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- the Netherworld Dood
Okay that works.
Directed by Heinz Doofenshirtz
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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
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- Crossover
Directed by Heinz Doofenshirtz
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- Mid-Atlantic
We are under no obligation to perform counterproductive National Actions in New York, just because we happen to have hero units who can't do anything productive except in New York.
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- Couch
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- He/Him
...I kinda wish that I had any energy to throw at that Cipher Puzzle.
The Puzzle:
The Hints so far:
Has anyone figured out any progress on this? Also, it seems to me that we need to decode, THEN shift or do weirdness to it, given how a few people have tried shifting the letters before to get some false positives. Also, I'm certain that the cipher 'not being an Enigma' is a dirty, dirty pun. 100%. My pun senses assure me of this one.
The Puzzle:
The Hints so far:
Has anyone figured out any progress on this? Also, it seems to me that we need to decode, THEN shift or do weirdness to it, given how a few people have tried shifting the letters before to get some false positives. Also, I'm certain that the cipher 'not being an Enigma' is a dirty, dirty pun. 100%. My pun senses assure me of this one.
Related to the cipher, now that I'm rereading:
Edit: as a note, I added the bold into the quote. It was not there originally.
Does anyone else feel that the emphasis on endeavour is a little suspect? I would think it would be on charitable if anything.
Edit: as a note, I added the bold into the quote. It was not there originally.
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- Couch
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- He/Him
Hm. Might be a clue, but surprisingly it reminds me of the Prophecy Celena mentioned, given how Doom's offers of help and charity are rather poisoned.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Cam I get a link to that Omake? I must have missed it.
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- He/Him
I really enjoyed this, but unfortunately we're not going to be able to make this canon. But don't worry, Mr. Sparkles is... on our radar. 500XP!
Amusing, short, sweet, canon. 500XP!
Now this. This is beyoutiful. I have semi-unilaterally declared this provisionally canon, and it will be canon if you guys ever get around to recruiting Fredzilla. Or else. I'll even write the fred and wasabi bit myself. 1000XP for excellent work as always.
Very noncanon, but still fun. It's nice to see our little gremlin has found someone to be patient with her. 500XP.
Noncanon, sorry. I'm surprised how many people apparently liked Sorceror's Apprentice. 500XP.
AProcrastinator
You can Certainly Try
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- Getting Somewhere
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- She/Hers
Stratagemini
Totally a Fire Ferret.
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- Central Park
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- He/Him/They/Them
Yay! Three of My Omake got threadmarked! And I got a Canon Omake! I should write more Omake.
AProcrastinator
You can Certainly Try
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Alright, here's a thought on the code. Again, I've only skimmed the last several pages - time happens whether I like it or not! - so feel free to ignore me on this.
The "Route cipher" is a cipher wherein the plain text is written in a grid of X by X size - X would be 7, in this case - and any leftover letters are written as dummies. From there, to read the message, you would need to know the route to take - where to start, and which directions to go from there. For instance, on certain grids, perhaps you start from the upper left letter, go downwards, move to the next column, etc.
The time 6 PM is repeatedly mentioned in the update, even logicially when it shouldn't be - the Gargoyles' friend and Doofenschmirtz are both in entirely different timezones, after all. No reason for the same TV program, live, to come out at different times across the nation. I believe that this is a hint, a signifies of how to start, and how to proceed. 6 PM on an analogue clock indicates that we are to start at the bottom-middle portion of the grid.
From there, I thought the fact that the clue given in the form of a time was an indication to travel clockwise as the route. However, attempting to do this inevitably leads to running back into the "O" we would start from, and I'm not sure where to go from there. If, hypothetically, the idea is to complete a loop, then move to the next loop inwards, starting again at the bottom-center of the grid and going clockwise, the output would look like this:
OBNKHXGRMXNYEPICLVODEMOAEAFEJOHUIEYOLLUYEAMOLUY
Which then, if I were on the right track, we would presumably need to decode in order to get the final intended message. MiH did say we would need to, after all.
