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Post by Andrew on May 6, 2015 1:45:02 GMT
Have you managed to decipher the Voynich Manuscript, Leaf? We have not yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you had.
I’ll include the reasoning behind the secrecy in the main post I do about my world.
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Post by Leaf on May 6, 2015 2:00:37 GMT
There's a list of hobbyists significantly longer than my arm who have plausible interpretations, but the community (there is a community of devotees, because of course there is) hasn't agreed on one or even a handful that stand out as definitive.
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 6, 2015 2:20:15 GMT
The copy of the Voynich Manuscript was enlarged to preserve detail and included notations indicating colors not directly reproduced. I believe that this is sufficient to reconstruct the original appearance, and expect to finish producing a reconstructed copy within the next fifty days local subjective time.
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Post by Mother Starlight on May 6, 2015 2:37:40 GMT
Wow, I really fell down on that one. You should find a proper color copy of the manuscript with today's update. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Post by Gray Librarian on May 6, 2015 15:00:31 GMT
I have now received a copy of the manuscript in the described format. Thank you.
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Cardea
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words
Posts: 34
World: Adunka
Pronoun: she
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Post by Cardea on May 6, 2015 15:54:16 GMT
Is noteleaf colour colour dyed finely. am reply with the own ochre.
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Post by ArtlessIlluminator on May 7, 2015 0:48:37 GMT
I believe I understand a little better.
My manifestation of the artifact is a large illuminated tome bound in a single spine but comprised of five books (with bizarre titles such as "Social" or "News and Information"). Each book contains various chapters (this one is "Local Manifestations?"). The work is beautifully illuminated in a hand superior to the greatest masters I have seen (and I have works of several of my plane's most noble illuminators). As others also allude to, this illumination makes heavy use of blue ink.
At the end of each chapter is a page which is blank but for a simple yet elegant box bordering the edges. When I inscribe this page and turn to another chapter or book, I later find on returning to the chapter that my words have been illuminated with the same artistry as the rest of the book. The only exception is the letter I which I inscribed on the first page, and has remained in my own artless hand.
Additional paragraphs have sometimes appeared when I return to a chapter I had previously read, apparently regardless of whether I had inscribed in that chapter myself.
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Post by Andrew on May 7, 2015 2:15:02 GMT
For those with paper-based manifestations, how do links between different posts show up? As an example, here is a link to the start of the index of different worlds.
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Post by Fortunomancer on May 7, 2015 2:28:05 GMT
Links appear as a cross-reference to another section of the letter.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 7, 2015 2:36:42 GMT
For me, the word here is underlined, followed by a footnote. At the bottom of the page, it says to see Volume 5: News and Information, Booklet 8: Index of Worlds, page 1.
Oh, I should write a description of the local manifestation. I'll do that in a bit.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 7, 2015 3:05:39 GMT
For me, the forum manifests as a series of soft pages found in my and my house mate's mail bin. I have never seen them being delivered, and they appear to be delivered during times when there is not normally a deliverer near our home. I write by writing the content, although not the surrounding details, on a similarly sized soft page, and receive a copy of my page, but with the same formatting as the other pages in the booklets.
The pages note at the top which of 5 volumes they belong to, and which booklet of that volume. I fasten them as the last page of their booklet. Each booklet has a cover page with just its title and place in the volume. Each volume has a cover page with just its title and volume number. At the top of each page after its location is a pronunciation and near-meaning rendering of the author's publishing name. Then it sometimes has a symbol representing the author's gender, and sometimes it says which verb-markers the author prefers. Then, there is an intricate colored drawing of something. (such as a forest, an eye, a palmate leaf, or complex abstract shapes).
Each page is outlined in dark or light blue ink, alternating. The words are written in very neat block letters.
In the first response I wrote, in the area where there were intricate drawings on the other authors' pages, I painted a square of light blue, and affixed a seed of a tree I had made some useful changes to, after filling its patterns with meaningless noise. The copies of my pages I have received since have an intricate colored drawing of my seed against a blue background. I assume it looks similar to everyone else.
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Post by lurkingkobold on May 7, 2015 3:55:40 GMT
Is mirror. Show blue, say words, very strange. Mage did scry, did wrong, Chief gave Outisidertrader/me because best to language.
(Is any know if safe? Mage worried.)
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Post by Dotted Lines on May 7, 2015 4:47:42 GMT
I am on this forum through the internet on my computer. I am in my own home, so this is safe to do. My internet is much like Andrew's described internet.
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Post by Botanical Engineer on May 7, 2015 4:50:57 GMT
Lurkingkobold, Here is safe. Mother Starlight keeps it safe. The people are nice. Generally.
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Post by Andrew on May 7, 2015 5:09:42 GMT
So it looks like all the manifestations I know of support all of the features I have access to on this forum, except for the ability to attach files which cannot be rendered in some graphical format. I wonder how that is handled, but do not currently have a non-text non-graphical file worth attaching.
Does anybody else have any features that might not be supported in other manifestations of the forum?
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