![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Repo Men: Task List Gaps
Mar. 8th, 2010 08:30 pmTonight during the ARGnetcast, there was a question about the gaps in the Task List Argus has revealed that Groundswell requires for the runners to stay off-grid. The list begins at 001 and ends at 999, but there aren't 999 tasks listed.
I'm not sure if this has already been done/posted by anyone else anywhere, but if not, here's what I discovered: if there is a message encoded in the gaps between tasks, it's either well-hidden or a red herring. Here's why:
Most of the time, the gaps between tasks translate to a low number. At first, they all appeared to be under 27, which means there could be a letter assigned to each number equivalent to the gap number between tasks (that is, Task 001 is followed by Task 004, with a gap of 3 = C). However, when you get far enough down the task list, there's a gap of 33 numbers. Unless the alphabet overlapped (meaning 33 = G), this means that this is a "dead letter" or that I wasted a lot of my time. :P
If anyone wants to decipher what I've already done for the gaps between Tasks 001 to 601, here we go (I've put all the letters in the order they appear on the task list; 001 to 004 = 3, so the first letter is C, and so on).
CEDELIAGDBIGUJCJBEGAAJKGRDEPACJIEIBGJIVEACEBVQAPIGDOGLFHIPDADDCWFTACBADCFTI(G)D
The (G) indicates the break: there was a gap of 33 numbers between Task 564 and 597, and unless the alphabet overlaps, this means either the "code" is invalid or it indicates something else, like a "space" or something else.
It could also mean that the letters following are messed up: do you count the gap between the last two VALID task numbers, or no? Probably not, since that would increase the gap number. 564-601 creates an even bigger task gap number than 33.
It's also possible that the numbers don't refer to letters at all, or that they refer to letters that are following a different code, e.g. an alphabet cipher, where 1 ≠ A, and so forth.
If anyone can make heads or tails of this (if it makes sense at all), let me know!
I'm not sure if this has already been done/posted by anyone else anywhere, but if not, here's what I discovered: if there is a message encoded in the gaps between tasks, it's either well-hidden or a red herring. Here's why:
Most of the time, the gaps between tasks translate to a low number. At first, they all appeared to be under 27, which means there could be a letter assigned to each number equivalent to the gap number between tasks (that is, Task 001 is followed by Task 004, with a gap of 3 = C). However, when you get far enough down the task list, there's a gap of 33 numbers. Unless the alphabet overlapped (meaning 33 = G), this means that this is a "dead letter" or that I wasted a lot of my time. :P
If anyone wants to decipher what I've already done for the gaps between Tasks 001 to 601, here we go (I've put all the letters in the order they appear on the task list; 001 to 004 = 3, so the first letter is C, and so on).
CEDELIAGDBIGUJCJBEGAAJKGRDEPACJIEIBGJIVEACEBVQAPIGDOGLFHIPDADDCWFTACBADCFTI(G)D
The (G) indicates the break: there was a gap of 33 numbers between Task 564 and 597, and unless the alphabet overlaps, this means either the "code" is invalid or it indicates something else, like a "space" or something else.
It could also mean that the letters following are messed up: do you count the gap between the last two VALID task numbers, or no? Probably not, since that would increase the gap number. 564-601 creates an even bigger task gap number than 33.
It's also possible that the numbers don't refer to letters at all, or that they refer to letters that are following a different code, e.g. an alphabet cipher, where 1 ≠ A, and so forth.
If anyone can make heads or tails of this (if it makes sense at all), let me know!
