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Ofiuco
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What was in y'all's? I got a Pi Day rap and then this text:

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Happy White Day.
Happy Pi Day.
Happy Birthday Einstein...

A candle blows in the wind as a sign of our friendship - consider this a return gift for the attentions given to us last month.
Thanking you

Your Friend
F.F.E.Y.-T.


Elton John?!

EDIT: ALSO. I noticed something the other day. YT posted something drawing our attention to 3/11. I went and looked at the two names he gave - Le Verrier and Armero - and it turns out both were astronomers/physicists who later had craters on the moon named after them. One was born 3/11, and the other died 3/11.

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Rich Reder
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Quote:

EDIT: ALSO. I noticed something the other day. YT posted something drawing our attention to 3/11. I went and looked at the two names he gave - Le Verrier and Armero - and it turns out both were astronomers/physicists who later had craters on the moon named after them. One was born 3/11, and the other died 3/11.


The Tweet you mentioned was itself posted on 3/11. And Galvani, referred to earlier, also had a moon crater named for him, along with La Verrier and Armero. Thinking it's time to look up the other moon craters to see which additional historical persons may come up in subsequent references...

This is certainly an educational ARG! Those who play to the end will have learned a lot of military and scientific history, as well as classical literature.

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Before I rush of to bed I figured I should mention some of what I talked to Shelley about.

His e-mail is quite literal, it is his gift to us, much in the fashion of White Day. I know I am missing something and he has told me that he will wait for my realisation to set in.

I also may know what the star is that Shelley was asking about. Comparing the picture with Greek letters I believe that the star is Pi. Which would fit in with how this second chapter is going.

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Rich Reder
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Info & Observations

I/We received 3 luggage tags, each with a different number and associated comment:
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1) 45.5 - easy as one - little hand
2) 140.5 - tea for two - minutes
3) 174 - just right - remainder
Quite possibly referring to a watch/clock/time (Alice's white rabbit carried a pocket watch).
On the other hand, minutes can also refer to a location - latitude, longitude; star coordinates.

March 14 is Pi Day.
FFEYT referred to a plane and a parachute. His namesake parachuted into occupied France at least twice during WWII.

I will be pondering all of the above as White Day dawns. However, anyone who wishes to share their own insights or possible solutions here is most welcome to collaborate. For I'm all about networking and teamwork.

In closing for now, I believe the contents of the package Ofiuco is awaiting most surely will be essential in relation to our new journey/luggage tags.

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I too got another gauntlet thrown down - unfortunately, today is an insanely busy day for me so I don't think I'm going to find time to look at it till later on.

I'll post what I find tonight.
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Rich wrote:
In closing for now, I believe the contents of the package Ofiuco is awaiting most surely will be essential in relation to our new journey/luggage tags.


I asked Shelley about that when the tags first appeared on his Flicker. He informed me that the package was intended for one person only, and if he chose to share that it was his choice. Thus I think it is safe to assume that the contents of the package are not critical to the second chapter.

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Well I have started working on Tag 1.
?when:
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The first picture, ?when decodes to Saranna. There are tags along the side which are 78 and 12. 78 cards in a tarot deck and the 12th card is "The Hanged Man" A quick google search found http://tarotbysaranna.blogspot.com/. The other tag is 14/3/11, which is the date posted of his card on her blog. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aopNhIH5e2c/TX4_h4pNacI/AAAAAAAAADs/fKs0Hpyjj5M/s1600/hanged+man.jpg is his card. The Morse code translates to HMSO (Her Majesty's Stationery Office?) MC could stand for the year 1100 as Saranna talks of a vision that takes place long long ago. The binary on the side I cannot figure out what it means yet Sad


how?
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There is a magnified view of William Shakespeare's play of Julius Caesar. The Act on this page is Act 1, Scene 2. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/julius_caesar.1.2.html . In between two lines there is a line that does not belong. It reads "Hare:Be he fast Crow? _ _ _ _" This act in particular is when Julius Caesar is approached by a Soothsayer and is warned of the Ides of March which is tomorrow, March 15. The only how I can think of right now is how he died, a stabbing.


I will be posting more information later when I have time

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Ofiuco
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So, funny story.

When YT asked for my address, I, knowing how delivery works at my apartment, opted to give him a truncated version of my mailing address, thinking cleverly that this would force my apartment's office manager to take delivery (which is what usually happens) rather than cause the package to end up on my doorstep, where an intelligent postman, acting of civic concern for the contents of my package, would inevitably opt to take it back to the post office for its own safety.
But you have to hand it to the United States Postal Service - they are cleverer than I thought, because they looked up my full address anyway, and finding that my mailbox is not, in fact, big enough to contain a package, merely left me a note telling me to come pick it up. Of course, by the time I, a full-time pencil-pusher, got this note, the post office was closed, and since I go to work before the post office opens...

I'll get it tomorrow.

POST OFFICE!!!! *shakes fists*

Also, I have to claim total ignorance of what you're posting about, Nutley. Can somebody fill me in?

