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[BrianEnigma]

Okay, so based on the references in The Sentinel: "buy a vowel" referring to Wheel of Fortune, a word/letter game and "one thing leads to another," I decided to see what happens when I take one letter from each word, starting with "shake" and continuing down to "fly." I decided to take them in order, top-to-bottom, rather than messing with the zillions of permutations anagramming would get.

After a while, I gave up and told the computer to do it for me (C source code attached for those interested). I came pretty close to a couple of potential matches, but nothing that quite worked out to a definite "a-ha!" For instance, KEY???? (I was hoping for keyword, but we don't have the "ord" from the last three words). Similarly, "SAY????"

What really caused my heart to skip a beat was when I got down to "SEEK???," which would tie in with the "must be sought" clue pretty well, but could not get anything that seemed to sound right from the letters of those last three words.

[oliverkeers13]

As Violet says in her June 3rd blog entry, we have overlooked the solution, it is a simple puzzle and we are reading too much into it.

[BrianEnigma]

Re: Spiderwork works

[oliverkeers13]

Re: Spiderwork works

[oliverkeers13]

it's not a word. GOes from

[oliverkeers13]

Just sent Violet a message suggesting that the answer is the word

[POTUS]

I know this is useless, but I can't stop associating "Absent" with "Absalom & Tavent.", which leaves me ALOMTAV, which then leads me to MOLATAV, as in an alternatively spelled cocktail. Which is what rebellious sorts like the Recons might be tempted to use to simply break the glass and gain access to the damn keys when they can't figure out what Gyvann's latest puzzle means.

"A few moments of reflection . . ." - my arse!

[oliverkeers13]

[geofortean]

[JebJoya]

[geofortean]

lol, it's still too close to be a coincidence!!

[cronogenesis]

Ok, we all want set fire to a recons robe about now, but I think thy still wont give us the damn answer.

I'll call 'Scribe 12' together and see if we can get something.

Fish sounds the best we have got so far (better than my vowl confusion suggestion) but I think there is something MUCH simpler to it. So as a random guess i'll say the answers 'body' as it follows on with the bady parts idea.
(eye is on the face. Face is on the Head. Head is on the body. It wrong but im stumped)

[cronogenesis]

Ive also had a look on the effect the letters have on a keyboard (stressed by Violet) layout, but no luck. A * replaces a letter in the word list.

Q*****UI*P
******J**
ZX*VB*M

Heres it reversed:

*WERTY**O*
ASDFGH*KL
**C**N*

[oliverkeers13]

[SteveC]

Violet has declared "Archer" to be her solution on QA.. So just ignoring the incongruity of "spider-work" then I guess