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kieto · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2015 Posts: 32

So I rechecked my email from Lucy, this is what she says -

**Posted:** Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:30 pm

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ZeroDayRaistlin · Greenhorn Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 3

I think slack is invite-only. They'd have to give you an email so you can invite them.

**Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2015 12:37 pm

Shad0

Re: Callum Felderi

**Posted:** Sun Nov 08, 2015 11:29 pm

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pia ward · Decorated Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Posts: 231

**Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:10 am

kieto · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2015 Posts: 32

Oh. I wasn't aware of that...

But yes, if people don't mind giving me their emails in a pm, I can add you guys.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2015 4:43 am

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ZeroDayRaistlin · Greenhorn Joined: 03 Nov 2015 Posts: 3

On the bright side, it will be very secure.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 09, 2015 7:40 pm

Shad0

Re: Callum Felderi

**Posted:** Sun Nov 15, 2015 9:05 pm

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Re: Callum Felderi

**Posted:** Mon Nov 16, 2015 7:57 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

Some are solvable here

http://www.unfiction.com/resource/rot-it/

Seems to be paraphrasing Poe?

EDIT to stash some stuff

https://www.facebook.com/questionmarking
http://www.docdroid.net/XbYpN27/puzzle2.pdf.html
"at least nine" "all the tittles" --- title must include an "i" or "j' ??
father to an old sphinx- Oedipus Rex
depth; sought to comprehend the wide breadth-- How Do I love Thee, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
peace or bring you war -- Leo Tolstoy
forty winks-- The Tortoise and the Hare, Aesop
each separate trickster member --- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe??

Raven linked
1 thinks of writing desks ---"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2 how to keep London from war?--- "The Mabinogion" Bran (name means raven) the Blessed's head is buried where the Tower of London now stands to ward off invasion.
3 Dickens--- "Grip the Raven" inspired both Dickens and Poe
4 thrice--- "The Triple Goddess" Morrigan, took the shape of a raven over battlefields.
5 what were the reasons for his caw-- "Bean Sidhes" (Banshees) could take the shape of ravens as they cried above a roof, an omen of death in the household below.
6 painted was the plumage --- "Tribal Lore" "In the olden days, the raven and the peacock were close friends. One day, the two birds decided to amuse themselves by painting each other's feathers. The raven set willingly to work and so surpassed itself that the peacock became as it is today. Unwillingly to share its glory even with its friend, the mean-spirited peacock painted the raven plain black."

Shad0

Re: Callum Felderi

**Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2015 1:15 am

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kieto · Boot Joined: 16 Oct 2015 Posts: 32

So, what's the puzzle here?

I believe the pertinent question is the last - 'where were moon, stars, and sun before?'

the previous lines make reference to quite a number of fairy tales, and folk tales.

'each separate trickster member spoke their life' - lots of myths have trickster gods, 'whom some admire and others abhor'. Loki (there is a reference to Nordic myth), Anansi (from African myth), Sun Wukong (Chinese).

In the same line of thinking - 'em'rald lands of yore' could refer to two things: the Wizard of Oz (who is a trickster and a charlatan), or A Study in Emerald (by Neil Gaiman) - which matches up with the overall theme of darkness, though I believe it's more the former than the latter.

The Great Sphinx is known as the 'Father of Terror'.

And that wheel.... the wheel of fortune? or some other? And the lines next to it - have they been solved in the uncoding of the poem? Or is there something more to it?

I have my suspicions for the answer to that riddle, but I am leaving north in four days, for two weeks, and I'm sure you'll have solved it by then. If not, I'll come back and help out.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:16 am

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Shad0

Re: Callum Felderi

**Posted:** Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:58 pm

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Pictishwitch

Prize Package

**Posted:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 6:47 am

Shad0

Re: Prize Package

**Posted:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 1:21 pm

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These were the puzzles that would take a day, these were puzzles that would take a week, and these puzzles they'd probably never figure out until we broke down and gave them the answers. ... The Cloudmakers solved all of these puzzles on the first day.

Pictishwitch

Raven consolidation

**Posted:** Sat Nov 21, 2015 8:13 pm