#bunkshelf cipher

[khaoscitykitty]

Can we talk about the ASMR/Audio RP VAs, please? I'm dying to talk about the VAs-

So hi there.

Um, my name's Nyx, but I've gone by Sombra or Stray as well in different spaces. I'm an avid listener of asmr/audio roleplays and I'm present in a few of the communities and fandoms here on Tumblr.

(Hi guys!!! *waves furiously from the pedestal*)

My favorite fandom and the one I'm most present in, however, is the Bunkshelf. Mage has been my favorite creator and VA since I finished binging their channel and I've met a lot of cool people in there.

The thing about Mage, though- our beloved, scrunkly, genius raccoon over here- is that they tend to be fond of codes. And ciphers. And all sorts of delicious little secrets.

They've been getting back into that recently, and I'm HERE FOR ITTTTT. My reputation as many know is that of "feral simp go AAAAAA"- but I'm a story-lover first. You give me a good plot and I'm yours. And seeing Mage including more puzzles for us to solve in their audios is so exciting for me, I love that kind of thing.

We've had a bit of a Bunkshelf ARG going on for a couple of years now. And it's funny because I thought it would be JUST a BUNKSHELF ARG.

TURNS OUT IT'S NOT.

The keener-eyed viewers of the Bunkshelf may have noticed two codes in the latest audio. Not unusual for Mage, right? That's their reputation after all.

........ no what's unusual is the fact that over the past week, ten VAs have also had codes hidden in their videos.

All are the same type of code as the one hidden in Mage's audio.

The ARG has expanded. It's not contained solely to the Bunkshelf, but is crossing over to other Storyteller's Realms.

Currently on that list?

@shaymelessaudios

CardlinAudio

Maladaptive Daydream Audio

Luca the Dark Fae

@capitalmaudios

@kimuracarter (who's on my binge list, ma'am I'm coming for you, nice to meet you btw, Pyro speaks highly of you-)

@magebunkshelf herself of course (they have received a lot of screeching from me over this and I apologize-)

JayAshBran

Siren's Son ASMR

@mr-laveau (also on that list, hello hello lovely-)

The Cipher Hunters in the Bunkshelf are expecting more audios with codes to be released. But we don't know from who yet. We're given clues based off of code words, and I went into more detail on them in the Ciphers page on the Bunkshelf Wiki (I'll link it below as well).

What we need- from everyone- all of y'all in the Tumblr fandoms- is to keep an eye on your VAs that you're following. There's no connection among the audios themselves, we're going from romance to space to pirates. It can come from ANYONE.

The code in the audio will look something like this:

It can start at any point in the audio and will run for an average of about five seconds, repeating twice. The key part about this code is that there is ONE letter that never changes in each line. We need those constants to figure out the key to this phase of the Bunkshelf ARG.

If you think you've found a clue, post it on Tumblr and PLEASE tag it with "#bunkshelf cipher"- we need all the eyes we can get.

I'd like to end this all by saying this is... a truly incredible, meaningful thing to do for the community. You're promoting other VAs and you're getting the different fandoms to interact and hopefully collaborate with each other. It's such a cool idea and so sweet. And so freaking IMPRESSIVE that it's being pulled off.

So to the VAs that helped in the scheming- thank you. Mage, thank you AGAIN for coming up with this game for us to play.

And thank you to everyone who decides to play with us.

Happy hunting!

-🖤🐈‍⬛

Ciphers

Several coded messages have appeared within audios, in the channel's community posts and in other places. These messages are parts of an ARG

[kipperzz]

decided to post some of my theories on @magebunkshelf's server on Θ the moon being in Mitch's world. Just going to directly copy and paste my stuff from the server to here so that other's can join the conversation

currently going through Θ's wiki page and I noticed this quote

"Every string anchors me to you.[6] I was fading into the dark, but… the threads slowed me. No longer. I can make more threads, yes… Hold them tight to me, bind them together, make the connection stronger, tangible. No longer falling… Coming closer. Coming home."

the threads mentioned are certainly connected to cipher three with needle thread needle embrace but I'm not yet sure how. some things this quote I believe does confirm is that Θ was from earth and is using the moon and the threads they're making to return back since the moon is now drifting towards earth and no longer away from it. perhaps the demihumans are the anchors that is helping Θ return home but I'm not sure

a theory I was thinking was Θ is being used is because the circle is the moon and the line in the middle is the entity cause Ο or Omicron wasn't used as the stand in name (we know Θ is not the actual name due to a response Mage has given to a question on tumblr) which O is another letter of the Greek alphabet (edited)

it might be possible that Θ is actually the moon seeing how recent the demihumans are I think they started appearing after the apollo missions due to those missions brought back moon rocks, possible being pieces of Θ

that's all of my ideas so far, I'll listen to the lunar mission audio to try to figure out more lore cause I haven't listened to it in over a year.

[magebunkshelf]

453323241414153352231533133445334415422324444355154234

[khaoscitykitty]

you know theta’s got her clutches in you when you’ve dreamed about the cipher for the past three nights

[khaoscitykitty]

ONE SECRET REMAINS IN THE MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION TEASER.

Also it is also midnight, shut up, I will go to bed after I finish this post, I will warn y'all however it is very rambly due to feral hours and definitely not sleep deprivation.

Dr. Foreman is my hero and role model now okay-

RIGHT SO-

We were going through the video again because you know threads and ciphers and secrets and what not-

And I'm double-checking the Facility logo because I noticed and it'd been brought up before, but it looked like the cipher in the bottom pair of wings was shifting.

