A.Journal

Checks

Easy

Desire from absence.

Easy

Maybe that's why you were taken out of action for five years. The non-Hershel highlights the need for the real-Hershel.

Easy

You are the nib from which life spills, captured across the page.

Trivial

Focusing on the relentless black on white of the pages make your eyes strain with effort.

Easy

Both showcase a serious passion for cryptography -- done purely for the love of it.

Trivial

Hopefully the Editor-in-Chief will have made a dent in HOLOCENE's work soon.

Trivial

The Editor-in-Chief said she's responsible for this page. Perhaps she could help you decode HOLOCENE's work.

Easy

Whoever made the magazine's cryptograms page could help you decode HOLOCENE's work.

Trivial

The person in charge of the magazine should know -- the Editor-in-Chief.

Trivial

Someone from the magazine must deliver each of the issues to the Honour Book Stall...

Easy

Whoever the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine is should know.

Trivial

You've already solved two ciphers since you've returned, so they should be child's play.

Easy

No need to waste time on anything that doesn't directly help with your assignment. You can't start doing cryptograms for fun.

Trivial

You've already solved HOLOCENE's cipher since you returned, so they should be child's play.

Easy

Don't waste time on anything that doesn't directly help with your assignment. You still haven't solved the cipher left behind by PSEUDOPOD.

Trivial

You've already solved Tempo's cipher since you returned, so you've had a little practice, at least.

Easy

If you want something to solve, you still have HOLCENE's cipher to decode.

Trivial

Though you are yet to solve a single cipher since you've returned. You may be a little rusty.

Easy

Don't waste time on anything that doesn't directly help with your assignment. You still haven't solved the cipher left behind by PSEUDOPOD.

Easy

HOLOCENE would have loved this section. Cryptograms were his thing.

Easy

HOLOCENE would love this section. Cryptograms are his thing.

Easy

Must be the acknowledgement that the Civilisation Trust demands from the cultural products it funds.

Easy

CLAW MARKS LEFT BEHIND BY THE VULTURE OF CAPITAL.

Trivial

Seems like an acknowledgement of some kind.

Easy

Thanking someone or something that helps to make the magazine possible.

Trivial

That's the building where the Luzian prisoner is being held. The site of your interrogation.

Trivial

That's the building where the Luzian prisoner is being held. The place you managed to escape from before being caught...

Trivial

That's the place with the shiny new intercom near the roundabout. So it's a poetry magazine...

Trivial

That's near the roundabout, east of the Bazaar. This poetry magazine must have its office there.

Easy

First impressions matter -- the person responsible for the design of this journal knows that.

Trivial

Their pelts are damp and shiny with rain. You expect the smell of wet dog -- there is none.

Easy

Queen-in-waiting.

Easy

Beasts rendered ridiculous. Grotesque trophies.

Easy

These are knock offs. Fakes.

Challenging

In the Portofiran plushie scene, some of the knock off labels have become their own commodity, almost as sought after as the real deal.

Trivial

La Luz: Expansive techno-fascist state known for high quality electronics, pogroms, and pop music.

Easy

These are... not that. They're knock offs. Fakes.

Trivial

BRAZEN POLITICAL THREAT! THE PILE DECLARES THAT THIS TOO IS THE FUTURE OF THE WORKING CLASS: DEFANGED, FUZZY, SOLD IN A HEAP.

Formidable

You said yourself these plushies are sinister... what shape has breached containment?

Formidable

What shape has breached containment?

Trivial

Fuck off. Has to be. Root it out.

Medium

It's because they're defenceless. They trigger the impulse to nurture.

Trivial

They trigger the impulse to crush. They're fuzzy so that they can withstand the violence of affection.

Easy

THE 'PLUSHIE' ENCOURAGES BOUTS OF 'SUBJECTIVE IMAGINATION' IN THE YOUNG COMMUNIST, UNGROUNDED BY MATERIAL FACT.

Formidable

Where are you hiding, plushie #3?

Easy

Plushie #3 has shredded the social contract.

Easy

Plushie #3 will bite down on the neck of the world and fuck it 'til it howls.

Easy

Plastic eyes teeming in the dark.

Easy

A hundred strong. If only they could move as öne.

Challenging

And then they'll probably turn around and add even more wolves.