Matthias Graves | Simon Monroe (inbalance) wrote in reincarnatecomm, @ 2015-07-12 19:43:00 |
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Entry tags: | lucien prince, matthias graves |
Notes
To: Lucien Prince
From: Matthias Graves
[ Note One ]
[Written on plain white paper and slipped under Lucien's front door; no names are on it, but there is a question written on the front in Matthias's handwriting: 'What was Kerouac's favorite drink?' That is, of course, the clue to the passphrase needed to decode the Vigenére cipher within.]
U hrbe rzkazgvj a xife roi eol. Ghud fzxsk amob ij gt kpx cxus hecwggunx zo dg wemrvyt wzbezd. Nnee bae naizeelxr msby yfc phmt puu nwnlp lzqe, kmel tid zhrb rog wfalu tbkq tf noewk Rabvxt Sckne blz yfc aahe rrwrgl bqee soim t fmn fl Crxhtq.
[Decoded: I have arranged a game for you. Your first stop is at the club belonging to my dearest friend. When the bartender asks you what you would like, tell him that you would like to honor Robert Burns but you have always been more a fan of Capote.]
[ Note Two]
[Matthias has left the next note, written on a napkin, with Mason Sullivan at Happy Endings, to be delivered along with a drink - a screwdriver, specifically, which is the clue to the next cipher.]
Qqlv jhob nxfh kj jwu kw olv ogjx, ww r xgetw qgij rett xf ljfwa ozsz yj, ojvva wym rsdwp jlkz jwhi jcke. Gwwtp olv svkijwzwi sw ljv akprv rmkz vyi oqrsz. Xvdn yin wyio, pzcg Yiileorep, qql awqk bj pzng psqu cqai kg vyi bxctzwk.
[Decoded: Your next stop is far to the west, at a place open only to those like us, where the women show some skin. Catch the attention of the woman with the snake. Tell her that, like Hemingway, you want to live your life to the fullest.]
[ Note Three ]
[Layla Dale, at Skin, has been trusted with the third note in the series. It is accompanied by a mimosa... the key, of course, to the next bit of this little game.]
Kwg kalx pmjw ta jmqctdioy lo kwgf xizix glob, ba o hlmkq hzaf qe tdeqbuby, bgb mfwn'f eq odl tmds snp btsf gavq? Hzedm ug s mmv fvwrq etc wmnwpwws fpq bsmq wr hze btmqw. Ta pua, qog vqsv ta jdwfg gx Fvw Gdmmh Yafanm gr R. Aoclt Rqfnyedixr; ze iqxz jeowsbazq muhzed zqtwrqvos.
[Decoded: You will have to backtrack to your final stop, to a place that is fleeting, but aren't we all here and then gone? There is a man there who embodies the name of the place. To him, you need to bring up The Great Gatsby or F. Scott Fitzgerald; he will recognize either reference.]
[ Note Four ]
[Lucien's final stop for the night is at Here&Gone, back in Chicago. Here, Francis Radford has one final note for him, with a gin rickey to accompany it, and serve as the passphrase for the final cipher.]
Zpbloj S ek ycev Ntkraoa jfcnn lybm pywuor ru agrg ysxf ewh npkvi wuc szvkclcj gblz fbmlq zrxitnpcya, uv pqvhq zpr fjlogr ewh emgn xm vwfjmuc xm ypbn ug dlyz gbl pcfi uuv blz nsxrrm trug. Dijr pvd bjkx, unqyv gqe lybm evif dlc xmizagn zcxavfv qp Jgzhtvzcvh'q rifk jqyo, wuc nceciw ugvgvl vy vcgl gym qbmeovnc. Pg gmjr brct ayy rnig ym jkw y iwcp wh dlyz xezvvsre ov uza tysk, gvq zvxsxc ewh kw iy agzp uzu vy vczzvvdg sx. Mtkr kpgbi, fk evct jkrb ewh kpg lsmq iau bjo mrku, ofbj. Dlc hwbb, wh mssxar, za ayypy bb bmgz.
[Decoded: Though I am sure Francis would have chosen to stay with you while you finished your drink regardless, he holds the object you need to possess to show me that you have won our little game. Tell him that, while you have read the revised version of Fitzgerald's last book, you always wanted to read the original. He will tell you that he has a copy of that printing in his room, and invite you to go with him to retrieve it. Once there, he will hand you the book and the item, both. The book, of course, is yours to keep.]