- Location
- Somewhere.
...What if the out of left field was that the code is Caesar ciphered. That could use the 27.
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DoofQuest- a Disney Villains Victorious CK2-Style Quest
- Thread starter Made in Heaven
- Start date
- Crossover
ExNihilo
SPACE!
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It's Vigenere, isn't it. The cypher is the name of a different cypher type.
- Pronouns
- Male
That's sounds good, maybe use a action to research dimensional technology so even if the Detectives can only narrow down the location we could build a Dimensional Rift Searcher the next turn to find them ourselves, or just hire Detectives again.
- Location
- Idaho
....... The most annoying thing I can possibly think of is making the key to the cipher like 1 or 0 or something like that. Or maybe even just the letter A
Edit: but then again. I don't know what I'm talking about
Edit: but then again. I don't know what I'm talking about
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- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The key we're looking for is a set of letter pairs, numbering between 3 pairs and 6 pairs.
Edit: Sorry, I forgot to mention that the same letter can't be used twice.
Example from the discord:
Made in Heaven said:
Thats not the whole of the answer, but its the part we're looking for now. Someone else who knows more could probably explain it better, but I tried my best.
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- Location
- Two hours away
- Pronouns
- He/Him
do re mi fa so la?
ExNihilo
SPACE!
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Can't use the same letter twice as I understand it.
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- He/Him
There can't be any repeated letters in the pairs, so those wouldn't work. I'll add that to my explanation.
- Location
- Idaho
Have you tried a combination of the letters A.E .I.O.U and Y ?
- Location
- Pennsylvania
Enigma machine - Wikipedia
To clarify, the plugboard connects letters in pairs to swap them before and after scrambling, adding another layer of encryption.
- Location
- Idaho
Oooooohhhhhhhh....... That makes more sense.Enigma machine - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
To clarify, the plugboard connects letters in pairs to swap them before and after scrambling, adding another layer of encryption.
Edit: have you guys tried using the word Cipher the paired code. Like
cciipphheerr
But then again everyone's going full foil hat so they probably did this already.
Edits 2:ignore the other thing I just said and I have no idea what I'm doing. Sorry I just wanted to be helpful.
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It Won't Stop Haunting
mangawriter77
Otaku^9000 (In my own opinion)
- Location
- You'll neeever guess
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Omake: It Won't Stop Haunting
It had been going on for the past seven minutes. An endless stream on non-stop laughter coming from the break room of the main DEI building. Every time it seemed to be dying down, it just redoubled right back up again. No one could figure out what was going on in there, not even you, and that bugged you. However, you had been working a lot of them pretty hard lately you supposed they deserved a break or two every now and then to relax, unwind, and laugh, in their own, private time that was none of your-
"Oh, it won't stop flushing~!"
NO.
You dashed over and threw open the door, not caring about privacy or manners or anything (and you were evil, what good was that stuff to you?). In it, Russ and Mirage were supporting each other as they hunched over giggling their butts off. Goofy, Max, Janna, and Lizzie were rolling around on the floor laughing. Francis was supporting himself against a nearby wall so he didn't completely fall over, Hego on his knees right next to him, hugging the wall with religious fever.
But that didn't matter. None of that mattered. Nothing else mattered except the computer on the desk on the far side of the room, playing... that video.
As the video ended and the countdown to the replay started, Mirage and Russ fell back against the countertop, laughing so hard they were crying. Hego finally fell to the floor with the other four and Francis fell to his knees, chortling loudly.
"I'm so glad my suffering is amusing to you."
Attention was drawn to where you had huddled up in the corner, idly moving your index finger back and forth across the tiles. You were now so depressed, a raincloud had formed over your head and was starting to rain.
"Dr. D?" Goofy questioned as he paused the loop and looked over at his depressed boss. "What's wrong?"
"Is this about the video?" Janna asked.
You nodded sadly.
"Then why would you post that?" Russ asked.
You sighed and started to explain.
"Did you ever have an old box of junk that's just been sitting in the attic forever? And you think, 'I bet I could just get rid of this whole box and my life would go on completely unaffected by the loss of whatever may be inside!' Like, for instance, an old forgotten video tape made in high school?" You turned back to your circle of trust with the absolutely most broken and sad expression any of them had ever seen. "Look in the box, guys," you warned miserably. "Always. Look. In. The box."
Mirage knelt down and put her hand on the good doctor's shoulder. "How bad?" she asked gently.
You let out a moan of despair and slammed your head against the wall. "It ruined my life for months! I-I-I couldn't even go outside my own evil lair!"
You pulled out an old tape recorder from your lab coat and hit play. It suddenly said in an obnoxious voice, "Hey, look! It's that idiot from the video!" Upon the word "idiot" obnoxious and cruel laughter erupted from the tape, mocking and pointing. Everyone in the room grimaced and Monogram looked at the ground, looking a bit ashamed of himself. Sure, he wasn't your biggest fan, but it was nice to know he cared enough to feel guilty that he had help bring back these negative feelings.
You hit stop. "And that was just my kitchen!" you said. That got a lot more guilty glances.
Max came up to you and patted your arm. "I know the feeling," he said. "Between being a total klutz and the son of one of the most renowned goofballs of the century? 'Goof' might as well have been my first name, as well as a bunch of others." Goofy didn't know what to say to that, so he just decided to let Max have this moment, which you appreciated.
