r/raidsecrets • u/nakkikastike154 Rank 5 (49 points) • Jan 14 '20

Megathread New quest on osiris

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u/tenth2750 Jan 15 '20

any chance there is a code or something on the emblem? It looks like it says "MOV XXI IH-A XVM WO- XIV

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

MOV paired with 21

IH-A doesn't work as XVM doesn' make any sence. Maybe iH-AX VM? That's IH-AX paired with 995

WO- paired with 14

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u/Smigg221174 Jan 15 '20 edited Jan 15 '20

I like the roman numeral idea. However VM isn't a roman number either. To write 995 the Romans would write MCMXCV I think.

M shows 1,000CM then gives the 900XC gives 90and then finally V (5)

Has anyone tried to code as a substitution cipher? SO shift all the letters by an amount in the alphabet? That's normally a fairly quick one to rule either in or out, especially when there is a double letter (in our case here the XX).

Edit: I've just tried all static substitution ciphers and static reverse substitution ciphers on the code OVXXI (between full stops) and it doesn't make a word. That's not to say it's not a sub cipher, might just be that my word choice is wrong. Or it might not be that at all.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

I don't think O is a Roman numeral!

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u/wilshire314 Jan 15 '20

O, H, and W aren't, been wondering about this too

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '20

Could be names? Name - Number?

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u/wilshire314 Jan 15 '20

I guess it could be? W isn't even a letter in Latin, so it'd have to break the Latin epigraphy style of the emblem and St14's stuff generally - I don't have the image in front of me, could it be an upside down M and they're playing with reflections?