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[bit1313]

Hmmm... I thought a little different.

Sente was a thought - he's in jail
Scarlett is "missing" presumed captured

How are either of these people updating the LoB site?

Unless Scarlett is part of 3P. But why help us?

But you are probably right... it's probably the flaming-red one. Tuesday will be interesting to see what we find in the Pointe.

bit1313

[GreenWindmill]

I know it doesn't seem particularly relevant but the part that says "You will know which path to take when you find it. If you know who I am." immediately made me think of the Robert Frost poem used on Cold Fission. Specifically:
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."

It seems far more likely that there will be a Scarlet path or something but it just keeps nagging at me so I wanted to mention it.

The poem is one of Violet's favourites and the card author was Sente so this doesn't fit in with the inference that Scarlett is CT.

Still, feels better to have got that mentioned!

[ABPositive]

Frost did indeed live in New Hampshire, his gravesite is a scant hour and a half away from me.

If for some reason we need searchers in the NE of america, sign me up. Doubtful, since trees like that don't grow around here but who knows

-AB+

[GreenWindmill]

I more meant that maybe when we located the woods there would be 2 paths, one more obviously popular than the other meaning we should avoid the well trodden path.

Putting these thoughts into words has made me realise MC would have to be pretty confident of the path remaining 'less travelled' since they buried the cube years in advance! That's my (admittedly lightweight) theory blown out of the water straight away then!

[cmlobue]

A friend pointed me to this DNA decoder:
http://bioinformatics.picr.man.ac.uk/bioinf/tyates.jsp?page=3
which turned the sequence into :

ERPDRKQAGNR

Which ROT-13s into:

RECQEXDNTAE

QXNTE? Looks like a certain Academy Master's name...

No, I have no idea what to do with this.

[jonc]

[regentswift]

[cmlobue]

Same friend says:

[jonc]

Using this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_standard_amino_acids


I've come up with 2 strings. One is the list of letters associated with the base string we have been given.

FEMARLEMSSGQQD

The seconds is the same, but for the complement of the RNA sequence:

KLYRSDLYSSPVL

[The_Cube]

ehh Yeah

[regentswift]

We actually have 6 strings, depending on the frame and direction of reading:

Frame 1, Forward: FEMARLEMSSGQQD
1, Complementary: VLLPA.HF.SGHLK
2, Forward: LRWPD.KCQAGNR
2, Complementary: SCCPLDISSLAIS
3, Forward: .DGQTRNVKRATG
3, Complementary: PVARLTFLVWPSQ

None of them ROT to anything.

Any ideas?

[The_Cube]

I concur some more

[fretty]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, I don't know much about RNA but how can the second molecule exist in the picture on page 4. There should only be one double bond coming from the top carbon, since carbon only bonds with 4 other molecules.

If that was true then you would have the 4 base molecules of RNA

[t7bros]

Redwoods

[mrsevans]

RNA