The Time Thief

by Reading4HalfMyLife

Loop 31

Hello Astral,

Is this what they're teaching you in school now? I wish I was that lucky, I couldn't even begin to crack this.

Thankfully, I know this brilliant mare, Binary Ink, who specializes in coding and uncoding texts and totally doesn't work for the Equestrian Secret Service, why would you even think that? It took her a good two hours,which is long for her, but she cracked it.

She used that Base 64 thing you used last time - apparently it's used by spies to hide messages-not that Binary Ink would know such a thing of course- and she ended up with the strange text you did;

Gyog ojo pch Kzi rfr mge Nvl-

Kzi zg fvw nfwau lrzg gc qyl? Kuc sbv mbi ly yse?

Cz Qfrf, Ddorgr,

Ojo pch hzo Bsrdwb? Kvr Vgck?

Urh gek, Urh gek, Urh gek, Urh gek

That looked, to her at least, like somepony had written a sentence, encoded it, and then encoded it again. You told me that the Kronos symbol was on the back of it, so, after a bit of brainstorming, she tried out a vigenere cipher, where you swap the words around with a certain keyword. She used Kronos for this so;

What are you Why are you Why-

Why is she doing this to you? Who are you to her?

Oh Gods, Please,

Are you the Keeper? The Host?

Get out, Get out, Get out, Get out

Weird, for a school project, but if you have any more, be sure to send it over, Binary would love it.

Yours faithfully, Alchemy

Author's Note:

I love codes.

Equestria does not have computers, so binary is not used outside of spies encoding messages. Video games are magic based, and use illusions.

Comments

[Twilight Connor]

Fancy, base 64! I love that stuff!

[Reading4HalfMyLife]

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[Starlight Glimmer1]

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Didn’t notice this reply until now because apparently you aren’t notified of replies unless they’re made on the same chapter as the original comment.

Anyway.

I’ve made many different things over the years ranging from simple to complex. These include balls, a peacock, dinosaurs, dragons, the devil, weed, hearts, etc. I’ve also done modular origami.

[Reading4HalfMyLife]

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Ah, weed, that common origami shape