Fairy people! He cannot honestly expect me to believe this nonsense”. “This person, Artemis Fowl, has obviously lost his mind. Who are these forces? They are magical fairies known as the People. These forces would wipe certain facts from my brain that are extremely important, not to mention valuable.

There are certain forces at work that wish to deprive me of memories that are rightfully mine. I promise you this is not the case.Īll I ask is that you help me to keep my memories where they belong. You may have heard of the Fowl family and imagine this mission to be illegal or even dangerous. My dear newfound ally, if you have deciphered this code then you are of sufficient intelligence to aid me in my mission. Thanks Kristian! Original UK Version Decoded So if you see a dwarf with red face it is a good bet that he has a very bad hand.ĭecoded by Kristian Haaber. Once these gases build up past a certain point it becomes almost impossible to hold them in. Gnomes eat anything they can reach including insects and pieces of furniture, and dwarfs lose control of their internal gases. These behaviours are called “tells.”Īn elf’s “tell” is to toy with his pointed ears, or their wings causing a downdraught, which is never a good idea in a card game. When playing “Bottoms Up” it is very important to hide any behaviour which might betray nervousness or glee. If you are tricked into taking a wild card then you must get rid of it in the two next rounds or it freezes at its current value. There is also a hologrammed wild card which can be anything the holding player wishes it to be. The most valuable cards are a “Golden Acorn”, a “King Toad”, an “Eight Pointed Splat” and a “Mega Bottom”. If a player realizes that he is in danger of assembling a good hand, which is bad, he must trick his opponents into taking his valuable cards. Historians tell us that the curved “W” shapes which represent bottoms are actually supposed to represent ocean waves, but gamblers prefer to call them “Bottoms” and now the name has stuck. There are four suits “Acorns Toads” a weird shape known as “Splats” which is thought to be based on the shape a stinkworm would make if it were stepped on by a troll and of course bottoms, which gives the game its name. In “Bottoms Up”, the object is to end up with the least valuable hand possible. This game is almost the direct opposite of the human game, poker. “One of the fairy people’s most popular pastimes is a card game called “Bottoms Up”. There are 2 different codes hidden in different versions of this book. Image from, but I have taken out some of the grid lines, to make it easier on the eye.

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