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[xomunkixo]

I think most of us agreed that the clue bat was the pms telling us we're getting too caught up in other crap/oog/meta/distractions and not focusing on the obvious stuff that's at hand. Aka, we're getting too distracted.

Then again this story's so rich in distraction it's hard not to. @@

[windup angel]

I think that what we have here is a failure to communicate.

The story itself - the actual story from the PMs - the typed pages, Mountain Dew cans and Froot Loops flying out of the RV - is not really all that intricate or confusing... Say "much less confusing than Donnie Darko".

The story only looks confusing to us because other third parties have been dumping trash bags of Super Sugar Crisp and Jolt cans out along the road.

I'm suggesting that, yes, the clue bat actually gives us some litmus test to distinguish between Froot Loops & Super Sugar Crisp, and between Mt Dew & Jolt. Once you get rid of all the Jolt & Super Sugar Crisp, and can see the trail of Froot Loops & Mt Dew, the story is not really that confusing.

Frankly, the puzzles in the game are very straightforward and obvious puzzles. Grab Watership Down, correlate epigrams to chapter numbers, then convert chapter numbers to letters. Easy, pretty much every library & book store in the world will have a copy of Watership Down if somebody playing doesn't already. This was not rocket science. Grady might be right that something on those Turnage pages will be related to some future puzzle. However I suspect that if that is the case - and I already explained posts above why I don't think that is the case - it'll be pretty obvious...

I've got a pretty good idea how to solve the italicized puzzle, which is what I'd rather be doing, but instead I find myself having to point out which cans are Jolt and which are Mountain Dew. So, now, I'm just gonna suggest that people read the labels for themselves...

(edit - fixed bbcode error)

[Kyra's Vengeance]

windup angel said:

[windup angel]

not my job...

[syntacticAtrocity]

if only you had someone to focus your efforts as was the case 20 forum pages ago.

bunch of ADD-ridden narcissists. =)

[Kyra's Vengeance]

[Grady Martin]

it would be nice if Trix was an option on the bfast cereal menu

[uh, meta]

[classical]

... s-so, uh, getting back to the game ...

I dropped the ticket back into the mailbox today, so we'll see if that address Bricker gave me is even legit.

In the meantime, I made some high-res scans of the ticket and envelope for you guys to..I dunno, pour over how dirty my scanner bed is? :3 I blocked out my address--not that I need it all over the internets any more than it is >_<--which is a shame, because there was a good example of the addressee's handwriting in there. And I really want to note how similar the handwriting is on this envelope to the handwriting in Port's book. Seriously, I don't think this is something the PMs would overlook.

Considering this ticket was either sent by Rage himself or possibly by the Watchers pretending to be Rage, I think we need to reconsider the validity of the book itself here.

To make my case:



Think about it: if Port really did write in that book and send it to Wulf before he got sent to DC, then he also managed to obtain and send this ticket from Santa Rosa. Which, uh... doesn't make sense?

So I dunno what to make of it right now, but I think we need to start poking Rage and the Watchers again instead of bickering amongst ourselves. I'm gonna be absent for a few days here--finals are piling up--but as soon as I get a chance, I'll throw these scans onto the wiki. For now, download 'em here.

[windup angel]

That's all clarified a few things.

And back to the game.

sandleford.html source now says:

[classical]

[Wulf74]

Wow - that was some spirited discussion..

Sorry I've been out, no access to the internets the past few days, but I have landed in South Dakota and will at least be able to check in, in the evenings.

Couple of questions:
1) What are we presently working on?
2) Has anyone seen this "proof" that Rage was talking about with the Patriot?

[windup angel]

Hey wulf - I'm working on the italics puzzle - can't speak for anybody else

Just to note that between when I posted the sandleford.html update above, I checked all the related blogs and they were all unchanged. Between then & now, Hazeltine Report, The Brightman Oracle, and Port King blog have all been completely wiped. No "Cleared" + date message anymore. Just a great big period (as in ".") Other game blogs were unchanged as of a few minutes ago.

edit - losing track of the states of the blogs - USA Oracle Project is completely gone now. Not cleared, just "that blog does not exist". Can't remember if that was how it used to be - I thought it was there as "cleared", but now I'm not sure

[Wulf74]

Cool - thanks for the update. What italics puzzle - afraid I'm not sure what you're talking about.

And i brought Port's package with me, so I'm going to go thru it again till I find what we're missing...

[windup angel]

[Tempestdevil]

okay, i messed with the italics some.. didn't get anything really, but for longevity purposes i figured i'd note it here, just in case someone can pull something out of it.

DEMOLAY
IS
RAGE

CAN
FIGHT
RUN
BEEN

and "O O W E O A" left over.