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[lhall]

Crossing fingers for a quick answer. Let us know if there's any response! I also have some people I can message for help, but I've never met them and there's no guarantee they'll be into it.

[mr.judkins]

I've started to message English-speakers in Brest through Couchsurfing.com, and will keep an eye on their chat room for any local residents to turn up.

[mr.judkins]

Double post.

Finally caught someone based in Brest in the Couchsurfing chat room.

It's one thing to try and explain why we want someone to pick up an envelope from some bar, without having to do it in a crowded, busy chat room!

However, they sounded potentially interested, and asked me to message them with the details and more info on the game - which I have done. I asked them to let me know if they had the time and inclination to get involved and do the pickup.

If and when they get back to me, I'll let y'all know.

[mr.judkins]

Triple Post.

The person I tracked down through Couchsurfing is in!

They are able to do the pickup tomorrow afternoon their time (currently 11pm), and asked if that would be too late. I replied saying that would not be too late, and it would be really appreciated!

They understand that what we need is the code, and I've shown them example codex pages. I have also pointed them to this forum thread, so either they'll post here once they've got it, or they'll send me an email.

Either way, we should have the code within 24 hours, I reckon.

[AUZ505]

[Weezel]

[mr.judkins]

Thanks Guys...

Still no word from Brest, unfortunately though. As it's now 11:10pm, either they're doing a late-night mission to the bar, or they didn't get a chance to pick it up today.

I'll update again on this as soon as I hear from them again.

[mr.judkins]

Another double-post.

I've heard back from our contact in Brest, but unfortunately it was to say she hasn't been able to get to the bar yet - it being quite out of her way.

She's pretty sure she'll be able to get out there "tomorrow", however, so the waiting game continues.

The good thing is that she's still in contact, and still keen on the "mission".

[Elizabeth123]

Why don't these people understand the world is at stake?

Thanks for keeping us posted, Mr. J!

[mr.judkins]

The Brest Artifact has been recovered!

http://164.109.150.213/PRUVO/DHJF/ALK8/DF59/XOF8/9743.PDF

Thanks to MAYAlabeille!

[Thomas Bookmore]

Thanks a lot, MAYA ! I was worried this artifact would never turn up.

[jasper]

Oooo! Fireworks. Thanks for getting this for us!

[Oriza]

All Right!!!

Now we just need a translation...
I'll transcribe it on the wiki, at least.

[Superlapinou]

Moi jes uis super heros

[jasper]

This makes very little sense to me, and I am sure I am messing up on "movigxanta" or "movigxo" which is something more than movement somehow.

My draft (please don't copy and paste this until someone helps more) translation:

Navigation by means of flares
Even if we can construct travel omphalai, safe travel home is not certain.

Millions and millions of worlds exist and it is no simple matter to navigate from one specific world to another. Indeed it is an extremely complicated matter. It becomes necessary to master the technique known as flare navagation.

As best we could determine, the traveler is automatically transported to the one world with the most strong correlation of human activity upon the precise moment when the trip occurs. In other words, the multiverse (blank space) sends the traveler along the stortest possible distance- to the world moving the same as the door world.

For reasons that we still don't fully understand, coordination of geography, building and other immovable differences a lot less (?) important during the trip than the synchronization of living motion.

Therefore, when you try to travel multiverse (blank space), you should create that of human synchronization between your world and world you are aiming for- flare of (to become moving noun.) which guides your way more nearly towards the world you are aiming for. In order to create enough powerful flare you must be able to exactly in front or ahead of the place and activity of a lot of (millions?) of individuals in both worlds. And if you can't, your trip may cary you to any place entirely unanticipated.

If you fail to make the strongest possible coordination, you will still arrive a world that is suficiently close to your aimed for world that you still find that your friends and family exist but their lives may be very different from what you remember.

How to prepare the flares

Huge quantity of prior communication by omphalos is necessary before your departure to make sure of the success of your flare.

If you have two-way communication by omphalos you can work with agonithetai in the aimed for world to prepare a comon event that synchronizes as much of human bodies as possible.

The more complicatetd the movement, the stronger will be the coordination that you create.

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If you have (marked through) one-way communication through omphalos, that you can see but not be seen, you must study the information and visions that you receive from the aimed for world (uai?) yonder in order to create an event in your world that will most parallel activity that you anticipate in your aimed for world.

Here is the situation in which we actually find ourselves.

Our aim is to profit the custom of to dance the labyrintine dance, as if upon the large floor of Ariadne herself. Each of us six remembers that this here custom happens nightly during the first two weeks of August on each of our domestic worlds.

During our travels around the world to prepare the travel omplaloi, we were teaching others the labyrintine dance, and also giving the tradition of our world to dance it through the late sumer upon the hour of sunset in Crete.

We can only hope that they would remember that, which we showed to them, and that you yonder will be enough to send us home.