The Hidden Prophecy: Part IV
The Code Cracked
Part IV of the Hidden Prophecy contained an encrypted passage that turned out to be a complex acrostic of sorts, deciphered by KSite's LisaSimpson. Here is the passage itself:
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I noticed the phrases it was just a dream, by his memory, and things worth living for seemed to be in this jumble, but I couldn't put it all together. I also was the first to notice the pattern created by the repetition of the letter A; there are 2 of them, then 8, then 4, then 7, then 6, making the number 28476... And 28476 first appeared in Part I.
What you have to do to make sense of the code is, essentially, replace all the spaces with line breaks and then, without rearranging the order of the letters, slide certain ones to the right until messages are revealed vertically. Sound complicated? It is-- And I wish I could say I was brilliant enough to figure it out, but, again, LisaSimpson is the mastermind behind this solution. At any rate, the translated code is best expressed in four separate acrostics. I've reproduced them below with the corresponding messages prettily formatted afterwards.
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It was just a dream, but I'm awake now. Well, at least this time you've got clothes on. Massive chronological event. Snowflake #881885. Rooney. Bunny. Cosmo.
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A man is defined by his actions, not his memory. Now that's
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a torch. Those weren't vacations; they were research trips. Massive restrategy. All my
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abilities, all the incredible things I can do. The only things worth living for are innocence and magic.
So, all together now, kiddies, the entire passage reads as follows:
It was just a dream, but I'm awake now. Well, at least this time you've got clothes on. Massive chronological event. Snowflake #881885. Rooney. Bunny. Cosmo. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory. Now that's a torch. Those weren't vacations; they were research trips. Massive restrategy. All my abilities, all the incredible things I can do. The only things worth living for are innocence and magic.
Another thing worth pointing out is that Snowflake #881885 appears here, and Snowflake #852501 appears in Part III. What can this mean?
© 2004 shirkie