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I made a quick chart for Alphabet 1.0 for quicker translation in the future.

I agree that the dot is E

and further suggest that the trigraph: 3}.
is maybe the word "the"

(at the beginning of the second line of the early sample and again in the middle of the third line.

The same trigraph appears later in the same text, so I would agree with that. Berlie's text seems more like a list, so it would make sense that it wouldn't appear in that.

Following that logic though, it adds a complication. 3 appears very infrequently in the text, but "t" is the second most commonly used letter in the English letter. Given this, my guess would be that certain symbols, like "3}" represent specific digraphs like "th".

Also, we could just ask someone smarter, yeah.

All jests aside, if it is just a straight substitution cipher knowing which symbols are vowels makes things a ton easier. We would need a clearer look at the paper since the old view cuts off some of the text at the bottom, and a longer sample would be more helpful, but it should be easy enough to brute force.

Quote from: birdy51 on June 11, 2016, 11:46:10 am

Walk up to the Palace! On the way, ask about Lizards back story.

My main goal to the palace is trying to unearth info on who we are and who the masked one is.

+1 and discuss the eight Mancies.

+1

It gets us closer to the LOOKING FOR TROUBLE spot too.

> Hold on, isnt becoming determined and growing because of what this villain did exactly what they want, regardless of if it's for vengeance or restoration? Maybe the only way to properly defy them is to stupidly suicide and refuse to learn anything from this?

Yeah, that sounds reasonabl- heeeeey, wait! I'm on to you, Armok!

I updated my maps to include the new stuff. It seems like we're matching the potential map pretty well, including colors. The pink dot is the "looking for trouble" spot, which Metamancer forgot to put back on the map I think, lol.

I think we should take Gilly's LARINOIDs so that we can LARINIZE some of our other MANCIES. Also some of her inventory panels so we can hold things! And head for the Looking for Trouble spot.

I wonder if we need to unlock the other slots by increasing or stats, or if we can just use them. Some of them look like they might be used to combine items, or maybe enhance them or something.

Try putting items in other slots? Also try on Stanstan's hat and the Gnarly Chitin to see what mancies we get from them, since we haven't yet.

We really need to figure out how to expand our inventory. Or at the very least throw out some stuff like the toenail.

Also I'm in favor of being nice and helping Gilly.