Janna sighed and sat down at the break table. "I collected weird things. All the time," she said. "If that didn't cause a negative public reaction, I don't know what did."
"Ant girl. Enough said," Liz added, pointing at herself.
Russ patted you on the back awkwardly alongside Monogram. They didn't say anything, but you appreciated the gesture nonetheless
"Dr. D," Goofy said. "We all may have our moments and our differences, but... something like this? It won't be able to define you. That'll only happen if you let it. And you can be sure we won't let that happen. Trust me, I would know!" He laughed.
You look up at them and smile tearfully as you see them smile back at you as the raincloud above your head clears up. "You're right," you said. "Thanks, Goofy. Hey, did I ever tell you guys my plan to fix that problem? See, it started when my nemesis..."
As you told the story, nobody noticed Technor jotting down notes for their next therapy session. After all, this was a massive breakthrough for Doof that had to be explored upon the earliest opportunity.
A/N: It's a part of Doof's life story. They had to see it sometime. Also, it might be a little bit more loyalty bonding, assuming this gets canon status.
It had been going on for the past seven minutes. An endless stream on non-stop laughter coming from the break room of the main DEI building. Every time it seemed to be dying down, it just redoubled right back up again. No one could figure out what was going on in there, not even you, and that bugged you. However, you had been working a lot of them pretty hard lately you supposed they deserved a break or two every now and then to relax, unwind, and laugh, in their own, private time that was none of your-
"Oh, it won't stop flushing~!"
NO.
You dashed over and threw open the door, not caring about privacy or manners or anything (and you were evil, what good was that stuff to you?). In it, Russ and Mirage were supporting each other as they hunched over giggling their butts off. Goofy, Max, Janna, and Lizzie were rolling around on the floor laughing. Francis was supporting himself against a nearby wall so he didn't completely fall over, Hego on his knees right next to him, hugging the wall with religious fever.
But that didn't matter. None of that mattered. Nothing else mattered except the computer on the desk on the far side of the room, playing... that video.
As the video ended and the countdown to the replay started, Mirage and Russ fell back against the countertop, laughing so hard they were crying. Hego finally fell to the floor with the other four and Francis fell to his knees, chortling loudly.
"I'm so glad my suffering is amusing to you."
Attention was drawn to where you had huddled up in the corner, idly moving your index finger back and forth across the tiles. You were now so depressed, a raincloud had formed over your head and was starting to rain.
"Dr. D?" Goofy questioned as he paused the loop and looked over at his depressed boss. "What's wrong?"
"Is this about the video?" Janna asked.
You nodded sadly.
"Then why would you post that?" Russ asked.
You sighed and started to explain.
"Did you ever have an old box of junk that's just been sitting in the attic forever? And you think, 'I bet I could just get rid of this whole box and my life would go on completely unaffected by the loss of whatever may be inside!' Like, for instance, an old forgotten video tape made in high school?" You turned back to your circle of trust with the absolutely most broken and sad expression any of them had ever seen. "Look in the box, guys," you warned miserably. "Always. Look. In. The box."
Mirage knelt down and put her hand on the good doctor's shoulder. "How bad?" she asked gently.
You let out a moan of despair and slammed your head against the wall. "It ruined my life for months! I-I-I couldn't even go outside my own evil lair!"
You pulled out an old tape recorder from your lab coat and hit play. It suddenly said in an obnoxious voice, "Hey, look! It's that idiot from the video!" Upon the word "idiot" obnoxious and cruel laughter erupted from the tape, mocking and pointing. Everyone in the room grimaced and Monogram looked at the ground, looking a bit ashamed of himself. Sure, he wasn't your biggest fan, but it was nice to know he cared enough to feel guilty that he had help bring back these negative feelings.
You hit stop. "And that was just my kitchen!" you said. That got a lot more guilty glances.
Max came up to you and patted your arm. "I know the feeling," he said. "Between being a total klutz and the son of one of the most renowned goofballs of the century? 'Goof' might as well have been my first name, as well as a bunch of others." Goofy didn't know what to say to that, so he just decided to let Max have this moment, which you appreciated.
Janna sighed and sat down at the break table. "I collected weird things. All the time," she said. "If that didn't cause a negative public reaction, I don't know what did."
"Ant girl. Enough said," Liz added, pointing at herself.
Russ patted you on the back awkwardly alongside Monogram. They didn't say anything, but you appreciated the gesture nonetheless
"Dr. D," Goofy said. "We all may have our moments and our differences, but... something like this? It won't be able to define you. That'll only happen if you let it. And you can be sure we won't let that happen. Trust me, I would know!" He laughed.
You look up at them and smile tearfully as you see them smile back at you as the raincloud above your head clears up. "You're right," you said. "Thanks, Goofy. Hey, did I ever tell you guys my plan to fix that problem? See, it started when my nemesis..."
As you told the story, nobody noticed Technor jotting down notes for their next therapy session. After all, this was a massive breakthrough for Doof that had to be explored upon the earliest opportunity.
A/N: It's a part of Doof's life story. They had to see it sometime. Also, it might be a little bit more loyalty bonding, assuming this gets canon status.
