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[mapmaker]

Here's three, I think. Try it out...does it work?

Edit: And frame five.
Edit2: And frame two.

Edit3: In chat, we worked out the first few words of frame five: "Isambard stood su...". This is using squares - 0,1,4,9,...

Anyway, I noticed that the first letters of the methods we've used spell out OCSPACE (Odd, Cubes, Squares, etc). Actually, I noticed that before and used it to guess squares as the method, but whatever. That is a little suspicious to me - maybe it is the password for Raidar? Night all.

I double-checked it with frame six, and my method appears to be correct. So have fun!

[Greyelf]

Base on mapmaker's three.txt and using squares '0,1,4,9...'

[Giskard]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a British engineer and designer of bridges, see here for a collection of projects he worked on. Could this be pointing to the Royal Albert Bridge near Plymouth, which is suspended high on pillars that could be seen as obelisks?

There's more than two pillars though, so maybe one of his other structures is really guarded by two obelisks?

[tallerbird]

Finaly we get one in England.

Sounds like the Clifton suspention bridge in Bristol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_Suspension_Bridge

Tom_in_bristol is on his way there.

[Ehsan]

All the frames checked, nothing new.

<grumpyboy>: i think we're done with repairshos

So we declare this one solved! Nice work people


Frame 1: Odd Numbers
Frame 2: Cubes
Frame 3: Squares
Frame 4: Prime Numbers
Frame 5: Aronson's Sequence
Frame 6: Connell Sequence
Frame 7: Even Numbers

So now we have OCSPACE and some new puzzles... moving on...

[tom_in_bristol]

Went to the location in Bristol based on our vague description!
I walked around in the freezing rain until it got dark and found precisely nothing.

I took a couple of pictures to give you an idea:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60841519@N00/

If anyone has any further thoughts on what to try next drop me a line... i'll just sit here and sulk for a bit...


EDIT 1: attached aerial photo of the location. blue dotted line is what must be the "wearing pathward up". Red X marks my most likely location because there is a view, some foliage cover and a couple of benches (and even a stone ledge which could be taken as a "seat").

EDIT 2: Tallerbird, in a fit of genius, has suggested that the Camera Obscura in the observatory is an ideal means of gazing before and behind. This has filled me with renewed confidence and so I'll try and duck out of work tomorrow and check it out some more. Watch this space...

[Caspian]

According to Seth's last email to me, he'd like the remaining people to use gloves if they find the remaining stashes of evidence.

[camdman]

Went to Federation Square (Melbourne, 7th Frame), but wasn't able to find anything. The major problem that I had was the lack of specivity in the clue... The 'Federation Bells', which I believed were the cups offered to the sky, are built on hard gravel, so i don't believe anything was burried at their bases. These bells were however surrounded by shrubs and bushes, so there may have been something burried just around the outside of the area. Unfortunately, i went before i read that the milwauke evidence had been found, so i never bothered to try to brush away the top surface of soil and leaves around these bushes.

I will most likely return tomorrow or the next day in the hope that going back will help me realise something i hadn't noticed before...

Oh, and i'll wear gloves

[Greyelf]

Like camdman, I also went and looked around the same area. Was also unable to find anything.
Will visit again later today to see if I have better luck.

[Dionysus]

See I think there's GOT to be more to those two sets of directions...

[camdman]

@Greyelf:
If you want to go in together tomorrow (tuesday) or thursday, i am available. I would have thought there was more to the clue, except Ehsan has pretty much ruled that out, so it looks like that's it :S

Even though it has been 'solved', i do want to find this package...

I've just been thinking that maybe we're going the wrong way with the federation bells. Did you notice the light posts? Specifically around 'Speaker's Corner' (mentioned in the clue). They were shaped like upturned cones, so maybe we should start looking around the bases of them. I know, a long shot, but I'm running out of ideas...

[Dionysus]

You probably MUST find the package cadman. Each one so far has been unique, so we must need them all in order to truly solve this mystery.

[tom_in_bristol]

I went back to the Obvervatory in Bristol this morning since I have more than a sneaking suspicion this is where package no. 3 is located. Unfortunately (and to my horror!) it is closed to the public - i guess the season, and the fact they are doing building work on it too doesn't help.
It was open yesterday afternoon (Sunday) so I'm guessing it must be a weekends-only thing.

So... don't expect ay evidence for 5 days or so!

Tom.

[Shelina]

Catching up after the holidays, but I'm pretty confused....

All the frames have been already decoded, and there is a post with the pattern used in each one, but I cant find the messages/directions and the related location for ecah frame (and to be honest, I dont know how to decode the frames myself )

frame1?
frame2?
frame3?
frame4 -> Indiana -> catched
frame5 -> Lore Ipsum -> no location
frame6 -> Milwaukee -> catched
frame7 -> Melbourne

Is this right? which frame had the Bristol location?

[bwochinski]

Just thought I'd consolidate the answers here as Shelina sort of suggested

I just can't find anything for frame 2, did that one turn out to be another test frame?


FRAME 1: