Caeser

Caeser is the sixth puzzle in Athena Puzzles Season 1. It was made by SlumberousCarp2.

The first team to solve this puzzle was the Untitled Puzzle Team. It was solved by Orca.

## Puzzle

Upon reaching the puzzle, each team would be presented with this image:

## Hints

**10 minutes** - *To beat the puzzle, enter Caesar's head*

**20 minutes** - *Et tu, Brute?*

**30 minutes** - *The men in white spoke in front of millions as the lifeless body stood in front*

**35 minutes** - *Look at the text version of the image*

**40 minutes** - *You must shift to II to open the lock*

**45 minutes** - *My name is also a cipher method*

## Solution

To solve this puzzle, you would have to open the image in Notepad++, which would reveal the following text:

*On the second of may, he proclaimed*

*'Htkgpfu, Tqocpu, eqwpvtaogp, ngpf og aqwt gctu;*

*K eqog vq dwta Ecguct, pqv vq rtckug jko.*

*Vjg gxkn vjcv ogp fq nkxgu chvgt vjgo;*

*Vjg iqqf ku qhv kpvgttgf ykvj vjgkt dqpgu;*

*Uq ngv kv dg ykvj Ecguct. Vjg pqdng Dtwvwu*

*Jcvj vqnf aqw Ecguct ycu codkvkqwu:*

*Kh kv ygtg uq, kv ycu c itkgxqwu hcwnv,*

*Cpf itkgxqwuna jcvj Ecguct cpuygtÕf kv.*

*Jgtg, wpfgt ngcxg qh Dtwvwu cpf vjg tguvÐ*

*Hqt Dtwvwu ku cp jqpqwtcdng ocp;*

*Uq ctg vjga cnn, cnn jqpqwtcdng ogpÐ*

*Eqog K vq urgcm kp EcguctÕu hwpgtcn.*

*Jg ycu oa htkgpf, hckvjhwn cpf lwuv vq og:*

*Dwv Dtwvwu ucau jg ycu codkvkqwu;*

*Cpf Dtwvwu ku cp jqpqwtcdng ocp.*

*Jg jcvj dtqwijv ocpa ecrvkxgu jqog vq Tqog*

*Yjqug tcpuqou fkf vjg igpgtcn eqhhgtu hknn:*

*Fkf vjku kp Ecguct uggo codkvkqwu?*

*Yjgp vjcv vjg rqqt jcxg etkgf, Ecguct jcvj ygrv:*

*Codkvkqp ujqwnf dg ocfg qh uvgtpgt uvwhh:*

*Agv Dtwvwu ucau jg ycu codkvkqwu;*

*Cpf Dtwvwu ku cp jqpqwtcdng ocp.*

*Aqw cnn fkf ugg vjcv qp vjg Nwrgtecn*

*K vjtkeg rtgugpvgf jko c mkpina etqyp,*

*Yjkej jg fkf vjtkeg tghwug: ycu vjku codkvkqp?*

*Agv Dtwvwu ucau jg ycu codkvkqwu;*

*Cpf, uwtg, jg ku cp jqpqwtcdng ocp.*

*K urgcm pqv vq fkurtqxg yjcv Dtwvwu urqmg,*

*Dwv jgtg K co vq urgcm yjcv K fq mpqy.*

*Aqw cnn fkf nqxg jko qpeg, pqv ykvjqwv ecwug:*

*Yjcv ecwug ykvjjqnfu aqw vjgp, vq oqwtp hqt jko?*

*Q lwfiogpv! vjqw ctv hngf vq dtwvkuj dgcuvu,*

*Cpf ogp jcxg nquv vjgkt tgcuqp. Dgct ykvj og;*

*Oa jgctv ku kp vjg eqhhkp vjgtg ykvj Ecguct,*

*Cpf K owuv rcwug vknn kv eqog dcem vq og.*

*Dwohwbbng'*

If you use a Caesar cipher with a shift of 2 to decrypt the text, you get

*'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;*

*I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.*

*The evil that men do lives after them;*

*The good is oft interred with their bones;*

*So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus*

*Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:*

*If it were so, it was a grievous fault,*

*And grievously hath Caesar answered it.*

*Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest*

*For Brutus is an honourable man;*

*So are they all, all honourable men*

*Come I to speak in Caesars funeral.*

*He was my friend, faithful and just to me:*

*But Brutus says he was ambitious;*

*And Brutus is an honourable man.*

*He hath brought many captives home to Rome*

*Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:*

*Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?*

*When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:*

*Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:*

*Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;*

*And Brutus is an honourable man.*

*You all did see that on the Lupercal*

*I thrice presented him a kingly crown,*

*Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?*

*Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;*

*And, sure, he is an honourable man.*

*I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,*

*But here I am to speak what I do know.*

*You all did love him once, not without cause:*

*What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?*

*O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,*

*And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;*

*My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,*

*And I must pause till it come back to me.*

***Bumfuzzle**'*

## Solvers

The teams who solved this puzzle, in order: Untitled Puzzle Team (Orca), ßig ßrain ßoys (squid), bewb (sen\_), 0xf (ChiefChippy2), Capgenious (thesamwiser), Doge (Xx\_Doge420\_xX), Airborne (Airborne), The Cult of Gaze (Zahra), South Asian Boys (Airborne)