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Alright so first we have the link itself:

We have Roman numerals.

ciicixcviicxivcxvicivcicxcviicxivcviicxxicxicxviicxciii

At first I was like C must be a break and indication of a space which gave me the numbers 2, 9, 7, 14, 16, 4, 1, 10, 7, 14, 7, 21, 11, 17, 10, and 3

Which if it were simple letter to number code would give the letters:

B I G N P D A J G N G U K Q J C

Those are nonsense letters. They make no sense and there is no rearranging to make sense of them

Well there are 4 letters maybe it’s a Caesar Cypher:

Fllflafyllfalyfaylflyflf— I’m not even gonna finish this cypher. It too is nonsense and editing the shift to 14 or 13 (number of pages in the book) does nothing to help.

And then dear JRWIener I realized I’m a fool: C is the Roman numeral for 100

Which makes this link’s code wayyyy different.

Cii, cix, cvii, cxiv, cxvi, civ, cix, cvii, cxiv, cvii, cxxi, cxi, cxvii, cxciii

Broken down into numbers I can actually understand, still assuming that C is the separator but rather because it’s an indication of new number rather than a space we get

102, 109, 107, 114, 116, 104, 109, 107, 114, 107, 121, 111, 117, 193

Alright so 193 seems WAYYY out of range of the other numbers and 121 also seemed sus based on the consistency of the other numbers. So I looked back through the numerals a few times to see if I messed up or if there was another way to break it down and actually broke it down like this instead:

Cii, ci, xcvii, cxiv, cxvi, civ, ci, c, xcvii, cxiv, cvii, cxxi, cxi, cxvii, cx, ciii

They tried to trick me but I found your sneaky “xc” starting numerals, can’t throw me off the trail jrwi crew. *pushes up glasses anime style*

Now in numbers I recognize lol:

102, 101, 97, 114, 116, 104, 101, 100, 97, 114, 107, 121, 111, 117, 110, 103

Ok cool not as simple as I thought it would be but that made a world of difference as far as the range and seems to be a range of 97-121 which is almost the 26 we need for letters so maybe this will give me some letters.

So down the rabbit hole I go. Looking up what the heck kinda codes are in a number range of 97-121

The only cipher that has that range for things to translate directly into letters is the ASCII decimal encoding.

And let me tell you fellas. I’m pretty sure this is the correct one.

What does this code translate to?

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ciicixcviicxivcxvicivcicxcviicxivcviicxxicxicxviicxciii

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Translates to

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f̸̶̶̶̶̨̤͇̤̞̥̥̻̺̬̞͓̣̘̗̪̗̖̘ͮ͆̊̃͗ͣͪͦ̄̈̀́͒͋͆́͘̕̚̕͜͟ẽ̢̢̠̖̘̟̪̜͉̤̳͈̺̥͍̖ͭͭ͛ͧ̔̓̊ͧ̓̃̔͆̾̒ͯ̈́̈́̃̅͘͜͠͡a̵̳͙̩̹̮ͮͮ̉͗͂ͨ͆̿ͣ̏͐͘r̛̰͚͓̲̫̬͍̣̹͍̹̣̰̘̳̎̿͆́̇́ͣ̔ͪ̍̆ͤ͋́̇ͫ̄̈̀̉̚̕͡͠͠͡ t̲̹̪̅͗̓̏_̘͈̽͠ḣ̴̸̨͕̱̳͉͎̭͚̲̊ͬ̃ͪ͌̉͡e̸̢̠͓̺͈̱͖͋ͭͪ͐͢͜ d̵̸͎̩̬̤͔͒̿ͤ̏̾ͨ͗ͤ̈͆a͎̟ͦr̷̸̳̍ͫ̓̈́̅ͩ̕k̡̧͚̹̘̼̳̤̥͑̉͑̊͌ͫͮ̋̌̈́͛ͧ̓͜͞ͅ yơ͍͍̙̦͖ͤ͐ͩ͒̋̈́̓̅̈̏̂ͤͥ͡i_̴̡̢͖̖̱̥̩̦̗̲̯͚̲͎͑͐͒͂ͫͦ̀͂̀̑̅͗ͮ̐̓ͩ̀̾̓̀́͌͛ͣͯ̋̿͘͡͝͞ṋ̵̵̝̜͖̭̝̮̰ͩ̓ͩ̃ͫ̆͗ͦ̑ͯͥͦ̔͗ͨ̎̄̈ͨ͛ͦͣ̕͢͝͝͞g̴̶̹̺͇̳̹̳̦̱͚͇͑́̆̿̏͊͗̎ͣͬͨ̚͟͟͞

𝑓⃫𝑒⃫𝑎⃫𝑟⃫ 𝑡⃫ℎ⃫𝑒⃫ 𝑑⃫𝑎⃫𝑟⃫𝑘⃫ 𝑦⃫𝑜⃫𝑢⃫𝑛⃫𝑔⃫

𐌅𐌄𐌀𐌓 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌃𐌀𐌓𐌊 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌍Ᏽ