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Sylocat

Negative for Blue (DWNWNYEA) and Blar, the Icelandic word for Blue (DWNWNAAW).

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:11 pm

Sylocat

And that leaves me fresh out of ideas.

So, do we just need to wait to be spoon-fed the answer again?

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:30 pm

mmm · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 82

i tried all the names of the icelandic sagas with five or less letters. The librarian at my school is actually from iceland, so I'm going to ask her if she knows a specific one where a ship didn't get smashed up...

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:01 pm

Capitan_Barbossa · Veteran Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 98

I bet the captain has heard some worthy sea stories and may give Mark rthe answer.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:11 pm

Sylocat

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:30 pm

Cataclysmic V

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:52 pm

Cataclysmic V

Apparently, there are many more pawns than we originally thought. The new update has a letter from the "Grey Pawn 48�" A contact in Africa. Reference at the top of the letter to the IOOP. Also a note at the bottom from Mark "Is this who I think it is?" An arrow to the signature. Tangiers?
Also, there is a new recording. It's an interview with one Lex Harlan about Quain (er... Lutwidge). Talks about Grey Pawns, Blue Pawns, Yellow Pawns, etc... What the hell is going on here?

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:27 pm

Cataclysmic V

On the topic of the solution, I found a link to 7 Icelandic Short Stories (the tales they tell). Maybe we'll find our name here? I have yet to read them all, as I'm in class, but I've got a feelin about this one. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5603

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:50 pm

Sylocat

L.W.S. presumably stands for "Lee Wilson Seward," the name that Lex Harlan was talking about on the new tape.

In the letter, he says "Fastest to contact me via my N.Y. Publisher." Another author, perhaps? He sounds pretty well-known. I assume Mark will know who he is.

**Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:35 pm

Sylocat

Well, LWS seems to be relatively well-known, given that Lex Harlan actually had trouble believing that a caller was him. He's in Tangiers (or was, in 1958), is/was having health and legal problems, and did not much care for Lynch...

**Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:14 am

JustAKitten

I am hopelessly behind on this, so I have nothing useful to volunteer. NaNoWriMo and other projects stole my soul away... but... it's fun to try and keep up here! Keep up the good work, guys!!! I bow to your superior attention spans and intellect! Very Happy

(and I used to post on here a million years ago, it seems like, but my email for that account was hacked, so I did away with old stuff, and in with the new. Laughing

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**Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:52 am

MickeyG42 · Boot Joined: 19 Jun 2009 Posts: 60

**Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:50 am

Sylocat

Meager update today... just a message on the radio, and I guess that's it for another weekend.

EDIT: Oh my... but what a message.

**Posted:** Fri Dec 04, 2009 9:27 pm

ForceFeed · Greenhorn Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 5

is it possible that the message is significant? "Mark dear boy, are you out there somewhere? Jeremiah Lynch here! I- I- I do hope you've received the little postcard I've dispatched to several of your friends. I assume you've been getting all the information you need for the puzzles - eh, because you see, Mark; we need each other, you and I, if we're ever to uncover the marvelous secrets of Orrin Lutwidge. I've been a silent partner, all along you know. Well then, If you'll be seeking - I'll be hiding! Olly olly oxen free! Haaa hahahaha! Best of luck Mark! Oh boy yes, be- best of luck!"

lynch did help with one of his phone messages in phase 2 by singing the drunken sailor song. maybe this is some how relavent? just a stab in the dark.

or maybe its about lynch hiding on the boat as the captain? cuz there was no reason to say olly olly oxen free. and the cargo of plaster budda's are possibly containing supplies for when they get to rapture?

**Posted:** Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:15 am

Cataclysmic V

**Posted:** Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:50 pm