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It's probably a word or pair of words between 6 and 12 letters long, and possibly on the shorter side because of not repeating rule. Maybe gn-om-es from Snow White and Seven Gnomes reference? Or ci-ph-er like DoritOverlrd suggested?
Edit: apparently they are dwarfs not gnomes
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- Location
- California
Despite it's age, I must say this map is far more defined and readable then what we had at the start of this quest. Granted, things have changed, but now I'm left wondering how did map quality decline?
Felldrake & Max: A Date with Divino-ty Part 2
weredrago2
"Cowabunga, Shadow the Hedgehog..."
- Location
- Florida
Felldrake & Max: A Date with Divino-ty Part 2
"Are you sure you know what you are doing?"
It was a fair question to ask, considering the unknown variables they were dealing with. Doctor Aloyse Everheart Elizabeth Otto Wolfgang Hypatia Gunther Galen Gary Cooper von Roddenstein was already well-versed with dangerous side effects, having his bald dome expanded to larger than a beach ball after poking the mysterious processes behind superpowers with a proverbial stick. The swelling hasn't reduced all that much since.
Rodney tried to make the most of his situation. He spent months designing one inizor after another trying to undo the damage, even roping his fellow L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. members into the project before realizing they would only make it worse. He was resigned to the fact his condition wasn't changing any time soon, having developed an antigravity headband to offset the weight and publishing an independent blog about the burden of his genius in his free time.
He wasn't ready to take that sort of risk again, but with the specialist they hired to examine the strange mirror from Chicken Itza, he wouldn't have to. Whatever happened next was going to be on their head, not his.
The specialist in question was a pale, reedy man with a wild mop of cyan hair. He wore a dark brown coat with red gloves and matching red goggles. As a guest mad scientist brought in with Rodney's approval and a signature acquired from Doofenshmirtz while he was in a coding trance, the man had full access to their facilities in order to crack open the secrets behind the glass item.
"Have no fears, Señor Rodney!" The man who introduced himself as Gomez said. He dropped down from his large device, a laser tripod with vaguely Mayan trappings, to start up a portable hydrogen generator. "I brought all of my technology needed to free the imprisoned Divino."
Though he rarely gave praises, Rodney was impressed. The same was true of a few other mad scientists in attendance, who had little to no experience about the new field of physics (none of them wanted to admit it was magic) Doof cracked open and had yet to let them tamper with.
"Hmm. You've said you're already familiar with this type of… event?"
Gomez gave an enthusiastic nod as he attached glowing cables to the weapon. "Of course! I used to do this kind of thing all the time back in Nuevo Nizza! I must admit that I never met Flamenco Gigante in person before, but look at him."
The tall glass mirror depicted a hot pink feathered serpent with a massive curved beak and hundreds of tiny black legs. There were small dots running and screaming beneath its many feet, like ants. Liquid fire flowed out of the dragon flamingo's mouth like an angry volcano.
"He looks pretty harmless to me!"
There was a chorus of agreements from the lab. Nobody could argue with that logic. After all, he was the expert. The laser had warmed up and was glowing with blue energy, so Gomez climbed up his ladder to press the big red button on top.
"Eye protection, everyone! The laser is ready to fire!"
Gomez's finger was hovering over the button when the double-doors to the laser lab were busted wide open by a dark wizard riding on a donkey bat monkey thing!
"WOAH!" the wizard declared as his mount came down for a crash landing, battering into a thick plastic screen the members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. were sitting behind to enjoy the show. He stumbled away from the crash, losing his footing and being dragged forward by his golden staff that glowed with an ominous purple power.
The anserine face on the staff glared at Gomez and started yelling at him. "Don't even think about unleashing that Divino, you miseducated egghead!" it hissed.
Gomez fell off the ladder, landing on his back. "Ow!" he shouted over the intense hum of the weapon firing. "Fine, okay! I won't activate the laser!"
"We're too late!" Max said faintly, as the noise of the laser cutting through an ancient mirror began drowning him out entirely. The beam carved a wide gouge into the mirror, causing shards of glass to flake away into dust!
"Turn it off, turn it off!" Felldrake demanded over the noise, which rose to a crescendo as the laser cannon died and the mirror exploded!
A giant beak lurched out of the portal, followed by a pillar of pink feathers and scores upon scores of legs. All of the scientists in attendance expected the mural on the creature's mirror prison to be an exaggerated depiction of the beast within, but Flamenco Gigante looked uncomfortably identical to what L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. had assumed was a caricature.
"I AM FLAMENCO GIGANTE!" the unseemly creature roared as he stretched out to his full length across the room. "FOR FREEING ME FROM MY ANCIENT PRISON, I SHALL GRANT EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE OF THIS GLORIOUS OCCASION ONE FREE WISH."
Gomez got to his feet. "R-Really?" he asked with trepidation and cautious optimism.
"NO," the Divino replied earnestly. "BUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO SAY THAT BEFORE EATING A LIVE AUDIENCE."
His jaw opened wide to begin a feeding frenzy, allowing Felldrake to fill his mouth with a wide blast of magical energy!
