"Torment", latest internet rage.

[GodOfRhythm]

Vigenere cipher again.

[Spivonious]

Okay, I need some help with this gargoyle. Any ideas?

www.grngecko.com/cube.html

I'm 99% sure it's a Bazieres cipher, but I can't come up with a key to use.

[GodOfRhythm]

It's vigenere cipher again. Just use a random 7 letter word as your key. (at least I think it was 7 letters).

[Newc]

I thought it was Bazieres also because the frequency of numbers almost matched the Brazieres wheel thing, but click here:

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

And put in the passphrase >>highlight for answer torment <<

The next one is killing me (glowing eyes chick). The code was easy to solve, but I'm not understanding what it wants for an answer, and I've entered every name at that location and general area in both text and hex.

[Newc]

Finally got it. towergreen << highlight for answer

[Newc]

Ok, is the next one's text a Middle Eastern or Gaelic/Celtic style font? I can't tell, and there's thousands of each style ot search through.

[Spivonious]

It's vigenere cipher again. Just use a random 7 letter word as your key. (at least I think it was 7 letters).

gah! I tried that but just did the first few letters and I got "yomzr" and figured that couldn't be right.

[Spivonious]

Ok, is the next one's text a Middle Eastern or Gaelic/Celtic style font? I can't tell, and there's thousands of each style ot search through.

I don't think it's a real language. There has to be something in there that helps to decipher it.

[Spivonious]

Okay I found it, it's using letters from the Voynich script. But no one has ever deciphered the Voynich script.

[Newc]

Interesting.

I figured something like this would come up, after all, it fits the "Torment" theme. How better to torment someone in this sort of thing than to present an age-old unsolvable puzzle?

However, reading about it here:

http://www.voynich.nu/l_intro.html#n01

I noticed this:

What does the manuscript look like?


The Voynich MS is a compact parchment codex of 6 by 9 inches, with 116 vellum leaves, of which 102 remain. Its limp vellum cover is blank: it does not indicate any title or author. The MS is written in an elegant, but otherwise unknown script. The text appears to be composed of 'words', and for a large part of the MS the text seems to be arranged in short paragraphs. Almost all pages of the MS contain illustrations. Illustrations of similar nature are grouped together in the MS, and thus one may tentatively identify the following sections in the MS (based on these illustrations):

• a herbal section, with drawings of plants, most of which are unidentifiable or even phantasmagorical
• an astronomical section, with illustrations of Sun, Moon, stars and zodiac symbols
• a so-called biological section, which contains some bewildering "anatomical" drawings with small human (feminine) figures populating systems of tubes transporting liquids
• a cosmological section, with mostly circular drawings of an as yet unexplained nature
• a pharmaceutical section, so called because it has drawings of containers, next to which various small parts of plants (leaves, roots) have been aligned
• a recipes section, which consists of many short paragraphs, each accompanied by the drawing of a star in the margin

Note the bold part, and consider these images:

The original 2 pics:




Merge the two together (in keeping with the theory that the manuscript is a combination of multiple languages/scripts):



And you end up with an image that fits well with the highlighted part above.

However, it doesn't seem to lead to an answer, which goes back to my original point about expecting something like this

But it still doesn't explain this:

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

Then again, maybe this is one of the dead ends spoken of in the introduction.

[Newc]

Join the fun

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

[Newc]

Maybe the answer is one of the catalog page numbers here: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_...p?srchtype=CNO

[Spivonious]

Maybe the whole two photos merging thing is just to help confirm that it's something with the Voynich manuscript.

Or maybe he just used letters from it to confuse us. It's probably just some silly single substitution cipher.

[toejam]

Join the fun

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

No! Trying to figure this stuff out is giving me a headache, and I'll probably get a brain aneurysm.

And I still think that's the chick from The Ring, and you're all going to die in 7 days! :ROTF:

[GodOfRhythm]

Sorry to have been so absent guys. I've been studying economic and corporational law, and this is about the only subject I have remote interest in this year, so I'm actually "studying" it.