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There are also quite a few pictographs – some standard, some not. Whatever is conveyed here, it is clearly important. More than that, real effort was clearly put into to conveying a specific word, as opposed to an idea, as is usually the case with pictographs. After looking around once more to satisfy yourself that there are no worms or drones laying in wait, you reel out your wisps, lighting up the door to read it.
Read right to left, and top to bottom, the first pictographic phrase is straightforward - it is simply the depiction of 'inside' followed immediately by the depictions of 'large' 'dangerous' 'drone' all underneath a conjoining bracket. The meaning intended there is quite straightforward, but the phrase immediately underneath it is more convoluted. Inside a conjoining bracket is the depiction of 'foot' and of 'fall' - fairly obvious that it is supposed to be 'footfall', but there is a synonym marker offset on the bracket, meaning that the word intended is not 'footfall' but a synonym of it. That would be tricky enough, but the marker also has an approximation corollary attached, indicating that to call it a synonym is a stretch by proper grammatical rules, but the words must have associated meanings, if they are not similar. All of this is inside a larger conjoining bracket, with the depiction of 'soft' as an adjective - clearly 'softly'. There are then three irregular, non-standard additions to the phrase. The first is a dash at the apex of the second, larger conjoining bracket, the second is the numeral for '5' on top of the numeral for '8' offset outside of the bracket, right next to the third, which is clearly a sketch of a leaf - notably, the only thing in the phrase that is done in green. Everything else is in a chalky white.
Plainly, the second phrase describes the drone ... presumably its name. And if it is was this important to get its name precisely correct, then that has to mean that the programmer of the drone inside - and presumably the one you speared and stashed in the lift as well - decided to use knowledge of the drone's name as the write protection! Right? That has to be it! If you are right, then addressing the drone with its name will give you control over it.
You are real pleased with yourself, until you glance at the rest of the pictographs. There are ten other phrases, paired together. The first phrase of each of these five pairs is just the depiction of 'outside' followed by 'drone'. The meaning is patently obvious - there are six drones in the ship. One inside this door, and five outside of it. Now, that is an alarming thought, considering how much trouble just one of those drones gave you - but what is really giving you pause is the conspicuous omission of 'large' and 'dangerous' in describing any of the drones <span class="mu-i">outside</span> of this door. To make matters worse, you aren't going to know if you are right or not until you actually speak to the drone.
> Please propose your solution to this puzzle.
