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We Lost Our Gold (welostourgold.com)
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UDbmas
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 		Yes, thank you rose for your support of unfiction (along with SpaceBass), without which we would not have this nice place to discuss the game. Also, thanks to krystyn for getting this thread off the ground in the first place.

Incidentally, rose suggested that starting with the third episode we start a new thread here for the transcript dumps and the maps so we have a single more focused location for such info, while still keeping this thread around for general clue discussion.

Hopefully, we will get our own subforum here eventually, but until then I think that is probably the best solution. Of course I am open to anyone else's suggestions.

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 		trying to help
So, this is my first time through anything like this, but I am completely hooked....

I know that I didn't get any responses to my last anagram post, so if everyone thinks that I am overthinking it and it is a deadend, let me know and I will stop....

However, fro the first episode: "windowsele" is an anagram for "in low weeds".

Like I said, if everyone thinks I am barking up the wrong tree, let me know and I will stop wasting space.

Another observation from the first episode, mulligan's "code of all codes". there are three footprints, each being comprised of two parts (sole and heel). But he circles one to make it a solid piece. Five individual parts, five boroughs. The only borough not connected to another in a North South orientation (like the footprints) is Staten Island.

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 		Re: trying to help
b8sbal3 wrote:


Another observation from the first episode, mulligan's "code of all codes". there are three footprints, each being comprised of two parts (sole and heel). But he circles one to make it a solid piece. Five individual parts, five boroughs. The only borough not connected to another in a North South orientation (like the footprints) is Staten Island.


Is Manhattan connected to another? Is the Bronx? A trickle the Harlem River may be, but it still divides. Only Brooklyn & Queens are not divided by a body of water/part of the same land mass. i.e., two parts becoming one. So, maybe Brooklyn/Queens is where we should be looking?

Getting too far ahead of ourselves leads to gaps being filled out of expediency, and false paths may be formed. Extrapolation from scant information is deadly.

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 		Re: Manhattan & Bronx
UDbmas wrote:
According to wiki, Manhattan and the Bronx are "technically" connected at Marble Hill. So as Mulligan's map indicates, the Boroughs are "technically" in 3 bits. This map on wiki is a pretty good visualization:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5_Boroughs_Labels_New_York_City_Map_Julius_Schorzman.png


Exactly. that's why it was originally named manhattan [technical] Island. These guys are clever, they would think that since we proles couldn't walk from one to the other without the use of a bridge we would be tricked into the Manhattan Isle groupthink.A riddle inside an enigma.

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WeeWillyT
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 		Re: cumulative anagram?
UDbmas wrote:
We might be getting bits of an anagram each episode, which when solved will maybe be the final clue? CROWS NEST I think is what we start with, then add a few (in groups of the magic #3?) letters from each episode which stand out obviously. From episode 1 add I-L-L and E-L-E, and from episode 2 we add T-U-T (left after cannonball through cabin) and ???. So far, then, we have:

CROWSNESTILLELETUT (+???)

And each episide will add more letters, so we can't really unscramble it yet, BUT...
If you use an online anagrammer, you will get a lot of hits—over 50,000— including some rather colorful things including the words TESTICLE or TESTICLES...


Buried under King Tut's testes?

ELE and TUT are certainly worth keeping our eyes on. Any cryptographers around? I wonder if we will be presented with 8 3-letter sets, each following (to assume a bit) this pattern of one letter flanked by two of another letter.
We know what to look for on Sunday evening....

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I will watch two videos on hand signals. I think in a couple of instances he is doing something dramatic. I'll report back.

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UDbmas wrote:
The second set of 3-letters (if this turns out to be something) may come from Mulligan's fingers after he tosses the spyglass over. It looks like he gives 3 two-digit (right hand & left hand) numbers: 22, 12 (or 02 depending on if the thumb is up on his right hand--I think it's up), and 01. Then he gives the Thumbs up sign. So: V L (or B) and A? And if we are t

I may be reaching here, but his finger signals stick out to me.


However much I'd like to, I'm not seeing the signaling, or at least I don't see it as a message conveyed in a non-subjective manner. Granted, this isn't supposed to be easy.
Of course, I'm a professional doubter. Never hurts to keep them in mind and we may well find indications in future epidsodes that they are relevant.

Could it be 4, 3(or 2), 1?

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 		translation
What Black Tom says.
Hello all... new person joining the crew.

Although I feel I may already know where the gold is.... for reasons well outside of the already provided clues...

I don't seem to see anywhere in this thread that Black Tom points to the backwards cannon (that falls into the water) and says "Clue!" in Japanese.

Doesn't he say "itoguchi"?

Cap'n Slim Jim

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