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tothelightTHE BALLAD, CONTINUED
DAY 2
Chapter 4: From Anagramville to.... Predictable... Anagramville...
<Taiki> any new updates?
<Puppyzzz> we were deciding yesterday it could be a cipher
<Puppyzzz> discussing*
<Lelouch> I don't want to completely discount the cipher idea because I could be wrong but
<Puppyzzz> and I noticed delphinus's comment had this remark from Old Woman "You must see the pattern behind you, to know what threads come next."
<Lelouch> If it's a cipher, the letter frequency analysis should be off
<Taiki> Hmmm
<Puppyzzz> not really.
<Taiki> true...
<Lelouch> And it's not. It's pretty much 100% common
<Puppyzzz> there are ciphers that just rearrange the letters
<Puppyzzz> not substitute
<Puppyzzz> so the letter frequency wouldn't change at all.
<Claude> I was looking up possible ways that a cipher could be disguised with normal english letter frequencies though
<Claude> ...wait puppy when you say cipher
<Puppyzzz> uhm
<Claude> are you referring to 'there must be a pattern' in general
<Dera> The pattern behind is probably just a reference to the typical 'know your history to predict future occurences' :|a
<Claude> 8<a
<Puppyzzz> lemme find the page Mits linked yesterday
<Lelouch> That wouldn't really be a cipher . . . I mean, not like
<Katou> yeah the comment to Delphinus is one of the few that... seems to address the blanks
<Katou> BUT MAYBE IT DOESN'T
<Lelouch> A caesar shift or anything
<Katou> noidea
<Claude> DISCLAIMER
<Lelouch> I feel like it's highly unlikely that it's a cipher; but I think what you mean is that it could be a predictable anagram?
<Claude> <--- doesn't actually study cryptography stuff
<Claude> :<a
<Claude> yeah I think that's what they meant, lulu
<Puppyzzz> yeah I think that would be the more accurate word for it
* Lelouch nods.
<Puppyzzz> http://williamstallings.com/Extras/Security-Notes/lectures/classical.html <-- something like the rail fence cipher or row transposition ciphers
<Puppyzzz> but we kinda need a key to solve it. so idk
<Lelouch> Yeah, Puppy, I'd considered that
<Claude> ...
<Claude> maybe the scytale one...
<Claude> idk since it has associations with ancient greece and whatnot
<Claude> and sabra is derived from that :<a
<Lelouch> A lot of ciphers are associated with ancient greece . . .
<Lelouch> They really liked ciphers :|
<Claude> .....gdit greece
<Lelouch> haha
<Puppyzzz> o9"
* Uruki[work] is now known as Uruki
<Claude> if it really is a predictable anagram
* Claude can't stop eying at the long repeating consonant sections :|a
<Puppyzzz> on Cepheus's?
<Yoi-te> Uhoh, Zazzle's broken out the books
<Claude> not just cepheus's, and not just consonants
<Claude> like a lot of them have repeating vowel sections
<Lelouch> hahaha
* Lelouch cryptography nerd
<Claude> which you'd expect given vowels are used super frequently
<Lelouch> Although all I can really tell you is, like
<Lelouch> What it probably ISN'T
<Claude> I keep thinking it's the kind of code where you pluck out every nth letter from the original
<Lelouch> . . . hm
<Lelouch> That would work, Claude
<Lelouch> Actually
<Claude> ...
<Lelouch> I mean theoretically
<Puppyzzz> how do we try?
<Claude> does it look like the product of that kind of code?
<Claude> :<a
<Lelouch> Yes
<Lelouch> We can test it
<Lelouch> However there's still the issue of us not knowing whether to take each line separately or not :x
<Lelouch> So the number of possibilities is like . . . infinite
<Puppyzzz> i'm sort of running on the hunch of yes :x
<Claude> jace wrote me some simple java programs to recombine stuff that way :<b
<Jace> \o/
<Lelouch> . . . lol
<Puppyzzz> on the possibility of reading too much into things and I'm completely off base. whee \o\
<Claude> well, it'd be safer to take the lines as... meant to be combined but us not knowing the combination...
<Taiki> Sabra trains all of us to be expert code crackers.
* Puppyzzz is now known as Toboe
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Claude> IF WE COULD JUST PROVE A PARTICULAR N VALUE WORKED
<Lelouch> Y, Claude XD
<Claude> s-sob
<Lelouch> IF ONLY
<Claude> ...but first threads
<Claude> ._.
<Toboe> sob I spent so long last night trying to figure out a key for a predictable anagram. TT
<Claude> (if anyone wants jace's program he can ttly email it toyou o/)
<Toboe> program :O
<Jace> y, give me email addresses and I will email you java code
<Toboe> another thing I noticed (which is probably also reading too much into it idk) is hydra's code being the first and only one that doesn't have a comment from Old Woman.
<Dera> Hydra wasn't really talking TO her though. :|a
<Toboe> Jace, my email's zehroh at gmail \o\
<Toboe> Not a lot of people were when she gave them the code though
<Toboe> but she left comments for them
<Dera> idk, I think promptly dismissing it as a fractured replay of history could make her not want to bother :|a
<Toboe> idk the only reason this is bothering is cause of the message on Delphi's. :/
<Toboe> bothering me*
<Dera> And Excel did say we're overcomplicating it, so that seems like more complicating things. :|aa
* Toboe nods
* Toboe tosses that \o\
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Chapter 5: PREMONITION
<Uruki> I'm calling it now, when we figure it out
<Uruki> it'll be like
<Uruki> so obvious and simple
<Uruki> we'll all be like 'ooooh duuuuh jeez'
<Toboe> we'll all headdesk
<Toboe> yes.
<Jace> sent, Toboe
<Jace> there are instructions included
<Toboe> thank you \o\
<Jace> \o\
<Claude> looking for ways to derive 'Old Woman' out of hthe lines would be the best start
<Claude> since l, d, w and m are not as common letters
<Claude> let alone in sequence
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<Edward|puzzling> someone who knows more plot than me... what relation is Angel to the other Judges?
<Claude> One of King and Queen's children, I thiiiiiink URUKI what is Angel
<Claude> But she's one of the minor less plot-ish ones
<Claude> i.e. she's Uruki's baby
<Uruki> Angel is one of King and Queen's kids yeah
<Uruki> and she's minor
<Edward|puzzling> Kinda figured, but I have stray caps I'm trying to figure out... :|a Guess that's probably not it then.
<Claude> Arena might be the A
<Claude> ..or it could just be a sentence starter
<Uruki> I mean I'd be flattered and all if I were part of a spooky code but :|a it's not likely
<Edward|puzzling> Well, my caps are AWOO, which gives me Old Woman, a sentence starter and... a stray.
<Edward|puzzling> Because I have only one period in the section I'm working on.
<Lelouch> uh shit is happenin
<Edward|puzzling> It is?
<Lelouch> http://asylums.insanejournal.com/sabra_la_tau/236544.html
<Uruki> oh lawd
<Toboe> whee
<Edward|puzzling> ...Hah. Interesting.
<Claude> ...I don't think it's related |<a
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<Dean> guys
<Dean> I think I'm doing it wrong
<Dean> but ffff
<Dean> http://amazinghattrick.insanejournal.com/11997.html
<Claude> ooooh
<Toboe> ohh :o
<Edward|puzzling> I still don't know what to do with my extra capital letter...
<Uruki> eat it
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<Zero> ... I'm just here to cheer on you all.
<Edward|puzzling> ...doesn't taste good.
<Dean> I'm still counting out letters
<Dean> because I am 8|
<Dean> also crazy
<Toboe> dean do you want a site for that?
<Edward|puzzling> Dean don't bother with the section I'm doing, kay?
<Edward|puzzling> I can just give you my counts if you want.
<Dean> do they exclude capital le--... oh wait
<Dean> I already counted capitals
<Dean> hurhur
<Dean> I could just subtract
<Dean> toboe, please link
<Dean> though I am kind of having fun counting
<Dean> in a weird
<Dean> repetitive way
<Toboe> dean, http://www.characterfrequencyanalyzer.com/
<Toboe> it counts capital letters too
<Dean> o:
* Dean double-checks work
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<Dean> http://amazinghattrick.insanejournal.com/11997.html
<Dean> okay that took a bit longer than it should have ffff
<Uruki> god if it's an anagram and it's the whole thing together I have nooo idea where we'd start especially if the spaces are also anagrammed 8||
<Edward|puzzling> I'm just looking for words in my section that could be it.\
<Claude> I doubt it's a completely random anagram cause that'd just be unfair 8|a
<Edward|puzzling> Which... will probably take me a very long time but it's the best I can figure out.
<Claude> codes should be decipherable by people aware of the cipher
<Claude> or tech
<Claude> and a random anagram would be unreadable even by the person intended to have it :<a
<Edward|puzzling> I just somehow feel like this is intentionally mean.
<Claude> well it is lady's machination 8(
<Claude> BUT WE WILL TRIUMPH
<Toboe> I am doing a excel format file with all the letters to play with. if anyone wants them.
<Uruki> so if it's all one puzzle and it's an anagram could you assume that the spaces weren't random
<Edward|puzzling> I think they are though, because the section I'm playing with would have some very very long words, and a lot of one-letter ones together.
<Claude> yeah, what ed said
<Toboe> I think it's one whole message that got split into somewhat equal length and then anagramed.
<Edward|puzzling> I think it's something designed to make us all completely lose our minds.
<Toboe> and turns out have super simple solutions
<Taiki> giant word scramble :(aaa
<Toboe> mrr
<Claude> really I am super proud that the #nerdcave has this many people :<a
<Taiki> I think they wanted it to be hard
* Toboe sets mode: +ooo Claude Dean Zero
<Taiki> Because they were like, we'd get it too easy and it'd be bleh.
<Toboe> I agree with Uruki's dibs on the answer making us go "duuuh" though. orz
<Taiki> An anagram is an easy way to mix thigns up, but definitely very hard without anything else.
<Toboe> it has to be a predictable anagram though. it's seriously way too mean otherwise. :/
<Edward|puzzling> Yeah... it really is. There's so damn many combinations.
<Edward|puzzling> At least having the Judge names in there helps.
* Toboe nods
<Dean> well
<Dean> ...
<Dean> I am sticking to my deciphering thing
<Dean> ffff
<Uruki> ... well
<Uruki> there are 14 periods!! that means 14 sentences right
<Claude> ...
<Toboe> possibly :o
<Edward|puzzling> I'm sticking with my method for now... and hopefully something comes of it?
<Claude> there are 14 periods?
<Claude> I didn't count
* Toboe didn't count either
<Edward|puzzling> are there? There's one in mine... I'm really thinking more and more that the order is wrong.
<Uruki> idk I put it in the county webpagey thingy
<Claude> ....
<Claude> uhoooooo
<Claude> okay that supports 1 sentence per team
<Toboe> but hydra has at least 3 periods in theirs
<Taiki> And some had none?
<Edward|puzzling> ...dear God I think this just got worse.
<Toboe> h-haha
<Claude> so that means it really was scrambled as a single text
* Edward|puzzling headdesks
<Toboe> l-looks like it
* Toboe facepalms
<Claude> But.
<Claude> ...there aren't 14 of those eight point star things
<Edward|puzzling> So some of the sections would be more than one sentence long, then.
<Dean> there's 6
<Katou> IF those starts are dividing sections
<Edward|puzzling> I'm thinking the stars are dividing thoughts or bullet points rather than sentences.
<Dera> ...you guys I don't think it was scrambled as a complete text if it's an anagram.
<Dean> I did a tally with the whole passage, guys
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Chapter 6: ffffirst hint
<Dera> <Excel> I will say one thing: we are not so cruel that we would give you an anagram THAT LONG
<Dera> ^From Hydracula chan last night
<Taiki> oooh aaah
<Claude> well no not if it were an ANAGRAM
<Taiki> Thank you Dera
<Claude> so that means it has to have a pattern
<Claude> 8<a
<Uruki> this is just, this is my reaction to this entire code http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1269851264548.jpg
<Dera> I believe in you guysss
<Dera> HAHAH
<Claude> ...HAHAH
<Taiki> So, yeah, maybe a star to divide it up into the passages, with multiple sentences in each.
<Edward|puzzling> HAHHAH
<Claude> orz
<Taiki> LOL
<Claude> there has been a definite rearrangement of letters since that would generate those long strings of identical letters like the iiii and hhh
* Edward|puzzling is now known as Edward
<Toboe> We need to find a patterrnn. there has to be one ;;
<Claude> and there isn't likely to have been actual substitution done since we've all done the frequency analysis
<Dean> well it's not substitution. I have thankfully ruled that out
<Claude> and it's definitely english
<Toboe> ... oh god Uruki
<Uruki> if I squint it looks like a peanut
<Edward> Maybe using the Judge names could help clue us into a pattern?
