told lies". Big surprise.
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SivartAlappes · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:09 pm Post subject:

tiltingwindward · Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

Frankly, I'm not sure how the post on Frank's Private Thoughts blog could in any way be caused by his death/death throes/etc. First of all, he would have had to type out the perfectly coherent title to the post, BEFORE he died suddenly enough to cause the randomness in the message. Second, there is almost no way that his supposed wife would be typing on a computer that her husband died on--I'm assuming here that Frank's death probably involved at least minimal transmission of bodily fluids. And finally, if Frank just keeled over and slammed his head down on the keyboard, the resulting message would likely be gibberish featuring large quantities of the same letter/s. Think about it: if you press your head to your keyboard, does it randomly select letters from all over the keyboard and enter them, or does the computer get stuck on the area around the H or D or something and enter those letters a million times?

Side note: If Frank's wife left him because he was hearing voices, then how likely is that same woman to come back and leave a nice thank you note when she discovers that her husband has been communicating with a lot of other crazy people who think they hear voices too? The last thing I would expect that woman to do is try to maintain some kind of contact with the people who were (in her opinion) exacerbating Frank's illness.
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