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[drizjr]

[PUZZLE?] Words Circled in Red from Packages

[Caterpillar]

I think it more likely, given the "Old Ones" that is circled, that the words meant to be culled are the ones on the same face.

You can see a general theme with the words, but the Flickr one I think may be different.

[rowan]

Re: [BAST] [PUZZLE] Words Circled in Red from Packages

[ancalime]

Given the teamwork effort that's been necessary for the I Ching decryption, is there any chance the circles line up if you overlap the pages, perhaps spelling something out in very bubbly handwriting (or morse code, or perhaps braille?)

[jjason]

I tried ordering the words based on which line they were on - the words on the top of the page first, those at the bottom last. Didn't really come together into something that makes much sense, but here's what line each word is on:

Supernatural - line 0, p.145/146
fears – line 3, p.145/146
slime-coated - line 6, p.65/66
curious - line 9, pg. 65/55
warnings - line 11, p.5/6
lurking - line 12, p.55/56
realisation - line 13, pg 125/126
hostile - line 14, p.25/26
psychic – line 15, p.125/126
marvels – line 15, p.155/156
Lake - line 16, p.15/16
sculptures - line 17, pg 55/56
creatures – line 19, pg. 65/66
bizarre – line 19, pg 165/166
hints – line 20, pg pg 125/126
silence – line 22, pg 85/86
lonely – line 23, pg 155/156
spook - line 29, pg. 145/146
Old Ones – line 31, pg 85/86
Ghost – line 31, pg 155/156

There's one word on almost every line, with very few repeats, which I thought was interesting. I don't know about the words on page 35/36, since a picture hasn't been posted yet.

[Bluefire]

..oops, I didn't see you had this thread up already, so I'll quote my post in the trailhead thread;

[dashcat]

I noticed that in many cases the circles encompass two lines of text and sometimes its hard to tell the word that is being circled. So I just now I had this idea that maybe we need to look at the letters outside of the circles. The letters that are closest to the red ink on the outside. Its late and I haven't looked into this but its an idea...hehe

[sapagoo]

We created a new page on the Wiki, Red Words, to highlight the red circled words from the Definitive Edition.
We've even tried to decode it taking the 1st letter on page 5, 2nd letter on page 15, 3rd letter on page 25, etc.
We ignored hyphens and spaces.

If that's the correct code, we have WASN_NO_E___R_OO___
although we don't know how many missing pages we have from the end.

Some ideas we've tossed around are
WASNT...
WAS NANOTECH....

I've looked for new domains that start with WASN, but none had double o's at the back.

feel free to spec, or make suggestions.

[rose]

Was no note ?

[Bluefire]

[j5]

was no note overlooked

[Bluefire]

[jjason]

I'm still puzzled by Page 125. Why was psychic circled twice? Maybe "day" was also supposed to be circled...

[johnny5]

Could the red circles be laid over the pages with no words circled to grab extra words?

11 circled words, 11 missing pages....coincidence...probably.

Can someone check?

-5-

[Edited] Because I made the mistake of not [RTFT] reading the f** thread prior to posting. Some people! Geez.

[jjason]