#another mysterybeechskulls code solved!

[stormybluejay]

I’M SORRY, I COULDN’T RESIST-

@mysterybeechskulls recently posted yet another code, which I immediately got to attempting to crack.

First things first- the Morse code needed to be cracked.

Look at this.... pages and pages of Morse code. Oh lord.

At first, it was daunting. But then I just realized that it was just what seemed to be a random spam of repeating O’s and J’s.

Now, if you’re wondering why I didn’t just go to a translator, it’s because of one little problem with the phone.

You see those long dashes there? Those are actually two dashes, joined automatically together by my phone.

And the problem with that.... the Morse code translator that I tried to use for this one cause it’s so long... didn’t recognize the characters.

So, like last time, I had to decode by hand.

Oh, it’s probably like... screaming? Or laughter? Maybe an ahaha?

I paused translating for a moment, and decided to run it through the Caesar cipher to test my theory.

Surprise surprise, it was not screaming. It was not laughing.

Now I was stumped.

I sat there for a few minutes, looking at the seemingly random spam of O’s and J’s I had.

I counted the numbers in between spaces, and then it dawned upon me.

You know... an O of course can be used to represent a 0.... and a J.... it kind of resembles a 1.....

I decided to test my theory, just in case.....

Oh god-

OH GOD-

WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US

WHY BINARY, OF ALL THINGS

LMAO

anyways

My journey had only just begun.

With the recent discovery I had made, I now had over-

.....

*pauses to count*

...One-thousand eight-hundred twenty-four characters that I have to individually translate from morse code into O’s and J’s, which would switch to 0’s and 1’s to form the binary code.

That’s 1,824 characters.

That’s a LOT of O’s and J’s.

And that’s exactly why five pages of my sketchbook are filled entirely of 16 O’s and J’s per line. That’s why I spent over five hours translating 1,824 characters from Morse code to binary.

And that was only half the work.

But once I set myself to a stupidly long task like this, it’s gonna happen.

So I was gonna solve this, one way or another.

Putting the binary into a translator went about ten times faster than translating the Morse code. Since I don’t have Binary memorized, I had to use a translator.

I know, it’s kind of cheating. I could’ve pulled up a chart or something like I do with my Morse code and translated it by hand, but I decided that it would be easier to do it with a translator.

I got super worried when the message came out sort of garbled, I thought I was gonna have to translate everything again.

It most likely was user error, or just formatted that way, because the message was mostly clear.

Here is the fully decoded message from Morse code to binary to English:

But we’re still not DONE.

We have another ABEO ABSCIDO, which we now know means TURN AWAY.

But what about the Morse code at the end?

The six little blips? What do those mean?

At first, I translated it as TENDAX, but I guess that was user error again or something, because in a later post by MysteryBeechSkulls it was confirmed to have said MENDAX.

I instantly assumed that it was more Latin, and I was proven correct when I pulled up google translate, and it said

So.... our fully decoded and translated message....

T U R N A W A Y

You dtve him to thhs kkhnd of end twice now. Ar you happy?

You fhxed ht tthe first tim, but now, you’ve done it again.

Are proud?

Oh, haha, you’re broken arren’t you. Here.... I’ll help y0u.

Do him a favor.. And shut up.

FALSE

Or, put in another picture, because everyone likes pictures....

Now, just a disclaimer, I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be all garbled like that.

It mentioned the target of the words being ‘broken’, so maybe it is correct??

I’m not sure, haha.... It would be super embarrassing if I got it wrong, but I could totally fix it because I have the basic gist of what it says.

Anyways, thank you for another code! While time consuming (and sort of frustrating) to solve, I’m very happy I managed to do it!

Looking forwards to more!