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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

This is what I have pieced together so far:

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:36 am

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Dionysus

AmberJoy just sudggested in chat that maybe the letter itself contains a coded message.

Everyone thank Amber and Lisa by the way... since Seth seems currently unwilling to chat with us, and they are the only ones with "children"... we'd be lost without them. We'd have no contact with the station!

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:48 am

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KTTabris · Boot Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 11

Stevie's blog updated on the 10th, and included was a picture of the middle part of the letter.

Full Text of the letter is as follows, apologies if there's typing errors

Shelina

Stevie point us in her diary to a secret message in the letter... so we should look for it!

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:54 am

Giskard

There's nothing obvious jumping out at me from that text, except that the general message from the text could be read as "come look for me, there are only so many places they can stash me away!".

I've tried puzzling with the upper case letters, but there are too many I's in there to make something out of at first sight, I also tried counting words (every fifth, tenth, third, etc.), which didn't produce anything yet. There are some sentences in there that seem akwakrd or could have been phrased in a different way, which might suggest there are some words that were forced in there to form part of a message (help, back (twice), etc.).

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 8:58 am

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Shelina

Yay, maybe not a codded message but a clue about where he is hidding?

I'm not sure but something in the letter makes me think Steven knew he was going to hide by the time Seth arrived...

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:06 am

Shelina

Another point of view: look at the names of the files Stevie posted in her diary:
1) sethsletter2.jpg
2) sethsletter.jpg
3) sethsletter3.jpg
4) sethsletter5.jpg
5) sethsletter.jpg
6) sethsletterB.jpg
7) sethsletterG.jpg
8 ) sethsletterS.jpg
9) sethsletterZ.jpg

2 35 BGSZ

Maybe nothing important but... who knows!

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:24 am

drizjr · Unfictologist Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700

Taking a word count by sentence, I get

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:36 pm

Dionysus

Hey awesome job drizjr! Looks promising!

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:40 pm

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mapmaker

I agree that this looks very promising, but one problem:

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:44 pm

Giskard · I haven't checked the word counts themselves, but shouldn't 21-5-13-20 read

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:44 pm

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mapmaker

And perhaps to beat someone else, the transcription of the letter a few posts up is slightly incorrect: that second to last sentence is missing the word "too", so it should have a count of 14. That's that N!

So the last word should in fact read

Dionysus

I was goign to actually email Stevie.. and suggest checking in cooling units/vents to Raidar.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:50 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:19 pm

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Dionysus

Ok.. Wow. We never posted WHAT the Solution was in the actual puzzle thread! We just went and made another thread...so I'll do that now

**Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:29 pm

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