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Favorite Wrong Solutions?
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Favorite Wrong Solutions?

After I gave up on FBF because I couldn't find anything on the ground that clicked with Ep 8 (and not much in Ep 7), I came up with something "better."

OK, so I end Ep 5 at the corner of Ave U & Flatbush, due to Leslie Sebastian Charles & Hal Vukovich (great clue) and the Turtle & snake in the nearby playground. The British Crabs on the beach at the start of Ep 6 confirm the location (don't eat those vitamins) - there's a Vitamin Shoppe (weird british spelling) a block away.

At the end of Ep 6, the crew is united and underway. I took them to the nearest subway (Brooklyn College), which is Ave H and Flatbush. Note that the Lucky pirate lottery numbers run between 22 & 8. The 22nd letter of the alphabet is U and the 8th is H, so that seemed to confirm it.

Ep 4 clearly says go 28 furlongs (3.5 miles), which must be in a straight line, almost certain along Flatbush Ave. So if I head NNW (since SSW took me to FBF and I'd given up on that), you wind up at 7 Av & flatbush. On the way, you pass through Grand Army Plaza and note that Crothers tells you that you've gone too far. This fits the GA (General Anesthesia) and PLAZA (pirates leave any zone armed) ideas. But I don't turn around and go back. I just get on the B subway at 7th Ave.

In Ep 7, the captain states that he's seen a night like this before - that is, that he's been here before. Since the Captain took the B line through 7th Av & GA Plaza, this seems to fit. The number of the ghost knocks is 2 or 3 or 4, so take the subway to where the 2, 3 and 4 trains intersect with the B - Atlantic Ave.

Ep 8 opens with the captain emphasizing "TIMES" (I remember when TIMES was better. someTIMES you gotta do whatever it takes to get those TIMES back again). Part of The Atlantic Ave station comes up in Williamsburgh tower, one of the tallest CLOCK towers in the world.

I wind up going back along Flatbush Ave to GA Plaza, passing two dermatologists (I'm itchy with the fear). GA Plaza is a mega-armed (8 or 10) circle with a Civil War monument in the middle (You'll be CIVIL to the ghost of Crothers, ... even if ... spider legs for arms). There's also a bust of JFK that disappeared for a while (his face be falling off)

End game options:
A. Beer Volcano/Start from the ship - There's a fountain in the center of GA Plaza and there is a ship carved in the fountain. Planes head NE into LGA serve as the flying birdies. The berms around GA Plaza are 250 feet from the ship sculpture.

B. Beer Volcano=fountain. Then "give me a head start before you come to eat my brains and guts and soul." Head out of GA Plaza to the brooklyn library (brains) to Eastern Parkway. Near the first corner is a gym (guts) and a Soul food restaurant. Opposite that corner is the Mt Prospect Park, the highest (or 2nd highest pt in brooklyn), so climb up to the highest point of the ship (into the park) which is the flagpole. Then go 250 feet SW opposite the flying birdies heading to LGA. SW of the flagpole is a little strip of desserted land tucked between the library, the botanical gardens, the park and flatbush ave. When I checked it out, there was a little new age shrine set up with a hollow log (a piece of wood sticking out of my head). This seemed perfect. But no treasure. Also the wood shrine was much closer than 250 from the flagpole. It might have been 250 Crayolees, though.

These seemed to fit Ep 7 & 8 way better than FBF did. Oh well.

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:39 am

Roliasiwik
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Napolean Brandy

"I'll kiss Napolean" may have been a reference to drinking Brandy.
Kings PLAZA is on the corner of Flatbush and Ave. U
And there is also King's Liquor PLAZA on that corner.

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 12:04 pm

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