<Claude> That's what I was thinking, Ed
<Dean> \o I've been doing that
<Uruki> to~bo~e?
<Toboe> ... that image. ;;
<Uruki> hahaa
<Edward> Yeah, Dean?
<Dean> well
<Claude> "Old Woman' would be our best bet since two cap letters makes it unlikely that one of them is really another word that just begins a sentence
<Dean> I've gotten Old Man, Old Woman, Flowers, and Trickster so far
<Dean> oh
<Dean> and Messenger
<Edward> I would say all of those are fair ones.
<Claude> ...how many capital letters are there in total?
<Uruki> those are most of the plotty judges, the other ones being like king and queen maybe but
<Claude> There's no K or Q
<Dean> A=1 B=1 F=1 H=1 M=4 O=11 T=7 W=5
<Dean> Claude
<Uruki> 31 capital letters? i think
<Claude> There 1 D you forgot, Dean
<Dean> ...
<Dean> goddamnit
<Claude> ...ilu
<Dean> I have it in the lower section where I break down the passages
<Dean> THERE
<Claude> so 32 capitals
<Claude> assuming 14 lines
<Dean> A=1 B=1 D=1 F=1 H=1 M=4 O=11 T=7 W=5
<Uruki> and 14 of those would be sentence-starters, so 18 proper nouns?
<Claude> then 18 of those capitals are proper nouns
<Claude> Yup!
<Dean> Old Man, Old Woman would be 4
<Claude> ......somehow this feels like completely useless info
<Edward> Flowers, Trickster, Messenger is three more.
<Claude> orz
<Uruki> haha
<Dean> 7
<Claude> because it doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the Ms and Ws could also be sentence starters
<Uruki> if you use up every permutation of Old Man and Old Woman you use up all 18 nouns which I think is unlikely
<Edward> Or some of the Os, even.
<Claude> like What or Where or May
<Uruki> since 5 w's, 4 m's, + an O for each = 18
<Dean> well see
<Claude> but I am thinking that where an O and a W are in close proximity it's likely there's an Old Woman in there
* Uruki adds vague useless info
<Claude> Like with Vulp's line
<Claude> there are two pairs of O and W
<Dean> one way you wouldn't always use up the Os Ws and Ms on the Old Man and Old Woman would be to do something like I did and go, "Old Man and Woman"
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Chapter 7: we didn't spend our entire day and night and day on this really
<Claude> ...YOI-TE is lulu crackin' at the books
<Claude> or flipping tables
<Taiki> Maybe throw in a few "the"s
<Yoi-te> She's ... cooking right now
<Claude> ...
<Edward> Right, and there's likely a couple of "a"s and "an"s.
<Claude> is she making alphabet soup
<Claude> I mean
<Yoi-te> So basically she's completely IC
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<Lelouch> We should do a secret cave post + picnic
<Taiki> ooo yes
<Lelouch> >DDD
<Edward> I've got a couple of days off coming up, I could start one tomorrow?
<Claude> we end up scrawling letters all over the walls
<Edward> Round up the smarties and stick them in the cave.
<Lelouch> HAHA
<Taiki> Hey yeah cave writing. Add to the walls, why not.
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<Edward> Fff... I'm going to take this wordlist with me to work tomorrow and see if maybe divine inspiration hits while I'm there.
<Jace|Greensid> divine inspiration \o/
<Edward> I CAN HOPE!
<Dean> ...
<Dean> well
<Dean> I was messing around with last bit after I separated out different parts...
<Edward> ...it's not like I do anything but play Pokemon on my breaks anyway.
<Dean> but idk
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<Lucy> ... so by the amount of people in here I'm guessing we didn't get anywhere overnight
<Claude> ...nope
<Uruki> nnnope
<Claude> apart from mining more stats about the text
<Edward> not especially no
<Lucy> orz
<Claude> orz
<Nabuca> I'm surprised there are no mods in here laughing
<Claude> well the hint we got from excel was uh
<Claude> actually i'll topic it
* Toboe sets mode: +ooo Claude Lucy Nabuca
<Toboe> now you can topic it
* Claude changes topic to '#nerdcave: BY OUR POWERS COMBINED | <Excel> I will say one thing: we are not so cruel that we would give you an anagram THAT LONG | http://www.characterfrequencyanalyzer.com/'
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Chapter 8: After Lady and Excel trolled with solutions in the main chan
<Katou> IS THAT A HINT ABOUT WHAT METHOD SHE'S USING
<Jace> that last word translates
<Jace> hang on
<Jace> E N T H U S E -> N E H T S U E
<Claude> I think we're being trolled
<Claude> 8/a
<Jace> IT'S POSSIBLE
<Jace> but
<Edward> I suspect for the most part.
<Edward> However.
<Katou> 8|a
<Edward> Lady> ONCE UPON A TIME I GAVE YOU A CLUE
<Jace> that's the clearest thing we have to work with yet, isn't it?
<Jace> it's a methodological clue
<Claude> yeah the question is
<Uruki> we're so being trolled
<Claude> what was the clue
<Jace> ....shit.
<Jace> EN->NE
<Claude> and can we look through like a shitload of judge posts for it
<Jace> TH->HT
<Claude> ...
<Jace> US->SU
<Jace> E
<Edward> ...I wish it was that easy :D
<Claude> No that doesn't make sense when you hit the multiple repeats
<Dean> ..................................
<Claude> but
<Claude> let's try it anyway 8<aaaa
<Jace> god dammit
<Lucy> I think they're just trolling
<Uruki> of course they're trolling
<Edward> ...Jace, your post had the comments that went with the code, right?
<Katou> is it like.. two, then three, then four?!
<Uruki> they're always trolling
<Jace> yes.
<Lucy> they can't see our pain and suffering in here ;;
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<Taiki> I keep seeing "Monoceros" in the enthuse sentence
<Dean> lol
<Edward> ...dammit too many tabs.
<Toboe> rewindow.
<Toboe> did we get trolled?
<Edward> "to play can promote growth, can stretch the mind" "You must see the pattern behind you to know what threads come next" "well give this a try then" "hero what are you seeking"
<Edward> Those would be the most coherent ones.
<Dean> ...
<Dean> Edward
<Dean> where is that
<Lucy> the what are you seeking line is from the previous old woman game I think
<Toboe> that's the comments that came with the codes, Dean
<Edward> http://blue-mind-group.insanejournal.com/14319.html#comments Toboe's comments here.
<Dean> oh
<Edward> Lucy, who's to say the clue isn't in that game?
<Lucy> sob
<Lucy> I'm not sure the mods have that kind of attention span :|a
<Edward> "you must see the pattern behind you"
<Katou> sobbb LADY GIVE US A REAL CLUE
<Katou> or tell us what the clue issssss
<Dean> the pattern behind U
<Lucy> someone link her to a log of this chan XDD
<Lucy> maybe she'll be amused enough to give us something
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Chapter 9: THE OVERLORDS APPEAR
<Claude|lunch> Toboe, send people the excel file you organized all the letters into, too
<Claude|lunch> it might be handy
<Toboe> I wonder if I can transfer this to gdocs
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<Claude|lunch> yeah gdocs it
<Claude|lunch> Lady are you here to revel in our suffering
<Claude|lunch> is that it
<Lady> CAN I BE HERE TO LAUGH AT YOUR PAIN?
<Claude|lunch> WELL YOU CAN'T
<Katou> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> 8(
* Jace sets mode: +v Lady
<Lady> awe you can even kick me here :')
<Uruki> oh man i figured it out
<Jace> TO THE VASE
<Claude|lunch> yeah but I didn't
<Taiki> XD
<Claude|lunch> because I love you secretly
<Claude|lunch> in my usual masochistic way
<Edward> |D
* Lady is set upon +v
<Uruki> i cracked the code
<Uruki> when you translate it
<Uruki> it comes out as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ78IlJs5JQ
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<Lucy> ... hi excel
<Uruki> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA this one works better
<Toboe> now excel's here
<Lucy> have you come to laugh at our pain
* Jace sets mode: +v Excel
<Toboe> oh god trololo
<Dean> ....
<Taiki> ooohoooo
<Dean> oh god
<Taiki> oonooooo
<Dean> EXCEL
<Excel> mostly I'm just curious as to just exactly how wrong you're doing it :|a
<Dean> HAVE YOU SEEN THE EFFORTS I'VE BEEN MAKING?
<Excel> yeah, it's gone from being funny to kinda painful
<Taiki> See the posts hahaha
<Claude|lunch> well we've mostly thrown the giant random anagram theory out
<Lucy> do you want a log of most of what we've looked at
<Dean> I do know it's an anagram :|
<Claude|lunch> and we're mostly sure it's not letter substitution
<Taiki> Enjoy our suffering
<Lady> DO YOU DEAN?
<Lady> IS THAT WHAT YOU KNOW?
<Claude|lunch> It's not a RANDOM anagram
<Excel> DO YOU REALY?
<Katou> they don't need to know how excruciating our pain is
<Uruki> we're just kind of pawing at the letters
<Dean> SHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
<Lady> BECAUSE
<Lucy> I do like that we can kick them in this chan though
<Lady> ONCE UPON A TIME
<Excel> I know we're dicks but
<Lady> I GAVE YOU A CLUE
<Claude|lunch> YES WELL
<Excel> are we really big enough dicks to give you an anagram THAT LOGN?
<Edward> POSSIBLY?
<Lucy> you did say it was difficult to give us a challenge
<Claude|lunch> ...THAT INVOLVES THREAD MINING
<Uruki> basically this is us: http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1269851264548.jpg
<Uruki> and this is you: http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1266787867134.jpg
<Claude|lunch> uruki sums it up
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<Jace> That wasn't what Ruby meant to do!
<Claude|lunch> HAHAHAH
<Jace> That wasn't what Ruby meant to do at all!
<Uruki> THAT WASN'T WHAT RUBY MEANT TO DO AT ALL
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<Lucy> excel I think we spent like 12 hours trying to come up with phrases out of each section randomly and then gave that up and decided to try find a pattern
<Lady> its the applause track
<Lucy> or something like that
<Claude|lunch> I had Jace write a few programs to pick out letters by every nth spacing 8|a
<Claude|lunch> there are you satisfied
* Jace is helpful coder \o/
<Claude|lunch> SATISFIED BY YOUR HAVOC
<Toboe> anyone who wants that excel file: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtHAtg33_TOHdDl3ZmJKNU1tVmw3WGhNSGFLTnVDcFE&hl=en&authkey=CJH106oO#gid=0
<Uruki> and when one of us figures it out it'll be http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1267168200543.png
<Toboe> hahaha
<Lucy> I feel we have all learned a lot about decryption programs and websites that count letters
<Claude|lunch> yes
<Dean> hahahaa
<Uruki> and ten http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/126084989439.jpg
<Edward> We have at that.
<Dean> I-I'm not even sure if I understand Lady's clue
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Taiki> I think the clue is that line is by itself and an anagram :(?
<Claude|lunch> katou tell them what you told me
<Katou> NO IT'S EMBARRASSING
<Katou> CHECK IT FIRST
<Claude|lunch> NO IT'S NOT
<Katou> YES IT IS
<Claude|lunch> IT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY POSSIBLE
<Dera> ....
<Katou> ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
<Uruki> now we're gettin all shy because the mods are up ins
<Dera> Maybe there should just be a magical prophet :|a
<Lady> d-do we need to leave?
<Uruki> k-kyaa don't look at my clue
<Katou> yes, just for a second
<Lady> WE ACTUALLY ARE COMPLETELY FLOORED BY YOUR DEDICATION
<Katou> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Lady> and we cackle because we love you
<Uruki> (let them stay they might let something slip)
<Claude|lunch> (yeah)
* Lady dewindows
<Katou> :(
<Claude|lunch> :(
<Lelouch> Holy crap is stuff happening
<Claude|lunch> WE ARE THIS DEDICATED BECAUSE WE LOVE YOUR GAME
<Lelouch> What did I miss
<Katou> DID YOU CHECK YET CLAUDE
<Claude|lunch> I AM CHECKING
<Claude|lunch> AND...I WOULD APPRECIATE MORE THAN JUST ME CHECKING
<Lucy> the mods are impressed by our dedication lulu
<Claude|lunch> ;;
<Katou> o fine
<Lucy> I don't think they thought it would take us this long
<Katou> idk what if it would even reveal a pattern or just dumb
<Claude|lunch> I don't think they thought we'd stick at it this long
<Katou> "DOES IT START WITH ONCE UPON A TIME??" <--
<Lucy> yeah
<Claude|lunch> clearly they underestimated our ocd
<Lucy> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Claude|lunch> well
<Nabuca|food> I have been trying to get out the once upon a time too Katou
<Claude|lunch> they should know about mine by now
<Lucy> and the fact that we can work in shifts
<Claude|lunch> given what happened last time
<Edward> And that there's so many of us.
