You follow the path, and it leads to a crude wooden table with a lit candle on it, and given the almost complete darkness sorrunding you, it's proven useful. You wonder where the fake sun went. There is a giant tome sitting on the table, it's thicker than wide. You try to pick it up, but you are clumsy, and it falls to the ground, fragmenting into dozens of paper bonds. You try to organize them back into how they were, hoping that the owner won't notice. Or at least won't be really mad about it.
Since every fiction about Zampanio is „fan” fiction, my whole collecton could be stuffed in here. But these works were neatly next to each other, and labelled as such, so I will just dedicate this section for them.
They belong to various authors and various stories, and my order is more or less arbitrary. I separated them into two categories according to wether they are related to the most researched Zampanio fanwork or not, and inside these there is a loose chronological order of the publication dates (some of which is obviously fake, but this is the best clue I have). I attached my notes about ciphers and context where I felt the need for it.
I have no advice about the reading order, there is no single overarching story, I would only like to note that when „is Seen” is written at the end of the title, it's jr's answer to the previous work.
Enjoy your stay, and be careful with the candle!
~ The Watcher of Threads
You decide to read a few of them, and maybe come back later.
- A Catalogue of Anomalous Artifacts
The original contained voided out white text, it's black with the rest of the fic here.
- Corridor Realms Tally
- Wysbyheu Yndevyld Kieta
It's ciphers are translated in the next work. (The Zampanio Artifact Guide)
- Zampanio Artifact Guide
- True Story
- An Odyssey Of The Return To The Change Of Days
- A letter lost in the void
- Zampanio Path 1.3: Twisting Wastes
Belongs to the branch of Hex.
- Creeper's Key
It's a key to a reallly old map of our maze. The map was later updated by the Hær@ld, me and the Personality, but it's still an interesting historical document.
- ra faync rec dedma fedr bneta
The title and the notes together mean "he wears his title with pride for he has wasted it" in Al Bhed.
- ra faync rec dedma fedr bneta: Is Seen
- Welp…
It probably belongs to the Scribe's branch given the context and the style, but we have no way to know.
- a sinking nostalgia
- When you find a room for you the only answer is to do nothing
- his room
- Endless decent
The summary is an Al Bhed, it translates to:
eyes are real when the screen becomes a mirror for the truth is scrambled and distorts greatly all who wish to know the real truth i must warn you for have gone more deep than you should have gone
- Endless decent: Is Seen
- in which the herald contemplates stealing the tall glass of pot roast to achieve peak comedy
Sadly we haven't managed to figure out what "AMLMPBTPQAXQHIH" is a key to.
- Marks In The Paint
The description is a Vigenère Cipher, the key is "lily". The translation:
I can't fix things, that is not my role. But I can make them better. Scrawl the word 'beautiful' after 'the world's gone' and hope that is enough. Hope that I can improve things. Hope that it helps. Hope that when others see the things I've made, they know it's not all bad here.
I waste my Rage and grace my Hopes. Please. Please let these little things help.
- i notice, i notice, different things that are alike
The description is a Vigenère Cipher, the key is "cinquefoil". The translation:
i want to trust and be trusted
why is this so hard? why does everyone lie and manipulate and why do i feel this expectation placed upon myself as well?
i do not want to be a puppet nor a puppeteer. i want to be me and i want others to be themselves as well!
it hurts. this place looks a lot like home.
but how unmistakably it is not.
- The Hunter Wanders The LabYrinth
- The Hunter Wanders The LabYrinth: Is Seen
- Letters to Legion
- serve a purpose
The description is encoded with Atbash cipher. The translation:
or else.
put on a good show, you only exist as long as you are seen
- The catalyst claims a room
- The catalyst claims a room: Is Seen
- Angelus Daemon Prinvepus
The title means "Angel Demon Prince" in Latin.
- Cor Mutatum Est Semel
The title means "A Heart Changed Once" in Latin.
- The Author Becomes Chaotic
- Guiding light
- Piracy.
- Piracy.: Is Seen
- A Trip to Bellor
"Jrypbzr gb Vgnyl" means "Welcome to Italy" with rot 13 cipher.
- A letter
- A Response From Legion
- The Auditor claims a room.
- Button Mash
This is about the start of the West
- Basket swap
- Screm
- The Auditor offers a gift.
- in which
- Books Three
- Trail of Questions
- rocc
- One Feathered Wing
- i think im too lost to be found
- diary 1
- diary 2
- wanting to hear it, i look this way
- Clueless Riddler, First Eternity
- Clueless Riddler, First Eternity: Is Seen
- Clueless Riddler, Second Eternity
- The Traveler
- Writing On The Wall
- Transcribed Zampanio FAQ
Although the connection is not self-evident, this document is said to have a very strong relationship with the origin of ZampanioSim.
- tip your hat and break your mother's heart
- The Visitor
The notes are Vigenère cipher, the key is "author". The translation:
NNNNNN
if you know the key you are halfway to understanding the story
- The Marvelous Adventures of Quinn and Morgan
- Utter Sin, Fifth day
This and the following few works are part of the Friday's Trinity Universe branch.
The chipertext is Vigenère, the key is "angel". The translation is the following:
Trisected by the arbiter's hand , revealing the mysterious spiral underneath. The Friday feels broken, and the arbiter feels remorse. The Friday's pieces are in the metastructure now. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch! He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
- Quantum Theory
- London Heathrow
- A Message
- The Twin Priests of Lunaria
- A Tale of Three Brothers
- Timeline of Events
- Update on the Lunarian Situation
- Recreational Eschatology
- Cthonaut Orientation
- Zrzragb Zbev
The text is with rot 13 cipher
Memento Mori
CC: WELLSPRING Status?
AL: Energy Readings Steady. Minor movement detected earlier last month but otherwise smooth sailing
CC: Good. Danny how are our Trainees
DO: The Field has been narrowed to 85
CC: Great-
TA: You're playing into her hands
CC: How did you get in here
TA: You know I have my ways. Let’s walk together.
CC: …
TA: She wants to keep things going forever. to keep things in stasis.
CC: You know my stance on the issue. maintaining the status quo is paramount
TA: Okay listen,They're basically two different paths ahead of us for this universe neither of them are conducive to its continued existence. the first path is the path where I go crazy and kill everybody. this could happen at any time but I feel like it would have already happened if it was going to happen.
CC: calm your self
TA: The other option, and the much more preferable one in my opinion, is for the universe itself to die.
CC: where is your evidence that this is even necessary
TA: My notebook and publicly available records. it's plain to see that this universe is dying. You can either try to stop it and make it even more painful or you can just let it all fall apart.
CC: I've already gone to far too stop what I'm doing
TA: I guess there's no convincing you otherwise. I just wish.. I just wish you could have made a different choice before it became inevitable that this would be the result of me being here.
CC: You're rambling
...
TA: I know. I do that when I'm stressed
Notes:
“Why can I speak to you. this shouldn't be possible”
“I think it's because I'm not really here”
This is the latest part of Trinity Universe series as I write this.
- too much of a good thing
- End User License Agreement
- supernatural gamers unleashed
There was a conversation about whyt would happen if a shambling horror would try to copy two people at once, it't about that idea.
- Creators