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[notgordian]

Two possible answers, but I think Wang's is right because of the causeway.

The last station in Savannah, it appears, is the Savannah Port Terminal Railroad. Directly East of this station is Hutchinson Island....I just haven't found a nearby causeway (or a decent definition of the word, for that matter).


Since this is on page 2, here's Wang's answer again...I'm betting it's right.
Brunswick.

There's also a Low-Density Endpoint that fit, and there's a "FJ Torras Causewaay" leading to "Lanier Island", and "St. Simons Island"

[Wang Guantao]

I just wish I could find anything significant on either of the two Islands. But skimming my memories (aka. Wikipedia), nothing pops up.

Brackin does seem to be looking for either the source of the feed, where the hack originates or something along that line. So either he's looking for where DefenseCorp has stashed all his equipment, or he's looking for where Foo's hiding. I think the later.

Right now, I'm both baking a cake and writing a report for an economics course, so I'm a little busy, but I will look into the last part of this puzzle later tonight.

We still haven't figured out what the Charter part is, so I don't think the Island is the last stop on this leg of the journey. Once I have time to do more, I'm gonna look into if there are any ferryboat or other charter trips originating at one of those Islands mentioned above.

[notgordian]

Little Saint Simon's Island is located just north of Saint Simon's island and is accessible only by boat. Saint Simons area. However, there's essentially nothing there.

Can't find anything useful on Lanier Island.

Please, let me know if I'm overusing the spoiler tag. I feel like a government censor here. (after confirmation of this point, spoiler tags removed)

[GuyIncognito]

[notgordian]

Thanks Guy...I missed that thread when I was going through the general HowTo guides of UF. Fixed some of the ones in this thread.

This game seems to have a lot of first-time players for a variety of reasons, so we'll be relying on those of you who are experienced to help us out as we're learning the rules of etiquette here.

The Final Answer, I think

Charter didn't mean boat....it meant airplane. On Saint Simon Island, there's a small airport called Malcolm McKinnon Airport. The Torres Causeway is the only access, and now Brackin isn't stuck on some podunk little island to do who knows what...he's on a plane heading somewhere else to do who knows what.

[Wang Guantao]

Well as long as he's not on some podunk little island =P

[notgordian]

Puzzle #7 added by Brackin...I guess this disproves my answer for #6. Unless there are docks near the airport....

[Wang Guantao]

I think the stuff in "quotes" are hints to something, since there's no reason to put "April 3" in quotes for instance. Also

[Wang Guantao]

Well im stumped...
The title if you take it as revelations number give the following text:

[alia]

ok, here is my *less than* half a theory.

Maybe april 3 is 43, then "round up"/add 1849, then "take away"/subtract 1261 to get: 631

Which is not a passage in Revelation (6:31)...

Probably totally crazy, but that's what immediately popped into my head.

ETA: after reading it on the blog and noticing the italics...i'm thinking it might actually be a rounding up of the date. since

[Arkaham]

The title could be refering to Nostradamus Prophecies, since they are most ofter refered with the italian word for verse: Stanza.

The Stanza VIII-13 of Nostradamus and a brief interpretation:

[notgordian]

There are two possible lunar cycles that have similar effects...more, probably, since I can't find the significance of either.

The reason the liturgic calendar is so messed up is because the Bible operates under the lunar calendar. Thus, April 3 (regarded by some to be the date of Jesus's death) might be considered the start of the year...?

When you're working with the lunar calendar, to account for the vagarities in the Earth's rotation you periodically have a leap MONTH (instead of the solar calendar's leap day).

The other possibility is tidal forces, which would make sense for sailors...tides are related to the positioning of the moon, so maybe something regarding high tide is being discussed. That's all I can think of right now, at any rate.

[Ariana]

possible date cipher

[WolfHawk]

In light of this

[Nescirian]

It might help to know that 1261 is also a modified date: Of liturgy means "add 252 years" (http://www.crypticthinking.com/BonusExcerpts/Illustration22.html for "de liturgie")

Here's my prediction of where Brackin's going. It seems pretty convoluted and obscure though, so it might be really stretching things. If we look for April 3, 1849, we find that some polish poet guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_S%C5%82owacki) died on that day. His epic work was "Podróż do Ziemi Świętej z Neapolu", which means in English (or at least, in Babelfishese): "For holy land (earth) from naples - journey ".
Naples set me off here because Stanza VIII-13 is generally considered to be about Napoleon. Now, there's also a Naples, Florida, which could be reached from a port in Georgia, going south. So that's my guess.

However, this doesn't take into account all his math talk: rounding up and then taking away and adding up the last bit. Or lunar cycles for that matter. Or the liturgical year. I imagine a full solution will explain all that.
Just my two cents.

Edit: Some other thoughts. My brain hurts, so I'm stopping for now, but here's some ramblings, hopefully approximately coherent:
Brackin's going for Defense Corp, right? (If not, we should work out wherever his final destination is, it could be handy)
Probably where Phil is.
Phil's location: 18 hours by van + 3 hours by helicopter from Dallas.
We decided to assume he was heading for Florida, since it was getting warmer (for both Phil and Brackin).
Google earth tells me you can get from Dallas to Atlanta in 14 hours, but maybe there was traffic.
3 hours by helicopter is about 504 miles, which takes you from Atlanta to Tampa or Orlando if heading south. (Somewhere around 28 degrees north)
I have no idea how much distance Brackin has covered, but it's about a week by boat. Xnb suggested that's too much to be at Phil's projected lattitude on the atlantic side, but about right for the mexico side, but we didn't do any research on it. We don't know what kind of boat he's in, but it has a sattelite phone and a captain steve. From the looks of http://satphonezone.com/maritimecruisships.html , neither of those helps a lot.

The theory in summary: Phil drove a van from Dallas to Atlanta, then took a helicopter to about halfway down florida. Brackin is coming for him by ship, and was travelling for a little over a week. There's a lot of stuff there that's fairly questionable, but maybe some of the data's useful anyway.

Also, I thought Cape Canaveral was an interesting idea (at the right lattitude)