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[BLOG] Apr 06 Markus makes a discovery
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unagi wrote:
Just letting you know QED, a member of the Tokyo pickup party, says he can go back to the place today.


Today Nitrogen went to the pickup place and looked all over the building, but found nothing obviously relevant. But the postbox was sealed with white vinyl tape, which overlapped on the former one (see the boxes in the photos taken by QED previously), which I am personally anxious about.

EDIT: sorry and thank you, sapagoo, I corrected the URL. The site pita.st is a photo-sharing site, where photos are uploaded from mobile phones.

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unagi wrote:
unagi wrote:
Just letting you know QED, a member of the Tokyo pickup party, says he can go back to the place today.


Today Nitrogen went to the pickup place and looked all over the building, but found nothing obviously relevant. But the postbox was sealed with white vinyl tape, which overlapped on the former one (see the photo taken previously), which I am personally anxious about.

I don't know what pita.st doesn't like about your URL, but I think you are talking about the second image here:
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 		Do you know what the other surrounding post boxes say? (If it were me, I woulda peeled off the tape to see if anything was inside now.)

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Elizabeth123 wrote:
Do you know what the other surrounding post boxes say? (If it were me, I woulda peeled off the tape to see if anything was inside now.)


Top-left: the bar "Fukuro", meaning owl
Top-right: a tanning salon, where people buy a lot of UV lay, and the limited company name Celebrity
Bottom-right: Hibi laundry

The bottom-left box was empty this time.

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 		Hmm, I don't know German, so I can't email him... but maybe someone else could?

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 		I will try to go back Ediciones Macchi (Buenos Aires) after work... I dont have my digital camera with me rigth now... i will use my cellphone.
Im gonna email [M], maybe he could go there fastly than me...

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 		QED also came back from the Tokyo pickup place! But he says he couldn't made any amazing discovery either.

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 		Some recent Tweets from Ariadne regarding visiting locations:

[14:54] !Twitter: ariadnelost: reading reports of re-visits to artifact location sites... i don't know if we need to physically revisit every site, research could help?
[14:58] !Twitter: ariadnelost: thinking about artifact locations... how where they chosen? are there more physical clues? or historical clues? what story could they tell?
[15:22] !Twitter: ariadnelost: learning about san francisco artifact location, so codex-y, can't be a coincidence! http://tinyurl.com/5kw7q6 & http://tinyurl.com/5ujz3l
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[14:54] !Twitter: ariadnelost: reading reports of re-visits to artifact location sites... i don't know if we need to physically revisit every site, research could help?
[14:58] !Twitter: ariadnelost: thinking about artifact locations... how where they chosen? are there more physical clues? or historical clues? what story could they tell?
[15:22] !Twitter: ariadnelost: learning about san francisco artifact location, so codex-y, can't be a coincidence! http://tinyurl.com/5kw7q6 & http://tinyurl.com/5ujz3l


She is giving contradictory input there. Physical or not physical???

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 		Re: [BLOG] Apr 06 Markus makes a discovery
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She is giving contradictory input there. Physical or not physical???

Not at all. One can research and learn plenty about the physical site without actually going there. That's probably why Ariadne gave us the example of The Galilee in San Francisco, which was part of a worldwide oceanic magnetic survey. There is presumably some significance to the fact that whoever is behind the Omphaputer and hid the pieces of the Codex chose to hide a piece in that particular boat.

(And speaking of "whoever is behind the Omphaputer and hid the pieces of the Codex," just to digress for a moment, it looks as if it is becoming increasingly unlikely that it was our friends from 1920.)
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 		Re: [BLOG] Apr 06 Markus makes a discovery
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(And speaking of "whoever is behind the Omphaputer and hid the pieces of the Codex," just to digress for a moment, it looks as if it is becoming increasingly unlikely that it was our friends from 1920.)


Well I would think the, you know, IP addresses and things would have already given that away...


EDIT on topic:

Boekehuis, Johannesburg: "Opened in 2000, the shop is located in a 100-year-old house once belonging to the daughter of lawyer and anti-apartheid campaigner Braam Fischer."