"OW!" the creature cried out, flecks of caustic fluid dropping out of its flamingo mouth and burning holes into the lab. The scientists took their cue to leave while Max held Felldrake steady. Leopold, having shook off his crash landing, took to battering Flamenco Gigante's head with what remained of Gomez's damaged laser weapon.
"Go back to your dimension, Flamenco! Nobody wants you here!"
"THAT ISN'T VERY NICE," it roared.
Flamenco Gigante craned his neck up, disarming Leopold and tearing the roof off the lab with his pointed beak. The Divino started scaling the walls, growling with anger as his length waxed and waned like a possessed accordion. Leopold swooped back down to grab Max and Felldrake, who continued spraying Flamenco Gigante from the sky.
"How much more?" Max shouted as they rapidly spritzed the extradimensional invader with dark magic like it peed on the couch and needed to be reprimanded.
Felldrake analyzed the creature's bizarre physiology for weaknesses. His ungainly form had numerous structural instabilities, but as a denizen of the Divino World, Flamenco Gigante could ignore those with ease. Felldrake was going to continue firing randomly when he saw a glowing spot of light right behind the Divino's head.
"Almost… There! Aim for the symbol on top of his neck!"
Max tried to find it, but Flamenco Gigante's tail sprung from a coiled position and struck with precision force!
"Brace for impact--!"
They closed their eyes. Then, nothing happened. Felldrake opened his inanimate, sculpted metal eyes to make sure they weren't dead. Or destroyed in his case.
"Ha! You missed!"
"Uh, Felldrake?" Max pointed at the ground below them.
The two of them were floating midair, but Leopold wasn't present to keep them aloft anymore.
At that moment of realization, they both began to fall.
"We're gonna die!" Max cried.
"Oh, woe is me!" Felldrake mocked. "That's exactly what you sound like!"
Max throttled the cursed magical item. "Easy for you to say! You're dead!"
"I know you are, but what am I?"
Their plummet towards certain doom came to a sudden stop as they landed in a massive bed of soft feathers! Max bounced off the feather bed and tumbled down a long, pink slide, while Felldrake plunged straight through the material.
"THE PAIN!!!" Flamenco Gigante exclaimed. "YOU PIERCED MY ONE WEAKNESS!"
"We did?" Max and Felldrake asked at the same time.
"Of course we did!" Felldrake screeched. "Now I'm sealing this freak of nature in a state he'll never bother me again!"
The staff's eyes glowed, and the Divino's body evaporated into purple light! Max was safely deposited on the ground next to Leopold and Gomez in what was left of the lab. Felldrake clattered to the floor next to an incongruous pink lawn flamingo that leaked purple smoke.
"You did it!" Gomez said. "Since I accidentally broke the device I was going to use to control the Divino, I was worried things would get a little out of control!"
"A little?!" Felldrake shook with rage. "Somebody pick me up so I can zap some common sense into him!"
"I am so sorry for the confusion! My previous boss had me find and free Divinos on the regular!"
Max ripped off the remains of his evil cloak and patted some dust off his normal clothes.
"How exactly did you do that? I thought magic and science didn't mix."
Gomez shrugged. "Eh. It is what I do."
Max put his hand to his face. Where was Janna to handle all of this weird stuff?
"Okay. Whatever. Did we get it? Are we done here?"
"Yeah, yeah. I sealed Flamenco in a lawn decoration. That should hold him from now until the sun calls it quits and goes supernova."
Since no one else was going to, Max picked up Felldrake and walked him towards his sanctum. Leopold followed.
"Good. One last question?"
"You know what, minion? Sure. What is it?"
"Why did you need a really good dancer?"
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The next morning, Juniper awoke from her bed in a startle!
"Huh? Wha!?"
Her heart raced like she was in the zone and her body ached as if she had been practicing all night. Her pajamas were also gross and sweaty, but she only practiced for half the night and devoted the rest to beauty sleep. None of this made any sense!
"What happened?"
Juniper got out of bed in a daze. Her balance was out of whack. Was she sick? Did she overdo it during an exercise and throw a joint out of place?
Was she going to have to call her mom?
Juniper shook her head at the last one, pushing that thought aside as she remembered her dream last night. It was intense and vivid. She was performing the dance of her life. It wasn't a performance front of an audience of people she could see, but for a crowd of things she could feel. Colors were more colorful on the jungle stage, and the animals were smiling.
Later, when she touched her glowing power orb to check it was still working right after her accidental run-in with the cops during a regular smash-and-grab, Juniper felt different. Like a spark came from her hand to it, rather than the other way around. She held onto that feeling for the rest of her day, even while she was trying to unwind and have a normal karaoke night with TECHNOR, THE MECHANICAL MAN. Juniper asked how he felt about dreams, but as a robot he didn't have many personal experiences with lucid dreaming. She ended up changing the subject.
Her brain didn't have the words for everything that was going on in her headspace, but it didn't feel like a lucid dream when she had the same dream the next night. It felt real.
It felt like a callback.
"Are you sure you know what you are doing?"
It was a fair question to ask, considering the unknown variables they were dealing with. Doctor Aloyse Everheart Elizabeth Otto Wolfgang Hypatia Gunther Galen Gary Cooper von Roddenstein was already well-versed with dangerous side effects, having his bald dome expanded to larger than a beach ball after poking the mysterious processes behind superpowers with a proverbial stick. The swelling hasn't reduced all that much since.
