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[carmenmiranda]

Okay, so we have enough of the shards to fill in some letters now, which already gives us a clue that it's not going to be a straightforward "fill-in-the-blank" kind of scenario.

If you look at the shard list/grid thing, you have the letters listed with spaces between some, in the following pattern:

_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _
_ _ _ _ _

With the five found shards, and the two completed mscapes, this gives us the following:

[Jediwannabe]

The Sky MScape is up now, so I'll give that a go when I get home.

[carmenmiranda]

What what what?! I just looked for it and couldn't find it! Where oh where?

[Jediwannabe]

[carmenmiranda]

The link on that page just takes you to the main mscape site, but as far as I can tell, the game isn't up on the site yet.

I thought the same thing with the tree mscape--I thought it was up and posted because I got to the page on the sky remains site.

[Jediwannabe]

[carmenmiranda]

No worries! Like I said, I did the exact same thing! Russel_k had to show me the error of my ways.

I was hoping you'd found something, because I'm itching for a puzzle!

[petunia]

Hi, I've been reading and think I'm finally caught up on all the threads! I signed up for this one awhile ago but life interfered so I'm late to the party, as usual. I still have to go through the shard package contents, pics, vids etc. as I've only seen nitefoll's so far (awesome btw) - and can I say you've all been doing an amazing job? I'm also a little jealous of not having a GPS (but not so much that I'm going to go out and get a Treo, which I considered when I needed a new phone but then heard they were crappy), but it's probably moot since I'm in Texas. Meh, I say. And the GPS stuff all sounds pretty confusing anyway.

Having said that, let me hasten to add that I WILL go get a GPS if need be, and I'm NOT the only one in the state willing to go shard-hunting should the opportunity arise! Just... throwing that out there.

EDIT: GAH... I meant to post this is the general [SKY][Trailhead] thread... GAH.

[carmenmiranda]

Welcome, Xeraans and petunia! Hey, no worries about which thread, I think we'll somehow make it through!

[setters393]

hi there!

I think the shards that don't have locations may end up being 'duplicates' of the shards we can't reach & being in more accessiblke places, maybe. Because there are 6 or 7 (I lost count!) shards with no locations yet so the PMs could be waiting to see which we find & then basing the next batch on what we have or haven't found. That is obviously complete spec though

Also Shard 15 isn't really outside Bristol is it?? I know it's been mentioned before so when I update the wiki with 'my' shards, I'll change the location.

I just remembered as well that Harmonize is this weekend, so I would imagine that the PMs are pretty busy with that as it's one of their projects.

[carmenmiranda]

I have shard 15 as Rotterdam.

[Jediwannabe]

[setters393]

yep - the coordinates say Rotterdam but the wiki label says bristol - you can never be too sure, can you??

[Pied Piper]

Thanks for catching the location on shard 15, setters. I've been trying to verify towns and locations for the shards, but I obviously missed that one.

One thing I have to say is that I am really impressed that the PMs managed to get the shards that they placed in the locations that they did. I mean, it's pretty cool that they didn't just put all of the shards in the UK, which would have been easy enough to do, considering that's where a good number of the players live, and where they themselves are located. Even if we can't get all of them, we should give them a thumbs up on managing to use as many locations as they have already.

I'm not sure I would have done the same if I were one of the PMs. That's an awful lot of work!

Maybe it makes me a brown-noser to say it, but Yay PMs!

[nitefoll]

I was thinking that, but as the games are sponsored/associated with HP then I imagine they gave the shards to HP employees and said "Hide These" , haven't checked, but I imagine you'll find HP offices near the locations.