<Claude|lunch> I HAVE COMPANY ;;
<Katou> Are we all finally using gdocs
<Claude|lunch> ON THIS RIDE
<Nabuca|food> Also Lacerta's starts with "*star* The Old Woman" I am 98% sure of >8|a
<Katou> is that what we've resorted to?
<Taiki> HI LULU
<Lelouch> I haven't been working on it forever
<Lelouch> I overate at dinner
<Lelouch> And I'm just like
<Lelouch> hurrrr
* Lelouch cannot think
<Katou> but where did the letters come from
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<Excel> ...I see you topiced that thing I said in the chan the other night before proceeding to do anagrams for a whole day
<Excel> I should have made a venn diagram instead
<Excel> (things that are anagrams) (the code)
<Toboe> that one only came up today Excel
<Lucy> no we did anagrams all day just after the game
<Claude|lunch> no see we only got that quote from you today excel
<Excel> didn't I say that in Hydracula last night?
<Lucy> I think we gave up on anagrams already
<Excel> oh okay
<Toboe> the moontimers gave up on anagrams last night XD;;
<Lucy> yeah XD
<Lucy> we did
<Toboe> ... god we are so working in shifts aren't we
<Taiki> I was still trying to anagram :(
<Dera> Yeah I only told them about it after there was mention of the whole thing being jumbled at once maybe :|a
<Excel> man you guys are going to hate us even more than you probably already do when you figure this out
<Claude|lunch> and we've only topiced stuff today so some ground was probably rethreaded
<Katou> we figured we would :|a
<Claude|lunch> ...yeah :|a
<Katou> We're prepared
<Toboe> Yep. we kinda figured we would
<Lucy> yeah
<Claude|lunch> either because it's completely dumb info or already known info
<Toboe> We're armed with forks and stuff
<Lucy> I know I always go for the more complicated thing when the answer's really simple
<Claude|lunch> or filled with garbage
<Toboe> or it's something obvious we keep missing. <_<;
<Lucy> yeah
<Katou> WELL IF IT'S NOT AN ANAGRAM OR A SHIFT OR WHATEVER WHAT IS IT
<Katou> I have no idea what the other options are
<Claude|lunch> IT'S PROBABLY JUST A SHIFT IN THE END
<Claude|lunch> no wait what is a shift
<Claude|lunch> what do you mean by shift
<Claude|lunch> idk standard terminology
<Excel> I don't even know what a shit is! :Db
<Excel> ...shift
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<Lady> IT'S A SHIFT _AND_ AND ANAGRAM
<Lady> WITH NO KEY
<Lucy> WE ALREADY TRIED THAT FOR A DAY LADY :(
<Katou> 8|a
<Lady> lolo
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Chapter 10: FINAL COUNTDOWN (IN WHICH LADY BEATS #NERDCAVE WITH CLUES)
<Taiki> Has anyone tried picking out every, like, 14th letter or something like that :( arg too long
<Excel> once you've solved the shift and the anagram it's an ascii picture!
<Lady> here I will tell you one thing
<Jace> Yes, Taiki
<Lelouch> IT'S A MAGIC EYE
<Claude|lunch> IT'S PROBABLY NOT A SHIFT WE RAN FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
<Uruki> Ha, I already knew it was a magic eye!
<Lelouch> >DDD
<Jace> I wrote a program
<Claude|lunch> ...magic eye
<Lady> there is something innacurate about Toboe's spreadsheet
<Taiki> ooh
<Yoi-te> IT'S AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
<Claude|lunch> k lulu this is your job
<Dean> ...
<Toboe> :O
<Katou> baw
<Dean> T-toboe
<Taiki> THAT COULD BE ANything
<Toboe> what.
<Edward> ...ohhoh.
<Lucy> there aren't actually any letters
<Uruki> When you stare at it too long trickster's mask pops out
<Edward> hm.
<Lucy> in the messages
<Lucy> it's an optical illusion
<Taiki> hahaha
<Toboe> SOMEONE FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MEANS.
<Claude|lunch> illuuuuuuusion
<Dean> kldfjaskfjd
<Yoi-te> Actually, there's no messages at all
<Yoi-te> we only thought that post happened.
<Lucy> yeah
<Claude|lunch> it was all a dream
<Claude|lunch> INCEPTION.
<Yoi-te> We have to go deeper.
<Dean> CLEARLY, THE PLOT IS TO DRIVE US MAD
<Toboe> to Limbo!
<Dean> ... I haven't seen Inception yet
<Lucy> ... I think we've all slept since the game
<Toboe> We're all in limbo.
<Lucy> DID ANYONE DREAM A SOLUTION :(
<Claude|lunch> maybe we should get rid of the spaces in Toboe's file
<Lucy> you should dean :3 it's awesome
* Jace is now known as Souji^Mikage
<Toboe> ...
<Edward> I DID... not.
<Lucy> I only saw it the other night
<Katou> :|a...
<Toboe> Hang on
<Souji^Mikage> Deeper. Go deeper.
<Toboe> let me just
<Taiki> needle needle needle thread. haystack
<Toboe> make that file editable
* Souji^Mikage gives Yoi-te a black rose
<Lady> so there's something wrong with your speadsheet
<Dean> Lucy, I keep planning to
* Souji^Mikage and some incest.
<Lady> but a spreadsheet in theory is a very good idea
* Souji^Mikage is now known as Jace
<Uruki> I read that as 'spergsheet' at first
<Dean> ...
* Yoi-te faints and produces a... finger from his chest
<Uruki> and saw nothing wrong with it
<Dean> GET RID OF THE SPACES, TOBOE
<Yoi-te> idk these are my weapons
<Dean> idk
<Claude|lunch> EITHER GET RID OF THE SPACSE
<Claude|lunch> SPACSE
<Claude|lunch> *spaces
<Taiki> hm
<Dean> ...
<Claude|lunch> ...gdit
<Uruki> claude is overstimulated
<Edward> ...I need sleep. I need to know what's happening. I think tonight, the computer stays on... |D
* Jace gently pats Claude
<Toboe> ... holy shit there are so many people watching that file
<Toboe> sob
* Toboe edits
<Claude|lunch> GET RID OF THE SPACES OR REARRANGE THE LINES
<Yoi-te> ....Jace did you just give me some incest with my psychological damage rose
<Lady> OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD
<Katou> (as long as it's not the order we got the lines in that's the problem I'll be happy)
* Edward is now known as Edward|zzz
<Jace> why yes I did
<Yoi-te> Well I do have a brother
<Jace> it's kind of a theme
<Jace> in that series
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Claude|lunch> wait
<Claude|lunch> fuck
<Claude|lunch> I HAVE IT
<Claude|lunch> I THINK I HAVE IT
<Yoi-te> Oh yes Jace <3 I love it dearly
<Katou> CLAUDE
<Yoi-te> CLAUDE
<Yoi-te> WHAT IS IT
<Uruki> did you solve it please say you did
<Edward|zzz> CLAUDE
<Yoi-te> TELL US
<Yoi-te> WHAT IS IT
<Claude|lunch> GIVE ME FIVE MINUTEs
<Katou> sob...
<Excel> 8U!
<Dera> Can I believe in your magical avatar status now
<Edward|zzz> I CAN'T SLEEP NOW!
<Uruki> NO
* Yoi-te edge of seat!!!
<Jace> It was one of my very first animes, yoi-te :D
<Jace> ...
<Yoi-te> Mine too Jace
* Edward|zzz is now known as Edward
<Uruki> YOU CAN'T HAVE FIVE MINUTES
* Jace OMG
<Dera> GIVE ME A REASON TO BELIEVE IN YOUR MAGIC BRO
* Jace DRUMROLLLLLLLLLLLL
<Dean> ....
<Dean> WAHT
* Uruki plays the final countdown
* Lady plays trololo some more
* Lady and then some Mumford and Sons
* Jace is listening to 050 00 Karma Slave
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<Toboe> someone help me edit too or it'll take me forever
* Toboe changes setting
<Katou> are we just getting rid of spaces
<Toboe> yeah I think so
<Uruki> idk
<Katou> CLAUDE?
<Taiki> Why not paste into a word doc
<Taiki> or er text
<Toboe> I have it in text format too
<Toboe> ... and word format.
<Toboe> I made a spreadsheet for it cause it might be easier idk
<Katou> I'm not sure what we're doing
<Taiki> idk either
<Toboe> remove the spaces and see if it helps anything?
<Toboe> don't worry about messing up the file. I still have the original copy
<Taiki> maybe if you take out all the spaces and arainge them in a block you could read it sideways or diagnally or up and down
<Toboe> hrm
<Katou> :/a
<Claude|lunch> ....
<Claude|lunch> so close
<Claude|lunch> but my brain is failing
<Claude|lunch> okay
<Claude|lunch> guys
<Claude|lunch> first letters of all the lines
<Claude|lunch> you can spell 'once upon a ti'
<Claude|lunch> with the spaces included
<Claude|lunch> is 14 letters
<Jace> Claude, give me an algorithms and I'll finish your job
<Claude|lunch> take it from there I'm passing out
<Dera> ...oho
<Excel> everyone hold on
<Claude|lunch> rearrange
<Lady> so hey guys :D;;;;
<Lady> g-guess what
<Claude|lunch> and there's an error in the spaces
<Claude|lunch> somewhere
<Claude|lunch> cause it don't jive
<Dera> Lady?
<Jace> ?
<Toboe> ??
<Lady> WHO WANTS A TEXT FILE
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<Dera> :D ME
<Toboe> TEXT FILE \o/
<Lady> OK ONLY DERA GETS IT
<Excel> lolo spaces
<Toboe> sob
<Claude|lunch> orz
<Claude|lunch> ANTICLIMAX
<Toboe> cry cry
<Dera> wut really
* Jace makes sad eyes at Lady
<Uruki> pffhahaha
<Edward> ...
<Taiki> me
* Dera MAGICAL PROPHET? :|a
<Lelouch> . . .
<Lelouch> WAIT WHAT
<Jace> if someone gives me a text file with stuff in the right order
<Claude|lunch> "Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman
<Jace> all the lines
<Taiki> where did you get the m? :(
<Edward> ...Claude... <3
<Jace> I will have this translated fast.
<Excel> ...ok hold on I have to do it because I don't have a mac
<Tokitoh> where did you get the m, Claude?
<Toboe> wait what's going on now
<Lelouch> Where did you get the m??
<Lady> WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FUCKING M CLAUDE
<Lady> TELL ME
<Uruki> BUT WHO WAS PHONE?!
<Lady> TELL ME WHERE THE M CAME FROM
<Lelouch> HAHAHA
* Jace is listening to 05Poor Unfortunate Souls by 03Jonas Brothers from 10The Little Mermaid
<Lady> ANSWER GOD DAMN YOU
<Yoi-te> rr
<Yoi-te> rfoe
<Lelouch> . . .
<Dera> ...
<Yoi-te> I hit a lot of rs in my smash
<Taiki> ashk
<Claude|lunch> Pavo
<Lady> (AH YES, ONCE MORE, FAIL SNATCHED FROM THE JAWS OF WIN)
<Claude|lunch> second letter
<Lelouch> See, I did that like yesterday but I got "once upon a titll"
<Tokitoh> yeah, there's an extra t
<Lelouch> XDDDD
<Tokitoh> it's not the m that's missing pers ay
<Uruki> once upon a tits
<Taiki> was there an extra space
<Tokitoh> but an extra t is in there
<Taiki> somewhere
<Claude|lunch> no see
<Taiki> in the beginnings?
<Tokitoh> and a missing space
<Claude|lunch> the me in time
<Claude|lunch> is back at the first line again
<Uruki> I want to see the textfile that dera gets
<Dera> I don't have it yet :|a
<Tokitoh> no, Claude, I see where you get the m, but there's still an extra t
<Uruki> http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1268730433527.jpg my face right now
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> I'm trying to rearrange the extra two lines so that there's a space at the beginning
<Dera> ...I love your images Uruki
<Tokitoh> and a missing space
<Tokitoh> I guess that's where the spacing comes in
<Lelouch> Ohhhh
<Tokitoh> so that t goes to the second line
<Excel> ok you know what
<Tokitoh> because it probably shoul've been a space
<Lelouch> XD
<Excel> yes
<Excel> and some other spaces are missing due to html
<Excel> and I'm hunting down the original copy :|||
<Taiki> WELL WOO.
<Tokitoh> right right
<Lelouch> . . .
