VA: May 31 gathering boxes

From: richalberth (alberth@mindspring.com) | Date: 2003-06-03 03:29:52 UTC

...are up:

Check out the web site under Northern VA in the Fairfax County
section. I posted both boxes I placed for the gathering.

- Rich

Re: VA: May 31 gathering boxes

From: thedoubtfulguests (thedoubtfulguests@yahoo.com) | Date: 2003-06-04 00:50:52 UTC

That is such a great map.

Personally I don't think you should post the hints, other than maybe
that you might not have to translate the elvish and runes. :-)

Speaking of which I tried to translate them and failed. Any hints on
how to translate after the RotK appendixes and internet searches
failed to help?

Scarab of the Doubtful Guests

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "richalberth"
wrote:
> ...are up:
>
> Check out the web site under Northern VA in the Fairfax County
> section. I posted both boxes I placed for the gathering.
>
> - Rich

Re: VA: May 31 gathering boxes

From: richalberth (alberth@mindspring.com) | Date: 2003-06-04 11:57:08 UTC

> That is such a great map.

Thanks SO much for saying so. I wasn't sure people liked the idea.

> [elvish and runes] Speaking of which I tried to
> translate them and failed.

Wow. ...takes me back to playing D&D back in the 80s...
I was a real geek back then.
The runes were entered by finding and installing fonts
Tegwar-Quenya and Tegwar-Gandalf, then just randomly pecking at the
keyboard until I found "words" that looked cool. I cut and pasted
them into Photoshop and applied various filters to make them look
weathered.

Sorry, no hidden message there!

- Rich