• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

Joljr aol hivba

I think this one is a Caesar cipher

edit: Yeah it definitely is. It's shifted 7 letters to the right. Copy and paste the title into a Caesar cipher for the message.
 
Copy and paste the title into a Caesar cipher for the message.
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(Do I have the syntax right. I also need a passphrese. I tried the OP user name, 7, seven, the begining?, begining. Also noticed begining is misspelled in the original thread title from yesterday.)

Thread 'The Begining?'
https://crootn.com/index.php?threads/the-begining.3754/

@squanchy
@absoluteUnit
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@Cre8ive

A puzzle. I like puzzles.

Op seems to be posting an encrypted message with additional hints. I posted my work progress above. Hoping that others can build off it. Crowd sourcing.

I think all the required data should be in OP’s original post. With added information under the OP’s about tab .

 
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