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Exactly what you need. Yes Hel, there is.

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Do the characters appear in a particular book or mystery story?

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no, but the characters appear in bookshelf ;)

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:lol: oh, you mean that bookshelf...

[EDIT]
Got "Book'emDanno" :confused:
... which is a catchphrase from Hawaii_Five-O, apparently...

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Hmm, one sign = one letter?

For three words, last word probably 4 or 5 letters, 2 the same before the o, no other b, o, k:
ammo, anno
cello, ditto, hallo, hello, hippo, lasso, mezzo, petto, zippo

or maybe even 6, or 2 if we are unlucky and word 2 ends with the same letter as the beginning of word 3...

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anno is the last four letters.

Yes Bolaf, you didn't need to brute force it :tongue:

Yep Book 'em Danno is right :tongue: I wanted to do a quote, but in this case, a pun works ;)

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:lol: That's almost literally my next post ;). But then, I never thought of a bookshelf font....

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i bought them from the library :tongue: You should see my bookshelves. They are full of books

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Dear dream diary,
last night I had a weird one:

An apple on a photograph starts to glitter and brings my infancy back: while I transit the escapade of rebirth, the ultimate aim is to exceed my dad's barbecue and banjo skills.
Then, in a caravan, I see babe Geiger and certify he's the first newborn in October. He sits in a clamshell and throws a paperweight (made in Oakland) at me; it breaks the antenna on my goggles.

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How do you come up with these things :biggrin:?

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something to do with radiation/waves/spectrum?

Another thought: are some of the words more important than the others, or is the text a red herring?

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... How do you come up with these things ...
My mind is unique, as are my biometrics :biggrin:

... text a red herring ...
Not at all! It's flooded with information...

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Answered my own question ;) PGP. Do i need a key?

Never mind

APPLE PHOTOGRAPH GLITTER INFANCY TRANSIT ESCAPADE
REBIRTH ULTIMATE EXCEED BARBECUE BANJO CARAVAN
GEIGER CERTIFY NEWBORN OCTOBER CLAMSHELL PAPERWEIGHT
OAKLAND ANTENNA GOGGLES

0EB1 6B7A E756 A2E9 5D13 1725 6A29 889C 37A5 8A08 6D
to Base 64

DrFreudWouldExclaimInDelight

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... need a key?
Nope. Just an encoding...

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Dr Freud could Exclaim In Delight ;)

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Agh hel beat me (posted a little too late) Guess i better refresh
:tongue:

(i didn't have anything ready ;) so it gives me a break )

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:lol: That was a quick dream

Let's analize yours, Hel :jossun:

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:lol: Goes to show that despite the 2/3 syllable thing, it's not totally watertight :lol::

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- and funny how it still gave a meaningful answer ;)

I have an idea, but I haven't worked it out yet, so it will have to wait a bit though....

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True, but Bolaf specifically said escapade (but I agree, it still works)

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I know, just scanned the list too quickly; if it had resulted in an X or P or so, I probably would have noticed (though I did wonder about the undercast c ;))

[edit]

Act 1413
...... exit Captain Spaulding, Danno and Dr Freud. Curtain.
Act 1414
Enter Colgú and the brother who after marrying his sister the sister is now his brother in law.

Colgú: Well, have you figured out where this message came from, and more importantly, what it means?
His brother (in law): Yes, we know who wrote it, as he started by giving his last name. As for the meaning however....... that's for the far future. But this is what it says:

banmb
lmfzk
lrknl
odzg9
wsetk

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His brother (in law) seems to be Eadulf.

... started by giving his last name ...
Inside the message?

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Eadulf
correct

...Inside the message?
not exactly ;)

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I wonder why there is a 9 in the text. Anglo saxon reminds me of Runes

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...I wonder why there is a 9 in the text...

It's sort of accidental, but wouldn't work without it ;)

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because its 5x5, but why wouldn't you correct it :confused3

Something to do with a 5x5 code? (Playfair?)
Also mentioned runes. Would EADULF be the keyword?

Wouldn't you mean, "after marrying his sister, becoming his brother in law"? The sister isn't his brother in law.

I'm not sure if the last name is given in the series.

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... Playfair ...
Because of the '9' I don't think it's one of our typical alphabet substitution/tranposition ciphers.
But I wondered if "Enter Colgú..." could mean "Enter the key 'Colgú'"...

... Wouldn't you mean ...
It's tricky first, but read it this way:
... and the 'brother' (who (after marrying his sister (the 'sister')) is now his brother in law)

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Getting there, keep thinking in that direction.... ;)

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or enter colgu to find his brother in law (eadulf)

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Nope, neither of those two....

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rail fence..? (who was on the right track?)

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You were (I never saw Bolaf's edit ;))

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So either Anglo Saxon (runes) or 5x5 cipher. (Prob 5x5)

Tap code is 5x5. Still curious why 9 is there (unless you meant bracket )

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Go with the 5x5 cipher, and reread Colgú's and Aedulf's texts ;)

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We don't have a last name.

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For whom?

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Unless you are referring to that Eadulf is compared to Watson.

In real life, Eadulf Rus took the name Swinton

Also found a Eadulf Cutel.

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Link, your Eadulf (Rus) is in the wrong (11th) century...

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We're not concerned with Eadulf's name anyway ;)

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So was it Watson? Wow, orignally was going to be Ormond Sacker.

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Nope. No reason to drag him into it. Read Eadulf's text again :)

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Whoever wrote it started by using his last name. I already saw it, but there's no last name I can see in the text. And yes, I even considered using your last name, Hel, but thats impossible.

If I have to change the grid, that won't work (1x25, 5x5) - unless the 9 comes into play. :confused3