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[spugmeistress]

[UPDATE] [EVENT] Manchester, UK - Oct. 9th

[josiah]

Did you visit the address for that Sky Centre shop??

[spugmeistress]

not yet because tbh i sincerely doubt its relevant. i did phone them twice and the number doesnt accept incoming calls. i'm gonna try and find out what type of business it is before going because its not exactly in the town centre, its actually in quite an industrial area which is why i have an inkling its a wholesalers. it just doesnt seem likely atm.
rach =)

[josiah]

I had a funny feeling it might be the lead..... but I've just done a whois on it and the address was registered in 2000. I was thinking maybe MC were getting sneaky after our whoising escapades, and actually parked a domain with yell.com to throw us off the trail, especially with the number being dud. It's probably still worth a visit there, if it is a shut down shop it might have a poster or something outside. I only live in Blackpool, if you can't make it down there by the weekend, I can pop down on Sunday.

I really can't see MC using sky writing for a clue - it's a clue that would last a few minutes, be expensive and have quite a good chance of never being seen by someone who knew what it meant!

[oliverkeers13]

True, but leaving scrunched up balls of paper in Starbucks is hardly a more reliable tactic. The paper is likely to be tidied up, or at best, read by someone who doesn't understand it, and thrown away. They did definitely say skywriting though. I remember looking up all the time when i started playing in the hope of seeing something, and picking up old bits of crap as well

[The_Worminator]

[neuromancer]

[judderman]

Joderell Bank?

[Mokey Fraggle]

Neuromancer wrote:

[cassandra]

now I'm going to be terribly cryptic...but I think I've figured it out. Currently searching for information on whether someone should visit this place in person or if this is another part of the website keywords...will update on my findings before I go to bed.

*****

My findings:

Was looking up "manchester town centre" skyline - this led me to an unusual building: the CIS solar-paneled tower

Until recently, it was the tallest building in Manchester. Also, get this:

The Keywords:
STAR
POWER
(the long island beach site)

My reading, now:
SOLAR or SOLAR POWER
TOWER or TOWERS (9/11 twin towers memorial at the water tower)

(solartowers?solarpowertower? I have exhausted every single combination of those words both in domain search and as subpages for many pxc sites..using blue, cis, and others. and I'm giving up till tomorrow.)

So: I don't know whether it's another part of the keyword list, whether somewhere in here *is* the website, or whether someone needs to go there and check for suspicious signage.
But, Spugmistress, feel free to take a trip down there

Hope this is a good lead...

[filmguy1013]

[brat-sampson]

The /sortails page has changed.

[Spankit]

Alright, so we've got three days to figure out for sure where this location is, whether its a website or physical location. Two possible physical locations so far: the CIS tower and the Sky Centre wholesale place.

How many people in Manchester are free on Sunday and willing to check these places out?

[josiah]

I will be able to get down there on Sunday... now they've given us a time frame... I am well on board with it being sky/some sort of sky message because of the short time frame

I will be setting off from Blackpool on Sunday morning (11ish?) if anyone is on the way and wants a lift down, and they promise they're not a psychopath, they're welcome to come along


EDIT: The 'provisionally' sounds like 'weather permitting' to me, another pointer towards sky writing.

[josiah]

The website has just changed to remove the word 'provisioinally'. I wonder if that was because I said I was going, and I wonder if I decide not to go now, they'll add 'provisionally' back on

Or maybe a book will fall on my head and I'll die for changing my mind for no apparent reason!