FOR CONTEXT:

This is the Facility emblem. Y'all see the letters there in the bottom half of the wings? It's a Base32 cipher that translates to "Guilde d’étude des phénomènes anormaux" OR "Guild for the study of anomalous phenomena" (decoded by @kipperzz a while back-)

Checks out for the Facility, considering they're interrogating moth people and looking for vampires and selkies pretty sure about the selkies-

BACK TO MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION-

At 1:06 (WHICH OH BY THE WAY IS THE SAME TIMESTAMP FOR THAT LITTLE HIDDEN SPECTROGRAM THETA WE FOUND YESTERDAY-), the Facility logo flashes across the screen:

Again, the OG cipher that we already discovered-

BUT THEN-

THREE.

NEW.

CIPHERS.

APPEAR.

I was trying to get a clearer image of the frames so I could transcribe and decode them- eventually figured out how and the entire VC just heard my manic cackling for the next two minutes (I apologize y'all-).

NOW THAT I HAVE THE PROPER TRANSLATION AND NOT THE FEVERISH RUSHED ONE THAT I ORIGINALLY POSTED IN THE BUNKSHELF:

YOEXIYLCNRUXGIDTN52XGIDPOJSG63TOMFXGGZJAMRSSA43BEBGWC2TFON2MHKJAIZZGC3WD U5XWS4ZAOBZGK3LJMVZCYIDSN5USAZDFEBDHEYLOMN SSA4DBOIQGYYJAM5ZMHITDMUQGIZJA IRUWK5JMEBSW4IDM4KAJSYLOEBWWS3DMMUQGG2LOOEQGGZLOOQQHI4TFNZ2GKLLROVQXI4TF

If you decode these all at once you get:

Établis sous ordonnance de sa Majesté François premier, roi de France par la grâce de Dieu, en l’an mille cinq cent trente-quatre

WHICH MEANS THAT INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL CIPHER MEANING, THE FULL FACILITY EMBLEM CIPHER READS:

Guild for the study of anomalous phenomena. Established by decree of His Majesty Francis I, King of France by the grace of God, in the year fifteen hundred and thirty-four

(TRANSLATED WITH THE HELP OF OUR AMAZING BUBBLE @thebestbottleofglue THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN BUBBBBB)

THE FACILITY HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 1534. I THOUGHT IT WAS AN ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED IN MAYBE THE 1950S AT THE EARLIEST BUT NO- CENTURIES- CENTURIES- IT'S BEEN AROUND SINCE THE 1500S OMFGDLSFKJASDLKFJASDLJFSADLFKJSAFJ

... so anyway um, one more secret to be found!

bruh i don't wanna sleep

[magebunkshelf]

2 18 5 1 3 8 4 5 20 5 3 20 5 4 3 15 21 14 20 23 9 12 12 3 15 14 20 9 14 21 5

[khaoscitykitty]

I need to sleep soon and stop staring at the goddamn wiki again.

Note to future me: delete this when you do the bimonthly purge if this thing has been cracked by then.

July 3: The Counter page on the wiki was increased to 11 with the code word Me-zu. Reference to Shezu Rivera who had the last piece of code in her audio release that day.

July 3: The Magnificent Desolation phase of the Counter cipher was solved and found.

July 3: Counter is "reset" to 3.

Apparently "technically" reset.

Looking at the page's history shows every update from June 26 (Dissociate: 3) to July 3 (Me-zu: 11) was reverted to "3".

The last three edits made to the page on July 3 count back from 6 to 3.

No updates to the page as of late.

3: reference to Mal's audio, maybe something was missed

3: maybe the timestamp for the reverted audios leading to another clue

3: some hidden meaning in the last three edits

maybe the edits?

technically reset. it has to hint to something, it's not going to start counting over again?

the edits?

damn threads

[khaoscitykitty]

Another screeching into the void post, yes I'm still on my Magnificent Desolation secret bullshit- future me, delete this post as well during the purge if it's been solved by then pls-

This is very rambly again, might not make too much sense, this is mainly me just talking out my thoughts again.

She's mentioned something similar about Lunar Mission, so I'm wondering if the remaining secret is similar to that hidden easter egg... with that one her only hint was to "think like an editor".

With the other five secrets we covered a lot of the bases:

It's been ciphers galore, but what Mage has been saying makes me think the last one won't be another code exactly?

She said the easter egg in Lunar Mission is a reference, you'll know it when you see it. Maybe the secret in Magnificent Desolation is the same.

We've found some interesting details- the Cafe Regale flash, and the title of the teaser itself- Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon was a book written by Buzz Aldrin, second astronaut to walk on the moon.

None of these were THE secret, counter wasn't been updated after either discovery.

Right now, these are my two biggest questions:

What are the numbers being read out in the audio, and why do they appear in that order

Why the HELL is Obsidian Lantern credited in the description??? I wondered if it was because his "anonymous friend" AKA voice of the amazing Sevira is the one reading out the numbers- she's also voiced a few of the other ciphers featured on the Bunkshelf. BUT NO.

OBI WHY TF ARE YOU IN HERE.

I feel like the secret's maybe going to be something about the clips used.

A lot that hasn't been interrogated

difference between ciphers and eggs

not all can be found with a cipher-cracker's mindset

it's been four days since the last secret was found lol, i feel like it's right there

and what is the lunar mission easter egg

maybe the clips

but those damn numbers

will the teaser be unhidden when the counter hits zero, or will the counter reset again