Shireroth

Whether you are a man of weak or strong faith, you will want to copy down the above string of letters and numbers. It is a reflection of something that might or might not come to be, a fingerprint of a criminal at a scene that hasn't been seen yet. Do not worry, in time the meaning will be revealed, and in the end, it is nothing important...

Just copying?

$ md5sum shireroth-prophecy.txt
27bd1bbc5626ec5f76a35c47c9ca09fd shireroth-prophecy.txt

Somewhere off the forum is probably best.

Kaiser Malarbor I wrote:Somewhere off the forum is probably best.

You mean at an other forum?

That's a session ID if I'm not mistaken.

It's an md5sum. It's used to quickly determine whether one file is the same as another file, without revealing what the file is. Ari made some prophecy, but he doesn't want to post it now, probably because it would alter our behavior and then the prophecy might not come true. Once the prophecy has come true, he'll post a text file with the prophecy in it and ask us to run a certain program on it. If the program comes up with that same number, then that proves that he made the prophecy beforehand and didn't just invent it after the fact.

At least that's my understanding.

clever.

That's far too much work for a prophecy.