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First, tremendous thanks to Rowan for decrypting the document from San Francisco. Apparently it was a much more difficult process this time. Here’s the plaintext document:
Re: Project Naaczaal
Status Briefing, October 20
We have encountered some significant challenges regarding site location, and we are bringing our allies to table to negotiate on our behalf. We are examining a number of fallback options, but do not believe this will present a serious impediment to our schedule.
Our effort to preserve cultural artifacts is proceeding on track, but we foresee some obstacles on the horizon.
Due to our recent funding situation, we are cutting the budget for over-the-table acquisition and relying more on covert methods and persuasion. We may not be able to obtain every item desired, but we are confident that we will reach an acceptable percentage.
All staff, please note that this overview is Eyes Only and should be deleted after reading.
Passholders, zoo plans, now preservation of cultural artifacts? This begs us to ask who is the authority behind Naaczaal. Who on earth has the right to decide what artifacts, what animals, what people are to be saved and which are not?
Meanwhile, things are heating up for me at work. I’ve to all appearances abandoned my pursuit of internal corruption. But I’m not sure how much longer I can keep this up. The new encryption scheme that we encountered is a part of a general beefing-up of security measures. The clock is ticking.
On to today. Here are the documents intercepted from Miami. Let me know when you’ve made sense of them.
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5-1-5-4 6-6-1-4 1-1-2-1 1-1-3-2 3-2-10-6 1-4-6-2 3-8-2-3 4-1-2-2 2-1-8-12
2-6-1-1 1-1-4-4 1-1-9-2 1-1-13-2 3-2-2-2 1-1-8-8 1-2-10-1 3-1-2-5 3-1-3-5
2-4-1-1 5-3-2-1 4-1-12-2 1-3-1-3 5-2-6-3 1-2-14-5 10-2-3-1 12-3-3-4 12-2-2-4 11-12-2-1 10-3-1-3 10-1-1-2 it 2-4-12-1 2-4-12-2
5-4-5-1 1-1-5-3 1-4-1-1 2-8-1-4 4-1-1-3 2-11-1-3 1-3-1-5 1-1-4-6 3-1-5-4
3-3-1-4 2-12-1-3 2-10-4-1 1-2-2-5 3-8-1-4 3-4-2-1 2-8-1-1 4-2-1-4 5-2-2-5
6-2-1-3 1-2-11-4 1-4-2-3 2-3-1-1 2-2-4-3 2-1-2-5 2-7-5-2 2-7-5-4 3-2-1-4
