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

Started June 25, 2018 by @StarkSpangledMayflower_Mad_Elder

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“Why do they want you dead? What did you guys do?” Andra asked, passing a look between Eira and Cyrus.

“I think we were catching on to how corrupt they were. I’m not entirely sure myself. I for one probably would’ve stuck with them until the bitter end out of obligation, sadly.”
Cyrus shook his head.

Eira nodded, “Sadly I agree with Cyrus. I’m not sure if I want to go back after all of this.” She admitted.

“We’d be insane to go back to someone who wants us dead,” Cyrus admitted.

Andra nodded, “That is true.” She said, “Do you have any idea of who might have sent the note?”

“No. We can’t decide for sure whether it was a friend or enemy. Personally, I think it was an ally. It was written with some sort of code. We were supposed to read between the lines, but we never succeeded at decoding it entirely.” Cyrus stood up. “Should I try to find it? Did you want to see?”

“I can try and read it, but I doubt it will make any sense to me.” Andra said.

“It’s in a bunch of different languages. Unfortunately, some of the most vital people in decoding it have left for now,” Cyrus explained. He took the note off one of the kitchen shelves and pushed it towards Andra.

Andra took the note and studied it, frowning, “Does anyone have any outline for what it could be?”

Cyrus pulled out a blank sheet of paper and a pen and started writing the part he could translate, but it was still vague and rougher than he would’ve liked.
“That’s all I can do for now.”

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.”