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 		OK sorry for the delay guys, lots going on with me in the last couple weeks. Here are the pics from my envelope.

no puzzle piece for me, either Sad
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 		Going back to the mailed letters
italics message
My my you really know to look more. Each thought can be understood to relay thoughts that are not conscious but matter, if people challenge everything

That's the easy one - simply the words in order that were italicized in the letter that came in the mailers.

Of course, in the letter it clearly states:
Quote:
...my first riddle [the crossword]
Quote:
was simple. Deceptive enough for some of you who only simply sought to find one type of word though. Don't be simple - tell others - look more!


Now, taking all the capitalized letters in the missive, I get this

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THE RIDDLER GAVE YOU FIVVEKEYS


Yes, there is an extra letter in there.

That pretty much confirms that Shad0 was on the right track on the music puzzle. Now to finish that trail, it's not done yet.

If anyone missed it, on the previous page, Arbad solved the final part of the wordsearch (which was also the background to the Edward Nigma's music puzzle) with that information, the 25 (the 24 words we had to find plus the one "answer" that was given us) were merged with the Sentimental Four & Shad0 solved that with "The Five Keys."

So, now that we have this much info confirming the solves, what do we do with it all? And were do we go next??

OKay, ask & you shall receive.

Callum confirmed that there were 6 mailers, so I think we have them all now. then he messaged...
Quote:
Six went out... unsure how many have posted where - but then, its up you all to play fair - using xx and v unravel all there is to see...


and Callum's next missive
Quote:
One of you has a chess board with the last two lines reading:
2L430R6G
L1E8E4D6
Apologies - there was an error in transcription:
last line should be:
L1E9E4D0
No excuses, just apologies and thus a hint at the start of this message...
It may have been Joy
Error #2
No lower case letters should be on any chess board. 'e' and 's' should be 'E' and 'S'
Second clue - how are a lot of clues being given to you??
Things occur in threes...or fives... wink emoticon
Error #3:
The chess board that begins 2U2N0IV...
has a line:
F N I C N H S I - this should read
F N I C N H ***D*** I not ***S*** I
Final apologies - this, I believe, are all the errors. The playing pieces were not important, or are everything. But not, generally essential. It does amuse me though that, as a concept, perfection is scattered across the Americas now...
[OOG - big apologies, solo PM here doing all the work! Errors occur sometimes, even in the BIG profit run ARGS - hopefully understandable minor errors may occur... hopefully nothing too major - all major ciphers etc have been triple checked though... ]


And Edward Nigma also gave us a cryptic update
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Ah, look at little Callum apologising - next he'll be saying I can't spell - if *I* mis-spell something, it'll be on purpose - highlightng somethig or making you look at t more - why am I telling you his - oh, that's rght - you're all thick s cauiflowers [or other uch vegetables!!!]


missing letters:
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INITIALS

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 		I've been away a lot recently; sorry I've not been of any help. I've tried to quickly catch up as best I can but if anyone can let me know what I can look at that would be most helpful at this point I'd appreciate it.

I see that the messages on the thin strips of paper are the current focus so I'll take a look at those until I'm told otherwise! Do we have any clue on the longer coded passage that was identical in each envelope?

I've just been looking at what the message on the front of the six envelopes could be and it seems to spell out 'play fair', which we've already arrived at thanks to Callum's nudges.

ETA: I've been looking at the chessboard information as well now that the sixth mailing has been revealed. With thanks to Arbad who compiled much of this a couple of days ago, here are the people referenced:

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USING INEBRIANTS L CONSIDERS PROFITS
William Lassel

USING LORES NATURALLY DIGGES YEARNS...
Thomas Digges

UMBRA KAL (?) ON BAILYS FAMED ASSOCIATION
Francis Baily

UNIVRSITY KONIGSBERG B FINDS ANSWERS
Friedrich Bessel

HERSCHELS NAMES ASSESSED KNOWS MOONS
John Frederick William Herschel

RECOGNISING XRAYS YIELD FOWLER GLEED
Alfred Fowler

As well as the Royal Astronomical Society link that Arbad mentioned (four of the six were President), all of them except Digges have a crater on the Moon named after them.


