#roger bacon

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon is a character from We Happy Few! He is canonically bisexual and has a boyfriend named James Maxwell.

my favorite couple in 60s britain✌️

You know why Roger has never seen writing like this?

Because he's a upper class kid from England and these are American hobo signs. He'd have never seen this language in a book or encountered this anywhere in his world.

I don't know if there was any deeper intent behind giving these robots this particular symbolism. Like, if you want to suppose about how the robots must have come to the US at some point after 1880, learned the way of the bindle such that it became a large part of their own culture, and then just happened to get reverse-invaded by some broad on the other side of the same planet in 1962, by all means. I'm just going to write it off as convenient.

I've gone through the DLC, though, and taken nice photos of all the signs used and what they mean. As you can see, most of them - though for the robots' use - also apply to Roger's gameplay or comment upon it (beware of dogs). Clever!

Dangerous Place

Man with a Gun Lives Here and Dangerous Place

Dishonest Person Lives Here

Beware of Dogs

Be Quiet Here

Town Has Booze (Because the robots drink motilene, lol)

Man With Gun Lives Here

Worth Robbing (though this symbol is flipped horizontally from how it should be)

Ill-Tempered Man Lives Here

Be Quiet Here

Dishonest Person Lives Here and Caution

Caution

Man With a Gun Lives Here

Bad Water (before entering the motilene sublimation vat)

Be Ready to Defend Yourself

Get Out Fast

Worth Robbing

Be Ready to Defend Yourself

Beware of Dogs

In Libro Veritas :: @InlibroV

"There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge."

CIPHER MANUSCRIPT [aka VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT] by Roger Bacon[?] (Central Europe, c.1401-1599) 18th -19th century binding.

‘Scientific or magical text in an unidentified language, in cipher, apparently based on Roman minuscule characters; the text is believed by some scholars to be the work of Roger Bacon since the themes as the illustrations seem to represent topics know to have interested Bacon…. A history of the numerous attempts to decipher the manuscript can be found in a volume edited by R.S Brumbaugh THE MOST MYSTERIOUS MANUSCRIPT: The Voynich “Roger Bacon” Cipher Manuscript (Carbondale, IL, 1978). Although several scholars have claimed decipherments of the manuscript, for the most part the text remains an unsolved puzzle.’ — from an abstract by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale