Sunday, April 6, 2014
Ur-Schleim, ref 243 J55.
Dear sirs:
What follows is a transcript recorded from the last ACFR (Ancient Catalog Fragment Review) that has been collected by our servants and distilled into a readable format regarding the files contained in packet ref243.J55. It should be noted that over two thousand files have been recovered in this transcript and there is little doubt that extraneous fragments exist.
Per your request, we hereby deliver the text fragment translations are as follows:
REFPRIMARY: THOMAS H. HUXLEY.
DISTILLED STRING: BATHYBIUS HAECKELII (315.4756)
REFSECONDARY: (000.1857) PROTOZOAN. ALCOHOL SOLOUTION. ALBUMINOUS.
DISTILLED STRING: ORGANIC MATTER. BLOOD VESSELS
REFTERTIARY: (000.1857) E. HAECKEL. PROTOPLASM (453.8) CONNECTION BETWEEN INORGANIC AND ORGANIC. DEEMED ARCHAIC. ALSO SEE: C.W.THOMSON (000.1869)
SPECIFIC TEXT: MYCELIUM. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.
End of text and translation.
We await your decision.
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3 comments:
this may be one of my favoritest things I've read on the interwebz. I have no diea what it means but it has my imagination going all over the place!
We can assume that fragments of information might exist about the past, especially when an ork under duress spits out something that sounds like the word "UR SCHLEIM" and it shows up in a transcription.
Everything from the historical databases is scoured for reference material relating to the search string, and small fragments, sometimes even just syllables, are "distilled" to a coherent sound. These sounds or portions of text are then combined together to relative cousins of contemporary words. A pool is collected, a median range is gained, and a word is finally chosen.
These words are compiled into journals that have changed frequently over the millennia. The journals are bound into volumes called the Ancient Catalog Fragment Review, these are then read aloud by 50 Scribe Servitors in the Fragment Retention Hall on Parchan 4.
The only way to bring the Ancient Catalog Fragment Review out of Fragment Retention Hall is to send an emissary to transcribe the servitors. If the emissary is of finer quality, he will be able to decipher all 50 servitors and translate the review into a transcription that can be studied.
Packet ref243.J55 is one of those very transcriptions I speak of.
The emissary has assured us that there were no errors in translation.
It is awesome.
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