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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/7/2024 5:33 PM, Erik Carvalhal
Miller wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 4:59 PM Asmus Freytag via
Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>>
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> I'm thinking a coded message affecting the future of
humanity, where the secret is buried in the appearance, not the
content of the text. And our amateur sleuths from the future
need to revive an ancient machine found in an abandoned
spaceship where they have to piece together what they can from
preserved fragments of this mail discussion. While fighting off
the CSS overlords.<br>
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Ah, yes…our sleuths must penetrate a monastic order dedicated to
extreme methods of denying the worldly pleasures that would
distract them from their stewardship of an arcane semantic
system from our Sunʼs nearest stellar neighbor, in a gambit
which could usher in a new Golden Age for humanity or else
devastate the Earth — hence the title <i>Eunuch Code: The Alpha
Bet</i>.</div>
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<p><font face="Candara">Looks like we are getting there. Great
working title.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">I like how it suggests an all-or-nothing
wager as a sub-theme.<br>
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<p><font face="Candara">I think we need to look at strong secondary
characters next. I can picture a survivor; a gnarly early
generation AI that tenaciously clings to the interstices of the
derelict's hardware to become an unsuspected ally, though prone
to hallucinations. Perhaps doubles as comic relief.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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