Falerin
Legendary Loremaster
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[Out of Character] Hello and welcome to stage one of the WarpForce Mystery Launch. This puzzle will unfold over time, starting now at the end of May and continuing through the month of June. Each individual piece of the puzzle will appear in series as the previous ones are solved, and the mysteries they unfold unlock to lead you closer to the secrets being hidden. Only when the the final puzzles are solved can you win. It is only the final puzzles that have a winner or winners. So you are encouraged to work together. The puzzles will be of many styles but all will lead toward the ultimate conclusion. You may attempt to solve the puzzle here on the forums in the puzzle thread, on IRC, around the office cooler, while waiting in line for movie tickets, at the amusement park, with your real life friends at the beach or wherever else you will like. We encourage you to share your findings with others. Spoilers are definitely allowed, but please, make sure you include them in the appropriate spoiler tags like this: [spoiler]Secret Info Inside[/spoiler] In addition to the puzzles there will be short snippets written from an in-character perspective linking the puzzles together. All of the puzzle solutions will ultimately be content that is revealed directly in game and even the in-character snippets may end up gathered together in an Admiral's Log, somewhere. Participating in this series of games is entirely optional. You need not participate in this puzzle at all to get full enjoyment of WarpForce. The content of these puzzles will neither affect NOR be required as part of gameplay in any way, and is intended as part of the "teasers" we have been releasing along the way. That said, we do hope you participate and enjoy the journey. Please keep content in the thread about the individual puzzle being solved, discussion of that puzzle and attempts to reach a solution. You are also welcome to speculate on the overall meaning of the puzzles and the greater mystery they might reveal, but if you are doing that on the AE Forums you should restrict such posts to the Speculation and Theories forum area. With no further ado ... Here is the first puzzle. [/OutOfCharacter] This letter was sent from Lore on the Isle D' Oriens: [In Character] Hello Lorians, I am Falerin Ardendor, a visitor from another realm. I am a keeper of the legends of Lore. I am known as the LoreMaster. My assistants and I have been gathering information in anticipation of the Coming of the WarpForce. We know only a very little about this mysterious group and their goals. Signs of their coming have already been spotted in several places. Clearly someone has a plan and an idea and being the nosy information gatherer that I am. I want to know what that plan is. I need help from someone if I am going to achieve this. I would love for that someone to be you. The first message was an intercepted transcription based upon a recording from somewhere well above the surface of Lore. The video of the original recording is completely garbled but it appears to be some sort of dedication ceremony. Of the sort one might encounter when beginning a long adventure. Unfortunately my language transfer units are completely non-functional and the phonemes and letters of the original recording have been transcribed quite wrongly. I could solve it myself but I am quite busy. I ask your aid in this endeavor. ~Falerin - LoreMaster - Terran Date 27 May 2009 C.E. [/In Character] The garbled transmission is appended to the original request. It is as follows:
Q W A Z G W I J H I F W I K , Q W A N H I I H Q P H I
I W A B H B G T . C J Z G P P Q K , C J C H T T P Q K U G H T .
- G L N H A G T G N G L G
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