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[complicatedliar]

To whom it may concern:

I had a bit of an odd dream last night, which involved a somewhat coded message in what seemed to be base-2. If you're curious, this is what I've translated it out to:

peter parker and jessicadrew are dead peter parker and jessicadrew are dead dead dead are dead are

I surmise the bit I underlined is another name, but I'm not familiar enough with the possibilities to want to struggle with it if someone else might simply know.

Either way, I am sorry to be the bearer of such a... nightmare.

-Lingormr


[ooc: Strike is legible. The note has been corrected as neatly as possible in response to Zero's post.]

Comments

[dividedby]

The other name is 'jessica drew'.

[complicatedliar]

Thank you. I did not know that person, but I am sorry to hear it all the same.

[ooc: Loki corrects the main post after seeing this comment.]

[dividedby]

I don't know either one of them, but I'm sorry to hear it too.

[unsigned but undisguised]

[toxicspiderman]

Fuck. Knew he was gone, didn't know he was gone.

Thanks.

[complicatedliar]

I don't think I quite take the distinction.

[italics done by writing in loopy, slanted cursive; rest block print]

[toxicspiderman]

to go, verb, intransitive, from old English **
1. To travel to or from a place, leave, depart.

2. To die.

** [There are a few symbols there that look like ancient Greek and Quenya had an ill-advised fling, but they have no actual meaning]

Re: [italics done by writing in loopy, slanted cursive; rest block print]

[complicatedliar]

I see.

[freewill]

Who were they?

[complicatedliar]

I was not familiar with the lady. Peter Parker, I met my first morning. Young man, interested in maths. He was very kind.

[freewill]

Is there a reason that their deaths in particular were announced?

[complicatedliar]

That, I cannot guess. The numerical code came from the radio mounted on the wall. Preceding it was what sounded like a children's rhyme of some sort, which perhaps is related: Ring around the rosie. Pockets full of--pockets full of POSIES. Ashes? Ashes. We all. Fall.

Not something that is familiar to me.

[freewill]

I heard it. What I'm wondering was why their deaths in particular were publicized.

[complicatedliar]

Perhaps someone else will know.

[block handwriting, not disguised]

[ryuuzaki]

Base-2 dreams happen now and then.

[complicatedliar]

Do they normally use the same number-letter pairings, or shall I have to start from scratch and rework the puzzle anew each time?

(ttly not posted any time near those other comments on that other thing)

[ryuuzaki]

It's your dream, isn't it?

Once in a while, an automated system called I.R.I.S. delivers the day's announcements. It makes quite an impression on people... they hear it in their own dreams, talking in code. You can blame the collective unconscious.

[complicatedliar]

Fascinating.