The Crux of the Matter

[Velmont]

"We still have some ressources left, I think it would worth to try to explore a bit more. I would liek to take a new look at that sealed door upstair. And we can continue to think about that riddle... The Swarthy Sworn Sphisticate... If it was something woth numbers, I would have alreday found the thing behind, but I feels like I am missing something." tells Rinaldo

 

[Bront]

"Well, 3 - 7 - 5 - 10, could mean something," Vanitri suposses.

 

[Velmont]

"Maybe, but in that case, it should be 3 - 7 - 5- 12. But just liek that, it seems to mean nothing."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"And I don't think it's an anagram either. Most anagrams have a key word that gives it away, like the famous anagram for king Harold the First 'He thrifts a lord'. In that case, thrifts is almost an anagram for 'the first' on its own."

"I still think its a cipher. We just need to find the pattern or key to crack it. The pattern could be anything from an arithmetic series to a favourite set of numbers or letters of the cipher's creator even to a seemingly-random string of 27 numbers or letters. Anyone have a good idea?"

 

[Velmont]

"Wait a second, you gave me an idea." Rinaldo put down his backpack and takes out a parchemin out of it. On one side, there is many numbers. "What is that... oh, the sum of the wealth we gather in Monemvassia and how we split it..." He turn it and grab his inkpen and start to scratch a few things.

"So we have THESWARTHYSWORNSOPHISTICATE... Laybie, you told we needed a 27 key... let's take the common translation you gave us... KDAAKQQLLTORCVKKPLSLJNVOHKN... after all, the Old Medibarian letters produce a word in common, so that would be a nice clue left to find the key hidden among the words iteself... I give a numerical value... add it... substract 26 when over it... here... ELFTHRIFTSHORNYDEBAUCIFRIFI... if we split it in word like it the words, it would make ELF THRIFTS HORNY DEBAUCIFRIFI... teh last word make no sense and I hope to find nothing that is 'horny' in that building, my wife wouldn't like to hear about such thing. Elf make sense but thrifts isn't a word... wait a second, you told thrifts was an anagram for the first... let's see... the first... hmmm... library would make sense too in this tower... CDEFFFHIINOU are teh letter that would be left behind... nope, I can't find anything. Opale would most likely have found something, she like to play such game with Salvador, but I was always bad with complex word pattern liek that. Anyone have an idea?"

Rinaldo hands the paper he has written on it to help teh other think about it.

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THE SWARTHY SWORN SOPHISTICATE

KDA AKQQLLT ORCVK KPLSLJNVOHKN

ELF THRIFTS HORNY DEBAUCIFRIFI



[S]EL[/S]F[S]THRIFTS[/S]HO[S]R[/S]N[S]Y[/S]DE[S]BA[/S]UC[S]I[/S]F[S]R[/S]IFI
CDEFFFHIINOU

The first library

[SBLOCK=OOC]I hope I am going in the good direction, but my English seems unsufficient on that if it is the case... and Rinaldo speak now 6, almost 7 languages and have 16 of intelligence... that seems a case where the character should be better than the palyer.[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Hmmm...that looks promising! I think you did the math wrong on the last letters there, though, Rinaldo. I see ELF THRIFTS HORNY DEBAUCHERIES. You can still spell all those words from it, though. Looking for words like 'Elayna', 'Sice', 'Mordrue', 'Omega', 'Daryne', 'Lyrue', and 'Medibaria', I only see 'Daryne' and 'Lyrue', and either of those would mean no 'library'."

"Who's good at anagrams? I bet Lex could solve this..."

(OOC: It looks like a good direction to me--you produced a phrase with four words in it, once I corrected for your math errors )

 

[Velmont]

"Daryne? Lyrue? Who are they? I think I didn't mentally note things about them, or that spark disturb my mind." asks Rinaldo

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Elayna Lyrue, the Magequeen of Medibaria...Daryne is the fourth house of the Chromatic Order, other than Sice, Mordrue, and Omega."

 

[Velmont]

"Oh!" Rinaldo take his inkpen and correct his parchemin. "I'm not very familiar wit Medibaria and the Chromatic Order... I should take a trip there to open some business occasion, and who knows, a shop near the order headquater."

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THE SWARTHY SWORN SOPHISTICATE

KDA AKQQLLT ORCVK KPLSLJNVOHKN

ELF THRIFTS HORNY DEBAUCHERIES



[S]ELFTHRIFTSHORNYDEBAUCIFRIFI[/S]
[S]CDEFFFHIINOU[/S]

[S]The first library[/S]

 

[Rystil Arden]

"So if we take away 'the first', that leaves LF HORNY DEBAUCHERIES."

"That's not an easy anagram."

"A shop? Hmm...I'm sure you could get a good gig going if you partnered with the Academy--they're the premier magical institution in the world."