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Easter Egg on the game's books about Lorem Ipsum

By swoo703

This is not a guide per se, just the translation into English of the text that can briefly be seen written on the pages of the books when the player collects City History pages.

I took two screenshots of when the book's pages appear fully flat (and thus readable, thanks to the alphabet above).

And here you'll find what they say.

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Decoded alphabet

Translation of the pages from the books

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Decoded alphabet

In case you didn't know, each character of the game corresponds to a letter from the Latin alphabet.

See the table above for a full reference (except for the "J" because I couldn't find it anywhere in the game's texts).

Translation of the pages from the books

Once decoded, the text on the books' pages reads:

Page 1
"Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been"

Page 2
"text ever since the 1500s when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type"

Page 3
"only five centuries but also the leap into electronic typesetting remaining essentially unchanged. It"

Page 4
"with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages and more recently with desktop"

Which are excerpts from the first paragraph of this website (https://www.lipsum.com/) about the Lorem Ipsum, which the Submerged's developers have used as a lorem ipsum! I find it quite funny! :-)

In addition, this text allows to discover the characters for "X", the "." and the numbers "1", "5" and "0" (which look like Chinese ideograms).

It allows also to realise the developers have created majuscule versions of their characters. Maybe they even created a useable typeface, so that they just had to type normal letters and they got converted automatically into Submerged's characters?

If so, they missed an opportunity to hide easter eggs in their game, I think...

Anyway, if you want to know what the rest of the game's written texts actually say, check EddieK74's fantastic guide here:
https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2782083470

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zanac 17 Sep, 2024 @ 2:01pm

Nice!

swoo703 [author] 23 Aug, 2023 @ 10:37am

By "the disappearing is already triggered and there is no time to zoom in before the book vanishes", do you mean that if you hit pause right after pressing the key to collect the book, the animation of the pages flickering is not freezed by the Postcard Mode? Because I was about to re-install the game to try that but, if you already tried that, I won't bother. :-)

EddieK74 22 Aug, 2023 @ 2:55pm

It can be done in Postcard Mode (Pause) when some object behind or near the camera forces it to move closer. With a little luck, in some places you can look under the waves ;)
But for the opened book it is useless; the disappearing is already triggered and there is no time to zoom in before the book vanishes. Your method was more useful as it allowed you to look up the text as a whole and find the source location.

swoo703 [author] 22 Aug, 2023 @ 2:33pm

Man!!! You're a genius about finding this pattern!!!

Also, how did you manage to get such a close-up shot like this one? I tried many attempts before achieving the close-up I got and was pretty happy with it as the signs were at least readable. But your shot is shockingly closer!

EddieK74 22 Aug, 2023 @ 1:35pm

https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/ugc/2056509343345192601/2616762376125CDA9BFEB88E3D8DB03622EDA48A/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

When you compare the symbols for 0, 1 and 5, do you see a pattern?
How would a 3 look like?

swoo703 [author] 22 Aug, 2023 @ 12:23pm

@EddieK74. I actually, on my own, and before I even discovered your fantastic guide (https://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2782083470) , had realised during my playthrough that the invented characters of the game corresponded to the Latin alphabet letters and started translating in my head everything I could see because it was amusing me very much. Then, I created this little table as a reference guide, with the idea of creating a post on the forum about my discovery.

It's only then that I saw the result of your hard work which, fortunately, spared me the hard work to do it myself. ^^

Still, after perusing your guide, I saw that I had found one little bit of text you had missed. Hence this little guide here. :-)

EddieK74 22 Aug, 2023 @ 11:44am

I´ve re-read Poe´s The Purloined Letter to come up with a clever quote, but couldn´t find one, that´s how dumb I am. How could I not have seen this? Thank you very much for sharing your findings and providing such educational explanation.

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