# NeverLan CTF 2018: Story Time!**Category:** Cryptography **Points:** 200
**Description:**
>>Are you ready for a story? >>-5.;56 76†† ?)8† ;48 3‡0† 2?3 -6.48( ;‡ 46†8 ;48 0‡-5;6‡ ‡1 46) ;(85)?(8 6 5 );‡(: ](6;;8 2: 8†35( 5005 .‡8 6 1053 6) .6(5;8)5*††5338()
## Write-upThe given text has very distinct syntax. We notice that it has a lot of symbols † or ‡ which looks like a dagger. This is a characteristics of a GOLD-BUG ciphertext, which can be found here: >https://www.dcode.fr/gold-bug-poe.
Using Gold-Bug Decoder we got this:
>“CAPTAI KIDD USED THE GOLD BUG CIPHER TO HIDE THE LOCATIO OF HIS TREASURE I A STORY WRITTE BY EDGAR ALLA POE I FLAG IS PIRATESANDDAGGERS”
So our flag is:
>'PIRATESANDDAGGERS'