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[Elizabeth123]

Message from Lucie

[aliendial]

Well I suspect people have emailed her, but she could have seen it herself - that the codex reported "recovered" but nobody sent her a code.

[Elizabeth123]

[aliendial]

OK, that would need a [META] answer - I speculate that the PMs see that the group that found all the other chapters doesn't have it or even a hint of it - assuming the snatch is not malicious, they need to educate whoever took it, so why wait?

[Elizabeth123]

[Isaac Dodgson]

People always tend to underestimate the masses... Anyway, I've suggested that I would go if money was no object...but because it is, I'm gonna start the Isaac Dodgson Money for Trip to Brux Fund...

Any takers? anyone?

[aliendial]

I posted a suggestion that Lucie ( we know she speaks french, after all) call the restaurant to see if they know what happened.

Or perhaps LaPingvino can, as he posted in french in her forums.

[AUZ505]

It is already 1 am in central Europe, so the place might be already closed. We have to wait anyhow for a few hours, so perhaps the finder of the documents will contact us or Ariadne.

I am still wondering, how the omphaputer updates the artifact status. I always thought that it will mark artifacts as recovered after the input of the correct PRUVODEREHAVIGO command. Or do the owner of the artifact place inform the PMs when somebody took the documents?

In the first case, the person that found the dcuments knows the omphaputer and also the whole story.
In the second case there is the possibility that someone accidentialy found and took the documents, without knowing what to do with them. That would make it very difficult to get them back.

There is in my opinion a third possibility. This is part of the story and a third unknown party (the people who forbid the lost games hundreds of years ago) tries to prevent us from getting the documents.

[Isaac Dodgson]

[aliendial]

1. Recovery - when Jasper was prompted to go back and take the Austin documents she left behind, and the Austin artifact did not show 'recovered" until she did so, we learned that the documents must actually pass into the hands of Ariadne's helpers. [Yes probably they have an arrangement to be told when the documents are actually taken.] But I also assume that recovery requires input of the code to the omphaputer. Which means someone has taken it and knew what to do with the code.

2. And you are right that there are other possible explanations - rather than an error or a player who forgot to share - another interesting alternative would be an intentional plot twist - black hats trying to block the games? We'll see what happens next, I guess.

[dreamerblue]

[jasper]

[aliendial]

Yes but Austin did not show 'recovered' until after we all agreed you had to go back (at Ariadne's prompting), long [OK many hours] after lots of us had entered the code. Clearly the code is critical; perhaps the physical recovery part is a little more flexible. Or maybe the PMs figured they had us trained and stopped waiting for confirmation of physical recovery.

[sapagoo]

[riquardo]

I'm going to try it right now. Hold on.


EDIT: So I called and the guy who ansered said he didn't speak portuguese, asked if I spoke english. I then I apologized for the disturbance and explained the whole thing and told him the instructions we had. He kept saying yes, yes, yes as he was understanding everything and in the end I asked if he could tell me if the object/paper was still there. I think he didn't answer, he just said to call after 6 pm to the 32 2 511 47 46 number (I called the 47 47), because that's when there would be someone to talk in portuguese (at least it was the impression I had). I don't know if I'll be home at that time but if nobody has done it when I get back, I'll try again then.