Lkeas
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cheating, deceitful, dishonest, double-dealing, shady,shifty, two-faced, two-timing Interesting. If you type the word "duplicitous" into thesaurus.com, you get those exact synonyms... except for shifty. Perhaps shifty is a hint here? Should we shift letters somehow? Coupled with the wise old man clue it may indicate shifting multiple times, but shifting what? A caesar shift is too simple. I'm not sure where to go here. Are these clues supposed to help us discover the key for a Vigenere cipher? Or is it something else entirely? EDIT - spoiler:
Well how about that. It IS a shifted polyalphabetic cipher. Sort of like a Vigenere but the key is just the alphabet itself, sort of... I've only got half of it so far. Csgdxnuu'b rlzq dd Iljpsq ljgu. abcdefgh'j klmn pq ?????? ????. Creation's hand on ?????? ???? If I keep shifting the alphabet around I can get something sort of resembling words, but the second half of the key is not as neat as the first half. Csgdxnuu'b rlzq dd Iljpsq ljgu. abcdefghj klmn pq tuvwyy abcc Creation's hand on Protus lies. Protus I assume is the same one referred to in "The Protector" quest from the Devourer saga. But I thought the Proteans were part of the Network and only a small faction of them joined the side of unity? Perhaps other forces have been at work... Solved? Unless otherwise proven faulty, which wouldn't surprise me.
< Message edited by Lkeas -- 6/28/2009 3:18:06 >
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