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[Trailhead]Find the Starlight
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Grimangel53
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 		im hoping it all gets great fun.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:21 pm
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GuestUser17
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 		New message from M
Check out http://findthestarlight.com for the latest cryptic message. Things should start to move again with this one with the shipments going out really soon if they have not already based on the last Kickstart update I saw.

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enaxor
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 		Re: New message from M
GuestUser17 wrote:
Check out http://findthestarlight.com for the latest cryptic message. Things should start to move again with this one with the shipments going out really soon if they have not already based on the last Kickstart update I saw.


One follower shaunasketches posted a list consisting of a number count of each emojicon. The idea being this could be a book code. Here's a list I made breaking up the numbers by pairs .

Code:
1,3 1,1 2,2 3,9 6,5 5,5 2,2 1,1 4,4 3,3 1,1 1,1 2,2 1,2 2,2 1,1 1,4 4,1 4,2 8,4 6,2 9,8 2,6 8,10 6,6 8,4 3,2 4,2 2,5 2,4 3,5 3,6 5,7 8,12 5,7 5,2 2,6 4,3 3,6 6,4 6,10 16,17 19,11 18,23 24,28 32,26 30,24 22,22 22,21 22,15 17,21 29,28 26,19 18,15 17,18 16,19 21,22 19,15 13,16 24,20 2,4 8,6 7,4 9,5 7,6 18,6 4,4 2,3 2,3


A couple of days following the emojicon message, FTS posted a picture depicting the following scene from his story. Making it possible that this is some sort of book code. Not sure how to solve it though, nothing so far makes sense.
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12:42 p.m.

When she was sure the riders were past the east gate, Ellie lifted her head and looked toward the house. The short fat one they left at the front door was digging around in his pockets. The tall one in the barn was still out of view.

She watched the former continue his search, and though she couldn't see his face from her branch in the oak, she could see he was upset. His hands moved from pocket to pocket, in and out. He was panicking.

She heard him curse, and he stepped from the porch, hands still plunging and patting. "The hell are my cards…"

He was angry.

He turned toward the barn, and she looked to the front door of the house. It was open just a few inches, and Michael was peeking through the opening. She could tell it was him by his 5-year-old silhouette against the setting sun coming through the kitchen windows behind him. And she could see the bar of light coming through the open door getting wider as he slowly opened it more.

No.

Oh no.

She rolled over the branch and fell to the ground into the grass. And shrieked on the way down.

The short fat one stopped and turned to look.

"Who's that?" He was startled.

Ellie lay still, clearly exposed in the short grass.

"A girl…" His gun was out now. He was coming to her. He was excited.

Ellie closed her eyes.

"Well hello there, young lady." He was nearly to her. "Hey. Little girl." He was panting.

Ellie held her breath, and closed her eyes tighter.

"Well that's just cute. A little possum. I like that. But ain't nobody ever died then kept breathing and crunching up their eyes like that, sweetheart. And you don't see me don't mean I don't see you. What do you say you stand up and let me have a look at you?" He smelled like sweat.

Ellie opened her eyes.

The short fat one smiled with teeth that looked like river rocks that hadn't been wet long enough to be smooth. "Yes sir. That's what I figured. A little possum. What's your name, little possum? And I said stand up." He was staring.

Ellie stood, looking at the ground that made up the three steps between her and the short fat one. "El— Eleanor. Sir. Eleanor. I'm sorry. I'm thirteen. I'm Eleanor."

"As you said. You ain't too bright, are you, El— Eleanor?" He smelled like fire.

Eleanor shook her head. Eleanor looked at the ground.

"Well that's just fine. Pretty ones don't need to be smart ones. Ain't that right?" He was anxious.

Eleanor nodded. Eleanor looked at the ground.

"Yes sir." He holstered his gun and reached for his handkerchief.

He was stupid.

"Now how about you look at me." His shadow was wiping the sweat from its face vigorously.

Eleanor raised her head toward the house.

Ellie saw Michael on the porch.

Elizabeth looked at the short fat man, and took the first of those three steps. And the second.

"Well now—OOF!"

The third step landed in the short fat one's crotch. Her hand went to his gun as he fell, and she swung her hip around away from him, which lead her chest, which lead her arm, which lead her hand, which lead his gun in a wide arc to the back of his head.

"HNNNnn…"

He was out, and Elizabeth was running toward the porch, looking at the barn.

A voice came from nowhere. From everywhere. "Where's your friend?"

The barn and house and Michael were gone. Now there was a mailbox. A group of teenagers. Parked cars. A pane of glass.

He turned from the window.

"I'm sorry?" He looked up at Tina.

"Oh no, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. I'll call ahead next time and let you know I'm coming to your table." She smiled.

He smiled back. "I was somewhere else."

"Welcome back."

"Thank you."

"Where is your friend? Is what I was asking."

He looked out the window again. Then at the empty seat across from him in the booth. "It looks as though he's not coming." He sounded tired. But looked relieved.

"Sorry. Do you want to… keep waiting?"

"…I don't think I should."

She looked at him, and wondered. "Well then, any time you want to drop in and order nothing would be just fine by me. Just leave the appropriate tip." She smiled and turned to the counter.

He stood.

"I'll see you next time, then?" She was walking to the back, half-shouting over her shoulder.

She talks to people she can't see.

He smiled. "Yes. You will."


