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[Trailhead] Odd letter post marked Long Island, NY.
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Incitatus
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Zorplex, Regnevah, Deathdefi, Myself and our cheerleader :TwiztedMatt

Regnevah Delta'ed the atomic numbers with the listed numbers to come up with a range too narrow to be coincidental
66
54
51
47
58
49
54
51
59
55
65
66
65
53
#VALUE!
56

I recognized some hex Values:

FTQGXITQYUEFES(Variable#)V
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Salkunh
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The letter me/Nik_Doof got doesn't have anything crossed out on the address though it does have a very nice looking mount mckinley on the stamp...posting from the states to the UK is way more expensive than i thought it would be Laughing
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zorplex
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Quick Silver

As previosuly mentioned, the moon is be the alchemic symbol for silver. But it is usually opened to the left when used to represent silver.

The red cresent moon may tie into mercury as it is red and also known as "quick silver".

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rowan
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Incitatus wrote:
actually no.
A salt is a non-metal bonded with a Metal. (Nonmetal + Metal -> Salt)

Table salt is Sodium Chloride(NaCl),
Potassium Chloride(KCl) is also a salt.

Technically, you're right. But for Sea Salt (which is what is pictured) the formula is NaCl.

If the idea is each picture is associated with an element, I have a very hard time believing that the PM is trying to convey "Potassium" there.
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i scrutinized the car carefully, its not a Mercedes Benz SL, its a Chrysler Crossfire SRT-6 (although it shares parts and a family resemblance to the MB SLK)

what that has to do with anything, i have narry a clue, but it might come up later
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strife777
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Yeah...so...close?


Spoiler (Rollover to View):

66 T
54 H
51 E
47 A
58 L
49 C
54 H
51 E
59 M
55 I
65 S
66 T
65 S
53 G
47 (?) A (Note I'm guessing that the moon not having a number means take silver with no delta)
56 J


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Quote:
Yeah...so...close?


Have to double check, but your saying it says

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Alchemist GAJ


With that last part being in question. Cool, awesome work. Sorry if I used the spoiler wrong, just figured I would use it too since I'm repeating yours.

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strife777
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You forgot an S...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Alchemist SGAJ

Note that the A and G have been crossed off on some folks mails. Anybody with a J in they're named have that crossed off too?

www.thealchemist.com is a movie :-/ With Madonna?


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strife777 wrote:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

www.thealchemist.com is a movie :-/ With Madonna?


was a movie with Madonna & Laurence Fishburne.
I can't find it in IMDB, and all the articles I've found appear to be 1-2 years old. I'm guessing that they never got around to filming anything.

It was supposed to be based on a book by Paulo Coelho

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a brief synopsis of the book...

Quote:
The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream.
Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity

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alchemy pops up alot in stories, from the Da Vinci code, to the anime Full Metal Alchemist, so it doesn't neccessarily have to be that story

perhaps these letters were sent by a character called "the alchemist", SGAJ would be the next part of the puzzle then
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Lurking_Kouzou
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Just a comment on the #104 with what appears to be a chemical formula. That actually looks like the crystalline structure of a metal. Since Yttrium is a metal, that would fit.

The intarwebz gives the following information about Yttrium:

It is used to make the color red in television tubes
It is used to make microwave filters
It can be used as an acoustic element
there are many more!

Hope that is useful Smile
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Incitatus
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I really don't want to dismiss the crecent shape as just silver. It's not exactly a symbol for silver, nor is it dirrectly reffering to anything else (would be the worst crecent moon ever, looks more like a boomerang). However, something I had tossed about in the skype/gamespeak session a few of us had last night, The fact that the symbol appears t be hand written in red... strikes me as a refference to the crossed out letters in red.

I can identify it's placement as silver. But I don't want to settle on SGAJ as part of a coherent solve to this. There has to be another step.
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strife777 wrote:
You forgot an S...

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The Alchemist SGAJ

Note that the A and G have been crossed off on some folks mails. Anybody with a J in they're named have that crossed off too?

www.thealchemist.com is a movie :-/ With Madonna?


Or it could be "The Alchemists GAJ" as in three people with initials G, A, and J comprising a group calling themselves "The Alchemists".

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Or, alternately....
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
ROT-20 SGAJ to Maud.

http://tinyurl.com/8r7ez

I'm using a Google Cache of the page here, so you can see the highlighted words. Apparently, Yeats had a thing for Maud Gonne, and they worked on some alchemy stories.

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