This one seems to be quite a cryptological challenge for my untrained, doctor's brain as well... At first glance, it starts off with what appears to be a transposition cipher, but somehow, somewhere, it transitions into a substitution one? The missing spaces after those periods are intriguing.
Stealing other people's ideas makes it easier.
>That phrase made me consider a route cipher with the key "Bienville Parish"
Why 'Bienville Parish'?
Hey, I think it's fun!!
It's weird how in the top half of the code, it looks like one encryption scheme, but then lower down it seems to change. In the bottom half, it's almost like he substituted every other letter? The way that single letters are capitalized implies that he might've substituted different letters for 'I', but kept the capitalization.
Maybe you're supposed to decrypt one half first, and then use that to crack the other half?
Later on in the thread, they posted these "without any dirty tricks", which presumably means that they didn't do whatever OP did to the first one to make it all scrambled up and shit.
Qd cmst Bedif, exxfkof ha rptcr’b aklfcdef, R imway D kkp nkmi aph ddnh
dw gqguf rqwd mxddef clgndg apf gwsdu dnqhmrgc. Xhyrfmra stg dhalfi
odugdmwa bmi cmpcmikvh rmrbt. Cgl dmw po apg mapgd krcm, ws stg uf hnrof
rp cfhm kv rpdef xtk mukth?ZQhhccg, apgdg'c op mfmc rp dwag, cmst Sqwwdf. D nctn nuftdapkvl ovddh
mxtowgfer qxhmzh ca b kyr ph kudcgumpi. T khhwdl dmw apgdf da b
gwezyrpo, kpi R vrmm cl qhhccgi yp gkxl dmw ahcf kpd ydnh dphy dmw fycf
kv rqwd hadhnqd. Pt bffmwpi rk cgeddgr, cx xwd gndwo ecpgc kbm kpoyrmvh
cb gpoh sa rlfd tmuktm fpigdahkvkve. Od lpcyf dgpckva b wcfgze umapmr ng
smpibka, hg rfeh.Z
They both have a Z on the end, which is interesting. Maybe it means that the whole thing is switched over one letter, somehow.
He said that it was crypted with some kind of hand cipher, if I can just Google it and find out what this cipher is called then there are probably instructions to break it or them.