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enaxor
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 		[Update]
M has updated his Find The Starlight tumblr page. It sounds as if those who contributed to his kickstarter campaign will soon be receiving their rewards.

M wrote:
Things

I expect things to begin showing up in mailboxes next week.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry for what is to come.

For how dark it has been, and for how much darker it will be.

Use what I'm about to give you. Use what I'm about to show you.

And let's light that darkness together.

-M


*ETA August 9, 2013

*The first reported Kickstarter reward has been received. You can read about it here. I'm wondering if the key actually leads to a physical location or is it merely a clue to use "Riceville" as a key to decode something.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:29 pm
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HappyPhantom
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 		well I received my bag today.... inside was a note, a key and what looks like a decoder of sorts....





ETA:
Well the main difference on mine is the key of course, mine says "Galena"
When I first saw this I immediately thought of Galena Park, a city very close to where I live, but I also recall a mineral called Galena, a form of lead sulfide...

There is also a Galena in Illinois and one in Alaska /shrug

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enaxor
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 		HappyPhantom, thanks for posting your goodies. It looks like everyone so far has received a key marked with a different location/word. Thanks to shaunasketches on tumblr here's a list of the locations...

Cuba
Sartwell
Riceville
Unity
Galena
Tonet
Rose Hill

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HappyPhantom
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enaxor wrote:
Thanks to shaunasketches on tumblr here's a list of the locations...

Cuba
Sartwell
Riceville
Unity
Galena
Tonet
Rose Hill


Rose Hill and Sartwell both mentioned that their keys are tagged with places close to them, and Galena Park is VERY close to me. I wonder about the others.... I was leaning toward the mineral Galena since there seems to be an underlying alchemical theme to this, but who knows, maybe there is something interesting lurking in Galena Park somewhere... I am definitely eager to see what will be coming of this.

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netsua98
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HappyPhantom wrote:
well I received my bag today.... inside was a note, a key and what looks like a decoder of sorts....





ETA:
Well the main difference on mine is the key of course, mine says "Galena"
When I first saw this I immediately thought of Galena Park, a city very close to where I live, but I also recall a mineral called Galena, a form of lead sulfide...

There is also a Galena in Illinois and one in Alaska /shrug


Wow that's really amazing was that from Kickstarter?
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enaxor
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 		HappyPhantom it looks like the holes in the coin have dots on them; one dot, two dots, and three dots. Can you confirm this for me? Thanks

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HappyPhantom
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netsua98 wrote:

Wow that's really amazing was that from Kickstarter?


Yes, I bought "the bag".

enaxor wrote:

HappyPhantom it looks like the holes in the coin have dots on them; one dot, two dots, and three dots. Can you confirm this for me? Thanks


Great eye! Yes, on the hat logo side there are 1, 2 and 3 dots on the rim of the holes, starting at the top and increasing clockwise. On the reverse side there is a faint dot on the upper left side of each hole.

ETA: a quick google search on the key provided this result:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_key
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_(company)

ETA 2: there is a triangulation station waypoint at the firehouse in Galena Park located just off of Mercury Dr (Main St). Seems like a likely place for me to go to see what there is to see, but I guess I have to be patient and wait until I know how to use what I have to find what I am looking for. Today is a bad day for snooping around aimlessly but as soon as we figure out these medallions I have no trouble navigating that area.

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enaxor
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 		There are 33 symbols around the reverse side of the coin, but from what I can tell 6 are repeated, and one of those is repeated twice. That would make "26" unique symbols. HappyPhantom since you have a physical coin, maybe you can verify these are repeats.
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HappyPhantom
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enaxor wrote:
There are 33 symbols around the reverse side of the coin, but from what I can tell 6 are repeated, and one of those is repeated twice. That would make "26" unique symbols. HappyPhantom since you have a physical coin, maybe you can verify these are repeats.


Yes, your picture looks accurate to me. The little buggers are quite detailed.

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summersumz
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 		Medallion Transcription - Tonet
Hi. I have transcribed, to the best of my abilities, the symbols from the back side of the Medallions. My medallion is Tonet.

The casting is of high enough quality that the slight variations such as #3 vs #33 and #10 vs #13 are certainly purposeful in my opinion. I hope someone will QC this transcription and compare it to other medallion backs.

I am leaning toward some sort of celestial cipher, rather than an alphabetic substitution. But that's just a hunch based on the fact that two of the Alchemy Kits have been found at observatories. Note the 7 circles are unique.



I've collated a bunch of content on the http://starlight.wikibruce.com/Home, including some topics under the discussion page to toss around various hypotheses and factual observations.

I owe the group a higher resolution of my coin back, but here's what I have for now:



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enaxor
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 		Thanks summersumz and welcome to unFiction!

summersumz wrote:
I am leaning toward some sort of celestial cipher, rather than an alphabetic substitution. But that's just a hunch based on the fact that two of the Alchemy Kits have been found at observatories.


Since the position of the three holes on the medallion form a triangle, perhaps it's a representation of the Summer Triangle. Vega, the brightest star in the triangle is part of the Lyra/Lyre constellation. In mythology, the Lyra was invented by "Mercury".

*eta
*M has posted a small update to FTS. It looks like more reward packages will be arriving this week.

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summersumz
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 		Blue Key Message 2
Message 2 to the Blue Key, which was just a photo of a worn book, is a picture of a Bible, right? [img]http://sfmola.tumblr.com/post/38002308632[/img]

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