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Macavity
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 883 Location: UNSC Comm Relay Station Alpha, West Shokan, NY
[DESCRY] [Item/Mail] Envelope with photograph inside It's apparently from Kevin . . . Well, I just checked the mail a few minutes ago, and amongst the (very few) items, there was an envelope addressed not to me, but to the house where I live (i.e., there was no name on the envelope, just a street address).
The return address was:
Kevin
PO Box 312
Clear Creek, IN 47426
Inside, I found a photograph of the four jacks from a pack of cards. From closest to furthest away, they were:
Jack of Spades
Jack of Clubs
Jack of Hearts
Jack of Diamonds
On the back is the following:
LIZ
Blamed for
and what looks like some Braille.
I've uploaded a couple pictures I took of the photograph and its back. I don't have so I'm afraid the supposed Braille doesn't show up too well (if it shows up at all!)
I've also emailed Kevin about this mysterious picture. Hopefully he'll get back to me on what it's all about (provided he knows anything about it . . . )
I'm going to print out the Braille alphabet and see if I can decode the pattern on the back.
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. . . and the back.
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:23 pm
ALISDAIRPARK
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Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 1646 Location: Everywhere else
at a guess the four jacks represent the four that were released. Liz is someone new, although we've had a couple of female characters referenced. Can't see the braille so will wait for your translation. I'm a UK player so don't get any physical stuff days after the US.
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:59 pm
RedHatty
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Joined: 08 May 2006 Posts: 1428 Location: x¡Jyœ–‹˜VJvk
I got one too, but mine is a picture of Tower (?) Bridge
Back is the same, mailing addy the same, posting front & back
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:03 pm
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LatentMoths
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Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 523 Location: Texas
Here's mine. ETA: No braille on mine by the way...
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:46 pm
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Olly
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Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Bristol, UK.
ALISDAIRPARK wrote:
I'm a UK player so don't get any physical stuff days after the US.
Same here
Hopefully, it won't be long though!
If you're unable to translate the braile, perhaps you should go to a place for blind people, and ask them to translate it?
That's what I'm going to do
ilikepucks wrote:
Here's mine. ETA: No braille on mine by the way...
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:51 pm
RedHatty
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I don't think it's braille, there are WAY too many dots for braille lettering
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:08 pm
Olly
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RedHatty wrote:
I don't think it's braille, there are WAY too many dots for braille lettering
Well, if you're right, maybe it's morse code?
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:16 pm
gandalf112
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Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 13
I also received one. It's the same picture as ilikepucks', but mine has the "LIZ Blamed for" along with the dots around the words.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:22 pm
wraith64
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Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 2
I too received the picture of Tower Bridge however, on the back it reads;
The men That.
My scanner isn't hooked up at the moment so I can't submit a photo of it.
Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:24 pm
RedHatty
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Olly, maybe, but I cannot see a clear dot dash pattern in it.
As for braille, here is a good pic of the alphabet as well as special codes for different letter combinations
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Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:30 pm
Macavity
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 883 Location: UNSC Comm Relay Station Alpha, West Shokan, NY
I just took a closer look at the back, and I don't think the dots are Braille after all - or if it is Braille, it's not standard braille.
My main reason for reassessing the dot code is that some of the characters (if characters they are) use an eight -dot cell, whereas standard Braille uses a six -dot cell.
Code:
Standard Braille:
+ ++ + ++ +
+ + +
+
I D K F A
A fragment from the back of the photograph (just above the L in LIZ):
++
+ + ++ +
++ ++ ++
++
It might be a more esoteric form of Braille - there are forms of Braille that use eight-dot cells, but the only ones I've read about are DotsPlus (which is mainly used for mathematical stuff) and Cyrillic braille - but I doubt it.
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:59 pm
RedHatty
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I can't read the newspaper without glasses - i don't even want to think about this little dot stuff! But if anyone is braving this challenge, 8 Dot Braille has the pics
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 10:13 pm
goancrow
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Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 4 Location: North Of England
I recieved the same photograph of the four playing cards Jacks as Macavity however my message reads
The men
That
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:19 am
Olly
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Joined: 06 Nov 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Bristol, UK.
Just received mine.
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Front of the photograph - Looks like a church.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:21 am
tallerbird
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Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Birmingham,UK
i got a picture in the post today. On the front is Tower Bridge but on the back its says:
ANNIE
Will be
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:29 pm
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