Unsolved Mystery
While most of the game's various puzzles are solveable, one riddle in particular seems not to be. In the Atari ST version of the game, there is a scroll on which the following words are written: Grynix ernum quey ki skebow rednim u os dey wefna enocarn aquantana. In the Amiga version, this scroll has the magic map spell "Oh Gor Ku". This scroll does not appear in most other versions of the game.
According to Bob Retelle who was a consultant for FTL and wrote hint books for both Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back, this scroll is "another red herring... this was left over from something that was going to be included in the game, but was left out at the last minute... don't worry about it, the scroll can't be decoded."
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