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[Sylvia]

very good Mort. so our pass code for Capnomantrix is Wisteria. Or at least that sounds like what Ethan is telling us.

ETA: Way to go mort. (see his post below)

ramback on skype

[mortality]

Something like that. Ethan'd probably say I'm seeing patterns where none exist, tho. But he and Jade have given us clues that they shouldn't have known about before, too. Lord of the Rings and Hobbits, anyone?

Philly's skype username is ramback, duh. Full name lists initials P.M.

Can't believe I missed that first time around.

Capno's full name on Skype: smoke. Just so there's no doubt.

ETA: so is capnomantrix a female version of Mulder's smoking X-Files nemesis?

And should we instead ask how we can find/contact Slider, as Jade seems to be suggesting?

[petunia]

[casablanca]

I need to have a serious conversation with my boss, because missing a couple days in a row around here is not cutting it. I think I'm caught up, at least on the basic plot flow. I just wish I had more to contribute. Here is some information that I didn't see posted. Since I had to look it up, I figure it may not be common knowledge.

Capnomancy is a real type of divination. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capnomancy
(Mortality, you rock.)

Ramback is a brand of roll your own cigarette tobacco.
http://www.ryotobacco.com/page/ryot/PROD/dandr/ram35

A lot of references to smoke, huh? And where there's smoke there's fire.

I looked at the video a couple more times, and I don't see where Philly could have struck the matches. I think they were supposed to have ignited as a result of whatever he was doing, or maybe from whatever happened to him. Just spec.

Sylvia, awesome work with the letters.

One thing I noticed from the one where Petra was describing Philly chatting with OLoS, she said in both cases that he said "Thanks" after he got his answer. Might not be important, but if we are going to try to contact her there may be a correct process to follow.

My 2 cents says Ethan is probably BE. If so, he at least did a little homework about Dayton to make it look like he was there. He mentioned the Kava House in his journal and that's a real place - with free wifi access - near Dayton.

I had to go through this fast, so I probably posted something that's already been said. If so, feel free to trout.

[Sylvia]

here's the follow up email I sent to Petra a little bit ago. I'm sort of foggy today, stayed up too late last night, so I hope I didn't forget anything. Anyways, even though I swore I would not install another chat program, I broke down and I'm installing Skype right now.

[petunia]

Nope, casa, you're trout-free! Good research, too!

I was looking at the names on RN and for a few minutes thought that devislade might = spearmint... but no, at least not the way I was going. FWIW, all the names seem to be a combination of two words. No time to post now because I need to get some paying work done , but I'll look some more when I get home.

I emailed Jade last night asking him to check out the r3 location and the coordinates from RN for that night (DANGIT, I just realized I left out 61st & Pine! ). Although I realized today that RN says "poc.(-)" for Jan. 8, so maybe they didn't even have anybody there at all... it may be a pretty much meaningless spot for all we know. Oh well.

I also emailed Ethan asking him to look into the Cherry St. event and see if there were more details, since Sylvia and I realized in chat that we never actually got around to asking. So we don't even have a date, though safe money says it was about a month before r2. I also asked him to search the archives for stuff that may have come up in New Jersey around the time of the "item exchange" described by RN.

Another good email, Sylvia.

[Sylvia]

Ok, I did it. I got Skype. My screen name is syl.vi.a so if any of you want to add me that would be great.

[dashcat]

Great Job Guys!

Sylvia you did a great job interacting with Petra. I don't know why you are shy about it, in other games you've gotten great results too.


When I was looking for latin words that mean smoke, I came across CAPNO but I had my heart set on FUMI for some reason. If I had read the rest of the CAPNO page I would have seen CAPNOMANCY. The art of divining using the smoke from burning sacrificial offerings, human or animal. And Capno is of greek origin, as is Petra. Petra you know means stone but I discovered while looking into the Oracles of Delphi that the temple for the Oracle is built over the Omphalos stone. Omphalos means navel and the stone designates the center of the world.

ETA

Doh, I get a mini trout for the capnomancy part. I just didn't see Casa's post.

I did have an additional thought though. What if the case of spontaneous combustion was a sacrifice in order for the capnomancer to read the smoke? Creepy but it could fit in with all of this.

[mortality]

I don't think any of the three 0702 rituals was part of Capnomantrix's divinations, dashcat. It sounds like she performed divinations in response to Skype chats and used them to answer the questions. (Alternatives: insane, but a good guesser; Slider)

Capnomantrix seems like she can either tell us what ramback/philly wanted, tell us what happened to him, and/or tell us how to reach Slider, who may have more information.

[badaim68]

Colours

[Sylvia]

Wisteria is C9A0DC.
It seems one can get different values depending on where they look or the exact hue that's used. for example:

Wisteria = CTA0DC link

Midnight Blue = 191970 link

Midnight Blue = 000033 link

Midnight Blue = 2F2F4F

Salmon = FA8072 link

Salmon = 6F4242

LampBlack = 2E473B link

LampBlack = 131313 link


So I don't think the hex is all that important. Lets hope not anyways. We have enough confusion as it is.

But I do feel that the pass code may get changed and if one is not part of the group he/she would not have any way of knowing the new code. So we may need to figure out their system or hopefully Ethan can keep cryptically passing them on to us. I know that just brought up another set of questions. But let's just assume that Ethan knows a lot and is into a lot and needs us as allies. And just maybe one of us will have to join them. I wonder what the initiation is.

[petunia]

reply from Ethan

[petunia]

reply from Jade

[Sylvia]

so that we can all get on the same page here is the info about the spontaneous human combustion. Date was July 2, 1951

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/31/TampaBay/Hunt_for_haunts.shtml

[Typoxic]

Re: reply from Ethan