SPOILER This Doesn't Make Sense To Me? Can You Make Sense Of It?

Nice one!

He needs an item @colin350

 

Thats is both right and good work! I double checked and you were right! Good work!

 

Haha, just figured it out myself, was about to post it... I still don't get the original cipher though xD

 

Good work!

Although, this result is incredibly interesting. The chunks have the same amount of letters as they would have normally until 5, where words that have 5 or more letters are just 5 letter chunks.
So for all we know, there could be a huge word in there somewhere.

for people who don't understand: every word apart from the last has 5+ letters, and the last has 2.

Now back to the code:
GLBIC RUXIH NVOME QZJBY NDOTJ EXOZM HKJQA NDVAZ LMFPI BPBNH KPNLS YLVWZ DW

The last word, DW, we know is a two letter word. As such, we have a major starting point for this code.

 

im still too dumb to do anything

 

@colin350 we are smart in items and quests only we are fukn dumb asf with this shit, help us

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i dont get it? we use hint as the key for the vigernere cipher? i used it and i didnt find anything "interesting"

 

Hint was the key for the hint given in the 5th page, based on ReReverse's post the decoded text tells us that the segments of 5 letters aren't necessarily 5 letter words, but instead could be longer/shorter words but split up to make 5 letter segments, the only word we know the exact length of is the last one, which is 2 letters.

The great thing about that is that there aren't many 2 letter words that could have been used... the bad thing is with only 2 letters known it doesn't help amazingly... but as ReReverse said, it's a great start, much more than we had before.

 

Hm tbh I still think a bit different about this.
In my opinion, the only thing we know for sure is that the answer will have 62 letters (needs confirmation) and the ciphertext is split into blocks of 5.
The last thing only has 2 because the ciphertext has 62 letters, so 2 too much to just create blocks of 5, which makes the ciphertext have 12 blocks of 5 and 1 block of 2.
This is how I see it. Technically, if it was encrypted multiple times, we have a problem.

 

@colin350 i think we need another hint

 

I'll post another in a little bit. In the meantime, the thread has been updated.

 

so we cracked the first hint, now the actual code.
in one comment colin said that it isnt a cipher, "who said its a cipher?", something like that.
so what could it be? before we actually start decoding, we need the ways of decoding, so we all can work together and try everything.

 

I'm like 79% sure it's multiple ciphers starting with columnar transposition. Anybody know any corkus areas with 5 letters to try?

 

WHAT DID I SAY!

 

Relos?

 

why are you asking us if it makes sense to you?

 

VGMEKALEXPZBQONLIZZLMCJMSFRBHYPUYKLIXNJVBIDQWPHOAZBNTNDNVJDWHO


Mabye another step

 

who do you even find the key

 

Read the hint #1 solution (in the thread desc) more carefully on what it is and the key for it.

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So to wrap things up, with the release of Corkus' changelog and the formal release date, it clearly defeats the purpose of this cipher.

The purpose of this challenge was to experiment with the community and really observe the discussion. This experiment also yielded some interesting results:
1. The community hates secrets
2. The community likes ciphers
3. The community wants more of these, because you guys get free loot from my bank

To all those who were interested, the two letter word at the end was TM, and which by implication, I'm sure you can figure out the gist of the rest of the cipher. However, I will not disclose how I came up with this code.

Since I'm cutting this short and not giving a reward to someone (except the person who solved the hint first), I'll post another one this week sometime.

 

To be fair, I love these kinds of things, see the scarlet safe, I put like 30+ hours into that, but I didn't have much time this time ;-;

 

Somehow, I'm still confused on how to get the final answer. Caesar cipher key 13 gets us TM, but what next?

This is honestly still unsolved haha