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[mortality]

It's certainly an interesting coincidence. Is it also possible that the square from MSG4 has some relationship? Can the two figures be overlaid?

Ethan will probably say we're just falling prey to the human trait of seeing patterns in random data. I think Ethan may be pointing more towards Yellowcard and Casablanca's analysis of where 0702's final ritual will be.

On the other hand, he keeps on telling us to figure out how all the 0701 puzzles relate...

Here's a question: if the two cases are linked, how many people are involved? On 0701 alone we have two or three different people who wrote "Whitechapel" on the envelopes. The differences in handwriting aren't just because of the marker/pen used.

Then you have someone who had access to the Scarpelli Library/Hawthorne Group in England.

And, according to Ethan's speculation, yet another group in FL working off a completely separate copy; maybe the original.

1/3/08 chats

[yellowcard]

[mortality]

Take another look at the letter 'h's. The exaggeration of the curve varies. Some are significantly flatter than others. The height of the vertical also changes.

On the 'p's, the top of the curve varies in how it meets the vertical line.

The top of the 'c's are completed in varying manners.

Only two of the 'W's look alike. It's not just the last one that uses a rounded, more lower-case look. One of the blockier 'W's uses lines that are all of even height. The other two 'W's are much more irregular.

The relative heights of the letters also varies.

[Sylvia]

I agree with yellowcard on this one. There are too many similarities for it to be different. I can write 10 different ways in a single day depending on what I'm writing it with and how important neatness and style is to me a the moment. Besides analyzing the handwriting gets us no where. So please stop bringing it up because it's distracting from what we should be concentrating on.

Edit to add: I also got the impression that the angels in St. Pete were not trying to make a triangle but something like the following. But it wouldn't make much sense like this.

[dashcat]

From Jade's video, he stressed a few times that he was facing north. The short leg of the checkmark was on the left which would be west. We haven't seen the second one so we can only speculate on that.

About the coded messages. The number/letter ones look like Hex but don't translate to anything. I tried finding the symbols that were produced (when I put it thru a hex decoder) on the ascii table but that didn't lead anywhere either. I thought it might be a digraph cipher. You can convert the numbers to letters beginning with 0=A and group them in pairs. It would look like this:

92 B3 02 E7 C7 B2 A4 03 89 0c Converted it would look like this:
JC BD AC EH CH BC AE AD IJ AC.

I ran that thru a digraph applet but still no results. It seems that this is probably a double or triple coded message but I am probably wrong. I am pretty weak on solving codes.

The messages that are all letters look like vigenere to me but I don't know what to use as a keyword.

[mortality]

Jade was standing north of the ash outline facing south.

[dashcat]

oops

[Sylvia]

I sent a copy of the diagram I made by combining the 4 messages to Ethan to see what he thought about it. I noticed this in his status window.

[Sylvia]

Ethan updated his blog

[mortality]

There are plainly two layers to the 0701 puzzles. 1st is the puzzle itself. MSG1 and MSG2 both had clear solves, we only had to figure out the underpinning logic/references and apply it. 2nd is how the puzzles relate to each other.

MSG2, our first solve, didn't fall into place until we recognized what the numbers referred to. Unless we're still missing something, the ^2 didn't really play a part.

MSG1, we had to identify what the message was (poem, the easy part), who wrote it, which one it was, and how it was encoded. (1) was possibly a very subtle hint as to where we needed to look.

We still have to figure out what the solutions to MSG3 and MSG4 will look like. On its face, the /3\ only references the triangle framing the names.

Same goes for the square on MSG4. Our only hint so far is that it probably has to do with an anagram. Unless there's some sort of box or chest that the Duke of Manchester/FreeMasons are known for.

When Ethan mentioned John Dee, it seemed to be a good indication of what might tie the 0701 puzzles together...but Dee dabbled in lots of things, so we still have to narrow down the possibilities.

Re D'Medici: Ethan told us the Scarpelli Library originated during the Medici reign.

[Typoxic]

I'm tempted to go find some Mensa members and see what they think. I mean, all they do is puzzles, right?

[miki_38x1]

[Sylvia]

[Sylvia]

Some more interesting links about king Solomon:

The Temple and The Demons

This is interesting, although it's based on an RPG called In Nomine, One Ring to Rule Them All

This is a google search: with one ring Solomon commanded them sealing his own fate the executed one

ETA:

[Typoxic]