The Great Tree

[Masterwabbit]

Today, I found in my KI inbox a cryptic message from the WE. The message is well documented in the UO forums here by CAGrayWolf who also recieved it, so take a look at it to see what I mean.

Some of the members had a quick discussion about it. *We all came to the conclusion that it was a message from Tyrehl, the original sender, stating the current status of URU in the poem:

There are those blind by nature
and those blind by nurture.
Many of you should begin to ask:
What flavor am I?
The former search with other senses;
the latter find a fortress in their
infirmity from which to loose arrows.

We arrived that those who were blinded by nature, those people just in for the show, just admire the scenery and nothing more. The one blind by nurture, those who are trying to help out any way they can, can actually help URU come back to life again in time.

Also the encrypted message at the end of it:
BpmXzwclLwVwbZmkmqdm.gtqaiMvwqbkmzzwKzWtmavcwK

Translated to this:
The Proud do not receive counsel or correction easily.

The people at the meeting decided it was a warning about the DRC's attempt to revive URU by rebuilding it to its former glory. Instead of just rebuilding URU ourselves, we need to help it grow instead.

*To all those present at the meeting, I'm so sorry if this wasn't the exact conclusion we came to. My memory isn't that good and I don't know how to use chatlogs. But it's close enough, right ?

Also, I left the letter on the Hood's Imager viewer for you viewing pleasure (what else, right?).

Feel free to add comments, corrections, or whatever.
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All the world's a stage, and my room happens to be the supply closet.

[Professor Askew]

If anyone runs into Tyrehl or Ssaahn......tell them I want to see them. They are looking for me.
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Professor Daniel Askew - Securing our reality from the machinations of the Station Masters.

[dcos]

There was a bit more which I'd like to add. Will do so once I've had some sleep. Yes.. sleep good.

[Rils]

Too late Cosgrove, I'm gonna spill the beans!

The message REALLY means....




ok, nevermind. I'll let you do it.

~Rils
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[Masterwabbit]

Ok, there's a new letter floating around. I recieved this one through an anonymous person. No, really, there was no name after the title.

The letter, shown here:

was mildly solved by Rils, dcosgrove, and I. We translated to first 6 lines and the first two letters of the seveth to:
"When you have been angered or hurt by anything external, have you ever considered that the pain may not be due to-"

However, the cypher changes. We might need some help on this one.

I'm starting to really think that two WE posts in a row seems a little odd, considering how the previous one was sent around a year after the last message known before that. But who knows. If this does continue, however, we might want to bring this up to Cyan, who may very well know of all of this. For now, it's a pleasing distraction.
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All the world's a stage, and my room happens to be the supply closet.

[Rils]

This was solved over on the UO forums. Turns out the second half used a different "caesar" cypher, and runs backwards. The thing reads from the beginning to the first two letters of line 7 (the word "to"), then go to the end and read backwards towards the middle. The full message (edited for spelling errors in the orginal):

"When you have been angered or hurt by anything external, have you ever considered that the pain may not be due the thing itself, but rather your own estimate of it, and that this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

I'm definetly going with the "social commentary" route on this. Most unlike the previous WE posts. Wonder if there will be more.

~Rils

What sucks is that I was sure I'd tried that combination to solve the last bit, and it didn't work the first time! grr, oh well.
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[dcos]

Ah well Rils we did good anyways, was certainly a lot of fun.

I outright forgot that I said I would elaborate on the first msg. Rils has already mentioned one of the more important points we discussed, that the message is a "social commentary" which is distributed in a way that would catch the attention of a community of puzzle loving explorers like ourselves. Very clever.

The actual meaning is pretty open to interpretation. However the way I understood it (and I think you and I were thinking along the same lines Rils) was that it was in responce to the way people are acting over this liason buisness. A case of the blind fighting the blind as it were. It seperates people into two groups, those who are naturally "blind" (who find ways to cope with their inability to take full account of the world) and those who just cannot "see" (who use their ignorance to defend their ego so that they can snipe in happy oblivion).

The second part seems simply a Yeesha style warning about pride. Although it may be specifically aimed at the DRC or whoever ends up being the liasons.

The new message seems to be along the same lines. A gentle reminder to be understanding and take a step back.

Very interesting.

I'll keep an eye out for you Prof but I don't suppose you could elaborate a bit more on who the "WE" are for us?

[Professor Askew]

Well, Daniel, here is my post from October of 2004:

I wrote:

[Rils]

Hey, Professor...

ha ha whoops, I just had visions of another conversation that starts with that line...

I got this off my list a week or so ago, and keep forgetting to post it. Hope it's a start.

Ssaahn. (with a period) ki # 353276

Let us know if anything interesting develops!

~Rils


Hey Professor, if the moon were made of ribs, wouldja eat it? It's a simple question, really. If the moon were made of spare ribs, wouldja eat it?! I would...
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