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[UPDATE] Favors for the Dead
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skywisej
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 		I got a response from Lucky this morning. Looks like response time is a little over a day now. I suppose there are a lot of people out there doing favors now.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:23 pm
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Dascrow
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 		Birthday Favor,

Hi, Don't know if this will be accepted or not, my guess is yes, but the birthday challange reads:

Did you know Sam Ligaya got killed on his birthday? A hell of a thing. Blow out your candles and say good night. Show me the tombstone of someone who died on his or her birthday—just like Sam did.

Nowhere does it say that you have to personally find one in a graveyard. Searching online for people who died on their birthday yeilded a small list, google image provided the proof. I use the ever popular vice-president Levi Morton. Good luck

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 		You'll have to let us know - that doesn't seem very "Live" and it is under "Live Events" on our profiles. I think part of the point is to get us out from behind the computer. *chuckle*
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 		Birthday Favor - Found Nanette Mayer in Bellefontaine who died on her 65th Birthday (Jan 5th).

The Banker Favor - Found Maurice Breed and left my offering.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:20 pm
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konamouse
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 		New favors for the dead are up:

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You remember I made up Tombstone Hold 'Em for Jerry, right? Wanted to take his mind off everything that happened in Nuremberg. If you were wondering, Jerry went home, got a college degree on the GI Bill and married a nice girl from Duluth.

We never did find out what happened to Mitzi.

In honor of Jerry and his cabaret girl, show me you and at least three friends playing tombstone hold 'em in a cemetery near you. Everyone who plays with you can claim this mission.

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subject: Mitzi and Jerry


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This one's for Johnnie Whitecloud. Show me the grave of someone born on October 19, 1945 -- exactly one day after he died. Think there's any chance his spirit was passing on?

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subject: reincarnation


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For the secret agent. Pick a tombstone with an unusual epitaph or a lot of symbols on it. Show me how it might actually be a code, and what the encrypted message might be….

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subject: secret message


Also, three new cemeteries:

Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona
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They called it that because the people buried there died with their boots on. In case you were wondering…

X=Easternmost to Westernmost

Y=South to North

No dead-reckoning on this, just a little game of connect the dots.

X=Easternmost to Westernmost

Y=Southernmost to Northernmost

X-Y

1-1
2-8
3-27
4-5
2-25
8-3
6-4
6-22
4-9
6-16
6-13
2-13
7-9
3-1
8-7
2-1
6-26
2-20
3-3
6-8
Now, some of these dots, you have to forget about. Anyone who died in a stampede, or by suicide, or who got stabbed, or lynched by a mob, or crushed by a wagon, or who got shot up with exactly four bullets, no less and no more—ignore all of 'em. And anyone who died getting shot by his own damn horse, or by falling off stilts, or down a mine, or off a cliff, you can ignore them too.

Connect the rest of the dots you've got left over in alphabetical order—go by just the last names on the stones. Turn it 180 and take a good look.

SHOW ME: You and any friends you brought with you honoring the one who got shot by his horse. I like his epitaph the best of 'em all.
TELL ME: What instrument of death the connected dots form.
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subject: Tombstone
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
(falling off stilts)


Oakwood Cemetery - Austin, Texas
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I was in this game one time… Pretty, flirty gal from Seattle on my left, rangy weather-beaten Texan on my right. This gal, she's got enough natural resources to be protected by the Sierra Club, and she's left her top shirt button undone accidentally-on-purpose, and just when you're thinking about your cards she maybe leans forward and laughs…

Come a time there's a fat pot on the table, it's down to her and Texas, and she's biting her lip trying to decide if she should risk her bet, and she gives him a smile that would shuck the sealskins off an Eskimo, and she asks him all flirty whether he thinks she ought to risk it.

Texas looks over at her and says, "Missy, you can kiss my ass till my hat pops off, but it won't save you one thin dime."

Thought I'd about die from laughing….

Enter from Comal St. Park anywhere and continue on foot in a westerly direction. Turn right at the third crossroads, and then start looking to your right for the glass-enclosed man climbing to heaven with the help of his friends. Note his first name.
Backtrack to the road you came in on, and turn right. Head in a westerly direction and then turn right at the fourth crossroads. Continue for about 50-60 feet, then turn left into the trees. Look for the pair of ravens, and find the one who lived 77 years and 26 days. Note his first name.
Stand still and look for the clouds. You'll be able to see them despite the trees. Note the first name of the cloud who died in 1901.
Head east until you hit a path, then follow that path south as far as it takes you. At that point, turn left and follow the path for about 150 yards until you come to a small canal. Don't cross it, but turn left into the trees. Look for a metal weaved frame cross marking the grave of someone who died in 1879. Note her last name.
Return to the clouds and take note of the middle name of the cloud you noted before. Sorry, I'm a little forgetful.
Retrace your way south to the path along the southern boundary of the cemetery. Turn left, following the path east again, until you see the multiple fire hydrants. There are many who served their community here. Note the last name of the one who's life spanned from 1875-1939.
Time to find my kin. Make your way back to the road you came in on, then turn east and continue on, looking for three crosses lying on their backs. Note the initial of the person who fell asleep in 1910.
Now, if you handled that all right:

