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gmz1023 · Boot Joined: 03 Oct 2008 Posts: 41

[trailhead?] "you've been chosen"

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:37 am

atheling · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 26

Found the "You Have Been Chosen" trailer on YouTube. One comment said they had been emailed by Bioware about this site:

http://www.seekinghenna.com/

Seems to be a blog about a missing person. I didn't look into it very deeply, however, because I quickly followed it to this website for a school:

http://www.woods-watsoninstitute.info/

I searched around on it a lot to discover there's lots of stuff about "adventuring" but there's not much else to see on the surface. I tried to google the names of a few of the professors but didn't come up with much.

Then I looked into some of the people who are mentioned as subjects on some of the courses. Percival Fawcett was an explorer who is thought to have died mysteriously on an expedition in 1925. However, the course description on him explicitly mentions his 1927 expedition and the dates on the course are after he is supposed to have died.

The second curious mention is of Barbara Newhall Follett, a novelist who disappeared mysteriously at the age of 25. The school website boasts that she will be actually teaching a course on her own books, specifically the ones written between 1965 and 1985, which is a long time after her disappearance.

Given the emphasis on alien abduction, I'm guessing that this school is designed to be a front to lure in young people who then get whisked off on an "adventure" (i.e. abducted), where they meet other abductees like Percival Fawcett and Barbara Newhall Follett.

I shall dig further...

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:36 am

atheling · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 26

FYI - There's lots going on here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32bLpcBoxT8

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:40 am

Billy Brown · Decorated Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 196

Re: [trailhead?] "you've been chosen"

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:41 am

atheling · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 26

On reflection, I think you're probably right. Scratch my Dark Skies hypothesis. It's nothing to do with abduction...

Loads going on on on the reddit thread on where Henna has gone...

http://www.reddit.com/r/SeekingHenna/comments/2bludx/woodswatson_institute/

I'm posting in there too.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:01 am

Billy Brown · Decorated Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 196

Just digging through the Reddit posts now, thanks for the heads-up.

I see the first post on the Seeking Henna site has a number of letters underlined. I have them as this sequence but it's worth someone double-checking:

Z O V O E S R O N U O E F W T I E O I E N N

Not sure what to do with that just yet. ROT-N doesn't reveal much at first glance but I'll keep looking.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:14 am

Zephonith

Yeah I got the letters:

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:44 am

atheling · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 26

I think those underlined letters must be the key. The reddit thread is getting sidetracked by the professors and the curriculum, but cracking those letters has got to be the most important thing.

Unless, of course, the professors and courses could point us in the right direction, but it seems like everyone has fully exhausted that avenue of inquiry.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 7:53 am

Magenta · Kilroy Joined: 24 Jul 2014 Posts: 2

He also says "I left puzzles" in the blog post. Plural, so I'm guessing that there's more than just the letters.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:00 am

atheling · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 26

There might be something significant in her note:

STOP LOOKING WHERE YOU CAN'T FIND ME.

Could this be some sort of clue? Perhaps a cryptic crossword clue?

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:26 am

atheling · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 26

I've used all the possible ROT-N combinations but there's no joy.

I think it's going to be old school anagram, but it's difficult to start from scratch using such a long chain of letters.

Yuck!

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:59 am

Ghosty · Greenhorn Joined: 29 Feb 2012 Posts: 6

Can't find anything usefull at the moment, but there is a mention of Cologne, Germany in there. Isn't there a gamescon planned on the 13th of August? If so, we'll probably hear it there.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:32 am

Magenta · Kilroy Joined: 24 Jul 2014 Posts: 2

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:43 am

Zarggg · Unfictologist Joined: 23 Dec 2010 Posts: 1660

Re: [trailhead?] "you've been chosen"

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:14 pm

Rev_g00d · Decorated Joined: 24 Jul 2009 Posts: 156 Location: Ohio

**Posted:** Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:49 pm

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