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[mapmaker]

[SEKRIT] Secret correspondence with Dr. Riley

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That's awesome. A pity the second one got lost in the mail, though - with two we might have done a comparative study. With only one, we're kind of stuck as to identifying cogent meanings of any recurring themes.

The whole thing (the bits around the edges in particular) looks almost like petroglyphs or cave art. Not sure what the red around the edges means, but I'm almost sure it wasn't done without purpose, especially since all those little boxes-with-dots are each at the tip of one wave - thus, closer to the cat. Hard to say what that means though.

All things considered, I think we can pretty confidently say the cat is representative of either BA or Sploit. I'll guess Sploit, since he's the only one we can impact right now, anyway. Maybe we should urge Sploit to keep an eye out for snakes in the Dreamscape woods, and stay away from any suspicious rock formations? We stilll don't know what happens if you die in the Dreamscape.

EDIT: Yeah, I just checked Sploit's map. The stone slabs on the drawing, while crude, seem to correspond to the slabs Sploit mentions on his blog that he uses when he has to hide. Could be that the little box-thingies are the "weird beasts" he also mentions, and he gets snakebitten while hiding from them.

[rose]

Maybe symbolically the snake under the cat means that something that looks harmless on the surface is really dangerous?

I like the idea that the cat is sploit.

The snake looks like some kind of petroglyph as well.

just fyi: here is the quote from sploit's blog about the troughs

[WolfHawk]

Very cool. It's more than just a drawing though. Some creativity went into it what with the cut-outs and all.

[rose]

Ah yeah. I assumed that drawing had a forked tounge so it was a snake. But I see mapmaker called it a worm and someone else mentioned caterpillar.

[enaxor]

This morning when I signed into my email, I had a message from Dr. Riley waiting for me. It included a link to another George drawing she wanted to share with our sekrit group. I've attached a copy of the drawing, as well shared the email below.

[Transtar]

Just posting the obvious: Its a map of the dreamscape

But what is the "something suspicious"?

[danteIL]

Just some quickie observations about this 'map':

There are some correspondences with Sploit's dreamscape. For instance, two buildings each with a water tower on top.

There is a shield made from the 8 dots in the middle. These dots have "I DREAM" around them.

There is the Drummer (dun dun dun).

Three graves marked "G" "J" and "R", surrounded by cats: I am assuming that "G" = George. We see sleeping figures marked "J" and "R," plus text that reads 'JOE TOOK IT". From Mrs. Compton, we know that Joe and some name that starts with R ('Rance'??) were the friends with George in the woods.

Also, according to Mrs. Compton, George screams "Run to the gate! Run away from the growls!" --- well, we see the gate and growls on the map too.


Mysteries remaining:

Who are the Whistlers? There are 8 of them.

There is a snakey thing coming out of the center dot that reads LOST LOST LOST LOCK LOCK LOCK. Why?

Why six houses? And six factories, maybe?

What are these 20 doorway things encircling the edge?

What is the thing that looks like a salt shaker next to the "JOE TOOK IT" text?


EDIT: image is also available here now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21825549@N00/3097703415/

[DavFlamerock]

I too got this email. It was a reply to my email regarding sending Transtar to work with Lilliana (which of course went unanswered )

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[enaxor]

I sent an email to Lizzy suggesting there might be a correlation between the number of door/gate looking symbols and the signal points she is studying.

[DavFlamerock]

And here's the followup I promised for Dr. Riley.

[DavFlamerock]

Betty's reply to me:

[WolfHawk]

Wonder why the whistlers only ring half the sketch?

[Options]

Don't know for sure, but at a guess, it's because they're beyond everything else (in the dream world), which makes sense concerning recent events. I think the wavy things are supposed to be the sea? Or possibly the countryside. Either way, they're positioned as far as possible beyond it, which I guess can be stretched to mean that they are/were very far away.

Anyways, I think that maybe we can post this in Sentry Outpost now. On a meta level, it seems like these were meant to be shared, not kept secret over the last couple of days.

And what, you guys don't think that your fellow Sentries are your very close friends?