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 		Initials
I'm wondering if the golden letters on 4 of the mailers are the initials that keep being referenced.

They are: BKRQ

whether or not there were supposed to be 6 of them, I can't say. Think I'll send Callum a note asking about that

And here are the 6 strips combined

And, here are the letters in easy to copy form:

:VDKFDBSQPGFKDFSEFGZKQOOCHPSFANSDFOBGFGHUGHINLBLKFM:
:ENGMZPCGSPCGRGCOPFXMXCKOWMZOLONYAZPBZOTRZDGMNVIAXB:
:HGCDWVKBOXKBRFIKOYXKXBBUVDVGQCMOTVODVGORVICDMNTAXD:
:RKMXMANZRURUMAXKMCXPIQSRAVMAAQADMPBSDFGIEANZHVNABG:
:VKLIKBTUYSYSKBWOEOKTOPHIERKBCAFDATOTCZPOEFTUEYNQDY:
:ZBLGFUTMFIGLEMIEFOYMTZPFOLRHGNXMHZHOFOCNSNTCLCWEGM:

In Case anyone wanted to see the fronts put together...

On a side note... I know there are a slew of YWOT pages, I do not have the time no the inclination to visit 16+ pages on a regular basis. I'm coming up to this semester's finals with a round of exams before finals. I know I'm not the only one in this situation. If anyone(s) can volunteer to monitor the web pages and update us all here when something requires us, that would be great!!... I am at a complete loss as to the key to the playfair cipher - the strips - even the few brute force sites aren't helping. We keep getting the hint of "initials" but I have no idea what initials to use. The names from the postcards? If so, what order? The Letters on the 4 envelopes? again, what order?... Also how to turn the poet (still think it's shakespeare) into coordinates to a station??? LOST!!... I did ask Lucy re: Callum's pet name for her, the 1st question: Was the name from an animal, vegetable/plant, or mineral? Hopefully her answer can give us an idea of what question we should ask next.
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 		Sorry for the double post
this deserves it's own
A couple of new updates today

I basically begged Ed Nigma for a gentle (or not so) nudge (and to make sure our PM knows that a couple of the mailers lost their golden letters on the front) His reply:
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Edward Nigma Talk to a spy. What would they say? what if you didn't share? Each would haVe your own message, your own key needs. What do you haVe in common, different? Can any of this link to a universal key grid? pretty golden letters, of which there are six, yes? They also point a clue to the key, if play with them ... By now, you'll have seen how to play fair, so the letters that flows through... kqrbnp... Play with them a bit more


SO, our 6 letters for the key (probably to the playfair) are KQRBNP

Also an email from Lucy

Quote:
RedHatty: Callum's fictional voice does not concern me. I prefer the realities of this world, not those of fiction [as much].

All:

The poet has already been told to you, but you need to find the words of them... this you have not done, despite me talking to you of Roman emperors and moving along...
...Still

At current, 25 sites are scattered amongst the worlds of text - this is not a concern for me, but seeing as many of you are busy with other things, I will consolidate all of these worlds of text into one, manageable world of text for you.

This will be done on the death-day of he that created my first name. This in order to allow faster access to these ideas as, as He said, 'wit and humour do not reside in slow minds'.
Will I erase that which has been written - no - to take away truths has never been my style. I will create a 26th, - one site to reach me and to engage with me direct.
Should make life more... interesting... Its site will be linked directly from the 25th made, that with my reversed name you are also seeking...

Your friend, for now,
Lucinda


/lucylime has been updated Spelling is exactly as on the page
Quote:
SOON THIS SITE, AND ALL THOSE IT LINKS TO, BAR THE 25TH, WILL NO LONGER HAVE MY EYES UPON THEM.
SHOULD YOU SO CHOOSE, YOU MAY STILL LOO, BUT NONE OF MY WORDS WILL APPEAR IN ANYTHING PUBLIC ANYMORE.
THOSE WORDS ALREADY STATED WILL REMAIN, UNLESS ANY COOSE TO REMOVE THEM. YOU HAVE UNTIL MY NAMER'S DEATH DATE


Blessings & much thanks to the PM for hearing the plea!!!

