From: pfhorrest@aol.com (Pfhorrest)
Subject: Unreleased term
Date: 8 Sep 1997 20:18:56 GMT
Message-ID: <19970908201800.QAA23113@ladder01.news.aol.com>
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Something I'm sure some of us have noticed by the time this reaches the
group...
on the Story page's September "New" page, it has a title image called
"unreleased term.jpg". I went and d/led it, and studied it and could make
out this:
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Now, when we are so near our end, I think upon the fate of our ancestor
[U'oba Y'sa K'or?], who went before the [J'pat s'hrr?] while [?] pleaded
for peace.
[Ca?] hearing our [first preferences?]. [J'boarn?] [aciressed?] our
ancestors thus [rut?] these thousand toxins at "[?]". [?] is the very first.
In the hearts of the retainers [retcre?] we are [indecipherable words]
thousand [indecipherable words] very first [?].
S'pht Y'[indecipherable].
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Can anyone make any sense out of this?
-Forrest John of the House of Finness (Camera de la finnesi, en Italiano)
pfhorrest@aol.com, http://users.aol.com/pfhorrest
Co-webmaster / Conceptualist, Obsidian Software/Design Studios
Project More Coordinator, http://users.aol.com/pfhorrest/fm.html
From: svywranth@aol.com (Svywranth)
Subject: Re: Unreleased term
Date: 8 Sep 1997 22:21:03 GMT
Message-ID: <19970908222101.SAA02161@ladder01.news.aol.com>
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Pfhorrest mentioned:
>>Now, when we are so near our end, I think upon the fate of our ancestor
[U'oba Y'sa K'or?], who went before the [J'pat s'hrr?] while [?] pleaded
for peace.<<
Remember the burning air that surrounded the Citadel? This could be what
the "So near our end" and the thousand toxins mentioned below could refer to...
[Ca?] hearing our [first preferences?]. [J'boarn?] [aciressed?] our
ancestors thus [rut?] these thousand toxins at "[?]". [?] is the very first.
Ummm..... although I can't really make sense of it..... maybe Ca heard the
pleas of the people or something and removed the toxins, although it was
just the first toxin of many....
>>In the hearts of the retainers [retcre?] we are [indecipherable words]
thousand [indecipherable words] very first [?].
S'pht Y'[indecipherable].<<
Too many indecipherals for someone like me to fugure it out or at least
postulate a little teeny theory.
Oh well....
<>-Svy-<>
<>-Coordinator Dude of the Rameses Project-<>
<>-The Keeper of The Silver Spork-<>
Svywranth@aol.com
From: Quartz <quartz@shore.net>
Subject: Re: Unreleased term
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 18:02:09 -0400
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
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References: <19970908194000.PAA27190@ladder02.news.aol.com>
<19970908201800.QAA23113@ladder01.news.aol.com>
> Can anyone make any sense out of this?
this is what I got...(after some image manipulation and a few hints from
pfhorrest)
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Now, when we are so near our end, I think
upon the fate of our ancestors [U'obz? Y sa?]
[K'uz?], who went before the [J'pat? s'hrr?] while
they pleaded for peace.
On hearing our past grievances, [J'hovan?]
addressed our ancestor thus
"Of these thousand toxins [at Virus?][garbled^1] is
the very first"
In the hearts of the [retainers?] before me
are a [thousand] [garbled] and^2 ten thousand
beginings. of [garbled], [which?] in the very
first [one"?]
S'pht Y'nn [then?] replied
"[garbled] [thin?] [garbled]"
[S'hrrth?] cought him by a [aplorn?] and flung
him into a pit.
A thousand of our [lifetimes?] do not. [garbled]
[garbled-] over [Y'rr r y" ?]
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^1 first letter is definatly an A and the 3rd an i, second and last
could be h's, and the second to last an s, z, c, or f
^2 could be [are]
--
Quartz
"never argue with a fool, others may
not be able to tell the difference"
"a closed mouth gathers no foot"
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From: Face <rudolph.family@mcleod.net>
Subject: Re: Unreleased term
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 23:38:28 -0500
Organization: McleodUSA - http://www.mcleodusa.net
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<19970908201800.QAA23113@ladder01.news.aol.com> <341718DC.7FAD@shore.net>
Quartz wrote:
>
> On hearing our past grievances, [J'hovan?]
> addressed our ancestor thus
> "Of these thousand toxins [at Virus?][garbled^1] is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> the very first"
Could this term have something to do with the zombie pfhor? Could explain why
it didn't get in.
--
Face (Dan Rudolph) <rudolph.family@mcleod.net>
The Dark Avenger of Netiquette
President, Watcher Comics <ftp://ftp.eyrie.org/pub/racc/watcher/>
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