Turns out my local library was a bust... they didn't have the sorts of references I was looking for. I'll be visiting again, but not too confident.
What I really need is an oooooold library, like the ones I had growing up in the north east. The creepy kind with a national historic marker out front for "Secret Meeting Site for so and so" and the funny smelling basement.

So tonight I'll be doing one of two things:
  1. Investigating online multiplayer games for us to play. (since it seems that Day Z system demands are too high.)
  2. Investigoogling the crap out of this symbology.