The Crux of the Matter

[Rystil Arden]

"Velysian, Old Medibarian, and even the Common tongue all share a standard alphabet that supposedly descends from an ancient primal language, or at least that's what the guys in the books say when they try to explain how so many people across the world can all speak the same language now."

 

[Bront]

"I suppose knocking wouldn't work?" Vanitri says with a smile.

"I think you may have something with the name thing. Raven is the one who opened it in the Freefolk legend."

 

[Knight Otu]

"Whoever wrote the warning took the extra step to make it very cryptic. And apparently, he liked stories." Ashnar shakes his head, looking at the door again. "Would 'Elpis' have a meaning if the letters were reversed, or perhaps otherwise rearranged? And is there anything special about where each word is written?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I can't think of anything else it might say if scrambled."

[SBLOCK=Ashnar]Ashnar can't think of any meaning for a scrambled Elpis

A few of the words are in salient positions on their lines--having Laynie point to each word of each line reveals the following (there aren't actually spaces in between each line, but I point them there to show where the lines end) Note that the translation is not word for word because of phrasing differences:

'There once was a box that held all the dark children of the Night, until someone opened it, leaving only Hope inside.

From this box, only Hope has escaped, but yet the box is not safe, and so some day, it will be opened again.

To the unprepared, unseal not this door.

Its binding is my final sacrifice.

Elpis, our Hope, be free...'

So (and some of these Old Medibarian words are two Common words):

'There' 'From' 'To' 'Its' 'Elpis' are all the first words of their lines.
'Inside' 'Again' 'This Door' 'Sacrifice' 'Free' are all the last words of their lines.
'Children Of' 'The Box' 'Unseal' 'My' 'Hope' are all the middle words of their lines.
[/SBLOCK]

 

[Erekose13]

"As you said Laynie, I think it is definitely something to do with the wording of the warning. I just can't puzzle it out." replies Tenebrynn (even after his player peaks).

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: It really isn't that complicated--if anything, all that analysis in the SBLOCK may be making it seem harder without actually helping. I wouldn't say that this door actually really even qualifies as a puzzle, per se Okay, I guess it might barely, just barely, but it isn't some complicated scramble or something like that )

 

[Bront]

(OOC: It really isn't that complicated--if anything, all that analysis in the SBLOCK may be making it seem harder without actually helping. I wouldn't say that this door actually really even qualifies as a puzzle, per se Okay, I guess it might barely, just barely, but it isn't some complicated scramble or something like that )

OOC: I think your idea of a simpe puzzle and mine are completely different.

 

[Rystil Arden]

(OOC: I adjusted for that already--I don't even really consider it to be a puzzle )

 

[Knight Otu]

Ashnar relays Laynie information, and adds. "Perhaps coincidentially, the middle words do form a sentence. Whether it has any meaning..."

 

[Bront]

"Well, it's a guess... give it a try." Vanitri says.