A Tragedy Forgotten - A Five Part Map Series By Ebon_Heart and PeterPower

[Ebon Heart]

I didn't fix it... per-say. I just removed the combination lock altogether. It was too confusing, and didn't really add anything... plus it was really finicky. So instead, I have an even more devious concoction in store.

[Ebon Heart]

I'm staying off the forums this weekend until ATF2 is done, but I came back real quick to make an announcement. If you want to see how ATF2 is progressing, send me an email at EbonHeartCW@gmail.com and I can send you a link to a screen sharing program that'll let you see what I'm doing on the map. I wasn't happy with the boss fight... it was a fairly anti climactic ending, so i'm actually redoing it to hopefully make it more epic.
(no, sharing my gmail account set up specifically for creeper world is not giving away personal information. I will rage if you sensor it.)
link taken down. and I'm about ready for bed. send me an email tomorrow and I can set up another link

[mpete]

looking good so far, he really IS getting work done on it, so keep up the good work 

[Ebon Heart]

just to clarify, we did a skype call last night, and I was screensharing with mpete... so he was offering advice, and yelling at me when I typed field coordinates in wrong.

[virgilw]

Odd, I was monitoring the old subspace channels this morning.  Normally, there's nothing but static... But the strangest message just came through.  The message seems to have a transmission ID, but it's a bit garbled.  All I received for the transmitter ID was:  "E_on H__r_"

Message follows:
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Good news everyone! I am receiving a prophecy from the creeper world gods. It appears to be about the future of this adventure. I will relay the message to you now.

6#+* !3#%% 2#=8 #+~ 6#+* !3#%% @2*
9&5 #! $?2 538 !#=8, 38 14%% +?5 ~48
6?28 @3#%%8+=8! #1#45, ~? +?5 ~8+*
$?2 6#+* #+~ 6#+* # ~2#=?+ !3#%% $%*
#+~ &+~82 538 147#2~'! 1#5@3$&% 8*8
# 382? !3#%% 6?&2+, #+~ # 6#4~8+ !3#%% ~48.

The message seems to have been garbled. I'm sorry, I've done all I can. Perhaps you will find a hint as to the meaning of this message later on.
--

[Michionlion]

Aliana, turn on the decryption computer, we have some work to do!

[Echo51]

After many nights of red bull, mind-numbing crunching and late nights at the office, our scientists finally got it!
The translated message reads:

"many shall rage and many shall cry
and as for the sage, he will not die
more challenges await, do not deny
for many and many a dragon shall fly
and under the wizard's watchful eye
a hero shall mourn, and a maiden shall die"

[Ebon Heart]

I need to stop underestimating knucklecracker.com geeks. lol.

[Wheatmidge]

After many nights of red bull, mind-numbing crunching and late nights at the office, our scientists finally got it!
The translated message reads:

"many shall rage and many shall cry
and as for the sage, he will not die
more challenges await, do not deny
for many and many a dragon shall fly
and under the wizard's watchful eye
a hero shall mourn, and a maiden shall die"

"many shall rage and many shall cry
but as for the sage, he will not die
more challenges await, do not deny
for many and many a dragon shall fly
and under the wizard's watchful eye
a hero shall mourn, and a maiden shall die"

tsk tsk, how did you make such a mistake.
In all seriousness though, wow good job code cracking.

[Ebon Heart]

After many nights of red bull, mind-numbing crunching and late nights at the office, our scientists finally got it!
The translated message reads:

"many shall rage and many shall cry
and as for the sage, he will not die
more challenges await, do not deny
for many and many a dragon shall fly
and under the wizard's watchful eye
a hero shall mourn, and a maiden shall die"

"many shall rage and many shall cry
but as for the sage, he will not die
more challenges await, do not deny
for many and many a dragon shall fly
and under the wizard's watchful eye
a hero shall mourn, and a maiden shall die"

tsk tsk, how did you make such a mistake.
In all seriousness though, wow good job code cracking.

That was kind of my mistake. He originally had, "out" and I had thought it was supposed to be, "and" so I had him change it. We were both wrong. lol.

EDIT: I had presumed it was a mistake in my code, and the grammar error in his version bugged me. Glad to know I got the code right, though.

[CobraKill]

How did you crack it? Was I the only one not in on this or something.

[2b3o4o]

How did you crack it? Was I the only one not in on this or something.

It's fairly simple once you know how it works. Each symbol corresponds to a letter, you start with the most obvious words like "and" and you can use the letters you find there for the longer words. That said, I would never have the patience of Echo to crack the whole code.

[Ebon Heart]

And b3o4o only knows this because Echo was describing the process step-by-step in chat. But now that you guys know the poem early (the translation for it won't be given until ATF3) I suppose I should ask what you think of it.

[2b3o4o]

And b3o4o only knows this because Echo was describing the process step-by-step in chat. But now that you guys know the poem early (the translation for it won't be given until ATF3) I suppose I should ask what you think of it.

"Many shall rage,"
So archaic!

[Ebon Heart]

I'm about ready to start playtesting for A Tragedy Forgotten Part 2. Message me if interested! (you will be given a file without text, playtesters don't know the story early.)