So guys & gals, let us get cracking on the playfair - I'm sure there will be some rearranging of the letters to make it work. Find Callum's pet name for Lucy & reverse it so we can find the single website on YWOT & see if we can get this game rolling along again Smile

also, to backtrack a bit, from the chessboard postcards, the one with Baily had a couple of strange words: Umbra Kalon - that's old latin for beautiful shadow - which meshes nicely with Baily's beads & an eclipse Smile

We still have the star puzzle on /lucina at YWOT to solve too

My question has been answered on /Almustafa

Quote:
Q: Does the question reference an Animal/vegetable/plant, or mineral?
A: References an animal, though technically, stems from minerals: aluminum coated polycarbonate coated plastic.


okay local inorganic chemists... what the heck does that mean??

GoogleFu!!! That, my friends is a CD (go figure)
Quote:
A compact disc is a deceptively simple looking device considering the technology required to make it. CDs consist of three layers of materials:

A base layer made of a polycarbonate plastic.
A thin layer of aluminum coating over the polycarbonate plastic.
A clear protective acrylic coating over the aluminum layer.


Read more: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Compact-Disc.html#ixzz3XgYROLhq

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 		Re: Callum Felderi
What we know
In a desperate attempt to put together something coherent despite my total lack of success thus far, here's what I think we have from Callum:

1) The bottom of the word search. As Arbad69 pointed out, we have exactly 25 extra letters: UKBFA RXYFG ULNDY UILCP HNAKM.

2) The text from the six chequerboards. Unusual word choices, no? Five words in each = five-letter words, if we take their initials. UILCP ULNDY UKBFA HNAKM RXYFG. (UKBFA appears two times, which is why there are only five rather than six.)

Given that we've now received the very same set of 25 letters twice, I think it is reasonable to assume that these are our Five Keys. To what, though?

3) The six letters from the envelopes, including the two that apparently fell off in transit: KQRBNP.

4) The six one-line ciphers, each of which has exactly 50 letters. We can pair four of them with the golden letter on its envelope:

(K) :ZBLGFUTMFIGLEMIEFOYMTZPFOLRHGNXMHZHOFOCNSNTCLCWEGM:
(Q) :RKMXMANZRURUMAXKMCXPIQSRAVMAAQADMPBSDFGIEANZHVNABG:
(R) :HGCDWVKBOXKBRFIKOYXKXBBUVDVGQCMOTVODVGORVICDMNTAXD:
(B) :VDKFDBSQPGFKDFSEFGZKQOOCHPSFANSDFOBGFGHUGHINLBLKFM:

The N and P were with these, but we don't know which was which.
:VKLIKBTUYSYSKBWOEOKTOPHIERKBCAFDATOTCZPOEFTUEYNQDY:
:ENGMZPCGSPCGRGCOPFXMXCKOWMZOLONYAZPBZOTRZDGMNVIAXB:

5) The big massive cipher that was the same in each envelope. The letter patterns are potentially interesting: 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 4 8 16 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 5 5 5 4 4... on the other hand, they could be just breaking up the cipher in a way that lets us know they're not actual word breaks.

6) Approximately three trillion indications that we need to decrypt a Playfair cipher.
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 		KQRBNP is showing a little potential in the playfair. I'm almost getting the words 'example' and 'bye for' in the decode with that - unfortunately that's all I'm getting from it Sad

I figure something there must be in the right order, the word "example" is far too uncommon to just pop out of it

So, the best I'm ALMOST deciphering here is that each of us who received a mailer, the chessboard you received is the key to your strip - but it's not a clean decipher the way I'm working it (which may be my incompetence!)

