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[Olorin]

SO, I live in Italy the first 19 years of my life, and absolutely no ARG takes place there. I move to the states, and...there you go.....I could have driven to Bologna in 2 hrs from my hometown... argh !

Ok, rant is over

Let's see where this leads us to.
I can always enlist help from old friends in the ol'boot country if needed.

F.O.R.

[Jonas]

I have sent the pictures to Hannah, I hope they are good. I found the postcard on a cafe table in the airport.

[hannah]

here they are:



could you tell us what the full text says on the back of the postcard? and also describe what the image is on the front? its a little unclear, but I know that's not your fault as camera phones aren't the best
thank you very much for emailling me them.

[Nik_Doof]

speaking of semacode, that looks like one where the stamp goes....oooOoooo

or a sorting stamp of a postal system :/

Jonas, can you copy up the text from the back?

And thats DEFO a Sente sig

[Slithy]

The front of the postcard looks like a city skyline at sunset. You can make it out if you tilt your head sideways.

(A slight chuckle to myself as I imagine all the ARGers looking sideways at their monitors.)

BTW, welcome Jonas! Good find. Hope ya' stick around!

~Slithy

[Jackpot]

*squints really hard*

Anyone here have an extra scanner and a plane ticket to Italy?

[Nik_Doof]

if he/she is willing to send it on, i'd be able to do some uber hi-res scans here

also heres a blown up version of the sig



and a clear version

[Seej]

I wonder how many more of these postcards are out there that have just been ignored or binned? Gotta love the irony that the first person to find one doesn't have a scanner

[hannah]

the signature (from what i can see of it) looks pretty similar to the one at the bottom of the letter on perplexcity.com. i really want to get my hands on one of these now to see it properly, hehe.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

looks like the first pic on the left on the second page of the site might not be a real location, kos the pic of the city skyline looks too futuristic to me, but I may be wrong, the pic isn't very clear....

say....I hope they put an ad/postcard thing in the metro newspapers. The sight of people looking stunned at the page with the puzzle on it in the train carriages will be funny....and I will be one of them...

anyway, it is pretty ironic though like the person who said it above.

[Sasuntsi Davit]

I have a question....I just thought of it....Is the postcard completely printed...what I mean is, is all the writing printed onto the postcard rather than being written by hand? It will be swell if the postcard is hand written...we could figure out the addresse of the card by examining very-very closely the impression from the other side.

[Slithy]

Jonas,

I noticed that there are 5 lines of blackened text on the backside of the card where the address usually goes.

Did you find the card this way or did you blacken out the text yourself?

Also, can anything be read through the blackened areas?

~Slithy

[doughy]

Finally something new to work!! Going by what Slithy said, what if the picture on the postcard is of a skyline. Now this is a spec, buuut what if the postcard shows the same skyline (london?) from the pic of the sites second page, only from another angle. Perhaps the PMs are guiding us to a specific building in the skyline pics?

This ARG is like Christmas, seems like it takes forever for it to get here!

[Nik_Doof]

[edit: ack replying to a page 1 post thats been sorted]

[Salkunh]