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[Sarah B]

Reckon we're supposed to decompile something somewhere? Seems like there should be a next step on the site somewhere, since they've stopped a-twittering...

[Wulf74]

Definitely lurking this one.

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the webpage no longer accepts the password, and now only gives a P.-) .. all of the links do this.

[picaroe]

If you wait a little, the "P.-) will start blinking and you will see the page.

I noticed that if you go to http://blackbeardsport.freeoda.com/index.php/home/jollyroger/the-shipyard there's a list of what sounds like pirate ship names, they all have a cross next to them, except the bottom one called "Windskipper"

Looks like this:

[Wulf74]

Ok, we've gotta be missing something somewhere.

We have a list of crew, including 2(?) captains, or 1 captain and first mate..
A list of ships, and an odd looking balance in the treasury: 849.391289x. And lastly a reference to a Queen who is supposed to show up "When Sol comes yonder!". One of the tweets mentioning the Cove led us to the webpage - but what are we missing - obviously something- as things seem to have died down a bit..

Any ideas? I'm fresh out..

[Wulf74]

There was a new tweet from Piratebeard today

[picaroe]

The "next page" leads to "./story.php?id=9299r-f033-04840&page=2", and i have had no luck with that one yet.

The Lodge and the Shipyard sems pretty clear to me, the Treasury though is a mystery to me. Looks like it could be an ip adresse?

[Wulf74]

[Peacemaker]

ok so a little history

Captain Blackbeard was one of the most famous pirates of the English sea during the "Golden Age of Piracy" (18th Century). His main ship was the Queen Anne's Revenge - which is what im guessing the Queen arriving "When Sol comes yonder!" is referencing....queen being his ship, when sol comes yonder being the the next sunrise.

If you hear the name Edward Teach/Thatch by the way, that was Blackbeard's real name.

Other names in the lodge...pretty much your basic "pirate names" kinda the classic disnified names.

oh and uh the name of the gang of pirates "Scourge of the Eighth" - referencing the currency in those days which were called "pieces of eight".

[picaroe]

Oh yes, I'm sorry.

The Lodge is a list of members in his/their crew, and the [M] or [F] means female/male as far as i can see. And Blackbeard = Piratebeard on twitter, while Pirate Pete = CrossedBone on twitter.

The Shipyard is a list of ships, listed under the name of their owner. And the cross could be ships that have been looted.

The Treasury is still a mystery to me.

[Wulf74]

[jessie1326]

FWIW, 849.391289x looks like a Dewey decimal number to me. No luck finding a book to match it as of yet, though.

[Sarah B]

I thought exactly the same thing about the dewey number, but couldn't find anything to match it with.

849 would put it in literature, specifically provencal and Catalan (the 840s are 'romance languages'). I worked in libraries for a few years, but usually the 800s weren't very finely subclassified; you'd just use 849 for most books of provencal / Catalan literature in my experience.

I have a mother who has been a librarian since before I was born, if people would like I can ask her opinion?

[Stæld]

[Wulf74]

[Sarah B]

OK, I spoke to her. She said, theoretically, it's possible you could subdivide that far, but that's a LOT of subdivision.

For those of you who don't know Dewey, the bit before the decimal point refers to the general main classification of the book (in this case catalan literature). The bit after the decimal point more closely narrows down the topic. So, it might have a number for nautical stories, then one for submarines, then one for wrecks... or so on.

You'd need a few Dewey set of books to work out what that whole number referred to though.