I'm a time traveller. In order to keep balance to the universe, it is my duty to preserve past, present and future.
However, the Bad Guys want to mess with our past to destroy humanity as we know it once and for all. They are usually trying to execute great leaders in the past, although our agents reported that they want to change their methods for the next mission.
Furthermore, we were able to prove a connection between American Intelligence Services and the Bad Guys. Finally, from a transcript of a meeting, we know that companies such as Brother seem to have adopted certain methods from the Bad Guys.
We have intercepted the following message from the Enemy:
Something dotty in the state of Rome.
Can you decipher this message for me so that we know their next target?
Bonus points if you can tell me their new method!
Hint 1:
Part of the encryption was done with Reality.
Additional Hint:
You have to be well-read (or able to use Google) to solve the whole mystery!
Third Hint:
We have now intercepted a message when they tried to assassinate Barack Hussein Obama (which we could prevent), the message was decoded to read
8 23 15 8 23
, orH W O H W
in characters. The title was alluding to Act 1 Scene 3 of a play.
Note:
The blurry/fuzzy image is due to it being a medium sized imgur picture. Using the same link without the m at the end will provide a high quality image. Nevertheless, the blur presents no issue to solving the puzzle whatsoever. There is no information hidden in the image that doesn't meet the eye.