<Tokitoh> and that's essential because we don't know which line the t is misplaced in
<Lelouch> so are we saying there were spaces missing
<Lelouch> the whole time
<Tokitoh> spaces were misplaced
<Toboe> ...
<Taiki> orz
<Toboe> oh god
<Lady> NO U!!!
* Lelouch flips table
<Lady> SHUT UP!!!
* Lelouch FLIPS TABLES
* Katou also flips table
<Uruki> okay I know we said we were prepared for how much we'd hate you
* Lelouch TABLES FIGHT IN MIDAIR
<Dean> ...
* Lady c-counter-flips
<Excel> you were still doing it wrong
* Claude|lunch FLIPS TABLES
<Dera> ...sob >D
<Lady> YEAH
* Edward almost has the lines ordered
<Taiki> ( /'v')/ ||___||
<Lady> SHE"S RIGHT YOU WERE STILL DOING IT WRONG 8|
<Dean> orz
* Yoi-te spinkicks table
<Taiki> IT's true
<Lucy> ... were we seriously expecting there not to be any mistakes in the encoding
* Lelouch POINTS AT THE TABLE
<Katou> but were we doing it wrong because doing it right wasn't working XD
<Lady> ((>o_o))>||=
* Yoi-te also points at the table
<Yoi-te> * TABLE EXPLODES
<Claude|lunch> "Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman found
<Tokitoh> ...
<Tokitoh> osnap
<Katou> claudeeee
<Claude|lunch> ...some letters are scrambled in that
<Claude|lunch> but
<Claude|lunch> I'm making a guess
<Lucy> claude what are you doing to get that?
<Katou> XD
<Excel> oh fuggit I'm just gonna paste it in
<Uruki> what did they find!! auuughghghh
<Toboe> fdgks
<Edward> found each other
<Lelouch> XDDD
<Lady> (CLAUDE IS DOING YOUR MOM TO GET THAT LUCY)
<Uruki> is this judge hentai fiction
<Claude|lunch> --yes ed
<Uruki> is it going to end with '... and that's where baby judges come from'
<Edward> Oh this... love?
<Edward> Yes, love.
<Yoi-te> It reads: what is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.
<Katou> brreeeakthrrrouugh
<Uruki> it reads: the old man and the old woman will never give you up
<Jace> well, if there's one thing I've gotten good at recently it's sprint-coding :|a
<Tokitoh> never let you down
<Edward> Oh this love, they had many children
<Claude|lunch> no wait
<Tokitoh> never run around and desert you
<Claude|lunch> hang on
<Tokitoh> never make you cry
<Tokitoh> never say goodbye
<Edward> Of this love, misplaced space again.
<Tokitoh> never tell a lie
<Tokitoh> and hurt you
<Jace> whoever gets a complete translation, give me an email address I can send a Java applet to.
<Lelouch> >DDD
<Jace> er, complete set.
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<Excel> c,am saew.e yddlvhoetdetsr,aldnsrs lhyg inii es ovdh a emptrreOeaahuhhgerdlno
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<Excel> tdntl ,sTlo ctrr e,ee oiswkdt tahrlgnlhe huvdfes?lh u.noa afdOhmsdyrepcW es
<Excel> uh hom ehorihheyw niso he,hlw.needeededhttmer a Tdett?'dnada lese sw eoMbdg
<Excel> petfevap erlnien omaf,nenaad eoh?y nrn ah.bsetnwhryh Tsedn cMdd nd, i mauiuw
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<Excel> adOdOtcr eonreant ttrrsTbld etal s otta cnie hagh icicyOgnraof mthhd doht aoHo.
<Excel> l fhhfcrfdnndt hoh enthee tyomokttfi,nMoyr aecresrreo le ygs aa iiii nehtsue
<Excel> tMde eiuae ,, ioafec aeawcue enn h o ansln kemcsidufdrl.estsnhmnenag eh l f
<Excel> ia atylln tt clfd yhlbn s,rrst gecemntansutads asate la i h e. . n.e eddhe
<Dean> ...
<Lelouch> . . .
<Toboe> ....
<Dera> ....oh it's even in order now
* Katou goes find the log
<Lelouch> so there were initial spaces and that's why it wouldn't work
<Claude|lunch> not just initial spaces
<Dean> yeah
* Lelouch s-sighs.
<Tokitoh> oh
<Lelouch> and double spaces
<Yoi-te> yeah HTML hates those
<Katou> haha
<Yoi-te> you have to manually code them in
<Excel> see, it's not that we don't KNOW that
<Tokitoh> Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman found each other.
<Excel> I don't know how we managed to forget that, but I blame the fact that we had two pages of people to reply to within about a half hour
* Katou nods
<Lelouch> XD
<Lelouch> SIGH
<Excel> it's like running a freaking cfud post
<Tokitoh> Of this love, they had many children, powerful, wise and
<Katou> the unfortunate thing is that Ed and Link and Rabi should have been able to see this on the page as they copied it down
<Lady> I would say the fact that there were TEN MILLION threads
<Lelouch> Well I can feel mildly vindicated that I figured out the way to decipher it yesterday XD just
<Excel> ten million
<Lady> so really
<Edward> Well... mine was in the wrong order, in my defense?
<Lelouch> Lady, Excel, it happens
<Lady> our incompetence is your fault
<Lady> :|a
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Excel> in general yes
<Tokitoh> you could have just made one thread? :|a
<Katou> hahaha
<Katou> Naw
<Lelouch> I've run like fifty million puzzles and ciphers and I still frequently make little mistakes
<Excel> coulda woulda shoudla
<Lelouch> And then my players want to lynch me
<Excel> even if it were just one thread
<Katou> it wouldn't have been fun like that
<Excel> there'd be a million people in it
<Lelouch> XD
* Taiki sits on Lelouch
<Lelouch> dfsljahd
<Katou> IT'S OKAY PAIN IS OVER
<Excel> okay though, what is the html to post something with the spacing exactly
<Lucy> lulu I still kind of want to lynch you for that one sekirei game
<Lelouch> HAHA
<Yoi-te> Well the thing is honey usually you're like
<Katou>
<Yoi-te> *GIVES CLUE
<Lucy> AND THAT DIDN'T HAVE A MISTAKE
<Excel> do you know what I'm talking about
<Yoi-te> * GOES TO BED / WORK
* Lelouch GOES TO SLEEP
<Lelouch> hahahaha
<Yoi-te> HAHA
<Yoi-te> yes
<Excel> nononono not &nsbsp
<Taiki> Curse your ancestors and may your children develop polyps!!
<Yoi-te> and then I'm like
<Excel> I'm way too lazy for that
<Yoi-te> HONEY WAKE UP
<Katou> haha
<Yoi-te> I THINK THERE'S A MISTAKE IN THE CLUE
<Jace> GOT SOMETHING
<Uruki> Ithink you could just go <code> </code>
<Yoi-te> and you're like nnnnnnnnnnnnno there isnt'ttt go way
<Excel> that one
<Lelouch> hahahaha
<Yoi-te> only then there is
<Lelouch> i dont'makemistakessss
* Excel really honestly isn't an idiot
<Yoi-te> and everyone's exploding
<Tokitoh> hahaha
<Edward> SHARE IT JACE
<Jace> "Once upon a time the old man and the old woman found each other
<Yoi-te> and I'm like HONEY HONEY WE NEED SOME DAMAGE CONTROL
<Taiki> Woo hoo!
<Yoi-te> and you're like stfuuuuuuu i've only had 16 hours todaaaaay
* Yoi-te was kicked by Lelouch (Lelouch)
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<Taiki> XD
<Jace> Oh, this love, they had many children, powerful, wise and canny
<Tokitoh> Of this love
<Excel> <code> doesn't work
<Jace> They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children, until every part of the world had some mark of them, and .....crap, repetitive error
<Excel> I swear there was a tag to do that
<Jace> DAMMIT
<Jace> DEBUG TIME
<Uruki> i think there is but if it's not <code> I don't remember it
<Katou> :|a could you use the <text> one?
* Edward starts looking manually while Jace debugs
<Tokitoh> Edward I'm already on it
<Uruki> heh, looks like your fancy technology isn't doing so well
<Excel> nope
<Excel> I love you guys but not enough to manually fix all the spacing
<Claude|lunch> ...oh are there people piecing it together now
<Edward> More eyes doesn't hurt, I'm stuck awake now anyway. :D
<Claude|lunch> yay
<Excel> maybe if I find replace
* Claude|lunch curls on the carpet
<Claude|lunch> lady I'm gunna kill you someday
<Lady> DID YOU RIKE IT :)?
<Toboe> I'm shifting my spreadsheet too @@
<Taiki> 8)
* Uruki pets claude
<Tokitoh> They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children, until every part of the world had them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn
* Lelouch flips a table onto Lady
<Yoi-te> ...Lelouch can't flip stables
<Yoi-te> it's more like
<Lelouch> . . . stables
<Lucy> ...
<Yoi-te> shut up
<Jace> ONE SEC it's not a buhg
<Claude|lunch> Vulp, Corvus, Orion, Pyxis, Lacerta, Lynx, Mono, Delp, Cyg, Lepus, Ceph, Canis, Pavo, Hydrao
<Yoi-te> * Lelouch attempts to flip table, strains his back
<Jace> it's the spacing
<Claude|lunch> toboe
<Lelouch> HORSES D:
<Jace> I am fixing it where it arises
<Taiki> it's not a bug -> IT'S NOT A TUMAH
<Lelouch> :( ||___||~
<Yoi-te> it's christmas?
<Lelouch> That's an upside down horse
<Tokitoh> until every part of the world had them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn
<Tokitoh> by those distant scions. The birds and beasts, what flew, wakled and crawled, all turned their
<Tokitoh> eyes and love to those who came first.
<Claude|lunch> End second line.
<Excel> <textarea>!!!
<Excel> that's the one
<Katou> THAT'S THE ONE
<Uruki> so how did we get from IT'S MACHINE CODE to 'once upon a time in a land far far away'
<Katou> I was trying to remember what I did...
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Uruki> I like was here the whole time but I don't get how the breakthrough was made
<Yoi-te> Spacing lines up letters
<Katou> it's vertical isn't it?
<Uruki> oh. ok
<Lucy> .... oh my god
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Katou> So I guess Ed and Link can just like, smack their foreheads and be like "OH IT NEEDS SPACES"
<Edward> REORDER AND ADD SPACES AND OH GOD SO OBVIOUS
<Lelouch> I have an idea, Link?
<Lelouch> For how they can figure it out ICly?
<Katou> [cuts out all the chunks of paper and move things around]
<Uruki> well they could have just copied it down in the wrong order at first and then experimented with different orders and be like OH. DUH.
<Lucy> we did come up with some pretty cool anagrams though
<Excel> http://asylums.insanejournal.com/sabra_la_ooc/80085.html ok try that
<Excel> though if that doesn't work
<Jace> Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman found each other.?Of this love, they had many children, powerful, wise and canny. They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children, until every part of the world had some mark of them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn by those distant scions. The birds and beasts, what flew, walked and crawled, all turned their eyes and love to those who cam
<Tokitoh> They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children,
<Tokitoh> until every part of the world had them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn
<Tokitoh> by those distant scions. The birds and beasts, what flew, wakled and crawled, all turned their
<Tokitoh> eyes and love to those who came first. As long as anyone knew, the first children or the children
<Tokitoh> of many generations gone past, the Old Woman and the Old Man lived in constant harmony-until the first fight.
<Yoi-te> IRC cuts that off, Jace
<Jace> augh
<Yoi-te> n/m
<Yoi-te> you fixed it
<Katou> :|b
<Taiki> ooo yay
<Katou> Jace use the post
<Edward> :D
<Jace> POSTED
<Jace> there's one spacing error left
<Jace> but
<Jace> I think you guys get the idea
<Jace> let me see if I can refine!
<Tokitoh> where'd you post?
<Jace> Reply to Excel's post.
* Edward continues doing it by hand to compensate for code errors
* Toboe is doing it by hand
<Toboe> I'll upload the new spreadsheet. also ow. my eyes
<Taiki> he begun to feed as well?
<Taiki> ominous 8U
<Katou> Lelouch, suggestions you said?
<Tokitoh> I've almsot got it alled typed out
<Tokitoh> Edward
<Tokitoh> I'm doing that
<Tokitoh> I'm almost done
<Edward> Yeah?
<Jace> TRUE RESULT
<Jace> POSTED
DAY 2
Chapter 4: From Anagramville to.... Predictable... Anagramville...
<Taiki> any new updates?
<Puppyzzz> we were deciding yesterday it could be a cipher
<Puppyzzz> discussing*
<Lelouch> I don't want to completely discount the cipher idea because I could be wrong but
<Puppyzzz> and I noticed delphinus's comment had this remark from Old Woman "You must see the pattern behind you, to know what threads come next."
