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I have no idea where to even start when it comes to decrypting this series of dots and lines. Totally lost.
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Shadowman99 wrote:I have no idea where to even start when it comes to decrypting this series of dots and lines. Totally lost.
Here's a place to start:
http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewto ... =1&t=49404" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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People should decipher the code for themselves, so they can find out there is an error in Rex-O's dialog for themselves. :twisted:
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Dr. Solar wrote:People should decipher the code for themselves, so they can find out there is an error in Rex-O's dialog for themselves. :twisted:
Livewire's response is spot on though! :lol:

Well it's not very difficult to decipher anyway and now I'm almost fluent in Rex-o-talk.... but my eyes hurt a little.

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Sunlight on Snow wrote:
Dr. Solar wrote:People should decipher the code for themselves, so they can find out there is an error in Rex-O's dialog for themselves. :twisted:
Livewire's response is spot on though! :lol:

Well it's not very difficult to decipher anyway and now I'm almost fluent in Rex-o-talk.... but my eyes hurt a little.
It's not difficult to decipher once you have the cipher.

Developing the cipher in the first place took quite some time.
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I was close to getting it but had to have a bit of help to decifer a few things. It's cool.

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Dr. Solar wrote:
Sunlight on Snow wrote:
Dr. Solar wrote:People should decipher the code for themselves, so they can find out there is an error in Rex-O's dialog for themselves. :twisted:
Livewire's response is spot on though! :lol:

Well it's not very difficult to decipher anyway and now I'm almost fluent in Rex-o-talk.... but my eyes hurt a little.
It's not difficult to decipher once you have the cipher.

Developing the cipher in the first place took quite some time.
Didn't you start with the URL from the Secret Edition?

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1:17 solved it. Great fun for sure. Thanks Valiant that's the most I've looked at a single comic book. Dispite the good story this was the bees knees this year for me.
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Sunlight on Snow wrote:Didn't you start with the URL from the Secret Edition?
I developed the cipher for this coded alphabet back in February, when Secret Weapons was first teased.

The Secret Weapons teaser gave us 10 letters. I worked backwards from there to figure out the rest of the alphabet:
https://twitter.com/baddeacon/status/826959040903204864
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Dr. Solar wrote:
Sunlight on Snow wrote:Didn't you start with the URL from the Secret Edition?
I developed the cipher for this coded alphabet back in February, when Secret Weapons was first teased.

The Secret Weapons teaser gave us 10 letters. I worked backwards from there to figure out the rest of the alphabet:
https://twitter.com/baddeacon/status/826959040903204864

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Dr. Solar wrote:
Sunlight on Snow wrote:Didn't you start with the URL from the Secret Edition?
I developed the cipher for this coded alphabet back in February, when Secret Weapons was first teased.

The Secret Weapons teaser gave us 10 letters. I worked backwards from there to figure out the rest of the alphabet:
https://twitter.com/baddeacon/status/826959040903204864
The rather obvious URL from the Secret Edition gives you 14 letters in 2-3 minutes and with these it's pretty obvious what goes around CHAPTER ONE, and in a Harbinger world there's only so much someone like Rex-O could say starting with "PS..."

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I realized my eyes started seeing the letters wrong and transposed some lines on the URL suffix. I finally got it. That was pretty fun.
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So, has anyone else actually cracked the logic behind the cipher?

It follows a very distinct, logical, and elegant pattern. Quite nice.
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Dr. Solar wrote:So, has anyone else actually cracked the logic behind the cipher?

It follows a very distinct, logical, and elegant pattern. Quite nice.
I tried but gave up... thinking it's all random after all.

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It's the postal barcode used in... wait for it...

Holland. :)

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TheeBaldMoose wrote:Check this out. That little code near first print does not appear on regular cover a issues on the inside coverImage

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greg wrote:It's the postal barcode used in... wait for it...

Holland. :)
Ha!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RM4SCC

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Nice find Greg! Although I'm happy with my hand drawn alphabet.
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JCP wrote:Nice find Greg! Although I'm happy with my hand drawn alphabet.
Right, the answer is only so you can check your work. :)

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I've done the whole alphabet too. Missing letters J and Q graph paper works really well.
Anyone take a picture of the small symbols make it bigger on the phone? Or use a card and cut a square and move it along the long symbols to separate it from others.
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If I understand correctly, the secret Secret Weapons coded REX-o speech is the only thing that is different from the special A covers and the rest, yeah? Was it only supposed to be a variant of the A covers?

I got a 'secret' A cover & the pre-order bundle copy, but not a regular 'non-secret' copy... and I just noticed that the pre-order bundle version also has coded speech for Rex-o (but no code marker on the inside indicia)...
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grendeljd wrote:If I understand correctly, the secret Secret Weapons coded REX-o speech is the only thing that is different from the special A covers and the rest, yeah? Was it only supposed to be a variant of the A covers?

I got a 'secret' A cover & the pre-order bundle copy, but not a regular 'non-secret' copy... and I just noticed that the pre-order bundle version also has coded speech for Rex-o (but no code marker on the inside indicia)...
I think Rex-O's bubbles are/look the same (coded speech) with the same whatevs in all versions. The only difference between the Secret Edition and all the regular/variant editions is the additional codes that will give you the URL to the intercepted communication.


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