SHOW ME: You and any friends helping Hamilton on his climb.
TELL ME: Something that you should never make at a poker table (using the names you noted).
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subject: Oakwood


Westminster Abbey - London, England
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There's a little chapel outside the Abbey—St. Mary's, maybe? Can't remember. Anyway, it's got beautiful old stained glass down one side of windows, and modern abstract stained glass down the other. Last time I was in London, I heard this couple of tourists in front of me wondering why in the world it was like that.

And I wanted to slap their fool heads together. I wanted the air raid sirens to go off, right then, and have those idiots turn white and panic while the V1s came screaming down, the smell of gunpowder and burnt dirt everywhere, their smug tourist ears ringing from bomb blasts.

I can still remember the girl I crammed next to in a London bomb shelter one night, the smell of her hair, the taste of my cigarettes on her mouth. The ground rocking with the thud of falling bombs. Later, the usual spot fires burning all over town, me and her pitching in, helping out the bucket brigade while I was still tucking my uniform shirt into my pants.

We are the dead, and maybe nobody gives a good god damn anymore. But you're all I've got, so to you from failing hands I pass the torch…

Pay your respects to eight tombs.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Listen

Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

Listen

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Listen

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
SHOW ME: You and any friends, in the Cloisters, making a special house of cards. Lay out 8 poker cards, one for each of the tombs you visited. Use an Ace for the first, a two for the second, and so on. Lay out the cards like a rough and ready map, showing me where the tombs you found are in relation to one another.
TELL ME: Whose tomb each card represents.
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subject: Westminster Abbey

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 		I totally need to find friends around here...
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:12 am
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This one's for Johnnie Whitecloud. Show me the grave of someone born on October 19, 1945 -- exactly one day after he died. Think there's any chance his spirit was passing on?

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subject: reincarnation


This one is hard - at least, in the little town I'm in. Based on the records I have access to online, no one born on that date has died and been buried nearby. Of course, not all the records are online so I guess I'll have to go out of the house and check city records or something. The odds of stumbling across one by accident can't be very high.

At least, I think I can manage to talk my wife and two others into playing some tombstone poker.
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 		That one is hard. My own mother and father were born in 1943 and 1944, respectively.
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 		I managed to find one for johnnie whitecloud by talking to a caretaker at the local cemetery. He showed me record books with all the dates of birth, and I found one who fit. Poor guy died at only age 21. Anyway, the grave marker itself only had the year, not the day. So I really never would have found it on my own. I'm hoping the lack of full photographic proof is ok for Lucky.

So if you're in a relatively new (20th century) cemetery like this one with solid records, it might be worth asking around.
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 		I found one 30 miles out of town in the middle of nowhere Mississippi. Razz I may or may not go out there. I have a few contacts I can try locally - they're working on a book about local county cemeteries so they should have some good records.
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thunderclap8 wrote:
He showed me record books with all the dates of birth, and I found one who fit. Poor guy died at only age 21. Anyway, the grave marker itself only had the year, not the day. So I really never would have found it on my own. I'm hoping the lack of full photographic proof is ok for Lucky.


Could you get a pic of the record book to go with the pic of the grave marker? Surely that would be proof enough.
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Shocked

Here's one that caught my eye. Interred in Maryland. I suppose you could just send in the pic on find-a-grave but that would be cheating. Smile
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thunderclap8
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Could you get a pic of the record book to go with the pic of the grave marker? Surely that would be proof enough.


Unfortunately I didn't think of that while there, as I assumed the grave marker would match the book. By the time I found the grave I didn't have time before work to run back to the book.

Ah well, did my best.
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 		Anybody in the Portland area wanna get together for the Mitzi and Jerry one?

Edit: Hey, guess what? John Lithgow is Johnny Whitecloud reincarnated! He was born Oct 19, 1945. Man, this is going to be a tough favor. It's a specific date and the person would have had to die relatively young.
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 		If we go to a live event, can we take a picture there and use it for Mitzi and Jerry?
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