Rodney tried to make the most of his situation. He spent months designing one inizor after another trying to undo the damage, even roping his fellow L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. members into the project before realizing they would only make it worse. He was resigned to the fact his condition wasn't changing any time soon, having developed an antigravity headband to offset the weight and publishing an independent blog about the burden of his genius in his free time.
He wasn't ready to take that sort of risk again, but with the specialist they hired to examine the strange mirror from Chicken Itza, he wouldn't have to. Whatever happened next was going to be on their head, not his.
The specialist in question was a pale, reedy man with a wild mop of cyan hair. He wore a dark brown coat with red gloves and matching red goggles. As a guest mad scientist brought in with Rodney's approval and a signature acquired from Doofenshmirtz while he was in a coding trance, the man had full access to their facilities in order to crack open the secrets behind the glass item.
"Have no fears, Señor Rodney!" The man who introduced himself as Gomez said. He dropped down from his large device, a laser tripod with vaguely Mayan trappings, to start up a portable hydrogen generator. "I brought all of my technology needed to free the imprisoned Divino."
Though he rarely gave praises, Rodney was impressed. The same was true of a few other mad scientists in attendance, who had little to no experience about the new field of physics (none of them wanted to admit it was magic) Doof cracked open and had yet to let them tamper with.
"Hmm. You've said you're already familiar with this type of… event?"
Gomez gave an enthusiastic nod as he attached glowing cables to the weapon. "Of course! I used to do this kind of thing all the time back in Nuevo Nizza! I must admit that I never met Flamenco Gigante in person before, but look at him."
The tall glass mirror depicted a hot pink feathered serpent with a massive curved beak and hundreds of tiny black legs. There were small dots running and screaming beneath its many feet, like ants. Liquid fire flowed out of the dragon flamingo's mouth like an angry volcano.
"He looks pretty harmless to me!"
There was a chorus of agreements from the lab. Nobody could argue with that logic. After all, he was the expert. The laser had warmed up and was glowing with blue energy, so Gomez climbed up his ladder to press the big red button on top.
"Eye protection, everyone! The laser is ready to fire!"
Gomez's finger was hovering over the button when the double-doors to the laser lab were busted wide open by a dark wizard riding on a donkey bat monkey thing!
"WOAH!" the wizard declared as his mount came down for a crash landing, battering into a thick plastic screen the members of L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. were sitting behind to enjoy the show. He stumbled away from the crash, losing his footing and being dragged forward by his golden staff that glowed with an ominous purple power.
The anserine face on the staff glared at Gomez and started yelling at him. "Don't even think about unleashing that Divino, you miseducated egghead!" it hissed.
Gomez fell off the ladder, landing on his back. "Ow!" he shouted over the intense hum of the weapon firing. "Fine, okay! I won't activate the laser!"
"We're too late!" Max said faintly, as the noise of the laser cutting through an ancient mirror began drowning him out entirely. The beam carved a wide gouge into the mirror, causing shards of glass to flake away into dust!
"Turn it off, turn it off!" Felldrake demanded over the noise, which rose to a crescendo as the laser cannon died and the mirror exploded!
A giant beak lurched out of the portal, followed by a pillar of pink feathers and scores upon scores of legs. All of the scientists in attendance expected the mural on the creature's mirror prison to be an exaggerated depiction of the beast within, but Flamenco Gigante looked uncomfortably identical to what L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N. had assumed was a caricature.
"I AM FLAMENCO GIGANTE!" the unseemly creature roared as he stretched out to his full length across the room. "FOR FREEING ME FROM MY ANCIENT PRISON, I SHALL GRANT EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE OF THIS GLORIOUS OCCASION ONE FREE WISH."
Gomez got to his feet. "R-Really?" he asked with trepidation and cautious optimism.
"NO," the Divino replied earnestly. "BUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO SAY THAT BEFORE EATING A LIVE AUDIENCE."
His jaw opened wide to begin a feeding frenzy, allowing Felldrake to fill his mouth with a wide blast of magical energy!
"OW!" the creature cried out, flecks of caustic fluid dropping out of its flamingo mouth and burning holes into the lab. The scientists took their cue to leave while Max held Felldrake steady. Leopold, having shook off his crash landing, took to battering Flamenco Gigante's head with what remained of Gomez's damaged laser weapon.
"Go back to your dimension, Flamenco! Nobody wants you here!"
"THAT ISN'T VERY NICE," it roared.
Flamenco Gigante craned his neck up, disarming Leopold and tearing the roof off the lab with his pointed beak. The Divino started scaling the walls, growling with anger as his length waxed and waned like a possessed accordion. Leopold swooped back down to grab Max and Felldrake, who continued spraying Flamenco Gigante from the sky.
"How much more?" Max shouted as they rapidly spritzed the extradimensional invader with dark magic like it peed on the couch and needed to be reprimanded.
Felldrake analyzed the creature's bizarre physiology for weaknesses. His ungainly form had numerous structural instabilities, but as a denizen of the Divino World, Flamenco Gigante could ignore those with ease. Felldrake was going to continue firing randomly when he saw a glowing spot of light right behind the Divino's head.
