STAGE 01 · Caesar substitution
The Intercept
A prototype cipher wheel vanished during an eight-minute museum blackout. Decode the intercepted instruction to find the first piece of evidence.
EMERGENCY CIPHER MEMO
The final digit on the stopped clock is the Caesar shift key. Move every intercepted letter backward by that many places, wrapping A back to Z.
8:17SHIFT KEY: 7
INTERCEPTED MESSAGE
JOLJR SVJRLY JREFERENCE ALPHABETABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZCount seven places backward for each intercepted letter.
OPTIONAL FIELD ASSISTANCE