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UPDATE - I believe the sixteen curses refers to hexadecimal code. If we analyze the roman numeral code you'll notice a distinct pattern - two sets of multiple-characters followed by a single M. I think the M might be a space between each hexadecimal pair. To make it easier to visualize I replaced each multi-character set with a single lowercase letter (randomly assigned) and each single M with a space:

ej df eb ad ej eg he dk bd bh he be bd ac hf bb bh eg he bc ec ea de bf hc hg ef ac ec ea bd ae ej ea ej ba bf df dh ba bh ha eb ac bd bh he ba ec eg hh ba ec ed hf aa bj hg bd ak bd df bd bj ec ea dh ae hc he bg bd hc hg bh ak bf ha aa ba ej eg ej bd bf be ef dj ec ea ag ad be ed hf aj bf df bd ae hc hg ef bb ej ed hf dd ec eg hj aa ej bh dc ac ec df ee ba ec eg hh ba ef ha dc bj bh ha dc ac hc he dj bd bf bh ef bg bd ac bd ba ec eg he aj bj eg he dk ec ea de dk hd ba dh dh

The two "dh" patterns at the end are suspicious. If the base64 clue is still in effect, those could very well represent =. In hexadecimal that would be "3d."

That would mean that SNXI ZSC translates to 3d.

Fal gave us some clues on IRC to help us figure out what Z, S, and N represent. If we set them to higher multiples of 10, N would be 10000, S would be 100000, and Z would be 1000000.

SNXI therefore translates to 110011. But there's not enough zeros there to make a binary code, so we add the "deleted forks" to the beginning to create 00110011, which equals 3!

Using this method the code translates to:

51 32 56 73 5a 58 4e 30 63 6d 45 6e 63 79 42 6f 64 58 4e 69 59 57 35 6b 49 48 52 79 59 57 6c 75 5a 57 51 67 62 32 34 67 64 47 56 79 63 6d 45 67 59 58 4d 67 59 53 42 77 61 48 6c 70 63 32 6c 6a 59 57 34 75 49 45 68 6c 49 48 64 70 62 47 77 67 5a 58 5a 6c 62 6e 52 31 59 57 78 73 65 53 42 71 62 32 6c 75 49 48 52 6f 5a 53 42 33 59 58 4a 77 5a 6d 39 79 59 32 55 67 59 58 4d 67 52 47 39 6a 64 47 39 79 49 45 31 6c 62 6d 52 68 63 79 63 67 59 58 4e 7a 61 58 4e 30 59 57 35 30 4c 67 3d 3d

Which translated from hexadecimal creates this:

Q2VsZXN0cmEncyBodXNiYW5kIHRyYWluZWQgb24gdGVycmEgYXMgYSBwaHlpc2ljYW4uIEhlIHdpbGwgZXZlbnR1YWxseSBqb2luIHRoZSB3YXJwZm9yY2UgYXMgRG9jdG9yIE1lbmRhcycgYXNzaXN0YW50Lg==

Which translates from base64 into this:

Celestra's husband trained on terra as a phyisican. He will eventually join the warpforce as Doctor Mendas' assistant.

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<goron> i really hope thenext mystery is a puzzlenot a word puzzle
<Falerin> be careful what you wish for
*** Falerin has left #mystery
<Lkeas> >.>
<goron> yay
<goron> woohoo
<Naamah> he is going to work on your wish!
<goron> thank you faelrin
<Aaron> Next you'll see a 5million piece puzzle
<goron> easy for me compared to the others
<Aaron> and half the pieces will be just varying shades of grey
<goron> i have alot ofpatience if i know what to do
<Aaron> and no it wouldn't be
<Lkeas> ugh
<Aaron> And he wouldn't tell you what the picture is
<Lkeas> please don't let it be one of THOSE puzzle
<Lkeas> *puzzles

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ORIGINAL: goron link8

I hope it is a 5million piece puzzle and half the pieces will be just varying shades of grey

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ORIGINAL: goron link8

I hope it is a 5million piece puzzle and half the pieces will be just varying shades of grey

Please don't be serious about this. 5 million pieces? That would be the equivalent of taking a 2236x2236 pixel image and scrambling every single pixel of it into some other position. To give you some perspective of just how hard that would be, I've taken a 853x1000 pixel image (that's 853,000 pieces) and scrambled it quite a bit. It's not quite as random as a jigsaw puzzle would be because there are still large chunks of pixels that are stuck together, but you get the idea.

http://i42.tinypic.com/2ytsd1h.jpg

If you can unscramble this image into its original picture i would be VERY impressed. And that's not even 1/5th the size of the puzzle you want! LOL