hoidshore

I'd like to reiterate the Keep It Simple approach... code is great for a lot of things. If this gets bruteforced, it would completely cheapen the experience. Let's trust in Sanderson's literary awesome.

That's an amazing observation!

I would like to simplify some things based on the assumption that Brandon is not evil. The pattern 1 message is given. We need to break the pattern 15 message. Brandon is not evil (would not require extreme lore like deciphering Alethi from small pictures). The pattern one message is 310 characters (including spaces, but he's been trolling us or teaching us in that aspect). The pattern 15 message is 154 chars including spaces. So close to 310/2=155. So close... but is he evil? Capitals have been shown to be in the message. So, mod 52 (50 for the purists I guess, but we can adjust this later) was my first thought. I wanted to ignore the frequencies of 1's and 0's but it's hard. We have the translated message from ceiling 2, pattern 1. We need pattern 15, May be a bad assumption that pattern 1 is every letter, but.. is pattern 15 every 15th letter, starting from... the second? the fifteenth? Well played Brandon.