<Lelouch> If it's a cipher, the letter frequency analysis should be off
<Taiki> Hmmm
<Puppyzzz> not really.
<Taiki> true...
<Lelouch> And it's not. It's pretty much 100% common
<Puppyzzz> there are ciphers that just rearrange the letters
<Puppyzzz> not substitute
<Puppyzzz> so the letter frequency wouldn't change at all.
<Claude> I was looking up possible ways that a cipher could be disguised with normal english letter frequencies though
<Claude> ...wait puppy when you say cipher
<Puppyzzz> uhm
<Claude> are you referring to 'there must be a pattern' in general
<Dera> The pattern behind is probably just a reference to the typical 'know your history to predict future occurences' :|a
<Claude> 8<a
<Puppyzzz> lemme find the page Mits linked yesterday
<Lelouch> That wouldn't really be a cipher . . . I mean, not like
<Katou> yeah the comment to Delphinus is one of the few that... seems to address the blanks
<Katou> BUT MAYBE IT DOESN'T
<Lelouch> A caesar shift or anything
<Katou> noidea
<Claude> DISCLAIMER
<Lelouch> I feel like it's highly unlikely that it's a cipher; but I think what you mean is that it could be a predictable anagram?
<Claude> <--- doesn't actually study cryptography stuff
<Claude> :<a
<Claude> yeah I think that's what they meant, lulu
<Puppyzzz> yeah I think that would be the more accurate word for it
* Lelouch nods.
<Puppyzzz> http://williamstallings.com/Extras/Security-Notes/lectures/classical.html <-- something like the rail fence cipher or row transposition ciphers
<Puppyzzz> but we kinda need a key to solve it. so idk
<Lelouch> Yeah, Puppy, I'd considered that
<Claude> ...
<Claude> maybe the scytale one...
<Claude> idk since it has associations with ancient greece and whatnot
<Claude> and sabra is derived from that :<a
<Lelouch> A lot of ciphers are associated with ancient greece . . .
<Lelouch> They really liked ciphers :|
<Claude> .....gdit greece
<Lelouch> haha
<Puppyzzz> o9"
* Uruki[work] is now known as Uruki
<Claude> if it really is a predictable anagram
* Claude can't stop eying at the long repeating consonant sections :|a
<Puppyzzz> on Cepheus's?
<Yoi-te> Uhoh, Zazzle's broken out the books
<Claude> not just cepheus's, and not just consonants
<Claude> like a lot of them have repeating vowel sections
<Lelouch> hahaha
* Lelouch cryptography nerd
<Claude> which you'd expect given vowels are used super frequently
<Lelouch> Although all I can really tell you is, like
<Lelouch> What it probably ISN'T
<Claude> I keep thinking it's the kind of code where you pluck out every nth letter from the original
<Lelouch> . . . hm
<Lelouch> That would work, Claude
<Lelouch> Actually
<Claude> ...
<Lelouch> I mean theoretically
<Puppyzzz> how do we try?
<Claude> does it look like the product of that kind of code?
<Claude> :<a
<Lelouch> Yes
<Lelouch> We can test it
<Lelouch> However there's still the issue of us not knowing whether to take each line separately or not :x
<Lelouch> So the number of possibilities is like . . . infinite
<Puppyzzz> i'm sort of running on the hunch of yes :x
<Claude> jace wrote me some simple java programs to recombine stuff that way :<b
<Jace> \o/
<Lelouch> . . . lol
<Puppyzzz> on the possibility of reading too much into things and I'm completely off base. whee \o\
<Claude> well, it'd be safer to take the lines as... meant to be combined but us not knowing the combination...
<Taiki> Sabra trains all of us to be expert code crackers.
* Puppyzzz is now known as Toboe
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Claude> IF WE COULD JUST PROVE A PARTICULAR N VALUE WORKED
<Lelouch> Y, Claude XD
<Claude> s-sob
<Lelouch> IF ONLY
<Claude> ...but first threads
<Claude> ._.
<Toboe> sob I spent so long last night trying to figure out a key for a predictable anagram. TT
<Claude> (if anyone wants jace's program he can ttly email it toyou o/)
<Toboe> program :O
<Jace> y, give me email addresses and I will email you java code
<Toboe> another thing I noticed (which is probably also reading too much into it idk) is hydra's code being the first and only one that doesn't have a comment from Old Woman.
<Dera> Hydra wasn't really talking TO her though. :|a
<Toboe> Jace, my email's zehroh at gmail \o\
<Toboe> Not a lot of people were when she gave them the code though
<Toboe> but she left comments for them
<Dera> idk, I think promptly dismissing it as a fractured replay of history could make her not want to bother :|a
<Toboe> idk the only reason this is bothering is cause of the message on Delphi's. :/
<Toboe> bothering me*
<Dera> And Excel did say we're overcomplicating it, so that seems like more complicating things. :|aa
* Toboe nods
* Toboe tosses that \o\
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Chapter 5: PREMONITION
<Uruki> I'm calling it now, when we figure it out
<Uruki> it'll be like
<Uruki> so obvious and simple
<Uruki> we'll all be like 'ooooh duuuuh jeez'
<Toboe> we'll all headdesk
<Toboe> yes.
<Jace> sent, Toboe
<Jace> there are instructions included
<Toboe> thank you \o\
<Jace> \o\
<Claude> looking for ways to derive 'Old Woman' out of hthe lines would be the best start
<Claude> since l, d, w and m are not as common letters
<Claude> let alone in sequence
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<Edward|puzzling> someone who knows more plot than me... what relation is Angel to the other Judges?
<Claude> One of King and Queen's children, I thiiiiiink URUKI what is Angel
<Claude> But she's one of the minor less plot-ish ones
<Claude> i.e. she's Uruki's baby
<Uruki> Angel is one of King and Queen's kids yeah
<Uruki> and she's minor
<Edward|puzzling> Kinda figured, but I have stray caps I'm trying to figure out... :|a Guess that's probably not it then.
<Claude> Arena might be the A
<Claude> ..or it could just be a sentence starter
<Uruki> I mean I'd be flattered and all if I were part of a spooky code but :|a it's not likely
<Edward|puzzling> Well, my caps are AWOO, which gives me Old Woman, a sentence starter and... a stray.
<Edward|puzzling> Because I have only one period in the section I'm working on.
<Lelouch> uh shit is happenin
<Edward|puzzling> It is?
<Lelouch> http://asylums.insanejournal.com/sabra_la_tau/236544.html
<Uruki> oh lawd
<Toboe> whee
<Edward|puzzling> ...Hah. Interesting.
<Claude> ...I don't think it's related |<a
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<Dean> guys
<Dean> I think I'm doing it wrong
<Dean> but ffff
<Dean> http://amazinghattrick.insanejournal.com/11997.html
<Claude> ooooh
<Toboe> ohh :o
<Edward|puzzling> I still don't know what to do with my extra capital letter...
<Uruki> eat it
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<Zero> ... I'm just here to cheer on you all.
<Edward|puzzling> ...doesn't taste good.
<Dean> I'm still counting out letters
<Dean> because I am 8|
<Dean> also crazy
<Toboe> dean do you want a site for that?
<Edward|puzzling> Dean don't bother with the section I'm doing, kay?
<Edward|puzzling> I can just give you my counts if you want.
<Dean> do they exclude capital le--... oh wait
<Dean> I already counted capitals
<Dean> hurhur
<Dean> I could just subtract
<Dean> toboe, please link
<Dean> though I am kind of having fun counting
<Dean> in a weird
<Dean> repetitive way
<Toboe> dean, http://www.characterfrequencyanalyzer.com/
<Toboe> it counts capital letters too
<Dean> o:
* Dean double-checks work
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<Dean> http://amazinghattrick.insanejournal.com/11997.html
<Dean> okay that took a bit longer than it should have ffff
<Uruki> god if it's an anagram and it's the whole thing together I have nooo idea where we'd start especially if the spaces are also anagrammed 8||
<Edward|puzzling> I'm just looking for words in my section that could be it.\
<Claude> I doubt it's a completely random anagram cause that'd just be unfair 8|a
<Edward|puzzling> Which... will probably take me a very long time but it's the best I can figure out.
<Claude> codes should be decipherable by people aware of the cipher
<Claude> or tech
<Claude> and a random anagram would be unreadable even by the person intended to have it :<a
<Edward|puzzling> I just somehow feel like this is intentionally mean.
<Claude> well it is lady's machination 8(
<Claude> BUT WE WILL TRIUMPH
<Toboe> I am doing a excel format file with all the letters to play with. if anyone wants them.
<Uruki> so if it's all one puzzle and it's an anagram could you assume that the spaces weren't random
<Edward|puzzling> I think they are though, because the section I'm playing with would have some very very long words, and a lot of one-letter ones together.
<Claude> yeah, what ed said
<Toboe> I think it's one whole message that got split into somewhat equal length and then anagramed.
<Edward|puzzling> I think it's something designed to make us all completely lose our minds.
<Toboe> and turns out have super simple solutions
<Taiki> giant word scramble :(aaa
<Toboe> mrr
<Claude> really I am super proud that the #nerdcave has this many people :<a
<Taiki> I think they wanted it to be hard
* Toboe sets mode: +ooo Claude Dean Zero
<Taiki> Because they were like, we'd get it too easy and it'd be bleh.
<Toboe> I agree with Uruki's dibs on the answer making us go "duuuh" though. orz
<Taiki> An anagram is an easy way to mix thigns up, but definitely very hard without anything else.
<Toboe> it has to be a predictable anagram though. it's seriously way too mean otherwise. :/
<Edward|puzzling> Yeah... it really is. There's so damn many combinations.
<Edward|puzzling> At least having the Judge names in there helps.
* Toboe nods
<Dean> well
<Dean> ...
<Dean> I am sticking to my deciphering thing
<Dean> ffff
<Uruki> ... well
<Uruki> there are 14 periods!! that means 14 sentences right
<Claude> ...
<Toboe> possibly :o
<Edward|puzzling> I'm sticking with my method for now... and hopefully something comes of it?
<Claude> there are 14 periods?
<Claude> I didn't count
* Toboe didn't count either
<Edward|puzzling> are there? There's one in mine... I'm really thinking more and more that the order is wrong.
<Uruki> idk I put it in the county webpagey thingy
<Claude> ....
<Claude> uhoooooo
<Claude> okay that supports 1 sentence per team
<Toboe> but hydra has at least 3 periods in theirs
<Taiki> And some had none?
<Edward|puzzling> ...dear God I think this just got worse.
<Toboe> h-haha
<Claude> so that means it really was scrambled as a single text
* Edward|puzzling headdesks
<Toboe> l-looks like it
* Toboe facepalms
<Claude> But.
<Claude> ...there aren't 14 of those eight point star things
<Edward|puzzling> So some of the sections would be more than one sentence long, then.
<Dean> there's 6
<Katou> IF those starts are dividing sections
<Edward|puzzling> I'm thinking the stars are dividing thoughts or bullet points rather than sentences.
<Dera> ...you guys I don't think it was scrambled as a complete text if it's an anagram.
<Dean> I did a tally with the whole passage, guys
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Chapter 6: ffffirst hint
<Dera> <Excel> I will say one thing: we are not so cruel that we would give you an anagram THAT LONG
<Dera> ^From Hydracula chan last night
<Taiki> oooh aaah
<Claude> well no not if it were an ANAGRAM
<Taiki> Thank you Dera
<Claude> so that means it has to have a pattern
<Claude> 8<a
<Uruki> this is just, this is my reaction to this entire code http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1269851264548.jpg
<Dera> I believe in you guysss
<Dera> HAHAH
<Claude> ...HAHAH
<Taiki> So, yeah, maybe a star to divide it up into the passages, with multiple sentences in each.
<Edward|puzzling> HAHHAH
<Claude> orz
<Taiki> LOL
<Claude> there has been a definite rearrangement of letters since that would generate those long strings of identical letters like the iiii and hhh
* Edward|puzzling is now known as Edward
<Toboe> We need to find a patterrnn. there has to be one ;;
<Claude> and there isn't likely to have been actual substitution done since we've all done the frequency analysis
<Dean> well it's not substitution. I have thankfully ruled that out
<Claude> and it's definitely english
<Toboe> ... oh god Uruki
<Uruki> if I squint it looks like a peanut
<Edward> Maybe using the Judge names could help clue us into a pattern?
<Claude> That's what I was thinking, Ed
<Dean> \o I've been doing that
<Uruki> to~bo~e?
<Toboe> ... that image. ;;
<Uruki> hahaa
<Edward> Yeah, Dean?