"Almost… There! Aim for the symbol on top of his neck!"
Max tried to find it, but Flamenco Gigante's tail sprung from a coiled position and struck with precision force!
"Brace for impact--!"
They closed their eyes. Then, nothing happened. Felldrake opened his inanimate, sculpted metal eyes to make sure they weren't dead. Or destroyed in his case.
"Ha! You missed!"
"Uh, Felldrake?" Max pointed at the ground below them.
The two of them were floating midair, but Leopold wasn't present to keep them aloft anymore.
At that moment of realization, they both began to fall.
"We're gonna die!" Max cried.
"Oh, woe is me!" Felldrake mocked. "That's exactly what you sound like!"
Max throttled the cursed magical item. "Easy for you to say! You're dead!"
"I know you are, but what am I?"
Their plummet towards certain doom came to a sudden stop as they landed in a massive bed of soft feathers! Max bounced off the feather bed and tumbled down a long, pink slide, while Felldrake plunged straight through the material.
"THE PAIN!!!" Flamenco Gigante exclaimed. "YOU PIERCED MY ONE WEAKNESS!"
"We did?" Max and Felldrake asked at the same time.
"Of course we did!" Felldrake screeched. "Now I'm sealing this freak of nature in a state he'll never bother me again!"
The staff's eyes glowed, and the Divino's body evaporated into purple light! Max was safely deposited on the ground next to Leopold and Gomez in what was left of the lab. Felldrake clattered to the floor next to an incongruous pink lawn flamingo that leaked purple smoke.
"You did it!" Gomez said. "Since I accidentally broke the device I was going to use to control the Divino, I was worried things would get a little out of control!"
"A little?!" Felldrake shook with rage. "Somebody pick me up so I can zap some common sense into him!"
"I am so sorry for the confusion! My previous boss had me find and free Divinos on the regular!"
Max ripped off the remains of his evil cloak and patted some dust off his normal clothes.
"How exactly did you do that? I thought magic and science didn't mix."
Gomez shrugged. "Eh. It is what I do."
Max put his hand to his face. Where was Janna to handle all of this weird stuff?
"Okay. Whatever. Did we get it? Are we done here?"
"Yeah, yeah. I sealed Flamenco in a lawn decoration. That should hold him from now until the sun calls it quits and goes supernova."
Since no one else was going to, Max picked up Felldrake and walked him towards his sanctum. Leopold followed.
"Good. One last question?"
"You know what, minion? Sure. What is it?"
"Why did you need a really good dancer?"
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The next morning, Juniper awoke from her bed in a startle!
"Huh? Wha!?"
Her heart raced like she was in the zone and her body ached as if she had been practicing all night. Her pajamas were also gross and sweaty, but she only practiced for half the night and devoted the rest to beauty sleep. None of this made any sense!
"What happened?"
Juniper got out of bed in a daze. Her balance was out of whack. Was she sick? Did she overdo it during an exercise and throw a joint out of place?
Was she going to have to call her mom?
Juniper shook her head at the last one, pushing that thought aside as she remembered her dream last night. It was intense and vivid. She was performing the dance of her life. It wasn't a performance front of an audience of people she could see, but for a crowd of things she could feel. Colors were more colorful on the jungle stage, and the animals were smiling.
Later, when she touched her glowing power orb to check it was still working right after her accidental run-in with the cops during a regular smash-and-grab, Juniper felt different. Like a spark came from her hand to it, rather than the other way around. She held onto that feeling for the rest of her day, even while she was trying to unwind and have a normal karaoke night with TECHNOR, THE MECHANICAL MAN. Juniper asked how he felt about dreams, but as a robot he didn't have many personal experiences with lucid dreaming. She ended up changing the subject.
Her brain didn't have the words for everything that was going on in her headspace, but it didn't feel like a lucid dream when she had the same dream the next night. It felt real.
It felt like a callback.
- Location
- Somewhere.
something something Heinz Doofenschnirtz Heinz Ketchup
- Location
- Pennsylvania
The old map was made years ago when setting details were still being hashed out and it wasn't entirely clear who would get what territory under their control. Toffee wasn't even a thing yet, for instance, while in the modern iteration of the setting he's one of the most significant players.
Also, here's an up to date version of the map that might make things easier to read.
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Inator idea: The Shame-Inator: Roll the amount of hero units you have. If you roll Doof, then the "it won't stop flushing" video will be broadcasted through the internet, returning the diseased lunatic trait to what it was before the sands event for 1 turn. If you roll anyone else, then any national action they do will suffer a malus of -10.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
The Retrainer-inator: Select a hero at random, including Doof. All their stats are randomly rearranged for one turn. Traits are unaffected; it's still them.
You know if its doof and his highest becomes diplomancy It would basically be the handsome-inator all over again.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
The Inator-Inator, Nice: For the next 1d6 worth of turns, all Inator rolls have a +5 modifier, and the effects of the rolled Inator are 5 better (+5 or -5, whatever would be better for Doof). Roll up a new Inator immediately.
The Inator-Inator, Mean: For the next 1d6 worth of turns, all Inator rolls have a -5 modifier, and the effects of the rolled Inator are 5 worse (+5 or -5, whatever would be worse for Doof). Roll up a new Inator immediately.
