Fortune favours the bold...

[Whirlzap]

Preface:

This is a typical "clue hunter" contest.
For those of you forumers old enough to still remember, one of our friends DanielRH (known as Daniel Reiss Harris) once posted a very convoluted message with a bunch of cryptograms. The prize was a then-incredibly rare and valuable holiday item.
Here's the link: http://www.spacetimestudios.com/show...Hunter-CONTEST!

Today, our friend Daniel is no longer active on the forums, but instead plays a remarkable role as the CEO/Founder of his own company and pursues a CS degree at one of America's top universities, Harvard.

When the holiday season started this month, I returned to the forums with the intention of reviving the Ambassadors of Alterra video I made a few years ago. It has become a sort of forum tradition to show this holidays video at the end of each year to all new and returning players...which I will post once we get closer to Christmas.

But I also wanted to recall our friend Daniel, and so, through the spirit of the holidays and some remembrances of a great friend, this competition of monstrous proportions was born...

I

Gtic icy yeq bk m zyma
Iamtpf mebicya lyafy bk m impy
Bk Cbptqmzf meq Kyfitlmpf.
Mefgya ny, icy ramly meq icy rbpq,
T jayfyei zbw gtic zyi mebicya atqqpy:
Icy qmz bk icy fwe tf ptoy icy qmz bk m oteh.
Oh om s efdnqrsjq or hvq ndfrori, s mohhori dr hvq hvfdrq sh rddr, s esiqsrh or hvq qkqrori.
S esiqsrh or hvq qkqrori.



II

23-8-1-2023-1-1912-15-19-2023-8-15-19-523-1955-15-18-4-1923-9-12-1219-20-18-21-3-1119-15-141-12-124-5-1-20-820-8-519-16-5-1-1123-9-20-899-12-12-21-13-9-23-1-12-12-1-3-5-19-20-5-22-5-14-19-10-15-19-5-16-8-16-21-12-9-20-26-5-18-1955-14-1-20-5-1918-5-13-1-9-1423-1-255-24-3-12-21-4-5-423-8-15-19-523-1-1920-23-9-3-516-18-9-26-523-8-5-1423-15-1423-8-15-19-5

 

I) Both parts are codes. The first one is not too hard. The second is of a much more complex nature.
II) This 'game' is played with two parts. Part II gives the answer, and Part I tells you what to do with it.
III) The screenshots are clues, and hints to the prize.

IV) "From the moment we are born, we begin to die."

You have until the 25th of December, 2014.
If you are successful, great things shall unfold.

Good luck,
-Whirlzap

[synfullmagic_23110]

I got
"A cigarette made of"

[Meggadon]

What the hell is this?

[Giazagilur]

Qjdkandjnxwkz

[Groaning]

Is that in a different language or what?

[GreenLord]

What?

[GreenLord]

This launguage is beyond my knowledge

[Groaning]

ah i googled it and it whirlzapnese

[Ruby!!!]

I decrypted the whole thing what now? I don't get what's next...

[HeyitsTubs]

yeah me too i got the solution? do i get a reward or what?

[Ruby!!!]

Guess something is gonna happen at that time of the day on the given date?

[Groaning]

guys halp i mindfoggled by this....

[Ruby!!!]

guys halp i mindfoggled by this....

Check PM for hints

[Electrophiles]

Check PM for hints

send me pm to?

i need halp

[Rescind]

Hao tu find da seacret missage

[Epw]

guys halp i mindfoggled by this....

same here

[:-(]

How did people decode this. I decoded the opening four lines but I can't crack the last two lines

[Whirlzap]

Here's some context...

What I've posted here is a pseudo-riddle type of 'game'.
There are multiple parts, and I will reveal more steps once a few people successfully solve the preceding step.
The 'game' should end by Christmas time, and prizes will be awarded over the following few weeks.

If a current step is too hard, or if no one shows any sign of progress over the period of 3 days, I will post another hint.

Good luck!

[Groaning]

yus, now the second part lol

[Groaning]

omg the numbers tell us the coordinates to the lost city of Atlantis therefore is we follow them and take a picture he'll give all them pinks :P