braille.

Useful for dark-workings (where no light is present) and easily hidden dead drop communications. Stones arranged in braille formations can be useful for directions, etc. The picture at left shows a braille stylus in use, and an "eraser" (the silver pen-like implement).

Braille is based on a cell of six raised dots , providing 64 possible combinations, similar to the I Ching. The dots are numbered from the upper left down ( is dot one), upper right down ( is dot six).

Line 1	Formed of dots 1, 2, 4 & 5 in the upper part of the cell.
letters, numbers (preceed with ) to capitalize, preceed with	a 1	b 2	c 3 ¢	d 4	e 5	f 6	g 7	h 8	i 9	j 0
Line 2	Add dot 3 to each of the characters in Line 1.
	k	l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t
Line 3	Add dots 3 & 6 to the characters in Line 1. "W" added later.
	u	v	x	y	z	and	for	of	the	with
Line 4	Add dot 6 to the characters in Line 1.
	ch	gh	sh	th	wh	ed	er	ou	ow	w
Line 5	Repeats Line 1 in the lower part of the cell.
	ea, (,)	be, (;)	con, (:)	dis, ($ and .)	en	to, (!)	were, (( ))	his, (?)	in	was
Line 6	Lines 6 & 7 make use of the remaining cells; part-words, punctuation and prefixes.
	st, (/)	ing	ble, (#)	ar	'	com, (-)
Line 7	Other
	accent						CAP

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