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[drizjr]

The mystery of the yellow pignose

[krystyn]

I now see yellow pignoseseseses as well.

[ancalime]

I am mystified by their coding... I tried PKARAY and got a regular pignose, then tried XCEV and got a yellow pignose, and now PKARAY is yellow when I go back to it.

[Turducken]

Yay
For
Yellow
Pignoses!!!!
:@]

[Abraxas]

Krystyn found a skull on the GPS mission in L.A.!

http://thewaytheirworldended.com/SAI-M-R0IJ1260853U0A74429N

Huitzil Skull - Julian

[drizjr]

Krystyn on LA Mission

[MrToasty]

Looks like this confirms a fifth sixth skull orientation?!

[ancalime]

Yeah...looks like she's just established for us that we have *24* skulls to find (at least), not 20.

So, who can hit up the other missions? RobMagus?

[dreamerblue]

Just thinking about the Braille message that was hidden in the source of the skulls' e-mail forms:

[ancalime]

I've been toying with the idea that the initial letters of the skulls can be combined either with themselves or with the initial letters of the kids' names to construct a navpath -- we've got combinations like HJ (Huitzil-Julian) and GU (Goldilocks-Ursula) that are valid vectors (with SweetTooth-YumYum forming SY and TY, I guess), but also combinations like SE that aren't.

Edited to add: from the skulls we have, the following are valid vectors on some node: UD, GU, HJ, KK, SC, SY, SZ, OA

And the following are not: SE, EA, LC, SD, BB, FE, TY, SL, TL

[krystyn]

So, pro tip from me to you:

If you are one of the people in a location that has an updated GPS Mission created by Pricklypear and newly-tagged by Sys, here are your next steps:

1) GO DO THE MISSION. PLEASE. We expect there to be 1 skull for each of the remaining 3 missions of the 4 that were altered to have a :@] in the name of it.

2) You will see perhaps the initial waypoint, and any additional waypoints leading up to the skull waypoint as *also* being tagged by the ":@]." The only way to see this is when you're on the mission, so if you've done one, you'll know what I am talking about.

3) It appears that once you've gotten the skull (and do make sure to copy it down well and good on paper before leaving the app - because even though I left the waypoint up on my screen when switching to pop onto the web and into IRC, the waypoint disappeared when I came back, so I was glad I took the time to copy it correctly. I would've had to abort the mission and re-start), you're done. Any waypoints after that that do NOT contain the Sys pignose ":@]" indicate that you've gotten as far as you can with new content.


I ran the whole mission for Los Angeles just to make sure, and I was a little disappointed there wasn't another skull, since I had walked through all 9 waypoints and all. We were all really hoping there would be a second one at the very end. Technically, it makes sense, I guess, that there was only one, but I dunno.

At least they tweaked the one waypoint I totally hated and got cranky about last time, heh.

Oh, and another thing I didn't quite realize - the first clue for Los Angeles' mission said something about hiding things in parking lots - and looking back at each waypoint and comparing to Google Maps, I can see why they might have thought it would make it easier to say, "here, have a second way to know when you're getting close when you're near a parking lot."

However, Google Maps is a pretty horrible way to decide to clue *any* geographical features, as the satellite photos decay super-fast, esp. in a city like L.A. So, some spots were just, like, sidewalks near a barricaded area, or a fenced-off pit that had been dug, or there was a newly-constructed building or whatever. *shrug*

I was still able to get all the waypoints, but I was really glad those clues were not more critical to the path.

I took two photos at the photo point (I now understand the tool in the app that pops up, so I was able to do it from inside the GPS Mission thing), and one of them has a tiny Easter egg in it, hee hee.)

I didn't realize how hot it was, either. I know my face is gonna be sunburned, but as I was driving home, the cool air in the car was soooo nice, and I thought, "Oh good, it's cooling off. I wonder what temp it is now."

It was 91F. Ooof. It must've cracked 100 when I was out there. I was very thirsty by the end, heh.

Anyway. There ya go. New skull. St. Louis, Vancouver, and NYC - get on it!

[Nyst]

Wilco, as soon as possible.
I'll have to enlist some help to get the proper gear, but other than that I'm ready.

Update: go for Friday

[dreamerblue]

Tweets from Eridanos:

[ironnikki]

If there were any GPS Missions in Dallas, I'd definitely be able to help. Unfortunately, there aren't, so I guess the best that I can do is just offer moral support!

As for the navpath, have we tried directing the subroutines to the pignoses in the maze? I'll give that a shot once I find a couple of the pignoses, and report if anything happens.

EDIT: It didn't look like anything happened when I entered a couple of the paths that drizjr supplied above. However, the pignoses are not links for me, so that may have something to do with it. I'll poke around in the maze some more and see if I can get them to turn yellow, then try again.

[Turducken]

I think eridanos was meaning to give us a k100, maybe we need to manipulate the picture until we find letters. Also I think the underscores mean something, I just don't know what