BobfromSydney wrote:Cthia:
It was only after SWM's point that I realised what the first 'word' was. Figuring out that pretty much solved the rest.
My first reaction was it may be ROT13 or simple substitution (because of the Enigma Red Herring) - then on reading the words I thought some kind of pig-latin variant. Then I thought it involved letter swapping the first/last letters with the adjacent words.
What I am curious about is would reading the plaintext actually upset him? Considering she has turned into a background/secondary character at this point I suppose it would not have hurt the narrative too much to have [more of a] tearjerker ending to AAC. I think I would have been able to accept that ending (although I would have been sad too...)
The whole thing reminds me of Doyle whacking the great detective.
Wow.
Bob, I had totally forgotten about that encrypted post. I really didn't try to make it too difficult. Initially, I had alternated positions of the extra letters from first to last positions in each word. Then I added random letters to the last two words, since I ran out of extra letters. But after doing so, I worried that it may have been too difficult, so ultimately I went with the existing. As I said, I didn't mean for it to be difficult
at all, just less obtrusive, or obvious.
And you're right, in that he may not have taken umbrage at the post, but out of respect
and caution, I didn't want to take any chances. Because my real concern was a "Well I'll show him!!!," reaction.
Then the mob would have come after me!
Oh, and, speaking for myself and what I've heard from friends, it would have killed everything for us. I seriously don't think I'd have continued.
Thanks for the post.
Of all the careless, cruel, thick-headed, cruel, selfish, cruel, thoughtless, selfish, 
