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In the early computer PC days there is a software company that just makes ASCII art based games that have no interactivity whatsoever - its just a text file with an ASCII art map of a town in which you have to solve a puzzle, scrolling around, finding clues. Envision the excitement one has holding the box with flashy adventerous detective artwork and promises of a deep involving game of sleuth...picture the dissapointment when the floppy loads and auto runs the text-file below... or even worse get a DOS prompt where you have to enter TYPE (or EDIT if we want to scroll!) SHADOWS.TXT or something similar to run it. The ultimate piece of exploitation vapourbubbleware...not yet a scam because we get software at the very least.... Pretend games like this existed (I am sure they did somewhere) and let's timetravel to the year 1991... You just were given a copy of SHADOWS OVER COMPUTERSTAD for Christmas or whatever and load it up in your parents brand new super VGA PC...drooling with canticipation...the screen loads and our adventure begins: S H A D O W S O V E R C O M P U T E R S T A D m a g n e t r o n s o f t w a r e press cursor down key to continue..... You are Professor Malbador one of the worlds most foremost experts on demonology at the university of Computerstad. ONE DAY YOU GET A MYSTERIOUS LETTER IN YOUR MAILBOX: Dear Professor Computerstad is in danger! An army of evil spirits has been set loose over the town during a ceremonial magic ritual performed by suburban gentrifying hipsters. The only way to stop this is to find the magic counter spell from an ancient grimoire called the clavicule of Solomon. the spell's letters are jumbled and spread out over the town. I only have the following clues to find the letters and their place: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 GSV SLFHV DRGS GSV OZFTSRRMT DRMWLDH GSRIW DRMWLD 2 P ” : ) ^ / & ” / < 3 S F M G O V M L C 1510 4 G S V I Z K S L H Z Y O L M W R 5 H K R I V 6 X F X F O F H G R N V 7 G S I V V H G Z I 8 H K I R G H 9 ( ) " I ^ O # ^ / ( @ G O / ( A H P 10 V R T S G Z K O V S 11 L M G S V Y V Z Y S 12 L M G S V I L L U X R M V N Z 13 N F H V F N 14 M Z K L V G Z M Z 15 H G Z G R L M K Z I P 16 M L G V M Y Z I 17 H Z O V N 18 1541 19 N L E R V K O Z B R M T ----------------------------- CAN YOU CRACK THE MAGIC SPELL IF SO SEND YOUR SOLUTION TO shadowcyberzine //A//T// legowelt.org AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED WITH RICHES S I G N E D Wombald L. 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