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[zerovin]

Thinking about it now, seeing as words are being found, it could be one of those crossword things where whatever letters are remaining is the thing we need and its 8 letters?

[Billy Brown]

I emailed Alexa with what we have so far and here's what she said:

Thank you for all of your hard work! I checked with Daphne, and it looks like we are supposed to find 8 words total in the seek and find, not 8 letters. And yes, this will be part of a series of clues that lead to solving a final, larger puzzle, which will eventually be posted on the main website.

Thanks again!

So I think we probably have what we need for now, assuming the eight words are:

[astrofig]

Just emailed her this:

Here's the words my fellow searchers and I found:

Dead
Sea
Scroll(s)
Manuscript(s)
Burial(s)
Museum
History
Archaeology

Are these what we're looking for? It seems to point to some involvement with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Let's see what the response is!

[morbus]

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[morbus]

Got it. Thanks!

[Billy Brown]

So Daphne has posted to let us know that there's a new page on The Searchers that is tracking our progress so far:

http://www.thesearchbegins.com/progress.html

There are some images on that page which are interesting and could warrant further investigation. Some thoughts:

[spoonhead99]

If the satellite is the Voyager probe then you have this whole words, language, translation motif going on.

[Billy Brown]

It's only just occurred to me to try reverse image search for the images on the progress page but it's thrown up some new information.

[MuMu]

Need help with odd puzzle

[fernandocarulli]

Got that riddle too ... But I'm listed in the roster with music.

Five Who Write ... hmmm, maybe authors or something like that. Would fit with the library picture in the progress section.

... but its late here, will check it tomorrow ... good night

[mrshomersimpson]

Re: Need help with odd puzzle

[MuMu]

Re: Need help with odd puzzle

[astrofig]

Probably authors; I found 'Tolkien' just now.

Also Alexa just sent me this:

pisode Two is coming soon, but before that I wanted to tell you a little more about my story and why I became a Searcher.

When I confronted my mom (the mom who adopted me, the only mom I've ever known) about my visions, she gave me the letter from my biological mother, the letter which led me to Daphne (a.k.a. Rainflower). She also told me a little bit more about the mysterious circumstances of my adoption.

In 1989, along with the rest of the country, my parents saw a shocking documentary about the state of Romanian orphanages: the extreme poverty and terrible living conditions of the orphans, who at that time were living behind the Iron Curtain. They vowed to do something about it, and in 1992, after the Soviet Union had fallen, they traveled to Romania to be aid workers and also to bring home a child from one of the orphanages.

After they adopted me and took me to a local hotel for a transition period and to await the documentation they needed to bring me to the United States, they were visited by a old Gypsy woman who brought them the letter from "P" (presumably my biological mother) and also told them the strange circumstances of my appearance at the orphanage.

One night, a year prior, I arrived at the orphanage the way most of the children there arrived: I was abandoned in the middle of the night. In fact, a total of three children were left at the orphanage that night. One was an infant boy who was left with a note and some money in his sleeper. He belonged to a family in the village who had too many children and could not take care of him. They hoped to return and take him back sometime in the future. The other two children consisted of me and another little girl who was a few years older. We looked alike and the older girl said we were sisters.

Here's the unusual part. We were well-fed and well-dressed and spoke perfect, unaccented, American English. Clearly, we were not Romanian. The women who worked there were shocked and didn't know what to do. They decided to take care of us until somebody came back to claim us. Why they didn't contact the American Embassy is beyond me, but it is what it is.

Once I learned all of this, I of course become completely determined to find out more about my sister and why I had been abandoned. ​

Now I am searching for members of the Traveling Circus, but I am also searching for my sister.

What are you searching for?


I'm not sure if that question is to me specifically or to the group in general; any idea what to respond?

[stringstheory]