The Clan Lord Sentinel

A darshak carrier parrot was just killed in town center and it dropped a scroll. This is what the scroll says. Any ideas?
1/6/08 1:44:16p •You read in the common language:
1/6/08 1:44:16p ns fc ao ge wl sk fy fq kp ky ow on hy hr os ro vm uk we oe wd lr bc vo go cq xs xs mo rc mr ov bt kt al hb wn es ko mr et ow on ii dk ys hg kv tb gc me gs ks rm fo se xd ec ea rm ox ae tg bh ov ca tb cb nt pe sa fe sk fy yv hf kr ng ns fc ao kq hb pa bt el pg fy sm rs ek dv ha ao sr pf fn es ko os hd yg ec vk eg mt md qe fr or gs ep ft ro ev bc rc rs ca lz dt or pm tb fe ao sr pf oe tr se no wf hy wf rs ca wf rs to wo no me sr qe on nw ok se vt qe fe es rk sa xd ec hy ao sr ke xs nx cq nk rc n
1/6/08 1:44:16p •You see:
1/6/08 1:44:16p ns fc ao ge wl sk fy fq kp ky ow on hy hr os ro vm uk we oe wd lr bc vo go cq xs xs mo rc mr ov bt kt al hb wn es ko mr et ow on ii dk ys hg kv tb gc me gs ks rm fo se xd ec ea rm ox ae tg bh ov ca tb cb nt pe sa fe sk fy yv hf kr ng ns fc ao kq hb pa bt el pg fy sm rs ek dv ha ao sr pf fn es ko os hd yg ec vk eg mt md qe fr or gs ep ft ro ev bc rc rs ca lz dt or pm tb fe ao sr pf oe tr se no wf hy wf rs ca wf rs to wo no me sr qe on nw ok se vt qe fe es rk sa xd ec hy ao sr ke xs nx cq nk rc n
1/6/08 1:44:16p •You see:
1/6/08 1:44:16p ns fc ao ge wl sk fy fq kp ky ow on hy hr os ro vm uk we oe wd lr bc vo go cq xs xs mo rc mr ov bt kt al hb wn es ko mr et ow on ii dk ys hg kv tb gc me gs ks rm fo se xd ec ea rm ox ae tg bh ov ca tb cb nt pe sa fe sk fy yv hf kr ng ns fc ao kq hb pa bt el pg fy sm rs ek dv ha ao sr pf fn es ko os hd yg ec vk eg mt md qe fr or gs ep ft ro ev bc rc rs ca lz dt or pm tb fe ao sr pf oe tr se no wf hy wf rs ca wf rs to wo no me sr qe on nw ok se vt qe fe es rk sa xd ec hy ao sr ke xs
1/6/08 1:44:16p •You see:
1/6/08 1:44:16p nx cq nk rc nk ra kc wt me co vs qb wf eo rs rc vr ha sr rw zf ca fq wp wp ce rc rs sk sh ow fw hg qe ok tx fw tm rm sk lr ow tv fq tb gc pw lr tw ce ar ov eo me gc me gx sx yf qy tw ok tx fw wp ex rk ao se lk ng rk ox bc or ea ep fs or gh bt qe cr kn sl go bc gc pm ep fo pe xy ac tg of fq kc pr ea zk cb ep ep wp fr kx om
1/6/08 1:44:16p •You see:
1/6/08 1:44:16p go om gn hf or ea or so tn ym sk fy yv ek rm wp ce ef ht cb at eo ym fc wt do pe un kr fo ec ht cb at eo ec ft ge wl hy le ow on ht zo or so ec to wo qp ex bq xg os hg ym kr wk ec rt ca fe bh mn ep ao fe rx es cy pf ep wp fr ht zo or so ng ns fc ao ns tp gh or zr fw ht cb at ka rf ea rm ox es ec wt er rc mn pf ge he cf qe
1/6/08 1:44:16p •You see:
1/6/08 1:44:16p fw ea eg xs mo ex pq gb en hb ca yw qk bc qh fw ng No pw mW fw tm nk ho qp

Did the parrot say anything before he was killed?

This kind of code seems almost exactly like the code used in the Kizmia island / Fat Alice / Rowl / Groar happenings some time ago. I don't recall what the decoding method was, but I'm sure someone nearby is fluent.

No people attempted to get it to talk it said nothing then people that were trying to keep it in a particular area bumped into it and it died and the scroll was dropped.

Well, I think the old Groar message was solved using a 5 x 5 letter grid. So a key would have to have 25 letters in it.

Vata solved the old cipher. Is he handy to solve this one? This time, I'd like to see how he solved it.

any idea how the keywords were found for the FA things?

It was a cipher (obviously), and G R O W L was the key to the cipher. That's all I know about it, I'm afraid.

The keyword was provided by Fat Alice at great expense, from what I can tell.

Here's the old thread:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=714&hilit=Fat+alice+code

Can you read it in any other languages? It says you read it in Common. How about Fen, Zo, ect?

Who is currently in possession of the missive?

The only two capital letters are at the end.

The first two appear to be the same the third differs only in the last line, perhaps multiple copies where to be delivered to different people.

Well, I worked on this for a long while, I'm beat.

Lets just capture some Darshak and make them tell us the codes.

(Any of this useful? I can't use it myself...)

Fogtripper wrote:Who is currently in possession of the missive?

I believe Pyro is

In lieu of any other ideas, I would suggest trying keywords involving the compass. The two capital letters "N" and "W" combine, oddly enough, into "NW", indicating "Northwest". Of course, I wouldn't suggest ignoring the other directions.

(A keyword for a 5x5 grid need not have 25 letters, as Odes suggests - Several methods include simply following with the rest of the alphabet, minus the letters that you used from your keyword, among others)

(No idea if this is right or not, but I'm sort of reminded of /parts from bard songs. It almost looks to me like the first two were too long for the CL message length, so they got cut off. Then the message was repeated, broken up into parts that were short enough. I've often had to do that with music. That might explain why the first three messages are exactly the same up to "xs," and the remaining part "nx cq nk rc n" starts the 4th segment. Then again, perhaps the repetition means something, too.)

Just a quick observation... there are only two 'u's, but many 'q's. I doubt that this will be solved just by rearranging the letters.