Post by Poindexter on Oct 19, 2004 10:26:12 GMT -5
Ok, here's what I've found out so far...
In a bar in Genua, there's a shadowy gentleman. The bar seems to be random, or there's more than one gentleman. After chatting with him for a bit, feeding him some keywords gleaned from the conversation, he asks me to go to the clacks tower to collect and decode a message. This is by no means an easy task. The coded message comes in one letter at a time, each letter coded into a 3x3 grid of symbols. The symbols need to be looked up in the code book, available in the tower. When you're finished, you have a cryptogram, a simple letter substitution puzzle. This is about as far as I've gotten. I take the translated, decoded message back to the man, but I can't figure out the syntax to tell it to him. Can anyone help?
Just to let you know what you're dealing with, here's a sample of the code...
In a bar in Genua, there's a shadowy gentleman. The bar seems to be random, or there's more than one gentleman. After chatting with him for a bit, feeding him some keywords gleaned from the conversation, he asks me to go to the clacks tower to collect and decode a message. This is by no means an easy task. The coded message comes in one letter at a time, each letter coded into a 3x3 grid of symbols. The symbols need to be looked up in the code book, available in the tower. When you're finished, you have a cryptogram, a simple letter substitution puzzle. This is about as far as I've gotten. I take the translated, decoded message back to the man, but I can't figure out the syntax to tell it to him. Can anyone help?
Just to let you know what you're dealing with, here's a sample of the code...
You pull the lever.
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A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# @ #
@ # #
@ * *
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
@ # *
# @ @
@ * #
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# @ *
* # #
# @ @
The far-away clacks tower stands silent for a moment.
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# # *
@ @ @
# # *
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
@ # @
* * *
* # @
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
* * *
@ * @
* # #
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# @ *
* # #
# @ @
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# @ *
@ # #
# * @
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# @ *
@ # #
# * @
A semaphore symbol flashes from the far-away clacks tower:
# * @
# * #
# @ #
The far-away clacks tower stands silent for a moment.