"Torment", latest internet rage.

[Newc]

Logic dictates the guy had to have used a Font for it, and there are a couple I've found - 2 Post Script style (which won't work on a PC) and a TTF.

Going by this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Voynich_Alphabet

He appears to have used this same font, however I've been unable to locate it.

The one TTF font I've found does not have the second letter of the puzzle - the one that looks like a backwards 6.

So, going by the image above, I've come up with this translation: (I added the line numbers)

1 Abxqeolzhjbxpibbm
2 Yofkdjbqlnrfbqobpq
3 Ibqmxppjvtbxovdrfiqibppdelpq
4 lrqlcjvzxobcriyobxpq
5 qliilkqelrmxppfkdybii
6 Ofkdlrqjvalibcrihkbii
7 Ibqqevplrkajvabxqeqbii
8 Abxqealqeaoxtkfde
9 qebobfpklobjbav
10 cxobtbiijvmibxprobpmxpq
11 Tbizljbjvmobpbkqmxfk
12 Fcbbijvqlojbkqpplfkzobxpb
13 qexqifcbzxkklqobjxfk
14 zbxpbkltqelrmxppfkdybii
15 Orkdfpjvalibcrihkbii
16 Oloqebplrkajvabxqealqeqbii
17 Abxqealqeaoxtkfde
18 qebobfpklobjbav

Gibberish, yes, but every letter is accounted for - no numbers or special characters as suggested by other Voynich sources such as http://voynichcentral.com/transcriptions/Voynich-101/

Now, the obvious red coloring at the bottom of the message indicates to me that it matches the other two images. Overlaying the message on the blended image I posted earlier doesn't immediately reveal anything, though. I've tried pasting the message as-is, as well as Select All/Paste into Selection (to make the message the same dimensions as the other images), and various blending types (Darken, Lighten, etc etc), hoping that the underlying images would "mask off" the excess bits of the message.

No luck so far, so I'm going to run the translation I have through a few of the ciphers.

[Newc]

hmm...the "monalisa"....

and now I'm on this:


It's a portrait of da Vinci in red chalk...but "redchalk" "portraitinredchalk" and "redchalkportrait" aren't the answers.

How did you get this? From this page? http://www.grngecko.com/perelachaisecemetery.html

I'm thinking we're at a dead end, so I went back to that page and put in madonnaoftherocks and was taken to http://www.grngecko.com/madonnaoftherocks.html

Put in monalisa and you get to http://www.grngecko.com/monalisa.html , which we were at earlier, but I never saw the image you posted.

[Newc]

Found the same Voynich font!

http://newcenstein.com/evah1_1.zip

I've compared my translation to the image and it's the same font!

[Newc]

Here's how the letter count breaks down. Maybe it could be used to key the Bazeries wheel?

a=16
b=51
c=7
d=9
e=18
f=16
g=0
h=3
i=30
j=16
k=22
l=25
m=8
n=1
o=22
p=25
q=34
r=13
s=0
t=6
u=0
v=13
w=0
x=23
y=4
z=6

[Newc]

Lines 8 and 9 are repeated as lines 17 and 18

Line 08: Abxqealqeaoxtkfde
Line 17: Abxqealqeaoxtkfde
Line 09: qebobfpklobjbav
Line 18: qebobfpklobjbav

[Spivonious]

How did you get this? From this page? http://www.grngecko.com/perelachaisecemetery.html

I'm thinking we're at a dead end, so I went back to that page and put in madonnaoftherocks and was taken to http://www.grngecko.com/madonnaoftherocks.html

Put in monalisa and you get to http://www.grngecko.com/monalisa.html , which we were at earlier, but I never saw the image you posted.

Put in monalisa and you get to ladywithanermine which takes you to ginevradebenci which takes you to the red chalk. At this point I just put in sodarktheconofman and got to dwarfish runes.

[Newc]

Ah, I see.

Meanwhile, I just happened to go back to the index page at http://www.grngecko.com/

And noticed there's the same Voynich script at the bottom of that page.
It says Phtcxls hknmphnmr
Looks like the same foggy woods as the page we're on now. Maybe there's a connection?

Also, I noticed a few pages that had something in Hebrew, but never translated it.

[Newc]

Can someone with a decent Hebrew font decipher this?

[Newc]

And just in case you wanted to know, he's got another one running called In From The Cold:

http://www.grngecko.com/infromthecold.htm

[Newc]

FINALLY!

