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[girlwhoruledtheworld]

In image one, the boxes in the Decode section look like morse code close up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

[allychi]

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[BubbleBoy]

If it was morse code the totals would be divisible by 8.

[inkflamewriter]

[mrmiffmiff]

And I am now an Observer. *freddiemercurysuccesspose*

[britni.irene]

The First Additional Observer

[spoonhead99]

If we read the ae in DAEIL is æ then it comes down to four letters to match the rest.

Break each group of four letters into two groups of two then each pair of letters undergoes a transformation depending on if they line up with a dash or dots.

As to what the transformations could be I haven't found it yet.

Hmmm!

[Rayfe]

Both of you guys are correct in your observation (see what I did there).. when I first received the puzzle a couple weeks ago, this was my first approach, dividing the letters into the appropriate sectioned layouts, but I didn't come up with any leads. I did try several different layouts rotating the letters around in unison and also tried rotating the blocks (sort of going of the rotation of the Golden Ratio). I have a very long text file with probably 15 different variations of this approach, but it wouldn't make much sense to anyone just by looking at it lol.

This was the first layout I sent to my Observer and other Traveler a couple weeks ago.




One thing to take note of is how the first block of text have a lot of the same letters as the block of letters the courier wrote on the portrait page, as well as the second block of letters... it's almost as if you could merge many of the rows of letters based on the same letters they share in the same order... but again, there's no lead from this either.. just more speculation.

And with the morse code, I also looked at, but when I saw the letter representation (D, H, M, U), nothing jumped out at me.. so I moved on. I worked this one quite a bit as soon as I got it, but I haven't really had any time to look at it in the last week or so.

[Atemys]

I got a "welcome, observer" email reply too

[Rayfe]

Just to add another dead end theory here.. After girlwhoruledtheworld brought up morse code again, I decided to go back and look at it all again with a fresh mind.

I pointed out earlier that the 4 different block types broken into morse code would give you the letters D M H and U. I couldn't think of how these could apply before, but this time around they jumped out at me as..

D = days H = hours M = minutes and U could maybe represent UTC for determining precise timezone discrepancy. So I thought the blocks and the letters could be two separate puzzles.. the blocks being a single or multiple times and the letters being an explanation or keyword as to what the time was pointing to.

But again it was kind of a dead end as there are a lot of D's H's M's and U's... back to the drawing board...

[Rayfe]

Ok, so after a few weeks of overcomplicating things and hitting a lot of dead ends, we finally cracked the puzzle. If you're still interested, you can find the answer in my blog update.

http://wp.me/p2pYLR-z