text ❥ un: Inaban [ posted after the event ]

[dereban]

Hello, everybody.

This is a bit of a more formal post today, since I want to share a few things and then inquire for some paid help.

1) While digging through the panels at the mines, I found some strange cryptic messages in the code. I can't understand them, but it looks like the language is similar to either French and German, so if someone is familiar with either of both of those languages, I'd appreciate it greatly. Although I suppose the languages might have different names in other worlds, so if you want to take a gander at the code to see if it's familiar to you at all, feel free to give me a heads up and I'll message it to you in private. I'd actually like to learn both in the off chance that this trend continues; so if anybody would want to teach me, I'm willing to pay up.

2) The digital signature of someone known as "The Scientist" was found as well - if anybody has any more information regarding this character at all, please let me know. I saw that there was a diary snippet, but if there's anything else...

3) I plan on revisiting the Temple of Life to see if there are any similar panels and more information to look out for. I don't really want to make this a huge expedition, as I do not plan on going inside, so I'll limit this to two other people at most. I'm primarily looking for a bodyguard to look over while I work on going through the files, but someone who is decent at dealing at technology would be good as well. Again, I'm willing to pay for the additional help.

That should be it -- if there's anything that anybody else found down there that would be good to know, I'll leave this post open for information sharing. Otherwise, feel free to respond to any of the three points above publicly or privately. Thanks.

Comments

un: happyaround

[roundandaround]

Oh! They spoke French on Tiotio Island! French and Malagasy mostly. I don't know about German though...

The Scientist? The same one who was doing those creepy experiments on people and monsters? I guess it must be.

[dereban]

That's fine.

Being able to figure out one language should work in our favor; hopefully I can find someone else who understands the others.

[roundandaround]

There's gotta be someone here who knows German! There's so many people, after all.

What do we know about the Scientist... I know they created the Vampirebear and kidnapped people to feed to it. They're one of "the" people, like the Doctor and the Wizard and the Knight, who work for the Pierrot who caused the Tragedy of Greed. I don't know anything about them personally aside from being really, really devoted to their science, though.

[dereban]

?

What is the Tragedy of Greed, exactly?

[roundandaround]

Oh! It's this thing that happened 15 years ago. The Pierrot messed with the crown prince's head and used him in experiments to put all four seasons into one person. That caused most of the locals with season powers to disappear until it was just a few left, who are the guild leaders now. That's why the Darkness took over the world.

[dereban]

Okay, I'm going to ask a few follow up questions, just for my clarification's sake.

1. By 'disappear' do you mean literally or... they're all dead now? Can never be too sure with magic-based worlds.

2. Do you know what happened to the crown prince? You said that they were used in experiments, but is there more than that...?

text; un: nyanperona

[dornen]

I know a second language, so maybe I could have a look? It's not neither of those, but as you said, it could be the same but with a different name.

[dereban]

I'll send it to you privately.

[ And so she does! It's not really a secret, but it's better to keep the clutter away from the main post. ]

[dornen]

[He takes a moment before-]

It's very similar, at least! I think some are words I know, but written differently? I can at least say what I think they mean, but I don't know if I'm more help than that.

[dereban]

Feel free to share. Maybe there'll be another person who can confirm it.

[dornen]

The words I recognize from message one: find, north, full moon, mirror and something about clouds.

On the second: wish, fear, life.

un: Yuuto

[spacialeyes]

You could also ask your partner to go with you! I’m sure that he would be happy to.

[dereban]

Oh, would he now? And do you think that this partner of mine knows how to fight?

[spacialeyes]

I can, yes.

Oh.

And so can he!

[dereban]

Then tell him it's a date.

[spacialeyes]

Fighting is romantic?

I mean-

Of course! I’m glad to help. Please let me know when you need me.

un: korra

[goestoextremes]

Hey, did you find a bodyguard yet?

[ Because who knows, one or more here might have sent private messages to her about that. ]

[dereban]

There is someone who offered, but I'm not going to argue against a second one if things go wrong.

[goestoextremes]

Always very good to be prepared for things possibly doing that here and everywhere else too. I'm Korra, me and my polar bear dog, Naga, would gladly help too.

[dereban]

I like preparing for the worst case scenario.

What's your skill set look like?

text; un: scribe

[linguaphilia]

I don't know any languages by those names, but I have a background in linguistics and am fluent in over twenty languages of my native world.

I would be interested to see what you have found.

[dereban]

I'll send you the message over privately. If you do not understand it, don't worry too much about it.

[ Which she will send this over. ]

[linguaphilia]

Thank you.

[And that's all she'll hear back for a little while, but he will follow up with -]

I can tell you that this is not written in a single language.

[dereban]

That much I managed to figure out, at least...

It isn't uncommon for someone to do that for code. Or maybe the person's home language was a mix of two languages to begin with.

[linguaphilia]

Not unusual at all... though the blend is strangely disparate for them to belong to the same one originally. The grammar structures appear to be at odds.

Though, again, perhaps not too uncommon for a code.

It does make it less likely that it would be able to be solved using a direct cipher. I would expect something more subtle at work.