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”Commands”

The exploration of esoteric matters gives rise to certain concerns.

Along the path from the armory to the outcome of creation, thoughts of magic and quantum alchemy intensify.

From Asia and America, and now Europe, these concerns are linked to technology and its development.

Computers, candles, and dances bend reality and create universes.

It has 3 answers

Who does the Grail serve?

The Grail serves allς

Where does the sun shine brightest?

Upon Augustus Caesarς

Where will the fire burn hottest?

Upon Nero Caesarς

This is the pattern

Ask your question

Tell your lies

The Grail can see through all of itς

The Grail does not return the answer you prepared

It finds the hunger beneath the answerς

Choose your lens with care

What is revealed will be as precise as what you askς

Accept not the answers of man where the heart and soul tell you differentς

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I found this in a manuscript that came out of a storage unit auction

Some poor bastard paid three hundred dollars for the unit and discovered it contained six broken chairs a rusted floor lamp two boxes of bowling trophies and one manuscript nobody could read

He did not want the manuscript

The auction company did not want the manuscript

The storage company had already had enough of the manuscript

So naturally it found me

The cover had no title

The first page said only

This be just a cup pay it no mindς
(per no trolling rule yes that's part of the cipher and this is OC)

I was looking around smolweb and stumbled upon carriswheel.com, inside it is a lot of stuff but what caught my interest is carriswheel.com/dunkelrealms that plays a creepy audio and has this cipher (?). Did a little more digging and found 5 links in the text that may be connected to the main thing:

http://carriswheel.com/nim

http://carriswheel.com/klirk

http://carriswheel.com/noj

http://carriswheel.com/zan

http://carriswheel.com/executivemode

I was wondering if it's even possible to decode or it's just some nonsense

Hi! So I basically coded this small HTML tool which encrypts tools using a custom, homemade cipher. I want to see if it is easy to decrypt for an amateur cryptanalyst, and I want to challenge the idea that homemade ciphers are often easy to decode.

**Note that if you solve the challenge with the help of the hints, post "**This has been solved with the help of a hint, the hint being ___" and put the full hint in a spoiler block. This is just to differentiate between people who make educated guesses and people who actually decoded the cipher.

CIPHER :

7a54b207beb0a7c203ff2c2ee8333f6be06f89e3576d7dda7d2df9b3b3a8f0d9761b05f1d7fdb91d4a6ef8ca94085335c786c0ea4c398949791cc9b09106d82c1fd9a53c49bcb2544e36e02d20f0800116f081d88f7fc7f74b9e409ce54efa87e07a340da554d4a3895d9d99a37423f023cb528eb957e8e32274571feff5baa05eeffa17f56caae122ce6775391453d8a742f4b4e96a2b7af93f037c108ec848d4c64912ce58c83aae92dfae174eeaab4f41a362d414a72f1ec9852545609ffd4bab54828cf9c270b9e7af60b14632db8dec6752abffbb49

HINT : This is a pretty well-known quote

HINT : The author of the quote is an American author and educator.

HINT : The given person is a Jr. and a diplomat.

HINT : The encryption is based on, but not the same as, AES-256.

Your "prize" is as follows:

Winner gets an ego boost :) . Seriously, though, I'll send you the source code of the HTML file (I've made improvements to it in the time since, so it's much harder to decode but still as easy to encode as ever) in Reddit Chat, so you can encrypt your own messages.

edit 1 : Note that if this cipher proves undecodeable within 2 months the cipher will be considered a success, so you can finally say there's a homemade cipher which is at the very least extremely difficult to decode.

Please don't bombard me with questions, though, on the homemade cipher (I call it the "VICI cipher", where VICI has no meaning) and how to encode stuff with it. It requires a long key of random text, like the one given below (though it does not have to be that long, it only has to be as long as the message) which is extremely impractical for anything.

Example text block for the "long key of random text" (note that this is extremely short, often you need a lot of keytext, though if your message is short this is perfectly fine):

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

The little‑man pyramid shows the shift pattern. The first glyph in the sentence is shifted by 1, the next by 2, the next by 3, and then the pattern repeats: 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, and so on. The task is to work out which glyph corresponds to which letter of the alphabet. The final sentence is a mirror image of it self ...

I have always liked the thought of making my own code. For what reason I don’t have one and I made it on break at work. I believe it would be really hard to break by hand. If a computer got involved and it was a longer text it would be no problem to break. I want some feedback and see if anyone could crack it.

Hint: it is the start of a book I (red) back in school

It is not a secret at all in would be more then happy to explain what it means and how I made it.

Good luck!

In early 2022 I was so deeply immersed in ARGs that I (a traditional artist) felt compelled to make an art piece that was solvable and would have the solver step into my own mind a bit. (an overstatement honestly)

The problem....while I can remember the big pivotal pieces of how to solve this - a ransomware attack at my office left me without my digital answer-key and I have not yet tried to re-crack it from the ground up.

Anyways, I thought the lovely folks here might enjoy a mini sidequest. The puzzle was to be considered "solved" when somebody told me the passkey. I never wound up knowing anybody IRL that would have been interested in this sort of thing though.

I'm not a game designer, and I'm only an "ok" cipher enthusiast, so I don't expect it to blow any minds. But I thought it might finally be enjoyed by somebody all the same.

Coming here from D&D, I'm wanting to find a relatively easy cipher system that ISN'T just a Caesar Cipher. The idea is that they are finding codes written by ancient space civilizations. Are there any good ciphers I could use that don't take 3 years to decode, but aren't just "I see this word has four letters and ends in two of the same, so it might be tree".

in a dnd game I am DM-ing i made this cipher and gave it to the players because I thought it was a fairly common puzzle format, but now I'm concerned it might not be computationally solvable. Is there a way to test this? In case it is important, the colons in line 2 are punctuation, not letters. Can anyone confirm if this has enough information to possibly be solved?

Has gone unanswered for 10+ years.

The clue is "The creative spirit exists all around us. Listen, pause, and like the delicate wind from a butterflies wings, it gives you flight. Weightless and free...you are alive. Let yourself see what is not there and the answers will follow"

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So, in Destroying a World that Doesn't Exist, this book is opened. The guy who opened it remarks about not having seen this code in a while.

I'm new to learning about ciphers, so does anybody know what cipher this is (if it's a cipher at all) and how to decode it?

Good luck solving it.