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[RING][MISSIONS] Sofia - Monica's Postcard

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Spec I've seen mentioned about this - is this where they (Jorge et al.) did their training? (but it's not the same cities as the buildings being found in the architecture thread).

Could there be something we are supposed to see at these locations?

Could there be webcams there?

Could this be where the new athletes are supposed to train?

Could this be where the "real" labyrinths must be run to synchronize the worlds?

Or could the puzzle mean something else entirely? Are these Olympic cities? Are they an anagram of something interesting? Do the points on a map spell out "kick me"? OK probably not that last one. Brainstorm a bit.

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Postcard

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Diego's location

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Re: [RING][MISSIONS] Sofia - Monica's Postcard

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From A Monica post

[Chid12]

I think I might have worked out what the co-ordinates mean.

In Chapter 4, the old six stated:

"A synchronizing labyrinth must be created at a special, predetermined place. The worlds will agree about a specific set of coordinates - longitude and latitude - for the center of the labyrinth. You must center your labyrinth at these chosen coordinates, or the synchronization will fail."

The word "synchronising" is used, as though the six people compete at the same time, but in different places. The labyrinths synchronise somehow, so long as they're centred at the specific co-ordinates.

And what's on the postcard? Six sets of co-ordinates.

Chapter 4 also talks about hiding labyrinths:

"Because your labyrinth is a lost sport in your world, you must find places, where you will not draw undesired attention to your creation.

During our own training for our 1920 synchronizing event, we found success by "hiding" our labyrinths in the clear view of those non-initiated. To escape their sight, we chose places where sport, playing, festivals and other special events often take place."

Where else would you find sites which could host sports, games, festivals and special events regularly but big cities? Large cities which, because of their facilities could host the Olympic Games.

In another thread, people are trying to work out the locations of the images in Chapter 4. So far they've come up with Helsinki, Rome and Stockholm. All large cities, all cities which could (and did) host the Olympics.

Furthermore, we know that all six cities listed in the co-ordinates are large and could host the Olympics because one (London) will in 2012, and the others are bidding to host the games in the future.

So that's what I reckon the co-ordinates mean. They were the co-ordinates of the centres of the synchronising labyrinths back in 1920 referred to in Chapter 4 of the Codex! The old six went to those places because they knew they could build their labyrinths there and train. They then used them for this "synchronisation" event.

[Weezel]

Ok, so I went to the Boston location today and have some pics at
Flickr.

I didn't know what to look for, so I was looking for things that were notable or out of the ordinary.

The Google map puts you close to Quaker, but when we actually got out of the car and started walking around, it put us closer to the intersection as you will see by my images.

We didn't find anything obvious in terms of a poster, sign, sticker, writing, etc. So we looked for plaques or other items. There is alot of history in that area, and perhaps we are looking for something that happened at the time they would have been there.

Also, the wiki had the coordinates in one place as a 4, and in two others as a 9. Unfortunately, I took a small copy of the image with me, and couldn't confirm in onsite. Later, looking at the image closer, it really appears to be a 4 (notice the block angle construction, unlike the other 9s) and I've subsequently updated the wiki.

The difference puts you on different sides of the street.

I also left my real GPS in NJ (where I live) and was only in the area for the holiday. Though I dragged my Brother in Law with me since he was a local. He was very excited to help, though slightly disappointed that we didn't find anything.

Thats not to say that there isn't something to find, just that we didn't find it.

We wound up using my TomTom, which I finally did get to show me decimal notation to 5 decimal places, but the tall buildings in the area were giving me a real hard time, and the TomTom's internal battery is really just for short term, so by the time we walked around for close to 40 minutes, we drained it out totally.

So we have options.. look there again. Look elsewhere first and see if something jumps out at us. Tackle the problem from a different way. While they might be coordinates, maybe there is a chance that they are used for something else.

[Weezel]

One thing I got confused on when I was there was the time difference from the age of the postcard. If this was from Jorge in 1888 and Monicas uncle had it 15 years later, we looking for how the place would have been in the early 20th century. Alot different than it is now.

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I really like your analysis chid12. I wonder if it's the same locations every time or if we'll need new locations for this olympic games?

And accepting chid's premise, I wonder how Jorge knew to go to London and not, for example, Madrid. Anything in the cities or coordinates to suggest which athlete goes where?

[brodie]

I'm back! Finally. Moving house killed me.

Okay, so. Thinking about this, about the way that we have specific co-ordinates that connect to places inside the cities, have we tried looking at the streets surrounding the stations? Are they vaguely cyclical, as would match a labyrinth? Or, the fact that the 'centres' of what we believe to be the training labyrinths, that we've been given the co-ordinates for, are stations - that's interesting. They wouldn't have been stations back then, of course - or maybe the train stations would have been in existence? Check out the routes and the subterranean tunnels - are they labyrinthine?

Just a thought.