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[degravedi]

[Trailhead] Find Emma Ward

[natas]

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[notgordian]

Haha dammit...didn't see this thread -- luckily, I managed to delete my repost in time.

Story summary: Ainsley and Emma are twin sisters that run a tourist business out in Colorado. Ainsley handles the business end of things, while Emma handles the tours themselves. During one outing, one of the tourists found a "beautiful carved stone" and gave it to Emma.

Over the next week, Emma showed the following symptoms: headaches, nightmares, and multiple bouts of deja vu. The nightmares kept getting worse until a week ago, Emma dreamed of the stone carving and went to find the guy who gave it to her.

Her last post, "Can't Sleep," reads

[notgordian]

Double post for the new puzzle:

Emma's review for the product contains the following puzzle:

[amandel]

[degravedi]

[notgordian]

"Sail away while new odd / scents reek through your air" sounds highly contrived and puzzle-like...

...I also find "Pieubrecht Air" to be a suspicious name for an airline. Still, now we know Emma headed to Seattle on the 24th, presumably because that's where the guy who gave her the stone lives -- ticket says Flight 1 of 3, though, so Seattle might not be the final destination.

As an aside, the art on Yahyuk's page looks stylistically similar to the images of Emma and Ainsley -- I'm assuming we now know our meta-artist (who lives in Seattle...interesting).

[mycroft7]

i'm onboard,

also (probably) meta - the owner of yakhyuk.com was involved in artwork for an earlier game, based on the nancy drew mysteries, with a character called cody - which is also the name emma says provided her and her sister with portraits to use on their blogs

mycroft

[I Am The End Of The World]

I'm up for it.
Any idea on the ""Sail away while new odd / scents reek through your air"

[notgordian]

First letter of each word in the first line spells out "SAW NO..."

That doesn't explain what SRTYA would mean though.

[diszaster]

OoOo these are the ppl that did the Nancy Drew Dossiers! *squee*

[degravedi]

[Twiler]

I gave Ainsley Emma's address via facebook. That might help get things moving.

[mycroft7]

random thoughts on the two 'clues' to solve:

the pieubrecht air ticket is obviously a mad eup name - an anagram maybe? for example 'tube cipher'? or some other hint to a code that we can apply to the words in the other picture clue?

the sail away thing feels like an anagram, or some other encoded message. the wording is too unnatural, but unfortunately i can't spot a key to even begin to hazard a guess as to what the 'answer' is. what do people think - are we looking for an address where she's gone, the name of the person she went to meet, or maybe an email addy or online site for him?

mycroft

[Twiler]

I was wondering if the zipper at the bottom of the Boulders & Boats image might be a clue, as it doesn't seem to fit thematically. I tried running stegdetect on the image, but found nothing.