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danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

Awesome live video is here: http://www.seero.com/broadcaster/lehall

EDIT: The drop has been made! The clue that they received reads:PARKING/974 LOT/FLV

We think that means a car with that license plate # in a nearby parking lot.

They've stopped transmitting, but screencap, below:

**Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:56 pm

DavFlamerock

AND IT HAS BEEN ACQUIRED... AND TRANSCRIBED... AND TRANSLATED!!

Venu vi, venu ĉiu--la olimpiko estas la plej grandioza evento por kiu vi povas vojaĝi.
Kiel ili strebas! Neniu olimpiisto plenumas sub la plejalta limo de homa atleta poveco.
Ĉiu atleto devas fari la olimpian ĵuron. Eĉ for de la malfermantaj ceremonioj ili promesas apogi la spiriton de sporteco.

Come you, come all--the Olympics are the most magnificent event for you who can travel.
How they strive! No olympiisto (olympic person) achieves below the highest limit of human athletic ability.
Each athlete must take the Olympic Oath. Even from the opening ceremonies they promise to sustain the spirit of sportsmanship.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:39 pm

Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

Ah, this degree of awesomeness is almost unbearable. Congratulations on this successful mission! Now all we need is the complete text of Number 4. Just a tiny little step until we can puzzle together Number 6. Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:43 pm

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

**Posted:** Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:57 pm

Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

They ought to change that place-name sign: Marfa - Home of Olympic Ring Number Five!

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:55 am

mr.judkins

Yay team Texas! That photo with the Marfa Sign is brilliant.

So after two epic weekend missions we have all five rings!

Awesome! Very Happy

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:28 am

Thomas Bookmore · Decorated Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 161 Location: France

Congratulations again, Team Texas. You didn't do good. You did AWESOME. Rock on, and here's to lhall driving back home safely.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:25 am

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jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

Whew! lhall is home safe!

I tracked our trip out there, which was was a lot more pleasant that I thought it would be (except for the harrowing bits.) The road was beautiful and the scenery was not what I expected (I was imagining northwest Texas.) On arrival we drove around the town staring at everyone and suspecting them all of being TheO agents. We noticed that the Marfa Book Store in about two doors down from the police station (hoped panhandling wasn't a ticket-able offense) and ducked into a coffee shop. The coffee shop had a huge diagram of the multiverse made of Christmas lights tacked on one wall- maybe that was just my imagination as I was drinking coffee while already road-numb, nervous and itching to impress the multiverse with my harmonicas. We had to wait because we somehow made it to Marfa with time to spare. Marfa is a very friendly place. The people in the book store took up a collection and tipped us 49 cents. The local newspaper man talked to us and gave us a free paper after lhall explained what we were doing and he said "I don't get it" about 6 times. Towards the end of our "musical performance" we got a request to play "Oh Susanna" from some passersby and one of them sang along with us. And then our contact came by and tipped us the two dollars you can see above.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:43 am

DavFlamerock

Hm... trying to fit Ring number 4 into the SESA RINGO puzzle, but I'm having some trouble. Can we get a "SESA RINGO" section from this ring?

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:27 am

jasper · Unfettered Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 560 Location: Texas

one thing is that the "Ĉiu atleto devas fari la olimpian ĵuron. . ." line is the top line in the text, engraved in a slightly smaller size above the other two lines.

was rattled at the point when I was taking these. . . better photos hopefully when lhall posts, but here's a start: http://s13.photobucket.com/albums/a296/jaspersu/lostring/

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:10 pm

danteIL · Unfictologist Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1990

**Posted:** Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:48 pm

runeix ftlr

just a quick thought. is defacing currency illigal there, like it is in australia??

**Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 5:54 am

DavFlamerock

Not really, as long as it's still easy to tell what it is.

**Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:57 pm

hmrpita

**Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:07 pm

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lhall

I've posted a video of our adventure here http://youtube.com/watch?v=B8dHflFnMuM Smile

And my photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhall/sets/72157606405791054/

Still quite tired after all the time spent in the car, but all in all it was totally worth it! Thank you again to jasper and friend for their amazing courtesy and thoughtfulness, and for driving all that way! It was great to meet you guys and I hope we can work together on some gaming fun in the future. Smile

**Posted:** Mon Jul 28, 2008 2:53 pm

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