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[The Skarzs]

I've done 3 different ways of decoding it:
p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
o n m l k j i h g f e d c b a z y x w v u t s r q p
z y x w v u t s r q p o n m l k j i h g f e d c b a

None of them worked.

[BlueRose]

Ok, have you looked up 'key number code' yet? (Might help)

NM. I just did it and it was useless. Try 'Key number substitution code'. The wikihow link will help.

[The Skarzs]

I can't. The security program blocks all sites.

[BlueRose]

Geh. Ok, so a key number code is a code where you pick a number, say, 16, and then move forwards with letters based on that. Aka, the first letter in your coded phrase, if it was a, then you would put b. The second letter in the phrase would skip forwards 6, so a would be f.

[The Skarzs]

I'm still trying, but that makes no sense either.

You are dealing with an imbecile. Me.

[BlueRose]

...............

Rus, help me here? Please?

[Rusvul]

Um.
Context, dude. Think about context. One letter, three letters, two letters. Some letters repeat.

[The Skarzs]

Oh, it would have been SO much easier to simply state it.
Rus, that doesn't help in the least. My brain is fried. You have absolutely no idea how hard I've been trying to figure this out.

[BlueRose]

Hey, Rus, you made it worse. I posted another code on this topic.


If it helps, the decoding of the one on this topic is 'Show off', because that's what you were doing.

[The Skarzs]

. . .
Sorry I've been so much trouble to you guys.

[Rusvul]

Oh. Oops 

No, Skarsz, you're fine.

Uhh... So, say your key number is five, and your message is 'I'.

You would move I five letters forward in the alphabet.

Like this.

I>J>K>L>M>N

So, if you wanted to use the letter 'N', and your key number was 5, you'd use the letter 'I' instead.

[BlueRose]

No, Rus, it would be if you wanted to use I, you would use N. That's the way I coded...

Hey, that was me showing off, huh.... Ooops.


You aren't too much trouble! It's fun! Like teaching a kid how to daisy-chain. Not like I've ever done that.....

[The Skarzs]

So, to use your '42' thing, the first one would be Q.
There is no way that is right.

[BlueRose]

That's why you have to do it backwards. (Oh, now I get what Rus said. Do what Rus said. Ignore me.)

[Tam and Martin]

*confused*