<Dean> well
<Claude> "Old Woman' would be our best bet since two cap letters makes it unlikely that one of them is really another word that just begins a sentence
<Dean> I've gotten Old Man, Old Woman, Flowers, and Trickster so far
<Dean> oh
<Dean> and Messenger
<Edward> I would say all of those are fair ones.
<Claude> ...how many capital letters are there in total?
<Uruki> those are most of the plotty judges, the other ones being like king and queen maybe but
<Claude> There's no K or Q
<Dean> A=1 B=1 F=1 H=1 M=4 O=11 T=7 W=5
<Dean> Claude
<Uruki> 31 capital letters? i think
<Claude> There 1 D you forgot, Dean
<Dean> ...
<Dean> goddamnit
<Claude> ...ilu
<Dean> I have it in the lower section where I break down the passages
<Dean> THERE
<Claude> so 32 capitals
<Claude> assuming 14 lines
<Dean> A=1 B=1 D=1 F=1 H=1 M=4 O=11 T=7 W=5
<Uruki> and 14 of those would be sentence-starters, so 18 proper nouns?
<Claude> then 18 of those capitals are proper nouns
<Claude> Yup!
<Dean> Old Man, Old Woman would be 4
<Claude> ......somehow this feels like completely useless info
<Edward> Flowers, Trickster, Messenger is three more.
<Claude> orz
<Uruki> haha
<Dean> 7
<Claude> because it doesn't rule out the possibility that some of the Ms and Ws could also be sentence starters
<Uruki> if you use up every permutation of Old Man and Old Woman you use up all 18 nouns which I think is unlikely
<Edward> Or some of the Os, even.
<Claude> like What or Where or May
<Uruki> since 5 w's, 4 m's, + an O for each = 18
<Dean> well see
<Claude> but I am thinking that where an O and a W are in close proximity it's likely there's an Old Woman in there
* Uruki adds vague useless info
<Claude> Like with Vulp's line
<Claude> there are two pairs of O and W
<Dean> one way you wouldn't always use up the Os Ws and Ms on the Old Man and Old Woman would be to do something like I did and go, "Old Man and Woman"
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Chapter 7: we didn't spend our entire day and night and day on this really
<Claude> ...YOI-TE is lulu crackin' at the books
<Claude> or flipping tables
<Taiki> Maybe throw in a few "the"s
<Yoi-te> She's ... cooking right now
<Claude> ...
<Edward> Right, and there's likely a couple of "a"s and "an"s.
<Claude> is she making alphabet soup
<Claude> I mean
<Yoi-te> So basically she's completely IC
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<Lelouch> We should do a secret cave post + picnic
<Taiki> ooo yes
<Lelouch> >DDD
<Edward> I've got a couple of days off coming up, I could start one tomorrow?
<Claude> we end up scrawling letters all over the walls
<Edward> Round up the smarties and stick them in the cave.
<Lelouch> HAHA
<Taiki> Hey yeah cave writing. Add to the walls, why not.
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<Edward> Fff... I'm going to take this wordlist with me to work tomorrow and see if maybe divine inspiration hits while I'm there.
<Jace|Greensid> divine inspiration \o/
<Edward> I CAN HOPE!
<Dean> ...
<Dean> well
<Dean> I was messing around with last bit after I separated out different parts...
<Edward> ...it's not like I do anything but play Pokemon on my breaks anyway.
<Dean> but idk
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<Lucy> ... so by the amount of people in here I'm guessing we didn't get anywhere overnight
<Claude> ...nope
<Uruki> nnnope
<Claude> apart from mining more stats about the text
<Edward> not especially no
<Lucy> orz
<Claude> orz
<Nabuca> I'm surprised there are no mods in here laughing
<Claude> well the hint we got from excel was uh
<Claude> actually i'll topic it
* Toboe sets mode: +ooo Claude Lucy Nabuca
<Toboe> now you can topic it
* Claude changes topic to '#nerdcave: BY OUR POWERS COMBINED | <Excel> I will say one thing: we are not so cruel that we would give you an anagram THAT LONG | http://www.characterfrequencyanalyzer.com/'
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Chapter 8: After Lady and Excel trolled with solutions in the main chan
<Katou> IS THAT A HINT ABOUT WHAT METHOD SHE'S USING
<Jace> that last word translates
<Jace> hang on
<Jace> E N T H U S E -> N E H T S U E
<Claude> I think we're being trolled
<Claude> 8/a
<Jace> IT'S POSSIBLE
<Jace> but
<Edward> I suspect for the most part.
<Edward> However.
<Katou> 8|a
<Edward> Lady> ONCE UPON A TIME I GAVE YOU A CLUE
<Jace> that's the clearest thing we have to work with yet, isn't it?
<Jace> it's a methodological clue
<Claude> yeah the question is
<Uruki> we're so being trolled
<Claude> what was the clue
<Jace> ....shit.
<Jace> EN->NE
<Claude> and can we look through like a shitload of judge posts for it
<Jace> TH->HT
<Claude> ...
<Jace> US->SU
<Jace> E
<Edward> ...I wish it was that easy :D
<Claude> No that doesn't make sense when you hit the multiple repeats
<Dean> ..................................
<Claude> but
<Claude> let's try it anyway 8<aaaa
<Jace> god dammit
<Lucy> I think they're just trolling
<Uruki> of course they're trolling
<Edward> ...Jace, your post had the comments that went with the code, right?
<Katou> is it like.. two, then three, then four?!
<Uruki> they're always trolling
<Jace> yes.
<Lucy> they can't see our pain and suffering in here ;;
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<Taiki> I keep seeing "Monoceros" in the enthuse sentence
<Dean> lol
<Edward> ...dammit too many tabs.
<Toboe> rewindow.
<Toboe> did we get trolled?
<Edward> "to play can promote growth, can stretch the mind" "You must see the pattern behind you to know what threads come next" "well give this a try then" "hero what are you seeking"
<Edward> Those would be the most coherent ones.
<Dean> ...
<Dean> Edward
<Dean> where is that
<Lucy> the what are you seeking line is from the previous old woman game I think
<Toboe> that's the comments that came with the codes, Dean
<Edward> http://blue-mind-group.insanejournal.com/14319.html#comments Toboe's comments here.
<Dean> oh
<Edward> Lucy, who's to say the clue isn't in that game?
<Lucy> sob
<Lucy> I'm not sure the mods have that kind of attention span :|a
<Edward> "you must see the pattern behind you"
<Katou> sobbb LADY GIVE US A REAL CLUE
<Katou> or tell us what the clue issssss
<Dean> the pattern behind U
<Lucy> someone link her to a log of this chan XDD
<Lucy> maybe she'll be amused enough to give us something
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Chapter 9: THE OVERLORDS APPEAR
<Claude|lunch> Toboe, send people the excel file you organized all the letters into, too
<Claude|lunch> it might be handy
<Toboe> I wonder if I can transfer this to gdocs
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<Claude|lunch> yeah gdocs it
<Claude|lunch> Lady are you here to revel in our suffering
<Claude|lunch> is that it
<Lady> CAN I BE HERE TO LAUGH AT YOUR PAIN?
<Claude|lunch> WELL YOU CAN'T
<Katou> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> 8(
* Jace sets mode: +v Lady
<Lady> awe you can even kick me here :')
<Uruki> oh man i figured it out
<Jace> TO THE VASE
<Claude|lunch> yeah but I didn't
<Taiki> XD
<Claude|lunch> because I love you secretly
<Claude|lunch> in my usual masochistic way
<Edward> |D
* Lady is set upon +v
<Uruki> i cracked the code
<Uruki> when you translate it
<Uruki> it comes out as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ78IlJs5JQ
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<Lucy> ... hi excel
<Uruki> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwGFalTRHDA this one works better
<Toboe> now excel's here
<Lucy> have you come to laugh at our pain
* Jace sets mode: +v Excel
<Toboe> oh god trololo
<Dean> ....
<Taiki> ooohoooo
<Dean> oh god
<Taiki> oonooooo
<Dean> EXCEL
<Excel> mostly I'm just curious as to just exactly how wrong you're doing it :|a
<Dean> HAVE YOU SEEN THE EFFORTS I'VE BEEN MAKING?
<Excel> yeah, it's gone from being funny to kinda painful
<Taiki> See the posts hahaha
<Claude|lunch> well we've mostly thrown the giant random anagram theory out
<Lucy> do you want a log of most of what we've looked at
<Dean> I do know it's an anagram :|
<Claude|lunch> and we're mostly sure it's not letter substitution
<Taiki> Enjoy our suffering
<Lady> DO YOU DEAN?
<Lady> IS THAT WHAT YOU KNOW?
<Claude|lunch> It's not a RANDOM anagram
<Excel> DO YOU REALY?
<Katou> they don't need to know how excruciating our pain is
<Uruki> we're just kind of pawing at the letters
<Dean> SHHHHHHHHHHHHHh
<Lady> BECAUSE
<Lucy> I do like that we can kick them in this chan though
<Lady> ONCE UPON A TIME
<Excel> I know we're dicks but
<Lady> I GAVE YOU A CLUE
<Claude|lunch> YES WELL
<Excel> are we really big enough dicks to give you an anagram THAT LOGN?
<Edward> POSSIBLY?
<Lucy> you did say it was difficult to give us a challenge
<Claude|lunch> ...THAT INVOLVES THREAD MINING
<Uruki> basically this is us: http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1269851264548.jpg
<Uruki> and this is you: http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1266787867134.jpg
<Claude|lunch> uruki sums it up
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<Jace> That wasn't what Ruby meant to do!
<Claude|lunch> HAHAHAH
<Jace> That wasn't what Ruby meant to do at all!
<Uruki> THAT WASN'T WHAT RUBY MEANT TO DO AT ALL
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<Lucy> excel I think we spent like 12 hours trying to come up with phrases out of each section randomly and then gave that up and decided to try find a pattern
<Lady> its the applause track
<Lucy> or something like that
<Claude|lunch> I had Jace write a few programs to pick out letters by every nth spacing 8|a
<Claude|lunch> there are you satisfied
* Jace is helpful coder \o/
<Claude|lunch> SATISFIED BY YOUR HAVOC
<Toboe> anyone who wants that excel file: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtHAtg33_TOHdDl3ZmJKNU1tVmw3WGhNSGFLTnVDcFE&hl=en&authkey=CJH106oO#gid=0
<Uruki> and when one of us figures it out it'll be http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1267168200543.png
<Toboe> hahaha
<Lucy> I feel we have all learned a lot about decryption programs and websites that count letters
<Claude|lunch> yes
<Dean> hahahaa
<Uruki> and ten http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/126084989439.jpg
<Edward> We have at that.
<Dean> I-I'm not even sure if I understand Lady's clue
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Taiki> I think the clue is that line is by itself and an anagram :(?
<Claude|lunch> katou tell them what you told me
<Katou> NO IT'S EMBARRASSING
<Katou> CHECK IT FIRST
<Claude|lunch> NO IT'S NOT
<Katou> YES IT IS
<Claude|lunch> IT'S ACTUALLY PRETTY POSSIBLE
<Dera> ....
<Katou> ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
<Uruki> now we're gettin all shy because the mods are up ins
<Dera> Maybe there should just be a magical prophet :|a
<Lady> d-do we need to leave?
<Uruki> k-kyaa don't look at my clue
<Katou> yes, just for a second
<Lady> WE ACTUALLY ARE COMPLETELY FLOORED BY YOUR DEDICATION
<Katou> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Lady> and we cackle because we love you
<Uruki> (let them stay they might let something slip)
<Claude|lunch> (yeah)
* Lady dewindows
<Katou> :(
<Claude|lunch> :(
<Lelouch> Holy crap is stuff happening
<Claude|lunch> WE ARE THIS DEDICATED BECAUSE WE LOVE YOUR GAME
<Lelouch> What did I miss
<Katou> DID YOU CHECK YET CLAUDE
<Claude|lunch> I AM CHECKING
<Claude|lunch> AND...I WOULD APPRECIATE MORE THAN JUST ME CHECKING
<Lucy> the mods are impressed by our dedication lulu
<Claude|lunch> ;;
<Katou> o fine
<Lucy> I don't think they thought it would take us this long
<Katou> idk what if it would even reveal a pattern or just dumb
<Claude|lunch> I don't think they thought we'd stick at it this long
<Katou> "DOES IT START WITH ONCE UPON A TIME??" <--
<Lucy> yeah
<Claude|lunch> clearly they underestimated our ocd
<Lucy> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Claude|lunch> well
<Nabuca|food> I have been trying to get out the once upon a time too Katou
<Claude|lunch> they should know about mine by now
<Lucy> and the fact that we can work in shifts
<Claude|lunch> given what happened last time
<Edward> And that there's so many of us.
