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[markzpot]

Oh, I forgot to mention before. In addition to the soduko-puzzle being an "Artifact: Ice", the letter from Harry to Wendy has some slightly marked letters in it. I havent seen any reference to it so I thought Id just throw it out there,

It reads

[natas]

This is already posted on the wiki here:

http://theskyremains.wikidot.com/wendy-s-puzzles

click on the "puzzle 5" tab.

EDIT; changed to puzzle 5 tab. instead of puzzle 4.

[carmenmiranda]

[Pied Piper]

[Pied Piper]

To Nitefoll, Russell_k, and carmenmiranda

[carmenmiranda]

You can almost certainly do it without a GPS system. As I said, our GPS system got us to "roughly" the right area, and then we looked at the Google maps to pinpoint it more directly.

What I would advise is to take successive Google maps at various zoom levels, and use the closest in to give you the more pinpointed location.

Unless you have a much better GPS than we did, it's not going to give you pinpoint accuracy anyway.

The locations were not necessarily obvious, but they were in the sorts of places you'd expect someone to hide something. In other words, they weren't buried, and you don't have to destroy anything to find them. But get to the best-zoomed Google location, and then have a look around. If there's a bridge, look under it. If there's a hollowed-out log, look inside. If there's a convenient-looking notch in a tree, try there.

That being said, I haven't looked at that location on Google. I'll have a gander in a sec; I'm trying to get these videos done. The problem is the file size. Shrinking them down is getting irritating.

[Russell]

Aye i agree with Carmen thats exactly what we did. The hardest one to pinpoint would be the one in gloucester as its in the middle of a forest with no obvious landmarks. Each one of our places were in woodland so it didnt really matter the age of the googlemaps as it was unlikely the trees would have changed much. If its in a built up area there is a chance that the buildings may have changed.

That said when you get to the area use your gut instinct. On our first shard I immediately looked at the bridge as it seemed the most obvious place to hide it. After 15 minutes of then scrambling around in bushes I took another look at the bridge and found it really well hidden in a camouflaged bag ><

Carmen gogogo post the vids!

[nitefoll]

I agree with Russel and Carmen though I did use my GPS as the tree cover on Google Maps made it impossible to see the ground and this disguised the fact that there were lots and LOTS of places Shard 9 could have been. Even with map print outs, I would have been searching for a VERY long had I not been able to narrow the search area further and stumble across the "Blair Witch" type structure. I suppose perseverance is the keyword of the day

[Pied Piper]

Thanks for the input

[WolfHawk]

Um, I have a question. Did we decide the TSR forum is in-game? If so, then this post and a few others referencing the wiki disturb me (boldface type mine):

[Russell]

Nah its not really in game imho, the main purpose of the forum is what its used for after this game, i.e people using it for games like this or geocaching etc. There havent been any IG posts in there so...

[Pied Piper]

[Pied Piper]

I've put up a reference sticky for The Sky Remains

[natas]

I've stickied stuff before and have had it removed because the mods thought it didn't deserve a sticky. No big deal. If they do we'll just have to remember to keep your post updated and link new players there.

[setters393]

better late than never...