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| title = Voynich Manuscript | | title = Voynich Manuscript | ||
| image = voynich_manuscript.png | | image = voynich_manuscript.png | ||
− | | titletext = Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a round of Druids and Dicotyledons? | + | | titletext = Wait, is that the ORIGINAL voynich manuscript? Where did you GET that? Wanna try playing a round of Druids and Dicotyledons? |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | As the comic explains, the {{w|Voynich_manuscript|Voynich Manuscript}} is a very | |
+ | detailed book written in an unknown script, describing plants and recipes, most | ||
+ | of which lack a real-world analog. Over the past few decades, linguists and | ||
+ | cryptographers have unsuccessfully attempted to decode the book. | ||
− | {{w| | + | {{w|Dungeons_%26_Dragons|Dungeons and Dragons}} is a fantasy role-playing game |
+ | with extremely detailed descriptions of fantastical worlds. | ||
− | After being shown the | + | After being shown the Manuscript for the first time by Megan, Cueball argues |
+ | that it should be obvious that it's just an ancient Dungeons and Dragons | ||
+ | rulebook, seeing as human tendency to invent fantastical worlds must have also | ||
+ | existed in the past. | ||
− | After concluding this, | + | After concluding this, the title text then asks, shocked, how Megan got her |
+ | hands on the original manuscript, and then suggests playing Druids and | ||
+ | Dicotyledons, presumably the game defined by the manuscript. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[Weird root vegetables surround a strange script.] | :[Weird root vegetables surround a strange script.] | ||
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− | :[ | + | :[Woman holding up book.] |
− | : | + | :Woman: This is the Voynich manuscript -- a book, allegedly 500 years old, written in an unrecognized script. It's some kind of visual encyclopedia of imaginary plants and undeciphered "recipes". |
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− | :[ | + | :[The man opens the book.] |
− | : | + | :Woman: It could be a hoax, a lost language, a cipher, an alien text, glossolatia -- no one knows. |
− | : | + | :Man: No one? But it's obvious. |
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− | : | + | :Woman: ... Obvious? Linguists and cryptographers have been stumped for decades. |
− | : | + | :Man: They forget. Human nature doesn't change. |
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− | + | :Man: Just imagine someone found a book from _our_ time, full of lists, illustrations, tables, and long, dry descriptions of nonexistent worlds written in an invented language. What have they found? | |
− | : | + | :Woman: ... Dear Lord. It |
− | : | + | :is |
− | : | + | : obvious. |
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:500 Years Earlier: | :500 Years Earlier: | ||
− | :Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an | + | :[Three people are standing around pawns and a die. One is holding a sheet of paper, another is holding a book, the third is holding a scythe.] |
+ | :Person #1: Forsooth! I concoct an elixir of courage. | ||
:Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane! | :Person #2: Nae! The source booke sayeth that requires some wolfsbane! | ||
:Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points. | :Person #3: Your druid doth lose two points. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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