[PUBLIC CHANNEL] DAY 49, CLOSE TO CLOSING TIME

[osteothropy]

Hey, so. I know a lot of you are gunna be busy with research, so I figured I may as well put this out there... if you find anything written in hand-shaped pictographs, could you do me a huge favour and pass 'em my way?

I need them for reasons.

That said, how's it going out there? Any news?

Comments

[mylastchance]

Pictographs... What sort of language is it?

[osteothropy]

It's a encoded version of English. All the letters are just swapped out for different symbols, is all.

Not sure how Faeish translation will work with that... might not be able to read it unless you know what the symbols stand for.

[mylastchance]

A code...

[Makes sense, though a simple reassignment of letters isn't a terribly hard code to crack.]

...Is it information that's meant to be private then?

[osteothropy]

Uh... I'm not actually sure.

[The sad truth is that he has no way of recalling the rationale behind this, he only remembers the letters.]

I think the person that wrote it might just be a bit eccentric. Monsterkind is kinda like that.

[mylastchance]

[Lauren smiles, entertained by the thought of someone writing in code just because.]

Well if any part of it readable, what would it be about? That might make finding it easier.

[Though with the way things are organized in this place.... Probably not.]

[osteothropy]

There could be stuff I'm not expecting, but... probably notes, blueprints... maybe some kind of textbook or research paper...

[It would seem kind of loony to write something meant for public consumption in code, but who knows.]

[mylastchance]

[Blueprints, reasearch... Hold on.]


Are you a scholar?

[osteothropy]

Uh.

[Sans is completely caught off guard by that question.]

Well... I used to work in a lab. Magical research, that kind of thing.

[mylastchance]

[The lab triggers some of his knowledge from portland, and immediately bring to mind the word scientist. And suddenly he sounds a lot more interested.]

Magical research? Anything specific?

[osteothropy]

Time-space continuum stuff, mostly. The lab did a lot of stuff involving souls and energy creation too, but I was always a physics sort of guy.