The "Route cipher" is a cipher wherein the plain text is written in a grid of X by X size - X would be 7, in this case - and any leftover letters are written as dummies. From there, to read the message, you would need to know the route to take - where to start, and which directions to go from there. For instance, on certain grids, perhaps you start from the upper left letter, go downwards, move to the next column, etc.
The time 6 PM is repeatedly mentioned in the update, even logicially when it shouldn't be - the Gargoyles' friend and Doofenschmirtz are both in entirely different timezones, after all. No reason for the same TV program, live, to come out at different times across the nation. I believe that this is a hint, a signifies of how to start, and how to proceed. 6 PM on an analogue clock indicates that we are to start at the bottom-middle portion of the grid.
From there, I thought the fact that the clue given in the form of a time was an indication to travel clockwise as the route. However, attempting to do this inevitably leads to running back into the "O" we would start from, and I'm not sure where to go from there. If, hypothetically, the idea is to complete a loop, then move to the next loop inwards, starting again at the bottom-center of the grid and going clockwise, the output would look like this:
OBNKHXGRMXNYEPICLVODEMOAEAFEJOHUIEYOLLUYEAMOLUY
Which then, if I were on the right track, we would presumably need to decode in order to get the final intended message. MiH did say we would need to, after all.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
I actually cried a little, that was beautiful. Thank you.
Mattman324
you expected some anime, non-IRL giant robot, eh?
- Location
- Working in the basement on my giant robot.
Ok, who here has the Epic Game Store? Go searching through the demos and see if you can find something.
Chucking this into a plain substitute cipher gives
| e imp rock tom wand blue fate sasha very da welly waste lyw |
As the top answer thing on their list.
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- Germany
Now you understand why I wanna get that omake canonized, hm?
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- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
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- He/Him
Not really relevant, but I just chucked AP's code in an autosolver and got letters that say, "right wing banks led your fears to the prime room"
Just thought it was funny so I wanted to share it
Just thought it was funny so I wanted to share it
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- Wall Gazing
I don't think it'll be a plain substitute, maybe a double checker board cypher, we would need two numbers (0-9) though.
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- USA
How about 4 and 6 then? Channel 4, at 6 O'clock.
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- United States
The message is length 49, which rules out double checkerboard, at least at this stage (double checkerboard encodes each letter in the cleartext as two letters in the ciphertext, meaning it always produces an even length ciphertext).
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- Wall Gazing
I just realized the string you generated from starting at the 6 O Clock position and completing each loop is only 47 characters long, The Cypher is a 7x7 square.
You missed a Y and an L.
O B N K H X G R M X N Y E P I C L V O D E M O A E A F E J O H U I E Y O L L U Y Y E A M O L L U Y
One thing to note is that this gives us two double 'L' s and one double 'Y'.
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- United States
A bit of speculation: 49 letters is incredibly small.
^That line up there? That's 53 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
That suggests to me that we're looking at a cipher that encodes whole words as single letters. 49 words is less than the last cipher, but not by that much (that had 76 words).
Maybe a variant of a book cipher, maybe some famous codebook, something like that.
^That line up there? That's 53 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
That suggests to me that we're looking at a cipher that encodes whole words as single letters. 49 words is less than the last cipher, but not by that much (that had 76 words).
Maybe a variant of a book cipher, maybe some famous codebook, something like that.
KitRougard
Blatant furry. Deal with it.
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- wherever I feel like~
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- He/She
What if it's actually only a few words long? Like a warning of a particular party to distrust, or something. There's a lot that can be said in 49 letters.
weredrago2
"Cowabunga, Shadow the Hedgehog..."
- Location
- Florida
Or you could use 49 letters to just say "Kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamheden".
KitRougard
Blatant furry. Deal with it.
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- wherever I feel like~
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- He/She
Well, we know that's one translation we can safely cross off the list!
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- I think somewhere. I might be nowhere though
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- He/Him
Nah, wine it and say that weredrago is secretly dropping another hint to decode the cipherWell, we know that's one translation we can safely cross off the list!
weredrago2
"Cowabunga, Shadow the Hedgehog..."
- Location
- Florida
Sorry, I don't know how to decode it. Don't rely on me for any hints.Nah, wine it and say that weredrago is secretly dropping another hint to decode the cipher