Lapis Philosophorum

"Lapis Philosophorum" (The Philosopher's Stone)


 * Note: This code was originally referred to as "Message text 2".

Discovery/Decryption

 * Found on a whiteboard in the chapter Questionable Ethics.
 * Decrypted by a substitution cipher with an unusual symbol set.
 * The cipher was originally used in a 1930's pulp series called The Shadow, in a novelette called Chain of Death.

Relation to alchemy
Above the "lapis philosophorum" inscription are alchemy symbols which can be interpreted as:

Gold + Aqua Regia ~ Phlogiston + Water = ? [Do Not Drink]

This is a combination used to dissolve gold.

Relation to ARG
A comment posted on this page, presumably by Stormseeker (the puppetmaster), contains information that matches the nutritional values of red herring (kippers). This seems to hint that the "Lapis Philosophorum" text is a red herring as far as the ARG is concerned.