2-9-4-1 2-9-4-3 1-1-16-3 2-10-2-2 2-3-3-3 3-8-5-6 2-11-4-2 2-11-4-1 2-5-5-4 1-3-12-3 5-7-1-5 6-1-3-1 3-4-3-2 1-3-9-9 2-4-3-3 2-3-3-5 4-2-2-5 1-2-6-10 1-1-5-2 1-1-6-2 2-2-2-4 1-4-3-1 12-1-8-1 11-11-1-2 12-1-6-4 10-1-12-2 11-11-2-8 11-1-8-1 9-1-2-4 9-2-1-5 9-3-2-3 11-2-2-3 12-1-4-2 12-2-1-1 12-1-11-1 11-12-1-1 10-3-1-8 8-1-5-1 8-1-5-2 10-1-4-4 12-2-5-1 3-6-1-2 3-7-1-3 2-6-1-7 2-1-4-2 4-3-1-6 5-2-1-3 3-7-5-1 2-10-1-2 2-2-1-4 1-3-4-1 6-3-2-3 6-1-1-7 3-1-5-1 2-1-4-8 7-1-5-4 5-4-2-2 5-4-2-3 1-3-13-5 4-1-3-2 4-4-1-5 1-3-1-5 4-2-1-1 5-5-2-1 2-2-1-3 2-8-1-3 1-4-1-5 1-3-3-1 5-2-2-1 2-9-3-2 1-2-1-2 2-12-1-6 5-2-1-2 1-2-1-1 5-6-1-1 4-1-2-5 2-9-1-5 1-1-3-5 2-2-4-2 1-2-2-6 3-2-1-1 4-1-3-1 1-3-2-1 1-1-9-6 5-5-2-5 5-1-2-4 7-1-4-1 7-1-3-2 7-3-2-1 11-7-1-2 10-1-3-2 10-4-1-4 8-2-1-1 9-6-1-3 11-2-2-2 9-6-1-1 10-4-1-2 12-1-5-3 12-1-1-2 11-10-1-3 12-1-1-3 12-3-1-3 12-4-1-2 11-9-1-6 10-3-1-10 9-1-4-1 11-3-3-2 9-5-1-5 8-4-1-3 9-8-1-6 11-1-2-7 12-4-1-4 12-2-1-4 12-3-3-3 11-3-2-1 10-3-1-2 3-3-4-3 1-1-3-6 2-1-2-1 2-1-2-2 2-2-1-1 4-3-1-5 2-11-1-4 3-5-1-1 3-5-1-2 3-5-1-3 3-8-1-3 5-1-4-2 3-7-4-1 3-4-1-1 5-7-1-6 4-7-1-2 3-6-2-4 1-4-4-2 3-8-5-2 1-2-6-4 10-3-2-2 10-2-4-5 10-1-4-1 12-4-3-2 10-2-2-2 9-8-2-3 9-7-3-1 11-4-3-1 12-2-2-3 12-3-2-1 5-1-18-1 5-1-18-2 6-5-1-1 7-1-2-5 4-7-2-5 5-2-2-3 2-11-1-1 1-3-4-2 3-3-1-5 5-7-1-6 6-4-1-2 5-4-1-1 5- 4-1-3 5-4-1-2 7-4-1-3 7-2-1-2 5-3-3-3 6-1-1-3 7-2-2-2 3-5-2-5 1-2-1-7 1-1-12-1 1-2-3-2 2-4-2-1 3-3-3-6 2-7-1-5 2-4-1-3 2-9-1-4 1-2-1-4 5-6-1-9 7-1-6-1 4-6-1-6 7-3-1-1 6-5-1-3 5-5-2-2 4-2-1-5 5-3-3-2 6-3-2-7 7-4-1-8 12-2-3-3 12-4-1-3 12-3-3-1 11-11-1-4 10-3-1-4 11-5-3-2 11-12-5-7 11-3-2-4 11-4-1-1 11-4-4-1 11-4-3-2 10-3-1-1 10-4-1-1 9-8-1-5 11-2-1-2 10-2-2-5
12-3-15-1 11-8-2-1 9-8-1-4 10-4-2-1 44-4-1-4 10-4-1-3 9-8-8-1 11-6-7-4 9-7-4-8 9-8-3-1 8-5-1-2 8-1-2-4 8-4-1-4 9-2-1-8 9-5-2-5 11-11-5-1 11-11-5-2 12-1-18-1 11-6-1-3 12-3-7-1 12-3-8-2 12-3-7-3 12-2-5-4 11-3-4-1 12-1-3-1 11-11-1-3 11-11-1-4 11-1-2-5 11-1-3-3 10-4-2-4 10-4-1-8 9-5-1-4 9-2-1-7 8-4-2-3 5-5-6-1 2-5-2-2 2-5-2-3 2-1-8-1 3-3-3-2 2-5-1-5 2-8-1-10 6-6-2-1 6-5-1-11-4-7-4-4 1-3-5-4 2-7-2-6 5-7-1-1 6-3-3-2 7-5-1-2 2-2-3-1 1-4-5-2 1-3-4-5 1-1-5-1 6-2-5-1 6-2-5-2 5-5-7-1 2-4-2-3 2-2-2-1 2-3-3-1 2-4-4-3 2-1-3-3 1-4-4-1 1-3-6-3 12-3-2-2 12-1-6-1 11-7-2-4 10-1-4-5 8-2-3-3 8-4-1-7 8-1-2-2 10-4-1-910-2-2-3 10-1-2-3 9-4-1-6 9-2-1-9
