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[Projectyl]

If anyone feels like staring at some data, here's everyone's initials, translated into cards. Letters from the first half of the alphabet are in [], and letters from the second half are in ().

[FractalP]

This feels right, Projectyl. I came up with the same a few hours ago by hand. I think the "hand" repetition might mean we have to make the best hand out of the nine cards per group. Either that, or maybe taking the value of each card and adding/multiplying them, or arranging them gives something?

[ToddE]

It seems that there's strong language towards making a connection from one person to the next. And then connecting that person to the next and so forth using some sort of logic with the cards, perhaps.

I say this because it doesn't feel like it's going to be making the best hand out of all three workers, but somehow connecting one hand to the next. In poker there's a game called Pass the Trash where you're passing a group of cards to your neighbor and so on.

I feel like it's going to be something more along those lines.

[Qaqaq]

I don't think these are groups of three people. It seems to me like you have a column of lead people, and then another column with two connected followers, and you're mixing-and-matching the lead column people to the followers who best fit.

Not quite sure how that works here -- are you pairing the leaders with the followers who make the best poker hand with them? -- but I do think it's something like that.

[ToddE]

That's the angle I've been looking at too, Qaqaq. The text says to literally take the task and give it to someone else, so perhaps we should also be considering the text of the task?

[Projectyl]

That angle would also open up new possibilities for the anagram angle as well. I spent a while a few days ago dumping the names into the Internet Anagram Server and seeing what words I could pull out that would leave exactly five letters (a poker hand). I got a few good ones (Yumi Y. Kishi is 999KQ + HUSKY, a possible "lost pet", and Rocco S. Liberti is 55976 + BROCCOLI, a possible food), but not enough to convince me it wasn't coincidence.

[Donimo]

[catherwood]

[salvokat]

the good book

[Donimo]

[catherwood]

nevermind, i just woke up and read the DI wrong.

But I also just woke up saying "Title" and "Pages" out loud, seriously. My brain was telling me to find a book, and that the clues are pointing us to a book cipher? Funny how dream logic always makes sense at the time.

edit: Ok now i've reread Donimo's logic above and will suggest an alternative:

[Chris S.]

Xander's facebook status offering to help get us on the right track:

[Donimo]

[thebruce]

also, new tabby post
http://straytabby.livejournal.com/4004.html?style=mine

[Projectyl]