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**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:46 pm

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LatentMoths · Unfettered Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:31 pm

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cherrytree98765 · Entrenched Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

@LatentMoths: My first email never got a response either. I had to email a second time for any response. I'm not sure if it was technical problems or what. At least it wasn't just me.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:43 pm

Seadevil4

Email from Zea

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:00 pm

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cherrytree98765 · Entrenched Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

New blog post:

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:50 pm

emato

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:42 pm

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cherrytree98765 · Entrenched Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

Good job emato. I emailed Zeta a little while back with the decryption. The only comment I have about the cipher is that Mary Shelley was never buried where she wished too:

**Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:45 pm

LatentMoths · Unfettered Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:18 am

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spoonhead99

Given the current themes and no surname on the grave, there is also Mary Shelley's mother Mary Wollstonecraft who according to Wikipedia

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:26 am

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cherrytree98765 · Entrenched Joined: 09 Dec 2008 Posts: 849

Well I can finally post again. I almost wasn't even able to post on IE anymore.

Anyways Zea emailed me back:

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:39 am

spoonhead99

I am starting to wonder whether the romantic poetry is just poetry.

We have the date on the headstone of 1863, the second confederate navy jack in the trunk which was originally in use from 1863 - 1865 and from the letter to Mary

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:06 pm

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Zobot257

Hey, not much to add that others haven't figured put first, but I DID get an interesting email yesterday from our hostess. I asked her how she came to her new home and she said:

"You are the first person to ask me how I came to be in this house.

It's a very interesting story and I'm not really sure how to tell it. It's like a dream, except that I know that I'm awake.

Ok, it's like this. It's like my real life is a remembered dream, and my new life is like a dream, but feels real, like I'm awake.

Does that make sense? I may be rambling...

Thank you so much for writing to me. Please write again.

Yours,
Z

From: David Toboz <rilian257>
To: Zea Bea <imzea>
Sent: Tuesday, July 3, 2012 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Seventeen Rooms

I understand. It is very nice to meet you! You said you have a mystery on your hands, eh? I love mysteries!

Did you come across the house recently?"

Which is intriguing, I may press her for more info...

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:23 pm

Seadevil4

Just the messenger again Wink

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:56 pm

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emato

For those not following on Twitter, Zea posted some lines from the Emily Dickinson poem, After great pain, a formal feeling comes.

The lines were: (each a separate tweet)
This is the Hour of Lead
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow �
First � Chill � then Stupor � then the letting go �

From the poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177118

Also it seems Beaststriker tweeted about it to her.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:33 pm

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Billy Brown · Decorated Joined: 18 Dec 2004 Posts: 196

This looks like fun. I've emailed Z with a few questions and will post if I get a response. Some (likely insubstantial) observations:

There hasn't been a great deal of the letter from Leo Verit. That name is an anagram of 'overt lie' (among other things, admittedly) -- it could be that he's not to be trusted, especially as he contradicts Z at many points in his letter.
Z mentioned meeting somebody called 'G' on Twitter. The post was made on 4th July and mentioned that it was G's birthday. I've looked at famous births/deaths for 4th July but nobody leaps out as obviously being the relevant G here. The only possibility is a time zone difference (I'm in the UK) so I'll check the 3rd and 5th July just in case.
From trying to find significance in the silver rattle for 'Louis', I found a page that mentions that Robert Louis Stevenson was close with Sir Percy Florence Shelley, son of PBS and Mary Shelley -- going so far as to jokingly suggest that Shelley had been 'reborn' as RLS. Probably too tenuous to be a real link but thought I'd mention it just in case.
Z mentioned two letters in her opening blog post but only posted the contents of one. I've asked her about the other one -- again, I'll report back if anything comes of it.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:02 pm