Those of you who have the SR5 Core Book in their hands may or may not have noticed, that on the second page of every chapter, there is a little coded text in the top right corner...
I first noticed page 21, and quickly recognized the letters as Enochian, so compelled and delighted at the same time, I popped out my copy of Enochian Magick Referrence by Benjamin Rowe and got to work.
"In the councils of gouernrent (government?), ue(we) must guard"
"Against the acquisition of unuaRRanted (unwarranted)"
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at this point I realized this sounded familiar, and with a little bit of thinking it clicked, this was Eisenhower's Farewell Address... a portion of it, at least:
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
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Missed the Enochian on page 15 till I went back and checked.. thankfully it was another one I recognized from the first line... It's a section of "The Cats" by HP Lovecraft:
Legions of cats from the alleys nocturnal,
Howling and lean in the glare of the moon,
Screaming the future with mouthings infernal,
Yelling the burden of Pluto’s red rune.
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Page 63: Malachim text reads:
Back in action
ready for danger
A simple one, and a good break from the Enochian, once I figured out what it WAS.
Still haven't figured out what page 129 is... but it bugs me because I KNOW it looks familiar...
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159: Ooh! It's a passage from The Necronomicon!!... or so read in another Lovecraft writing, the Festival:
"happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws"
Thought I did have to google that one to remember WHERE it was from...
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pg 215:
Binary...? BINARY!!!! Damn you, I can't translate this! lol.... Eventually I'll type it all out and run it through something...
In the meanwhile, the text on pg45 zoomed in, and cleaned up, is "Ever Burning Lights ascribed to Johannes Trithemius" (Yes, I googled it!)
Two unquenchable eternal lights are founder and to be seen hearin, which I Bartholomeus Korndorffer have written of a disciple of Mr Trittemius Abbot of Sponheim, which did affirme with an oath that they were never published nor opened before, only that his Mr the Abbot had bestowed one of them unto a great potentat. this famous Maus Trittemius, which lived in time of the great Imperiour Maximilian the first, and none like unto him was to be founde in his age, hath done much good with his artes, not mingled with divilish worcke, as some malicious men doe accuse his, butt he did knowe all what was done in the world of what he desireth by the starres of ministerie, he hath also tolde of things to come manie times.
(...and is this barcode at the bottom??? evil!)
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Page 265: Yowza… Can’t recognize this one. Anyone able to tag in?
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277: Enochian again! At least I’m getting practice… Wait… is this… backwards? Sneaky…
Hororatredhook (horror at red hook, another lovecraft story)
Piccmansmodel (Pickman’s Model… another HPL story, I think I get the pattern)
Caseofcharlesdexterward (you see where I’m going with this…)
Thelasttests (The last test. Not sure why the S)
Coolair (Cool Air)
Unerthepiramids (This one took me a while… It’s ‘Under the Pyramids’, but that missing d at the beginning trapped me!)
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Onward!!!!
Page 322: Same lettering as 265.. skipping for now until I can get a read on what it is.
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Awww... the rest are some sort of numerical code... Not binary, could be just random numbering, but I kinda doubt it.
I've done what I can, the rest is in other folks hands!
...Until I get bored again.
Thank you, whoever is responsible for this. You gave me a chance to feel like a manic sorcerer pouring over all manner of forbidden tomes.. and I loved it! hahahahah