<Claude|lunch> I HAVE COMPANY ;;
<Katou> Are we all finally using gdocs
<Claude|lunch> ON THIS RIDE
<Nabuca|food> Also Lacerta's starts with "*star* The Old Woman" I am 98% sure of >8|a
<Katou> is that what we've resorted to?
<Taiki> HI LULU
<Lelouch> I haven't been working on it forever
<Lelouch> I overate at dinner
<Lelouch> And I'm just like
<Lelouch> hurrrr
* Lelouch cannot think
<Katou> but where did the letters come from
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<Excel> ...I see you topiced that thing I said in the chan the other night before proceeding to do anagrams for a whole day
<Excel> I should have made a venn diagram instead
<Excel> (things that are anagrams) (the code)
<Toboe> that one only came up today Excel
<Lucy> no we did anagrams all day just after the game
<Claude|lunch> no see we only got that quote from you today excel
<Excel> didn't I say that in Hydracula last night?
<Lucy> I think we gave up on anagrams already
<Excel> oh okay
<Toboe> the moontimers gave up on anagrams last night XD;;
<Lucy> yeah XD
<Lucy> we did
<Toboe> ... god we are so working in shifts aren't we
<Taiki> I was still trying to anagram :(
<Dera> Yeah I only told them about it after there was mention of the whole thing being jumbled at once maybe :|a
<Excel> man you guys are going to hate us even more than you probably already do when you figure this out
<Claude|lunch> and we've only topiced stuff today so some ground was probably rethreaded
<Katou> we figured we would :|a
<Claude|lunch> ...yeah :|a
<Katou> We're prepared
<Toboe> Yep. we kinda figured we would
<Lucy> yeah
<Claude|lunch> either because it's completely dumb info or already known info
<Toboe> We're armed with forks and stuff
<Lucy> I know I always go for the more complicated thing when the answer's really simple
<Claude|lunch> or filled with garbage
<Toboe> or it's something obvious we keep missing. <_<;
<Lucy> yeah
<Katou> WELL IF IT'S NOT AN ANAGRAM OR A SHIFT OR WHATEVER WHAT IS IT
<Katou> I have no idea what the other options are
<Claude|lunch> IT'S PROBABLY JUST A SHIFT IN THE END
<Claude|lunch> no wait what is a shift
<Claude|lunch> what do you mean by shift
<Claude|lunch> idk standard terminology
<Excel> I don't even know what a shit is! :Db
<Excel> ...shift
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<Lady> IT'S A SHIFT _AND_ AND ANAGRAM
<Lady> WITH NO KEY
<Lucy> WE ALREADY TRIED THAT FOR A DAY LADY :(
<Katou> 8|a
<Lady> lolo
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Chapter 10: FINAL COUNTDOWN (IN WHICH LADY BEATS #NERDCAVE WITH CLUES)
<Taiki> Has anyone tried picking out every, like, 14th letter or something like that :( arg too long
<Excel> once you've solved the shift and the anagram it's an ascii picture!
<Lady> here I will tell you one thing
<Jace> Yes, Taiki
<Lelouch> IT'S A MAGIC EYE
<Claude|lunch> IT'S PROBABLY NOT A SHIFT WE RAN FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
<Uruki> Ha, I already knew it was a magic eye!
<Lelouch> >DDD
<Jace> I wrote a program
<Claude|lunch> ...magic eye
<Lady> there is something innacurate about Toboe's spreadsheet
<Taiki> ooh
<Yoi-te> IT'S AN OPTICAL ILLUSION
<Claude|lunch> k lulu this is your job
<Dean> ...
<Toboe> :O
<Katou> baw
<Dean> T-toboe
<Taiki> THAT COULD BE ANything
<Toboe> what.
<Edward> ...ohhoh.
<Lucy> there aren't actually any letters
<Uruki> When you stare at it too long trickster's mask pops out
<Edward> hm.
<Lucy> in the messages
<Lucy> it's an optical illusion
<Taiki> hahaha
<Toboe> SOMEONE FIGURE OUT WHAT IT MEANS.
<Claude|lunch> illuuuuuuusion
<Dean> kldfjaskfjd
<Yoi-te> Actually, there's no messages at all
<Yoi-te> we only thought that post happened.
<Lucy> yeah
<Claude|lunch> it was all a dream
<Claude|lunch> INCEPTION.
<Yoi-te> We have to go deeper.
<Dean> CLEARLY, THE PLOT IS TO DRIVE US MAD
<Toboe> to Limbo!
<Dean> ... I haven't seen Inception yet
<Lucy> ... I think we've all slept since the game
<Toboe> We're all in limbo.
<Lucy> DID ANYONE DREAM A SOLUTION :(
<Claude|lunch> maybe we should get rid of the spaces in Toboe's file
<Lucy> you should dean :3 it's awesome
* Jace is now known as Souji^Mikage
<Toboe> ...
<Edward> I DID... not.
<Lucy> I only saw it the other night
<Katou> :|a...
<Toboe> Hang on
<Souji^Mikage> Deeper. Go deeper.
<Toboe> let me just
<Taiki> needle needle needle thread. haystack
<Toboe> make that file editable
* Souji^Mikage gives Yoi-te a black rose
<Lady> so there's something wrong with your speadsheet
<Dean> Lucy, I keep planning to
* Souji^Mikage and some incest.
<Lady> but a spreadsheet in theory is a very good idea
* Souji^Mikage is now known as Jace
<Uruki> I read that as 'spergsheet' at first
<Dean> ...
* Yoi-te faints and produces a... finger from his chest
<Uruki> and saw nothing wrong with it
<Dean> GET RID OF THE SPACES, TOBOE
<Yoi-te> idk these are my weapons
<Dean> idk
<Claude|lunch> EITHER GET RID OF THE SPACSE
<Claude|lunch> SPACSE
<Claude|lunch> *spaces
<Taiki> hm
<Dean> ...
<Claude|lunch> ...gdit
<Uruki> claude is overstimulated
<Edward> ...I need sleep. I need to know what's happening. I think tonight, the computer stays on... |D
* Jace gently pats Claude
<Toboe> ... holy shit there are so many people watching that file
<Toboe> sob
* Toboe edits
<Claude|lunch> GET RID OF THE SPACES OR REARRANGE THE LINES
<Yoi-te> ....Jace did you just give me some incest with my psychological damage rose
<Lady> OH MY GOOOOOOOOOD
<Katou> (as long as it's not the order we got the lines in that's the problem I'll be happy)
* Edward is now known as Edward|zzz
<Jace> why yes I did
<Yoi-te> Well I do have a brother
<Jace> it's kind of a theme
<Jace> in that series
<Claude|lunch> ...
<Claude|lunch> wait
<Claude|lunch> fuck
<Claude|lunch> I HAVE IT
<Claude|lunch> I THINK I HAVE IT
<Yoi-te> Oh yes Jace <3 I love it dearly
<Katou> CLAUDE
<Yoi-te> CLAUDE
<Yoi-te> WHAT IS IT
<Uruki> did you solve it please say you did
<Edward|zzz> CLAUDE
<Yoi-te> TELL US
<Yoi-te> WHAT IS IT
<Claude|lunch> GIVE ME FIVE MINUTEs
<Katou> sob...
<Excel> 8U!
<Dera> Can I believe in your magical avatar status now
<Edward|zzz> I CAN'T SLEEP NOW!
<Uruki> NO
* Yoi-te edge of seat!!!
<Jace> It was one of my very first animes, yoi-te :D
<Jace> ...
<Yoi-te> Mine too Jace
* Edward|zzz is now known as Edward
<Uruki> YOU CAN'T HAVE FIVE MINUTES
* Jace OMG
<Dera> GIVE ME A REASON TO BELIEVE IN YOUR MAGIC BRO
* Jace DRUMROLLLLLLLLLLLL
<Dean> ....
<Dean> WAHT
* Uruki plays the final countdown
* Lady plays trololo some more
* Lady and then some Mumford and Sons
* Jace is listening to 050 00 Karma Slave
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<Toboe> someone help me edit too or it'll take me forever
* Toboe changes setting
<Katou> are we just getting rid of spaces
<Toboe> yeah I think so
<Uruki> idk
<Katou> CLAUDE?
<Taiki> Why not paste into a word doc
<Taiki> or er text
<Toboe> I have it in text format too
<Toboe> ... and word format.
<Toboe> I made a spreadsheet for it cause it might be easier idk
<Katou> I'm not sure what we're doing
<Taiki> idk either
<Toboe> remove the spaces and see if it helps anything?
<Toboe> don't worry about messing up the file. I still have the original copy
<Taiki> maybe if you take out all the spaces and arainge them in a block you could read it sideways or diagnally or up and down
<Toboe> hrm
<Katou> :/a
<Claude|lunch> ....
<Claude|lunch> so close
<Claude|lunch> but my brain is failing
<Claude|lunch> okay
<Claude|lunch> guys
<Claude|lunch> first letters of all the lines
<Claude|lunch> you can spell 'once upon a ti'
<Claude|lunch> with the spaces included
<Claude|lunch> is 14 letters
<Jace> Claude, give me an algorithms and I'll finish your job
<Claude|lunch> take it from there I'm passing out
<Dera> ...oho
<Excel> everyone hold on
<Claude|lunch> rearrange
<Lady> so hey guys :D;;;;
<Lady> g-guess what
<Claude|lunch> and there's an error in the spaces
<Claude|lunch> somewhere
<Claude|lunch> cause it don't jive
<Dera> Lady?
<Jace> ?
<Toboe> ??
<Lady> WHO WANTS A TEXT FILE
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<Dera> :D ME
<Toboe> TEXT FILE \o/
<Lady> OK ONLY DERA GETS IT
<Excel> lolo spaces
<Toboe> sob
<Claude|lunch> orz
<Claude|lunch> ANTICLIMAX
<Toboe> cry cry
<Dera> wut really
* Jace makes sad eyes at Lady
<Uruki> pffhahaha
<Edward> ...
<Taiki> me
* Dera MAGICAL PROPHET? :|a
<Lelouch> . . .
<Lelouch> WAIT WHAT
<Jace> if someone gives me a text file with stuff in the right order
<Claude|lunch> "Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman
<Jace> all the lines
<Taiki> where did you get the m? :(
<Edward> ...Claude... <3
<Jace> I will have this translated fast.
<Excel> ...ok hold on I have to do it because I don't have a mac
<Tokitoh> where did you get the m, Claude?
<Toboe> wait what's going on now
<Lelouch> Where did you get the m??
<Lady> WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FUCKING M CLAUDE
<Lady> TELL ME
<Uruki> BUT WHO WAS PHONE?!
<Lady> TELL ME WHERE THE M CAME FROM
<Lelouch> HAHAHA
* Jace is listening to 05Poor Unfortunate Souls by 03Jonas Brothers from 10The Little Mermaid
<Lady> ANSWER GOD DAMN YOU
<Yoi-te> rr
<Yoi-te> rfoe
<Lelouch> . . .
<Dera> ...
<Yoi-te> I hit a lot of rs in my smash
<Taiki> ashk
<Claude|lunch> Pavo
<Lady> (AH YES, ONCE MORE, FAIL SNATCHED FROM THE JAWS OF WIN)
<Claude|lunch> second letter
<Lelouch> See, I did that like yesterday but I got "once upon a titll"
<Tokitoh> yeah, there's an extra t
<Lelouch> XDDDD
<Tokitoh> it's not the m that's missing pers ay
<Uruki> once upon a tits
<Taiki> was there an extra space
<Tokitoh> but an extra t is in there
<Taiki> somewhere
<Claude|lunch> no see
<Taiki> in the beginnings?
<Tokitoh> and a missing space
<Claude|lunch> the me in time
<Claude|lunch> is back at the first line again
<Uruki> I want to see the textfile that dera gets
<Dera> I don't have it yet :|a
<Tokitoh> no, Claude, I see where you get the m, but there's still an extra t
<Uruki> http://i452.photobucket.com/albums/qq248/stpoc/pic%20unrelated/1268730433527.jpg my face right now
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Claude|lunch> I'm trying to rearrange the extra two lines so that there's a space at the beginning
<Dera> ...I love your images Uruki
<Tokitoh> and a missing space
<Tokitoh> I guess that's where the spacing comes in
<Lelouch> Ohhhh
<Tokitoh> so that t goes to the second line
<Excel> ok you know what
<Tokitoh> because it probably shoul've been a space
<Lelouch> XD
<Excel> yes
<Excel> and some other spaces are missing due to html
<Excel> and I'm hunting down the original copy :|||
<Taiki> WELL WOO.
<Tokitoh> right right
<Lelouch> . . .
<Tokitoh> and that's essential because we don't know which line the t is misplaced in
<Lelouch> so are we saying there were spaces missing
<Lelouch> the whole time
<Tokitoh> spaces were misplaced
<Toboe> ...
