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Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

New discovery and more Speculation

Andh · Boot Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Belgium

Re: I was curious

**Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:03 am

Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

I started at the bottom center approx. at the center L in ENLIL then traveled to the right making the first letter to fall on the line an "L"

What I have above is totally wrong. I couldn't remember exactly what I had gotten and couldn't read my own notes and did not won't to redo it and was not exactly sure if I missed some of them. I did my best using an image editing software, because, right now, my printer is totally out of ink and I don't have a compass or a protractor.

The first part "LILSUREUSW." and the last ".WEN" I'm almost positive is right. It's the stuff in the center, "WALLACHASUERUSECALLAW" that I messed up on big time.

Below are some examples of how I did it.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:57 pm

Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

update

**Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:51 pm

mortality · Unfettered Joined: 12 Jul 2007 Posts: 428

Here's the text of the update to Ethan's personal blog

**Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:53 pm

surfzoned

And now on a completely unrelated note.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:38 pm

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Sylvia · I Have No Life Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 2062

throwing out some more ideas

THESB · Boot Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 17

There is a new letter!

http://whitechapelfoundation.org/opencases/?p=3

**Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:45 am

petunia · Unfettered Joined: 10 Jan 2007 Posts: 616 Location: MS

Good Lord.

First thoughts:

There's a second piece of tape on this one, on the side. What for?
This letter was addressed by the same person as the first letter.
The "1" has a circle around it. So we have a circle, a caret, and a triangle.

On this letter, just counting the number of characters per line (not including the last line):

5-4,
4-6,
7,
9
9.
6,5 (6 underlined)
12 (7 underlined, then 2 underlined)
9

Totals: 21 big Xs, 51 little xs, 4 #s. 8 lines total; lines 2, 4, 6 & 7 are indented.

Possible connections with what we already have: "commanded" and "Ahasuerus" each have 9 letters. "W.Wallace" has 9 characters if you count the period. "Three" and "Enlil" each have five letters.

It doesn't look like this is going to be a simple thing where, for example, the big Xs could be vowels and the little xs could be consonants, because then the next to last line would have 10 consonants in a row.

The 8 lines could really be 4 long lines that wrapped around and indented themselves. Or it could be a poem - does this structure look familiar to anybody?

**Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:22 pm

pipakin · Boot Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 13

had been looking at it and came up with this crazy thing. (This is most definitely wrong):

Only-king,
only-??????,
Wallace,
commanded
Ahasuerus.
Enlil, wise,
???????????
Ahasuerus.

but i think the X may represent accent, where the "x" is an unaccented letter. I dunno. Also, I was ignoring the #, going on a hunch.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:42 pm

THESB · Boot Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 17

Having no storyline and no questions to be answered sure makes these puzzles a bit harder to solve. I've been kicking the idea around that this may be binary, but the # and indentations make for a lot of combinations. Hopefully the answers to these questions will bring on more questions, and hopefully a story.