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THE PLOT Having successfully of LEPrecon . After a bit of convincing, Commander Root allows Holly to assist Fowl, on the condition that he himself also comes along. With the aid of his bodyguard Butler and Foaly , the paranoid Centaur in charge of the LEPrecon's technology operations, Fowl manages to track down his father, who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia . Meanwhile, down below, war has broken out between the LEPrecon and Opal Koboi , Foaly's evil rival. Koboi, whose company Koboi Labs manufactures most of the LEP's equipment, has designed everything so that she can remotely sabotage it and render the LEP useless. Meanwhile, she has recruited a Goblin criminal group to assist her. She plans to take over the entire world with the assistance of Briar Cudgeon , a former LEP officer who was discharged following the Fowl incident, but her plot soon fails when Fowl and his accomplices reveal Cudgeon's true intentions. The story ends with Koboi being jailed, and Artemis's father – to his son's great shock – decides to go legitimate. Artemis is still planning , though... SECRET MESSAGE NB - For an unknown reason, the publisher of the US edition of this book chose to remove this code. For the UK, and other countries, each page had a set of symbols along the bottom. Using the guide on www.artemisfowl.co.uk, this can be translated. From scratch, the code, written in Centaurian , can be deciphered because in the book there is a translation on Foaly's computer screen for the following poem: ''Fairy creatures, heed this warning, ''On Earth, the human era is dawning. ''So hide, fairy, lest you be found, ''And make a home beneath the ground. Eoin Colfer writes prior to this passage that it is an "illuminated Centaurian manuscript" from "The Scrolls of Capalla". The code is slightly easier to translate than Gnommish because many of the symbols look similar to their English counterparts. It can be read fluently once familiar, and is more like a recognisable Font than a language. The final message is as follows: ''Congratulations Human. If you have cracked this code then you are more intelligent than most of your species. This is a message from the Fairy People. ''We are seeking out our allies among the Mud Men. Though most Humans are dullwitted creatures there are exceptions. You for example. The reason for your intelligence is that you have Fairy ancestors. Do you feel different from those around you? Are your ears a bit pointier than most is your tongue long enough to touch your nose? Do you dream of flying? Have you ever thought that you do not belong among the Mud Men? That is because you have Fairy blood in your veins. ''So young Mud Fairy I have a mission for you. As one of the People it is your duty to protect the Earth from those who would destroy it. You must become one of a new race of Mud men who love this planet as much as the Fairy Folk. There is one simple rule. Use only what you need and use it wisely. Do this and the Earth will survive. Go now and begin your quest. I shall repeat this message for those Humans whose Fairy intelligence is buried a bit deeper than yours. The same message is then repeated. |
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