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Doctor's Memo

• Dr. Harold G. Oliver provides insight and updates on Isabella's health situation. It is important to note the document's strange appearance.

Grace's Instructions

• These are the ritual instructions mentioned in the letter from Grace. Grace's language mirrors the 26-character English alphabet. No formal key for this language exists, but always look out for symbols that can be translated in the future.
• Grace may have given you an item for this ritual that will help you interpret the instructions. The letter from Grace and the scanned diary pages will reveal symbols to help with your translation. Try your best to translate the instructions by piecing together the symbols you know; combine this with trial-and-error and inference based on context clues.

Letter from Grace

• Grace has contacted you because she believes you can help her granddaughter Isabella, who is afflicted by some unknown evil. Grace provides an example of her language at the end of the letter.
• To translate the symbols of Grace's language, think about how people normally end a letter.

Scanned Diary Pages

• These two pages are scanned from Isabella's diary, where she recounts a day spent with her friend Kayla. Isabella has scribbled a word in Grace's language on her diary page, in two different places.
• She also mentions a website that will be important to explore throughout the season.
• The word in Grace's language corresponds to a specific word Isabella mentions on the same page.

Tree Rubbing

• A scanned copy of a tree rubbing, which depicts symbols carved into a tree trunk. According to the letter from Grace, Isabella used this language in the past to talk to wood spirits. The symbols represent a real-world method of communication.
• The method of communication represented by these symbols is based on the use of flags in various positions.

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Grace's Instructions

• In the letter from Grace and the scanned diary pages, you larn the symbols for A, C, E, G, I, N, O, P, R, and T in Grace's language. With this knowledge, the instructions translate to:

  • RITE O- -AGE -TAIN
  • ORIENT -AGE TO CENTER O- ROO-
  • IGNITE ONE EN- O- -AGE
  • REPEAT -OR A-- ROO--
  • -TOP --O-E AND P-ACE -AGE IN POT OR TIN
  • -EE- PEACE
• The dashes represent symbols without any provided translation, but they can be inferred.