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whitellama
Boot

Joined: 18 Feb 2011
Posts: 21

XD I already said that.

I also got an email back from Ruthie talking about the map I requested!

Quote:

Dear Travis,

I believe I was just listening to your voicemail. Nice to meet you. Welcome to the Snow Town Library.

I invite you to join our virtual Book Club. Please keep an eye on the Snow Town Library Home Page for upcoming information. Until then, feel free to send along your suggestions for the Book Club. We are looking for short story titles.

Due to the many requests for a map of Snow Town, I will have Edward Harmon post a map to the new Historical Society page on our website. Edward promises to have a map up for you tomorrow.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Ruthie Randolph
Head Librarian
Snow Town Library

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:57 pm

luci
Veteran

Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 103

Re: reply

Laguz wrote:

any suggestions for answering? I am considering trying to play the role of an orphan with a possible relative in snowtown... that i just felt drawn to snowtown.

Ah, so the Haynes are the third of the founding families!

How about you pretend to be a long lost ancestor along the Haynes side, your mother's side (hence why you have a different last name), and she never told you much before she passed away so you'd like more information.

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:18 pm

crome
Greenhorn

Joined: 20 Feb 2011
Posts: 7

whitellama wrote:

enaxor wrote:

Two posters on Peg's blog cracked the
Just a reminder, there's a chat room set up for #snowtown

Haha, I've never understood how to work an IRC client or how IRC channels work or anything but maybe I'll try to figure this out then.

And I'm still sort of interested how the message was actually deciphered... So if anyone knows more about that I'm interested in hearing.

I'll upload a JPG of my solution. It's messy though!

Edit

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

To explain what's going on here, I started by sorting out the notes without any symbols, They just so happed to be the main "chorus" of the song, I then color coded all the identical words so I could easily swap them in and out. Eventually I found the right combonation with the aid of this website! http://www.soundexp.com/history-of-love-songs-1

Here's the finished product.
http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h445/Paul_Young/GreenSleeves.jpg

For anyone wanting to do this on their own, I highly suggest finding a the best copy of the lyrics you can, I spend a good hour messing around with a different version of the lyrics, Wondering why I was getting gobldygook from my pigpen =/

After that all you do is take each of the symbols at the bottom and decrypt them using example 2 on this website Smile

http://www.purplehell.com/riddletools/pigpen.htm

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:23 pm
Last edited by crome on Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:53 pm; edited 2 times in total

somniate
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Joined: 22 Jan 2011
Posts: 78

Got an email from Ruthie!

Quote:

Dear Melinda,

I am happy to send along a reading recommendation. What sort of books do you like to read?

The Snow Town Library invites you to join the new virtual Book Club.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Ruthie Randolph
Head Librarian
Snow Town Library

Maybe if I get her talking about books, we can get somewhere...? Yes, no?

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:40 pm

luci
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Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 103

book club

whitellama wrote:

I got an email back from Ruthie

Quote:

feel free to send along your suggestions for the Book Club. We are looking for short story titles.

I think this is important - we need to send in the correct short story title.

I've sent in the suggestions:
- The Wisdom of Solomon (aka Book of Wisdom)
- The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott
- The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
- Land of the Williwaws by M.I. Ross

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:53 pm

daendil
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Joined: 02 Sep 2010
Posts: 116
Location: Cornfields

Diving In....

....to my first ARG.

Signed the guestbook and sent a few short story suggestions to Ruthie. Oh lord, what have I done??? Wink

Of course, I did this before reading everything here first. Doh! Time to play catchup....mayhaps the reading will help to still my shaking hands and pounding heartbeat!

Glad to be on board! (I think)

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:07 pm

Zobot257
Entrenched

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Posts: 805
Location: Wandering...

Ruthie's response

A bit of a disappointing response to my message to Ruthie:

Quote:

Dear David,

I invite you to come into the library. Someone on our volunteer staff will show you around. Our staff is more than happy to answer your questions. Until then, please read our website's Home Page. It is an excellent resource for the casual visitor.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Ruthie Randolph
Head Librarian
Snow Town Library

I asked about the history of the library, and she seemed pretty closed mouthed about it. But it seems like there's a volunteer staff there, so there must be a lot of loyalty. Maybe it's her way of telling me I'm barking up a wrong tree?

Any thoughts on Peg's mounds?[/quote]

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:40 pm

jotadinero
Boot

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Posts: 48

Peg has posted a new entry on snowtown.me

Apparently there's 4 snow mounds around Snow Town now.

Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:57 pm

luci
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Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 103

Re: Ruthie's response

Zobot257 wrote:

A bit of a disappointing response to my message to Ruthie. I asked about the history of the library, and she seemed pretty closed mouthed about it. Maybe it's her way of telling me I'm barking up a wrong tree?

It looks like a form response - it might be what they send out when they don't have time to answer in a personalised manner. They must be getting bombarded with emails right now!

On the other hand, perhaps we've missed something on the home page that she wants us to specifically look at?

She has said that Edward from the Historical Society would upload a map, so perhaps that will answer some of the questions you asked Ruthie once it goes up.

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:00 am

crome
Greenhorn

Joined: 20 Feb 2011
Posts: 7

The howl page has been updated

Quote:

*Someone from Snow Town, or from your community, attempted to post the following mysterious message onto the Snow Town Library Guestbook: "If I enter the path north of the Snow Town meeting hall will it take me to the edge of the lake? And if so, what would I find there six days after the full moon?" I deleted it. I am curious. Does anyone know what this message means? Does anyone know someone named Denny? Or maybe it is an alias? If you have any information about this message, I would like to hear from you.*

I sent PrivateSnow an email detailing the meaning of this message.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

In response to the updated HOWL page, some skilled player from our community found a hidden message in the notes fred left in a basket for peg to solve http://www.snowtown.me/?p=237

With a little re-arranging, The note turn out to be 3 verses from "Green sleves", Here you can see them in order.

http://i1110.photobucket.com/albums/h445/Paul_Young/GreenSleeves.jpg

After taking each of the symbols at the bottom and using a technique known as a "pig cypher" to decode it, We discovered the following hidden message.

"Enter the path north of snow town meeting hall. You will find me near the edge of the lake six days after the full moon"

It's a little hard to tell, But that's either the 24'th or 25th.

I originally assumed this was a message from you, But judging from your surprise, It seem's you knew nothing about it, I would love to hear your thoughts on the matter. Would you be willing to go down to the lake on these dates?

I also sent an email to Ruthie asking about an online library card application, This was the response.

Quote:

Dear Paul,

Please come by the library tomorrow. Edward or Molly would be happy to help you.

I'm afraid The Lady of the Lake is not available. You will find our library is filled with other wonderful books. Edward is a big fan of the narrative poem. He should be able to find something to your liking.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Ruthie Randolph
Head Librarian
Snow Town Library

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:03 am
Last edited by crome on Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:36 am; edited 2 times in total

jotadinero
Boot

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Posts: 48

crome wrote:

The howl page has been updated

Quote:

I sent PrivateSnow an email detailing the meaning of this message.

Quote:

I also sent an email to Ruthie asking about an online library card application, This was the response.

Quote:

That means that PrivateSnow has admin abilities on snowtownlibrary.org

Logically, that means PS is someone who works at the library.
I'm curious if it could be Edward?

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:14 am

luci
Veteran

Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 103

jotadinero wrote:

That means that PrivateSnow has admin abilities on snowtownlibrary.org Logically, that means PS is someone who works at the library. I'm curious if it could be Edward?

We already know Private has admin privileges due to Howl and Spiral webspages off the library site. Could be Edward, but could also be a few others - here's a prior post with a list of characters that includes their relationship as far as we know to the library http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=809698#809698

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:29 am

Zobot257
Entrenched

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Posts: 805
Location: Wandering...

luci wrote:

jotadinero wrote:

That means that PrivateSnow has admin abilities on snowtownlibrary.org Logically, that means PS is someone who works at the library. I'm curious if it could be Edward?

Wait, What's the Spiral webpage? I haven't seen it yet! Please can I see it?

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:49 am

jotadinero
Boot

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Posts: 48

Zobot257 wrote:

luci wrote:

jotadinero wrote:

That means that PrivateSnow has admin abilities on snowtownlibrary.org Logically, that means PS is someone who works at the library. I'm curious if it could be Edward?

Wait, What's the Spiral webpage? I haven't seen it yet! Please can I see it?

Yes, I haven't seen this page either..

Haha I hadn't even thought that PrivateSnow was an admin, regardless of the howl page. I imagined him/her as some sort of hacker. Doesn't really fit the motif of the game though.. Thanks for clearing that up.

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:51 am

luci
Veteran

Joined: 07 Mar 2010
Posts: 103

Zobot257 wrote:

Wait, What's the Spiral webpage? I haven't seen it yet! Please can I see it?

Refer to this post by exenor - the webpage link is in the spoiler box http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=809530#809530

Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:57 am

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