> I came up with this idea because of the 'I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat..'
> thread, but I thought it was interesting enough to warrant its own thread:
> What we've got so far: _CCTGLW -- absolute nonsense; perhaps performing a
> Caesar-like encryption might clear it up.
> The Caesar code -- named after the emperor -- involved rotating the
> individual letters of the message forward or backward n letters; in
> Caesar's case, it was forward 3. The most common example of this sort of
> thing nowadays is the ROT-13 'code' commonly found in Usenet messages.
> ROT-13ing _CCTGLW produces gibberish, as do many of the other
> combinations. However , ROT-16ing _CCTGLW seems to make sense.
> It produces _RRIVAL, which clearly must be ARRIVAL -- and that just
> happens to be the name of the first level in Marathon. Although this might
> be (and with my luck, probably is...) a coincidence, this would make the
> first glyph an L. Just how , I haven't a clue, yet...

...that you would hold the map in your hands, yet choose not to let it guide you.

No matter. You'll arrive here eventually.

Two down, one to go. What fun!