<Taiki> orz
<Toboe> oh god
<Lady> NO U!!!
* Lelouch flips table
<Lady> SHUT UP!!!
* Lelouch FLIPS TABLES
* Katou also flips table
<Uruki> okay I know we said we were prepared for how much we'd hate you
* Lelouch TABLES FIGHT IN MIDAIR
<Dean> ...
* Lady c-counter-flips
<Excel> you were still doing it wrong
* Claude|lunch FLIPS TABLES
<Dera> ...sob >D
<Lady> YEAH
* Edward almost has the lines ordered
<Taiki> ( /'v')/ ||___||
<Lady> SHE"S RIGHT YOU WERE STILL DOING IT WRONG 8|
<Dean> orz
* Yoi-te spinkicks table
<Taiki> IT's true
<Lucy> ... were we seriously expecting there not to be any mistakes in the encoding
* Lelouch POINTS AT THE TABLE
<Katou> but were we doing it wrong because doing it right wasn't working XD
<Lady> ((>o_o))>||=
* Yoi-te also points at the table
<Yoi-te> * TABLE EXPLODES
<Claude|lunch> "Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman found
<Tokitoh> ...
<Tokitoh> osnap
<Katou> claudeeee
<Claude|lunch> ...some letters are scrambled in that
<Claude|lunch> but
<Claude|lunch> I'm making a guess
<Lucy> claude what are you doing to get that?
<Katou> XD
<Excel> oh fuggit I'm just gonna paste it in
<Uruki> what did they find!! auuughghghh
<Toboe> fdgks
<Edward> found each other
<Lelouch> XDDD
<Lady> (CLAUDE IS DOING YOUR MOM TO GET THAT LUCY)
<Uruki> is this judge hentai fiction
<Claude|lunch> --yes ed
<Uruki> is it going to end with '... and that's where baby judges come from'
<Edward> Oh this... love?
<Edward> Yes, love.
<Yoi-te> It reads: what is love? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.
<Katou> brreeeakthrrrouugh
<Uruki> it reads: the old man and the old woman will never give you up
<Jace> well, if there's one thing I've gotten good at recently it's sprint-coding :|a
<Tokitoh> never let you down
<Edward> Oh this love, they had many children
<Claude|lunch> no wait
<Tokitoh> never run around and desert you
<Claude|lunch> hang on
<Tokitoh> never make you cry
<Tokitoh> never say goodbye
<Edward> Of this love, misplaced space again.
<Tokitoh> never tell a lie
<Tokitoh> and hurt you
<Jace> whoever gets a complete translation, give me an email address I can send a Java applet to.
<Lelouch> >DDD
<Jace> er, complete set.
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<Excel> c,am saew.e yddlvhoetdetsr,aldnsrs lhyg inii es ovdh a emptrreOeaahuhhgerdlno
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<Excel> tdntl ,sTlo ctrr e,ee oiswkdt tahrlgnlhe huvdfes?lh u.noa afdOhmsdyrepcW es
<Excel> uh hom ehorihheyw niso he,hlw.needeededhttmer a Tdett?'dnada lese sw eoMbdg
<Excel> petfevap erlnien omaf,nenaad eoh?y nrn ah.bsetnwhryh Tsedn cMdd nd, i mauiuw
<Excel> o horenoaydd ly,prani snt aivoAof eepWOire?l,whseee eth d daea twor snoantene
<Excel> nOeu.,ywn s td alrdrwtd.d alre snionraolnm Te e r ntyhea f c nWooiteft fn . l
<Excel> l n? edw aurhurdk seui fnl c err asmd ofhdtb tef r e niurro,ou t wert ,wc tl
<Excel> adOdOtcr eonreant ttrrsTbld etal s otta cnie hagh icicyOgnraof mthhd doht aoHo.
<Excel> l fhhfcrfdnndt hoh enthee tyomokttfi,nMoyr aecresrreo le ygs aa iiii nehtsue
<Excel> tMde eiuae ,, ioafec aeawcue enn h o ansln kemcsidufdrl.estsnhmnenag eh l f
<Excel> ia atylln tt clfd yhlbn s,rrst gecemntansutads asate la i h e. . n.e eddhe
<Dean> ...
<Lelouch> . . .
<Toboe> ....
<Dera> ....oh it's even in order now
* Katou goes find the log
<Lelouch> so there were initial spaces and that's why it wouldn't work
<Claude|lunch> not just initial spaces
<Dean> yeah
* Lelouch s-sighs.
<Tokitoh> oh
<Lelouch> and double spaces
<Yoi-te> yeah HTML hates those
<Katou> haha
<Yoi-te> you have to manually code them in
<Excel> see, it's not that we don't KNOW that
<Tokitoh> Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman found each other.
<Excel> I don't know how we managed to forget that, but I blame the fact that we had two pages of people to reply to within about a half hour
* Katou nods
<Lelouch> XD
<Lelouch> SIGH
<Excel> it's like running a freaking cfud post
<Tokitoh> Of this love, they had many children, powerful, wise and
<Katou> the unfortunate thing is that Ed and Link and Rabi should have been able to see this on the page as they copied it down
<Lady> I would say the fact that there were TEN MILLION threads
<Lelouch> Well I can feel mildly vindicated that I figured out the way to decipher it yesterday XD just
<Excel> ten million
<Lady> so really
<Edward> Well... mine was in the wrong order, in my defense?
<Lelouch> Lady, Excel, it happens
<Lady> our incompetence is your fault
<Lady> :|a
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Excel> in general yes
<Tokitoh> you could have just made one thread? :|a
<Katou> hahaha
<Katou> Naw
<Lelouch> I've run like fifty million puzzles and ciphers and I still frequently make little mistakes
<Excel> coulda woulda shoudla
<Lelouch> And then my players want to lynch me
<Excel> even if it were just one thread
<Katou> it wouldn't have been fun like that
<Excel> there'd be a million people in it
<Lelouch> XD
* Taiki sits on Lelouch
<Lelouch> dfsljahd
<Katou> IT'S OKAY PAIN IS OVER
<Excel> okay though, what is the html to post something with the spacing exactly
<Lucy> lulu I still kind of want to lynch you for that one sekirei game
<Lelouch> HAHA
<Yoi-te> Well the thing is honey usually you're like
<Katou>
<Yoi-te> *GIVES CLUE
<Lucy> AND THAT DIDN'T HAVE A MISTAKE
<Excel> do you know what I'm talking about
<Yoi-te> * GOES TO BED / WORK
* Lelouch GOES TO SLEEP
<Lelouch> hahahaha
<Yoi-te> HAHA
<Yoi-te> yes
<Excel> nononono not &nsbsp
<Taiki> Curse your ancestors and may your children develop polyps!!
<Yoi-te> and then I'm like
<Excel> I'm way too lazy for that
<Yoi-te> HONEY WAKE UP
<Katou> haha
<Yoi-te> I THINK THERE'S A MISTAKE IN THE CLUE
<Jace> GOT SOMETHING
<Uruki> Ithink you could just go <code> </code>
<Yoi-te> and you're like nnnnnnnnnnnnno there isnt'ttt go way
<Excel> that one
<Lelouch> hahahaha
<Yoi-te> only then there is
<Lelouch> i dont'makemistakessss
* Excel really honestly isn't an idiot
<Yoi-te> and everyone's exploding
<Tokitoh> hahaha
<Edward> SHARE IT JACE
<Jace> "Once upon a time the old man and the old woman found each other
<Yoi-te> and I'm like HONEY HONEY WE NEED SOME DAMAGE CONTROL
<Taiki> Woo hoo!
<Yoi-te> and you're like stfuuuuuuu i've only had 16 hours todaaaaay
* Yoi-te was kicked by Lelouch (Lelouch)
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<Taiki> XD
<Jace> Oh, this love, they had many children, powerful, wise and canny
<Tokitoh> Of this love
<Excel> <code> doesn't work
<Jace> They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children, until every part of the world had some mark of them, and .....crap, repetitive error
<Excel> I swear there was a tag to do that
<Jace> DAMMIT
<Jace> DEBUG TIME
<Uruki> i think there is but if it's not <code> I don't remember it
<Katou> :|a could you use the <text> one?
* Edward starts looking manually while Jace debugs
<Tokitoh> Edward I'm already on it
<Uruki> heh, looks like your fancy technology isn't doing so well
<Excel> nope
<Excel> I love you guys but not enough to manually fix all the spacing
<Claude|lunch> ...oh are there people piecing it together now
<Edward> More eyes doesn't hurt, I'm stuck awake now anyway. :D
<Claude|lunch> yay
<Excel> maybe if I find replace
* Claude|lunch curls on the carpet
<Claude|lunch> lady I'm gunna kill you someday
<Lady> DID YOU RIKE IT :)?
<Toboe> I'm shifting my spreadsheet too @@
<Taiki> 8)
* Uruki pets claude
<Tokitoh> They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children, until every part of the world had them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn
* Lelouch flips a table onto Lady
<Yoi-te> ...Lelouch can't flip stables
<Yoi-te> it's more like
<Lelouch> . . . stables
<Lucy> ...
<Yoi-te> shut up
<Jace> ONE SEC it's not a buhg
<Claude|lunch> Vulp, Corvus, Orion, Pyxis, Lacerta, Lynx, Mono, Delp, Cyg, Lepus, Ceph, Canis, Pavo, Hydrao
<Yoi-te> * Lelouch attempts to flip table, strains his back
<Jace> it's the spacing
<Claude|lunch> toboe
<Lelouch> HORSES D:
<Jace> I am fixing it where it arises
<Taiki> it's not a bug -> IT'S NOT A TUMAH
<Lelouch> :( ||___||~
<Yoi-te> it's christmas?
<Lelouch> That's an upside down horse
<Tokitoh> until every part of the world had them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn
<Tokitoh> by those distant scions. The birds and beasts, what flew, wakled and crawled, all turned their
<Tokitoh> eyes and love to those who came first.
<Claude|lunch> End second line.
<Excel> <textarea>!!!
<Excel> that's the one
<Katou> THAT'S THE ONE
<Uruki> so how did we get from IT'S MACHINE CODE to 'once upon a time in a land far far away'
<Katou> I was trying to remember what I did...
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Uruki> I like was here the whole time but I don't get how the breakthrough was made
<Yoi-te> Spacing lines up letters
<Katou> it's vertical isn't it?
<Uruki> oh. ok
<Lucy> .... oh my god
<Lelouch> hahaha
<Katou> So I guess Ed and Link can just like, smack their foreheads and be like "OH IT NEEDS SPACES"
<Edward> REORDER AND ADD SPACES AND OH GOD SO OBVIOUS
<Lelouch> I have an idea, Link?
<Lelouch> For how they can figure it out ICly?
<Katou> [cuts out all the chunks of paper and move things around]
<Uruki> well they could have just copied it down in the wrong order at first and then experimented with different orders and be like OH. DUH.
<Lucy> we did come up with some pretty cool anagrams though
<Excel> http://asylums.insanejournal.com/sabra_la_ooc/80085.html ok try that
<Excel> though if that doesn't work
<Jace> Once upon a time, the Old Man and the Old Woman found each other.?Of this love, they had many children, powerful, wise and canny. They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children, until every part of the world had some mark of them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn by those distant scions. The birds and beasts, what flew, walked and crawled, all turned their eyes and love to those who cam
<Tokitoh> They were the lords of the world and they, in turn, had children, and they had children,
<Tokitoh> until every part of the world had them, and they, the first children, were loved in turn
<Tokitoh> by those distant scions. The birds and beasts, what flew, wakled and crawled, all turned their
<Tokitoh> eyes and love to those who came first. As long as anyone knew, the first children or the children
<Tokitoh> of many generations gone past, the Old Woman and the Old Man lived in constant harmony-until the first fight.
<Yoi-te> IRC cuts that off, Jace
<Jace> augh
<Yoi-te> n/m
<Yoi-te> you fixed it
<Katou> :|b
<Taiki> ooo yay
<Katou> Jace use the post
<Edward> :D
<Jace> POSTED
<Jace> there's one spacing error left
<Jace> but
<Jace> I think you guys get the idea
<Jace> let me see if I can refine!
<Tokitoh> where'd you post?
<Jace> Reply to Excel's post.
* Edward continues doing it by hand to compensate for code errors
* Toboe is doing it by hand
<Toboe> I'll upload the new spreadsheet. also ow. my eyes
<Taiki> he begun to feed as well?
<Taiki> ominous 8U
<Katou> Lelouch, suggestions you said?
<Tokitoh> I've almsot got it alled typed out
<Tokitoh> Edward
<Tokitoh> I'm doing that
<Tokitoh> I'm almost done
<Edward> Yeah?
<Jace> TRUE RESULT
<Jace> POSTED
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