Answer and solution to puzzle #1 of The Crypto Chronicles!

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Congrats to siclad69 for solving the first puzzle in my interactive short film Chronicles. Each puzzle will end a season, with episodes leading up to it providing clues and entertainment. The next puzzle will be worth $200 to the first person to solve it. Follow along and enjoy. Now I will explain in short, how my first puzzle was decoded:

Siclad69 recognized the characters as pigpen cipher. After translating them he came up with a unreadable block of letters. He then used a rotational cipher, rot13 which gave him yet another unreadable block of letters. In the process he likely tried the Vigenère cipher using the code: ILOVEYOU to decode the message. He was only successful after converting the Pigpen to ROT13. This process took him about 3 hours and earned him $100 and the first person to solve my puzzle.

Cheers.