For example,
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Using HNAKM, my strip reveals YHIGHESTXTXTHEYIKEYOLONGCTHEDNECKSEOFWOLDESTKTHREX

See how close it is!!!
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
Re: strip ciphers
RedHatty wrote:
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Using HNAKM, my strip reveals YHIGHESTXTXTHEYIKEYOLONGCTHEDNECKSEOFWOLDESTKTHREX

Nice! Using UKBFA, mine is:

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XANDBAROUNDNBEMCANXNOTSUNITEFGREATAHANGINGPHIDXDEN

It is a common convention to use an X to break up double letters in a Playfair cipher, so that's fine.

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Using ULNDY on the "R" line gives GMENVTHERTHESEHISUREVEALXLTHINGSZTRUTHSQWHENIYOURX


The other three are duplicates of these three lines. The stray letters between the words seem to have further significance:

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There are exactly 26 words, and each is preceded by a different letter -- except that I appears twice and J not at all, which is another Playfair convention. Clearly it's the order for the words:

HANGING AROUND THE NECKS OF GREAT MEN IS YOUR KEY
THREE THINGS CANNOT BE LONG HIDDEN
WHEN THESE UNITE THEY REVEAL THE OLDEST AND HIGHEST TRUTHS

Whooo! Thanks! Mr. Green
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
Re: strip ciphers
Continuing:

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HANGING AROUND THE NECKS OF GREAT MEN IS YOUR KEY

Five of the six "great men" referenced in our checkerboards were winners of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. (The sixth, Thomas Digges, was born about three hundred years too early.) The gold medal features the Society's Latin motto, "Quicquid Nitet Notandum"(which means "Whatever shines should be observed" or "Whatsoever shines is to be noted down"); a picture of the 40-foot telescope that William Herschel constructed; the name of the recipient; and the year of the award. The other side has the Society's name and year of founding, "Royal Astronomical Society Inst: MDCCCXX"; a bust of Issac Newton; the name "Newton"; and "Nubem Pellente Mathesi" (which means "By cloud-dispelling mathematics" or "cloud propelled by mathematics") and is taken from Edmund Halley's ode to Newton's Principia.

Wouldn't it be funny if QUICQUID NITET NOTANDUM or NUBEM PELLENTE MATHESI were the key to the ginormous cipher? Edit: Nope. (At least not if it's another Playfair.)

Edit: The ginormous cipher is NOT Playfair. The fourth digraph would be LL, but Playfair ciphers cannot contain double-letter digraphs.

Really important edit:
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BINGO! It's another Vigenere cipher, and QUICQUID NITET NOTANDUM is indeed the key! It starts "LUCY AND I WERE MARRIED BUT NO LONGER PEOPLE I WORK FOR WANTED TO..." Rest coming soon!

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 		Well Done!!! Thanks for taking my little lateral pass all the way to the end zone Smile
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
Re: strip ciphers
Shad0 wrote:
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It's another Vigenere cipher, and QUICQUID NITET NOTANDUM is indeed the key!

Full translation of the ginormous cipher (no punctuation attempted):

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LUCY AND I WERE MARRIED BUT NO LONGER PEOPLE I WORK FOR WANTED TO EXPLOIT HER ABILITY OF MANIPULATING THE WORLD WITH UNDERSTANDINGS OF HOW STARS AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN OUR LIVES NOT ASTRONOMY OR ASTROLOGY BUT THE VERY ASPECTS OF QUANTUM AND HOW ALL OF OUR STARDUST IS LINKED X AND Y BINARY STARS LUCY FOUND OUT AND LEFT BUT ENJOYS HOW I AM IN A POSITION OF BOTH LOVING HER AND YET HAVE TO REMAIN DISLOYAL TO ALL SHE MAY ONE DAY RETURN BUT I FAILED MY OATHS TO BOTH MY WIFE AND MY COMPANY I AM THEREFORE STILL LOOKING FOR HER USING NEW CONTACTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BUT AT [sic] ALSO TRYING TO GET LUCY TO UNDERSTAND HOW MY LIFE IS NOT MY OWN ANY MORE X

And with that, on to /lucina...
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 		Going back to the station name...

