R1 DEADLAND

[lockdownmods]

[it’s strange, for the people who were already dead, the shift in scenery is sudden and complete. For those who have just arrived? It’s like you’re back where you left?

How strange.

But if you ever need her, you can always reach out to the guardian of this place.]

LOCATIONS
Note: locations lag a week behind the living counterparts

Comments

[supportrole]

I think it's a letter substitution one. You can tell because whenever there's a letter by itself, it's always the same one -- Q. So it's got to be a substitution for an I or A, I'd think.

[ Reads through it again-- ]

Oh, probably I. I don't think any sentence would end with "a", right?

[curseoclock]

Mmmm, yeah, that makes sense. Okay, so...

How would someone end a sentence with I?

[supportrole]

Mm... Maybe some kind of old fashioned phrasing?

[ like "thou art I" or something haha ]

--Well, no, it's a question, and the word before it is two letters, so. Probably "am I?" for the last part, right? And if that's an A, this word can't be "where", so... "what", I guess.

[ ARE YOU ALL FOLLOWING THIS ]

[curseoclock]

Makes sense to me. That's one of the likeliest words for it to be and still fit, right?

[...is he actually taking this seriously]

So then there's a buncha letters we can fill out earlier in the note.

[supportrole]

Right! Once you get a few words figured out, it gets a lot easier.

[ He's about to ask if anyone has a pencil, but, welp, that question suddenly gets answered for him. ]

[curseoclock]

Weeeeell, if we assume that we got it right so far, then...

[he looks over and points to the scramble of letters saying "iqff".]

That one should start with "wi", and then two more letters. Seems to me that's probably meant to say "will", then, right?

[supportrole]

Yeah, that sounds right.

[ Okay, he's just going to try to hold this paper up against the wall so he can awkwardly write on it... ]

Okay, so F is L, and-- let me go ahead and add in all these A's, M's, and I's...

[ Writing in each letter above the one substituted for it in the note!! ]

Since we know that's "what", I guess T is just T?

[ Unless this was written by Yosemite Sam and it was supposed to say "whar"... ]

[12d3]

[2-D's just here to hover and look over Mishima's shoulder. This is amazing to watch to be honest... he can't even solve a rubix cube on his own.]

[curseoclock]

Yeah, I guess they're the same!

And now one of these is looking like a word, so then... after "I will" that word is probably supposed to be "always". I mean, I don't know what the heck else that word could be!

So then, S is Y, and O is S.

[supportrole]

[ Nods and writes these down!! ]

The 3-letter word starting with A has to be "and"...

[ They work through the rest of this pretty quickly, and Mishima beams proudly as he shows off this finished translation!!!

Man, he's impressed at how well he magically knows English, now that he's thinking about it. ]

Okay!! Here we go. Looks like a riddle.

i hunt, i sleep, and sometimes creep. aloof, and grey, once you are mine i will always stay. what am i?

[ He's. Probably going to be less good at this part, so he'll just keep basking in his current glory while someone else takes this. ]

[recodified]

[ okay assuming he read it off- ]

Some kind of puzzle... [ She flicks an ear in thought and swishes her tail. ] Sounds like some kind of animal. Something wild, but...with a code of loyalty?

[itwasfeyt]

Hmm...

[Head propped up in hand, the gears are turning in her head.

Looks at Hollyleaf.]

"Hunt, sleep, and sometimes creep..." Oh, could it be a cat?

[12d3]

Oh, I love riddles.

[2-D peers at the translated question, reading it a couple of times. Something grey... something... grey.....??]

.....maybe it's a ghost? 'Cos we're all dead, and I've only met one before, and he was blue, but he was a creep.

[itwasfeyt]

Maybe, if it wasn't a finished sentence?

[supportrole]

There's an ending punctuation mark at the end though, you wouldn't have that if it wasn't finished.

[12d3]

What about.. O? Lots of words end with O or-- or U!

[itwasfeyt]

"O"? So there was a question ending in O or U...?

...Actually, maybe it could be U! That's another way of saying you, isn't it?

[12d3]

Maybe they had to write it really fast? Like when people text?

[supportrole]

[ hey stop detracting from his theories!!! ]

They substituted all of the letters, obviously they weren't in a hurry!

[12d3]

[but they're helping!!]

Oh.. I guess they wouldn't be.

[lockdownmods]

[a pencil falls on his head.

boop.]

[itwasfeyt]

[....

looks up??]

[lockdownmods]

[the sky.... is clear.]

[supportrole]

[ He gives a really pathetic yelp when something hits his head, but then it bounces off and into his hand.

Oh! Hey, what do you know, he was just... thinking he needed... one of these.

He looks up at the ceiling suspiciously for a second, but... okay then.

Ahem. Turning to Maya. ]

...Do you mind if I take that for a few minutes? It's hard to figure these things out if you're not writing stuff down as you go.

[lockdownmods]

[jk it's a ceiling.

a clean ceiling.]