The Consulate of The West Pacific
Hello all!
As promised, The West Pacific has activities that can, and should, be enjoyed by the members of our growing community, be they in TWP, or in regions with which we hold good relations (like this one!).
I shall first direct your attention to The West Pacific's 'Monday Punday', a glorious collation of the best punny humour that The West Pacific can offer. I strongly encourage each and every one of you to give it a go. After all, there can only be laughter and puns in Monday Punday!
Here are a few notable entries that have been entered into the Monday Punday 'Hall of Fame'.
Puns Galore
Darkesia: Don't tell any friction jokes. I can't let that slide.
Davelands: I can't believe I got fired from the calendar factory. All I did was take a day off.
Davelands: To whoever took my copy of Microsoft Office: I will find you. You have my Word.
Mediobogdum: The roundest knight at King Arthur’s table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from eating too much pi.
Mediobogdum: Children in the back seats of cars often cause accidents, but accidents in the back seats of cars sometimes cause children.
Another weekly activity of The West Pacific can only be described as a musical journey, filled with fine tunes and good taste, in The West Pacific's Karaoke Friday! Feel free to post lyrics for the song that you most enjoy (along with a youtube link, if at all possible) so that we may share in your enjoyment. On that note, TWP also uploads quite a few of these requests to Discord (I believe), and the result of such can be found here: https://discordapp.com/channels/221448758213345280/221623320376901632
We at The West Pacific would love for the people of Wintreath to pop in from time to time, so that we may share a laugh, a song and a good time in general!
I'll just quickly stipulate that, at least on the RMB, The West Pacific has some fairly concrete rules regarding content, as we are a feeder region that processes a lot of new traffic. I don't believe any of the fine citizens of Wintreath would break these rules, but I'll put them up just for reference, in order to minimise the chances of one of our Guardians suppressing your post, and to ensure that we can all post without interference. A brief guideline may be found here: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=467436
Hope to see you around soon! I'll keep updating this whenever there's an event on, but the aforementioned ones are pretty much permanent.
Solution
It's a simple substitution cipher. Yes, I cheated.
full text, converted by hand can provide notes though I barely understand them myself
Memory is nothing more than a shattered vision of what we wanted the world, our world to be. It is both truth and fiction, yet we can never quite distinguish the extent of either and so we wander, to decode with zeal, to decode all was lost or misconstrued.
I assume there should be a "that" between 'all' and 'was', so that would be a QEDQ between DII and ZDV.
This was pretty challenging, because while it is simple replacement, getting the actual formula was pretty tough.
Thanks for the challenge.
translated to ascii text
WPUX
XUHO
IQOR
XOIX
turned onto its side
WXIX
PUQO
UHOI
XORX
attempted substitution cipher solutions
-2.024 OTIS SIDE AMEN SEAS OSAS TIME IDEA SENS
-2.025 THIS SIDE AREN SEAS TSAS HIRE IDEA SENS
-2.030 THIS SIDE AVEC SEAS TSAS HIVE IDEA SECS
-2.078 UTIS SIDE AMEN SEAS USAS TIME IDEA SENS
-2.086 THIS SIDE AMEN SEAS TSAS HIME IDEA SENS
-2.098 SPIT TIDE ALEX TEAT STAT PILE IDEA TEXT
-2.121 WHAT TAPE SVEN TEST WTST HAVE APES TENT
-2.172 SLIT TIDE AKEN TEAT STAT LIKE IDEA TENT
-2.194 SLIT TIDE AMEN TEAT STAT LIME IDEA TENT
-2.264 THUS SURE AMEN SEAS TSAS HUME UREA SENS
current conclusion
may be a substitution cipher, but likely isn't
(https://i.imgur.com/utuFt73.png)
At 12:01am on Sunday, October 1st, a West Pacific tradition was revisited.
The current Delegate, Big Bad Badger, peacefully handed over the reigns of power to his handpicked successor, Davelands.
In his address to the region, Davelands had this to say:
"I would like to thank Big Bad Badger for the opportunity to take over the leadership of the region. As you may know, he is my closest friend in this game and it was an honor to serve under him and to learn from the best! I hope I can live up to his great legacy and build upon it. If I am half as successful as he was then my time will have been well-served.
During his time as Delegate, Badger brought the region out of the doldrums and gave us a sense of purpose. He was able to remake TWPAF into one of the best military organizations in the game, brought back a Foreign Affairs department that had ceased to exist, created a government, led us back onto the larger Gameplay stage, and countless other changes and improvements.
You may have noticed that I have appointed two new Guardians. Please welcome Rigels Light and Bran Astor into their new roles. I have known Rigel for almost a year and Bran since he came into The West Pacific a few months ago. Both have a fantastic feel for the game and are willing to put in the work necessary to make the region even better! Meritocracy is what we are about in TWP and they are the proof!
Badger and I have always had similar thoughts on how to grow the region and continue to make it even better. So we will be continuing and expanding the programs that Badger started like the Hall of Nations, TWPAF, Foreign Affairs, and others. There will not be any major changes. It is business as usual.
I was born in The West Pacific, fought in TWPAF, was chosen to resurrect the Foreign Affairs department, and was made a Guardian here. The West Pacific is my home and I promise you I will do my best to keep it the best region in NationStates! It will be my pleasure to work with you to make that happen!"