Steganographic challenge

[unixronin]

One of the oldest known examples of steganography is the "shaved slave", as in the example of Histiaeus.  You shaved a slave's head, tattooed a message on it, waited for his hair to grow back, and then sent him off to carry your message, hoping that he wasn't intercepted and your recipient at his destination knew what to do with him.

Of course,

Comments

[fair_witness]

Obviously that's the map to Yellowbeard's buried treasure.

[unixronin]

YARRR! TREASURE!

And ...how would one be readin' this map, then? Supposin' one was to come across it by chance, like?

[fair_witness]

Lookin' over yer shoulder, matey, because the Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when they're dead.

[suzilem]

Suez Canal and a guide to various piratical lairs.

[jilara]

How to find your way through Edo castle to assassinate the Shogun.

[unixronin]

Doesn't seem like there'd be a lot of job security in that line of work...

[cymrullewes]

I say it is a map of the Moon.

[docstrange]

That's no moon...

[unixronin]

I swear, I was just minding my own business......

[cymrullewes]

Well, you see, there was this fire.... and when you're 18 MONTHS old, you don't know any better than to walk through it to get away from it, when it is in your room, and it made your crib shake when the shrapnel hit it.