forum Assassin’s guild//Finished Rp//Look for part 2

Started June 25, 2018 by @StarkSpangledMayflower_Mad_Elder

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Andra nodded and looked at the page that was half translated then the page that wasn’t, “What if we’re not supposed to translate it. What if the message is here but we only take a few letters from each word. Find the pattern, find the message.”

“I had thought about that, but the general consensus was to ignore the message at first because it sounded like a trap at face value. I just kind of forgot to go back to it,” Cyrus explained.

“Alright then, we don’t we try it now.” Eira said and Andra nodded, taking the pen and trying to figure out the code.

Cyrus leaned over Andra’s shoulder to see the code a little closer.
“Let’s start with simple code. Maybe first letter of each word? First letter of each line? It’s probably not that easy, but if it is…”

Andra nodded, “It might be too easy, fist letter of the line is anyway but each word could work.” She wrote out the message on a spare piece of paper then circled each letter of each word.

“How’s it looking?” Cyrus asked as she was well into her work.

“The first line fits the pattern but the second and third doesn’t. What if…” She wrote the message out a second time, circling the first letter of the word in the first line, the second letter of the word in the second line and so on until she finished, “One message.” Andra said, handing the paper to Cyrus.

“Well, there we go,” he said, impressed. He took up the paper and began reading over it.
(Lol idek what it was supposed to say)

As they looked at the paper it read,
Don’t come back, too much danger, hide.

Cyrus frowned. “Well… tell me something I don’t know.” We assumed as much from what we read in some of those files.”

“That’s can’t be the only message, maybe there’s another?” She asked, studying the paper again.

“Maybe. We should try some more decoding, and if that doesn’t work… well, you may think it’s childish, but we could always test for invisible ink.” Cyrus looked at the paper again, trying a different approach of full words instead of letters, but that quickly failed, as he could not translate most of them.

“What if the reason we can’t translate this to make sense is because it’s not actually in this order. You how abtash code right? Where A equals Z and so on, maybe it’s like that.” Eira suggested.

“Yeah… but there are so many ways that could go. It could take days to translate it like that,” Cyrus replied, “Honestly, all of our options look like a long road at the moment. But we’ve got time, I suppose.”

Eira and Andra both nodded, “I guess so. We could try it, and if not then….” Andra shrugged, “We’ll have to see what happens.”

“It’s going to be a long day,” Cyrus said on a sigh. “I hope we can actually do this.”

Eira smiled softly at Cyrus, “We can, trust me.” She said softly.

“Of course,” he replied. He grabbed a whole stack of blank papers so that everyone could get to work, and he spread them over the table.

“We’re gonna need lots of tea. I’ll go make some.” Eira said, standing up. Andra nodded and watched her go, a small smile on her face which quickly disappeared when she got to work.

“Hell yeah,” Cyrus said. He was actually kind of excited to be working on a puzzle of sorts. This was out of the realm of normal Assassin work and more up his alley.

Andra smiled for a moment then got to work trying to decode the long message. Eira came back in a few minutes later with cups of tea for everyone.

"Thanks," Cyrus said, taking the tea and setting it in a gap between papers on the table. He had a pen in one hand and was writing furiously.

“No problem.” Eira said, giving him a smile before getting to work herself.