Supplemental post for T_W: Annoying decoding activity, play along!

[huinare]

Because I've been taking Tolkien_Weekly's 'writing' drabble prompts terribly literally, the prompt of 'code' necessitated certain creative endeavors. 

The drabble, found here, contains an encoded note taken off the body of a slain Orc messenger, something resembling a code key, and leaves the note undecoded.  Readers can therefore interact with the drabble and decode the note.  O HUZZAH.

Or, as I'm anticipating, most people will rather just know right away what the note says, so I'm inserting a link to that at the end of the drabble.

PS - please bring any mistakes observed to my attention!  I'm way better at creating the code than actually applying it, so I might almost certainly have some errors.


Go.W. ugex02av09og Y2988awfik19ot k03uve jut0eyl ur05ufe98o.  Uvu aqvewt07ifw24oga, h09ood02aqj pi1402uqhan00ovk yk12oq ix10ian1400udn04o.  Etef-h08enom f1929oq q17e n08eqj62ote r24uviv wak2988o r07een v1924uh24onbo; t09os03iovaw f98eiqv00one.

D. T. advised Watcher has grown apace.  As instructed, feeding manflesh when available.  Orc-folk can no longer pass the pool safely; request counsel.

Comments

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Love it. A much easier code than several I've heard of lately, and much more fun to decode :-)

- Erulisse (one L)

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Orcs didn't try too hard with their consonant encoding, the vowels were the thing. I had a beta version that made vowels more wacky and complicated, but it turned out it didn't work. =D