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Yup, Dragonfire has tried ROT# decryption, and we've tried various keyword and vigenere decryptions, to no avail. Unless the cipher has multiple levels?

It has to have something to do with the book pages but not sure exactly what

Hmmm...that is a good question.

Hrrrngh. Please disregard "The cipher from the deep you're looking for was on a rock."

New clue going into circulation.

New clue / message from a bottle...

...I need more tea for this.

Heimdall, the Aquatoids we heard about in a previous clue - they sound like they fit an 'ancient' race?

Oho!

iksn ar hkpr = "four at most"

icvo rbono ano = "five there are"

then we have plaintext morse "but use only"

The Aquatoid race is an ancient society, having existed millennia before man's first faltering steps upon the world. Their compact form and bulbous features are a throwback to their space faring brethren, the Sectoids.

From this URL here

I am kind of kicking myself that I didn't try this yesterday; it would have made sense.

The last enciphered phrase does not translate with 'aquatoid' as a key'.

So these three phrases - maybe if they're arranged "five there are but use only four at most"?

And that does make sense with the arrangement of the language that Heimdall posited! There's no letter that corresponds to all five glyphs.

*PUNCHES BETA SYMBOL IN THE FACE*

GOOD WORK!

Once again, I don't understand how something has been worked out, but I'm glad is has.

Thank you for finding that clue, Tusitala. That was our one little string!

Solved: five there are but use only four at most

Now... for the vulture, the final one

WAIT were those in a keyword cipher!?!?