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[ccl28]

I think I've figure out the lottery #'s from ep6 and the compass from ep5. I'm trying to work my way backwards to fill in the blanks in episode 3. I think this is important to figure out what the overall picture is.

From what I can tell so far, at the start of episode 3, they're already split up. For this episode and the 5th episode, each clue applies to the location of a specific member of the crew. In ep3, when they are shown on a line color, they're on that line and the clue should be used in that context. This is working well so far. Although, Crothers is tricky as he doesn't give you a lot to go on in ep 3.

One of the big missing clues is Black Tom's Star. I think he is indicating stars on shoulder boards (military). Dekalb was a major general, which is technically two stars. A captain is one star (navy). Either he's at Dekalb, or at the Captain's location (which is also Dekalb at this point).

The missing pieces I have left now are:

1) spectacles - this is important to show you where Crothers is starting in ep. 3

2) The whole Captain/Crothers hat lighting sequence. It's fairly long, so it seems important. My last thinking was something to do with a fire captain, but that ran out of steam.

I didn't see any ideas on these out there, at least not ones that follow the Dekalb route.

[merelyviral]

From Ep. 6 "My throwing stars have no effect" - I interpret that to mean that the throwing star in ep. 3 is not a clue.

As for the hat lighting sequence... I put that in the category of "Crothers losing something", which usually has a fair-sized chunk devoted to it in each episode. I've treated those as episode-ordering clues, not path-defining clues.

I used to like the splitting up theory, but I never found any real evidence for it. So far, everything you've posted confirms that the B line makes sense (which I'm pretty sure is correct), but I guess you're holding back the juicy stuff


oh, something random I came up with the other day... from Ep.6 "My blade shall singe like Nobunaga Fire". Interesting choice of wording, since "singe" is actually French for monkey. Napoleon is another French reference.

[ccl28]

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[ccl28]

Had to backtrack into ep 3 again to fine tune the paths. I have Tom's path through ep5.

The Captain is on the B train and Mulligan is on the D train. I get this from:

Capt: "... FORKed journalistic tongue ..."
Mul: "Aye and that's RIGHT..."

There is a fork on the orange line and Mulligan goes right. This is further reinforced by the Captain and Mulligan 's news feeds trading places. In the end, the Captain is on the left and Mulligan is on the right.

There is still a question of whether Crothers is on the N or the Q (he's not on the R because he ends up in Coney Island). I think he has to be on the Q because the Captain is able to set his head on fire, so he must be really close.

I believe Mulligan's spectacles/face glasses reference is Times Square (a watch face is made of glass). It looked like the Q didn't stop there, but I found out that it does.

I tried to figure out exactly where Tom hops the blue line. The think Mario gives a clue to their location when he says "We're like the Hardy Boys." The Hardy Boys are Frank and Joe, but I can't match that to anything. I think this is unimportant and I'm just going to assume that Tom ninjas over to the blue line when it crosses the yellow.

[ccl28]

parrot's path

[mikeGuest]

Not to convolute things further

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