It's a Caesarian Shift. N=3

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/caesar.php

Deathrockmeasleep
Bringmetoquietrest
Letpassmywearyguiltlessghost
outofmycarefulbreast
tollonthoupassingbell
Ringoutmydolefulknell
Letthysoundmydeathtell
Deathdothdrawnigh
thereisnoremedy
farewellmypleasurespast
Welcomemypresentpain
Ifeelmytormentssoincrease
thatlifecannotremain
ceasenowthoupassingbell
Rungismydolefulknell
Rorthesoundmydeathdothtell
Deathdothdrawnigh
thereisnoremedy

But you go back to the "midnight" page.

[Newc]

So now I'm stuck on a Bionicle puzzle, but he's cheating: he's rotated some of the letters, as well as using characters that are not in any Bionicle fonts I've found.

I have a theory based on how the outer edges of some of the letters have a flat spot yet similar letters do not, and they're fairly easy to pick out, but once you start adding in guesswork, the message could say anything.

I've almost decoded the word "trying", though.

[Newc]

Too much artifacting from the jpg compression to accommodate my "flat spot" theory, but I've made another discovery: He's only using these letters: gikntxyz though all the Ks are rotated every which way but normal.

The "PacMan" characters (which are not found in the font) suggest rotations, but there's a slight problem with the theory I have for those.

I proposed that the first two characters - a Y and a "PacMan" - set the "rules"; the Y is shown rightside up, and the first PacMan indicates 0 degrees, which means that the rotation of a group is specified at the end of that group. Specifically, the preceeding characters have been rotated by that amount.

For example: characters 3 and 4 have been rotated 90 degrees from the original 0 which was specified by the first rotational indicator, which would make 3 and 4 X and Y respectively, and the rotational indicator is the 5th character.

However, if you continue to the next segment (characters 6-13), you see that #13 indicates a 180 degree rotation from the original 0, which is not possible with the Rotation Cipher. Therefore, as each rotation is made, 0 resets to that position, and the next rotation can only be 90 degrees.
This makes total sense if you use the MataNui Bionicle font to place a "Y" as a new layer over the original image and rotate it 90 degrees twice and place it over the 6th character.

However, for this theory to work, the 14th character (3 o'clock image, again not found in the font) would have to either be a Reversal or indicate a starting position greater than 90 degrees from the previous indicator, since the K at the 17th position will not align with the rotator at the end of that string. It would require a 180 degree rotation, which is not possible with the Rotation Cipher.

This would clearly indicate he's using multiple encryption methods (Substitution+Rotation+??), but which ones, and in which order is he using them?

Then again, maybe he's used a Bionicle font that I just haven't found yet. It certainly doesn't match anything on the Substitution Cipher.

[Newc]

Ok, so it's not based on the Bionicle font, it's from a novel of The Shadow:
http://www.nku.edu/~christensen/sect...%20symbols.pdf

Page 24 contains the whole story of how these glyphs function. I was partially correct about the "PacMan" shapes being directional indicators.
Basically you read left-to-right until you hit a "PacMan", then turn the page in that direction until you hit another one.

Only trouble is, I can't figure out if you're supposed to stay on the same line you were on or if you change lines. Also, once you change lines, do you go back to the original starting edge or does the next line's "end" become it's "start"?

The PDF doesn't explain much.

[Newc]

FINALLY!

That one was tough!

Had to get a hint from another forum http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/v...ic.php?t=19001

But they aren't giving away the answers over there

Anyhoo, to save you some trouble, start by Mirroring the message. I printed it out to make it easier to follow along
Use the cipher from the PDF I posted above to know which letter is what.

Once you get rolling in the right direction, it runs smooth, though you may find yourself double-checking the end of the message

[Newc]

Well I've made it this far.

http://www.grngecko.com/ymfcqm.html

Now I'm trying to figure out exatly what to do. I know the symbols are numbers. Specifically GPS coordinates:
-10.33698333333333333333333333333333,-49.91

Which point to an open area in Brazil. The problem I'm having is that the puzzle is Mayan-oriented, but there were no Mayans in Brazil. If I change it to +10 I end up in the water off the coast of French Guiana - too far from the Yucatan Peninsula. If I change it to +49 I end up off the east coast of Africa - again, no Mayans. +10 and +49 puts me in Somalia, and -10 and +49 puts me off the coast of Madigascar.

Someone on another forum that's following this game mentioned something about deciphering the words which the glyphs represent, and posted a link to this PDF: http://newcenstein.com/torment/WH2004.pdf

Unfortunately, the guy who made the puzzle did not use these same images, so I've only got "kinda looks like" to work with, but it appears to be something like "unawaken" but that's not it. The other site's kinda stingy with the clues as well