"It's simply a counting system, only instead of having the digits zero through nine, it has only zero and one."

He nodded. "Those are the two words I was thinking of... let us assume for a moment that this is indeed a simple numerical translation..." He stared moodily at the list of numbers before adding, "Considering the frequency of this number, dead is more likely than died..."

Making that assumption, Loki went through the number set, putting in the three letters that they'd assumed:

-e-e--a--e-a--e----ad-e-a-e dead -e-e--a--e-a-d-e----ad-e-a-e dead dead dead a-e dead a-e

"Well, that's a bit... cheerful. I think that this three character set here is mostly likely are since I doubt ale would make sense, so making that assumption..."

-e-er-ar-era-d-e----adre- are dead -e-er-ar-era-d-e----adre- are dead dead dead are dead are

"Apparently more than one someone or something is dead. Unfortunate for them."