(2023) "Group" today has another name and a great number of followers, unlimited resources, and just one goal. But they are mortals... flesh and bone... desperate and exhausted. Death, on the other hand, started with just a few friends... but the crew is becoming larger every day.
All lines of the puzzle is encoded with a cipher. Here’s the list:
TEMPTED TO THROW MORE PUPPY PICTURES INTO THE MIX - Transposition (Key: death) It looks more like a blob of ink dripped on it - Atbash TO ME IT IUST LOOKS LIKE A BOAT LOAD OF PUZZLES WITH NO STORY WHICH ISNT REALLY MY CUP OF TEA - Baconian I_was_going_to_suggest_maybe_it_wasn_t_death_related_ - Caesar Box (Key: 18, 3) EUBDLQPLDREBOSTOSOGJC - UNSOLVED These puzzles are hard enough without intentionally fuzzy clues lmao - Shift Cipher (Keys: 1st 18: B, 2nd 18: C, 3rd 18: D, last: E) 87, 86, 61, 46, 40, 8, 77, 69, 103, 79, 96, 88, 46, 112, 75 - UNSOLVED SCHEDULEISCLEAREDFORTHENEXTHOURSFRESHPOTOFCOFFEEISREADYHEADISREADYTOBEBANGEDAGAINSTTHISWALLLETSGOZ - Four Square (Keys: Death x4) But so far next to zero story or characters - atbash don't·like·wasting·energy·on·puzzles·that·aren't·intended·to·be·solved·yet - railfence AND A HARD PUZZLE IS IUST NOT WHAT YOU WOULD WANT USUALLY - playfair (Key: death) Death knows no borders - Vigenere (Key: death) I swear I tried that lol - Trithemius (Key: descending 18) NOWWEREALLBONDINGOVERBEINGANNOYED - Trithemius (Key: death) YOU DONT TWITTER FOLLOW BOMB AN INHERENTLY COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY TO GAIN THEIR ATTENTION THEN DEMAND THEY NOT COLLABORATE ITS GOTTA BE FOR THE SPOOPYNESS - Transposition (Key: death) sometimes games only advance if you post the progress - ADFGX (Key: death) Death: No more hints Also Death: This puzzle is a hint - Atbash thinking - Hex
These quotes were all said on the Vehemence. Using the username of the person who said the quote, you get the answer. Here’s the list of people.
mjandersen Paradox Factor OptiPri Zoose ?? beeptest ?? Faustus lili ardat LatentMoths Steven Lamidor Vee Cee 265 trombone mediocre TJJohn12 Archaicjinn (He/They) Eris YankeeWhite (i think)
A red herring is if you used the index from the cipher used. You would get the answer “thisisnotrightpath”.