Casa Manuel, Brussels: 34 Grote Markt "La Heaume" (the Helmet) built 1697, Architect Pierre van Dievoet

City Mission, Stockholm: No. 3 Stortorget; "Built by the merchant Hans Bremer in the 1640s and originally featuring pointed cairns, Number 3, on the right side of Köpmangatan still features the original cross vaults and a German inscription in the entrance hall. However, the building is today called Grillska huset ("The Grill House") after the goldsmith Antoni Grill, who immigrated from Augsburg to Sweden in the 1680s during the era of Gustavus Adolphus to found the Grill Dynasty, said to descend from the Grillo family in Genoa. He bought the building which came to remain in the family's possession for more than a century. The cloverleaf-shaped gables were added in 1718 together with the blue livid colour and the Rococo portal. The Dynasty's most prominent member was the merchant Claës Grill (1705-1767), leader of the East India Company, owner of several banks and many mining industries and shipping companies, and a great art collector. The building is today the headquarters of the Stockholm´s City Mission, an independent Christian charity devoted to support homeless and exposed citizens with food, accommodation, and education, also running advisory bureaus and others elsewhere in the old town."

Cotton's Bar, Shanghai: "a three-story 1930s villa in the French Concession. "

Segal, Vancouver: "The Segal Graduate School of Business is located in the 1910 Bank of Montreal headquarters building located in Vancouver's historic downtown financial district."

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 		Re: [BLOG] Apr 06 Markus makes a discovery
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Shad0 wrote:
(And speaking of "whoever is behind the Omphaputer and hid the pieces of the Codex," just to digress for a moment, it looks as if it is becoming increasingly unlikely that it was our friends from 1920.)

Well I would think the, you know, IP addresses and things would have already given that away...

Quite right -- obviously they didn't have IP addresses in 1920. I was thinking more of the pieces of the Codex, which from Jorge's original note ought to have been hidden in 1920 (because the message instructs the reader to find all 27 chapters). The Western Maryland Railway Company envelopes at first glance appear to be period, as does the Galilee... but while the railway company existed in 1920, it looks as if that particular envelope is no older than 1974, and the while the Galilee was surveying oceans the 1900s, her stern wasn't brought to San Francisco until 1975.

So there are several possibilities. Someone else may have found the Codex and then re-hidden the pieces, calculating distances from the same 27 omphaloi. Jorge & Co. may have originally left the pieces with someone else with instructions to hide them and monitor their recovery, and that duty could have been passed on through the years. Whoever marked up Francis Bacon's New Atlantis must also be whoever is behind the Omphaputer; whoever is behind the Omphaputer must know where the Codex is hidden. That's all we know for certain. It is also reasonable to assume that, whoever this "someone" is, it isn't Theo, who would be opposed to anyone finding the pieces of the Codex.

There are a lot of unknowns here. We still don't know who sent our six amnesiacs to this world, or who tattooed them. Again, there are several possibilities. Perhaps the amnesia is an automatic side-effect of being sent to a different universe. It is possible that Theo somehow sent them here (his note to Ariadne said, "it's my job to make sure you never remember") but given the clues they had when they arrived -- blindfolds, athletic costumes, arriving in labyrinths, and of course those tattoos -- I think they were sent by someone who supports resynchronization. We also know that other amnesiacs have arrived in the past.

SPEC: If amnesia really is a side-effect, then it is possible that the amnesiacs sent themselves, and tattooed themselves as reminders. Perhaps we're the only universe that has "lost the ring" -- thanks to Theo and his unnamed colleagues -- and thus is preventing the synchronization that would avert disaster. So the rest of the multiverse keeps sending help every four years, hoping each time that we'll figure it out before it's too late...

Wow, I've rambled quite far off the subject, haven't I? Embarassed Sorry about that.
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 		Re: [BLOG] Apr 06 Markus makes a discovery
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(And speaking of "whoever is behind the Omphaputer and hid the pieces of the Codex," just to digress for a moment, it looks as if it is becoming increasingly unlikely that it was our friends from 1920.)


The building in Austin was built in the 1930's as the public library. So the codex pages, if they were hidden in that book about Sam Houston to start with, would have been left in 1933 at the earliest.

I would think within the game, it is possible they pages were left in the book somewhere else, and the book was later donated to the library or to the archive. I believe the library commission went house to house in Austin asking for books to be donated to the library. That's a lot for the omphaputer to keep track of- moving artifacts- but none of the locations exactly seem like a place the pages could have been waiting undisturbed for decades.

According to the Austin Public library catalog, the book is not normally in the open shelves and you just ask the reference librarian if you need to see it. Maybe we could ask them for specifics on the history and movements or location of the book- if it seems worth knowing.

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 		Interesting stuff so far...and if Ariadne's tweet is anything to go by, we're on the right track! (Well done, Momonga!)

sapagoo has also had some interesting stuff to say on the subject in IRC.

Is there a space on the wiki to collect all of this info?
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 		Hmm, another idea. Could the content of the chapter have anything to do with the corresponding location it was found in? Like Chapter 12, which is about the Pan-Cosmology Classification System (PCCS)--it was found by a ship that was used to aid another kind of classification system. Are there similar connections between the other artifacts and their locations?

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