A Cipher Thought Experiment

[oshfdk]

The code itself is a multi character substitution. In most cases when you see "/X" this is just letter X, if you want to decipher it manually, you can start from this.

If I understand what you wrote (probably not!) "/" is an escape character among others. Any possible "X" [KLOPRST] when it is not following "/" could also be an escape character, acting as an alphabet mapping selector for the next letter.

It's not an escape character, the whole cipher is multi-to-multi mapping, a few characters (usually 1 or 2) of the cipher correspond to 1 or 2 characters of the plaintext. With "/" the mapping is very simple, you replace any occurrence of "/X" with "x", except "/K" makes a "c".

So, "/S" converts to "s" and "/T" to "t", etc.

For example:

Code:

GTMOLRR/O MTNO/S NO/S LO TMO/ST h e l lo  thi s  i s  a  te s t

I'm not sure I understand all the details, since some of the combinations behave weirdly sometimes, could be some extra mechanic or could be typos, this is not really important as long as it's possible to reconstruct the message.