User blog:AClockworkOrange/The Mystery of the Shorts

On October 14, 2013, the first two shorts "Candy Monster" and "Stan's Tattoo" aired, alongside episodes "Summerween" and "Gideon Rises. Candy Monster had actually came out a week early on iTunes. But there was one difference between the iTunes version and the television version...

At the end of both shorts flashed their own pages, both with blood/ink/whatever splattered all over it and CRYPTOGRAMS. The first page had "FROM THE FIRST UNTIL THE LAST SEARCH THE" in a Caesar cipher in it. Yet in both pages showed this:

8 9 10 14 17 22

14 5 24 3 7 9

"seems someone figured out something" GravityFallsCipher said on chat, with a link.

"guys" he continued. "if that's how it is; it matches the SFTBE code awhile back; when you had to find a word then a letter

"which SFTBE code?" Mf99k asked.

"the modified beale cipher"

"oh yeah"

"Sept 5th; it started; i think the tumblr I linked is on the right track; whenever you're decoding, if something makes sense, it's probably right; ooo, that cipher would work though; you put the credits code in the right; and the numbers in the left"

"so we going to decipher it?" Totally me245 said, with a link to the page flashed at the end of Candy Monster. "not the one at the bottom; the upper-left corner; But; I can't tell what cipher it is?"

"there's no idea what the symbols could mean, it's not frequent enough and we'lve seen it before" GFC replied.

"no, GFC, not the Gideon Rises one; there's another cipher! we must find out what that cipher is" TM continued.

TM had posted a link to a Beale cipher earlier, to which I confused. ""14 5 24 3 7 9" decodes to SECRET; it's from Stan's Tattoo page; Meaning Beale cipher is key"

"lol; that's the default" GFC replied.

"so, we add beale cipher to the cryptogram page?" TM asked.

"I know what you're talking about TM." GFC replied. "And we've seen it before."

"This is confusing." I replied.

GFC posted a link to with similar ciphers over it. "and no, it's not an exact beale cipher. if anything it's modified like the SFTBE one; only slightly different

"this one tells you a number which corresponds to the credits to use then numbers refer to letters; they could be deciphered in a similar way; even a true beale cipher but that would mean we need the real, legible, text of the book"

"or....it also applies to the cryptograms?" SirOrin88 asked. "at least the first ones"

"maybe" replied GFC. "it would seem these clips after the shorts all make one larger image"

"try it with the words we see on the page"

"i did, doesn't make much sense"

Afterwards, GFC went a bit inactive from chat. But that's what we got mostly. I cut out any minor parts or TM's typo of "add".

We'll continue once we get more. See you!

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