I’ve already worked on this for several hours at this point. I posit that the assumption you’re making in this post is false because your ego cracked and it impaired your reasoning,
Several hours? Where is your proof of work?
I just have some notes.
Yxfris, roman Gladiator Coded message with Key and Reward Box.
YGCKRB
Txtjse lefvnask eopra skfh eklnma oepa
“#. s. d. #. s. d.”
YGCKRB
AFDEC
GLJKI
MRPRO
Tgtjbe lecvnabk eopka bkch eklnma oepa
101
25 24 6 18 9 19
66
25 7 3 11 18 2
Yxfris
YGCKRB
I just copy and pasted my notes, some of that might not make any sense. Sorry.
If there’s no JIRA have you really done any work at all
My current preferred task management system is notepad. Sorry for the inconvenience.
“Sorry for the inconvenience?”
We are completely disorganized and have no way to track the work for this task.
“Sorry for the inconvenience,” indeed.
I confess, I don’t even know where to begin with this puzzle. It doesn’t make any sense. Shouldn’t ewiz be able to solve this? I feel stranded and alone and that the goal is hopeless and fraught with peril.
I understand. I’d like it if Ewiz, Klaze, Epok, anyone - even a newcomer who has not solved these things with us before - would get involved.
What does the key even mean? “#. s. d. #. s. d.” Did someone type random characters as a joke?
Looking through the player list, I think every single person on the list is 100% capable of doing exactly as much or more than me. Many of those guys actually have a much better understanding of code, codes, coding, and JIRA.
I wonder if AWS has a tool for solving Kobold Ciphers.
What does this dungeon hold for us? Is there truly treasure beyond our wildest dreams or just an empty pit of despair and madness?
I don't have any idea. It looks like junk to me.
What's the story with the lock in the picture? The letters aren't sequential. What's the format?
I also have serious doubts about red herrings here. For example, not only that the key you pointed out is junk, but also that the lock itself is 1) Not the amount of letters described; 2) I wonder if it's even worth looking into as the host has no control over this image and may have just grabbed something off the internet. It's not like he put each of those letters there, in that position. The only way it would be relevant would be if you are supposed to use a visual pattern in the image to solve the code.
I attempted some bruteforce methods before but I didn’t want to discourage you since I might have missed something. If bruteforcing doesn’t work and the key provided makes no sense, then it has to have been hidden in the item name or in that image. That’s all that’s left. That’s our only hope to solve this.
I do honestly think that bruteforcing is not very fun and I was hoping it had some other more creative way to solve it which appears to be the case – or it’s just not solvable.
It can easily be some sort of hard-to-bruteforce substitution, like the last one that KKat ended up solving by hand
I think with the last one it was just reversed or something and bruteforce didn’t find it
Then there’s also stuff like reverse each word or other weird stuff like this
Ultimately its just not easy to solve these things and takes several people trying different angles until something clicks
I’m not very good at these kinds of puzzles. I tried all of the basic cipher stuff with the key, but nothing clicked or popped out at me.
Not my ideal kinda mafia game tbh