TAEPER ESAELP, GNINEFAED SI EREH NWOD ESION EHT, YRROS

SORRY, THE NOISE DOWN HERE IS DEAFENING, PLEASE REPEAT

This is one of the generic responses, but it’s an interesting one. Where is the person speaking from? “Down here” suggests Necrum Mines, but was Necrum ever particularly noisy?

edit: It’s also worth noting that some of the responses are inside *** asterisks ***, but a lot aren’t. Are the ones that are of more significance somehow?

MOOLAH ----> *** I CAN HEAR YOU, BARELY... ***

I think that's one of the generic responses that wasn't listed in this thread.

Yeah it is.

Also:
SLIG BARRACKS - SNEAK!
SLIG - !NWOD TEG

It's cool they reference Mudomo and Mudanchee.


ALSO:

WEIRDOS >> SS* N- *FB SRHOKEOETR* N*TIL*UPMEOA S O *DEI

I can't work it out, how do I crack this one?

Interesting – I started spamming “human” and eventually got IYO *B.R*AA., *C. NL YAREHE**U *. This doesn’t match the pattern – it doesn’t make sense backwards or rotated through Caesar cipher. It looks like your code doesn’t match the pattern either.

Weirdos doesn’t seem to have a predefined response though, I checked it earlier.

Goodbye - Goodbye (I don't know what I expected)
Follow Me - I wish

Does it freeze up/lag for anyone else?

Yes it does for me, just refresh the page.

Also, Manco, help, fix it!

No clue, but I found another:

ORBPOSADU* OOEK L- SI* SIEE** S* NTHM* ETF RN

I got this by spamming a dud input.

I ran it through a generic cypher decypherererer and it came back with nowt.


e: Lorne doesn't come up with anything for me, but it's getting very slow now, anyone else?

Another mystery code:

**SAT-HII OR L O ETU*OES B PFO *NESS*NE * DRMK

Yep, like I said it's laggy over here. I wonder just how many people are spamming that poor webpage with random words right now. We already crashed the site once, I think.

Anything to me too.

I've a similar situation:

MONEY ---> RF*I** R * *N*Z , but i dunno how to decrypt it more

I thought I was onto something with "Bird" since the resulting string didn't respond to the 13-cipher, but it was just one of the generic wrong answers backwards. Dangit.

About the new kind of messages:

Notice all of them have 6 stars in each one. Just like this one:
I think someone messed up the order of the characters

WHAT IS SOULSTORM > FBHYFGBEZ? (SOULSTORM?)

Tried it with the 13-cipher, got ES*V** E * *A*M which can be rearranged into SAVE ME, but I could be doing the wrong cipher.

E: I wonder if there are any other anagram answers...

That’s a really good observation. We need to start shuffling the letters for those codes.

I fear it might be just generic responses with mixed order, looking at FennecFyre's post

**DUE-ALL OH I O REC*ORD X TWO *MRDD*MR * PHYS


Also I got: SS* N- *FB SRHOKEOETR* N*TIL*UPMEOA S O *DEI

to go to:
LL* Y-*UPLE FOR TO THE*Y* HAV*ING TO CLO*ST A

This totally looks like scrambled words

It’s possible, but we need to confirm. If it is, then it’s possible that future codes will use this cipher.

I've been trying strings in an anagram solver, but so far nothing, though they might just be too long or using made-up Oddworld-specific words.

Anagram solvers are usually for single words, not whole sentences, right? Also, it uses Oddworld-specific words that solvers don't know

That would prooobably explain it...

Okay so

I got that to this:

LL* Y-*UPLE FOR TO THE*Y* HAV*ING TO CLO*ST A

Removed the stars and the hash and got:

"LL YUPLE FOR TO THEY HAVING TO CLOST A"

So... All Yuple(?) for to they having to clost...

so a jumbled load of words as Varrok said?

Looking at all of these posts together – these codes might very well keep the individual words together and shuffle the letters within them.

Look at this:
Some of those definitely look like complete words. If that’s the case, then the anagrams can be solved by working on individual words at a time.

This is exciting! I feel like I'm helping.

The dash might play a part here.

Actually Varrok you might be right. I ran it through with the dash and it change completely:


SS N- FB SRHOKEOETR N TIL UPMEOA S O DEI

II A- DR INVOKLOLBN A BUT EMPLOY I O FLU

That sounds plausible to me. What cipher are we supposed to use for the initial decoding?

Y'know I really should be doing the reading for a class tomorrow but this far more interesting. FU, journalism class posing as an honors class.

E: "Blind" gave me another weird string! Anyone seen this one before?

EZ-A FU FO XGF*V * BR*AN*GBV*E FSBRCYR*R B HQ

I think I've come across that one, yeah.

Darnit, I thought I was contributing for a second there.

E: "Eye" got me:
*** I CAN HEAR YOU, BARELY... ***

Is that another generic answer? Yes it is I am dumb

Ran it through the cipher, got RM-N SH SB KTS*I * OE*NA*TOI*R SFOEPLE*E O UD

This looks promising, but I still can’t decipher it.


It is, sorry. I’m keeping track of all the answers found here: http://www.oddworldforums.net/showpo...8&postcount=95

I'm starting to wonder if some of these answers are just random gibberish. I tried "brew" but accidentally clicked twice. Both times gave me a different phrase each time, neither of which worked with the 13-cipher. Tried it a third time and got another broken sting.

E: It also gives me generic answers, so now I'm just confused.

EE: It doesn't respond to "Fart" either. If Soulstorm has no exploding controllable farts, I propose we riot.

I tried “necrum”. First it gave me a recognizable answer (“I can’t see you anymore”), then when I refreshed it gave me:

LFPR B.VA LBNA'EZGR HNR

Running this through the cipher 13 times gave me:

YSCE O.IN YOAN'RMTE UAE

Which can be rearranged to “I can’t see you anymore”.

I think that’s a positive for “scrambled versions of known messages”. All we need to do now is test if there’s any other codes hiding among them.

For shits n giggles I tried "Fuck you" which gives me: EU ON-ELPR OKAS RD*S*ES S***TOFB MIE H*IOTN which doesn't respond to the cesar cipher either. Trying to see what other answers I can get, though it keeps lagging for me.

E: Oh NOW it works. Yep, was just a generic-answer phrase. Carry on.

It always takes like 3 seconds to answer me regardless.

For anyone who's wondering why it takes so long to get replies, the javascript for it delays the request for 2.5 seconds.

http://www.oddworld.com/soulstorm/js/abereveal.js

This annoyed me so I just wrote a C# Console app that just sends requests through that.

Is there a way to cheat all the answers out?

Or at least drop the answer table?