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[Seadevil4]

Email from Zea

[surprise sex zella]

[mathews512]

Not sure if it matters, or if it's been mentioned...but it appears P. Shelley authored a poem entitled "To Wordsworth", possibly upon Wordsworth's death... http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/679/

Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know
That things depart which never may return:
Childhood and youth, friendship, and love's first glow,
Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.
These common woes I feel. One loss is mine
Which thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore.
Thou wert as a lone star whose light did shine
On some frail bark in winter's midnight roar:
Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood
Above the blind and battling multitude:
In honoured poverty thy voice did weave
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.
Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,
Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be.


edited to include poem text

[cherrytree98765]

So I kinda got snuffed on my first email....I emailed again to see if I could squeeze in here if I do have the time.

I sent in a few of my own thoughts probably nothing nobody else thought of so I won't include them here.

[FuzzyGoodle]

While all the research and stuff you guys are doing into various people and poems and stuff is really cool and interesting, I think we are over-complicating it.

Not only have we been given ciphertext and a key, but we've also been told on multiple occasion to focus on that code alone - no outside research or crazy connections required. We've also been told that the combination for the lock is directly related to the code, so I think we should stop getting ahead of ourselves and guessing random 4 letter words.

Now, Zea refers to the code as "the jumble of letters in the Wordsworth poem." I can't see what that would be besides "TERTITHSEN" or "ERTITHSEN."

The fact that there was a confederate flag in the attic led me to research confederate codes. There was one, but I think it was just a Vigenere cipher. That would fit with the fact that there is a key, but I just get gibberish if I try it...

I haven't actually contacted or been contacted by Zea, but I think now would be a good time to send her an email...

[Ampyre]

ERTITHSEN

I'm just thinking out loud here, but sleeping flowers was underlined in the original text. Mulling over the poem I thought maybe LILY would be the code. However in the poem the list of flowers are as follows: "Daisy, Leontodon, Iris, Sir, Aster, Anemone, Bell, Batschia, Daffodil, Rhodera, Epigea."

So time for crazy thoughts: remove all leading letters from the cipher and we get T, H, N, T, and E, which doesn't really help. Doing the opposite leaves us with R, E, S, I which I interpreted earlier as Tenth Rise or Tenth Sire, but a third option, IRES, perhaps an intentional mispelling of iris, catches my attention. I'm thinking it might stand for something, these letters.

Take out the letters from the flower list and you're left with Anemone, Bell, Daisy, Daffodil, And Batschia. Perhaps BELL might be it.

[surprise sex zella]

while i have no doubt that we are over complecating things. I do not think any of us are just randomly guessing four letter words.

however when i think of four letters, flowers and romance
I personaly think 'rose'

but i dont think rose has any kind of link to thirteens

[Seadevil4]

Posting for Cherrytree

[surprise sex zella]

Ah! I wouldn't expect anything other from Cherrytree then awesome initiative!.
Nice work.

[cherrytree98765]

Seems I have to use IE for the moment to post.

Awh. Your going to make me blush. In all seriousness it was mostly luck that I saw the poem and the publish date.

I"m still trying to digest the poem (It's a big one) Here's a link for those interested: http://www.bartleby.com/139/shel111.html

Besides Soul nothing else strikes me as a good answer. (Plenty of four letter locations)

Just in case I also explained my logic so I'm hoping for some crumbs telling me if I found the right poem or not if the word doesn't work out.

[spoonhead99]

I offered up "mzmz" being the 13th and 26th letters of the alphabet.

I also asked to confirm if the tumblers each had a full 26 letters each since the vintage example in the photo can only have space for 10-12 letters per tumbler.

[surprise sex zella]

I think maybe using numbers for letters is a pretty good idea.
I'm going to keep looking for any interesting numbers.

[MrToasty]

WTG Amandel!

[amandel]

Sweet Atlanta. Normally, I don't lurk 'tho I have here b/c y'all make the most interesting comments. *doing the happy dance* for more news here & on the blog!

[spoonhead99]

And today's award for thinking sideways goes to........