The Inator-Inator, Mean: For the next 1d6 worth of turns, all Inator rolls have a -5 modifier, and the effects of the rolled Inator are 5 worse (+5 or -5, whatever would be worse for Doof). Roll up a new Inator immediately.
- Location
- Somewhere.
What do we currently think the setup of everything but the plugboard is like?
- Location
- La La Land
Plan Brute Force Layer 4-5
AKA Operation LOVE LOVE ATTACK!
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Men, Women, Gentlefolks, I have a plan to get us the 4th & 5th layers of the cipher. Said layers being the positions and plugboard for the Enigma Cipher. I realized that as long as we keep track of every possible combination of the two, that we can brute force our way through the rest of this cipher. So, I made an excel sheet formatted like the Doof Quest Shipping Chart to make both keeping track of combinations and what has been tried easier! Yes, we are not solving this through the power of brute force; we are solving this through the power of LOVE!.... and brute force. But only one of those is a stereotypical weakness of evil and far funnier to say, so....
ERM! Back to my evil plan!
Allow me to explain to you guys have to use the chart and input it's data into the decoder we are using!
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How to Use the Position/Plugboard-Possible-Combination-Track-inator
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All Plugboard possibilities should be listed vertically starting from 2A, while possible Positions should be listed horizontally starting from 1B. This is an example page with the E's standing for Example. You'd take both the plugboard and the position and plug them into the decoder to try them out. Be careful! You must try both the C&B Reflector before ruling a combination out! Be sure to not forget that! You indicate a combination is ruled out by putting an X in the cell where the column of the position and the row of the plugboard you tried overlap. This way, we don't waste time trying out already used combinations. You only put Yes when we actually solve the Cipher of course.
Now, as for how to plug in a plugboard and position to the decoder we're using, allow me to show you how!
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How to Use the Decoder
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The Enigma Model we're using is Enigma M3, because it's the only model where the rotors go up to 8. The decoder should load on that setting, so be sure not to mess with that part! As for the parts you will have to mess with, that will be the rotors, rings, reflector, positions, and plugboard. We've already figured out that the Rotor is 618 / VI I VIII and that the Ring is 113/AAC. So you want to make sure the Rotor and Ring are always set like that whenever you use this decoder. The only thing that you will ever want to change between uses is the reflector (As you will have to try both B and C before ruling an combo out) and what plugboard or position is inputted.
Speaking of inputting, be sure that Decode is orange and you've pasted the cipher into the Ciphertext box to the left of the middle box and not the Plaintext box to the right.
Everything should look like this if set up right then:
The only things that should ever look different from this picture are the Position, Plugboard, the Reflector if you've got it set to B, as well as whatever gibberish you get in the plaintext after decoding. Be sure to keep that in mind while using the decoder! Speaking of things to keep in mind of though, here are some things you will want to keep in mind when adding suggestions to the Position/Plugboard-Possible-Combination-Track-inator.
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Things to Keep in Mind As Paraphrased From Nystical
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When coming up with potential plugboards and/or positions to try, be sure to keep the following in mind! A Plug board is a collection of unique letter pairings, such as "ab cd ef". In a plugboard, the same letter cannot be used in more than one pairing. ("ab bc ef") Furthermore, we know that the correct plug board has 3, 4, 5, or 6 letter pairings. Positions are 3 letters or numbers from 1-26 to represent a letter. Technically they can be listed at a combination of the two like CK2, which would be inputted at CKB or 3-11-2. Regardless, when coming up with a suggestion, you will want to try and focus more on making plug boards, as there are more potential variations to try there and will also want whatever you try to be related to Gravity Falls, Disney, DVV, or DoofQuest in some form.
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Our Progress So Far & Words of Encouragement
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This is our progress as of writing this explanatory post. As you can see, it's not much. That's why we need you reader! Yes, you, to join us in filling out the sheet with more plugboard and position guesses as well as you to test out said guesses!
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Links and Relevant Information Summary
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The Rotor is 618/VI I VIII
The Ring is 113/AAC
The Mode is Enigma M3
Always Check Both C & B Reflectors Before Ruling A Combination Out
Make Sure Plugboard & Position Suggestions Are Valid Before Adding Them To The Sheet.
Check Nystical's section in this post if you don't know how to define one as valid or not.
Here is the link to the spreadsheet: Position/Plugboard-Possible-Combination-Track-inator
Here is the link to the decoder again: Enigma Decoder
The Cipher:
LLZWM WLPLZ PFIKA ITTSU LAREB AROXC QRJNQ ZDNIV UVBYB XADID QSEGA JZABP QQGTL XSMFM DXUZA DOXTP GQRAF HMJVS NYNYG RYNXI EGCNZ LUZYD JPGVJ ZQGJV PUYUM KOJVH EHRNE RNFUO JMOHM YGTVZ FFNAT VRECR FQNMC TICXF XPBKR EPSFO WKZAM NTNTD FQDHV KZEFL DGWKF RZWNL PFBJB FGBEX HXLDJ HTYRR KYBMY SXJCE WTVLD WNVBH DZSFT OCCNK EGYHJ QUIES VGYZP VLAZB ONTOJ CJZAT XCTJB
AKA Operation LOVE LOVE ATTACK!