The poet being Blake

The numbers for blake: 21211115

reversed: 51111212

As Lat & Long: 51.11 1.212 brings us to Folkestone, Kent, UK

The Folkestone West railway station used to be named Shorncliffe Camp

But that's not getting me anywhere

Emailed it to Lucy anyway, waiting on reply

Well, that was a bust..
Quote:
Not Blake.
Not Shakespeare.
No-one English...

You'll need his message and location of it first to work the lettering.
You have been told the poet - now find the message...
Enjoy.


then I received

Quote:
Stations and worlds of text
Some haven''t been found yet - ah - boo hoo.
Simple maths though - the most recently made will be the ones you have to find?

As for the station, my message wasn't clear enough it seems.
So...

Find the poets message.
Find its location.
Find the lettering/coding
Work out the rest.

I know at least one of you is talking to Callum. Fine. Just do one thing. Don't trust him
He'll manipulate you into doing anything he wants.
Which is ultimately me.

I'm playing along for now as I think some of you are worthy of bigger universal knowledge, but as the music I used said...

Bye for now.


So anyone recognize the music in that echoing voice recording?

So I think we still have the 'star' puzzle from /lucina to finish as well as the poet puzzle that leads us to the 2nd level of knowledge and Callum's pet name for lucy to figure out.

We know the poet is NOT Blake or Shakespeare, Lucy tells us we already have the poet (Ovid?) The Nixae are mentioned by Ovid in Metamorphoses book 9, the story of Hercules birth http://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph9.htm#483366544

Anyone think maybe this is the right track?
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 		Re: Callum Felderi
Re: /lucina
Poor Lucy must be really frustrated. She added another hint to /lucina:

Lucy wrote:
X<<*

So we knew it was a Caesarian shift, but we (or at least I) kept beating my head against shifting the letters thrice through the alphabet the way Caesar did, e.g. D becomes A. That's not what Lucy wanted:

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She wanted us to look at the letters three places behind the stars in her poem! Those are NIMIT URI NVETIT UMS EM PER; spaced properly, NITIMUR IN VETITUM SEMPER, which is a quote from Ovid's The Loves, Book III, Elegy IV, line 17. Roughly translated: "We always strive for the forbidden."

Edit: Sent my answer to Lucy. I'm confident, but we'll see what she says.

Further edit: She sez:

Lucy wrote:
First of the three...

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 		Hi, all, I took some time this weekend to try to get caught up on this, but I'm still about a week behind y'all.

However, I do have something to share -- a helpful conversation on Facebook with our friend Callum. I do figure out what the 6 golden letter represent in the conversation, so I've spoiler-tagged relevant bits.

Quote:

4/19, 4:50am - Callum Felderi
Good morning.
How are you? You all seem to be working nicely together...

4/19, 4:50am - Joy McCourt
Good morning! I couldn't sleep so I'm doing a huge catch-up session

4/19, 4:50am - Callum Felderi
Playing fair...

4/19, 4:50am - Joy McCourt
I have fallen behind
but I'm getting there

4/19, 4:52am - Callum Felderi
No problems - the good thing with what I am doing is that, ultimately, I know things will get done. It does get amusing though watching people hold the same object and rotating it in their hand twenty times until you point out it needs to be tiltedas well, for example.

4/19, 4:52am - Joy McCourt
I'm updating one source where we gather all our info...I'm hoping that will help.

4/19, 4:53am - Callum Felderi
every cipher as been solved that was put in the post. The significance of the 6 letters hasn't been understood, though I think you will probably get it first.

4/19, 4:53am - Joy McCourt
I will do my best not to disappoint

4/19, 4:53am - Callum Felderi
6 golden letters, 2 which the postal team removed or fell off... many lessons learnt about foreign postal systems.
letters are k q r b n p

4/19, 4:54am - Joy McCourt
I'm glad the Canadian one didn't fail us too badly

4/19, 4:54am - Callum Felderi
and, according to the riddler, they are in order like that.

