My dad is being held ransom by an evil dictator.The three gaps correspond to F, Q, and Z, none of which occur in Haleyâs dialogue on that page. Eventually, we can determine the final mapping: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Lduzrycyrv is âcompletelyâ (thus L â C and Z â P), wyjyf byyw is ânever seenâ (F â R, B â S), and so forth. Weâre almost done! (Fortunately for us, our initial text contained the six most frequent letters in English.) At this point, several more words become obvious. Elan, it tu_n_ out I may not _e e_a_tly what you woul_ _allâ.I'm not _eally in the Thiev_â _uil_ anymo_e.My _a_ i_ _ein_ hel_ _an_om _y an evil _i_tato_.Yrhw, nc cgfwb dgc N uhv wdc ay yqhlcrv mkhc vdg mdgre lhrrâ.Nâu wdc fyhrrv nw cky Cknyjtbâ Pgnre hwvudfy.

Uv ehe nb aynwp kyre fhwbdu av hw yjnr enlchcdf.This can be done by hand, but itâs pretty easy to write a program to do the decoding. Now we can apply this mapping to the rest of Haleyâs dialogue and see we get any further clues. Using these, we can construct a partial mapping of cipher-characters to real characters, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Hereâs the ciphertext and the plaintext, lined up for readability: Yrhw, Nâu nw rdjy mnck vdg. There was an excellent chance that Haleyâs speech was being scrambled with a simple letter-substitution cipher. Looking at that page, some part of my brain which is evidently devoted to unscrambling ciphertext realized that the Wâs in Yrhw and nw both corresponded to Nâs. That example is significant, because itâs the first time I can recall seeing Haleyâs dialogue in scrambled and unscrambled form.

For example, in Wednesdayâs page, she attempts to say âElan, Iâm in love with you,â but actually says, Yrhw, Nâu nw rdjy mnck vdg. Haley, one of characters in Rich Burlewâs Order of the Stick, has recently been suffering from a psychological problem which scrambles her speech.

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