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Men, Women, Gentlefolks, I have a plan to get us the 4th & 5th layers of the cipher. Said layers being the positions and plugboard for the Enigma Cipher. I realized that as long as we keep track of every possible combination of the two, that we can brute force our way through the rest of this cipher. So, I made an excel sheet formatted like the Doof Quest Shipping Chart to make both keeping track of combinations and what has been tried easier! Yes, we are not solving this through the power of brute force; we are solving this through the power of LOVE!.... and brute force. But only one of those is a stereotypical weakness of evil and far funnier to say, so....
ERM! Back to my evil plan!
Allow me to explain to you guys have to use the chart and input it's data into the decoder we are using!
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How to Use the Position/Plugboard-Possible-Combination-Track-inator
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All Plugboard possibilities should be listed vertically starting from 2A, while possible Positions should be listed horizontally starting from 1B. This is an example page with the E's standing for Example. You'd take both the plugboard and the position and plug them into the decoder to try them out. Be careful! You must try both the C&B Reflector before ruling a combination out! Be sure to not forget that! You indicate a combination is ruled out by putting an X in the cell where the column of the position and the row of the plugboard you tried overlap. This way, we don't waste time trying out already used combinations. You only put Yes when we actually solve the Cipher of course.
Now, as for how to plug in a plugboard and position to the decoder we're using, allow me to show you how!
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How to Use the Decoder
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The Enigma Model we're using is Enigma M3, because it's the only model where the rotors go up to 8. The decoder should load on that setting, so be sure not to mess with that part! As for the parts you will have to mess with, that will be the rotors, rings, reflector, positions, and plugboard. We've already figured out that the Rotor is 618 / VI I VIII and that the Ring is 113/AAC. So you want to make sure the Rotor and Ring are always set like that whenever you use this decoder. The only thing that you will ever want to change between uses is the reflector (As you will have to try both B and C before ruling an combo out) and what plugboard or position is inputted.
Speaking of inputting, be sure that Decode is orange and you've pasted the cipher into the Ciphertext box to the left of the middle box and not the Plaintext box to the right.
Everything should look like this if set up right then:
The only things that should ever look different from this picture are the Position, Plugboard, the Reflector if you've got it set to B, as well as whatever gibberish you get in the plaintext after decoding. Be sure to keep that in mind while using the decoder! Speaking of things to keep in mind of though, here are some things you will want to keep in mind when adding suggestions to the Position/Plugboard-Possible-Combination-Track-inator.
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Things to Keep in Mind As Paraphrased From Nystical
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When coming up with potential plugboards and/or positions to try, be sure to keep the following in mind! A Plug board is a collection of unique letter pairings, such as "ab cd ef". In a plugboard, the same letter cannot be used in more than one pairing. ("ab bc ef") Furthermore, we know that the correct plug board has 3, 4, 5, or 6 letter pairings. Positions are 3 letters or numbers from 1-26 to represent a letter. Technically they can be listed at a combination of the two like CK2, which would be inputted at CKB or 3-11-2. Regardless, when coming up with a suggestion, you will want to try and focus more on making plug boards, as there are more potential variations to try there and will also want whatever you try to be related to Gravity Falls, Disney, DVV, or DoofQuest in some form.
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Our Progress So Far & Words of Encouragement
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This is our progress as of writing this explanatory post. As you can see, it's not much. That's why we need you reader! Yes, you, to join us in filling out the sheet with more plugboard and position guesses as well as you to test out said guesses!
Arathnorn said the 5th layer was like 'if alan turing himself wandered into the thread'. Let's see if we can as a thread can voltron together to form one whole Alan Turing with the combined power of love/shipping, brute force, copious amounts of time, excel sheets, online decoders, and waves of people throwing themselves at a problem! We only got so much time left, but I believe that we can do this! Thread, Assemble!
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Links and Relevant Information Summary
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The Rotor is 618/VI I VIII
The Ring is 113/AAC
The Mode is Enigma M3
Always Check Both C & B Reflectors Before Ruling A Combination Out
Make Sure Plugboard & Position Suggestions Are Valid Before Adding Them To The Sheet.
Check Nystical's section in this post if you don't know how to define one as valid or not.
Here is the link to the spreadsheet: Position/Plugboard-Possible-Combination-Track-inator
Here is the link to the decoder again: Enigma Decoder
The Cipher:
LLZWM WLPLZ PFIKA ITTSU LAREB AROXC QRJNQ ZDNIV UVBYB XADID QSEGA JZABP QQGTL XSMFM DXUZA DOXTP GQRAF HMJVS NYNYG RYNXI EGCNZ LUZYD JPGVJ ZQGJV PUYUM KOJVH EHRNE RNFUO JMOHM YGTVZ FFNAT VRECR FQNMC TICXF XPBKR EPSFO WKZAM NTNTD FQDHV KZEFL DGWKF RZWNL PFBJB FGBEX HXLDJ HTYRR KYBMY SXJCE WTVLD WNVBH DZSFT OCCNK EGYHJ QUIES VGYZP VLAZB ONTOJ CJZAT XCTJB
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- Location
- Somewhere.
@Shadowhope you should include the ciphertext with your post.