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Drunkmonkey · Boot Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Posts: 19

It could indicate that the symbol we are apparently piecing together isn't a compass- it could be some sort of decoder.

**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:57 pm

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**Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:28 pm

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Marconelly. · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 11

New website found:

http://www.discoveredwithelena.com/

There, among many other things, a wax seal with four more symbols:

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:01 am

simian · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 27

Hi all, just signed up 2 mins ago. Saw the new info over at neogaf, don't know where it came from.

Made a quick image of the slices: (I also circled what looks like a 'I')

The last slice (behind the scenes) could be number 'II' as seen in the pics on the uncharted page (II V VII) http://www.us.playstation.com/Uncharted/#story

And another theory: Since the new slice has number 9 (IX) and the tattoo slice has 7 (VII), they match the buttons with 4 letters on telephones (7=pqrs 9=wxyz).
But there should be no 'I' on the compass if this were the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad

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geektastic · Boot Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 39

I just emailed Elena and attached the image of the Craigslist map. This is the email I got in response (minus the footer disclaimer about the message being from the ARG) and the image attached.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:52 am

deep · Greenhorn Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

I don't know if I'm working anything out, but looking at the pattern of the numbers on the compass I presumed that the sequence would look like this:

This ignores 1, as I think the telephone dial might be correct. I then applied all the symbols to the letters on a telephone dial, so each has it's own letter. I thought that maybe applying these to the enigma machine in order they are on the map might give us something. I don't think it did. There are two symbols I don't know though...the triangle n the circle with a cross through it.(I'll show these with a space

I got l ip9l ip8899:did f

That was with the far right pointer being down. I think I'm just reading way too much into it

*edit* forget all that, I'm just being stupid.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:50 am

Marconelly. · Boot Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 11

Yeah, there's no I on the compass/decoder. The stamp picture shows that 'I' was in fact IX. The telephone idea sounds very plausible to me, except for one thing - there were no such telephones in the time Francis Drake lived, and this map is presumably encoded by him.

I got that same picture from Elena, but it looks to be the same exact symbols we already got through image enhancement.

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:27 pm

simian · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 27

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:43 pm

deep · Greenhorn Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 4

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:43 pm

simian · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 27

Just sharing my thoughts on the map symbols.

Could they be arranged in accordance with drakes journeys? This at least provides a way to arrange them.
(http://users.rcn.com/farrands/drake.gif)

**Posted:** Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:13 pm

smartmart · Unfettered Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 351

new video and posters

**Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:30 pm

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From elena's video..

**Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:07 pm

smartmart · Unfettered Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 351

the 2 posters

**Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:20 pm

simian · Boot Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 27

The roman numerals on the poster:

IX VII XXV LXXIX
9 7 25 79

edit:

Date at bottm right corner:
Poster1 - 1596
Poster2 - 9 32 79 (9 7 25 79 -> 7+25=32)

**Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:29 pm