Endtown by Aaron Neathery for April 24, 2012

Is that Elvish??

There is a picture of the ship on the wall. Now how did he get that if he was invisible? And the books.Do we have an alien among us?Could this be braile? Or morris code? Or ancient Myan, Egyptian?We have a very intelligent group among us. Who is first?We should make a contest out of it. Get some rumbling going.Blessed Be

For Level Head. I tried to get Doc Rat and the )I&^(*()> pop ups won’t let meBlessed Be.

Weird looking bindings, too. Can’t tell if it’s a mirror effect or just a really strange way to bind books.

Similar to the Sherlock Holmes Dancing Men substitution code. The book on the left is “Transsubstantiation for Dummies”, and the one on the right is “Area Codes for Greater East Los Angeles”.

The “Dancing Men” code… Yes, that memory shakes But these aren’t dancing “men” More like undulous snakes Yet this script seems familiar I cannot quite place it Did Petey know more? Did his captors erase it? Those are curious designs With a genius tinge But between those “book spines” Is that actually a hinge? =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum And don’t forget to vote for both For Ursa Major awards!

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I stayed up too late again, so now here getting to see Petey is he snoopin’? that’s interesting writing, it looks musical to me. It looks like it ought to be how to write music, but suppose it isn’tThis is so fun. another piece of the puzzle here..

I’ve been following girl genius too I wish I had more of that back story. I am waiting anxiously to get the 2 books! I do love paper books.

its not elvish. it almost looks binary. or chemical.

Looks like the Newark or Freemason’s cipher. I remember seeing it in Dan Brown’s last book “The Lost Symbol”.

I think the code is just made up. However, it is reminiscent of an old system I learned as a kid. You draw a tic tac toe (noughts and crosses) hash grid. The nine spaces count for the first nine letters of the alphabet, A to I. Then another grid, each with a dot in it. This is for J to R. Then a third, each with two dots in it. This is for S to Z. Each letter can then be substituted for the relevan box with the appropriate configuation of borders and dots. The letter C would be shown as the top right corner of the grid, namely an L-shape. E would be a blank square. N would be a square containing a dot. W would be a square containing two dots.That’s why the code you see looks familiar. But it isn’t this one.

Love Aaron’s attention to detail. The labels match in panels 2-4.This is no random code. I’ll bet Aaron has invented a working alphabet that can be deciphered (like Tolkien).

Notice the labels match on the left and right sides of the hinge on each book. I don’t know what this means—just looking for clues.

I think Jenner has the code…. however I recall the tic-tac-toe grid being augmented by an X cross … that way only 2 letters per segment, one dot max per symbol.

It doesn’t appear to be a alphabet substitution. There are more than 27 characters.

I think I may know this code.You draw two Tic Tac Toe grids and two X’s.Put dots in the second TTT and dots in the second X.You now have 26 spaces one for each letter of the alphabet.I’m going to try it to see if I’m right..\\//_

hmmmmmm

Ok, dosen’t work.To many dots in some places..Well we’ll keep tring.\\//_

But we all agree, Elvish has left the building…

I think Jenner is correct that this code is Aaron’s own. We just need our own Rosetta stone.

in the 3rd pic top shelf next to Peteys thumb, the font on that binder looks like the insignia on one of the Visitors shuttles in the 80’s version of “V”

It’s similar to the Freemason’s Cipher, but not the same. Inventing ciphers is simple- inventing practical ones is hard.

I read Braille (by sight) and it isn’t Braille, nor any of it’s variants: music, math/science, computer, note hand or any of the foreign languages (romance, German or Greek).

…dominoes???

It’s, “How To Build A Ditto With Common Household Items”

Unfortunately, it’s also volumes 1 through 214.

Abridged

It looks almost like Baudet.

“It’s that darn Books of the Universe Club. Once they get your address they just never stop sending you harlequin romances. This is ‘John and Martha Go to Alpha Proxima’ one.”