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petunia
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Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 616 Location: MS
First puzzle?
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"Meet me at 11:00 at the cafe you love." - to Lucy from her friend in Paris
_________________Mourning: Whitechapel
Playing: The Drayton Files, The Marie Fortescue Letters
Reminiscing: smithy111110
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 4:07 am
spoonhead99
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 269 Location: Hastings, UK
I must be on the same mailing list.
What's french for 'you love'?
_________________Man, this place is feng shui'd up the ying yang!
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:47 am
ads123
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Joined: 12 Nov 2012 Posts: 85
spoonhead99 wrote:
I must be on the same mailing list.
What's french for 'you love'?
Finally, year 11 French has a purpose. "Tu aime." Whilst it could be "vous aime" because she is a friend "tu aime" is more appropriate.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:14 am
spoonhead99
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 269 Location: Hastings, UK
Is there a Cafe Tu Aime in Paris?
_________________Man, this place is feng shui'd up the ying yang!
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:17 am
ads123
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Joined: 12 Nov 2012 Posts: 85
spoonhead99 wrote:
Is there a Cafe Tu Aime in Paris?
Nope.
Amandel on the blog wrote:
Hi Lucy. There's the 'I Love You Caffe' on 7 Rue Godot de Mauroy. That's a small street in the swanky 9th District, close to many hotels and the Palais Garnier (Opera House). If you're not an opera fan that cafe is just a stone's throw from 'La Maison du Chocolat', Please visit there whatever your cafe is & have a wonderful time.
We were thinking too deeply into it.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:18 am
Tenshi Akui
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Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1003 Location: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Apparently that's not the right cafe.
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Thanks everyone! I'm at the airport right now and I text her back with the name of the cafe Amandel suggested. She texted back, "Nope, think of the Greeks. See you tomorrow at 11:00."
Someone suggested Les Délices d'Aphrodite which also didnt seem to be it.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:50 am
ads123
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Joined: 12 Nov 2012 Posts: 85
Lucyle Fort on the blog wrote:
Thanks Natasuf! I texted her back and she said, "Not yet, but close. You're such a bibliophile, I know you'll figure it out."
I suggested the cafe L'Hermes. Hermes is (basically) the Greek God of Literature among other things. As she said that you have to
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think of the Greeks
and that Lucyle is a
that was my best guess.
Haven't got a response yet.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:04 pm
Tenshi Akui
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Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Posts: 1003 Location: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
We got the cafe! She had gotten the text
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It's the original philosopher's cafe.
Did a little digging and found information about Café des Phares where philosopher Marc Sautet began a movement of "Socrates Cafes" where people could gather and discuss philosophy and other events.
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 12:47 pm
spoonhead99
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 269 Location: Hastings, UK
For completeness, new post
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Waiting and a Note
My flight to Paris leaves soon and will arrive at 9:00 in the morning Paris time, giving me two hours to check into my hotel and get to Cafe des Phares. UGH. Any suggestions for how to deal with jet lag? I don't travel internationally very often.
I got paged while I was waiting. The woman at the information desk had a note for me:
"After your coffee with the philosopher, go where the Zouave get their feet wet."
And as posted in the comments
_________________Man, this place is feng shui'd up the ying yang!
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 6:11 pm
LatentMoths
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Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas
At the bottom of the Introductory Level page there is an image of chess pieces
with a code underneath that says
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
choose your piece
I'll send an email to try and find out more about it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:55 pm
HappyPhantom
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Joined: 16 Jul 2011 Posts: 297 Location: TX
Sorry it took so long for me to post here, I have been super busy and most of my online time has been spent on my mobile... UF is a real pain in the butt when using mobile so I was waiting until I could get some computer time.
I agree with Ameliĺ:
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I don't know about anyone else, but im getting a "card keepers" kinda vibe to this, also the fact the people who have said they received the email are people who all played it
I also received the email trailhead, and since I am not really involved in many ARGs I can't think of where else I would get one from...
LatentMoths wrote:
At the bottom of the Introductory Level page there is an image of chess pieces with a code underneath that says
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
choose your piece
I sent an email saying I choose the white knight.... /shrugs
I also sent in my 'illuminated' task list. I kind of enjoy the TIMI aspect so far, I really benefit from the self help type stuff...
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 4:08 pm
Elethamei
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Joined: 31 Aug 2012 Posts: 448 Location: Finland
Tbh, I got a card keeper vibe too, but I just thought that would the pm start another arg, because she has the 'Penelope Corwin' one starting on, but who knows. Maybe she does.
I like the pacing of this so far, but we haven't got much of a story yet. Still, looking forward to where this is going.
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:02 pm
Sayame
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Joined: 18 Mar 2013 Posts: 31
I also sent in an email regarding the chess pieces. I chose the black knight. I haven't received a response yet, but I will be sure to let you all know when I do.
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:04 am
booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
I wonder why there are two sets of pieces pictured, in two different fonts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode
I guess it would make a spiffy substitution cipher.
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Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:34 am
Elethamei
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Joined: 31 Aug 2012 Posts: 448 Location: Finland
I noticed that on the Members page only for two of us has now been added the chess piece we chose. HappyPhantom has the White Knight and I have the White Tower (I noticed too late that it's actually called the 'rook' in English). Maybe they'll add the rest of them later.
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 6:22 am
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