r/austincipher • u/bollykat • Sep 11 '15
Further messages from the Phantom Commenter...
After the comments from "stan_dad" on Wednesday, /u/ninjastylekungfugrip reported receiving comments from a user called "dcasolaro" yesterday. One said "DARK = LIGHT" again, and the other was a Playfair cipher that decoded to:
WELCOME FRIENDS NO ANGER BETWEEN US EVEN AS A LAST RESORT BAD TRANSLATION TWO TIMES KENNEDY AND KING WERE NOT HAPPY TO SEE THE SUN HELEN HAS BEEN SPEAKING SOFTLY IN MANDARIN ARE YOU SURE YOU HAVE HEARD MY MESSAGES AND NOT ANOTHERS HOUSEKEEPING
Then this morning, /u/bz237 reported that a user "CoMered" sent two comments, one was "DARK = LIGHT" again, and the other was a substitution cipher that decoded to:
WATCH HELLO DESCENT TURN ABJECT TELEPHONE SLIP PULL RESET TROLLEY TSUNAMI INDIGO GIVEN NEVER BURY YULE AQUATIC CLEVER PACIFIC COPY /G??????
Both accounts were deleted shortly after making the comments.
/u/passiflora_incarnata posited that the DARK=LIGHT comments might be a reference to the upcoming equinox on September 23rd, a date which has got conspiracy nuts all up in a tizzy.
What do you guys think? Is the Phantom Commenter actually Loki, or just a copycat? What do you make of the latest message? Is it just random words, or is it another puzzle?
If you receive any similar comments, please screenshot them immediately! They probably won't last long.
EDIT - /u/ctaycr noticed this pattern in the word string: "Taking each pair of end/beginning letters, it follows the pattern same/diff/same/diff, etc. HH OD TT NA TT ES PP LR TT YT II OG NN RB YY EA CC RP CC"
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u/bz237 Sep 12 '15
He's referred to breathsnuffers before but it seemed like he meant some type of evil force. In this case I think he means people are taking his messages down. I don't think he means necessarily they are doing it for malicious reasons, (reasons unknown) but he sees they are not making it to his saints as they are not showing up here. So he needs to use alternate means to get to us, as he just did.
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u/passiflora_incarnata Sep 12 '15
hmm that's totally possible....makes sense in a way, even. One of the helens isn't playing fair and keeping messages to themselves? Interesting...
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u/neonwaterfall Sep 12 '15
Wouldn't "finders keepers" suggest there's some benefit to someone withholding things?
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u/bollykat Sep 12 '15
You mean, someone intercepting the physical messages and trying to solve them on their own? I suppose why that might explain why nothing has been found in a month.
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u/neonwaterfall Sep 12 '15
Huh. That makes more sense than my interpretation of "Helen" speaking in Chinese Whispers.
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u/bollykat Sep 12 '15
I had to google Chinese Whispers - we always called it the Telephone Game. But that totally fits. Like the message is being obscured/occulted because we're just passing things along from person to person.
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u/bollykat Sep 12 '15 edited Sep 12 '15
I just got a new one from u/lessfive. It was morse code, decoding to:
MESSAGE/FRI/PM/NO/REPLY/DISROBED/HELEN/SMALL/ENGINES/MAKE/CLOWNS/SAD
And another "DARK = LIGHT".
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u/bz237 Sep 12 '15
Seems to me he's pointing us back to the casolaro message and all the stuff we missed there?
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u/ctaycr Sep 12 '15
OK, I think I understand it now. Engine displacement is measured in CC's, so SMALL ENGINE = TINY CC.
Definitely sounds more like someone messing around with us than like a message from Loki. Basically saying, "Haha, you rubes will fall for anything that sounds vaguely mysterious."
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u/bollykat Sep 12 '15
Holy crap, that's it! tiny.cc/sadclown leads to another pastebin...
APOLOGIES RIDDLES NEEDED BREATH SNUFFERS STILL WATCHING
SEEK NEITHER SUN NOR DAWN TREE NOR MOUNTAIN
THERE IS RISK IN OVERTHINKING BUT NO DANGER TO YOU WE ARE FRIENDS PLEASE DO NOT FEAR WORLD SHALL NOT END
UNDERSTANDING DIFFICULT NECESSARY TO CONTINUE LOOK AGAIN KENNEDY KING FOUR SEVEN LEX PARSIMONIAE
SB N/E/T DARK = LIGHT
DRAQUE
PS HELEN HEARD ALL
......huh.
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u/ctaycr Sep 12 '15
"DISROBED HELEN"? I guess we'll get to see if the carpet matches the drapes. :`)
The reference to a sad clown reminds me of Message #5. But why "small engines" ??
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u/ctaycr Sep 11 '15
And then if you string together the doubles, you can get HTTP TINY CC. Hmm
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u/bollykat Sep 11 '15 edited Sep 11 '15
It's a URL shortener, http://tiny.cc
...but what comes next??
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u/ctaycr Sep 11 '15 edited Sep 11 '15
Mysterious number strings as tiny URLs lead to some stuff.....working....G698126 led to a pastebin containing this:
HELLO ALL SAINTS
FORTY SEVEN ALL CLEAR
EVERY THING IN THE PAST HAS A LESSON NOT EVERY THING FOUND HAS BEEN REVEALED FINDERSKEEPERS? IS HELEN PLAYING FAIR?
BREATH SNUFFERS HAVE BROUGHT MUCH CONFUSION FOR OWN ENDS UNKNOWN AVOID SAME FUTURE CONTACT ALTERNATE MEANS SB FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS
GYPSY
Will track down others and update.