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The Colour Out of Space

Lake Eerie

An error was corrected at 12:27 PM on Saturday TIMEMIT. In the first division puzzle, when copied to clipboard, there should be a B in the cell under the O in the upper-left instance of HORRID, to match the text on the site. That B was missing.

An error was corrected at 9:05 PM on Friday TIMEMIT. In the second division puzzle, when copied to clipboard, the second word from the bottom should be WUDHWE, to match the text on the site. It mistakenly read WUDHWW.

Another meteorite has landed near the blasted heath west of Arkham. In this meteorite, just as in the one that had landed on the Gardner farm years before, a large colored globule was found embedded. This time after it burst, strangely colored yet hauntingly familiar inscriptions were found on the walls of the cavity the globule had occupied.

Dispatched from Miskatonic University, Professor Upham peers at those inscriptions and struggles to make sense of them. He marvels at the fact that they seem to be written in the Latin alphabet and that they take the form of long division arithmetic problems. He starts to work through the logic and makes several important deductions. But just as he is about to complete a chain of observations and deductions that would allow him to identify the value of C (and as an immediate corollary, the value of H), he succumbs to incurable madness, leaving it to you to complete his work…

LURCH
1
HORRIDIRRATIONAL
B11
TMPAMW
1
RLGIORO
101
PHTWWNO
1B
CGIHNN
0
HORRID
B
RRTLTFA
11
OWNNHR
B
ROIRGHL
110
PTDEEPP
111
FTTTF

            LURCH
              1
HORRID IRRATIONAL
 B      11
       TMPAMW
         1    
       RLGIORO
       1 0  1
       PHTWWNO
       1     B 
         CGIHNN
          0
         HORRID
          B     
         RRTLTFA
         11
          OWNNHR
          B      
          ROIRGHL
          1  10
          PTDEEPP
          1    11
            FTTTF
F R A N T I C G H O U L
1 0
W E I R D P H A N T O M
1 B

WITCH
MOURNSORROWFUL
SHEIA
TTEWWW
DAAHN
TOLUWF
UBWSHH
MUTSNU
WICICA
MNTETL
WUDHWE
TTUAS

          WITCH

MOURN SORROWFUL 

      SHEIA

      TTEWWW

       DAAHN

       TOLUWF

       UBWSHH

        MUTSNU

        WICICA

         MNTETL

         WUDHWE

          TTUAS
A W F U L M O N S T E R
D U N W I C H B E A S T

MOLDY
OLDONESNECRONOMICON
AHENYMST
TLLOHNMI
DSLHNHTT
ETDDIMIC
ATNDASMS
AMRNREAO
LDDMOAGS
LMCCHONN
GGALELMS
ILRCTCO

               MOLDY

OLDONES NECRONOMICON

        AHENYMST

         TLLOHNMI

         DSLHNHTT

          ETDDIMIC

          ATNDASMS

           AMRNREAO

           LDDMOAGS

            LMCCHONN

            GGALELMS

             ILRCTCO
            
G H A S T L Y D E M O N
E L D R I T C H M O A N

The otherworldly presence that one narrator described as “that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison” writhes and seethes more chaotically. As it does, you hear the cultists of Cthulhu start to chant as they don their ceremonial garb. In a sign of your own impending madness, you experience a sort of synesthesia and can actually see their words as they speak, some of which are imbued with those colors out of space.

???? ? ???? ?
PHNGLUI MGLWNAFH CTHULHU RLYEH WGAHNAGL FHTAGN
??????????
PHNGLUIMGLWNAFHCTHULHURLYEHWGAHNAGLFHTAGN