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[danteIL]

[BLOG] Apr 06 Markus makes a discovery

[HitsHerMark]

Oh! Duh! The job of Mythopoeia is to "Hide the truth in plain sight"! Of course they had their own Mythopoeia and of course that's what they did.

So what do we know about the location of each Omphalos?

[AUZ505]

[Elizabeth123]

And now all the artifact picker-uppers are echoing a collective groan at potentially having to go back...

[unagi]

Unfortunately, I can't go back to the Tokyo pickup location for the time being. By the way, the name of the bar in the 2nd floor of the pickup place is Fukuro, which means owl, the symbol of Sofia.

[danteIL]

I agree about the artifact locations. But what a pain to have to go *back* there again!

Here is a compilation of the locations, taken from the wiki:

[Elizabeth123]

What kind of a story does this painting tell? (I can't find the painting by Googling, although I've seen plenty of references to Omphale and Hercules--and several paintings--and the characters' story doesn't seem related to our story at all.) So I don't know that the things themselves that may seem related are going to tell us much. I wonder if this was a real painting, or just a poster? If just a poster it may have been put up to hide something else behind it. (If this is a painting, I doubt the City Hall folks would let Markus mess with it.) Likewise, the books may have had something handwritten inside. I'll e-mail Markus to ask him about the painting.

I also can't imagine there's much that Pita could've missed at the location of the fake ship and chest in SF--although maybe there's something else in the general vacinity.

[jasper]

Austin History Center- no problem for me to return if needed.
It would be cool if some other Austin players would come out of the woodwork too!
I took a couple of pictures of the fresco while I was there because the winged horse reminded me of the wing on the Cardiff codex pages.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24918130@N03/sets/

but I am a bit underwhelmed with Markus's discovery. . . can anyone see the images?

[momonga]

Hmm, I'd be happy to go check out Fort Mason in a bit. I'll bring along my camera in case I find anything. I'm with Elizabeth though--I can't imagine what would be there connected to the all of this that hmrpita might have missed. :O

EDIT: Okay, well I went and checked it out and like I suspected, there wasn't anything there that seemed obviously relevant to our search--nothing like Olympic torches or a painting of someone named Omphale, at least. However, I did look up the name of the ship whose stern is in the wall and found some interesting information which may or may not be important.

[brodie]

Since mrjudkins' friend didn't get into the game, I'm the closest to Sydney. I'll see what I can do this weekend, but I'm not promising anything. My holidays are coming up, so I'll try and get a couple of friends together. We'll go and scour that lobby - though I do think the torches are the obvious bet.

[jasper]

I went back to the history center. There are paintings, photos and maps all over the reading room, but no real AHA! moments for me. The book The Life of Sam Houston is no longer there. No surprise in that. It wasn't on the shelf when I first went, and I had to give the guy a moment to plant the artifact (he wasn't expecting us to arrive until Tuesday that week.)

The lobby has a huge painting of waves, if you want to read something in to that- it's mostly green, and ocean-ish with no land or boat. It had no visible title plate- there is a place on the frame where you'd expect to see one. We can call it the Sunk Island of Atlantis and assume that Theo has been and pried the title off. I'm sorry I didn't photograph the wave painting now that I've thought of that.

The link above has more photos I took today in case anyone can see anything there that I missed.

[danteIL]

You good people who are taking the time to go back to revisit these locations should email or post to Markus and tell him that there have been no more amazing discoveries, to see what he says...

[Lysithea]

[unagi]

Just letting you know QED, a member of the Tokyo pickup party, says he can go back to the place today.

[Elizabeth123]