The word "revolution" in the title, combined with the suspiciously misspelt word "a-spyring" and the number 763, clue that the numbers below are words encoded with the Culper Code Book, a code used by the Culper Spy Ring in the American Revolutionary War that mapped 763 numbers to various words for communication purposes.
So, we can translate these numbers into (nongrammatical) sentences. The double underlined letters in the last sentence represent a number.
These clues refer to concepts like "superior form", "much much effect", and so on. Combined with the flavortext ("get all 763 of the inhumans" sounds reminiscent of "gotta catch 'em all"), one can make the leap that this is a puzzle about Pokemon. Except, almost every relevant word has been replaced with a related word that exists in the Culper Code Book. As such, we need to determine what each Culper Code Book word corresponds to in order to determine which Pokemon is being referred to in each clue.
One place to start is Pokemon types. The term "quallity" seems to refer to the various Pokemon types, and each clued quallity can be corresponded with a type, usually synonymously.
Quallity | Type | Explanation |
---|---|---|
soldier | Fighting | Soldiers are fighters. |
mistake | Bug | In programming, a bug is a mistake. |
hazardous | Poison | Poison is generally considered a hazard. |
Plymouth | Rock | Plymouth Rock is a famous landmark. |
general | Normal | General and Normal are synonyms. |
gun | Fire | "Gunfire" is a common phrase. |
prepare | Steel | To steel yourself is to prepare yourself. |
reader | Psychic | A psychic could be a mind reader. |
Clue | Pokemon | Number | Code Book Word |
---|---|---|---|
A Fighting type move has 4x effectiveness against this Pokemon whose name relates to clergy | Bisharp | 625 | the |
This is the highest evolution Bug and Poison type Pokemon from Gen 5 | Scolipede | 545 | real |
The gentleman who gives you the Mine Badge upon winning has this part Rock type Gen 4 Pokemon | Bastiodon | 411 | name |
This Normal type Gen 4 Pokemon and its evolution are absent in Pokemon Diamond version | Glameow | 431 | of |
This is the only Pokemon that can learn Steam Eruption | Volcanion | 721 | Bolton John |
This Fire type Pokemon is the evolution of a Pokemon that the Gen 1 Professor may give you | Charmeleon | 5 | and |
This Pokemon has the name Rock Head Pokemon | Bagon | 371 | man |
Out of the Gen 6 Pokemon that have ability Mega Launcher, this is not the evolution | Clauncher | 692 | who |
This Steel and Psychic type Pokemon is an evolved evolved form but has a Mega Evolution | Metagross | 376 | make |
This part Normal type Pokemon evolves into its evolution at level 54 | Rufflet | 627 | this |
"John Bolton" was an alias used by BENJAMIN TALLMADGE, the creator of the Culper Code Book, and the answer to this puzzle.
I had the idea to use the Culper Code and mix it with Pokemon, but
couldn't figure out how to clue them together. When talking with Liam,
he brought up the idea of Navajo Code from World War II, in which military
terms were replaced with innuendo or other terms that did exist in the native language.
I wanted to include a larger variety of aspects of Pokemon in the puzzle to
make it more interesting to decode, but that might also have caused the puzzle to
be harder to solve for people who aren't as familiar with all of the various
components. I hope it was still fun to solve!