The Cipher
A Month had passed since intercepting a message. Most believed it was intercepted from a Chinese-Russian military satellite, our enemy in a war the Allies were losing, but I believed it had come from someone or something else. Everyone knew cracking the code, completely indiscernible to the best and brightest working around the clock, was key to our victory.
As I sat staring at the letters, numbers, and symbols, my eyes bugging out of my head, they began to lift from the page and realign before my eyes. I had done it, I’d found the key to deciphering the entire transmission. The message read,
GirlieOnTheEdge’s Six Sentence Stories #215.
Date: 2022-06-05 | Word: Key | Tags: #sixsentensestories
Photo Credits: Unknown | Photo Editing: Greg Glazebrook
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Very intriguing.
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Great job, I never thought to go in that direction. As a child of the Cold War, I should have!
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I was a child of the 80s, the bomb hung over our heads every day. Still, I believe the Chinese and to a lesser extent, the Russian are more of a threat today than the Soviets were back then.
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And now to make sense out of the message.
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Indeed, Someone is watching.
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Maybe that’s what the inside of my brain looks like!
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It probably said “We want six salami + cheese on rye — all with lettuce and mayo; one with sliced onions. And send up a case of Coke, too. We’re running low.”
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Nice, an inergalactic fastfood run. Imagine seeing that in the drive-thru.
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ain’t nothin like that moment, the visceral twist with the figure resolves out of the field*
fun Six, yo
*like, in olden days when magazines had puzzles at the back, ‘find the Pilgrim in the drawing’
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Now it makes sense, I think!
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I think you must offer us the key, Greg. Otherwise, I for one will always be left wondering what that message says…
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Hey Chris, I did provide the key, it’s right there in the post. It would be cruel and unusual punishment not too. The key is a geometrical monoalphabetic substitution cipher known as the pigpen cipher and was used as early as the 1500’s. There is also a shortcut to the solution hidden in the post. Good luck.
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I feared that might be the case… and I echo D’s response! But I’ve got it now. Good one👍
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My brain hurts.
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I worked it out, Greg, and a very valid message too… hopefully the message will get across…
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No if, ands, or buts about it. Get cracking as if our future depended on it. Cuz it does…
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I can’t imagine what an advanced alien civilization may think of us if they watched long enough. I just know it couldn’t possibly be good.
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