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Nutley
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Make a Flickr account and become his friend and then you will know.

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Long day away from home computer, so not much time to work on this until tomorrow, but one connection I noted:
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One of the maps on Flickr shows a point near Bologna. Galvani lived and died in Bologna.


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ddl wrote:

I also may know what the star is that Shelley was asking about. Comparing the picture with Greek letters I believe that the star is Pi. Which would fit in with how this second chapter is going.


Not jumping on you here but my research shows that Pi leporis is a star name not used any more since it is now considered part of the Canis Major constellation. Pi Leporis is now known as Sirius or Alpha Canis Majoris.

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Ofiuco - good luck with the post office today!

Nutley, it seems to me you got the how and when.

To add to your conclusions about the how:



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With regard to the sentence that doesn't come from "Julius Ceasar":
Perhaps "not the same" on the tag itself = not the same Shakespearean play?
"Hare, be he fast Crow?" could mean
Hare = from Romeo and Juliet "an old hare hoar is very good meat in Lent"
"fast" could refer to fasting for Lent
Lent did start last week sometime
Some abstain from eating meat during Lent
So, Hare not eating meat/crow during Lent
or vice versa, crow not eating hare (since in the poem the hare is rotten = hoar)
Altho, if it's the hare not eating crow, that seems to be an idiom: NOT "eat crow"?
So not sure what that means or even if anywhere near correct analysis of, but VERY entertaining sentence.

The tags also seems to point to Algonquin hotel in NY, another circle of literary/artistic friends.



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Does anyone use msn messenger? If you do, add me:nuttie_man_33[at]homail[dot]com I would love to chat with some people about all this!

Edit: Has anyone figure out the binary, I feel dumb not being able to Sad

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There is a bunch of info. from MensV. over in the Tarot by Saranna thread. He decoded everything and they discussed the possible meaning for a little while, before I informed them that the card's secrets were intended for us not them.

I do wonder if the pre-American vision from Saranna relates to us or not. 1100 seems a little far back as a time period if it is related.

I'll edit this with the TBS info. in a few minutes. Here is what was said pertaining to Forest.

MensVenatus wrote:
New blog post
http://tarotbysaranna.blogspot.com/

Gives you the attached

Dits and Dahs at the top give you HMS 5??

MC ??


Binary on right gives you
169 75 192 200 137 ??

Clearly missing something here


ddl wrote:
I'm not sure what is occurring myself, but there is another ARG currently playing in which the main character is Forest. He followed Saranna on Twitter awhile back, and if you are interested in reading up on the game it's under the thread F.F.E.Y.-T. His most recent puzzle seems to relate to her, and probably this post so my thanks for drawing this to my attention.


amandel wrote:
Got H M S O for the Morse on the rope which can twist into On Her Majesty's Service. So, maybe the binary is for F.F.E.Y.-T ?


mycroft7 wrote:
or hmso - as in her majesty's stationery office? they used to be responsible for publishing hansard, amongst other things, and ordering stationery for government departments.

the MC coud be someone's initials, or could be 1100 in roman numerals.

all of that said - this tarot design was created and submitted to saranna by someone else - a character from another ARG. it is possible that the clues it holds are for that game and not ours, as i can't see any IG reason for the two ARGs to connect?

this is further complicated by the latest legal pad page, which seems to contain the symbol from the 'black helix' ARG amongst other things (the dagger with wings and serpent looking thing). confusion abounds...

mycroft


ddl wrote:
The post about Forest is entirely focused on his ARG. One of our most recent clues directed us to her. Supposedly the information on the tarot card should reveal a date. I think that anyone who is only playing TBS can probably ignore that post.

Of course if you want to try and solve it you can go right ahead.


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So far on Tag 1:

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When?

15 March 44 BC, Ides of March

We were led here from Saranna tarot. She also hints to Julius Caesar in her tweets and blog updates. There is also an allusion to "pre-Colombian" America. Does this tie in with the Algonquin Hotel as theAlgonquin tribe were a huge presence in North America before the settlers arrived?

Hanged man card: HMSO – is currently the Cambridge university press
12 bit binary has me foxed: &#169, K, &#192 ????
8 bit reads: &#200, &#8240

MC - initials? roman numerals 1100? Master of Ceremonies?


How?


Round table 1902 = Algonquin Hotel?
The cat part of the tag has stumped me, all the other tags on this picture lead to the Hotel above and the Algonquin Round Table.
Speaking of the round table they once staged a play called "Mr. Whim Passes By - by A. A. Milne. Connection to ofiuco's parcel?

I'm not sure how all this relates to the Shakespear play and the added line of Hare: Be he fast Crow?----
---- is not a morse code. EDIT: Could these words be an anagram?

pia ward's explanation about Romeo and Juliet is interesting but maybe too tenuous? Who am I to judge!?




I am also on mSN if you want to collate. sallymander23 AT hotmail DOT com. Can't get nutley's email to work?

Apologies for the rushed post...

-string-

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