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Your father's MacGuffin diary
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your father's MacGuffin diary
This is the diary your father kept during his lifelong search for the Holy MacGuffin. A lot of it is useless, or at least really boring, but he seems to have found a handful of important clues during his search.
Your father's handwriting was also infuriatingly small and sloppy. You had forgotten about that.
Type: usable
Cannot be traded
Cannot be discarded
Quest Item
( In-game plural not known; currently impossible to determine) Obtained From
- The Shore, Inc.
- Covert Operations
When Used
When used, you will be able to read what's inside the diary (well duh).
The full text reads as follows:
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Page 1
Jarlsuary 1
The Holy MacGuffin's resting place is apparently a pyramid buried beneath Seaside Town. The guardians left a clue as to its exact location -- a wooden model of Seaside Town, hidden in a smaller pyramid somewhere on Desert Beach. But to unlock the clue, I'll need the key. The legendary Staff of Ed!
[picture: a pyramid at the edge of a vast desert]
Page 2
[picture: the three parts of the Staff of Ed -- a gem, an engraved ring, and a staff]
"The staff has been broken into 3 parts and scattered across the Kingdom. Once I have retrieved all three pieces, I must find the wooden city, and use the staff to determine the precise location of the pyramid."
[picture: a cutaway view of the pyramid, showing sunlight, focused through the Staff of Ed, pinpointing a location on the wooden model]
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Page 3
[picture: four small images in sequence: a forest, a stone with a map engraved on it, an ancient temple, and an image of an ancient god with long ears and a lightning-shaped tail]
Bor 7
It is said that the Hidden Temple in the Distant Woods holds many ancient secrets. I have reason to believe that part of the Staff of Ed is hidden there.
Bor 11
Discovered a passage about the Temple in a book on ancient religious architecture. Appears to contain notes about some kind of ritual. Significant?
Page 4
I: ALUTESAY MAJORES
OWTHRAY VESTI MANUS IN AER ET AVEWAY LEMMA IKELAY TU NON CAUTIO
(Trans: The Gesture of the Elders -- Throw your hands up in the air and wave them like you do not care.)
II: VERBUM MAJORES
PAUCI IMESTAY EGO INTER UT SEMIA SIC NON IUSTUS ONNAGAY OCCURO AMO UT ETLAY ME AUDITE LOCUTUS ATWHAY HIC EXCRETIA EST
(Trans: The Word of the Elders -- A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that. Let me hear you say what this (???) is.)
III: FIDES MAJORES
NOS NON NECESSITAS NULLAS AQUIA PERMISSIUM MATRISFORNICATIO EXURO
(Trans: The Trust of the Elders -- We do not... ?)
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Page 5
Febtober 6
My trail has led me to the home of a wealthy Seaside Town man who apparently possesses the gem from the Staff. He refuses to see me, but I did discover a note left in a scrap of paper in a book he returned to the library across the street from the sleazy back alley. It contains, among other things, a fragment of sheet music. Curious.
[picture: a fragment of sheet music]
Page 6
[picture: a bookshelf, with an arrow pointing to the third book from the left]
[picture: a series of numerous strange glyphs]
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Page 7
Bill 2
In a bar at the Obligatory Pirate's Cove, I overheard a pirate who claimed to have found the legendary Palindome. He was wearing an unusual gold amulet -- two snakes, each biting the other's tail. Unfortunately, I lost him in the crowd before I could question him.
[picture: two snakes, combining to form an amulet][note: PASSWORD: swordfish]
Bill 4
My research has revealed that the Palindome is the last resting place of the famed pool shark Rudolph "Saturated" Fats, or at least his pool cue, the Staff of Fats. It's widely rumored that it wasn't originally a pool cue, but that Fats had modified an old staff he had found in an antique store. This explains his pool prowess -- perhaps the cue is actually the shaft of the Staff of Ed!
Page 8
Bill 6
The pirates showed me this rubbing. They're not sure where it came from, and the bottom is missing. Still, it might be useful.
[picture: the top part of a carving, with the words GOD, A RED NUGGET, A FAT EGG]
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Notes
- Reading the diary opens up various areas required for the Quest for the Holy MacGuffin.
- The series of glyphs on Page 6 are part of a puzzle created by the development team as an experiment (which has since run its course). When decoded, it provides instructions on how to obtain the Ragamuffin Imp -- "to get an imp say word tatter at the altar do not spoil this".
- The "Password: Swordfish" was added on November 28, 2007, as part of an expected revamp of the Obligatory Pirate's Cove.
References
- A MacGuffin is a plot device that motivates the characters and/or advances the story, but has little other relevance to the story.
- The Pikachu-like picture on page 3 is a reference to Riff's 1000 blank white cards page.
- The last page appears to be a palindrome which would complete as: GOD, A RED NUGGET, A FAT EGG UNDER A DOG. This is a line from the Weird Al Yankovic song "Bob".
- The phrases on page 4 are lyrics from rap songs translated into a mix of dog-Latin and Pig Latin:
- "OWTHRAY VESTI MANUS IN AER ET AVEWAY LEMMA IKELAY TU NON CAUTIO" is a translation of "Throw your hands up in the air, and wave them like you just don't care", from Cameo's song Word Up!.
- "PAUCI IMESTAY EGO INTER UT SEMIA SIC NON IUSTUS ONNAGAY OCCURO AMO UT" means "A few times I've been around that track, so it's not just gonna happen like that", from the Gwen Stefani song "Hollaback Girl".
- "NOS NON NECESSITAS NULLAS AQUIA PERMISSIUM MATRISFORNICATIO EXURO" is intended to be "We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn", a lyric from "The Roof Is on Fire" by Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three.
- The first line of sheet music is "Shave and a Haircut", but in a minor key, as is befitting for a haunted organ.
- "Throw your hands up in the air/and wave them around like you just don't care" Is also a line from the Arrogant Worms' song, "Boy Band".
- The use of "Swordfish" as a password may be a reference to either the 2001 movie, Swordfish, or to a scene in the much older Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers which inspired Swordfish's title.
- Password: Swordfish is also the title of an episode of Robot Chicken.
- There is also a line from the Terry Pratchett book, The Night Watch which has Commander Vimes noting that "the password is always 'swordfish'."
- This item may be a reference to Illusion of Gaia, where the protagonist also receives a diary from his intrepid father to help him in his travels.
- Pool shark Rudolph "Saturated" Fats is named after real-life pool player Rudolf Walter Wanderone Jr., aka "Minnesota Fats".
- The Staff of Ed is comparable to the Staff of Ra from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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