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[luci]

I got a new reply from Edward, but now he's sober he's no fun:

[Citizen Ed]

[luci]

[amandel]

It's party hardy time in Snow Town....updates are on the Upcoming Events calendar
Maybe Peg will get a chance to chat with Natasha Triplet at Claire Triplet's party tonight?

[luci]

[copystar]

I have been trying to suss out more info about the Librarian Code of Ethics that is mentioned a couple times on the Snow Library website.

First I mentioned that I had admired the strong stance of intellectual freedom on the Snow Library in a private email to Ruthie. I then asked if they would put the Code up on their website. That email was ignored (I know it was read because Ruthie added my short story suggestion of Bloodflowers to the list).

I then tried a different approach, taking on the name of Mrs Umbridge and writing how disgusted I was with the library's selection of such an amoral story.

Ruthie's response is now on Guestbook and it is both chilling and hilarious:
"I will toast to the small minded Mrs. Umbridge this evening. A rare and valuable sherry would be the perfect gesture. May you rest in peace. "

[luci]

[shunpak]

This morning I wrote to Edward asking for more info on the history of Snowtown.

[enaxor]

[luci]

Imbibed Edward

[nedra]

Drunk Edward is awesome - great job of drawing him out, Luci!

Looking at the pictures of the snow people's eyes, I started wondering if the patterns might correspond in some way to the dots on Clare Triplet's map of the town:



I haven't found anything yet, but it's just a thought.

[Naglfar]

Hey guys, another new player here. Hope I'm not too late to the party. Wow, that was the longest nineteen pages ever.

Looking more closely at the pattern of dots on the map, the places where dots aren't seem to indicate buildings or similar landmarks. Don't think that's been mentioned before, but I still doubt its relevance.

The patterns on the Snow People's faces are confusing. They're slightly different in the way that a child would build four snowmen and attempt to make the same pattern with rocks on each of them. And yet, despite the different patterns they all have fourteen rocks. Not sure if there's significance in the difference but I'll have to have a closer look at them. From memory, they strike me much like a line being "rolled up" at both ends, perhaps placing them in order from most to least "taut" could yield something. Or maybe I'm trouting all over the place. Again, I'll need to have a good hard look.

Now I'm done embarrassing myself, I honestly think this is as far as we'll get for now. All our contacts are insane, unhelpful, or Edward who's likely to pull his head in after letting slip like that twice. In a few days is the virtual book club, which will certainly open up contact to the half of the cast we haven't been able to talk to and probably some new characters. I guess I'll go look at source code.

[copystar]

Just a thought. I wonder if we should be taking this text from the Snow Library's homepage, *literally* :

"The spirit of Louise Hoskins lives on in her great grand-niece, Ruthie Randolph, Snow Town's Head Librarian."

[amandel]

Edward does give good gab when he's thoroughly "imbibed" & there's a major update on The Historical Society Page

ETA:Also, Peg just updated her blog with interesting news and a bit of gossip.

[Naglfar]

So the Snow People did come one at a time after all. My first suspicion would be that the apparent intruder was cursed, but if each Snow Person came to be in that way, someone would have disappeared earlier in the story to become the fourth Snow Person. It doesn't appear so, but it remains a possibility. Don't forget what Magician said, the Snow People are no Teletubbies.

Aside from that, evidence grows that the Snow People are benevolent guardians of Snow Town. The only thing wrong is their unnatural effect on the townsfolk.

And hey, Ruthie being open. Imagine that. She must be lying. She doesn't give up secrets that easily. We've been trying to get her to open up about the Snow People for a while to no avail, and what she said contradicts Magician, who I think is quite trustworthy.

Then the Song of the Bells book. What's up with the bottom left part? The letter L?

Also posted a comment on Peg's blog on a whim. Provided Fred or the Historical Society doesn't stop her from scanning the pieces of paper, it looks like time to decode stuff again. Maybe they're the same ones Private got, with the spiral and the "odd letters"? We never did learn what was on the other side of Private's piece of paper.