4/19, 4:54am - Joy McCourt
Ok, I will share that with the others.
hey, I get it

4/19, 4:54am - Callum Felderi
Nothing essential as they were pointers.

4/19, 4:54am - Joy McCourt
do you want me to tell you what that looks like to me?

4/19, 4:54am - Callum Felderi
but may come in handy later... - like a wordsearch left over bit...
sure.

4/19, 4:55am - Joy McCourt
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You've mentioned chequers...but are you also a fan of chess?

4/19, 4:55am - Callum Felderi
Good lady...
Welcome to the board.

4/19, 4:56am
Joy McCourt
I knew someone else who liked to assign pieces to his friends!!

4/19, 4:56am - Callum Felderi
Really?

4/19, 4:57am - Joy McCourt
Did you know a man named Vladimir at all?
I think it was Vladimir...though he was an odd fellow

4/19, 4:59am - Callum Felderi
Vanessa mentioned him once - but that was a while ago - nothing relevant. I prefer my women as women thoguh.
though*

4/19, 5:00am - Joy McCourt
I thought that was probably the case - but I have chess on the mind now and then since interacting with him

work day for you?

4/19, 5:04am
Callum Felderi
nope - at home - but all my messages are still monitored by the company so can't really talk too much about what people ahve found - if you cold spread the word, that'd be appreciated. Since my anger blew my opportunity to use yourworldoftext sites that Lucy ran [and would've protected I imagine as well] I'm in a sea of internet without much ideas for discussion. And those who want to contact me to inform me of places will have only to communicate online. Oh.

4/19, 5:04am - Callum Felderi
One of you lives near... Will keep quiet now.
But watch this space...

4/19, 5:06am - Joy McCourt
I'll keep my eyes peeled. Our conversations between ourselves elsewhere should be safe?

4/19, 4:01pm - Callum Felderi
possibly.
??

4/19, 4:18pm - Joy McCourt
Sorry, Callum, I mean if the others and I discuss things amongst ourselves at those places you seem to have trouble accessing, we should be ok to do so, correct?

4/19, 4:19pm - Callum Felderi
Assume so - though any links you've posted on ym wall will naturally be loked at.
looked*
I'm rally sorr if I'm not bing so communicative right thi minute. Nt feeling that well, hece my many typos - so I ay be off for a whil.
LAters.
Laters*


So, if you don't know already:
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The 6 golden letters are chess pieces: king, queen, rook, bishop, knight, pawn. He refers to them as "pointers," so the points each piece is worth in a game of chess is likely relevant.


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We shouldn't just turn things around, but also tilt them...I think


And any sites we've linked to Callum's Facebook profile -- other than this unfiction forum -- could be looked at / accessed by people from Callum's work. We have linked http://www.yourworldoftext.com/lucylime there. Perhaps not all the introductions made there are ours...perhaps the Knight of Wands should be investigated further, or Caylus Ark, or anyone else we don't recognize.
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 		Excellent work, everybody! Great to see some significant breakthroughs happening.

My very small contribution: there's a hidden message in a line that Callum wrote in the conversation with dreamerblue.

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I'm rally sorr if I'm not bing so communicative right thi minute. Nt feeling that well, hece my many typos - so I ay be off for a whil.

Take the missing letters and we get: 'eyes on me'

As an aside, do we think there is any significance to the fact that Callum got the spelling of 'Knight' wrong (it was an 'N' rather than a 'K') with our gold letters? Maybe it was just to differentiate from the 'King' initial?


ETA: The whole but about somebody living near and "watch this space" also has me intrigued. Are we to expect some real life interaction for one of us? Is anybody here also in the UK?

I think I was the only UK-based person who received mail from Callum but I'm a good few hours' drive from where the package was sent from so I wouldn't say I live 'near' unless he's talking in relative terms.

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